Iello is expanding its line of small games with two new titles for the summer:  Knizia’s Schotten Totten and Kuro’s Rent-a-Hero, both scheduled to release in June.

Originally published in Germany in 1999 by Altenburger, Reiner Knizia’s Schotten Totten is a two player game of feuding Scottish villages, both trying to adjust the border stones between the villages for their own benefit.  The game system combines hand management and set collection mechanics, with players trying to deploy their cards to control the border stones.

Schotten Totten will include 73 cards and 2 player aids.  The game is for 2 players, ages 8 and up, and plays in about 20 minutes.  MSRP is $14.99.

Rent-A-Hero is a new version of AEG’s 2012 release Seventh Hero, designed by the Japanese game designer known as Kuro (The Ravens of Thri Sahashri, Ars Alchimia), featuring revamped artwork in the Iello style.  Players use bluff and strategy to try to collect a set of six different heroes before their opponents can.

This game will include 77 cards and 5 player aids. The game is designed for 3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in half an hour.  MSRP is $14.99.

The two new games will expand Iello’s growing smaller games, most recently joined by Tem-purr-a (see “‘Happy Pigs,’ ‘Tem-purr-a,’ ‘The Pied Piper’”).