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Our Top 5 Most Anticipated Games for SPIEL ‘25
SPIEL ‘25 is just around the corner — and like every year, we couldn’t resist sharing our Top 5 Most Anticipated Games of the show! These are the games we’re absolutely dying to check out in Essen — the ones that made us say, “Okay, this one’s going straight to the wishlist.” Watch the videos: We actually made two versions — one in English and one in German — so you can pick whichever language suits you best! Two Designers, Two Totally Different Tastes If you’ve followed

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10 hours ago2 min read


Pixel War Challenge — Can We Guess Our Own Game?
Pixel War Today, we’ve got something fun for you — a Wanderlust-themed challenge we’re calling the Pixel War ! We wanted to showcase the beautiful city illustrations from our board game Wanderlust: Discover the World , and what better way than turning them into a guessing game? So here’s what happened:We asked René to pick out some of the art from the game and pixelate them beyond recognition. Then Julian and I had to guess which city each pixelated image was supposed to

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10 hours ago1 min read


Unboxing Fintastic Sea — Our Ocean Adventure Begins!
Let us unbox Fintastic Sea The Wait Is Almost Over! We can finally say it — Fintastic Sea is real, printed, packed, and ready to swim...

Pektis Studio
Oct 91 min read


Teaching Wanderlust the Right Way
How to teach Wanderlust Preparing for SPIEL ‘25 With SPIEL ‘25 just around the corner, our team — and our amazing Pektis helpers — have...

Pektis Studio
Oct 52 min read


SPIEL Essen 2025 board game wishlist
Get ready for SPIEL Essen 2025! Check out our board game wishlist, watch our livestream previews, and share your favorite upcoming board games before the convention.

Pektis Studio
Sep 271 min read


Fintastic Sea Preorders & SPIEL ’25 – Board Game Updates and News
Fintastic Sea Preorders & SPIEL ’25 – Board Game Updates and News Hi everyone – long time no see! It’s been quite a while since our last...

Pektis Studio
Sep 272 min read


Pre-order your copy of Wanderlust: Discover the world
It has been a month since our Kickstarter campaign finished. While we are still preparing the pledge manager to send out to our backers,...

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May 4, 20231 min read


Kickstarter Pre-Lauch Link
We want to start the year 2023 right! Finally, we can proudly announce that the Kickstarter Pre-Lauch page of WANDERLUST is ready!!! For...

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Jan 9, 20231 min read


Wanderlust: Developer Diary 4: Development of the Map
I (Julian) started developing Wanderlust around three years ago. At that time every one of us three began with their own game which...

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Dec 3, 20222 min read


Wanderlust at Tabletop Simulator
Wanderlust is now also available for playtesting at TTS!!! The link to the Steam Workshop Site is https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Pektis Studio
Oct 15, 20221 min read


Pektis Studio at Spiel '22
The highly anticipated Essen Spiel '22 has come to an end. We can not even find words to describe how much love and support we felt from...

Pektis Studio
Oct 11, 20223 min read
Wanderlust: Developer Diary 3: Prototype and Tabletop-Simulator
After a break from the diaries, we finally finished most of our art!!! Echo did a great job by drawing all of our destinations. Mahmoud...

Pektis Studio
Jun 12, 20221 min read


Finally got a logo and name
It was a long process to find our final logo (for the moment). Echo and Mahmoud preferred to have something more playful. After a lot of...

Pektis Studio
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Wanderlust: Developer Diary 2 - The heart is growing
After many big steps in the development of wanderlust - which I forgot to document (Sry xP) we are almost at the point where the art of...

Pektis Studio
Nov 8, 20211 min read


Pektis at Essen Spiel´21
This year is the first time we visit Essen Spiel as Pektis. We left very early from Frankfurt to have enough time to see as much as...

Pektis Studio
Oct 16, 20211 min read


Infectious: Dev. Diary 2
Update of Player Board After the internal play test I realized that the mutation chain is just way too long to reach all mutations at the...

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Aug 22, 20211 min read


Scraps: Game Dev. Diary 2 – First Playtest(s)
THE FIRST PROTOTYPE: After developing the initial concept and idea a bit more, it was time to make the first prototype of the game to try...

Pektis Studio
Aug 1, 20212 min read
Wanderlust: Developer Diary 1
Who doesn’t like to travel? I definitely do. Actually, I mostly play Euro- and Wargames, therefore, I obviously wanted to develop one of...

Pektis Studio
Aug 1, 20211 min read


Infectious: Dev. Diary 1
Dang dang dang! Now allow us to introduce our third game in the cooking: INFECTIOUS Since this game is still in the middle of development...

Pektis Studio
Aug 1, 20211 min read


Scraps: Game Dev. Diary 1 – Idea and Concept
Welcome to SCRAPSVILLE! Scraps is a fun game medium-weight game about putting together different scraps to create robots, competing in...

Pektis Studio
Jul 26, 20212 min read
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