Protect a Flying Island, Box Cookies, and Harness the Glorious Guilds of Buttonville | BoardGameGeek News

by W. Eric Martin

Let’s follow a recent post about KOSMOS‘ late 2025 game line-up with initial word of Ravensburger‘s titles due out in the same timeframe. Few images are available yet, though, so I’ll fill out this post as best as I can.

▪️ Match Me If You Can, a 3-8 player game from Johannes Berger and Julien Gupta, sounds like a traditional party game:

Is the ideal party game something you can explain in less than a minute so that everyone can start playing? In many circumstances, yes. In this case, I suppose the tone and nature of the questions will be key. You want conversation starters and dumb things everyone can argue about and act out — at least that’s what I’d want.

▪️ To immediately interrupt coverage of Ravensburger, I’ll note that in Q4 2025 HUCH! will release a party game called Match Me If You Can! from Jasmin Krux. What are the odds?! Here’s an overview of this 3-9 player game:

Which Match is the better match for you? (Similarly, in September 2025 Ravensburger will release Disney Villainous Unstoppable!, whereas in March 2025 Renegade Game Studios released Unstoppable. The more games released each year, the greater the chance for a repeated title.)

▪️ In the category of “game with so much variety that you’ll get super excited about the promise of it but probably experience only 3% of it” we have Die glorreichen Gilden von Buttonville (The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville), a 2-4 player game for players aged 8 and up:

Buttonville shines in the midday sun, but the cobblestone streets echo empty. Only the legendary guilds outside the gates vie to send their best minds.

In this game, you slip into the role of a guild master and fill your neighborhood with quirky inventors, cunning traders, and fearless guards to transform the sleepy little town into a place full of life and laurel wreaths.

Each round, you take two cards, whether directly from the market or blindly from the deck. Once you’ve gathered enough like-minded people, you lay down a set: three gossiping bards grant a song of power sounds, while four nimble blacksmiths provide a discount boost for additional recruits. Your sets provide instant effects, enhance each other, and ultimately yield victory points. Timing, a knack for probability, and a touch of luck with the cards are the key to your triumph.

The unrelated Toronto-area Buttonville Municipal Airport, which closed in 2023

What’s special about them? The synergies grow like ivy: the larger a set, the stronger its effect. Should you spontaneously play three identical cards or eagerly wait for the fourth? Add to that the modular market system, which sets up each game differently. Thanks to 46 different villagers, no game will be the same.

Grab the guild flag now, recruit your troops, and secure the glory Buttonville deserves!

▪️ Keksekästchen, a.k.a. Cookie Party, is a 2-5 player game from Ralf zur Linde due out in September 2025, and your goal is to create your own box of cookies by partitioning them bit by bit:

▪️ The cockroaches are back in KakerlaHex, a 2-4 player game for those aged 5 and up:

▪️ Ravensburger has a September 2025 listing for Wer war’s?, a 2007 Reiner Knizia design that won the 2008 Kinderspiel des Jahres — but it’s not clear whether this is simply a new edition of that older game, a spinoff, or something else.

▪️ A new electronic game coming out at the same time as the previous title is Ventopia: Die fliegende Insel, a 1-4 player game:

▪️ Die drei ??? Scotland Yard is a licensed edition of the classic Scotland Yard, and Stitch Labyrinth and Dragon Ball: Super Labyrinth are both licensed editions of Max J. Kobbert‘s long-lived Labyrinth design.

▪️ Ehrlich Brothers: Escape the House of Magic seems like it might be more puzzle than game — although you could argue that about echoes and other such titles as well — but here’s an overview of this October 2025 release for 2-4 players: