SPIEL Essen 2026 Hall Tour Part 1 (Halls 8·7·6·5) | BoardLive

I walked through Halls 8, 7, 6 and 5 at SPIEL Essen 2026 and stopped at booths along the way to show what each one was doing.

SPIEL Essen is the world's largest board game fair, held every October at Messe Essen in Germany, and this year it uses all eight halls for the first time. This video covers part of it: the halls I walked through on Friday, 23 October, and some of the booths in them. Halls 1 to 4 will be in another video. The new games themselves are in our Novelty Room video: https://youtu.be/OZMY5YV1ilQ

📍 Booths in this video (in order)
• Helvetiq (Hall 8 · 8-D300)
• SPIEL Merch Shop (Hall 8 · 8-C300)
• Deutscher Spielepreis 2026 (Hall 8 · 8-C300)
• Allplay (Hall 8 · 8-D120)
• Mattel (Hall 8 · 8-D110)
• Jumbo (Hall 8 · 8-C110)
• Kölner Lernspielverlag (Hall 8 · 8-B125)
• HABA (Hall 8 · 8-A115)
• Spielzeit! (Hall 8 · 8-A100)
• Asmodee (Hall 7)
• AMIGO (Hall 7 · 7-D110)
• Ravensburger · Rolliverse (Hall 7 · 7-D311)
• KOSMOS (Hall 7 · 7-E311)
• Czech Games Edition (Hall 7 · 7-E100)
• Schmidt Spiele (Hall 7 · 7-E111)
• Catch Up Games (Hall 6 · 6-K400)
• Studio H (Hall 6 · 6-K300)
• Gigamic · Sorry We Are French (Hall 6 · 6-K300)
• The Flying Games (Hall 6 · 6-G400)
• Blue Orange (Hall 6 · 6-F300)
• HUCH! (Hall 6 · 6-B300)
• Oink Games (Hall 6 · 6-C310)
• itten (Hall 6 · 6-B301)
• HeidelBÄR Games (Hall 6 · 6-B200)
• Game Factory (Hall 6 · 6-A101)
• Horrible Guild (Hall 6 · 6-B115)
• Mandoo Games (Hall 6 · 6-B201)
• TOSSIT (Hall 6 · 6-D110)
• ALBI (Hall 6 · 6-E110)
• Jolly Dutch (Hall 6 · 6-F110)
• IELLO (Hall 6 · 6-F200)
• SmartGames (Hall 6 · 6-G110)
• iDventure (Hall 6 · 6-G115)
• Djeco (Hall 6 · 6-G201)
• KinderGPT (Hall 6 · 6-H135)
• Asmodee (Hall 5 · 5-K730)
• Grand Archive TCG (Hall 5)
• Gamegenic (Hall 5 · 5-M500)
• Arclight · Game Market (Hall 5 · 5-M400)
• PUBG: Final Circle · CardMonster (Hall 5 · 5-K500)
• One Piece Card Game · Bandai (Hall 5 · 5-J500)
• Japon Brand (Hall 5 · 5-K415)
• Game manufacturers (Hall 5)
• HOLY (Hall 5 · 5-G200)
• Mythic Makes (Hall 5 · 5-G300)
• Thailand pavilion (Hall 5 · 5-G400)
• Pokémon (Hall 5 · 5-G500)
• Japanime Games (Hall 5 · 5-H600)
• Cyberpunk TCG (Hall 5 · 5-G700)
• Topps (Hall 5 · 5-E600)
• Bushiroad (Hall 5 · 5-C700)
• Riftbound (Hall 5 · 5-C715)
• Nerdlab Games · Agent Avenue (Hall 5 · 5-B700)
• Kayou (Hall 5 · 5-A700)
• Ultimate Guard · Star Trek (Hall 5 · 5-C600)
• Magicbeangames (Hall 5 · 5-A600)
• Korea Boardgames (Hall 5 · 5-A300)
• Azuki TCG (Hall 5 · 5-C400)
• Artist Alley (Hall 5 · 5-B215)
• LongPack (Hall 5 · 5-H200)
• Tycoon Games (Hall 5 · 5-A110)

⏱ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:51 Fair Map
1:01 Hall 8 · Family & Party Games
2:50 Hall 7 · Big Publishers
4:30 Hall 6 · Family Games & French Publishers
8:05 Hall 5 · Card Games, Makers & Artists
12:24 Wrap-up

🎧 Audio tracks: English (default), Korean, German, French, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) (⚙ Settings → Audio track). Subtitles/CC: English, Korean, German, French, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified).

Host: Hans (BoardLive). Music: original track generated for BoardLive. Hall plans: SPIEL Essen official hall plans.
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