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Ares Games Beyond the Best Sellers

with classics and innovative board games

by Andrea Fanhoni, Ares Games PR & Communication

War of the Ring, Sword & Sorcery, Wings of Glory: Ares Games is known by these popular and acclaimed game lines, but the publisher has a wide catalog with games of different types, including Euro and Thematic games, easy to learn, but deep in strategies. Three releases are coming in late 2022 and early 2023: the reprint of the classic Inkognito, a new edition of another classic, Hab & Gut – The Rich and the Good, and the fun economic game Orconomics.

Inkognito – Conspiracy in Venice is a deduction board game with beautiful components and light mechanics that tie perfectly to the theme – spies sent on a mission during a Venetian carnival, in a romantic age of spies, microfilms, hot-air balloons, and fast speed-boats. Designed by Alex Randolph and Leo Colovini, the game has been popular since 1988, a staple of its category. Ares Games relaunched the game in 2013 with a new look and a new and exciting 5-players variant. Sold out for years, this new edition is coming back in the 100th anniversary of Randolph’s birthday. In Inkognito, competing pairs of Spies are sent on a mission, to complete a secret objective, but neither player knows their objective or their ally at the outset of the game. As a secret agent, or the mysterious Ambassador, they must collect clues, deduce who their friend is, confound their foes, and discover the secret mission that will give victory to their team. Wearing a mask, they move stealthily through the city’s streets and canals, searching for top secret information.

The Rich and the Good brings back Carlo Rossi’s cult classic in an edition that every lover of euro games will want in their collection, with high level components, an eye-catching new graphic design, Michael Menzel’s great art, and a new 2-players game mode. It’s an economic game with an unusual “shared card hand” mechanic and an original victory condition - getting rich and being a benefactor at the same time.

In the game, up to 5 players trade in commodities from all over the world, having access to inside information to aid their investments and manipulate the markets - each player plays with two hands of cards, sharing a cardholder with each neighbor. However, personal wealth is not all it takes to rise to the top. To gain the respect of their peers, players must prove to be unselfish by making huge donations to charity. The player with the most money at the end of the game wins, unless they are the player who donated the least money to charity.

Orconomics is also an economic game, but with a completely different approach: players enter the chaotic economic world of modern Orcs, where all is legit - backstabbing, ripping off opponents, taking away their industries – without any ethical concerns.

Two to five players compete to establish Companies in ten different industrial sectors, using their actions to create Startups and develop them to become proper corporations, or getting a presence in an industry by winning auctions. Companies in each sector generate income or losses, and grant abilities to players. To win the game a player needs to be the first to found 10 companies - or sometimes even fewer if they successfully fulfill some business quests of Greed, Rage, or Dare. With its peculiar setting, orcish humor, and great artwork, Orconomics will appeal to players due to its high re-playability, clever game mechanics, easy to learn rules, and high level game components.