Publisher

Portal Games

Portal Games — Polish publisher active since 1986, focused on story-driven board games with hand-management and variable player powers.

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Biography

Portal Games is a board game publisher associated with Knurów, Poland; their own description cites 1999 as founding year, while our database records activity from 1986. Ignacy Trzewiczek is named as owner and CEO. The publisher has 38 games in our database and emphasizes narrative-driven titles.

Career

The company releases games across science fiction, card games and economic/city-building genres. In our data the most common mechanics are Hand Management (19), Variable Player Powers (11), Dice Rolling and Open Drafting. Portal publishes both cooperative and competitive games, often blending strong thematic storytelling with distinct mechanical systems like engine-building or asymmetric powers.

Most Famous Games

Top titles in our database include Dune: War for Arrakis (2024), Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game (2018), Cry Havoc (2016), Imperial Settlers (2014) and Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island (2012). These are among the publisher's most noted releases in our records.

Design Style

Portal Games favors narrative and thematic designs with recurring use of hand management and variable player powers. The catalogue ranges from sci‑fi and investigation games to tactical and card-driven strategy titles.