Detective is a cooperative game. All players share the Skill tokens, Stress tokens, and Authority tokens in a common Token pool and use a Time marker to track the passing of time when resolving all Actions. We use the word “you” to represent the entire team. You are going to

We’ve entered the convention season. I just came back from Pyrcon, next week I am going to UK Game Expo, and in U.S. geeks and publishers have BGG Spring, Origins, and The Dice Tower con on the horizon. Everything builds up to the biggest of them all – Gen Con.

In may, this very month we finally released all 12 (twelve!) armies for Neuroshima Hex. There was a ton of armies released only in Poland and for years fans worldwide were waiting for release – Portal Games was releasing two or three per year, but that was a very slow

First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet is being updated to version 1.25 on PC platform! There is NO auto-update feature for PC version – download it manually here: https://rebrand.ly/FM-PCapp This is a multiple language version – the app supports English, Polish, Czech, and Italian!

Last week I wrote about the philosophy behind the new expansion for Imperial Settlers. Today let me go and dive into the details of each deck. What exactly did we do? What cards made it to the appropriate decks? Romans In a base game of Imperial Settlers Romans built a

Third week of our pre-order campaign starts with a reveal of the next bonus component for the Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. We would like to present to you the dedicated Playing Mat! It will help you set-up and keep your components in order. The mat includes a spot

Take a sit and come with us on an amazing trip around Pyrkon, the biggest fantasy convention in Poland!

Late Spring season is the moment of the year when geeks read reports from two famous exclusive conventions: Alan Moon’s Gathering of Friends and Bruno’s Faidutti Gathering of Friends. One takes place in Niagara Falls, the other in a small village in France. Both events look so cool. *** It

Welcome, Detectives! Second week of our pre-order campaign starts with a reveal of the next bonus component for the Detective game. We would like to present to you the set of 30 Character Portraits! It is a perfect way to breathe more life onto your mind map! When you encounter

[I run #BoardGamesThatTellStories blog since July 2011. I’ve decided I will choose articles I like the most and republish them to present them to all new board game fans that joined our hobby meanwhile! For all of you who already read the article, I hope, you will have a good

We Didn’t Start the Fire expansion for Imperial Settlers is a small Empire pack. One would say it is just a 50 card you’ll shuffle and hopefully, get some replayability. The other will say that these 50 cards changed the whole game. How is that? The expansion introduces the idea

Hello, Hello! We have new episode of Portal Games Informant for you! Today you gonna see Bruno Faidutti – Gathering of Friend and some b-rolls about Detective 🙂 Watch previous episodes HERE: https://bit.ly/2jC7OrO Thank you for watching this video. We hope you enjoy a sneak peak into our work. Let

Hi there, Investigators! We welcome you to the Antares National Investigation Agency training program. If you would be so kind and join us at: http://detectiveboardgame.com/, you would learn all about becoming the real Detective. But please, do not waste your time, as we have only 1000 vacancies, and great promo

We hope everyone had an incredible International Tabletop Day, and played many awesome games, we sure did! Now, as we roll into May, Portal Games is extremely excited to announce all of our new releases, available May 16th! We Didn’t Start The Fire Portal Games is continuing to expand the

Board Games Insider is a bi-monthly podcast brought to you by industry veterans Ignacy Trzewiczek and Stephen Buonocore intended for designers and small publishers, but invaluable to everyone. Listen to the podcast here: Play in new window | Download What’s inside? This special episode was recorded at the Gathering of