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To follow up on the recent KOSMOS and AMIGO teasers, here’s a peek at games that German publisher Ravensburger plans to release in early 2025.
• On the heels of Cascadia Junior, German publisher Ravensburger has revealed that Ulrich Blum‘s Minecraft: Builders & Biomes – Junior will be released in mid-January 2025. Here’s an overview of this 2-4 player game:
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Use the pickaxe and shovel to skillfully collect blocks to build stables for the animals, while ensuring that no blocks fall into the lava. Monsters will try to get in your way, so finish building your farm before too many monsters reach you. To do so, fill all the empty spaces on the farm game board with animal cards.
It felt like junior editions of adult games vanished for a while, but perhaps I was just being unobservant…
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• Speaking of game adaptations for young players, in Q1 2025 Ravensburger plans to release Die Sandburgen von Burgund from Stefan and Susanne Feld. As with the title above, this game is for 2-4 players, aged 5 and up:
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In Die Sandburgen von Burgund, you collect points by finding the right decorations, so can you remember under which sand castle the animals of the royal guild are hiding? Roll your two dice at the same time, then you can use them to either look for decorations in sand castles, putting them in your warehouse if you find one, or transport previously collected decorations to your village with your cart. If you have collected two decorations of one color, you can look for the matching animal of the royal guild.
As soon as a player reaches Queen Crab’s beach party, the dice round ends. Whoever has collected the most points wins!
Ravensburger demoed Die Sandburgen von Burgund at SPIEL Essen 24 and asked people not to take photos, but some did anyway…
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• March 2025 will see Ravensburger release of Keksekästchen, a roll-and-write game about cookie boxes:
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Keksekästchen includes double-sided laminated game boards.
• Gloomies is a 2-4 player game for ages 10 and up from Filippo Landini that’s also due out in March 2025:
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In the magical world of Gloomies, everything revolves around sowing and harvesting the most magnificent flowers. The playing field is first covered with flowers, then harvested again. If you are clever in playing your own cards and have a bit of luck, you will secure the most valuable flowers and win.
• Finally, we come to yet another Labyrinth spinoff in the Ravensburger catalog, but this isn’t a licensed version of the original Max J. Kobbert design, but rather Labyrinth Go!, a new game co-designed by Brett J. Gilbert for 1-4 players:
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Each round in Labyrinth Go!, the four labyrinth dice reveal which treasures must be collected. Using your own path tiles, you try to connect the treasures shown on the dice with the center of your game board. Whoever does this most quickly earns the most points.
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