A rundown of the New Releases that should be hitting games stores this coming week! Board games, card games, RPGs, Wargames, Miniatures and collectible games... hopefully something for everyone! For more information about any of the products please contact your local games store.
The above list has been compiled based upon distributor and retail new releases mailouts I receive. Please note that there may be some geographic differences in release dates and/or availability of items. Please contact your local store for more information.
ROLE PLAYING GAMES
Expanded Worlds
Cypher System Supplement
By Monte Cook Games
Building on the genres explored in the Cypher System Rulebook, Expanded Worlds gives you tailored rules, advice, tropes, and character options for seven setting genres, along with tools you can use to build any campaign you can imagine.
In Expanded Worlds you’ll find:
· Advice, equipment, and new rules for running Cypher System games in post-apocalyptic, mythological, fairy tale, childhood adventure, historical, crime and espionage, and hard science fiction settings.
· Character options, setting guidelines, creatures, equipment, artifacts, and more.
· Over 40 new foci, such as Changes Shape, Makes Prophecy, Conducts Rocket Science, Hacks the Network, Is Wanted by the Law, Plays Too Many Games, Helps their Friends, and Hunted by Moths.
· Over 35 creatures and NPCs, including master detectives, midnight scrabblers, cannibals, mad scientists, cryptic moths, glowing roaches, princes and princesses of summer, killer clowns, hydras, and the Father of Monsters, Typhon himself.
The Curse of the Statuettes
Tails of Esquestria My Little Pony Expansion
By River Horse
All over Equestria ponies have started to turn into statuettes, figurine versions of themselves. In The Curse of the Statuettes ponies will explore the mysterious Badlands and have to overcome terrifying danger and save Equestria, neigh the world.
The adventure is perfect for level 1-3 ponies.
Contents:
48 page adventure
GM Screen
Dice
Pad of pony sheets
Seeker Signature Abilities Deck
Star Wars Force and Destiny Expansion
By Fantasy Flight Games
Venturing into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy, Seekers call on the Force to discover new hyperspace routes, explore wilderness areas, and eliminate threats wherever they find them.
Master your Seeker’s connection to the Force with the Seeker Signature Abilities Deck for the StarWars™:Force and Destiny™ roleplaying game. Available through our in-house manufacturing division, The Factory, the Seeker Signature Abilities Deck comes with eighteen talent cards that cover all the talents for two different Seeker signature abilities, Unexpected Demise and Unmatched Pursuit. These cards help players and GMs more easily comprehend the magnificent powers that they possess, and thematic art immerses you more fully in the Star Wars universe.
The Seeker Signature Abilities Deck contains:
· 2 cover cards (including a reference guide for each deck)
· 18 standard sized talent cards
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BOARD & CARD GAMES
Dark Souls
1-4 players
By Steamforged Games
The Dark Souls board game is a brutally hard exploration miniatures game for 1-4 players. Prepare to die.
The game features a "fast set-up, long reveal" mechanism that gets you into the game quickly and builds the location as you explore. The sense of danger is palpable as you discover new locations and the monsters that inhabit these dark places. The core combat mechanism and enemy behavior system forces deep strategic play and clever management of stamina to survive.
Dark Souls includes numerous boss and mini-boss encounters — including one against the Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough — and utilizes an innovative behavior mechanism so that no two encounters are ever the same, thus giving the game near infinite replayability.
Abbey & Mayor
Carcassonne Expansion Set 5
By Z-Man Games
This expansion for Carcassonne gives players new options to increase their influence across the land. Traveling merchants show their wares in every city and abbey. Some cities have elected a mayor. Farmers are accruing vast wealth by cleverly delineating their land while the Church desires to strengthen its influence by building imposing abbeys. Each tile from this expansion is marked with a special icon, allowing you to sort these tiles more quickly.
Terminal Directive
Android Netrunner Card Game Expansion
By Fantasy Flight Games
Control the truth.
An augmented killer is on the loose… Terminal Directive is a narrative campaign expansion for Android: Netrunner The Card Game that allows you and a friend to enjoy a constantly evolving murder mystery in the Android universe.
Corp and Runner compete in a thrilling race for the control of valuable data that plays out over the course of an extended campaign. Each match impacts the larger shape of your investigations. Each data set you unlock leads you in a new direction. You may have run before. You may have pursued your corporate agendas. But nothing you've done has yet prepared you for Terminal Directive and the narrative-driven campaign play it brings to Android: Netrunner.
Two PAD sheets, one sticker sheet, one rulebook, and four data sets of campaign cards and stickers allow you to track your progress, even as the expansion provides a massive infusion to your standard, tournament-legal Android: Netrunner matches with 163 new cards (86 Corp and 77 Runner) divided between the Criminal, Shaper, Haas-Bioroid, and Weyland Consortium factions, as well as neutral. With its four new identities and a complete playset of each new player card, Terminal Directive comes with everything you need to grab your Core Set and enjoy a thrilling campaign full of cyberstruggles and meaningful decisions. Altogether, this makes Terminal Directive an ideal second step for new and casual Android: Netrunner players looking to delve deeper into the Net!
Munchkin Curses
Munchkin Card Game Expansion
By Steve Jackson Games
Admit it. You love that moment when your enemy kicks down the door, and the card they draw is – a Curse! Almost as much as you love playing Curses on your enemies yourself. Whether it means losing items, skipping turns, or stumbling across a duck imbued with pure doom, a Curse always brings in an element of gleeful mayhem.
That's why the Munchkin Curses booster contains twelve new Curses, two new monsters, and one Curse Reverse to shuffle into your Munchkin game!
Vale of the Wild
Mystic Vale Expansion
By Alderac Entertainment Group
Vale of the Wild adds a large variety of new advancement and vale cards to the base Mystic Vale game. Players can start the game with new leader cards in their deck. Leaders grant abilities that can be upgraded to become even more powerful! New eclipse advancements may be covered by another advancement and still add its ability to the card, offering greater flexibility to craft cards and enhance powerful combos.
Tomb Trader
3-6 players, ages 6+, 5-10+ minutes
By Level 99
Get the treasure, and get out! If only it were that easy...
In Tomb Trader, you and your friends have joined an archaeological excavation — not for the sake of antiquity or history, but simply in the hopes of lining your pockets with the best treasures and smuggling them back to civilization. Each day, sneak back into the tomb to loot high-value items, but watch out because your ne'er-do-well friends all have the same idea! You have to be a swift and skilled negotiator in order to divvy up the loot before being caught, while making sure you get the best cuts for yourself!
The game consists of 6 or 7 rounds in which players select a section of the tomb to explore and have one minute to divide the treasure between everyone else in the same section. Not coming to an agreement means nobody gets anything!
Megaman Pixel Tactics : Blue Box
2 players, ages 10+, 20-45+ minutes
By Jasco Games
Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards, from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck, making the game playable in 25 different ways.
In the game, players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways, taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit, or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.
Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.
Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Blue features 28 characters from Mega Man 1-3 — including Mega Man, Dr. Light, and Robot Masters — and these characters are compatible with all other Pixel Tactics games.
Megaman Pixel Tactics : Red Box
2 players, ages 10+, 20-45+ minutes
By Jasco Games
Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Red features 28 characters from Mega Man 4-6, including Proto Man and Robot Masters, and these characters are compatible with all other Pixel Tactics games.
Megaman Pixel Tactics : Bass Orange Edition
2 players, ages 10+, 20-45+ minutes
By Jasco Games
Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Bass Orange Edition is a box containing two copies of all the unlocked stretch goals from the Mega Man Pixel tactics Kickstarter campaign, including all the social goals, bringing a total of 28 different new characters to the table! This is also playable on its own.
Foodfighters
2 players, ages 8+, 20+ minutes
By Kids Table BG
Foodfighters is a fun and light two-player battle game - each player controls a team of foods trying to win a food fight against the opposing team. First player to knock out three matching foods from the other team wins!
You and your opponent each control a faction of fighting foods. On your turn, you can move a Foodfighter, or roll dice to attack an opponent (that your Foodfighter is thinking about and that is in reach), or roll for Beans (cash). After that you can spend your Beans to buy awesome gear from the store or Power cards that are unique to your team. Then it's the other guy's turn. Keep going until you've knocked out three of a kind on your opponent's team, and you've won!
S’mores
Foodfighters Expansion
By Kids Table BG
Your fingers are going to get a bit sticky with this one! The S'mores Faction also includes nine new fighters tiles, three S'mores-only power cards (Sticky Fingers, Gimme S'More, and Fired Up), and a sheet of nine thought bubble clingers.
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MINIATURES & MINIATURE GAMES
Grassy Field Playmat
Runewars Accessory
By Fantasy Flight Games
The 3’ by 3’ Grassy Field Playmat plants your miniatures battles in an open field, ripe for placing terrain and other obstacles adding even more thematic flavor to your favorite games. Though the playmat is designed for play with the Runewars Miniatures Game, the minimalist design is perfect for a variety of miniatures games, whether you’re landing troops on a planet of rolling hills or sending your forces to medieval battle, the Grassy Field Playmat provides plenty of room to deploy your armies. The mat not only provides a flavorful playing surface, but its slip-resistant bottom will ensure your valuable miniatures will stay safe during your skirmishes.
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COLLECTIBLE CARD, MINIATURE & DICE GAMES
Amonkhet Planeswalker Decks
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
Bets for new players. Each deck focuses on one of Magic’s icons Planeswalkers. Includes a 60-card deck with a mythic rare Planeswalker card, two 15-card Amonkhet boosters, a strategy insert, and a learn-to-play guide.
Amonkhet Booster
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
Each booster pack includes 15 cards to add to your collection – and you can expect one of those 15 to be a rare or mythic rare. Some packs even contain a premium foil card!
Amonkhet Deck Builders Toolkit
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
The perfect resource to create new Magic decks. Includes 125 semi-randomized cards, four 15-card boosters, 25 full art lands, 75 basic lands, a guide to building decks, a rules reference card, and a reusable card storage box.
Amonkhet Bundle
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
Includes a Player’s Guide with pictures of all the cards in the set as well as ten 15-card booster packs, 20 full art lands cards, 60 basic land cards, 1 copy of each token available in the set, and an Amonkhet themed life counter.
Expanded Worlds
Cypher System Supplement
By Monte Cook Games
Building on the genres explored in the Cypher System Rulebook, Expanded Worlds gives you tailored rules, advice, tropes, and character options for seven setting genres, along with tools you can use to build any campaign you can imagine.
In Expanded Worlds you’ll find:
· Advice, equipment, and new rules for running Cypher System games in post-apocalyptic, mythological, fairy tale, childhood adventure, historical, crime and espionage, and hard science fiction settings.
· Character options, setting guidelines, creatures, equipment, artifacts, and more.
· Over 40 new foci, such as Changes Shape, Makes Prophecy, Conducts Rocket Science, Hacks the Network, Is Wanted by the Law, Plays Too Many Games, Helps their Friends, and Hunted by Moths.
· Over 35 creatures and NPCs, including master detectives, midnight scrabblers, cannibals, mad scientists, cryptic moths, glowing roaches, princes and princesses of summer, killer clowns, hydras, and the Father of Monsters, Typhon himself.
The Curse of the Statuettes
Tails of Esquestria My Little Pony Expansion
By River Horse
All over Equestria ponies have started to turn into statuettes, figurine versions of themselves. In The Curse of the Statuettes ponies will explore the mysterious Badlands and have to overcome terrifying danger and save Equestria, neigh the world.
The adventure is perfect for level 1-3 ponies.
Contents:
48 page adventure
GM Screen
Dice
Pad of pony sheets
Seeker Signature Abilities Deck
Star Wars Force and Destiny Expansion
By Fantasy Flight Games
Venturing into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy, Seekers call on the Force to discover new hyperspace routes, explore wilderness areas, and eliminate threats wherever they find them.
Master your Seeker’s connection to the Force with the Seeker Signature Abilities Deck for the StarWars™:Force and Destiny™ roleplaying game. Available through our in-house manufacturing division, The Factory, the Seeker Signature Abilities Deck comes with eighteen talent cards that cover all the talents for two different Seeker signature abilities, Unexpected Demise and Unmatched Pursuit. These cards help players and GMs more easily comprehend the magnificent powers that they possess, and thematic art immerses you more fully in the Star Wars universe.
The Seeker Signature Abilities Deck contains:
· 2 cover cards (including a reference guide for each deck)
· 18 standard sized talent cards
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BOARD & CARD GAMES
Dark Souls
1-4 players
By Steamforged Games
The Dark Souls board game is a brutally hard exploration miniatures game for 1-4 players. Prepare to die.
The game features a "fast set-up, long reveal" mechanism that gets you into the game quickly and builds the location as you explore. The sense of danger is palpable as you discover new locations and the monsters that inhabit these dark places. The core combat mechanism and enemy behavior system forces deep strategic play and clever management of stamina to survive.
Dark Souls includes numerous boss and mini-boss encounters — including one against the Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough — and utilizes an innovative behavior mechanism so that no two encounters are ever the same, thus giving the game near infinite replayability.
Abbey & Mayor
Carcassonne Expansion Set 5
By Z-Man Games
This expansion for Carcassonne gives players new options to increase their influence across the land. Traveling merchants show their wares in every city and abbey. Some cities have elected a mayor. Farmers are accruing vast wealth by cleverly delineating their land while the Church desires to strengthen its influence by building imposing abbeys. Each tile from this expansion is marked with a special icon, allowing you to sort these tiles more quickly.
Terminal Directive
Android Netrunner Card Game Expansion
By Fantasy Flight Games
Control the truth.
An augmented killer is on the loose… Terminal Directive is a narrative campaign expansion for Android: Netrunner The Card Game that allows you and a friend to enjoy a constantly evolving murder mystery in the Android universe.
Corp and Runner compete in a thrilling race for the control of valuable data that plays out over the course of an extended campaign. Each match impacts the larger shape of your investigations. Each data set you unlock leads you in a new direction. You may have run before. You may have pursued your corporate agendas. But nothing you've done has yet prepared you for Terminal Directive and the narrative-driven campaign play it brings to Android: Netrunner.
Two PAD sheets, one sticker sheet, one rulebook, and four data sets of campaign cards and stickers allow you to track your progress, even as the expansion provides a massive infusion to your standard, tournament-legal Android: Netrunner matches with 163 new cards (86 Corp and 77 Runner) divided between the Criminal, Shaper, Haas-Bioroid, and Weyland Consortium factions, as well as neutral. With its four new identities and a complete playset of each new player card, Terminal Directive comes with everything you need to grab your Core Set and enjoy a thrilling campaign full of cyberstruggles and meaningful decisions. Altogether, this makes Terminal Directive an ideal second step for new and casual Android: Netrunner players looking to delve deeper into the Net!
Munchkin Curses
Munchkin Card Game Expansion
By Steve Jackson Games
Admit it. You love that moment when your enemy kicks down the door, and the card they draw is – a Curse! Almost as much as you love playing Curses on your enemies yourself. Whether it means losing items, skipping turns, or stumbling across a duck imbued with pure doom, a Curse always brings in an element of gleeful mayhem.
That's why the Munchkin Curses booster contains twelve new Curses, two new monsters, and one Curse Reverse to shuffle into your Munchkin game!
Vale of the Wild
Mystic Vale Expansion
By Alderac Entertainment Group
Vale of the Wild adds a large variety of new advancement and vale cards to the base Mystic Vale game. Players can start the game with new leader cards in their deck. Leaders grant abilities that can be upgraded to become even more powerful! New eclipse advancements may be covered by another advancement and still add its ability to the card, offering greater flexibility to craft cards and enhance powerful combos.
Tomb Trader
3-6 players, ages 6+, 5-10+ minutes
By Level 99
Get the treasure, and get out! If only it were that easy...
In Tomb Trader, you and your friends have joined an archaeological excavation — not for the sake of antiquity or history, but simply in the hopes of lining your pockets with the best treasures and smuggling them back to civilization. Each day, sneak back into the tomb to loot high-value items, but watch out because your ne'er-do-well friends all have the same idea! You have to be a swift and skilled negotiator in order to divvy up the loot before being caught, while making sure you get the best cuts for yourself!
The game consists of 6 or 7 rounds in which players select a section of the tomb to explore and have one minute to divide the treasure between everyone else in the same section. Not coming to an agreement means nobody gets anything!
Megaman Pixel Tactics : Blue Box
2 players, ages 10+, 20-45+ minutes
By Jasco Games
Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards, from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck, making the game playable in 25 different ways.
In the game, players take turns placing cards and attacking. Each card can activate in various ways, taking on offensive capabilities in the front rows of the unit, or support powers in the back rows. Cards can also be played as orders – powerful single-time effects that can turn the tide of battle.
Play continues until either player's leader is defeated. A typical game is best of three or five rounds.
Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Blue features 28 characters from Mega Man 1-3 — including Mega Man, Dr. Light, and Robot Masters — and these characters are compatible with all other Pixel Tactics games.
Megaman Pixel Tactics : Red Box
2 players, ages 10+, 20-45+ minutes
By Jasco Games
Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Red features 28 characters from Mega Man 4-6, including Proto Man and Robot Masters, and these characters are compatible with all other Pixel Tactics games.
Megaman Pixel Tactics : Bass Orange Edition
2 players, ages 10+, 20-45+ minutes
By Jasco Games
Mega Man Pixel Tactics: Bass Orange Edition is a box containing two copies of all the unlocked stretch goals from the Mega Man Pixel tactics Kickstarter campaign, including all the social goals, bringing a total of 28 different new characters to the table! This is also playable on its own.
Foodfighters
2 players, ages 8+, 20+ minutes
By Kids Table BG
Foodfighters is a fun and light two-player battle game - each player controls a team of foods trying to win a food fight against the opposing team. First player to knock out three matching foods from the other team wins!
You and your opponent each control a faction of fighting foods. On your turn, you can move a Foodfighter, or roll dice to attack an opponent (that your Foodfighter is thinking about and that is in reach), or roll for Beans (cash). After that you can spend your Beans to buy awesome gear from the store or Power cards that are unique to your team. Then it's the other guy's turn. Keep going until you've knocked out three of a kind on your opponent's team, and you've won!
S’mores
Foodfighters Expansion
By Kids Table BG
Your fingers are going to get a bit sticky with this one! The S'mores Faction also includes nine new fighters tiles, three S'mores-only power cards (Sticky Fingers, Gimme S'More, and Fired Up), and a sheet of nine thought bubble clingers.
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MINIATURES & MINIATURE GAMES
Grassy Field Playmat
Runewars Accessory
By Fantasy Flight Games
The 3’ by 3’ Grassy Field Playmat plants your miniatures battles in an open field, ripe for placing terrain and other obstacles adding even more thematic flavor to your favorite games. Though the playmat is designed for play with the Runewars Miniatures Game, the minimalist design is perfect for a variety of miniatures games, whether you’re landing troops on a planet of rolling hills or sending your forces to medieval battle, the Grassy Field Playmat provides plenty of room to deploy your armies. The mat not only provides a flavorful playing surface, but its slip-resistant bottom will ensure your valuable miniatures will stay safe during your skirmishes.
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COLLECTIBLE CARD, MINIATURE & DICE GAMES
Amonkhet Planeswalker Decks
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
Bets for new players. Each deck focuses on one of Magic’s icons Planeswalkers. Includes a 60-card deck with a mythic rare Planeswalker card, two 15-card Amonkhet boosters, a strategy insert, and a learn-to-play guide.
Amonkhet Booster
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
Each booster pack includes 15 cards to add to your collection – and you can expect one of those 15 to be a rare or mythic rare. Some packs even contain a premium foil card!
Amonkhet Deck Builders Toolkit
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
The perfect resource to create new Magic decks. Includes 125 semi-randomized cards, four 15-card boosters, 25 full art lands, 75 basic lands, a guide to building decks, a rules reference card, and a reusable card storage box.
Amonkhet Bundle
Magic: The Gathering Expansion
By Wizards of the Coast
Includes a Player’s Guide with pictures of all the cards in the set as well as ten 15-card booster packs, 20 full art lands cards, 60 basic land cards, 1 copy of each token available in the set, and an Amonkhet themed life counter.
The above list has been compiled based upon distributor and retail new releases mailouts I receive. Please note that there may be some geographic differences in release dates and/or availability of items. Please contact your local store for more information.
I too have been on a big Cypher System kick.
