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Nova Suecia Games 12 Years

22 February 2014 the idea of designing inventive and interactive boardgames was born. The twelve years that have passed since that day have seen over 40 games, many of which have received prestigious awards.

The journey started with Nova Suecia, the historical game set in 17th century Sweden which built on old game ideas. Nova Suecia was only the first of a series of six historical games (Bellum se ipsum alet, Christina Regina, Vasa Regalis, Tre Kronor Infernum, and Mare Balticum) and a seventh, Suecia, is due this year.

Then followed a series of games aimed at teaching IT, starting with the best-selling Find the Bug! and later accompanied by Find the Bug! Agile and Find the Bug! Project. An experimental period saw the take that game Bake the Cake, the children's games Find the Treasure!, the card game Knights & Damosels and the abstract game Turn of Time. It was followed by a minimalistic period with the popular micro games series set in the Soviet Union (Comrade, Gulag, and Politburo).

After this, a period of games focused on specific core mechanics with innovative twists followed. Iconoclasm was an abstract game with a support mechanic, which later saw a simpler sibling in Lucca. The award-winning Explorers & Exploiters was a 4X game where the players could move any pieces and another award-winning game, Mingle & Murder, based the deduction on the player actions. In the labyrinth game Mice in a Maze the players manipulated the labyrinth rather than their pieces and Peoples - Migrations was a pure civilization game, simulating the urban development. The latter will see a more complex sibling later this year in Peoples - Civilizations.

A return to historical games resulted in the best-selling Apokalypsis and the other "Ancient Greece" games Demokratia and Politeia. Fair Trade was a runner-up in a contest for NGO games while the space control game Cosmoclasm would later get an award-winning brother in the more complex Warring States. But the latest game Dyce was placed even higher in the same contest thanks to its unique trading mechanic featuring AI trading partners.

After that followed some elaborations on old games and ideas. Experiments were done with Card games and Abstract games as well as a new modular game system for recreating old C64 games. Find the Treasure - The Card Game distilled Find the Treasure into a card game while Glasnost went the opposite way and incorporated the ideas of Comrade, Gulag and Politburo into a board game. Peoples - Civilizations attempted to create a more thematic civilization game than Peoples - Migrations while still keeping it simple while Suecia added a spatial dimension to the trading in the very first game Nova Suecia. Globalization returned to a childhood game idea about resource conversion through several player owned companies in a kind of 18XX-setting.

While working on the last three more complex games, I did try out some more accessible game designs like the children's game The Mara, combining the popular child mechanic memory with pick-up and deliver, the workplace game The Shelf, simulating the work in a Systembolaget store, Cobweb, a streamlined family version of Politeia, and 1789, a retheme of Glasnost with some rule improvements. They were followed by the big SF game Foundation, featuring a unique action and resource levelling mechanics, and Cheese Chase, the smallest Nova Suecia Game so far with only 9 cards. For 2026, I look forward to complete the new 19xx game genre with the game 1988.

Which Nova Suecia Game is your favorite? Tag Nova Suecia Games in social media or send a mail to receive a free copy of our bestseller Cosmoclasm. The offer is valid until 22 March as long as stocks last.

We are proud to announce that Hellenica (based on Politeia) has won the first prize in the 4th WODC. We thank you all of you who believed in the game.