Z-Man Games

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Board games Card games
Founded	1999; 27 years ago (1999)
Founder	Zev Shlasinger
Headquarters	Roseville, Minnesota , United States
Parent	F2Z Entertainment (2011–2016) Asmodee (2016–present)
Website	zmangames.com

Z-Man Games is an American board game company, incorporated in 1999. It was named after its founder,Zev Shlasinger. The company is known for theirPandemic series of board games, as well as being the sole publisher for the English editions of popularEurogames, such asCarcassonne andTerra Mystica.

Z-Man Games was primarily formed to bring thecollectible card gameShadowfist back into publication.^[1][2]

In 2011, Sophie Gravel, owner ofQuebec-based publisher/distributor Filosofia, bought Z-Man Games,^[3] creating F2Z Entertainment. Shlasinger left Z-Man Games in January 2016. In 2016, F2Z Entertainment was acquired byAsmodee.^[4]

• AB-movie card game series consisting of games such asGrave Robbers From Outer Space^[1][5] andCannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom^[6]
• 1960: The Making of the President,^[7][8] an original creation by Z-Man Games
• Agricola
• Archaeology: The Card Game, a market-style card game^[9]
• Arimaa, anabstract strategy game
• Ascending Empires, a space based empire expansion game^[10]
• Carcassonne, Z-Man Games has published the English version of this game in the US and Canada since 2012
• Endeavor, a complex strategy game edited by Z-Man Games in 2009^[11]
• Gheos, a game where players take on the role of deities^[12]
• Neuroshima Hex!
• Omlevex, a role-playing supplement forMutants & Masterminds,Champions, andSilver Age Sentinels^[13][14]
• Onirim, and the Oniverse series of shortsingle-player games:Sylvion,Castellion,Nautilion, andAerion
• Pandemic, a cooperative board game^[15]
• Saboteur, a mining path card game
• Shadow Hunters
• Shadowfist
• Start Player byTed Alspach, a card game to determine who goes first in the following game
• Terra Mystica, by Jens Drögemüller and Helge Ostertag, winner of the 2013International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Winner^[16]
• Ursuppe
• The Walking Dead, a 2009 board games based onthe comic of the same name
• The Walking Dead: The Prison, "both a stand-alone game and an expansion module to the first game", funded throughKickstarter^[17]

• Going Cardboard – a documentary about board games in which Shlasinger is interviewed

• Z-Man Games website
• Z-Man Games atBoardGameGeek

• Board game publishing companies
• Card game publishing companies
• Role-playing game publishing companies
• Companies based in New York (state)
• American companies established in 1999
• 1999 establishments in Minnesota

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