Ares Games will be at Essen Spiel 2024 (October 3-6, Essen, Germany, Hall 3 A-112) pre-releasing three new games: the deck-building civilization game Altay: Dawn of Civilization,  the three-dimensional tile placement game Builders of Sylvan Dale, and the civ-building games Mega Empires: The West and Mega Empires: The East, with the first copies of all these games arriving just in time for the show. 

Fire and Swords, the new expansion for War of the Ring – The Card Game, will be also available at the Ares Games booth. At the Ares Games booth, it will also be possible to play for the first time two upcoming games - Aeterna, the awaited euro game set in Ancient Rome designed by Martin Wallace, scheduled for release in December; and Viking Route, a cooperative game using an ingenious compass-and-magnets movement mechanic, coming soon to Kickstarter, and scheduled for release in 2025.

In addition to these novelties, other games will be in demo at Ares’ booth during the show: War of the Ring – The Card Game, Sword & Sorcery and Pyramidice.

Ares will also host events featuring many of its game designers:

  • Simone Romano, co-author of Sword & Sorcery (Thursday and Friday, 11:00)
  • Ole Steiness and Paolo Mori, authors of Altay – Dawn of Civilization (Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 14:00 to 16:00)
  • Flo de Haan and Gerart de Haan, authors of Mega Empires (Thursday and Friday, from 16:00 to 18:00).

Play with Ares Games at Spiel - Hall 3, A-112. Check all the new products and events scheduled at the booth on the Spiel Essen app.

Ares Games is a board game publisher with offices in USA and Italy, established in 2011 to create quality hobby products for the international audience. Ares Games is the publisher of the award-winning "War of the Ring" board game, of the "Wings of Glory" range of airplane combat games and miniatures, the award-winning tactical ship-to-ship miniature game “Sails of Glory”, and the cooperative tactical dungeon crawler “Sword and Sorcery”.

Its catalogue also includes family games and euro games. Ares Games is also master distributor in the USA and other non-European countries of games published by some of the best European board game and role-playing game publishers. 

For more information about the games, visit the Ares Games website.