News

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,

S&T: Monolith Arena – Unfolding the Guardians

Last time we’ve talked about the Dragon Empire and our propositions as to what to prepare inside the Monolith and the reasons behind those choices. This time it’s time to take a closer look on Ignacy’s favorite dwarfs and thee different setups for their Monolith. Guardians of the Realm are

Alien Artifacts – photo gallery

Travel to distant lands, discover artifacts of an alien civilization, and use them to conquer the galaxy. Construct your vessels, develop technology, and colonize planets, as your empire grows, but look out for opponent’s blockades. That’s Alien Artifacts’ gameplay in a nutshell. Take a closer look at the game here

Tweets of the week #15 – Golden Geek awards

Ryan got a chance to sit down with Ignacy Trzewiczek of @trzewik to discuss his games, where it all began for him and much more too https://t.co/eUb32ZBYE9 pic.twitter.com/5oTBRqoOTA — Beasts of War (@beastsofwar) 4 kwietnia 2019 Completed the Campaign for Detective A Modern Crime Board Game by @trzewik Excellent Game!

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.