The best games from PD-Verlag 🇩🇪🏢 2026

Players engage in a captivating puzzle game filled with thrilling audio dramas and thematic challenges. They open mysterious envelopes containing puzzle pieces that resemble those from a real escape room, read dialogues in character, and make crucial decisions. The story unfolds in a lonely village with three colossal statues and a terrifying monster, where five experienced professors aim to confront the beast using logical and scientific methods.

Crossing Oceans brings the golden age of ocean liners to life with fifty historical ships. Players build a thriving trading fleet, acquire modern steamships, and take control of valuable ports. The game features a unique rondel system for actions, offering strategic opportunities to expand trade networks and compete for dominance on major shipping routes.

Players take on the role of one of four rats who have organized an escape from a laboratory. They must lead their family and prove their worthiness to lead the entire colony. Using unique abilities, they will explore the farm to reach the pantry for cheese, create new inventions from human artifacts, and expand their hideout. The game lasts five rounds, and players can earn victory points by building beds, excavating rooms, welcoming guest mice, completing farm tasks, creating inventions, and claiming achievements. The player with the most points at the end wins.

Hamburgum transports players back to 17th century Hamburg, immersing them in the strategic depths of trade and city development during a prosperous yet tumultuous period. As heads of Hamburg families, players navigate a richly thematic and strategic environment, aiming to amass wealth and, more importantly, prestige through diligent production, trade, and church donations.

From the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 to the start of World War I in 1914, steamships underwent remarkable advancements in size, speed, and modernity. Players manage their own shipping companies, transporting cargo, mail, and passengers worldwide, while competing for dominance in the transatlantic trade with various historical steamships. The game relies on card mechanics, where players execute actions to efficiently manage their fleets, and features interactive choices and strategic decisions with minimal luck.

You have just started working in a Soviet watch factory that was previously a World War II munitions factory. Your task is to produce gears to sell for money, which you also need to hide the ammunition crates you smuggle out. Explore the foreman's office for evidence of post-war government corruption and use surveillance to catch your coworkers' misconduct, but be wary of being watched yourself!

When the Spaniards conquered the Inca Empire, only a few princes managed to escape into the mountains. Hidden high above the Urabamba River lies a place that the Spaniards would never discover: the lost city of Machu Picchu. However, caution is needed, as there may be a traitor among the princes ready to reveal the city's location.

Players cooperate as 2-5 thieves. One player assumes the role of "The Boss" each round, providing clues to the others about the tools needed to crack safes. Steal the gold and reach the airport without getting caught, all while feeling the police hot on your tail.

In ANTS you dig, explore and forage to expand your anthill and strengthen the colony – a demanding strategy game about the life of ants.