Dirt & Dust: a game of rally racing where strategy meets speed.

Ares Games will be at Gen Con 2025 (Booth #229, July 31-August 3, Indianapolis) with four new releases, previews of upcoming games, and 87 events. The first copies of Quartermaster General: South Front and Perfect Mismatch will be available at the show, along with two new games distributed by Ares - Dirt & Dust, published by Albi, and Light Speed: Arena, by Tablescope. The first two products by Tabula Games now in distribution by Ares will be available at Ares’ booth – Mysthea Essential Edition and Volfyirion Guilds.

Pre-orders of these games for pick up at Ares’ booth are open on Ares Games webshop and on BGG Gen Con 2025 Preview.

Quartermaster General South Front, second title in the Quartermaster General "Front" series.

Two games coming later this year will be presented at Gen Con: the cooperative game with an ingenious compass-and-magnets mechanic Viking Route and the strategy game portraying the last year of World War 2 WunderWaffen.

At the Ares Games booth, gamers will find unique deals and promos for games released earlier this year, such as Altay – Dawn of Civilization, Builders of Sylvan Dale, Aeterna, Balconia, and Mega Empires. Best sellers like War of the Ring - The Card Game and Sword & Sorcery will also be in demo, as well as Quartermaster General, with giant versions of East Front and the upcoming South Front.

Over 80 events spanning the entire Ares Games’ catalog and the new and upcoming games will be run at Gen Con by Double Exposure, in addition to the demos at the booth.

New Games

Dirt & Dust (Albi) is a game about rally driving, but it is not a racing game: it delivers an adrenaline-fueled rally experience, with strategy meeting speed. Players (1 to 4) start with a basic action deck and a unique driver, then acquire more cards throughout the game to tune their vehicle and improve performance, change pressure and suspension settings, adjust tire pressure, and tweak the differential. Available actions are based on their linked dice slot. Driving style choices - fast or cautious - further impact the effects of each card. Each choice matters as pilots push the limits, balancing precision and risk in pursuit of victory.

Light Speed: Arena, a space combat game using advanced computer vision technology.

Light Speed: Arena (Tablescope) is a real-time space combat game combining classic board game mechanics with innovative computer vision, making for a fast, frantic, and surprisingly seamless experience. In this real-time tabletop shooter, 2 to 4 players engage in intense intergalactic battles. Each player takes control of a fleet of spaceships, rapidly positioning and orienting each ship wherever they like on the table surface in just 10 seconds per round. Once ships are placed, a quick snap of the battlefield allows the companion app to calculate laser shots, activate ship abilities, and resolve the round.

Mysthea, a game set in an original world shaped by strange forces and powerful crystals.

Mysthea Essential Edition (Tabula Games) is an area control and hand management eurogame set on an ancient planet shaken by bizarre forces, where anomalies bend the laws of physics and new life has evolved in strange ways thanks to the power of mysterious crystals. Players (2 to 5) take on the role of a Champion of Ilvash, hired by the Kingdom's guilds to explore and gain control of uncharted islands floating around the enormous crystal embedded in the planet.

Perfect Mismatch is a fun party 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? Get ready for plenty of laughs while discussing hilarious attribute combinations and the associations they trigger, in this game of creativity, deduction, and teamwork.

Perfect Mismatch: a fun and dynamic word-guessing game.

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 WW2 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.

Volfyirion Guilds (Tabula Games) is a deck building card game set in the Mysthea Universe, about sixty years before the events of Mysthea. The story centers on five great Guilds, once created by the king of Mysthea to stop the rise of the dominant noble house, and now fiercely competing for power. Volfyirion Guilds is a game focused on strategy and deck building, with two players facing each other over the supremacy of their Guild.

Previews

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

Viking Route is a cooperative game with an ingenious compass-and-magnets movement mechanic. Players sail a magical Drakkar to the World’s Edge, guided by Odin’s ravens and the winds of Fate, facing powerful Norse creatures, fulfilling challenging quests, and preparing for the decisive battle to avert Ragnarok. The game is played on a beautiful 3D Viking ship and a scenario board, where the Drakkar is represented by a compass. Multiple magnets (the Ravens and Wind) are manipulated by the players to steer the course of their ship.

WunderWaffen is a strategic game portraying the last year of World War II, when the Normandy landings paved the way to the occupation of Berlin and the resulting defeat of the German army. Through simple rules the game recreates the troubled collaboration between the Russian, British, and American Allies in the final phase of the war.

Visit the Ares Games’ booth at Gen Con - #229.

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