Ares Games will be attending the GAMA Expo 2025 (February 23-27, Louisville, KY, Booth 929) presenting six new games releasing this year: the strategy games Quartermaster General: South Front and Wunderwaffen, the family and party game Perfect Mismatch, the thematic game Viking Route, and Abyssal Legends, the epic ending of the Sword & Sorcery saga.

South Front: new game in the "Front" series brings the Mediterranean theater of WW2.

Quartermaster General: South Front is the second title in the Quartermaster General "Front" series, a fast-paced, two-player strategy game that brings the Mediterranean theater of World War II to life. With its quick setup and simple rules, diving into the action is easy. Each player commands a unique deck of cards, representing their side’s equipment, manpower, and strategies. Set between Summer 1940 and Spring 1944, the game depicts the intense struggle for control over Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. The game is due to be released in June 2025.

WunderWaffen (“Wonder Weapons”) is a strategic game for 2 or 4 players, portraying the last months of World War II, when the Normandy landings paved the way to the occupation of Berlin and the resulting defeat of the German army. Near collapse, scientists and technicians are designing new and terrible weapons, the “WunderWaffen,” in the hope of turning the tide of a hopeless situation. Through simple rules the game recreates the troubled collaboration between the Russian, British, and American Allies in the final phase of the war. WunderWaffen is designed by Walter Obert, and it's due to be released in Q3/2025.

Perfect Mismatch, a creative and dynamic word-guessing game.

Perfect Mismatch is a casual game where 2 to 8 players are challenged to guess words from a card using unusual associations of attributes as hints. Is there anything that is equally square and non-stop? Or extremely herbal, but not verbal at all? Each turn, one player takes the lead and describes a secret word as precisely as possible by swiping beads toward the attributes on the two sides of a tablet – romantic or problematic, fingerless or fragile, wearable or helpful, extremely entertaining or not washable, and so on... Meanwhile the rest of the players should hurry to vote for their chosen word. The faster they are, the more points they will get. Perfect Mismatch is due to release in June 2025.

Viking Route: a game with a compass, magnets and lots of action!

Viking Route is a cooperative game for 1 to 4 players, original and visually stunning thanks to a clever magnet-based movement system and a majestic 3D Drakkar. In the game, a group of heroes sail a magical longship to the World's Edge and beyond. Influenced by magical Ravens, sent by Odin to steer your course, and by the winds of Fate, the heroes will face powerful and monstrous creatures out of the Norse Mythos. Funded on Kickstarter in December 2024, it’s due to be released in October 2025.

The current cycle of the acclaimed cooperative fantasy board game Sword & Sorcery reaches its ending: Sword & Sorcery - Abyssal Legends is the mind-bending climax of both the Ancient Chronicles and Immortal Souls campaigns. In Abyssal Legends, the immortal heroes sail to the anchorage of the Ancient Mariner port to investigate a mysterious death at the Heavenshine monastery. As they do that, they must also seek the source of a terrible dream: the shared vision of a sunken city, twisting into a nightmare of blasphemous tentacles, horrifying images, and ending with the silhouette of a titanic creature... the Great Elder One! Abyssal Legends is due to release in Q4/2025.

If you are attending GAMA Trade, visit Ares Games at Gbooth 929!

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