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Hobby World

Hobby World
Industry Board games publishing
Founded 2002
Headquarters Moscow
Website Official Website (Eng)

Hobby World is the largest publishing house in Russia specializing in producing and distributing board games of the following categories: games for children, family games, party games, strategy games, military games, collectible card games. The head office is located in Moscow, the Kiev regional office has been open since 2012.

The company was founded in 2010 through the merger of the two competing companies «Smart» and «Fantasy World». Founded in 2002, «Smart» was a leader in production of the world famous board games and bestsellers such as Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Munchkin etc. History of «Fantasy World» began with the publishing of one of the most popular collectible card games: Berserk, developed by Russian authors and artists. In 2010 the decision to merge the companies helped Hobby World to take a significant board games market share.

As of this writing, more than 200 games have been published under the Hobby World brand name. 20 % of them are of own development. In 2013 Metro 2033 the board game based on the novel by Dmitriy Glukhovskoy was translated in English and published for the first time. The whole edition was sold out to the dealers in Europe and the USA. In the same year campaign for the Berserk to access the western market was launched on the most famous crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Since that moment the largest publishing houses of Europe, the USA and China started to work closely with Hobby World. By 2014 such games as Berserk, Hollywood, World of Tanks: Rush and Zavriki and other games have been translated and published abroad.

Today the publishing house sells more than half a million board games annually and publishes more than 50 new games. For the year 2014 percentage of Hobby World’s own and translated games is 20% and 80% respectively. Among the games of own development are such famous games as Svintus, Metro 2033 based on the eponymous novel by Dmitriy Glukhosvskoy, Coronation based on the book by Boris Akunin, Berserk, Hollywood, World of Tanks: Rush, Think it Up! and many more.

The company publishes Russian editions of some popular games such as Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Munchkin, Ticket to Ride, Game of Thrones, Arkham Horror, Warhammer. On the whole there are more than 200 games in the Hobby World portfolio.


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