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The board games desk files tables: licensed euros, heavy campaigns, and party boxes that still need a rules spine. Expect notes on teach time, solo viability, and whether a brand crossover is a skin or a system. We do not invent component counts. Franchises rotate through big licensed names, designer engines returning with new coats, and crowdfunding tables that should survive without hype. Read this desk before you clear fridge space for a box that will never leave shrink wrap. If the pitch is miniatures skirmish, check Miniatures. If the pitch is campaign nights with character sheets, check TTRPG. Listings keep the latest table briefs in one place for people who measure weekends in setup time. If you are new here, start with the newest listing, check the byline, and treat every street date as something we can source before you buy.
Salt Entertainment is making a Hellraiser tabletop line for Halloween 2027, with a Francesco Nepitello RPG and a Michael Shinall board game. Every game announced so far, ranked.
Dorfromantik: Head to Head is a $17.99 two player drafting game, and South Seas is a new co-op campaign due in English in December 2026. How they differ from The Duel and Sakura, and which Dorfromantik fits your table.
Mechs vs. Minions returns in a $199.99 Classic Edition and a $74.99 Bandle City Edition with the same ten-mission campaign. Cost per mission, box size, ship dates, and which edition fits your group.
Fantasy Flight's first Gamefound campaign passed $1.5 million in a day. The pledges are $70, $350 and $90, and the bundle discount is only $20. The math, and which pledge fits which player.
Glass Cannon Unplugged and Blizzard announced Diablo: Unbound, a co-op Diablo board game for one to four players with a real solo mode. The Gamefound campaign is set for Q1 2027. Here is how it plays and how many game nights a full run needs.
Kess's Origins of Light: A Final Fantasy Board Game is live on Kickstarter through November 18, past $500,000 on a $10,000 goal. It plays Final Fantasy I, II and III with different rules, and the easy module is the long one at a full table.
Supercell and Maestro Media's Clash Royale: The Grand Arena is a two-to-four player board game with eight-card decks, two lanes, and Towers, launching on Kickstarter October 20. Here is what survived the trip from the app.
Stonemaier Games' Braided Skies is on the webstore with a $60 launch price, a real Automa solo mode, and a staggered ship window that matters if you want it on the table before December.
Mood Publishing and Coffee Stain open Satisfactory: The Board Game on Gamefound today. Here is how the competitive factory race differs from the PC co-op fantasy.
Excursions: A Galactic Cruise Game is on Kickstarter through October 30 from Kinson Key Games, with a $39 standard pledge. Simultaneous turns and a six-player count make it the Galactic Cruise for groups that never finish the big one.
Ragnarok the Board Game: Ceremony of Prontera is set to open on Kickstarter today. Siam Board Games built a co-op crawler around job changes and cooldown combat, which is exactly the right way to adapt the MMO.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Friday that is about nineteen days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Thursday that is about twenty days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Wednesday that is about twenty-one days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Tuesday that is about twenty-two days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Monday that is about twenty-three days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. From Sunday that is about twenty-four days. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch.
Mantic still dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the Saturday table pitch.
Mantic dates Plants vs. Zombies: The Board Game crowdfunding for October 14. Co-op lanes and Deluxe minis stay the table pitch as the calendar tightens.
Mantic and PopCap date the co-op board game crowdfunding for mid-October. Zen Garden campaign math is the real table pitch.
No Loading Games Cyberpunk Edgerunners Hunted is a cooperative real-time table with David, Lucy, Rebecca, and Maine. Fall 2026 street estimates are the appointment, not a meme.
Dangeresque Presents: Crime Scene Tamperer is the Brothers Chaps party game from Greater Than Games, now in the available window at about $19.95.
Modiphius unveiled Fallout: Wasteland Warfare 2e gameplay today: solo-first, fewer tokens, roster instead of cards. The Warbands Starter is £120/$165. Into the Wasteland solo sits nearer $80. November is the ship window, not a street date.
Chaosium's Horror on the Orient Express board game streets September 30: Adam Kwapinski co-op for one to four, Dreamlands crisis management, $135 MSRP. The Call of Cthulhu campaign that ate a year of Tuesdays finally fits a box.
Renegade's revised Castle Ravenloft board game is on preorder for February 2027: $100 Standard unpainted, $200 Premium pre-painted, Adventure System co-op retained. The carton is the till, not a fake September street.
Future Flip from Fowers and Larsen hits UK and EU retail this week with double sided rooms, flipping disguises, and cybernetic SysOps. Kickstarter demand already proved. The till is the new test.
The Necromunda Skirmish Core Set ships two gangs, a play mat, Factoria pipes, a hardcover rulebook, cards, and markers at a $165 MSRP. That closed loop is the board-game handshake inside a miniatures aisle.
Renegade Game Studios is bringing Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft back for February 2027. Standard unpainted at $100. Premium pre-painted at $200. Same Adventure System crawl. New aisle sticker.
Brotherwise and Dragonsteel set Stormlight: War for Roshar for Kickstarter on October 13, 2026. John D Clair's hero-driven war game, public claims only, no invented pledge tiers.
BLEACH - Bankai Battle (Roll and Clash) from Don't Panic Games and Team Kaedama hits September 22, 2026 for $39.99. Fast asymmetrical family combat, public copy only, no invented mechanics.
SPACE KING: The Board Game crossed roughly $2.7 million on Kickstarter within days of its August 30 launch, with Recruit around $99 and deeper pledges packing PVC Psycho Warriors. The meme built the audience. The box is collecting the hobby money.
Asmodee US puts DCeased and three expansions on shelves Friday, September 11. CMON is using retail cash to print the games 2023 backers already paid for. End of 2026 is the new promise.
Creardo’s licensed Foundation game wants deck-building, politics, and Asimov’s math of collapse. The tension is the whole pitch.