Even if the month of June has almost reached the halfway point, let’s go and discover the exits Asmodee coming in these weeks.
As always, some board games / RPGs / novels they have exact debut dates, while for others they are indicative references that may undergo some minor variations, with real-time updates that can be consulted in the dedicated section of the publisher’s website.
The Asmodee releases coming in June 2021
STREAKING KITTENS
- This item will be released on June 11, 2021
- For 2-5 players
- Average length of a match: 15 ‘
- Suggested age: ages 7 and up
- Genre: Party Game
- Recommended retail price: € 5.90
- Studio: Exploding Kittens
- Illustrations: The Oatmeal
Streaking Kittens is the second expansion for Exploding Kittens and adds 15 new cards including the Streaking Kittens card which, as long as it is in the player’s hand, also allows you to secretly keep 1 Exploding Kittens without exploding.
DREAM CATCHER
- Expected release date: June 18, 2021
- For 2-4 players
- Average length of a match: 15 ‘
- Suggested age: 4 years and up
- Genre: Kid’s Game
- Recommended retail price: € 19.90
- Studio: Space Cow
- Authors: David Franck, Laurent Escoffier
- Illustrations: Maud Chalmel
Winner of the Cannes 2020 As D’Or in the children’s category, Dreamcatcher arrives among the June releases of Asmodee! There is nothing funny about nightmares! But thanks to Cuddly Toys, little players can turn bad dreams into good stories!
- They will have to choose a Cuddly Toy that completely covers the Nightmare in the center of the table.
- If the Nightmare is completely covered by the Cuddly Toy, they will win the Dream tokens to fill their boards with.
KIDS & LEGENDS
- Expected release date: June 18, 2021
- For 2-5 players
- Average length of a match: 120 ‘
- Suggested age: 9 years and up
- Genre: Role-playing game
- Recommended retail price: € 49.90
- Studio: Spritzgnack Game Factory
Kids & Legends was born as a role-playing game for girls and boys (and parents) who have never played a role, with an ambitious and noble promise: to make anyone immediately able to play, without manuals to study, calculations to do, only with fun and sharing unforgettable experiences. Even the littlest and the most shy can play Kids & Legends. Children with SLD can also play. Even those who have never done the Master can play.
DRUNK, STONED OR STUPID
- Expected release date: June 18, 2021
- From 4+ players
- Average length of a match: 20 ‘
- Suggested age: 17 and older
- Genre: Party Game
- Recommended retail price: € 19.90
- Studio: Cojones
- Authors: Sarah Baybes, Katue Benezra, Katie Burke
In this party game, players will have to draw a card, read it aloud and declare who they want to assign it to and why. Whoever receives 7 cards first loses. There are no winners!
MARVEL CHAMPIONS: THE CARD GAME – DRAX
- Expected release date: June 18, 2021
- From 1-4 players
- Average length of a match: 45-90 ‘
- Suggested age: 14 and up Genre: Core Game
- RRP: € 14.90 Studio: Fantasy Flight Games
- Authors: Michael Boggs with Caleb Grace
Killed by Thanos in an act of unmatched cruelty, Arthur Douglas was reincarnated as Drax, a warrior armed with knives and thirsty for revenge. Now Drax is part of the Guardians of the Galaxy and travels the cosmos far and wide, looking for a way to eliminate Thanos once and for all.
This hero pack contains everything you need to play as Drax, including a pre-built deck.
SO CLOVER!
- Expected release date: June 25, 2021
- For 3-6 players
- Average length of a match: 30 ‘
- Suggested age: from 10 years old
- Genre: Party Game
- Recommended retail price: € 19.90
- Studio: Repos Production
- Author: François Romain
I know Clover! is a collaborative word association game. Players must draw Keyword cards and secretly write their common characteristics on their Four Leaf Clover board; these will be the Clues. They will then have to work together to try to understand each player’s Keywords. At the end of the game they will add their score based on how many Keywords they can find and write it in the Legend Log. In every match they will try to beat their highest score!
DESCENT – FALLOWHEARTH’S FATE (NOVEL)
- Expected release date: June 25, 2021
- Recommended retail price: € 16.90
- Publisher: Aconyte Books
- Author: Robbie MacNiven
Legendary heroes battle the undead and dark magic in the first of an exciting series of novels based on the fantasy and adventure game Descent: Journeys in the Dark.
When her daughter goes missing, the Baroness of Forthyn asks the orc Durik to find her. The hero enlists his old adventure companions – alchemist dwarf Ulma Grimstone and villain Logan Lashley – in hopes of reliving past glory days.
Together they leave for Fallowhearth, a town devastated by terror. Over there, instead of clues, they discover necromancy: empty graves and footprints heading towards the sinister Blind Forest … But the forest hides more than a horde of undead: perfidy lurks among the trees, an ally devoted to darkness and horrible giant and lethal monsters …
Descent – Fallowhearth’s Destiny is the third book in the Aconyte Books series.
TICKET TO RIDE EUROPE: 15th ANNIVERSARY
- Expected release date: June 29, 2021
- For 2-5 players
- Average length of a match: 30-60 ‘
- Suggested age: 8 years and up
- Genre: Light Game
- Recommended retail price: € 99.90
- Studio: Days of Wonder
- Authors: Alan R. Moon
This maxi version of Ticket to Ride Europe celebrates years of exciting train adventures for countless families and groups of friends around the world. With finely detailed miniatures of wagons in beautiful tin boxes, this edition is proposed as the most complete and rich version of the classic Ticket to Ride Europe: a giant billboard and all the Destination Tickets made to date, accompanied by beautiful new illustrations.
EXPLODING KITTENS – BARKING KITTENS
- Expected release date: June 29, 2021
- For 2-10 players
- Average length of a match: 15 ‘
- Suggested age: ages 7 and up
- Genre: Party Game
- Recommended retail price: € 14.90
- Studio: Exploding Kittens
- Illustrations: The Oatmeal
The third expansion for Exploding Kittens is one of the most anticipated Asmodee releases! A deck that wants to enhance, reinforce and canify the rules of the original game!
CONTAINS:
- 20 cards with powerful new actions and special features
- Hilarious illustrations by award-winning cartoonist The Oatmeal
- A wearable cat crown that will defend you from the theft of other players
BOTANIK
- Expected release date: June 29, 2021
- From 2 players
- Average length of a match: 30 ‘
- Suggested age: from 10 years old
- Genre: Light Game
- Recommended retail price: € 19.90
- Studio: Space Cowboys
- Authors: Grégoire Largey, Frank Crittin, Sébastien Pauchon
In Botanik, players will never be able to directly take the tile they want. A card is always taken in two steps. First, they will have to place it on their side of the Register, so that it can be released later, after
cleverly placed a tile in the middle row… In this lies the subtlety of this game. Players will have to wisely arrange the colors of their machinery wisely as they expand their network of pipes to irrigate the plants and score the most points.
AGRICULTURAL ALL BIG AND SMALL CREATURES
- Expected release date: June 2021
- From 2 players
- Average length of a match: 30 ‘
- Suggested age: from 10 years old
- Genre: Core Game
- Recommended retail price: € 34.90
- Studio: Lookout Games
- Author: Uwe Rosenberg
Among the upcoming Asmodee releases, this new “Big Box” edition of Agricola is a revised version that contains the original base game and its two expansions. In addition to the animals, this edition also includes resource tokens and shaped workers!
The players are farmers who raise sheep, pigs, cows and horses. Three workers help them keep the animals on their farm. Each round, they will take turns placing their workers on action spaces to fence off pastures, build stables and stables, and upgrade their farms. The winner is the player who raised the most animals and built the most valuable buildings.
PROJECT L
- Expected release date: June / July 2021
- From 1-4 players
- Average length of a match: 20-40 ‘
- Suggested age: 8 years and up
- Genre: Party Game
- Recommended retail price: € 29.90
- Studio: Boardcubator
- Game Concept: Adam Španěl
- Game Design: Jan Soukal, Michal Mikeš, Adam Španěl Art Direction: Marek Loskot
Easy to learn, difficult to master! The players start the game with a supply of two pieces. They will use these pieces to complete the puzzles and earn victory points and new pieces that will help them complete puzzles with higher and higher rewards.
Reprints
These are not new Asmodee releases but they were missing from the catalog for so long or they are so requested that it is still appropriate to report their return: Munchkin Dungeon is 7 Wonders Duel: Agora.
