This week, Dan Patriss dives into Thunderworks Games’ Fliptoons and Citizens of the Spark, previews the return of The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era, and checks out Gloomhaven’s new Mercenary Packs. Plus, buzz on Koi, new CCGs like Riftbound and Rush of Ikorr, The Witcher Legacy, and the upcoming My Hero Academia Miniatures Game.

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Starting off the hotness were two titles from Thunderworks Games

Fliptoons and Citizens of the Spark are two titles I saw being bought a ton and being played a bunch at tables around the con. Both lighter games and both very easy to play and learn.

Another big hotnesses I saw at the show was Cip Theory’s The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era with a new Crowdfunding coming before end of the year.

Reported to be in the new campaign--a reprint and two new areas, two new classes,some other things to add to game play,and  an all in one storage solution.

I am always a sucker for Gloomhaven as we all know, At their booth they unveiled the new Mercenary packs they will be releasing

Hail, Irritable Enchanter; Anaphi, Fallen Lion; Satha, Mayor of Frosthaven; and Cassandra, Forgotten Diviner (From Forgotten Circles)

All are now available on their site for $20 each

Next up a game I played and liked and got some buzz was Koi by DV games. (`$45)

I mentioned both of these in the past but I got to see more about UVS games upcoming TMNT Set and the big thing which was all the rage but not for sale just yet was more unveiling of info and cards for Riftbound the LoL CCG

Speaking of CCG, Upper Deck was showing off their new CCG as well called Rush of Ikorr, which seems to be a familiar CCG system but incorporating transparencies kinda like games like Mystic Vale to change things up in the decks

CD Project RED unveiled The Witcher Legacy, listed on BGG as a 2027 release, which will be hitting Gamefound soon (more in the future once it’s up)

Catalyst Game Labs, partnering with Crunchyroll will put out My Hero Academia Miniatures Game (Coming soon to KS)

All miniatures will come preassembled and with a high quality pre-paint: a great premium collectible for easy, right-out-of-the-box plays.

Ascendancy Underworld

Beasts and Diplomacy

Flip Voyage + Fliptown New Frontier

Land Vs Sea Uncharted Plus Meeples

Teburu Dungeon: Sword and Sorcery

What are going to be the hot games at GenCon? Dan Patriss is here with his top six try and buy games at GenCon 2025.

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First up last week they announced the SDJ and KDJ winners.

Winning the SDJ or game of the year was Bomb busters.

The KDJ or the enthusiasts game of the year went to Endeavor Deep Sea. by Burnt Island Games and Grand Gamers Guild.

The Top 6 to TRY are games you can only Demo at the con and not buy.

Hon mention b/c I am not sure it will be there

Kalypso Inside up Possibly will have it there , Look at the inside up room, which should be across from the main hall. Some great games to demo and hang out with great people like Connor and Brandon from Inside up

6  I C E (This Way!) - second edition

5 Natera:New Beginning (Horizon Games)

4 Class of ’89  (Paverson Games)

3 March of the Ants:Evolved Ed (Weird City games)

2 Battle Monsters: Godzilla Vs King Ghiforah  (Restoration)

1 Phoenix New Horizon (Devir)

Top 6 To BUY

6   Ruins (John D Clair From All Play new version of custom heroes!--$17)

5   Shackleton Base:A Journey to the Moon (Pandasaurus-- $90)

4. Star Wars Battle of Hoth (Days of Wonder) $60

3. Lightning Train (Dire Wolf) $50 - Paul Dennen’s new game

2. Luthier (Paverson Games) - $80- Dave Beck and Abe Burson

1   The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the second era (Chip Theory -$ 225)You can find the Full Show with a ton of games in the Geek Allstars Top 11 to try and top 11 to buy at Gen Con 2025

Digital

Frosthaven Digital will release on 7-31-25.

I did not see a price but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was $30 or so.

What is going on in the board game world? Dan Patriss is here to share the latest from your favorite game companies.

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Restoration Games will release the next big(er) box of Unmatched this month, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Vol. 3 will feature Blackbeard, the Chupacabra, Loki, and Pandora July ‘25 ($45)

Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) will release a box expansion for Marvel Champions, Civil War with heroes battling heroes and adds Tigra and Hulkling Sept’25 (~$45-50).

FFG will also release The Trickster Takeover Scenario Pack Aug ‘25 ($22)

2 new Star Trek Captain's chair expansions will be coming Dec 25 one stand alone and one smaller Expansion

First a stand alone expansion Star Trek: Captain's Chair – To Boldly Go

6 Captains but revealed captains including- James T. Kirk, Khan Noonien Singh, Philippa Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery, Rebner, the Pakled Commander from Star Trek: Lower Decks ($60)

Second a smaller expansion needing one of the bigger sets-- Star Trek: Captain's Chair – Second Contact

3 new captains here 2 of which revealed are Carol Freeman, Captain of the U.S.S. Cerritos, and Christopher Pike, Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise ($30)

Another KS Coming soon (7-8-25) Expansion for Clank! Catacombs-- Clank Catacombs Underworld

Gametoppers 5.0

Even Deeper Regrets: An Unfortunate Fishing Game Expansion

Deep Rock Galactic: Rival Incursion and Horrors of Hoxxes

Mafia Blitz

Diceocracy

Statecraft

Black Rose Wars -Revised Ed

This episode runs down the Origins Award Winners.

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A couple of hotnesses from the con,

With Endeavor Deep Sea winning the Origins awards and nominated at KDJ, we also have it on KS which I covered a  while back and has a few days left. Endeavor Deep Sea: Uncharted Waters was a big one with the buzz at the con

As was the upcoming SETIExpansion SETI:Space Agencies

Burnt Island games announce a new game How to Save a World for release July ‘25 ($50)

Van Ryder games announced a release for the successfully crowdfunded card game based off the Elfhame book series called Enemies & Lovers: The Crown of Elfhame to be released Q4 ‘25

Gadget Builder from Rio Grande and Tom Lehmann (race for the galaxy) will be released sometime soon. A take on Crazy 8s with some powers ($15)

The Followup to Hadrian’s Wall from Bobby Hill, The Anarchy from Renegade game studios and Garphil Games will be released June/July ‘25 ($65)

Capstone Games will release Suna Valo, by Andreas Odendahl (La Granja and Cooper Island) Aug ‘25/ Gen con ($50)

(Been out overseas and has had some good buzz and I love his games so very much looking forward to this one)

Board & Dice announced Tianxia, from Antonio Petrelli, Daniele Tascini  to be released in US Aug/ Sept 25 (Unsure of price website says “pre-order Q3)

Lost Ruins of Arnak got an announcement of coming soon on Steam

Ark Nova on Steam has been released! ($22.99)

Gametoppers 5.0

Endeavor Deep Sea: Uncharted Waters

Stefan Feld City Collection: Manila & Beijing   (Manila is amerigo, Beijing is in the year of the dragon)

Excalibur

The Isofarian Guard: Veilward

COMING SOON-- The Lord of the Rings The confrontation: Ultimate Edition

Codenames is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and CGE will be releasing an updated version of the game. All this and more gaming news in this week's Munckin Land episode.

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Happy Camper will release a new Co-Op game by Matt Leacock, Matt Riddle and Ben Pinchback called  The Fours Doors, Aug 25 ($20- Preorder)

CrowD Games will release a new trick taking game called Stella Quest, Aug 25 (`$20)

Upon the 10th anniversary of Codenames, CGE will be releasing updated versions of Codenames, Codenames Duet and Codenames Pictures.

After a successful KS last year North Star Studio will launch Nature, the new (shorter) game based on their previous game Evolution, at Gen Con ‘25 ($65?)

Thunderworks Games will release a drafting card game by Phillip Dubary  Citizens of the Spark, Aug 25 (~$50)

Emberleaf from City of Games will release in the US this fall now that it is in the middle of fulfillment. (~$60)

Star Wars Villainous: Cold Tactics adds Grand admiral Thrawn and Count Dooku and Disney Villainous: Treacherous Tides which adds Tamatoa (Moana) and Davy Jones. (Both early Aug $20)

Laura from Obsessed with board games

Scott from Boardgaming Bud

Frosthaven Digital Demo this week!

Steam Next Fest and the Public Demo run from 6/9 at 10am PT (7pm CEST) to 6/16 at 10 am PT (7pm CEST) and Frosthaven will be playable for that whole time

Dan Patriss is here to share the latest news from the board game world!

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SDJ and KDJ were announced last week

2025 Spiel des Jahres

Bomb Busters

Flip 7

Krakel Orakel

2025 Kennerspiel des Jahres

Endeavor:Deep Sea

Faraway

Fresh off that KDJ nomination for Endeavor:Deep Sea,  Burt Island games announced a KS will be coming soon for an expansion Endeavor Deep Sea:Uncharted Waters

Arcane Wonders will release a “Duel” version of Aquatica called Aquatica Duellum, July ‘25 $45

After a recent KS success Leder Games announced they will release their 5th (?) expansion for Root called Root: The Homeland expansionin Q4 2025 (Possibly Gen Con copies and looks to be 50-60$)

Atom Spotlight

2 more great people/channels I got to spend some quality time with in St. Louis in March at ATOM 25.

Tabletop Bellhop -- Moe and his lovely wife Deanna have been doing this very insightful channel/podcast/reviews/demos for a long time

Laura from Obsessed with Board Games is another one of those great fun follows on Instagram as she does a great job showing new board games and giving a unique insight into them.

Digital BG News

Dire Wolf digital has released an expansion pack for Clank! On Steam called Clank! Sunken treasures (8.99)

Battle Monsters: Godzilla x Kong

ReWild:South America

Catch 33: Dexterity/Flicking game

Trismegistus: Special Ed

We get a tease of 7 Wonders Dice this week, plus Dan shares what has been announced for Gen Con and Essen.

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From BGG we got a tease of 7 wonders dice

Gen Con and Essen releases have been announced by CGE

SETI: Space Agencies is an expansion for SETI (my game of the year 2024) and will add player powers, new aliens to discover, “Prelude” type cards and a few more additions.  (Essen Release but as always I am hoping some will be at Gen Con)

Galaxy Trucker: Do What!? An expansion for Galaxy Trucker adds two new modules to be released at Gen Con ($25-30)

And their 3rd announced release is a new title Called Wispwood which has very little information outside of tile drafting/laying and releasing at Essen

Dire Wolf will release a new Bag building train game by Paul Dennon called Lightning Train to be released at Gen Con.

Cryptozoic will release  Teen Titans Go! Deck-Building Game ($35)  and DC Deck-Building Game: Arkham Asylum ($55) , both stand alone games to be released in Aug '25

Restoration Games will release Unmatched Adventures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into retail in July ($80)

Capstone Games is releasing an expansion Pirates of Maracaibo: Commanders May ‘25 ($35)

In Late May be on the lookout for some dice sets from Sirius Dice ---Dungeons & Dragons: Xanthar's Treasure($20)

Renegade Game Studios has a sale going on now and one game in particular I wanted to highlight.

Renegade Games has Gravewell 2nd ed on sale for $27.

Flamecraft Digital has been announced -coming soon!

Atom Spotlight

Stephen the Nashville Boardgame Guy amazing Instagram content, with some great coverage of new and old games

Roll for Crit  Will is another great guy in the reviewer industry doing some great videos/reviews/previews of games

A new installment of Munchkin Land is here, which means all the latest gaming news!

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Asmodee announced they will release Pergola, a light to medium weight euro about gardening in US May ‘25 ($45)

Chip Theory Games will release their successful crowdfunded version of Mythfield games’  Dragons of Etchinstone later this year (Q4- ~$15)

Devir Games will release Moirai from Alberto Millan , April 25 ($12)

Asmodee will release the next Expansion for Splendor: The Sun Never Sets, May 25 ($17) Pre-order

Fireside Games announce a game in the “Castle Panic Universe” called Please Don't Burn My Village, for release in June 25 ($25)

Fanroll Dice has announced they will have another new Halloween Advent calendar this year, releasing in August. ($75)

ATOM Spotlight

2 great gentlemen from a real good Podcast and content creation outlet called Love Thy Nerd.

I got to spend a bunch of time with Bubba Stallcup and Matt Warmbier 2 of the founders of Love Thy Nerd at Atom this year. Just great guys with an absolute love for all things gaming, teaching gaming, fellowship playing, covering games and spreading the good word.

Earth: Animal Kingdom Expansion

Flamecraft Duels

Nippon: Zaibatsu

Trickerion – 10-year Anniversary Edition

Night Soil

Dan is here with information about the future of The League of Legends, a re-release of Love Letter, and more!

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Riot Games has revealed more info on the future League of Legends TCG RiftBound, which is being released and developed by UVS Games.

UVS and Wise Wizard games will release an expansion later this fall for Star Trek Star Realms Borg: Invasion, a new expansion Oct’ 25

Later this month Space Cowboys will release Garden Rush, in the US ($25)

(Light quick Tile Placement game)

Z-Man games will be re-releasing the classic/Original Version of Love Letter in May ‘25 ($15)

Renegade will be re-printing Sentient in a new edition July ‘25 ($40)

(Card and Dice Manipulation)

Sorry We Are French will release an expansion for the SDJ nominee In the Footsteps of Darwin called In the Footsteps of Darwin: Correspondence June ‘25 (~$20)

ATOM Spotlight

Boardgame Co-- Alex Radcliffe does a TON of great videos on all sorts of things inn the industry, from reviews to top games lists games leaving his collection, play throughs Crowdfunding coverage and more.

One Bookcase -- Mike Hughes is a real great guy and local gamer. He has a solid instagram channel where he highlights some great games with impressions, unboxings and pictorial overviews.

Crowdfunding

KS

Rogue Dungeon: A Rogue's Tale

Vesta

Majong in a thematic co-op euro

Gamefound

Spark Riders 3000: Galactic Modules Expansion

HellDivers 2: The Board Game

Six Sojourns By Red Raven Games

There is a StarCraft miniatures game coming our way, and Dan is here to share the details.

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Archon Studio teased an upcoming StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game (Release 2026) and they also said they would be doing  StarCraft board games (2027).

Wave 9 Hero packs of Marvel Champions the card game will feature Black Panther, Silk and Falcon ($16.99 each)

After being crowdfunded last year Play to Z is releasing their social deduction game 23 Knives in April ‘25 ($40)

Play to Z is releasing Tales of Arabian Nights 40th Anniversary Edition Q3 ‘25 (Multiple editions as in KS best guess as I have seen $60 or $100)

Board & Dice will release an expansion for Nucleum called Nucleum: Energy Research Institute Aug ‘25 (~$30-40 if in line with the other expansions)

Synapses Games will release Yokohama Duel, in US Aug 25 (~$20-25)

Cephalofair Games will release Gloomhaven 2E, in May ‘25 PREORDER $199 (however I have seen other places Retail of $180)

ATOM 25 Spotlight

First up this week is Tim Riel and Nerd Incorrect. Tim hosts the amazingly fun and entertaining Codenames Live on Twitch Twitch and Youtube

You might want to mark your calendars as well as I will be on Codenames live monday May 5th with my co-host on the Geek Allstars and amazing designer Matt Riddle to see if we can win some Codenames games vs the guys from Love Thy Nerd Matt and Bubba

Tara Norieka from Tara’s Bad Luck Club is yet another salt of the earth person. She’s great to talk to great to follow for board games and even better she was up for ANY and all games to learn at ATOM25.

Isle of Cats is now out on steam $14.99

Frosthaven was announced it’s coming soon on Steam

Set a Watch is also available to wishlist on steam

Keyside

Pirates of the high teas 

Raising rabbits 

Scales of fate 

Holiday hills 

Fate of Ventera

Onward 

GI JOE Operation Cobra