Dan Patriss shares the latest news in the world of board games, including the release of the DC Deck-Building Game: Party Edition from Cryptozoic Entertainment.

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NEWS

Restoration Games released a pair of Unmatched sets in the Witcher Universe and should be available now.

• Unmatched The Witcher:Steel & Silver --Geralt of Rivia, Ciri, and the Leshen ($50)
• Unmatched The Witcher: Realms Fall--Eredin, Philippa, and Triss & Yennefer ($50)

Asmodee has released Patchwork: 10-Year Anniversary Edition ($35)

Next Move Games and Asmodee will release Azul Duel,  Feb ($25)

Chip Theory Games will release a head to head card game called  Neon Reign,($25)

(Neon knight game studios collab with CTG)

They are also taking pre-orders for The Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the second era

Cryptozoic Entertainment is releasing DC Deck-Building Game:Party/Starter Edition ($25)March ‘25

Thames & Kosmos will release a new ed of the Crew-- The Crew: Family Adventure Q3 25 ($15)

Thames and Cosmos have announced a bunch of new boxes in the EXIT series of games

(These are co-op escape room /puzzle style games)

• Exit: The Game - Adventures on Catan (~$20)
• EXIT:  The Game --2 Escape Adventures (Family based) ($30)
• EXIT: The Game: The Venice Conspiracy (~$20)
• EXIT:  The Game:  Midnight Spooktacular (Kids focused) (~$20)
• EXIT: The Game:The Intergalactic Race (Advent Calendar) ($50)

Daily puzzles and challenges or riddles leading up to the last days challenge

Beyond the Horizon from Capstone Games and designed by the guys at Motor City GameWorks will release Feb ‘25 ($60)

Crowdfunding

KICKSTARTER

• Click A Tree - The new Uwe Rosenberg game
• Lost Lumina
• 25th Century Games 2025 Import Collection
• La Pâtisserie Rococo
• MICRO HERO: Hercules
• Baghdad: The City of Peace

GAMEFOUND

• FoxPaw

Dan is back, and kicks off the new year with news of new The Witcher expansions, HeroQuest, and more.

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NEWS

Asmodee will release 3 new products for The Witcher Old World in Jan ‘25

• The Witcher: Old World Monster Trail ($50)
• The Witcher: Old World - Wild Hunt ($50)
• The Witcher: Old World - Adventure Pack ($30)

Unexpected Games will release an expansion for Mandalorian Adventures --- Mandalorian Adventures: Clan of Two. ($40)

• New characters new scenarios  (base game needed)

Avalon Hill is releasing HeroQuest First Light -- An intro to the new edition of the old classic dungeon crawler-- at Target Jan ‘25 ($50)

Dranda Games will release a new drafting game called Explorers of Navoria, , Jan’  2025. ($40)

Gigamic will release a card game called  Slide, March '25.

Rock Manor Games has released Set A Watch: Doomed Run, a big box with a campaign and all previous Set a Watch offerings, into retail ($75)

UVS Games has placed Attack on Titan - Apocalypse, a new booster set for UniVersus CCG, onto preorder as well as released their Star Trek Below Decks set.

Renegade Game Studios teased Battle for the Deep:powered by the Axis & Allies which will release in March 2025 -- Axis and Allies under the sea($60)

Capstone Games will bring the next game by Tomas Holek,  Tea Garden to North America May ‘25  ($50-60)

WizKids has announced Dungeons & Dragons:  Edge of the Realms – Fields of Faerun, a new map-building game designed by Phil Walker-Harding (Barenpark, Gizmos, Imhotep) June '25 ($25)

There is still time to get a gift for the gamer in your life, and Dan Patriss has some suggestions for your holiday get-together!

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HOLIDAY GIFT GUID

Small Family

• Trio
• Gap
• Captain Flip
• Scout

Party game

• Landmarks
• Green Team wins Holiday Party
• The Gang

Gateway

• River Valley Glassworks
• Dabba Walla
• Harmonies

Two player games

• LOTR Duel for Middle Earth
• King of Tokyo Duel

Next level of Gaming

• Horrified:World of Monsters
• Águeda: City of Umbrellas
• Stonespine Architects

Steam loving gamer Nephew/Niece or cousin

• Slay the Spire:The Board Game

For that comic book loving friend (who hopefully likes to game with you)

• Invincible the Hero Building Game

For The Star Wars Lover

• Star Wars Unlimited
• The Mandalorian: Adventures
• Star Wars The Deck Building Game: Clone Wars Edition

For the Aunt/Uncle who can’t stop talking about games from the old days!

• Crossbows and Catapults: Fortress War

Gloomhaven lover on your list who loves Big honking games and prob already has no room for big games

• ISS Vanguard
• Agemonia

Digital

• Codenames App
• Imperial Miners some new updates and a Duel Scenario

Crowdfunding 

• MVM season 5

Dan Patriss is back with even more gaming news, including expansions for Dune Imperium.

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NEWS

Dire Wolf Digital will release an expansion for Dune Imperium (And Uprising) Dune Imperium:Bloodlines, Q1 ‘25 ($40)

Renegade Game Studios has announced another GI Joe DBG Expansion: The Crimson Veil, Feb ‘25 ($30)

The G.I. JOE Deck-Building Core Game is required to play.

Keymaster Games will release Fuego, late  Nov ‘24 $20 (Trick taking card game)

Rio Grande Games will release 7 Empires,by Mac Gerdts designer of Concordia, Jan ’25 ($70)  (an updating of his older game Imperial )

The City of Games Teased a “Duel” version of Isle of Cats--  The Isle of Cats: Duel, for release Dec 24 ($25)

Gale Force 9 will be doing a new KS next year for the Star Trek Ascendency:The Final Frontier. This will be a big box with 7 expansions new planets, new Civs new cards and rumored new faction being the Gorn.

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

World Order

Glass Garden (ButtonShy Games)

Avalon The Riven Veil (From creators of Oathsworn)

Clans of Caledonia:Industria

Sweet Lands

Fable Fury

GAMEFOUND

Lands of Evershade -- Awaken Realms

BACKER KIT

Defenders of the Realm: Legends Edition

New games, and gaming news in this week's Munchkin Land with Dan Patriss

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NEWS

• Gamers for Cures 2024 Charity Board Game Marathon benefiting Turner Syndrome Society of Carolinas/US. Donate HERE!
• To buy Raffles for THE WALL go to the Gamers Armory Site.
• Red Raven will be releasing Islebound:Emerald Edition into retail Late Oct ‘24 ($50)
• Rio Grande Games will release Moon Colony Bloodbath,designed by Donald X Vaccarino Jan ‘25 ($50)
• Lucky Duck Games will release Unconscious Mind, over here in US , Feb’ 25 (~$60)
• A heavier weight euro with worker placement and engine building
• Renegade Game Studios teased Wraith & The Giants, by Scott Almes, March ‘25 ($35)
• Devir Games is releasing Quorum, March ‘25 ($30) Card drafting tableau building with a bit of a Social element to it
• On their site and press releases--Wizards of the Coast teased Marvel Spider-Man, into Magic: The Gathering

DIGITAL

• Cascadia is now in Early access on steam ($14.99)

CROWD FUNDING

KICKSTARTER

• Star Trek Murder Mystery and Escape Room Games
• Stefan Feld City Collection: Chichén Itzá & Valencia
• Into The Dark Dungeon - Silver Mine
• The DUNGENERATOR: DIE in a Dungeon
• Mutagen
• Half Truth: Second Guess
• Barony: Royal edition
• SILOS, EGO, ORBIT | Epic Sci-Fi Trilogy by Reiner Knizia

GAMEFOUND

• Rumble Planet
• Bardsung: Tale of the Forsaken Glade

Fantasy Flight Games teased Marvel Champions: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ahead of the February 2025 release, and Dan Patriss has all the info and more gaming news in this week's Munchkin Land.

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NEWS

• Fantasy Flight Games teased Marvel Champions: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, with some new mechanics for the game including finding the mole Feb’ 25
• Iello will release King of Tokyo: Origins, An “entry” level King of Tokyo Nov ‘24. ($30)
• Archon Studio has moved the gamefound for Master of Orion: Ad Astra on Gamefound to Jan’ 25
• The Op has releases Marvel Dice Throne: Deadpool Expansion, Oct’ 24 ($25)
• Capstone Games will bring Pink Troubadour’s Galileo Galilei, to the US Q2 ‘25
• Renegade Game Studios showed off their Heroscape: Age of Annihilation Paint Set, which will be available Feb 25 ($90)
• Devir Games will release an expansion for The White Castle-- The White Castle: Matcha, Oct ‘24. ($30)
• Amigo Games will release  Cloudship (A cooperative family weight dexterity game) Dec ’24 (~$15-20)

KICKSTARTER

Unmatched Adventures TMNT

Bat flip Dynasty

Nature

Holiday Hijinks Master Detective Collection

Citizens of the Spark

Hedge Mage

GAMEFOUND

Cloudspire:Harbinger

Stardriven Gateway

West Story:A Town building game

Chicago 1875:City of the big shoulders

Essen is here! Dan Patriss shares his top five to buy at the show.

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ESSEN TOP FIVE

My Essen Top 5 to buy with 2 honorable mentions

Star Trek Star Realms (not sure if it's there but check it out anyway when it comes out!)

SETI from CGE (b/c I have mentioned it a bunch but wanted to mention it again)

5 Daitoshi -- Devir

4 Saltfjord - Aporta

3 Minos Dawn of the Bronze age --Board and Dice

2 Black Forest  -- Feuerland Spiel (Capstone in US)

1 Civolution --- Deep Print Games

DIGITAL

 Vestiges: Fallen Tribes This is very much Early Access on Oct 3rd

KICKSTARTER

10-1-24 Launches

Unmatched Adventures TMNT -- Restoration games

Bat flip Dynasty Fun Drafting dice rolling Baseball sim by Scorelander Games

Positano: a Game of Bidding and Building

Nature

Deliverance: Council of the Fallen Expansion + Reprint

Speakeasy - By Vital Lacerda with Artwork by Ian O'Toole

Railroad Tiles

Skara Brae & The Anarchy

Dungeons of the Oak Dell

Game Found

Story of Many

Dan Patriss is here with your bi-weekly rundown of gaming news!

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NEWS

Iello will release King of Tokyo Duel early Oct ‘24 ($25)

Asmodee will release Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth Early Oct ’24 ($35)

Restoration Games will release Crossbows and Catapults: Fortress War Early Oct ’24. ($90)

Cranio creations is putting out Beyond the Horizon (Sequel to Beyond the Sun) for release at Essen ‘24 (US later this year). (`$60?)

Cranio Creations will release Golden Cup, at Essen ‘24 (Oct ’24) (~$40)

WizKids this week Teased Builders of Baldur's Gate,to be released in June ‘25 ($65)

Asmodee will release Tree Society (Via Next move games) Sept ‘24 ($35)

Ravensburger announced the next Lorcana Set-- Azurite Sea Nov ‘24.

DIGITAL GAMES

Demon Loop has gone to early access $12.99

I will have a Code for the digital release as well to give away just head to the Major Spoilers discord Munchkinland channel and let me know your favorite Pfister games and I’ll pick a random winner for this code for Demon Loop

Also coming soon to Steam and iOS is Imperial Miners from Portal Games.

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

RA Pharaoh Edition Reprint and More!

March of the Ants: The Ultimate Ant Civilization Game

DC Deck-Building Game: Arkham Asylum

GAMEFOUND

Puerto Rico Special Edition

Cyberpunk 2077

Heroes of Might and Magic III The Board Game and Expansions

Fairy Ring arrives in September from Asmodee, and the company has many more releases coming our way in the months ahead. Dan Patriss fills you in on these stories and more in this week's Munchkin Land.

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NEWS

Devir Games will release the next game by Dani Garcia Daitoshi  Oct '24 (~$60)

Arcane Wonders will release Video Game Champion,in Nov ‘24 ($60).

A light to medium set collection card/Tile game set in the 90s era of 16 bit console game explosion.

Asmodee will release Fairy Ring, (Orig from Repos Production) Sept’ 24 ($35)

Game about developing/building your Fairy Village

Asmodee will release a new edition of Finca, a great game of collecting fruit using a rondell, Sept ‘24 (~$30)

Asmodee and Zygomatic will release Survive the Island (an updating of the 30+ Year old Survive! Escape from Atlantis In Sept ‘24 ($30)

Atomic Mass Games announced the next squad pack for Star Wars:Shatterpoint-- Good Soldiers Follow Orders Oct ‘24 ($50) (The villains from Bad Batch- after Bad Batch was announced few months ago)

CROWDFUNDING

Kickstarter

Tír na nÓg Reprint, Expansion & More

Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere® RPG

Rival Restaurants: SPORKS Out (Reprint + Expansion)

Backer Kit!

One Deck Dungeon: Relics of the Forge

Dan Patriss is back from GenCon and runs down some of the highlights from the show.

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GENCON

Gen Con breaks attendance records for the 2nd straight year selling out badges and having 71,000 unique attendees (Up from 70,000 in 2023).

Top 5 Games checked out in the BGG hotness room at Gen Con 2024

107 River Valley Glassworks

70 Let's Go! To Japan

62 Landmarks

58 Arcs: Conflict & Collapse in the Reach

58 The Gang

Restoration Games will be crowdfunding a new set next month Unmatched Adventures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sept ‘24

Brotherwise Games will release Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game Nov ’24 (Guess about $30- 35).

Rio Grande Games will release Power Grid: Outpost, a space take on Power Grid Oct ‘24 ($75)

Gale Force 9 has a bunch of great games but also some great game accessories and they announced 4 new sets for their Tenfold Dungeon line which will be released Q 3 ‘24

Wizard’s Sanctum

Mines of Khazad

Ravenhold Castle

The Underdark

WizKids has teased Pathfinder Dice Conquest where you roll all of the main 7 dice types for release in March ‘25.

Crowdfunding

KICKSTARTER

So you’ve been cursed 

Winds of Numa Sera: The Board Game

Shuffle Dungeons

Gamefound

Dungeon Twister 20th anniversary edition

Gen Con starts in just a few days, and Dan Patriss shares his Top 5 To Try and Top 5 To Buy at the convention.

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Top 5 To Try (not available to purchase at Gen Con just demo

 Honorable Mention

Ascendancy 

5 Aeterna

4 The Paradox Initiative

3 Vrahode:Age of Prophecy

2 Mistborn Deckbuilding Game

1 Star Trek:Captains Chair

1st set of Honorable mentions b/c of expensive or been out a while

French Quarter $30

Slay the Spire (I already own but go buy this!) $170

Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught – Tendrils of the Lichen Lich Starter Set (English edition) $100

Crossbows and Catapults:Fortress War $90

Some Expansions to also check out

Aquatica Coral Reefs

Geen Team Wins- Holiday Party $10

Clank Catacombs Lairs and lost chambers  --They said limited copies (RUN! To their booth)

Astro-Knights Eternity $50 (Next Aeons end)

Straight out hon mentions

Pirates of Maracaibo $50

Tir na nog $35

Printing Press $35 -- Sequel to Gutenberg

(More hon mentions b/c I mentioned them on The Morning Stream)

Rock Hard: 1977 $50 (so their site says) (you will likely have to run for this one)

Landmarks  $25 WIll end up being one of the best Party games of the year

Top 5 to BUY at Gen Con

5 Invincible the Hero Building Game $55

4 Reavers of Midgard the Card game $40

3 Metrorunner $60

2 River Valley Glassworks $39

1 The Mandalorian:Adventures $50

Digital 

Clank! Digital on steam $22.99

CrowdFunding

KICKSTARTER

Game Toppers 4.5 Galactic Game Tables, Terrain Packs & Mats

New Terrain packs, some rail art for the rails you can change out and some amazing new play matts, and of course some great deals on Toppers

Luthier

Game Found

Ascension Legends