But Steamforged is 10 years old now and they are talking about what is coming up. As they say in the video, this is just the start of announcements. It’s not a long video and worth watching, but if you want a breakdown of it, check it out below.

Steamforged Kicking Off 10 Years

Guild Ball

It’s where Steamforged started. And well, it’s coming back. Not a game that I’ve played, and one that I’m only so interested in. The cool thing is that it’s not available as a print on demand. That is a cool added feature to the game. I think there are a few other games that could maybe learn from this methodology, though it’d a be a bit trickier for some of them as well. It’s been hard to get a hold of, but now it’ll be way easier. And you can get the Kick Off! Set STL files and everything for free on Steamforged site.

Godtear

Another one that I haven’t played. It’s kind of a skirmish style of game, which I only have a few of that style of game. They are looking less to add in more characters, but more like Mythic Games (and soon hopefully CMON) was trying to do with Super Fantasy Brawl. So that’s some of the reason it hasn’t hit my collection, but I know that Steamforged has been pushing this one hard. I’d love to get a chance to demo it and see if it’s for me. But expect more organized play coming up for this one.

Monster Hunter World

It’s also the 20^th anniversary of Monster Hunter. They are adding in some new releases. One of the biggest one is Kirin. I have the Iceborne one coming, so I’m going to be passing on this one as well. Plus it’s a lot of content in what I already have coming. There’s another monster box coming as well with several more monsters in there as well, which is a separate one from Kirin. So more “good luck” on defeating them. And it’s a pre-order, not a crowdfunding, but there are still some exclusive things or available only through Steamforged.

Upcoming Crowdfunding

Euthia: Torment of Resurrection

It’s coming back to Kickstarter as a crowdfunding exclusive game. And it’s coming this spring. It’s going to have the original content, plus, since with Kickstarter you can’t just redo a campaign, a new expansion for it as well. The next expansion is called Cruel Frost. So going cold like they did with Monster Hunter World.

Steet Masters

Like Euthia, Street Masters is coming back to crowdfunding. And it’s also originally from a company that wasn’t Steamforged. So keep an eye out for this one. If you backed the most recent crowdfunding campaign on Indigogo there is information there about what it means for your backing of the game as it was with the previous company. So just be aware of that and check it out. But if you’ve missed out on it and didn’t want to back it with the previous company who is practically gone at this point, Steamforged is going to be offering it again. This is coming in February.

Final Thoughts

According to them, this is just the start. There is going to be more for sure as Steamforged is always busy in what they have coming. Both new expansions for existing games and systems as well as new stuff. So I’m excited to see what they have coming out. And I’m glad that they are able to take over and benefit and grow some of these previous campaigns that have gotten stuck in limbo.

For me, the one that I’m most excited is Euthia: Torment of Resurrection. That is a system that sounds interesting. And if you saw my wishlist for games, you know that Euthia is pretty high on that list. Do any of these announcements interest you?

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Top 10 Wish List Board Games

The list of board games is 1 through 10 instead of the other way around. This is a mistake, but how I wrote it, so I didn’t want to redo it.

1. Violet and the Grumpy Nisse

This one just sounds fun. It’s a two player trick taking game. I really love the sound of this as the two players kind of fight against each other for the tricks and each of them has some unique things for it. Right now it’s hard to get. I believe it was on crowdfunding, but I’m not sure it’s ever gotten a wide release.

One of the people is playing Violet, a girl who is on a journey to meet a friendly troll. Unfortunately she is going through the woods of the nisse, Torech who is not happy with that idea. He wants to stop her and get her light to go out and make her travel as hard as possible. I just love the idea and sound of that as a thematic trick taking game.

2. Nova Aetas Renaissance

This one I get to blame on Meet Me At the Table. I think that’s the only one that I can blame on them. There are others that will definitely get blamed on other YouTube channels. This one looks like a blast as you take a team of characters up against the enemies. I get a real Assassin’s Creed vibe to it, but it’s not that, there is an Assassin’s Creed Game. I like the story of the game and I like the “fun” that it looks like.

One thing that I really dig is how the action point system works. You move your characters along a rondel determining how many of their actions that they use. Some of it might be used on movement and some on fighting. They have to go up to the point where the next enemy is. But you can potentially work it to get a couple of turns pretty quickly. For me that’s a really fun concept and twist on a dungeon crawler. But it’s also still a dungeon crawler, tactical game, when it comes down to it.

3. Rove

This one I won’t be able to write much on. It’s still coming to crowdfunding and I’m very curious about it. What I know , and I don’t know much about the game play, is that it’s from a designer who made The Crimson Scales, a fan made expansion for Gloomhaven. They then built out something much bigger, their own epic campaign and fantasy game. How it is going to work mechanically, I’m not sure. But I think that this was supposed to fund on Crowdfunding last year, now it’s supposed to be this year. But I like it when companies are fine delaying to get it right.

4. Euthia: Torment of Resurrection

I passed this one by twice on crowdfunding, I kind of regret it. But Euthia looks like a lot of fun. It’s a competitive, cooperative or solo sandbox RPG style game. Competitive I don’t care that much about. But cooperative and solo, I care about those. Plus it’s now been picked up by Steamforge so that increase the chances that I might pick it up. It’s not a cheap game, but then again how many campaign games are. For me this would go onto a list of campaign games that need to be played.

5. Aeon Trespass: Odyssey

Aeon Trespass: Odyssey is another campaign game and another huge game. I want to find this one, but like Euthia, I’ve passed on it twice. It’s again one that I really want to play. From what I can tell it’s an epic boss battling style of game more than a dungeon crawler. Do I need another huge game like this, I don’t. But it’s one of those that if I find it used, I’ll pick it up. Right now I want to just get Kingdom: Death Monster started up or Oathsworn in that boss battler area.

6. Mind Up!

I watched this one played on The Dice Tower, so another one that I can blame on a YouTube channel. Mind Up! Looked like a lot of fun because it’s just a little card game that does some simple things. All your doing is playing out cards to get other cards. Which one you get depends on where your number falls into the order of cards played. After that it’s all about set collection and seeing how many points you get for getting cards of the same color.

I really want to get this one because I see it as a small and fun filler game. I love to find games like that, and it doesn’t eat up too much space on my shelf which is a good thing. As I’ve talked about before with Sea Salt & Paper, if a game is a small box filler game, it tends to stick around in my collection.

7. Café Baras

A coffee shop with capybara’s, I’m in. It is super cute sounding and from KTBG (Kid’s Table Board Games) it is going to look very nice. See everything I said about Mind Up being a small filler game, that is the same with Café Baras. From what I can tell, this is a hand management game about fulfilling orders. Cards are multiuse, which is fun and offers some solid tension, and well, did I mention that there are capybaras in the game?

8. Witchcraft!

This is a successor to a game Resist. Resist is not one that I’ve played, but one that looked interesting as a solid experience. Witchcraft, however, just sounds more interesting to me. And it is a solo only game, which I like as well. This one I can also blame on The Dice Tower for me being interested.

The mechanisms also sound interesting. I like the sound of doing some deck building and hand management in the game. But also with push your luck elements to it. I want to know more about how this one plays. Because how it looks, both mechanisms and aesthetically look intriguing.

9. Ancient Knowledge

Another one for the list of blame it on the Dice Tower is Ancient Knowledge.  Ancient Knowledge is a civilization building game. That’s an area of board gaming that I’d love to play around in more. Ones where you are building up tech trees and advancing what you are doing. And how Zee and others on the Dice Tower talk about Ancient Knowledge it just sounds really good.

A lot of these types of games you build to doing more and more and more. That’s the case here, but as time passes, some knowledge is going to be lost to the past. So the engine that you are building is always changing and you need to plan for those changes as the knowledge disappears. I like the sound of that so much, because it requires a good adaptive strategy and things move on.

10. Hoplomachus: Remastered

Finally, a Chip Theory Game, and I debated if this one would be my #10 on the list. Hoplomachus: Victorum is a game that I own. And it’s a solo only game, I need to learn the rules and play it. It’s kind of a campaign like experience from Chip Theory Games. And generally, I like the other Chip Theory Games that I’ve played. I really like Burncycle. And I think that Too Many Bones offers a ton of fun and is one that I want to dig into more.

Hoplomachus is more of a battling game and a battling arena for head to head combat. And on Board Game Geek, most people do prefer it at two. But it offers solo play and I want to try it. Unlike the others, because I own Hoplomachus: Victorum, it’s less likely that I’ll pick this one.

Final Thoughts

Right now, who knows when I might buy one of these board games. It isn’t high on my list to add in new games to my collection. Some of the small ones, or Rove which is yet to go to crowdfunding, are the most likely. But I want the chance to checkout any and all of these if I can over the next few years. For some of them, though, that might be a little bit.

Of these board games, which is the most interesting to you? Which is the one that you’d buy first and add to your collection?

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The interesting thing that comes from this is how it drives the secondary market. A game that is being printed again, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, sells for $150+ on eBay. It’s a $70 retail game. But it got popularity so that everyone wants it. So what games do I want that are out of print or had to find?

Hard To Find Board Games

Heat: Pedal to the Metal

This is one that is on my list. Heat is a racing game that is actually about racing. A lot of racing games are about betting on races. That is fun. I really enjoy Downforce and Long Shot: The Dice Game. I hope that Heat, though, it going to give me more of a racing feel. And, from what I can tell, it looks like it should. The card system is intriguing and turns our fast so you won’t feel like you bog down.

Aeons Trespass: Odyssey

This one is between print runs as they just announced a new Kickstarter campaign for it. And you will find that a number of these games are Kickstarters or crowdfunding games. It isn’t uncommon for them to completely disappear. They only come back if a new crowdfunding campaign happens.

Aeons Trespass: Odyssey is a big adventure, story, campaign game that I almost backed the first time around. But I felt like I didn’t need more. I should feel like that now, but it is getting great reviews. That’s the one thing nice about waiting. I often grab second printings of a game that gets a great review and miss out on some duds. But I want Aeons Trespass: Odyssey for sure this time around.

The Crimson Scales

This one is an interesting one as well. I hope that it will get reprinted. But The Crimson Scales is a fan expansion with classes, adventures, monsters, and more in the Gloomhaven system. And it comes in a massive box like Gloomhaven and is compatible with Gloomhaven. So a fan expansion for my favorite game, that is something I want to pick up.

But I wonder how I will track this one down. It is out of print, they have done two print runs. But, the creator of this expansion is making his own game, Rove, that is on my watch list. So is that going to mean the end of The Crimson Scales and I will have missed my run. Or is there enough demand to bring it back again?

Euthia: Torment of Resurrection

This is another Kickstarter game which means it is harder to track down. Though, it is interesting because the company that made it went under. Or they were close to, I don’t want to assume they are fully gone but I believe they are. They sold the rights to Euthia to another company, that company has produced a reprint. I skipped out on that one, but it is still a game that I want to get my hands on. I might even be able to late pledge it still, but it’s one that I want, but a campaign, so do I need it?

Vegetable Stock

This one is a different type of game. It isn’t a big game, but a small set collection, stock market game about vegetables. I know more about this one and how it works because of how simple it is. You draft vegetables and then the leftover vegetable pushes the value of that vegetable higher. It’s a clever and simple system that I hope will work for me like Point Salad works or something like that. Yes, they are both vegetable games, but I meant in weight and complexity.

Final Thoughts

I could spend a lot of money to track of these down. And the fact that Heat is selling for $150+ on eBay means that people are. But in that case of that one, especially, I know it is going to come out again. And when it does, I buy it then, I don’t need to pay extra just to have it sooner.

That said, I do have it on a watch list. If someone lists it for $80 with free shipping buy it now, I might get it. And with some of the others, or games that I left off the list, I might need to stumble across them in the wild. Or I might need to hope that my FLGS (friendly local game store) gets them in used. But is it something I need to track down, certainly not.

What is a game or two that you really want to track down?

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