The partnership between Goliath and Lucky Duck Games will see the two brands working together to develop the Adult Games category and reach an even broader audience of tabletop gamers.
Goliath Games has announced the acquisition of Lucky Duck Games, best known for its industry-leading and award-winning digital hybrid board games such as Chronicles of Crime and Destinies.
Goliath, a global leader in kids and family games with multi-generational hits like Sequence, Floor Is Lava, Gooey Louis and Pop the Pig, has been building success in the Adult Games category, published under Endless Games. Notable releases include crime game Unsolved Case Files, TV hit sensation The Traitors and more kidult games slated for release under its global distribution deal with Funko Games announced last month.
Jochanan Golad, CEO of Goliath, said: “As a global games business, we see there are two major growth areas in games; (adult) party games and strategy games. Consumers and kidults particularly are playing boardgames like never before; this trend was already there, but the pandemic had greatly accelerated it.”
Lucky Duck Games’ library of high-quality strategy titles will complement Goliath’s existing multi-category catalogue.
Jochanan further expressed admiration for Lucky Duck Games’ swift rise in the strategy space. “Vincent and his team have done an astounding job in such a short time to become a notable player in the strategy games category. We are very impressed by the games they’ve brought to market.”
Vincent Vergonjeanne, founder of Lucky Duck Games, added: “Goliath’s entrepreneurial spirit perfectly aligns with ours. This partnership empowers us to continue investing in cutting-edge strategy games while leveraging Goliath’s expansive global distribution network to reach an even broader audience of tabletop gamers,”
Vincent and his management team will continue to run Lucky Duck Games autonomously as an independent studio within the Goliath group of companies, maintaining its commitment to designing and launching innovative strategy games on a global scale.
