Ares Games will be at Gen Con 2025 (Booth #229, July 31 - August 3, Indianapolis) with four new releases, previews of upcoming games, and 87 events.
The first copies of Quartermaster General: South Front and Perfect Mismatch will be available at the show, along with two new games distributed by Ares - Dirt & Dust, published by Albi, and Light Speed: Arena, by Tablescope. The first two products by Tabula Games now in distribution by Ares will be available at Ares’ booth – Mysthea Essential Edition and Volfyirion Guilds.
Pre-orders of these games for pick up at Ares’ booth are open on Ares Games webshop and on BGG Gen Con 2025 Preview. Two games coming later this year will be presented at Gen Con: the cooperative game with an ingenious compass-and-magnets mechanic Viking Route and the strategy game portraying the last year of World War 2 WunderWaffen.
At the Ares Games booth, gamers will find unique deals and promos for games released earlier this year, such as Altay – Dawn of Civilization, Builders of Sylvan Dale, Aeterna, Balconia, and Mega Empires. Best sellers like War of the Ring - The Card Game and Sword & Sorcery will also be in demo, as well as Quartermaster General, with giant versions of East Front and the upcoming South Front.
Over 80 events spanning the entire Ares Games’ catalog and the new and upcoming games will be run at Gen Con by Double Exposure, in addition to the demos at the booth. New games released include Dirt & Dust (Albi) - a game about rally driving, but it is not a racing game: it delivers an adrenaline-fueled rally experience, with strategy meeting speed.
Players (1 to 4) start with a basic action deck and a unique driver, then acquire more cards throughout the game to tune their vehicle and improve performance, change pressure and suspension settings, adjust tire pressure, and tweak the differential. Available actions are based on their linked dice slot.
Driving style choices - fast or cautious - further impact the effects of each card. Each choice matters as pilots push the limits, balancing precision and risk in pursuit of victory. Light Speed: Arena (Tablescope) is a real-time space combat game combining classic board game mechanics with innovative computer vision, making for a fast, frantic, and surprisingly seamless experience.
In this real-time tabletop shooter, 2 to 4 players engage in intense intergalactic battles. Each player takes control of a fleet of spaceships, rapidly positioning and orienting each ship wherever they like on the table surface in just 10 seconds per round.
Once ships are placed, a quick snap of the battlefield allows the companion app to calculate laser shots, activate ship abilities, and resolve the round. Mysthea Essential Edition (Tabula Games) is an area control and hand management eurogame set on an ancient planet shaken by bizarre forces, where anomalies bend the laws of physics and new life has evolved in strange ways thanks to the power of mysterious crystals.
Players (2 to 5) take on the role of a Champion of Ilvash, hired by the Kingdom's guilds to explore and gain control of uncharted islands floating around the enormous crystal embedded in the planet. Other games include Perfect Mismatch, Quartermaster General: South Front, Volfyirion Guilds (Tabula Games), Viking Route and Wunderwaffen.
