Summer Break

Because of the interruption in Portal Games, the online store is closed for the holiday period. Orders will end on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 1 p.m. Orders for items in the PRE-ORDER category are an exception. These articles will be available during the holiday, and these orders will be

DUNE: House Secrets – pre-orders start 12th July

Dune: House Secrets is a cooperative story-driven game in which you join the resistance against House Harkonnen! Experiencing an original adventure inspired by the blockbuster film, you must complete a series of missions with limited time and resources. The Pre-order campaign with unique bonuses starts on July 12th! Visit https://dune.portalgames.pl to

ELEVEN – Campaign’s draft

As European Football Championships are approaching, Portal Games is revealing a draft page for its newest crowdfunding campaign ELEVEN: Football Manager Board Game. This new football themed board game will launch on Gamefound, just like the previous Portal Games’ campaign of Robinson Crusoe: Collector’s Edition, which has gathered more than

Vienna Connection – additional materials

You warmly welcomed the Vienna Connection, and we would like to thank you for that. From the moment the pre-sale copies were shipped, we had the following inquiries – “Can you share PDF files with mission sheets?” To meet your expectations, we have prepared such a file, and you can

Vienna Connection’s Designer Journal #2

When Agents show up too often in one place, they may get noticed. Somebody will pay attention to the activity. The same faces, the mysterious talks, the late-night meetings. Somebody will recognize what’s going on. And by somebody, I mean KGB. In Vienna Connection, we have rules of Exposure. Player

German edition of Vienna Connection

German edition of Vienna Connection is currently in the production process. As other games from the line, Vienna Connection in German will be released by Pegasus Spiele, and its premiere date is planned for the end of September. Pre-ordered copies will be shipped directly from Portal Games HQ at the

Vienna Connection’s Designer Journal #1

I received the story script and several additional pages of rules for the game from Jakub Łapot and Przemysław Rymer. I read them and was really impressed by the new concepts. The idea of different zones where players could act, the exposure rules, and even death of the agents! There

Vienna Connection – How to Play

Rodney Smith aka Watch It Played published this great how-to-play video for Vienna Connection! If you don’t like going through the rulebook by yourself, watch this awesome, spoiler-free clip and get ready for action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1KLLlAb3iI&t=2s

Vienna Connection Prologue #5

Catherine Miller: January 18, 1977 – Langley. “It’s Angry Bob, WBR broadcast station. If you want good news… well, I don’t have any. The snowstorm is not giving in. A snowplow was snowbound yesterday. Seriously? A snowplow?! It will be as cold as Moscow on a polar Siberia. Now, let’s

Vienna Connection Prologue #4

Prisoner 2245: January 13, 1977 – Stuttgart. The visitation room in the Stammheim prison was small, had no windows, and was lit up by lamps secured with metal framing. Everything was grey—walls, a steel desk with a wooden counter screwed down to the floor, and simple stools. It looked like

Vienna Connection Prologue #3

Hans Duchker: January 7, 1977 – Koln.   The meeting was supposed to take place in Sirene, a small bar next to the university. The place was shabby, with dirty walls and decade-old movie posters yellow from the cigarette smoke. An unpleasant smell of stewed cabbage came from the kitchen.

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We are bookworms. Movie maniacs. Story addicts. We grew up reading Tolkien, Howard, Herbert, Dick, Lem… We were watching Willow, Blade Runner, Never Ending Story, Robin Hood…

And yet, we don’t write books… we don’t make movies. We don’t make those things, because we make games. We make games that tell stories.