Munchkin Land
Munchkin Land
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Munchkin Land #709: Essen Top 5 to Buy
Essen is here! Dan Patriss shares his top five to buy at the show. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] ESSEN TOP FIVE My Essen Top 5 to buy with 2 honorable mentions Star Trek Star Realms (not sure if it’s there but check it out anyway when it comes out!) SETI from CGE (b/c I have mentioned it a bunch but wanted to mention it again) 5 Daitoshi -- Devir 4 Saltfjord - Aporta 3 Minos Dawn of the Bronze age --Board and Dice 2 Black Forest  -- Feuerland Spiel (Capstone in US) 1 Civolution --- Deep Print Games DIGITAL  Vestiges: Fallen Tribes This is very much Early Access on Oct 3rd KICKSTARTER 10-1-24 Launches Unmatched Adventures TMNT -- Restoration games Bat flip Dynasty Fun Drafting dice rolling Baseball sim by Scorelander Games Positano: a Game of Bidding and Building Nature Deliverance: Council of the Fallen Expansion + Reprint Speakeasy - By Vital Lacerda with Artwork by Ian O’Toole Railroad Tiles Skara Brae & The Anarchy Dungeons of the Oak Dell Game Found Story of Many
Sep 30, 2024
22 min
Munchkin Land #708: King of Tokyo Duel arrives in October
Dan Patriss is here with your bi-weekly rundown of gaming news! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS Iello will release King of Tokyo Duel early Oct ’24 ($25) Asmodee will release Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth Early Oct ’24 ($35) Restoration Games will release Crossbows and Catapults: Fortress War Early Oct ’24. ($90) Cranio creations is putting out Beyond the Horizon (Sequel to Beyond the Sun) for release at Essen ’24 (US later this year). (`$60?) Cranio Creations will release Golden Cup, at Essen ’24 (Oct ’24) (~$40) WizKids this week Teased Builders of Baldur’s Gate,to be released in June ’25 ($65) Asmodee will release Tree Society (Via Next move games) Sept ’24 ($35) Ravensburger announced the next Lorcana Set-- Azurite Sea Nov ’24. DIGITAL GAMES Demon Loop has gone to early access $12.99 I will have a Code for the digital release as well to give away just head to the Major Spoilers discord Munchkinland channel and let me know your favorite Pfister games and I’ll pick a random winner for this code for Demon Loop Also coming soon to Steam and iOS is Imperial Miners from Portal Games. CROWDFUNDING KICKSTARTER RA Pharaoh Edition Reprint and More! March of the Ants: The Ultimate Ant Civilization Game DC Deck-Building Game: Arkham Asylum GAMEFOUND Puerto Rico Special Edition Cyberpunk 2077 Heroes of Might and Magic III The Board Game and Expansions [su_signoff]
Sep 16, 2024
19 min
Munchkin Land #707: Fairy Ring arrives in September
Fairy Ring arrives in September from Asmodee, and the company has many more releases coming our way in the months ahead. Dan Patriss fills you in on these stories and more in this week’s Munchkin Land. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS Devir Games will release the next game by Dani Garcia Daitoshi  Oct ’24 (~$60) Arcane Wonders will release Video Game Champion,in Nov ’24 ($60). A light to medium set collection card/Tile game set in the 90s era of 16 bit console game explosion. Asmodee will release Fairy Ring, (Orig from Repos Production) Sept’ 24 ($35) Game about developing/building your Fairy Village Asmodee will release a new edition of Finca, a great game of collecting fruit using a rondell, Sept ’24 (~$30) Asmodee and Zygomatic will release Survive the Island (an updating of the 30+ Year old Survive! Escape from Atlantis In Sept ’24 ($30) Atomic Mass Games announced the next squad pack for Star Wars:Shatterpoint-- Good Soldiers Follow Orders Oct ’24 ($50) (The villains from Bad Batch- after Bad Batch was announced few months ago) CROWDFUNDING Kickstarter Tír na nÓg Reprint, Expansion & More Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere® RPG Rival Restaurants: SPORKS Out (Reprint + Expansion) Backer Kit! One Deck Dungeon: Relics of the Forge
Aug 28, 2024
16 min
Munchkin Land #706: Post Gen-Con
Dan Patriss is back from GenCon and runs down some of the highlights from the show. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] GENCON Gen Con breaks attendance records for the 2nd straight year selling out badges and having 71,000 unique attendees (Up from 70,000 in 2023). Top 5 Games checked out in the BGG hotness room at Gen Con 2024 107 River Valley Glassworks 70 Let’s Go! To Japan 62 Landmarks 58 Arcs: Conflict & Collapse in the Reach 58 The Gang Restoration Games will be crowdfunding a new set next month Unmatched Adventures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sept ’24 Brotherwise Games will release Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game Nov ’24 (Guess about $30- 35). Rio Grande Games will release Power Grid: Outpost, a space take on Power Grid Oct ’24 ($75) Gale Force 9 has a bunch of great games but also some great game accessories and they announced 4 new sets for their Tenfold Dungeon line which will be released Q 3 ’24 Wizard’s Sanctum Mines of Khazad Ravenhold Castle The Underdark WizKids has teased Pathfinder Dice Conquest where you roll all of the main 7 dice types for release in March ’25. Crowdfunding KICKSTARTER So you’ve been cursed  Winds of Numa Sera: The Board Game Shuffle Dungeons Gamefound Dungeon Twister 20th anniversary edition
Aug 14, 2024
13 min
Munchkin Land #705: Pre-Gen Con 2024
Gen Con starts in just a few days, and Dan Patriss shares his Top 5 To Try and Top 5 To Buy at the convention. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] Top 5 To Try (not available to purchase at Gen Con just demo  Honorable Mention Ascendancy  5 Aeterna 4 The Paradox Initiative 3 Vrahode:Age of Prophecy 2 Mistborn Deckbuilding Game 1 Star Trek:Captains Chair 1st set of Honorable mentions b/c of expensive or been out a while French Quarter $30 Slay the Spire (I already own but go buy this!) $170 Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught – Tendrils of the Lichen Lich Starter Set (English edition) $100 Crossbows and Catapults:Fortress War $90 Some Expansions to also check out Aquatica Coral Reefs Geen Team Wins- Holiday Party $10 Clank Catacombs Lairs and lost chambers  --They said limited copies (RUN! To their booth) Astro-Knights Eternity $50 (Next Aeons end) Straight out hon mentions Pirates of Maracaibo $50 Tir na nog $35 Printing Press $35 -- Sequel to Gutenberg (More hon mentions b/c I mentioned them on The Morning Stream) Rock Hard: 1977 $50 (so their site says) (you will likely have to run for this one) Landmarks  $25 WIll end up being one of the best Party games of the year Top 5 to BUY at Gen Con 5 Invincible the Hero Building Game $55 4 Reavers of Midgard the Card game $40 3 Metrorunner $60 2 River Valley Glassworks $39 1 The Mandalorian:Adventures $50 Digital  Clank! Digital on steam $22.99 CrowdFunding KICKSTARTER Game Toppers 4.5 Galactic Game Tables, Terrain Packs & Mats New Terrain packs, some rail art for the rails you can change out and some amazing new play matts, and of course some great deals on Toppers Luthier Game Found Ascension Legends
Jul 30, 2024
24 min
Munchkin Land #704: Clank! Catacombes expands
This week we learn about the upcoming Clank! Catacombs expansion, Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age, and a Halloween Dice Advent Calendar. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS Dire Wolf Digital will release an expansion to Clank! Catacombs Clank! Catacombs: Lairs & Lost Chambers, Sept ’24 ($30) Floodgate Games will release a new word party/co-op game Landmarks Aug 24 ($25) Board & Dice will release Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age, Oct ’24 (~ $65-70) (Not much is revealed but looks like a nice heavyweight euro Civ Game) Deep Print Games will release Intarsia, a tile laying game with some amazing table presence for a small game in Sept 24. (Earlier in europe, in US by Pegasus) Lucky Duck Games will publish Tranquility: The Ascent Sept ’24 (~$15) FanRoll dice revealed a Halloween Dice Advent calendar for release in Aug ’24 ($75) Use coupon code THEGEEKALL10 when there little bit comes back to the show UVS Games elaborated a bit more on their upcoming releases with Origins of Power, the 2nd Attack on Titan  booster set for UniVersus CCG (the first being battle of humanity), Nov 24 a new My Hero Academia set (Oct) and Star Trek Lower deck set (Dec) all should be good additions to the UniVersus CCG. Also from UVS is Star Trek Realms this fall (Star Trek Version of Star Realms) Arcane Wonders will release Foundations of Metropolis, Aug 24 ($50). This is the lighter or more affordable Foundations of Rome Play to Z will release King’s Coalition, Sept 24 ($20) has the feel of Fantasy Realms/Marvel Remix with a unique twist. CROWDFUNDING Coming Soon the next campaign from GametoppersLLC. Teaser Video (Campaign will be up 7-23-24) Game Found DC Superheroes United Sirens:The Deep Sea 20 Strong:Tanglewoods Kickstarter Stefan Feld City Collection - Classic: Special Edition Brink Wandering Galaxy: A crossroads game [su_signoff]
Jul 16, 2024
22 min
Munchkin Land #703: Games from Spiel des Jahres 2024
Dan Patriss shares a number of games people saw at Spiel des Jahres 2024, and other board game news. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS Spiel des Jahres 2024: (Thanks to W. Eric Martin at BGG for a great write up)] Captain Flip Sky Team In the Footsteps of Darwin KDJ 2024: The Guild of Merchant Explorers Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West Daybreak Scorpion Masque announced the expansion - Sky Team: Turbulence out Q4 ’24 ($13) In another Hot Tip from BGG and W. Eric Martin Avalon Hill will release the latest edition of Talisman along with an Expansion bringing co-op elements and kind of a campaign element to it as well. Talisman: The Magical Quest Game releasing July ’24 (~$60 per amazon) Talisman: Alliances – Fate Beckons also July ’24 ($40 per amazon) Ravensburger will release Horrified: World of Monsters  Aug ’24 ($30) Lucky Duck Games will release Quartz: The Dice Game Aug’ 24 (~$20-25) Asmodee will release Altered TCG Sept’ 24 Ravensburger announced the next big set for Lorcana called--  Shimmering Skies August 24 Origins Hotness: Dabba Walla SETI from CGE coming at Essen I covered in April Munchkin Land. Sausage Sizzle- Fun little Game from Inka and Markus Brand and re-releasing a new version by 25th Century Games From the Moon- Hatchette Games, US in July? CROWDFUNDING Kickstarter Unstoppable! Peaks Ada’s Dream Trekking the World 2nd Ed Tsukuyumi: Amaterasu Rising Artefacts Casual Game Insider
Jul 2, 2024
20 min
Munchkin Land #702: Star Trek: Captain's Chair
Dan Patris is back with more news from the board game world! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS FFG will Release a stand-alone expansion Star Wars the deck building game- Clone wars edition in aug ’24 ($35-40) Stand alone but also can be incorporated into the base game WizKids will release Star Trek: Captain’s Chair Oct’ 24 ($60) Man Vs Meeple preview video Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars a new mini’s skirmish game has been released by Free League Publishing. I found a nice article on Dice Breaker Scorpion Masque will release Festival, Q3 ’24 ($20) Office Dog will release River of Gold, a worker placement game set in the world of L5R Aug ’24 ($50) Lookout Games will release Forest Shuffle: Alpine, June ’24 ($13) CROWDFUNDING Coming soon to steam but up on KS now! Maximum Apocalypse  Steam version Maximum Apocalypse Video Game KS ($12 for Early access and final Game) KICKSTARTER Agemonia Dabba Walla--- Great light game For Sale Feel --- pre-order Deliver in Aug Secret Villages and Santa’s Workshop Big Sur, Grand Central Skyport, Sand Art, & Wine Cellar GAME FOUND Grimcoven -- Boss Battler Micro Moonshine
Jun 11, 2024
17 min
Munchkin Land #701: Slay the Spire: The Board Game
Dan Patris returns with a roundup of board game news, including the upcoming launch of the Slay the Spire board game! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS Contention Games announced a retail date for Slay the Spire:The Board Game late July ‘ 24 ($115) UVS Games previously announced their partnership with Wise Wizard Games for Star Trek: Star Realms, a reskin of the original Star Realms. The release date of Sep’ 24. (~$25) Brotherwise Games will release Dungeon Kart a quick playing fun racing game set in the world of Boss Monster July 24 ( $60) Good Games is releasing Star Tycoon, May 24 ($45) Portal Games will release Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island - Collector’s Edition, here in US June 24 ($80). Renegade Game Studios is releasing their new version of Nexus Ops Aug ’24 ($65) Alderac Entertainment Group will release Nocturne, Sept ’24 ($40) Crowdfunding Gamefound Guns of the Old West Kickstarter Rove Rebirth:Limited Ed Epochs: Course of Cultures Everbloom Regicide Legacy Bouquet Masters of Maple Syrup & Downstream
May 27, 2024
18 min
Munchkin Land #700: Ticket to Ride and Atomic Mass announce new games
This week, Dan has a rundown on Ticket to Ride South Korea, new Atomic Mass expansions, and more! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at [email protected] NEWS Days of Wonder will release a new TTR Expansion— Ticket to Ride Iberia & South Korea June ’24. $45 Rio Grande Games is releasing the next expansion to Dominion Late Q2— Dominion: Rising Sun ($45) Atomic Mass teased This is Some Rescue Squad Pack for Star Wars Shatterpoint,  that they will open for pre-order June 3 (~$40) Finally W. Eric Martin had a great article on a bunch of 25th Century Games releases coming the rest of the year and into 2025 One being Grand Central Skyport a card based tableau building game with a rondell by Dan Germain Other Releases by 25th Century coming soon  Sand Art by Kory Jordan  Big Sur By Mondo Davis Circus Flohcati and Penguin Party, by Reiner Knizia Vampire Queen, by Wolfgang Kramer Jalape-NO!, by Kramer and Michael Kiesling Tasso Banana, by Philippe Proux and Junghee Choi CROWDFUNDING GAME FOUND Long Dark Sea I C E Unlimited KICKSTARTER Canvas Big Box Mad Matchup House of Fado Children of Morta:The board game Wicked Cribbage [su_signoff]
May 13, 2024
16 min
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