Announcing Ham Helsing!

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Game box for Ham Helsing Monster Hunter. A group of cartoon animals looks nervously from out of a spooky forest.

A cooperative, deck-crafting adventure coming this fall

Banner for Ham Helsing Monster Hunter. Cartoon animals peek out from a spooky forest. Ages 10+, 60-90 minutes, 1-4 players.

Presenting… Ham Helsing! Based on the best-selling graphic novel about a reluctant monster-hunting pig, Ham Helsing is a cooperative adventure board game. Join Ham, Ronin, Malcom, and Lobos as they attempt to save the world! Using a deck-crafting system with transparent cards, you’ll protect locations from endless swarms of minions while improving your skills. Can you power up fast enough to stop the Villain from destroying Mud Canyon and save the day?

Game box for Ham Helsing Monster Hunter. A group of cartoon animals looks nervously from out of a spooky forest.
  • Blaze a path through the world of Ham Helsing, choosing your battles and leveling up your character.
  • Transparent upgrade cards let you enhance your deck in real-time. If a symbol fits on your card, you can slip the upgrade into the sleeve, improving your abilities for future turns!
  • Triumph together with your team, using card combos and location powers to help each other.
  • Fight fiendish foes, including 4 different Villains with their own unique challenges. But if your team hasn’t brought the Villain’s health to 0 by the end of the last player’s turn at Mud Canyon, your bacon is burnt!

More info about release and pre-orders coming soon.

Ultimatch coming in June

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Ultimatch box with cards laid out in a pyramid with the alta hand cards face up and the deck face down.

Fireside Games is thrilled to announce Ultimatch, an addictive, cooperative card game that hits stores worldwide June 12, 2024.

Ultimatch box with cards laid out in a pyramid with the alta hand cards face up and the deck face down.

Ultimatch is an addictive cooperative twist on matching card games that brings new options for making matches. The goal is to remove all the cards from a pyramid by matching them. You make matches by color, number, addition, subtraction, or even mixing colors, but you want to think through the best cards to use now and which ones to save for later. Single matches give you a rush, Ultimatches feel great, and clearing the pyramid feels amazing.

Diagram showing all the ways players can match an Orange 5 in Ultimatch

Ultimatch includes both public and private cards and requires the kind of clever decision making about when to use cards that seasoned card players enjoy. Silently trading 1 card facedown with 1 other player keeps all players engaged throughout, introduces a push-your-luck element, and calls on players to read each other. Will you risk trading a card with another player? If so, who is likely to know what you need? Is your card better to keep for later use? The thinking goes quickly as do the turns. Every match is a mini-win, and win or lose, players keep coming back for more.

Ages 10+, 1 to 5 players, 20 minutes, $9.95

Ultimatch is available for preorder and will be demoed at GAMA Expo, Dice Tower West, UK Games Expo, Origins, Gen Con, and more to be announced.

Ham Helsing

Game box showing Ham Helsing and friends exploring a spooky forest
Game box showing Ham Helsing and friends exploring a spooky forest

Coming in 2022!

Ham Helsing comes from a long line of klutzy vampire hunting pigs. After his brother dies, the legacy rests with him. Time to put away the paintbrush and pick up the sword! This endearing, funny, irreverent, graphic novel debuted this summer at # 1 for Children’s Humorous Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon and was the # 1 best-seller in Amazon’s Editor’s picks for books for ages 9–12! Now, Fireside Games is teaming with the creator, Rich Moyer, to bring the world of Ham Helsing to your table as a cooperative, adventure board game.

Join Ham and his friends and work together to save your bacon!

Designed by Justin De Witt

Art by Rich Moyer