The 2023 Spielwarenmesse trade fair in Nürnberg, Germany doesn’t open until February 1, but German game publishers have already started teasing titles due out in the first half of 2023.
• AMIGO will have two spin-off titles to popular game lines, with both Privacy Duo from Reinhard Staupe and Halli Galli Twist from Haim and Uri Shafir being card games for 2-4 players. All of the previous Privacy titles have been party games for at least five players, so I have no idea what to expect here, but you can be sure that Halli Galli Twist will feature a bell to smash. Brand consistency, people!
• KOSMOS has started announcing its early 2023 line-up on its Instagram page, with (like AMIGO) two line extensions, along with two other titles:
—Belratti is a new edition of the Michael Loth party game that became a surprise hit for publisher Mogel-Verlag at SPIEL ’18. In the game, players alternate taking turns as painters and buyers, with painters choosing works of art from their hand that match revealed topics and buyers trying to identify these cards from the fake ones that wannabe artist Belratti has shuffled among the actual art.
—Autsch! is a German edition of the 2022 card game Ouch! from Romain Caterdjian, Théo Rivière, and Devir, with players trying not to get stuck by cacti thorns as they collect plants. (To watch the game play out, watch this GameNight! playthrough video.)
—Cartaventura: Karawanen is a German edition of Cartaventura: Caravans, the fourth co-operative narrative card game from Pierre Buty, Thomas Dupont, and BLAM !
—Suspects: Shakespeares Tränen is a co-operative murder mystery deduction game from Guillaume Montiage and Manuel Rozoy that will be sold as part of a trilogy — Suspects 2 — from originating publisher Studio H.
Additionally, in January 2023, KOSMOS plans to release Ubongo Schul-Edition, with this being a special €220 package that contains elements of Ubongo, Ubongo Junior Mitbringspiel, and Ubongo 3-D Family, with components for 28 players, downloads for teachers, and educational supplements for use in the classroom.
Finally, at least for now, KOSMOS has three titles that were delayed from September 2022 to January 2023:
— Die Legenden von Andor: Die Ewige Kälte, a large box standalone game in the Andor universe from designer/artist Michael Menzel.
— Der Herr der Ringe: Gemeinsam zum Schicksalsberg, a 1-4 player co-operative dice-based game by Michael Rieneck in which you need to get Frodo to Mount Doom.
— My Island, a a competitive legacy game for 2-4 players from Reiner Knizia in which each player builds their own island from hexagons over 24 games.
