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Osprey Games is a publisher of board and card games, wargames, and roleplaying games based in Oxford, UK, and New York, USA. http://linktr.ee/OspreyGames
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 10h
📢📢 NEW BOARD GAMES IN 2026...

Threaded 🧵 a crafty worker placement game: https://bit.ly/4nOJ9iz

Rattlesnake 🤠 a riotous wild west shootout: https://bit.ly/3J8NKwH

Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com or our website blog. Get an exclusive preview at SPIEL Essen Stand 3.M600!
The cover art of the board game Threaded: A Game of Needles and Points, designed by Ellie Dix and illustrated by Maria Surducan, depicting a bargello pattern in blue, pink, yellow and green thread, above a selection of needlecraft tools. The cover art of the board game Rattle Snake, designed by Michael Hardacre and illustrated by Roland MacDonald, depicting a woman in a cowboy outfit leaping backwards through the air and firing a revolver in each hand.
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Bart de Jong 🔜 Spiel 2025 @bartgamedesign.bsky.social · 10h
Excited that the news is finally out on Rattlesnake. I got to playtest it a couple of times with Michael during its development, it's a tense 1vs1 shootout with exceptional art by @rolandsrevenge.bsky.social. Definitely worth checking out at Essen!
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 10h
📢📢 NEW BOARD GAMES IN 2026...

Threaded 🧵 a crafty worker placement game: https://bit.ly/4nOJ9iz

Rattlesnake 🤠 a riotous wild west shootout: https://bit.ly/3J8NKwH

Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com or our website blog. Get an exclusive preview at SPIEL Essen Stand 3.M600!
The cover art of the board game Threaded: A Game of Needles and Points, designed by Ellie Dix and illustrated by Maria Surducan, depicting a bargello pattern in blue, pink, yellow and green thread, above a selection of needlecraft tools. The cover art of the board game Rattle Snake, designed by Michael Hardacre and illustrated by Roland MacDonald, depicting a woman in a cowboy outfit leaping backwards through the air and firing a revolver in each hand.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 10h
📢📢 NEW BOARD GAMES IN 2026...

Threaded 🧵 a crafty worker placement game: https://bit.ly/4nOJ9iz

Rattlesnake 🤠 a riotous wild west shootout: https://bit.ly/3J8NKwH

Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com or our website blog. Get an exclusive preview at SPIEL Essen Stand 3.M600!
The cover art of the board game Threaded: A Game of Needles and Points, designed by Ellie Dix and illustrated by Maria Surducan, depicting a bargello pattern in blue, pink, yellow and green thread, above a selection of needlecraft tools. The cover art of the board game Rattle Snake, designed by Michael Hardacre and illustrated by Roland MacDonald, depicting a woman in a cowboy outfit leaping backwards through the air and firing a revolver in each hand.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 1d
Dive into our intricate new eurogame Ayar: Children of the Sun...

🤔 Choose which activities & movement tracks to focus on, the balance between your two scoring conditions, & when to unlock different special bonuses to complement your playstyle.

THIS WEEK: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y
An image of the player board for the game Ayar, with various areas for wooden meeples of different shapes and colours, as well cardboard tokens with both on the board and arranged around it. Below text reads "THE FUTURE OF YOUR CLAN – AND THE INCA CIVILISATION – IS IN YOUR HANDS.", framed by a geometric pattern in the same soft green colour as the game's title logo.
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Mandela F-G @mandelafg.bsky.social · 3d
Facebook is showing me images from 6 years ago when I was messing 🎲✂️ around with this design.

Exciting to see it come to wide release very soon and with, I have to concede, improved art & graphic design thanks to @ianotoole.bsky.social, and much better gameplay thanks to @flopiano.bsky.social.
A paper gameboard map drawn with Microsoft paint and a hodgepodge of different components scattered across it. Cubes on a personal player board with a wealth of confusing, but very Euro, iconography. Quipu shown in the background.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 2d
Be the first ever demo-ers to try out Flip Pick Towers 🏰✨✏️ https://bit.ly/46WO9KA

Find us on Stand 3.M600 at SPIEL Essen, Germany, Thursday 23rd October to Sunday 26th.

We'll be running one demo table every day of the show – so come on by, first come first served!
An image with the cover art for the board game Flip Pick Towers, depicting a figure in a starry cape stetching there arms in front of a castle and dragons being drawn by sparkling magical pencils. Above is the text "PLAY THE FIRST EVER DEMOS!", the SPIEL Essen and Osprey Games logos, and a sticker reading: "STAND 3.M600".
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 3d
The long-awaited second edition of Dragon Rampant is out in 2 weeks 🔥🔥

Author Daniel Mersey is featuring over on our website blog with the first of 3 exciting preview articles about designing the game: https://bit.ly/4nLKiY4

23 OCT UK / 21 OCT US: https://bit.ly/46OMirj
An illustration depicting a band of halfling slingers bracing to receive the charge of horned, blue-skinned, demonic-looking centaurs.
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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · 5d
"No doorbell. Guess we'll have to get there attention some other way."
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 5d
📢 Ayar – from @flopiano.bsky.social, @mandelafg.bsky.social & @ianotoole.bsky.social – is out 1 week today: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y

🌽 Compete for area majority farming maize
⚱️ Collect sets crafting pottery
🧵 Build your pattern weaving carpets
🛶 Traverse the lake board learning reed bundling
An image with the Osprey Games logo and the title of the board game Ayar framing various interlocking slices filled with close-up photos of the game board: differently coloured wooden meeple moving along various paths, other wooden pieces placed behind them, cardboard tokens arranged around a board depicting a lake, and a player board with various resources and scoring conditions.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 6d
💥 New Bolt Action blog!

We're sharing the second preview article from @warlordgames.com all about the new Soviet Union army over on our website.

This time, it's the special rules you'll have to choose from: https://bit.ly/4mZZjV1

// 23 OCT UK // 21 OCT US // https://bit.ly/46IFKu3
An image with a background illustration of WW2 soviet troops in a snowy forest, firing at a flaming tank from behind the cover of their arm, all alongside a copy of the new Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union: Third Edition wargame supplement rulebook. Above is the text "UPDATED SPECIAL RULES, UNIT ENTRIES & FORCE SELECTION GUIDES" and below are the Osprey Games and Warlord Games logos.
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Monkeys With Fire @monkeyswithfire.bsky.social · 6d
⛩️ GENERAL ORDERS: SENGOKU JIDAI – STRATEGY & SUPREMACY IN FEUDAL JAPAN || LIVE PLAY ⚔️

On tonight's show, command your clan and fight for dominance in General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, a fast-paced tactical wargame for two players. @ospreygames.bsky.social
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 7d
Paul Grogan of @gamingrules.bsky.social has his tutorial & playthrough of Ayar going live at 8pm BST tomorrow, Wednesday 8th August!

📢 Tune in on the Gaming Rules! YouTube to follow along and see our intricate new eurogame in action: https://bit.ly/3WsgFPi

// 16 OCT UK // 14 OCT US //
An image with Paul Grogan, the host of the Gaming Rules! YouTube channel, alongside the cover of the board game Ayar and the title "TUTORIAL & PLAYTHROUGH", against a background photo of the heavily illustrated board and wooden pieces in various colours.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 8d
The design diary for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai hit @boardgamegeek.com last week!

Missed it? Now find the deep dive from co-designer @djackthompson.bsky.social on our website blog as well: https://bit.ly/42qIsTP

// AVAILABLE NOW // https://bit.ly/4jeCg8d
A close-up photo of a board of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, with an illustrated ability card laid beside it, a handful of custom dice scattered on top of it, and various red and black wooden meeple placed around it.
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David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social · 9d
Had a great 2p game day with my local gaming buddy yesterday. @ospreygames.bsky.social @trevormbenjamin.bsky.social A couple of classics (A Few Acres of Snow and Targi), my new hotness (Toy Battle), and one my co-designs (General Orders: Sengoku Jidai).
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Cirthador1453 @cirthador1453.bsky.social · 8d
Just finished my fifth game of the excellent new General Orders: Sengoku Jidai! Beautifully produced (cute wooden ships!), intensely tactical, and well paced. Thanks to @djackthompson.bsky.social, @trevormbenjamin.bsky.social, and @ospreygames.bsky.social for another wonderful design.
Photograph of the board game General Orders: Sengoku Jidai in the middle of a game, as red and black armies and ships crowd the central map.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 9d
⚔️Play General Orders: Sengoku Jidai @ SPIEL Essen!

We'll have 4 demo tables every day of the show, running 1hr slots with new sign-ups opening each morning.

// STAND 3.M600//

✏️Check out the game's design diary from @djackthompson.bsky.social on @boardgamegeek.com: https://bit.ly/4pOoOeB
An image of the board game box for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai alongside a spread of sample cards and illustrations from the game depicting medieval Japanese battle scenes in a black and white style. Above, text reads "WORKER-PLACEMENT WARGAME FROM THE DESIGNERS OF UNDAUNTED", there is a "STAND 3.M600 sticker", and below are the SPIEL Essen and Osprey Games logos.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 10d
🎨💡 With Dragon Rampant: Second Edition out this month we're showing off two of the artists who helped bring it all together.

Check out this battle scene from Alan Lathwell & one of the engravings dotted through the book by Dave Needham @zhuindustries.bsky.social 🔥

PRE-ORDER: https://bit.ly/46OMirj
An illustration of a robed figure holding a scythe-like staff and wearing a horned skull helmet, leading a horde of skeletons – charging armoured knights beneath a landing dragon with a rider holding two glowing weapons. The background is dark mountains, the foreground is lit by fire, and the sky is cloudy and tinted purple. An uncoloured line drawing in the style of an engraving or inscription, depicting a group of armed and armoured women in an ancient style, one with a jaguar on a chain, and led by a taller figure in a headdress and holding a crescent-moon-topped staff.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 11d
☀️ The official Ayar: Children of the Sun tutorial from Getting Games is here: https://bit.ly/4nRLppj

Learn to play this hot new eurogame from the creators of Merv & Sankoré @flopiano.bsky.social @mandelafg.bsky.social @ianotoole.bsky.social

// 16th OCT UK // 14th OCT US // https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y
A screengrab of Jonathan Cox from Getting Games from his tutorial video for Ayar: Children of the Sun. A screengrab from the tutorial video showing a fully set up game with a main board and player boards with various wooden and cardboard pieces arranged around them.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 11d
I'm afraid stock will be limited so we won't have any roleplaying games at the show this time around!
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 12d
📆📆 3 weeks until ESSEN Spiel!

Find us on stand 3.M600 at Messe Essen, Germany, every day of the show 23rd–26th October.

We'll be running hot new demos, stocking a full shop, and even bringing some promos.

Watch this space for more show spotlights to come...
An image with the text "DEMO GAMES, BROWSE THE SHOP, EXCLUSIVE PREVIEWS" in large font in three rows, against a background image of shelves stacked with board games faded out under a purple tone. A sticker reads "STAND 3.M600" and below are the Osprey Games and SPIEL Essen logos.
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 13d
Chunk has been crowned the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025!

Compete for the best spots on the river yourself in Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River. Play cards with the real life bears, including Chunk, Grazer, Divot and more, to catch the most salmon in this 2-player board game.
An image with a background illustration of a river behind the card for the bear Chunk from the board game Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River, showing him wading through a river. Above is the text: "ALL HAIL CHUNK!"
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 13d
It's release month for the newest Bolt Action: Third Edition supplement, Armies of the Soviet Union: https://bit.ly/46IFKu3

We're sharing @warlordgames.com's preview articles on our blog, so if you missed them first time round head over and check them out 👀 https://bit.ly/4nQuBhU
An image with the Bolt Action: Third edition core rulebook alongside the new Armies of the Soviet Union supplement book. A sticker reads "COMING SOON" and at the bottom of the image is the text "FIELD EVERYTHING FROM THE HUMBLE CONSCRIPT TO THE MIGHTY IS-2 TANK".
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Casey G. 🦖🦕🚀👽 @caseyg.bsky.social · 13d
Hey, do you want to hear me talk about Voidfighter for an hour? I don't blame you if you don't but here's a link. I was on the Lead Pursuit podcast.
www.leadpursuit.net/podcast/epis...
Episode 145 - Voidfighter — Lead Pursuit Podcast
Have a bunch of X-wing miniatures collecting dust on your shelf since you rage-quit the competitive circuit?  Got some 1990’s Brigade Model metal minis painted with Testor’s glossy?  Come on...
www.leadpursuit.net
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Adam in Wales @adaminwales.bsky.social · 14d
Another new game from Rob and me - available to demo at Essen Spiel! :)
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 14d
✨✨ ANNOUNCING FLIP PICK TOWERS – a drawing game where players illustrate charming, playful castles to meet demands set out by the fussy nobles who wish to move in.

🤔 Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com: https://bit.ly/480MUfD

👀 COMING MARCH 2026.

Exclusive demos @ SPIEL Essen.
The cover of the board game Flip Pick Towers, published by Osprey Games, designed by Rob Fisher and Adam Porter, illustrated by Beatrix Papp. The art depicts a figure in a flowing gold and black cape spreading their arms in front of the scene of a castle in whites, blues and golds, with dragons circling ahead. Various pencils are shown extending into the artwork from the white border outside it to draw it, surrounded by magical sparkles.
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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · 14d
"Uplifted cephalopods are natural candidates for hard-vac wetwork with millenia of evolution in Terran seas having prepared them amply for navigation in zero-g. The minds and bodies capable of moving with such ease through such an alien environment, however...
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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 14d
✨✨ ANNOUNCING FLIP PICK TOWERS – a drawing game where players illustrate charming, playful castles to meet demands set out by the fussy nobles who wish to move in.

🤔 Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com: https://bit.ly/480MUfD

👀 COMING MARCH 2026.

Exclusive demos @ SPIEL Essen.
The cover of the board game Flip Pick Towers, published by Osprey Games, designed by Rob Fisher and Adam Porter, illustrated by Beatrix Papp. The art depicts a figure in a flowing gold and black cape spreading their arms in front of the scene of a castle in whites, blues and golds, with dragons circling ahead. Various pencils are shown extending into the artwork from the white border outside it to draw it, surrounded by magical sparkles.
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