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Last weekend, we strapped on our most comfortable walking shoes, checked our gaming wishlist twice, and jumped headlong into the self-proclaimed "best four days of gaming"—the annual Gen Con tabletop gaming convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. This year's 50th-anniversary show was extra special: turnstile attendance for an estimated 60,000 con-goers reached a record-breaking 209,000, and for the first year ever, the con sold out well before the doors opened on Thursday.
With approximately 500 exhibitors, over 19,000 ticketed events, and entire convention halls and stadiums filled to capacity with board games, roleplaying games, miniatures games, and everything in between, Gen Con is a lot to take in. We couldn't get to all of it, but we skipped sleep, meals, and general mental well-being to bring you what we see as the best of the show.
Below are the 20 board games we think you should be paying attention to going into the last few months of the year (cube-pushing Eurogame fans will want to tune in again in late October when we hit the giant Spieltage fair in Essen, Germany). Most of the games below will be coming out over the next several weeks and months, but because of the vagaries inherent in board game releases, exact dates are hard to pin down. Your best bet is to head to your local retailer, boardgameprices.com, or Amazon and put in a preorder for anything that catches your eye. And if you missed it, be sure to check out our massive photo gallery of the show.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/the-best-new-board-games-from-gen-con-2017/
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:19AM (3 children)
I watched a few of them and a couple of them look quite interesting such as NMBR9 (puzzle tile laying game where you try and stack pieces higher and higher while building a solid base), Photosynthesis (growing trees while also trying to block other players from growing trees by blocking out their sunlight), Whistle Stop (an interesting tile laying game where you want to go collect resources and spend them to score various bonuses and points). I saw that there is yet another Civilization game from Sid Meier, seriously they have never been good. That last good Civilization game was the one that Sid blatantly ripped off but refused to acknowledge that he did so -- the Avalon Hill games Civilization and Advanced Civilization. That said I'm a complete sucker for the Civ games so I might (or will) play it a few times while I whine about how much better the AH games are compared to this.
Overall I prefer waiting for the Essen convention and find out what the Spiel des Jahres (game of the year) will be, Kingdomino which was the winner last year was great and so was Colt Express (two years ago). Beyond them we really enjoyed Pandemic Reign of Cthulhu (Pandemic with Cthulhu monsters).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @12:22PM (2 children)
Can't think of anything creative, game developers? Just add zombies or Cthulhu. Now, with lack of effort!
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday August 29 2017, @12:57PM (1 child)
There has without a doubt in my mind been a few to many zombie games the last decade or so. So many that infact it has turned into a bit of a joke. That said one can never have to much Cthulhu.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Wednesday August 30 2017, @12:04AM
It's not Cthulhu, but the board game that has me most excited right now is The Thing.