All the Games We Played at Spiel Essen 2025 Ranked

All the Games We Played at Spiel Essen 2025 Ranked

From Talk Cardboard by No Pun Included

November 8, 2025 · 2h 15m · Episode 48

About this episode

The episode covers 16 new board game releases from Spiel Essen 2025.

Just for reference, the population of Klaipėda, the third largest city in Lithuania is approximately 161 000 people. The number of attendees in this year's Spiel Essen was 220 000 people, meaning they managed to cram the entirey of Klaipėda and much more into just eight convention halls and every one of those people were buying board games. I appreciate that that is maybe not everybody's jam, and aspects of it are not our jam either. But getting our mitts into a jar of Bonne Maman filled with gooey new board game releases - put a bib on me and fire up the toaster! In this special joint episode of No Pun Included and Talk Cardboard we cover 16 new releases from Spiel Essen 2025, which you can either listen to here or partake in the video version https://youtu.be/NHVLn-ZxVWs If you’d like to check out our bonus episodes - become a patreon supporter on https://patreon.com/nopunincluded SHIRTS! Find them on https://no-pun-included-shop.fourthwall.com/ On to the timestamps: 0:00 Cold Open2:46 Intro5:42 Night Soil (Unranked)9:11 Bouba Kiki14:14 Nocturnis17:56 Formidable Farm/Formidabel!22:00 Tax the Rich27:44 Echoes of Time36:30 Fearless41:30 National Economy48:23 Thesauros1:00:34 biD…

Topics covered

  • board games
  • Spiel Essen 2025
  • game releases

Keywords

  • Klaipėda
  • convention
  • new releases
  • patreon
  • video version

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bonne Maman, Night Soil, Bouba Kiki, Nocturnis, Formidable Farm, Tax the Rich, Echoes of Time, Fearless, National Economy, Thesauros

Books & works: No Pun Included, Spiel Essen 2025, Formidable Farm/Formidabel!22:00

Places: Klaipėda, Lithuania

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