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We have finally arrived

We’re finally here. After a long journey through the Ocean filled with anxiety for each member, I’m glad that we can finally stretch our legs on the land. At some point, I couldn’t stand the constant suspense, even though I was continually assuring everyone not to worry about our campaign.

Robinson Crusoe: Mystery Tales releases today!

Official release date: April 25th, 2019! Robinson Crusoe: Mystery Tales is the second expansion for the acclaimed game of castaway survival, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island! This expansion includes an entirely new way to play, in addition to some familiar components to add variability to your base game.

Imperial Settlers: Amazons – Components

Warrior-tribe of Amazons, third big faction expansion, enters the world of Imperial Settlers! Discover the new deckbuilding mechanism, which lets you choose which of your faction cards you keep and focus on powerful combos! Amazons extensively use cards with the “building bonus”. Most of their faction cards are useful, and

Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island – photo gallery

Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is the game that made Portal Games a recognizable brand, and allowed thousands of players to create their own version of the classic castaway story.
With the second big expansion just around the corner, and a great BGG ranking, it is probably our most important title, with Detective quickly catching up. It is also a game with a lot of components, a lot of colourful markers, and a plethora of cards. Take a look at Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island.

Play Smart for the first time in English!

In 2019 Portal Games celebrates the 20th anniversary of the company. Today, to celebrate our roots in the role-playing world, we would like to announce the very first English release of Play Smart by Ignacy Trzewiczek, at Gen Con 2019. Play Smart is an iconic book from A Game Master’s

Tweets of the week #16 – Great quest lies ahead!

Our annual Board Game Award Nominees are out. The Best Cooperative Game category includes offerings from: @trzewik, @AvalonHill2, @NauvooGames, @ChipTheoryGames and @tfowers. Which is your favorite? https://t.co/fQe301xK2j #boardgames pic.twitter.com/TO2hmEDykl — Board Game Quest (@BoardGameQuest) April 10, 2019 Yes it does. Prepared and ready to go. *Reading glasses not included @DiceAndNames

Increasing Fears

If this continues like that, we might be in danger even before we get to the jungle, and we’re only halfway through the Ocean. Romero keeps on bickering with La’Blanc. Father Clemens continue with his stories, what he found out about our destination, and what should we prepare ourselves to,

Welcome to PORTAL GAMES

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.