Sanssouci, the 2014 Spiel des Jahres nominee from Azul designer Michael Kiesling, is finally coming to the US after soaring past its admittedly low goal for its Kickstarter campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game, which sees 2-4 players competing to create a flower garden for Prussian King Frederick the Great’s Sanssouci Palace, beat its $5,000 target in just under an hour, and has currently collected about $22,000 from over 500 backers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imperial Publishing said it has left the core gameplay of Sanssouci “essentially unchanged”, with some rules edits for clarity. The crowdfunding campaign includes two mini-expansions which were not part of the original 2014 release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new version of the game was initially published in 2022 by Chilean publisher Fractal Juegos in Europe and Latin America, but a US retail version never materialised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imperial Publishing is owned by Mayday Games founder and CEO Seth Hiatt, and has published games including Red Outpost and Escape From the Asylum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanssouci designer Michael Kiesling scored a huge hit with tile-laying game Azul, which had sold more than two million copies by the latter part of 2021. The game has spawned a series of spin-offs including Azul: Master Chocolatier and Azul: Queen’s Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kiesling was co-designer on 1999 Spiel des Jahres winner Tikal with Wolfgang Kramer, and on Heaven & Ale with Andreas Schmidt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n