My 2012 Essen Watchlist

1. Robinson Crusoe - A cooperative game with tight thematic integration. The star of Essen 2012. Will this live up to the buzz?
2. Myrmes - Ant placement game for a change. ; ) It's from Ystari so it should be heavy on the mechanism...
3. Goblins Inc! (got it) - Galaxy Trucker on steroids? We'll see.
4. Archipelago - Having done my fair bit of "lost in space", me (alien) prefer exploration on planet earth anytime over space (= dark and void) exploration.
5. Love Letter - Always looking for quick card games - this was a surprise hit at Essen 2012, I'd just got to try it. 
6. Room 25 - Simulated TV game shows with take that! heh heh.
7. CO2 - The beautiful watercolored board interwoven with layered and unique gameplay.
8. River Dragon - Fantastic Artwork and bits.
9. Copycat - a mixed bag of all the cool mechanics from the top games in BGG. Now that piques my interest.
10. Suburbia - Oh Sim City where art thou?
11. Tzolkin - Trying really hard to ignore this one, but it keeps crawling back onto the list. Round and round it goes. Could it suffer the same fate as the forecasted Mayan Apocalypses...puff....
12. Keyflower - Can one interesting auction mechanism carries the whole game? 
13. Escape the curse of the temple - Can't make a decision ? Roll a dice - that's Ameritrash. Made your decision(s) - roll a dice to restrict your options - that's Eurogame. Now this game embraces both fronts. source: Extracted from the narrow-minded plastic soulless space Merchant guide of buying dice. Not for those with babies at home.
14. Terra Mystica - My head hurts 2 minutes into rule explanation. Could this be a good sign for a game with "depth"? On the race to be the reigning soulless euros king of 2012. I owe my soul to check this one out!
15. Noblemen - It is noble to offer an apology for past mistake. A great title for the right publisher. : )