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

Celebrate Halloween on Mars! Update the app and play the Probe on the Loose mission on October 31 or November 1 and experience truly spooky events and new features. Download mission here: https://rebrand.ly/HalloweenInSpace The app update will be available soon.

New games! New expansions! New exciting ways to play! Here are plans for 2018! Portal Games is expanding, and so is our list of games. In 2018 we are going to release completely new titles, based on original IPs, as well as cool expansions for our bestsellers. Alien Artifacts: Discovery

Well, shoot. Sometimes small errors happen. We are sorry for that. Please rest assured, that this does NOT affect the gameplay in ANY way. There is a wrong illustration on the Camouflage token. Camouflage token The token currently looks like this: And it should look like this: Unfortunately all copies

A sneak peak into our Essen Spiel 2017 preparations. Watch Ignacy work before the most important board gaming convention in the world!

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. We would like to share with you those stories.

Read about our Essen plans from Ignacy’s perspective… 11th anniversary or how to step up the game nevertheless If I knew my shit and did the math right, we’d celebrate 10th Essen last year. Our first Essen was 2007 (the release of Neuroshima Hex) and last year I had this

Ignacy would like to share some thoughts about designing combat rules for Alien Artifacts: I’ve been here Back then in 2011, I wrote an article about the struggle with direct interaction and combat mechanism in 51st State. For long months I had no clue how to approach the problem –

Watch the newest informant, where we talk about our European plans and trips!

We have planned for you many awesome opportunities to play with the designers, meet board game creators, wage wars in the postapocalytpic wasteland under the watchful eye of its creator and much more! Check out our Essen Spiel 2017 plans: Find us at Essen – Booth #3O118 Our guests Our