Munchkin Land – Details, episodes & analysis

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

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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

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)

Battle Monsters: Godzilla x Kong

ReWild:South America

Catch 33: Dexterity/Flicking game

Trismegistus: Special Ed

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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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)

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.

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

• Shallow Regrets
• Food Truck Race

• Casus Belli

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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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

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

• MVM season 5

SDJ and KDJ and Kinderspiel announced in this week's Munchkin Land rundown of gaming news.

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• SDJ and KDJ and Kinderspiel Announced (German Game Awards)
• • Spiel des Jahres or Game of the Year MicroMacro: Crime City published Pegasus Spiele.
  • Kennerspiel des Jahres or Enthusiast Game of the Year.  --Paleo
  • The Kinderspiel des Jahres or Children's Game of the Year Dragomino by Bruno Cathala, Marie Fort, and Wilfried Fort.
• Next up in the Marvel Champions Release announcement is War Machine. $15
• Restoration Games Big Announcements this month:
• • Thunder Road Vendetta And Crossbows and Catapults coming to KS soon
  • Unmatched:Battle Of Legends Vol 2
  • Key to the Kingdom
  • Berried Treasure
• Downforce and Volcano Island coming to Target
• Dire Wolf Digital has announced an expansion to Dune Imperium: Rise of IX
• Blizzard and Z-man games will be releasing World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a Pandemic system board game, sometime this Fall.
• Capstone Games Riftforce 2p card game in september  -- $30

• Top Pop: The Bottle Cap Stacking Game-- Talon Strikes Studios
• Distilled -- Paverson Games
• Bantam West -- By Ike Brunicardi
• Taelmoor -- Scan and play Dungeon Crawler Board Game

Dan Patriss returns with another rundown of news from around the world of gaming.

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• Lost Ruins of Arnak:Expedition Leaders coming out in October ($30)
• Portal Games
  • --Million Dollar Script will be coming out Aug 12th -- Party Game
  • “Eleven” A Football Manager Board Game..
  • GameFound ---preview Page is Up
    
• The Next Hero Pack announced for Marvel Champions continues this Guardians of the Galaxy trend and is Nebula-- Q3 $15
• Gale Force9 will release  DUNE:A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy in Q3 $50
  
• Renegade announced they will release Richard Garfield’s The Hunger- A Vampire Themed Deck Building Game-- $50
  
• WizKids will release--- Dungeon Scrawlers: Heroes of Undermountain in October $25
  

• Wingspan iOS is listed as “coming soon in the app store”
• Acram Digital Sale

• Graphic Novel Adventures 2021 
• Forests of Pangaia 
• Valor and Villainy:Lludwiks Labyrinth 
• Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: ANNIHILAGEDDON 2
• Villagers:Shifting Seasons
• Velocity:Vanguard

Fantasy Flight Games has a new Cthulhu game on pre-order, Marvel's Battleworld gets the Funko treatment, and what is Richard Garfield up to now?

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• FFG This week finished their week or so long teasing of a new grand game. And that game is called Unfathomable. As they described it, it’s BSG in the Chtulu universe.  Release in September and $80
• Funko Games will release Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight, the second series for its Marvel Battleworld game line. In June but battle balls in August
  • The Marvel Battlworld: Treachery at Twilight Battle Ball will retail for $8.99 August.
  • The Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight Mega Pack features four starter heroes $20 June 20.
  • The Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight Premium Pieces Pack $7.99 June 20.
  • The Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight Storage Case stores more than 50 Heroes and their respective Hero Cards. $24.99 June 20.
  • The Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight Talon Fighter $14.99 June 20.
  • The Marvel Battleworld: Treachery at Twilight The Collector’s Tower (doubles as a dice tower) $14.99
• Board & Dice will release Tabinnusi: Builders of Ur, a new ancient city building game, into retail in October.
• Blue Orange Games has announced three new titles that will be released on September 16: Kingdomino Origins, Bellum Magica, and Neoville.
  • Kingdomino Origins$25
  • Bellum Magica, $30
  • Neoville $30
• R&R Games will release Witchstone, worker placement board game by Reiner Knizia and Martino Chiacchiera, in July. $40
• Stoneblade Ent. Announced an expansion for Ascension Skulls and Sails Called Ascension:Curse of the Golden Isle -- Stand alone Expansion July $40

• Squaring Circleville
• Adventure Tactics :Adventures in Alchemy
• Catharsis
• Blooming Industry

• Rogue Book-- Richard Garfield STEAM LINK
  • It gives you that Slay the spire feel and boy is it fun.
  • Release is 6-17 on steam but the plan is for release on PC, PS4, Xbox 1, Switch

Dan runs down the latest game news including which publishers are not attending Gen-Con.

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• SDJ Nominees were announced
• Gen Con -- Bunch of Companies announcing they are out
• Asmodee USA, Asmodee NA studios (FFG, Z-Man?), Ultra PRO, and Paizo, Greater Than Games
• Fantasy Flight Games announced their 3rd big 5 campaign expansion for Marvel Champions-->  The Mad Titan's Shadow, releasing in August $40
• I stumbled upon a service called Unbox Boardom -- Decent idea for Father's Day. You can check them out at (@unboxboardom for FB/Twitter/IG) or unboxboardom
• Renegade --- Transformers DBG will release in Aug  $45
• CGE has released a free Lost Ruins of Arnak Solo Campaign.

• The Witcher:Old World
• Robot Quest Arena DBG
• Paperback Adventures --Novel Solo Word Game
• Journey to Ecrya: An Adventure Board Game  -- Rotating GMs
• Mosaic- A Troy of Civilization
• Path of Light and Shadow:Solstice
• Lockup:Breakout Expansion--- Expansion for Lockup:A Roll Player Tale
• CastleScape-- A Deck Building Board Game
• Buru

This week, Dan Patriss runs down even more news coming from the world of games, including new Munchkin games from Steve Jackson Games.

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• Badge registration will occur on May 23rd and they will be limiting the number of 4 day badges and single day badges.
• Container Issues could impact all shipments from China and overseas until early 2022
• Steve Jackson Games will release Munchkin Russia into trade in Sept.  $25
  • delves into the myths and monsters of Russian folklore
• Pegasus Spiele will release a new edition of Kitchen Rush  Q3.
• Asmodee USA will release Pandemic: Hot Zone - Europe, July 9. (Pandemic Light) $20
• Ultra pro Announced the 10th anniversary ed of Ascension is now in pre order for distribution ($40) no dates yet but I am thinking we should see it this summer or early Q3
• Asmodee USA will release Lost Explorers, a new board game by Cédrick Chaboussit (designed Lewis and Clark, and Discoveries) and released by Ludonaute, on June 18. 2-4 players 45mins $30
• Finally in some Funko News they said they would release 40 new games before the end of this year.
• Disney It’s a small world game  ($25)  Collecting pictures while on the ride
• Disney Mickey and the beanstalk ($20) 3-D Co-Op getting food from the Giant

• Game Toppers 3.0 
• Vivid Memories
• Castle Panic Deluxe Edition -- Big Box Not into retail

Dan Patriss is here to share the latest news from the world of gaming.

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• CGE to release new version of Galaxy Trucker later this year ($30 and new art simpler gameplay)
• GF9 to re-release Tyrants of the Underdark 2.0 later this year. Will include the expansion $50
• The Next Marvel Legendary expansion will be Annihilation. It will focus on Lord Annihilus, Lord of the Negative Zone.
  • Summer ‘21 and about $20 (Base Game Required)
• Capstone Games teased Imperial Steam Designed by Alexander Huemer, a new railroad building game, for Q4 release $70
• Catan: Treasures, Dragons and Adventures-- July 21 $47
  • This set of six scenarios requires CATAN®, and the Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions.
• Phase Shift games is releasing . Dungeon Drop  this week in the US a very light family game for 15-20 mins and $20

• My Father’s Work - TC Petty III
• One Card Wonder - Nat Levan
• Stationfall -- Ion Game Design
• Judgement:Eternal Champions --- 2p Moba feel game
• MiniQuest Adventures -- Family Dungeon Crawl
• Auroboros:Coils of the Serpent --  Campaign Setting for 5ed by Chris Metzen and Warchief Gaming.
• Dice Theme Park -- By Alleycat games and the designers of Sagrada

Marvel Champions continues to expand, and Dan Patriss is here to share this and more news from the world of gaming.

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• More Marvel Champions news!
  • Venom will be released this July ($15)
• Munchkin Enhancers will be released on May 5th 30 card mini expansion($10)
• Slugfest games announced their previous KS game Dungeon Decorators will be released into retail in June and MSRP $45
• Fantasy Flight Games announced Return to the Circle Undone, an expansion for Arkham Horror LCG, will release this summer
• Lucky Duck Games is releasing Game 2 of the Chronicles of Crime Millenium Series 1900 at the end of April retail for $30
• Mondo will release Kevin Wilson’s Solo tile placement game A Gentle Rain in May $22

• Rock Runners Inc
• Marvel United X-Men
• Connecting Flights
• Cellulose
• Keyper at Sea -- Expansion for Keyper
• Transmissions
• Legends of Void  Euro Fantasy game takes some inspiration from Terraforming Mars
• Path of Legends:Adventure Tome 1 - Back to Basics
• 7 Moons: Heroes of Dragon Reach

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