Planetfall is a card drafting and set collection tableau builder based on the 4X strategy videogame of the same name. You play as one of six factions sending expeditions to various planets to obtain resources, technology, and power. The player with the most Empire Points at the end of the game wins.
Brass Empire is a head-to-head deck-building game where Steam Punk corporations compete to mine the most brass. However, this isn’t simply a matter of industrial prowess. The corporations have no qualms about sending soldiers and war machines to attack and destroy their competition.
If you don’t know. Maximum Apocalypse is a co-op game about completing missions amid a variety of apocalypses that seem to occur all at once. Alien invasions, Vampire infestations, and Kaiju attacks are all on the table. It can played as part of a campaign or just some one-shot missions and features some of the easiest setup for that type of game I’ve ever seen. All without sacrificing the kind of depth I always hope for when I crack open a new game.
Frosthaven and to a lesser extent Gloomhaven are, in my opinion, some of the greatest board games ever made. Given the reputation of the Haven games and their board game geek rankings, that might not surprise you, but it certainly surprises me. It surprises me because there are a ton of core aspects contained in games like Frosthaven that completely rub me the wrong way. To the extent that I think they completely spit on some of board gaming’s fundamental values.