Munchkin Land #690: Holiday Buying Guide

Star Wars: Bounty Hunters lands in May 2024, and Dan Patriss has all the news about this and other game releases. 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 Asmodee will be releasing Star Wars: Bounty Hunters in May ‘24 ($25) Atomic Mass Games will release new packs for ShatterPoint Clone Force 99 Squad Pack April 24 ($60) This is the Bad batch squad pack Rebellion Dies Squad Pack June ($50) Real Quiet Like Squad Pack June ($50) Never Tell Me the Odds Mission Pack will release June ‘24 ($15) Mantic Games is releasing Dungeon Saga Origins and some extras in the coming months. (As I believe the KS just finished delivering in last few months) Dungeon Saga Origins Core Game (Pre-order $75) Dungeon Saga Origins Glimmer of Greed Expansion ($50) Dungeon Saga Origins the Dice Game ($20) Dungeon Saga Origins Legendary Ed ($150) CGE will release Little Alchemists Q3 ‘24 This is a re-design of Alchemists designed for families and novice players) CGE will also release SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Later this year at Essen ($70) Matagot will bring Evenfall  which was a big hit of last year finally over here sometime late spring early summer (Origins?) June ($60) Digital Northwind Demo Slay the Spire Board game is REAL good Slay the Spire II was announced for early release in 2025 What are your favorite Roguelike deck builders? Let me know in the comments or on the Major Spoilers Discord! Crowdfunding KICKSTARTER Aqua ROVE - A Button Shy Wallet Game The Eternaut the Board Game Dragonbound Lords of Vaala Tiny Epic Game of Thrones Horror on the Orient Express:The Board Game Bloomchasers GameFound CMON announced the upcoming DC Heroes United-- Coming to Gamefound in July Castles of Burgundy Special Ed Reprint

Star Wars: Bounty Hunters lands in May 2024, and Dan Patriss has all the news about this and other game releases. 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 Asmodee will be releasing Star Wars: Bounty Hunters in May ‘24 ($25) Atomic Mass Games will release new packs for ShatterPoint Clone Force 99 Squad Pack April 24 ($60) This is the Bad batch squad pack Rebellion Dies Squad Pack June ($50) Real Quiet Like Squad Pack June ($50) Never Tell Me the Odds Mission Pack will release June ‘24 ($15) Mantic Games is releasing Dungeon Saga Origins and some extras in the coming months. (As I believe the KS just finished delivering in last few months) Dungeon Saga Origins Core Game (Pre-order $75) Dungeon Saga Origins Glimmer of Greed Expansion ($50) Dungeon Saga Origins the Dice Game ($20) Dungeon Saga Origins Legendary Ed ($150) CGE will release Little Alchemists Q3 ‘24 This is a re-design of Alchemists designed for families and novice players) CGE will also release SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Later this year at Essen ($70) Matagot will bring Evenfall  which was a big hit of last year finally over here sometime late spring early summer (Origins?) June ($60) Digital Northwind Demo Slay the Spire Board game is REAL good Slay the Spire II was announced for early release in 2025 What are your favorite Roguelike deck builders? Let me know in the comments or on the Major Spoilers Discord! Crowdfunding KICKSTARTER Aqua ROVE - A Button Shy Wallet Game The Eternaut the Board Game Dragonbound Lords of Vaala Tiny Epic Game of Thrones Horror on the Orient Express:The Board Game Bloomchasers GameFound CMON announced the upcoming DC Heroes United-- Coming to Gamefound in July Castles of Burgundy Special Ed Reprint

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There are a ton of new gaming Kickstarters launching and Dan Patriss shares all the info with you. 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 WizKids will release another starter set for D&D Onslaught,  Tendrils of the Lich, in June 24 ($100) 2 new factions and  6 scenarios in the box Ravensburger announced a new Lorcana set Ursula’s Return which will be out MAy ‘24 and new CO-OP format/Set Illumineer's Quest: Deep Trouble ($60) also in May ‘24 60$ box will have a mat for helping you with the co op play 2 decks and an ursula deck Ravensburger also announced a new Star Wars Villainous two-player expansion Revenge at Last July ‘24 ($20) Restoration Games will release another Unmatched set-- Slings and Arrows, June ‘24 ($40) William Shakespeare, The Wayward Sisters, Hamlet, and Titania. FFG will release Unfathomable:From the Abyss an expansion for Unfathomable (updating of Battlestar Galactica) June 24 ($60). WizKids will release The Apocalypse Dragon which is a new expansion for Mage Knight Feb ‘25 ($60 and will require Make Knight Ultimate Ed which was newer set in 2018) Red Raven Games will release Isle of Night a smaller card game  May ‘24 ($15-20) KICKSTARTER River Valley Glassworks Etherstone Galactic Cruise Inventors of the South Tigris Super Boss Monster Shogun Revised ed Flash Point:Legacy Armello:The Board Game Requiem - Downfall of Magic GameFound Baseball Highlights 2045 Bases Loaded Ed Wroth

There are so many games coming to stores and to Kickstarter, and Dan Patriss runs as many as he can in this episode of 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 Catalyst Game Labs has teased the release of Rune Fire the successor to the D&D DBG Dragonfire with a KS release later in 2024 Asmodee will release Path of Civilization a Simultaneous action selection Civ-Game later in March ‘24.(~$90) Cephalofair Games will release Frosthaven: Play Surface Books Q2 ‘24.($70) Cephalofair has announced Gloomhaven:Forgotten Circles 2E releasing in April ‘24 Lucky Duck Games will release Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising, a new standalone Expansion March 24 ($55) Days of Wonder will release an expansion to Heat called Heat:Heavy Rain coming out April ‘24 ($25) New Studio Announcement! Former Funko Games and Prospero Hall Designers/Developers and other employees have founded a new studio called Tempest Workshop Devir Games will release Rock Hard: 1977, Designed by former Runaways Bassist Jackie Fox, Aug ‘24. Capstone Games is bring over WormGold’s Pagan:Fate of Roanoke to US this Gen Con CROWDFUNDING KICKSTARTER Thunder Road: Vendetta - Carnival of Chaos Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition Chroma Arcana: A Tactical Card Game of Dueling Mages Cascadia: Rolling Forgeflame Dying Light the Board Game GAMEFOUND Black Rose Wars:Rebirth

Ravensburger announced a new expansion to Disney Villainous, and Dan Patriss is here to tell you all about it in this week's Munchkin Minute. 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 Capstone Games will release Uwe Rosenberg's Tangram City, April ‘24 ($30) Days of Wonder will release the very quick playing Ticket to Ride: Paris March ‘24. ($25) Indie Boards & Cards will release the next game in the Asto Knights series-- Astro Knights Eternity  Feb 24 ($50) CMON is releasing Dune: War for Arrakis March 24 ($140) Ares Games is releasing Jester Games’ Barbarian Kingdoms April ‘24 ($50) City of Games will release a new edition of Frank West’s older game Vadoran Gardens Refreshed, March 24 ($20?) Ravensburger announced New Disney Villainous: Sugar and Spite,  w/ King Candy (Wreck-It Ralph) and Shere Khan (The Jungle Book) (June ‘24 $20) and new format for releases being 2 character expansion boxes vs 3. CROWDFUNDING Game Found Steam Power by Martin Wallace A Song of Ice & Fire: Tactics Kickstarter Etherium Philharmonix: Space Orchestra Management Board Game Stefan Feld City Collection Nassau & Kathmandu Everstone: Discovering Ignis Champions of the Hundred Halls

Sleeping Gods is back, along with 7 Wonders Architects: Medals. So much gaming news this week, and Dan Patriss shares it all with you. 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] Red Raven Games has announced they will release Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies Late Feb ‘24 ($100) (this is the sequel to Sleeping Gods) Asmodee will release, 7 Wonders Architects: Medals Late Feb 24 ($25) This May FFG will release the Iceman Hero Pack, for Marvel Champions: The Card Game ($17) Ares Games will release a deck-building civilization game Altay: Dawn of Civilization designed by Ole Steiness and Paolo Mori later this year (Q3/4). Dire Wolf has announced Invincible the Hero building game will release in April ‘24 ($55) Devir Games will release,  Sand a light to medium weight Euro May ‘24. ($45) Asmodee is partnering up with Lego as they announced Monkey Palace a board game with Legos to be released Oct ‘24. DIGITAL Dominion Digital on Steam and iOS Free to play but to unlock other sets requires pay (Set price vary from 4.99 to 10.99 but you can of course unlock everything for over $110 think maybe 99 on iOS) Demon Loop a Digital board game by Alexander Pfister has a demo on steam CROWDFUNDING Kickstarter Altered TCG Triumph Eve:War for New Eden Stellar Drift: A Pull-and-Write Board Game Clickport and Speedport Hockey Hardware GameFound Last Light 2nd edition and New Alien Pack

Portal Games announced its first half of 2024 game release schedule. 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 Portal games 2024 1st half release schedule revealed. Printing press-- Sequel to Gutenberg March ‘24 ($40) Robinson Crusoe: Collectors Edition and Book of Adventures May ‘24 (Collectors edition per Portal is arriving to backers now ahead of the US release) and Book of adventures being another Expansion Thorgal: The Board Game June ‘24 Co-operative story driven immersive game in the Thorgal universe. AI Space Puzzle Aug ‘24 (preview event at Gen Con) Imperial Miners Expansion:Aztecs vs Weirdlings “Later this year” 25th Century games will release French Quarter the latest Loaded Roll and Write from Riddle/Pinchback/Hill (Motor city gameworks) Feb ‘24 ($30) Pandasaurus Games is releasing Faraway here in U.S. March ‘24 ($25) Solid card game with some unique drafting to it and scoring Office Dog (a new company by Luke Peterschmidt) will release Word Traveler April ‘24 ($35-40) Thames & Kosmos will release one of the hits of Essen ‘23,  Nunatak: Temple of Ice, in U.S. later in ‘24. Board & Dice Will release another game by Dani Garcia (Barcelona, Arborea) called Windmill Valley, June ‘24 ($40-45?) Lucky Duck Games will release Sweet Mess, a game about being pastry chefs in a cooking competition Feb ‘24 ($40) Zygomatic is releasing Timeline twist:Star Wars Feb ’24 ($20) Cooperative game where you are trying to get 35 cards into the right timeline in the starwars universe (100 cards come with the game). CROWDFUNDING KICKSTARTER Metrorunner Thunderworks GM Explorers of Navoria Fate: Defenders of Grimheim  Terraforming Mars Designers Among Cultists -- hidden traitor social deduction game Essence of Eternity

Dan Patriss kicks off the year with a number of new game releases coming our way. 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 Renegade Game Studio will release Vale Of Eternity in the US in March ‘24 (Preorder $35) Renegade Game Studio announced a new Expansion for GI Joe Deck building game-  Silent Interlude-- with a couple missions one being Solo-Only - (April 24 $30) Floodgate Games will release Skyrockets Jan’24 ($35) Mantic Games announced this week they will release a Tabletop Version of A Halo Miniatures Skirmish Game in Sept ‘24. (More previews in March) Hans Em Gluck will release a new edition of El Grande Jan ‘24 ($45) Rio Grande will release a new edition of Vladimir Suchy’s ShipYard this year ($70) Two Games by Rheiner Knizia --Asmodee released Marabunta  by Space Cowboys (Roll and Write) Jan ‘24. ($20-25) Has a bit of a I split you choose mechanic --Pegasus Spiele released Havalandi, in  U.S. retail Jan ‘24 ($40) Stonemaier Games will release Wyrmspan Q1 Designed by Apiary designer Connie Vogelmann (Said to be ready to ship this month and release in March) Per Stonemaier “no price yet but it will be similar to Wingspan” (my guess about ~$55-60). KICKSTARTER Votes for Women Second Printing

Dan Patriss enters the ring with a list of great games you can play with friends and family over the holiday season. Subscribe to the Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed! Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed RSS Feed 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] GAMES TO PLAY OVER THE HOLIDAYS Green Team Wins Planet Unknown LongShot the Dice Game Flamecraft Verdant Next Station London Challengers! Sea,Salt, and paper Forrest Shuffle Kites Framework Nimalia Imperial Miners (Longtime favorites- Las Vegas Can’t Stop and No Thanks!) NEWS A new game company has been formed with some long-time industry vets Play to Z announced this week Zev Shlasinger head honcho Buonocore on the board 1st game to be Ascending Empires Zenith Ed More expansions for Shatterpoint-- Finally Luke and Vader Atomic Mass Games will release Fearless and Inventive Squad Pack Jan ‘24 $50 Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , Leia, Lando and and R2-D2 as a Supporting Unit. Fear and Dead Men Squad Pack, Darth Vader with 3 storm troopers and some other extras- Jan ‘24 ($50) UVS Games unveiled their 2024 lineup of products for UniVersus CCG IP’s for the next year include: Cowboy Bebop, YuYu Hasko, Godzilla, Critical role, more My hero academia, and Attack on titan. The next set of Lorcana will be set 3 Into the Inklands which will introduce Locations or settings into the game and have characters from 101 Dalmations, Scrooge McDuck, Talespin characters and characters from Treasure Planet. Pegasus Spiele has released MicroMacro: Crime City - Bonus Box Dec ‘23 $25 25 more cases for the great casual party game