Salamandra

The scholars are rushing to participate to Litha's festival. Send your apprentices to collect ephemeral and magical resources.
Restore life to the sacred vegetation, show yourself worthy of the goddess Salamandra and become the Great Druid.

Salamandra is played in 4 rounds (alternating day and night).
Each round, you have a set number of apprentices at your disposal to be placed and put to work to generate resources and Veneration Points, which are the victory points of this game.
It is a "Definitive worker placement" game in which you will activate your apprentices to create ephemeral resources to be used in the current turn to:

• build new tiles that allows to obtain the blessing of the Bear and Eagle divinities
• activate Cauldron tiles, generating Veneration Points and scrolls so you can gain points at the end of the game
• pray the Salamanders goddesses to obtain powerful bonuses
• pass and study Groves

Everything in Salamandra is a source of rewards, but you will have to play at your best to bring your strategy to its end and win the game.

—description from the publisher

• Players: 1-4 (Best 2-3)
• Play Time: 30–60 Min
• Suggested Age: 10+
• Complexity/Weight: 3.00/5 
• Category: Fantasy
• Mechanism: Worker Placement

- Game Credits -

Designers: Pierre Giroux, Johannes Goupy

Artist: Camille Chaussy

Publisher: GRRRE Games

Release: 2025

Limited copies available, please buy in advance to avoid disappointment.

Purchases are limited to 2 copies per person, in case you’d like to grab one as a gift for a friend.

Purchases are limited to 2 copies per person, in case you’d like to grab one as a gift for a friend.

We hold the exclusive UK licence for Salamandra, available through our website from now until October 2026, with the option to collect your copy at the August and October HandyCon conventions.

You can collect your copy of the game at:

• HandyCon August: 14  – 16 August 2026
• HandyCon October: 30 October – 01 November 2026

Collection is available each day between 10 AM and 6 PM.
(Please allow the first hour of the convention, 9 AM–10 AM, for the check-in rush.) 

Note: You do not need a HandyCon convention ticket if you are only stopping by to collect your game.

We were fortunate enough to play Salamandra with Flavien in January and loved it so much that we wanted to be part of bringing it to more players.

This is the first title in what we intend to be a growing catalogue of games published under the HandyCon Gaming name, and we are incredibly excited about what this means for the future.

We are delighted to announce this new partnership, with HandyCon Gaming signing a co-publishing deal with Hachette to bring Salamandra to the UK as its exclusive UK licence holder.

Salamandra is available through our website from now until October 2026, with the option to collect your copy at the August and October HandyCon conventions.

At the moment, there are no plans to ship Salamandra.

Please note that you do not need a HandyCon convention ticket to stop by and collect your copy.