So this is coming out a day later than normal. Normally when Awaken Realms does a big announcement or The Dice Tower has the publishers do one on the Summer Spectacular I try and put it out immediately. That didn’t work this year, but if you want to see everything that Awaken Realms has coming out, the time is now. What do they have planned for 2024, turns out, like always it’s a lot.

Awaken Realms NEXT 2024

Castles of Burgundy Deluxe Reprint

You miss out on getting the fancy Castles of Burgundy, I did, but didn’t at the same time, you can get it now. I need to play the game now. I don’t think it’s ever one I’ll go all fancy on, but it’s tempting. Instead, this might be the one for you, if you love the game and now you’ve seen the production, you have a chance to get it without paying scalper prices.

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Puerto Rico Deluxe

This is another one that really isn’t for me. But Puerto Rico is a classic worker placement game. And I know a lot of people are going to be intrigued by this. Do you need a massive deluxe version, probably  not. Will it make your old version obsolete, absolutely not. But might it be cool if this is a game that you play a ton, probably. So one to checkout in what seems to be a growing line of deluxe euro game versions. This is Q3 campaign for 2024.

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AR Vault

Last year they did some dice. Which I have a set of those dice coming eventually. Do I need more dice, no. But this year it’s miniatures. Awaken Realms is a miniatures company, at least in terms of what they started out as. And their games, Etherfields, Tainted Grail, and more have come with amazing miniatures. So if you’re looking for some awesome looking miniatures, this is going to be the spot to get them. For me an okay announcement, I don’t really get miniatures unless they are for a game, so while I’ll look at them, not going to be one that I back. This will be coming back in Q1.

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Grimcoven

This is a big boss battler game. Do I need more boss battlers, absolutely, especially anything that is done by Awaken Realms. I like the idea of a boss battler, I need to dive more into the ones that I have. But coming in Q2 of 2024, from Awaken Realms you know that it’s going to drip with the aesthetic. And I’m hear for this witch hunter feel as you are a hunter battling against these bosses.

It’s interesting, it’s just a boss battler. Kind of like Primal how it can work that way. But it’s going to not have a campaign to it. So that’s nice, because you get to dive in and experience it and then be out of it. I hope that the world is strongly built for the game. But sounds like you do evolve your character, but it happens during the game, which I like the sound of. And each hunter is going to be different. Color me very intrigued overall.

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Lands of Evershade

It’s a board game, it’s an RPG, and it’s going to be massive and epic. Let’s say, as much as Grimcoven looks awesome. Lands of Evershade looks even more awesome. It’s really the type of game that I just adore with massive amounts of story and them. This, to me, is what Awaken Realms does best. I need to get back Etherfields sometime to play that, but I’ve loved their big story games with ISS Vanguard and Tainted Grail. This is coming in Q4 of 2024.

The trailer looks amazingly epic. And I want to know more about it and everything that is going on in it. The aesthetic is completely one that I like. And it’s supposed to be more RPG like in that it won’t drive your directions maybe as much. Though, I feel like Tainted Grail, while it has chapters, gave you sometimes new ways to handle it. And ISS Vanguard brought you into a solar system where you could go wherever. I hope this builds upon what they have learned from those games.

It’s also a game system. I am curious to see what that means. It is supposed to give you a lot of freedom to create your own character. It’s going to be RPG like in how creation of character. That is cool, there are some very sandbox games, but it might limit you. But it’s also going to have dungeon crawler elements and combat elements. I think it sounds very fun that way. But it’s also going to be very narrative heavy.

I’ll leave the world building something for you to dive into. They talk about it a bunch in the video, and if you’re curious, it’s definitely worth checking out.

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Final Thoughts

Last year Dragon Eclipse was the game that interested me. The rest of them were just okay for me. STALKER definitely was interesting. Here are there are two games that really stand out to me. Lands of Evershade is an instant back. And Grimcoven also looks amazing. I think that type of game works really well for me because it’s what I want in a game, heavily thematic, and knowing Awaken Realms, going to have a lot of interesting mechanisms. But it’s a one off game, which to me is a great option for how I play.

Which one of these games or projects interests you the most? Do you want a deluxe version of a game like Castles of Burgundy or Puerto Rico? Or are you more into the heavy story and them like I am?

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