Ignacy Trzewiczek

For the past few months every Friday, I write & send out "Letter from Ignacy." It's a newsletter in which I talk about things happening at Portal Games. I take a much more personal approach than the industry standard. I believe fans appreciate it. Sign up: newsletter.portalgamesus.com

Essen Spiel 2026. The end. Thank you!

Last day of Essen Spiel 2026!

Saturday at Essen Spiel!

Thank you for visiting our booth and playing Robo Run!

Saturday, 10 am, last minute delivery! Truck with restock drove whole night and made it from Poland to Essen in time!!!

Track with restock for our Essen booth. Kudos to a ton of people who worked their as#** today to make it happen. All night drive to Germany and we should have games on Saturday morning at the booth!

Two Garcias! Zee Garcia, the biggest fan of Neuroshima Hex in the US, and Gavin Garcia, designer of the newest Neuroshima Hex army! #essenspiel

How's your day? Our is busy! :)

Robo Run premieres at Essen Spiel!

Abroad sold out. Robo Run sold out. Thank you.

Day 1 was pretty busy, and pretty freakin' awesome :)

No surprise. I am happy and proud.

Old friend of Portal Games, Rindert sends hello from Essen!

Day 1!

Day 1, AKA We are having a BLAST!

Gavin, designer of the newest (and awesome!!) army for Neuroshima Hex sends greetings!

Robo Run and Abroad played at our booth all day long! 🔥

We are under siege! ;)

So it begins...

Welcome to our Factory! ;)

We are ready for you to discover Robo Run!

Demos for the press!

Two very interesting games in the showroom for the press! :D

Designers of Abroad visited us at Essen! You can meet them too at our booth!

We are ready for Essen SPIEL 2026! Are you? :)

Do you like 2 player co-op games? We are ready to demo one for you!

We are building our Essen SPIEL booth!

A two player co-op - work with your partner to run from factory! Very proud of what we did here!

Abroad on #1 The Most Anticipated board games of Essen SPIEL according to The Dice Tower! REMINDER: the US print run is sold out and we are working on reprint!

Pre-order Robo Run and get two additional missions! Learn more here: en.portalgames.pl/robo-run-our...

Attention attendees! We are announcing a brand new army coming to the Neuroshima Hex app! Stay tuned for more information!

Campaign #5 in Robo Run is all about moving! Welcome to the conveyor belts fun!

Prototype of SlavMortis packed for Essen SPIEL!

You ready? We are!

The 5th campaign in Robo Run is all about conveyor belts and chaos. It's designed for experienced players and needs you to dance really well among all these dangerous spots on the board! Robo Run releases this Essen SPIEL. Pre-orders are open.

New update in the SlavMortis campaign - another Game Designer Journal is live! Read here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

SlavMortis is a card game with multi-use cards. In today's article I explained what happens, when you play a card for its Color value and what cool choices it gives players. Read here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Fall season for us, geeks means Essen SPIEL. This year Portal Games releases this 2 player co-op called Robo Run!

The very very very first review of Robo Run is up! Thanks to Kevin and the gang at Tantrum House. See what Kevin liked and what disliked about the game here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyRP...

Looking for a perfect Halloween game? We have Bruno's Faidutti Dreadful Circus for $5 only! Check it out! Link: shopportalgames.com/collections/...

UPDATE: we've accepted proofs for the reprint of Abroad. We hope to have the game early 2027 back in stok in the US!

And yet another glowing review for #Abroad! Friendly reminder - it is sold out in the US, but still available in the EU! Pre-order till the stock last!

Today we published the 10th Update in the SlavMortis pre-campaign - it was all about various board sketches and concept arts prepared for the game by artist Hanna Kuik! Learn more: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Essen is getting close, and Abroad made it to yet another list of Most Anticipated games of the show! The game is sold out in the US, but you can still pre-order it for the Essen SPIEL pick up!

A two player co-op where you play as a two tiny bots trying to escape from a deadly factory. Fun stuff! Releases this Essen SPIEL!

Well, I wrote another Game Designer Journal about thr development of SlavMortis. Have a good read! Link: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

In case you missed it and never played it... It's freakin' good. :)

One of the best games of summer '26 in the US releases this Essen SPIEL in Europe!