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Munchkin Land #725: Origins Award Winners Jun 25, 2025

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This episode runs down the Origins Award Winners.

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NEWS

Origins Award winners
Party Game
Flip 7 – The Op
Designer: Eric Olsen
Heavy Strategy Game
Endeavor: Deep Sea – Burnt Island Games / KTBG
Designers: Carl de Visser & Jarratt Gray
Light Strategy Game
Fromage – R2i
Designers: Matthew O'Malley & Ben Rosset

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)

DIGITAL NEWS

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

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

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

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

GAME FOUND

The Isofarian Guard: Veilward

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

Munchkin Land #724: Codenames gets updated versions Jun 10, 2025

Show notes

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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NEWS

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)

ATOM SPOTLIGHT

Laura from Obsessed with board games

Scott from Boardgaming Bud

DIGITAL

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

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

Gametoppers 5.0
The Tabletop Inn: A Board Game Bed & Breakfast
Hagia Sophia (Print and play roll and write)

GAMEFOUND

Munchkin Land #722: Endeavor: Deep Sea May 27, 2025

Show notes

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

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NEWS

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

Looot

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)

Crowdfunding

Battle Monsters: Godzilla x Kong

ReWild:South America

Catch 33: Dexterity/Flicking game

Gamefound

Trismegistus: Special Ed

Munchkin Land #722: 7 Wonders Dice May 13, 2025

Show notes

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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NEWS

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)

SALE ALERT

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.

DIGITAL NEWS

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

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

GAMEFOUND

Casus Belli

Munchkin Land #721: Pergola arrives in May '25 May 02, 2025

Show notes

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

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NEWS

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.

Crowdfunding

KICKSTARTER

Earth: Animal Kingdom Expansion

Flamecraft Duels

Nippon: Zaibatsu

Trickerion – 10-year Anniversary Edition

Night Soil

Munchkin Land #720: The Future of League of Legends Apr 15, 2025

Show notes

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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NEWS

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

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

Munchkin Land #719: StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game Apr 02, 2025

Show notes

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

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NEWS

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.

Digital news

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

KICKSTARTER

Keyside

Pirates of the high teas

Gamefound

Onward

GI JOE Operation Cobra

Munchkin Land #718: The Lost Ruins of Arnak Mar 17, 2025

Show notes

Dan has returned from ATOM 25 and has the latest roundup of gaming news for you!

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NEWS

Czech Edition Games has announced an expansion AND storage solution in one, Lost Ruins of Arnak: Adventure Chestout Q3 ‘25 ($80) Preorder

Steamforged Games announced the tabletop version of their massively popular PC game. Helldivers 2 Board Game will be on crowdfunding next month (Gamefound). More on it once it is up on next month’s Munchkin Land

Eagle Gryphon has Released House of Fado, a lighter version of Vital Lacerda’s Gallerist. Order ($60)

After a successful KS Paverson Games will release Luthier a followup to their amazing 1st game Distilled into retail Q2 ‘25 (~$70)

Restoration Games previewed Battle Monsters, to go up on Kickstarter 25 (Sign up to be reminded). Link to BGG for Battle Masters to see what it was like.

AllPlay has announced Sail Legacy, which is a take on their regular 2p coop trick-taker. They haven’t said a whole lot more other than a KS campaign later in the year and some details on the game.

Hachette games will release Mythical Dice, a version of the original Mino Dice by Iello here in US May ‘25 (~25)

I will give 2 a show till I cover them all.

1st up today

NerdIncorrect which is the Twitch Channel who does Codenames Live!

Tim Riel hosts this 2 on 2 Codenames each week with a regular cast and a new cast which is guests to it. And it’s great to watch, NSF (language) but amazing.

And our 2nd creator today is

Tabletop Vibes

This one is a youtube channel doing some reviews, unboxings top 10 lists a lot of great content

Crowdfunding

KICKSTARTER

Marrakesh Expansion 2: Gems & Experts

Formaggio -- Fromage reprint and stand alone expansion

Tiny Epic Dungeons Adventures

Alpha Clash Cosmic Conquest

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Munchkin Land #717: UVS Partnerships Feb 24, 2025

Show notes

UVS announced a partnership with Fireside Games and Calliope Games! Dan breaks down what this means for gamers in this week's episode of Munchkin Land.

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NEWS

UVS has Partnered with Fireside games and Calliope games to bring out an old and a borrowed game.

UVS partnering with Calliope games means a return of Roll For It! To retail.

UVS has partnered with Fireside games to merge Castle Panic and TMNT together sometime later this year in 2025.

Next up another pair of announcements, these are from Arcane Wonders.

Arcane wonders will bring over Rolling Wizards studios game called Onstage to US Aug ‘25 ($30).

Arcane Wonders will release Freedom Five: Rubble & Ruin, March 25 (`$35)

Thunderworks Games will release Emerald Skulls, May ‘25 ($25). This is a push your luck- Betting Dice Chucker

Devir Games will release The White Castle Duel, Late ‘25

Asmodee will release Everdell Duo, which was successfully KS last year into us retail next month March ‘25 ($35)

Upper Deck will be releasing Legendary Game of Thrones July ‘25.

Steamforged has announced the pre-order for the Trio of Games in the Elden Ring tabletop universe which was KS couple of years ago for about 4.1 Million US.

Elden Ring:Realm of the Grafted King ($199)

Elden Ring:Weeping Peninsula ($119)

Elden Ring:Stormveil Castle ($129)

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

Crits & Tricks, Tug of Roar, and Thieves of Eldris

Point Galaxy + Propolis

Terminus Frontier: Cooperative Tactical Adventure Board Game

Northgard: Uncharted Horizons - Expansion

GAMEFOUND

Star Trek Ascendancy: The Final Frontier

Munchkin Land #716: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship Feb 12, 2025

Show notes

What happens when you cross Lord of the Rings with Pandemic? Dan Patriss has all the info in this installment of Munchkin Land - your source for board game news!

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NEWS

Z-Man Games getting into the latest Lord of the Rings surge with The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship, a game built on the Pandemic System by Matt Leacock, June 6 ($50)

Phoenix New Horizons A heavier weight worker placement Euro by Jorge J. Barroso June ‘25 (~$50)

Koinobori is a family weight card game releasing in July ‘25 (~15)

Devir Games teased Transgalactica, by Danielle Tascini (Marco Polo Tzolkein, Teotihuacan) , June ‘25 ($60)

CMON has released Nova Era, a civilization-building game, ‘25 (~$35-40)

Arcane Wonders is releasing Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game, into retail Feb 25 ($60)

Asmodee is releasing For a Crown a single deck , deckbuilding game for 3-5 players playing in about an hour-- Feb ‘25 ($40)

FunForge is releasing Tapas March ‘25 (Two player tile or chit laying game) $25