The best games presented at the Spiel 2012 game fair in Essen, Germany 2021
Are you looking for a good new game? We have compared all the games presented at the game fair "Spiel 2012" in Essen and listed the top100.
Game fair in the German city of Essen
The International Game Days "SPIEL", often called the Essen Game Fair or Essen 2012 after the city where it is held, is an annual four-day board game fair that is also open to the public. Many new games are released at the fair each year, especially (but not exclusively) European-style board games.
SPIEL'12 - the biggest game fair in the world
The first time the fair was held was in 1983 at the Volkshochschule Essen. In 2012, Spiel'12 was once again the world's largest trade fair for board games, with 827 exhibitors from 37 nations and 149,000 game-loving visitors.
More info about game fair "Spiel" can be found on the official game website.
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Spiel-Messe Essen from other years
The Essen Game Fair has been held since 1983, we have listed for you both across all game years and listed separately by year at the bottom of the page.
List with the top100 new releases of Spiel'12:
Dixit 3: Journey
3 - 6 Players
30 Minutes
8+ years old
Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!16€ at
.deLove Letter
Nominated for 14 awards and won 7.
More details for Love Letter- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Love Letter
King of Tokyo: Power Up!
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for King of Tokyo: Power Up!- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
The Resistance: Avalon
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for The Resistance: Avalon- 5 - 10 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Qwixx
Nominated for 9 awards and won 3.
Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2013
More details for Qwixx- 2 - 5 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Survive: Escape from Atlantis!- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Cockroach Poker Royal
- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 - 25 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Cockroach Poker Royal
Coup
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Coup- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Coup
7 Wonders: Cities
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for 7 Wonders: Cities- 2 - 8 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Escape: The Curse of the Temple
Nominated for 9 awards and won 1.
More details for Escape: The Curse of the Temple- 1 - 5 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Escape: The Curse of the Temple
Hanabi
- 2 - 5 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Concordia
Nominated for 7 awards and won 2.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2014
More details for Concordia- 2 - 5 Players
- 100 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
👍 Good price!36€ at.deVideo reviews for Concordia
Dominion: Dark Ages
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Dominion: Dark Ages- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Tokaido
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Tokaido- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Tokaido
Carcassonne: Winter Edition
- 2 - 5 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Expansion 1: Illusions
- 1 - 6 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Expansion 1: Illusions
Pluckin' Pairs
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Pluckin' Pairs- 3 - 8 Players
- 50 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
The Enchanted Tower
Nominated for 7 awards and won 3.
Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
🔥 Deal: 12% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!More details for The Enchanted Tower- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 - 25 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!22€ at.deTurn the Tide
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Turn the Tide- 3 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Cheeky Monkey
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Cheeky Monkey- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
BraveRats
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for BraveRats- 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Okiya
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Okiya- 2 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!10€ at.deKIPP X
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for KIPP X- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Zug um Zug: Deutschland
- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!29€ at.deBling Bling Gemstone
- 2 - 6 Players
- 10 - 20 Minutes
- 4+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!15€ at.deSuburbia
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for Suburbia- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Stick 'Em
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Stick 'Em- 3 - 8 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Stick 'Em
Kemet
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Kemet- 2 - 5 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Kemet
Taluva
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Taluva- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!35€ at.deSecret Code 13+4
- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Rumble in the Dungeon
- 3 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!16€ at.deAscension: Storm of Souls
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Ascension: Storm of Souls- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Rallyman
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Rallyman- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Seasons
Nominated for 9 awards and won 2.
More details for Seasons- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Seasons
Sticky Stickz
- 2 - 5 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Trains
Nominated for 4 awards and won 2.
More details for Trains- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!28€ at.deVideo reviews for Trains
Heimlich & Co.
- 2 - 7 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Alien Frontiers: Factions
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Alien Frontiers: Factions- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Make 'n' Break Party
- 3 - 9 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Rondo
- 2 - 4 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!105€ at.deGuildhall
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Guildhall- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Room 25
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Room 25- 1 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Keyflower
Nominated for 8 awards and won 3.
More details for Keyflower- 2 - 6 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!36€ at.deShark Attacks!
- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients- 2 - 9 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
Smash Up
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for Smash Up- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!12€ at.deSeven Dragons
- 2 - 5 Players
- 10 - 30 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!5€ at.deVideo reviews for Seven Dragons
Monster Factory
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Monster Factory- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 5+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Rivals for Catan: Age of Enlightenment
- 2 Players
- 75 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Beer & Pretzels
- 2 - 5 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Tanto Cuore: Expanding the House
- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!30€ at.deVillage
- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!29€ at.deVideo reviews for Village
Qwirkle Cubes
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Qwirkle Cubes- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Quarriors! Quest of the Qladiator
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
River Dragons
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for River Dragons- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for River Dragons
Terra Mystica
Nominated for 17 awards and won 13.
More details for Terra Mystica- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 - 150 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!51€ at.deVideo reviews for Terra Mystica
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar
Nominated for 19 awards and won 9.
More details for Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!41€ at.deUnexpected Treasures
- 3 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Mage Knight Board Game: The Lost Legion Expansion
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Mage Knight Board Game: The Lost Legion Expansion- 1 - 5 Players
- 240 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!79€ at.deGalaxy Trucker: Another Big Expansion
- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Legends of Andor
- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: medium
👍 Good price!29€ at.deBanana Matcho
- 2 - 6 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
HomeStretch
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for HomeStretch- 2 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Qin
Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.
More details for Qin- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Star Wars Labyrinth
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
AstroNuts
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
The Palaces of Carrara
Nominated for 4 awards and won 1.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2013
More details for The Palaces of Carrara- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!40€ at.deVöluspá
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Völuspá- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!18€ at.deBANG! 10th Anniversary
- 3 - 7 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for BANG! 10th Anniversary
Core Worlds: Galactic Orders
- 2 - 5 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Ogre
- 1 - 3 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Bohn to Be Wild!
🔥 Deal: 10% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!More details for Bohn to Be Wild!- 1 - 7 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!44€ at.deSheepland
Nominated for 3 awards and won 3.
More details for Sheepland- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!25€ at.deRobinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island
Nominated for 6 awards and won 3.
More details for Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!32€ at.deVideo reviews for Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island
Saint Malo
- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!27€ at.dePower Grid: Northern Europe/United Kingdom & Ireland
- 2 - 6 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Munchkin Conan
- 3 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Schlag den Raab: Das Quiz
- 2 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!105€ at.deSuper Farmer
Nominated for 3 awards and won 3.
More details for Super Farmer- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Pastiche
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Pastiche- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!66€ at.de10 Tage durch Deutschland
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Spectaculum
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!22€ at.deMunchkin Cthulhu
- 3 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!17€ at.deNeuroshima Hex! 3.0: Dancer
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Baden-Württemberg Catan
- 3 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Yam Master
- 1 - 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Yam Master
Sleuth
- 3 - 7 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Gauntlet of Fools
- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Ohne Furcht und Adel
- 2 - 7 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Revolver Expansion 1.1: Ambush on Gunshot Trail
- 2 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!7€ at.deBelfort
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Belfort- 2 - 5 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: medium
👍 Good price!50€ at.deMunchkin 7: Cheat With Both Hands
- 3 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!8€ at.dePizza Theory
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Pizza Theory- 2 - 3 Players
- 10 - 15 Minutes
- 6+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Meins!
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Munchkin 8: Half Horse, Will Travel
- 3 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Star Munchkin
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Star Munchkin- 3 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!17€ at.deP.I.
- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: easy
OddVille
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Lemonade Stand
- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 - 20 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
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