{"id":189,"date":"2023-05-01T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2023-06-20T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:12:41","slug":"duelling-cafes-board-game-fika-coming-to-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/duelling-cafes-board-game-fika-coming-to-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Duelling caf\u00e9s board game Fika coming to North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two-player caf\u00e9 conflict simulator Fika is coming to North America after publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamecircus.com\/\">Board Game Circus<\/a> agreed a deal with Atlanta-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25thcenturygames.com\/\">25th Century Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25th Century said the game will be available for preorder soon and purchaseable from its booth at the Origins Game Fair between June 21st and June 25th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fika sees players take control of competing caf\u00e9s attempting to outearn each other through playing cards and manipulating those played by your opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game, which features art from Wingspan and Viticulture illustrator Beth Sobel, is named for the Swedish concept of making time to share a hot drink and a snack with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fika, which takes about 20 minutes per game, currently <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/292914\/fika\">has a 6.2 rating on BoardGameGeek<\/a> from 90 players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was recently nominated for the Mensa Germany Mind Spielepreis in the two-player games category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other games in 25th Century&#8217;s stable include the new edition of Reiner Knizia classic Ra, BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Awards nominee Resist! and strategic roll-and-write Motor City, about running a car plant in Detroit&#8217;s heyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany-based Board Game Circus has also published German language versions of games including Endeavour: Age of Sail, Walking in Burano and Creature Comforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BoardGameWire\/about\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">Help keep BoardGameWire producing high-quality news and features focused on the business of board games &#8211; Click here to join our Patreon community<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-player caf\u00e9 conflict simulator Fika is coming to North America after publisher Board Game Circus agreed a deal with Atlanta-based 25th Century Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,49,41,50,47],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-25th-century-games","tag-board-game-circus","tag-deal","tag-distribution","tag-fika"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}