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Join us to try and buy our newest games, as well as to preview exciting upcoming releases!

Hachette Boardgames UK is a subsidiary of Hachette. HBGUK launched in 2021, localises and distributes over 200 games in the UK and Ireland, developed by more than 30 different publishers based in France, Czechia, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Canada and Japan. 

The Hachette Boardgames UK range is built around 5 core categories: Family, Anytime, Strategy, Social, and Puzzle. This broad range of games targets multiple audiences, aiming to offer a game for every player. HBGUK curates titles from around the world for UK audiences and has a wide range of critically acclaimed games and multiple award-winning titles, including several games that have been nominated or won the prestigious Spiel Des Jahres.

These are the publishers we currently work with: Gigamic, Studio H, La Boîte de Jeu, Catch Up Games, Blam!, Sorry We are French, Scorpion Masqué, Randolph, No Loading, Super Meeple, Kiwizou, Spiral Editions, Game Flow, Subverti, Oink Games, Edition Spielwiese, Brain Games, Trefl, Laurence King Publishing, The Flying Games, Lumberjacks Studio, Grrre Games, MNKY Entertainment, Bankiiiz editions. Yaqua, Fentasy Games.

Games

Kanal

Publisher
Fentasy Games
Age Range
12
Player Range
1-2

Build industries and infrastructure the Rosenberg way!

The Oranienburg canal, which gave this game its name, was built between 1832 and 1837 in Brandenburg. The Havel River was difficult to navigate near the Oranienburg mills, so a canal was built from the Havel that crossed the older Ruppin canal, thereby forming the Oranienburg canal cross. During the industrialisation in the 19th century, many companies and businesses were formed in this important waterway. Moreover, additional streets and railways were built.

In Kanal, you erect new industries and shape the infrastructure by building pathways, streets, railways, and canals. Most important of all are bridges that connect buildings. To do all of this, you have access to various actions that you select in the right moments.

At the end of the game, the player with the best industrial area and the best infrastructure wins.

Kanal also includes a solo game!

Kingdom Crossing

Publisher
Sorry We Are French
Age Range
14+
Player Range
1-4

Kingdom Crossing combines the best of the Eurogames experience in a short playtime. 

In a faraway land, in the midst of a verdant forest crossed by the Crystal River, lies the small Kingdom of Brightspring, ruled by the wise Queen Beavery. But the Queen is facing a problem: her 4 regions are separated by 7 bridges, and to divide her time evenly between the subjects of these regions, the Kingdom would need an 8th bridge…

Help the Queen build a new bridge! Scour the Kingdom, recruit the best artisans, gather construction resources and create magnificent decorations. But be warned: you can never use the same bridge more than once in the same day…

Kingdom Crossing is inspired by the problem of the "Seven Bridges of Königsberg", and gameplay combines engine-building and programming mechanisms, with a solo mode that features an Automa and four difficulty levels.

Temple Code

Publisher
Bankiiz Editions
Age Range
8
Player Range
1-4

Archaeologists use deduction and compete to find combinations of statuettes

Face rival archaeologists in a race to unlock an ancient temple's forgotten secrets. Before you can lay hands on the invaluable treasure it's holding, you have to deduce the combinations of statuettes unlocking the hidden vault!

At the beginning of Temple Code, each player receives a combination card with a series of three unique statuettes that everyone can see but themselves. Each round, two combination cards are dealt face-up in front of each player. On your turn, pick a set of cards in front of another player, then take one for yourself and give them the other one. By aligning this card next to the one you're trying to guess, you will get hints about the matching statuettes: each blue circle indicates a statuette that is on both cards at the same place, and each orange triangle stands for a statuette that is on both cards, but in different positions.

At any time during the game, a player can guess the card in front of them. Whether they guessed correctly or not, they receive a new combination card to guess.

Whoever first correctly guesses two combinations wins.

Zenith

Publisher
Play Punk
Age Range
10+
Player Range
2/4

Players struggle to get control of the Solar System.

In the far-off future, the solar system is inhabited by 3 races: Humans, Robots, and Animods.
Civilisation runs off on Zenithium, a clean and renewable energy source, but coexistence is a struggle.
Your goal: unite the planets to gain control of the senate!

Players will struggle to gain Influence on the 5 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. This Influence is represented by discs in different colours.

In Zenith, there are 3 victory conditions:

  • Absolute victory: Gain 3 Influence discs from the same planet.
  • Democratic victory: Gain 4 Influence discs from strictly different planets.
  • Popular victory: Gain 5 Influence discs (from any planets).

The game ends immediately as soon as one player meets 1 of these three conditions.