It’s a massive video and as it says, well, I messed up the audio on the video. But I went through the 2022 GeekPreview for Gen Con on Board Game Geek. You can find that full list here. And there is a ton to go through. On Monday, I went through the games available to demo, you can watch that here. So today I am looking at games that you can find and buy at Gen Con, and that is a much bigger list.

Games to Buy at Gen Con 2022

There are always a ton of games that come out at Gen Con and the Board Game Geek list tends to be pretty accurate, though not fully. I know the first year I was at Gen Con in 2019, there were some issues with it. Games that maybe weren’t supposed to be on there, Blueprint for example, made it onto the list somehow. But that was a few years ago at this point so I am hoping that it has been fixed up.

One of the really useful things about this list is trying to guess the hot games. There is always something every year that sells really quickly. So it is trying to guess what that might be. Games like Final Girl I’m sure will go fast with whatever supply Van Ryder Games has. Or something like Mission Catastrophe or Oathsworn which are getting buzz recently. My Father’s Work is the one that I am most interested in. But, the games that go fast, you don’t really need to run for. Most will be available later.

So is it worth diving into the mad rush at the beginning. Because that is part of what happens at Gen Con, when the dealer hall opens people are packed at the doors. I tend to think that it is not worth it. It’s a massive of humanity and while I love a good crowd, a crowd where everyone has very specific objectives, less so. Mainly because the feeling of that type of crowd is different. Plus, like I said, you will be able to find most if not all of the games later.

What would be your must buy game from the GeekPreview list?

Upcoming Streams

So, as I said in the last post, I have a week off coming up here. I stream on Monday and then on Wednesday, I am driving out to Gen Con. I might see about doing some short content or record some videos on my phone, but we’ll see.

Monday, though, I will stream and it’ll be a chill solo game play. Unless something happens, like Oathsworn shows up in which case I’ll do an unboxing. But most likely I’ll be playing Black Sonata. This is a solo hidden movement game that is a lot of fun to play and try and figure out the pattern as to where the dark lady of Shakespeare’s fancy is going and who she is.

Then the following Wednesday, so about a week and a half after, I’ll do a video either kicking off playing Stars of Akarios or showing off the games that were picked up at Gen Con. That Gen Con haul video, though, most likely will be the following Monday.

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