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Tonight Dan welcomes in BJ from Board Game Gumbo for our annual Top 11 to Try and Top 11 to Buy at Gen Con 2022.
But First some news!
From the North Star Games Press Release
The board game publisher North Star Games is excited to announce a strategic new branding, direction, and focus. After almost 20 years, NorthStar is adapting its business to focus on one core market – hobby gamers. They created a new look and name to reflect this change.
The publisher will now release games under the name NorthStar Game Studio reflecting the team’s focus on finely crafted game design. Collaborating with the talented team at Quillsilver Studio, they created a new brand logo to encapsulate this.
Top 11 to Try
As always this list is things you CANNOT Buy at Gen Con just demo
I am going to try and DQ ones we kinda mentioned already from Origins but I will mention them here quickly again— Septima, Empire’s End Jurassic World Legacy of Isla nublar Also ran b/c I backed it and it’s coming but if you want to see it go try it
Dan’s List
Honorable mention— Birdwatcher Renegade, Bird Card Game.. It’s no Piepmatz but…
11 The Yawning Portal:A D&D strategy board game Avalon Hill (I know nothing)
10 Virtu
8 Mistwind — Adamescue and Andrews (not much yet said about it but would love to try it)
6 The 20 Remade Feld’s by Queen.
4 DragonQuest: Fantasy Dice Game (Dungeon crawl roll and write)
2 Time of Empires (Civ game with Sand timers)
1 Dungeon and Dragons:Onslaught PVPVE (Hoping you can play it just as PVE/Coop and enjoy it just as much, or just PVE with multiple parties Kinda like Dungeon Alliance)
Huge Fan of the Harpers from the books
BJ
11 Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods (Cranio Creations + Simone Luciani)
10 3000 Scoundrels (Corey Knieczka’s new game) Unexpected Games
9 Sea Salt & Paper (Bruno Cathala / Théo Rivière, has a Sushi Go meets Silver feel)
7 Endless Winter: Paleoamericans (Stan Kordonskiy’s best so far)
6 Mission Control: Critical Orbit (new publisher Th3rd World Studios, cool theme)
5 Raising Robots (Navoo Games)
4 Maui (sucker for all the four letter abstracts)
3 First in Flight (love the theme)
2 Fit to Print (Peter McPherson – Tiny Towns designer, Ian O’Toole art)
Honorable Mentions:
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- Lofoten (Pearl Games / Sébastien Dujardin),
- Helsinki (Daniel Pederson, Copenhagen / Deep Blue)
Top 11 to Buy
There are a ton of things we have mentioned on previous shows and Origins previews OR have already come out so I wanted to mention a few of them here before the list
Aldabas (I think first time on sale)
Endangered:Monarch Butterflies
Legends of Sleepy Hollow (I don’t think they will have the new rule book or other fixes)
The Grand Tournament (And all S4 of Graphic Novel Adventures)
Dan
Honorable mention as well:
Board and Dice Loot Box #1 (Some extras for Origins First builders and others)
Roll Camera!:The B-Movie Expansion
11 Dune Imperium:Rise of IX (They just announced Expansion as well (DI:Immortality) ($40)
10 Disney Sorcerer’s Arena:Epic Alliances $50 (Expac 30) (Should have 1 or both of the expansions too)
9 Terracotta Army ($70)
8 Knight Fall — Red Raven Teamvs Team, Co-op, Campaign modes ($45)
7 Old London Bridge ($65)
6 Oathsworn:Into the Deepwood ($135)
5 Space Station Phoenix ($80)
4 Skymines Pfister $70
3 Twilight Inscription ($60)
2 Brazil:Imperial 4x Portal ($70)
1 FireFly: Misbehavin’ $65
Toital:750!
BJ
10 Adventure Games: The Gloom City File (loves this series)
9 Decktective: You Can’t Cheat Death (love this series even more)
7 Switch & Signal (David Thompson does trains!)
6 Village Rails (Dunstan & Gilbert do trains!)
5 Green Team Wins (cool little party game from 25th?)
4 Rear Window (Shadows Over Hitchcock?? I”m in)
3 Turing Machine (just because of the look and innovativeness)
2 The Diamond Swap (gotta have an Oink Game – could’ve been Town 66, too)
1 The Guild of Merchant Explorers
Honorable Mentions: Long Shot (Dave in the Gumbo has a copy), Gutenberg (I already have a copy), Tenpenny Parks (I already reviewed it and own it), Power Plants (Adam Daulton’s cool looking power card game) Studies In Sorcery: Divination (My favorite game from Weird Giraffe, don’t own the expansion yet)
And even MORE Honorable mentions!
Planet Unknown (Polyomino Placement)
Dungeons Dice and Danger (Alea, Richard Garfield)
Kites (More Sand timers!)
Paint the Roses (And deluxe 85$)
Venn Party game
Northgard Uncharted Lands ($90)
Fun time as always and thanks for listening!
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