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Tonight Dan and BJ have our yearly fun time of giving you the Top 11 Games To Try and Top 11 Games to Buy at Gen Con 2025.

The Games to “try ” are ones which are Demo only as far as we have seen and cannot be bought.

And the games to “buy” are ones which have been reported to be available for purchase.  

Top 11 to Try (Reminder these are games you CANNOT Buy Demo only

Dan 

Excalibur (roxley I guess not there? But if you see them DEMO IT)

Vale of Eternity Artifacts Expansion (played at Char con not sure if out yet but look at their booth

 

11  Holiday Hills and Jingle Bell Roll from Chris Couch Games

10  BattleForge:Berserker and DANTE:Inferno (Creative Games Studio)

9   Beasts and Diplomacy and Tricky Seasons: Finland   (Dragon Dawn Productions)

8  Bagged and Boarded (Octoraffe Games)

7  Manhattan Project:Energy Empire (Frost Bite Games)

6  Biomes of Nilgiris ( BluEncore Just event demos?)

5  Stella Quest (CrowD Games)- Trick taker be careful to not take too many in a row

4  Six Sojourns:Deluxe Ed (Red Raven) -expanding or broadening 8 min empire

3   Borealis:Arctic Expeditions (Lucky Duck)

2  Natera:New Beginning (Horizon Games)

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

 

 

Battle Monsters: Godzilla Vs King Ghiforah  (Restoration)

Kalypso Inside up Possibly will have it there

 

Expansions/Hon Mention

SETI:Space Agencies (CGE)

Clank! Catacombs– Underworld (Dire Wolf)

Polaris (Detestable Games) Luciani but more abstract not big euro

Aetherspire (Phase Shift Games)

Fountains (The OP)

LOTR:Fate of the Fellowship (Z-Man)

 

BJ

 

11. Sanibel (Avalon Hill) – Elizabeth Hargraves

10.Into The Machine  (AEG)

9.Crits & Tricks (Inside Up Games)

8.Inkwell (DVC Games)

7.Digging for Dinos (Third World Studios) 

6.Cretaceous Rails (Spielcraft Games)

5.Revenant (Mindclash)

4.Class of ’89  (Paverson Games)

3.The Game Makers (Bezier)

2.I C E (This Way!) – second edition

1. Phoenix New Horizon (Devir)

Honorable mention: 

Satchel Quest (designers from Flatout Games)

Louisiana’s own Coalition: Councils of the Republic from Spoonbill Games

Above and below Haunted 

Plus expansions to try:

Sea Salt & Paper – EXTRA PEPPER

Distilled – COCKTAILS

Top 11 to BUY– Games that will be for sale (or we were told or think will be for sale)

 

Dan

Some just missing list

Belgian Beers Race Dice (Grand Gamers $30)

Merchants of Andromeda (Allplay – $39) funky dutch draft

 

Would be on my list but don’t think it will be there

12 Rivers (Good Games — Sept? ) Marbles!

 

Timber Town (Alley Cat games $25)

 

11   Horrified: D&D (Ravensburger– $35)

10   Ace Of Spades (Devir — $30)

9  Positano (Slugfest – $50)

8   Citizens of the Spark (Thunderworks Games- $55)

7   How to Save a World (Burnt Island $50)

6  Suna Valo (Capstone $50) Andreas Odendahl

5  Inferno (Grand Gamers guild — $80) 

4   Ruins (John D Clair new custom heroes!–$17) And hon mention Unstoppable (Renegade- $60) John D clair more solo and expansion

3   Shackleton Base:A Journey to the Moon (Pandasaurus– $90)

2   Galactic Cruise (Kinson Key Games –$119) Also 2 expansions Accommodations and Advancements $25 each

1   The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the second era (Chip Theory -$ 225)

 

Price ~ $801

 

Expansions

Earth: Abundance (Inside up $35)

Tir na nog:Blessings and Burdens (Grand Gamers Guild –$25)

Pirates of Maracaibo:Commanders (Capstone $35)

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the second era Valenwood (CTG — $45)

Galaxy Trucker Do What ?! (CGE- $30)

Lost Ruins of Arnak:Adventure Chest (CGE $80)

 

The Four Doors (Happy Camper $20) Fleeples and Leacock!

 

Hon Mention

Dragon Clans (Van Ryder– $20)

Tearable Quest (allplay $9)

AEGIS (Zephyr Workshop — $65)

 

SO MANY MORE MENTUIONED!!

Up or Down (Capstone $17)

Justice (Dragon Dawn Productions $33) interesting trick taking

Koi (DV Games –$40) 

Perch (Inside up $44)

Nature (North Star games- $35)

Guildlands (Outset Media – $40)

Rival Cities (Pegasus Spiele- $33)– Steding!

Age of Galaxy (Portal- Will not be there unfortunately)

Disney Villainous Unstoppable (Ravensburger — $25)

The Anarchy (renegade- $65) Next loaded Roll n write from Bobby Hill

Sprocketforge (Sophisticated Cerberus Games– $70)

Everdell Duo (Starling Games– $35)

Yokohama Duel (Synapses Games– $25)

 

—- BJ —–

 

11 Red Letter Yellow Letter ​​(25th C) – Nathan Thornton (Green Team Wins, Medium etc) $20

10 Soda Jerk (Allplay) – first game from Chris Yi from the Dice Tower  $9

9 TRND (Oink Games) $23

8 Raising Chicago (Capstone) $65

7.Logic & Lore (Weird Giraffe) $25 

6 Ofrenda (Osprey Games) $60 

5 Lightning Train (Dire Wolf) $50 – Paul Dennen’s new game

4 Transgalactica (Devir) $80 – Danielle Tascini’s new game

3 Nature (NorthStar Studios) – $35 – Dom Crapuchettes

2 Star Wars Battle of Hoth (Days of Wonder) $60

1 Luthier (Paverson Games) – $80– Dave Beck and Abe Burson

 

Total: $507

 

Honorable Mentions:

The Four Doors – The Fleeples team up with Matt Leacock 

Brink – IV Studios new big release

Tea Garden Tomas Holek’s new game from Albi

No Loose Ends 

Shackleton Base: A Journey To The Moon Pandasaurus release 

Zenith PlayPunk’s new game 

Age of Galaxy new Portal game that looks really good 

Unmatched Battle of Legends Vol 3 

Habemus Papamus 

En Route -flip and draw your way around the world from CrowD games

 

Head to the discord and share what your most anticipated games are!  

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