Operational cards in the set up! Today we’d like to talk about Alien Artifacts and answer one of the most common question we read on the forums – let’s talk about operational cards and the set up phase. As you guys know, operational cards, when built, immediately act – ships

As humanity surges ever forward, exploring the depths of the galaxy, we have uncovered the remains of an ancient race. Their technology is unfathomably advanced. The many factions of the inner galaxy have entered a new arms race. Diving ever deeper into space, we search for the invaluable remains of

Portal Games was at BGG Con and at the PAX Unplugged. Here are our adventures from the latter!

Alien Artifacts Universe is big, wonderful space, with a lot of interesting factions, conflicts and drama. It is not only a complex 4X, engine building card game, it is, primarily, like most Portal Games games, a board game, that tell stories. Here is another one of these stories. Chapter 2

We have something just right for you! The Board Game Family has prepared a great list of 38 games (or gift ideas), divided into several categories, such as Children’s Games Family Games, Cooperative Games and so on, including such great titles as Photosynthesis. At this point you probably guest correctly,

Check out those awesome player boards we have made for the winners of our First Martians Early Launch Photo Contest! Would you like to win something similar in the future? Or maybe just order it from our shop? Let us know!

This week was SUPER FOCUSED!

Essen Spiel 2017 has ended! We prepared for you special documentary video about Essen Spiel 2017! It’s time to look how Spiel 2017 looked from our perspective! From Portal Games perspective!

We are happy and proud to share with you, that couple of days ago, IGN published their list of ten best solo board games. Portal Games is on that list, with not one, but two titles – Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island & Imperial Settlers. We would recommend

The Essen Spiel is always important for us. We usually release there and then new titles and announce games for next year. This time was no different. It is time to recap all of our official 2018 announcements! First of all, one of the most anticipated games of this year

The Essen Spiel 2017 is behind us, so let us talk about our new releases. First of all, one of the most anticipated games of this year Spiel – Alien Artifacts. And of course our biggest game this year – First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet. What’s more, we

Game Nite is a free monthly magazine covering the world of Tabletop Gaming. They cover Board Games, Card Games, Miniatures, and in their latest issue, they have featured Alien Artifacts on 7th place of the Top Ten Essen Spiel 2017 games! We are honoured and we would like to share

Ignacy would like to talk a little bit about tutorials. We – as an industry – struggle. To grow, we must expand. To expand we must find new customers, new gamers who will join our hobby. Finding them is the easier part, actually. The hardest? Help them play the game.

Hello! First Martians! We have a cool contest for you – create an Adventure for the Research Deck and win Extra ROI tiles promo! The rules are simple – create your own Adventure for the Research Deck. Use science tropes or go crazy, make it fit the story behind First

First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet is being updated to version 1.13 on all platforms! There is NO auto-update feature for PC version yet, so you need to download it every time manually, however the newest version is always available via the same link. Mobile users should get their