Death Roads: Tournament essentially turns Mad Max into a deck-building game, and I feel like that idea deserves an award on its own. What’s particularly impressive is that Death Roads is not simply Slay the Spire with cars. It’s a very unique deck-building game that plays off of its vehicular combat theme in really novel ways.
In Kunitsu-Gami: Path of The Goddess, you play as Soh, the guardian and protector of the Maiden Yoshiro on her path to cleanse the mountain of corruption. In many ways, Path of the Goddess resembles an elaborate tower defense game with a personal sword-swinging touch. However, it actually has more in common with games such as Pikmin or Overlord.
When combined with its previous expansions, Spirit Island is a near-perfect board game. Nature Incarnate balloons the already limitless replayability of the game even further with new spirits, aspects, and a few other goodies.
Eldritch Realms is the fourth expansion for Age of Wonders 4, and despite the fact that it doesn’t add a new culture, it’s still one of the biggest yet. It brings a new and unique ruler type in the form of an Eldritch Sovereign. A voidlike being with powerful spell casting via the use of thralls. A dangerous new risk versus reward map layer called the Umbral Abyss. It also adds a few new tomes, cosmic events, and more.