I enjoy the Tiny Epic line of games published by Gamelyn games. Now owned by Tycoon Games, I was excited to see more of my favorite in the line, Tiny Epic Dungeons. Tiny Epic Dungeons Adventures keeps the same lightweight dungeon-crawl mechanics but it also links up multiple games in a bit of campaign. The Phantom Voyage is a small expansion that adds a new hero, some monsters, and minions. It will serve as a bridge to an upcoming Dungeons Adventures sequel. While the original line of Everdell games has come to a close (no more expansions), there are still more games to be had in the Everdell universe. Everdell Emerland is in the original Everdell genre: an engine-building worker placement game. Everdell Journeys has players building up a little journey route of cards, which are activated as players’ tokens move along the path.

Smirk & Dagger Games had even more Boop in Boop Shuffle the cat-bumping 3-in-a-row abstract game is now available in a more portable, and chaotic card version. Hell of a Deal was a show hit. Here, players cooperate to build up a poker hand capable of beating the boss’s hand. Of course, the boss cheats, and so should the players – if they can. Devious has players collecting faerie cards for points. Players queue up three cards in a stack and pass them over. Everyone then looks sequentially through their pile, evaluating them one at a time, keeping only one but not able to backtrack to a previous card. Cards have powers and actions but generally a player only scores if they have a single card in a specific suit. The slasher-themed line of survival games, This Game is Killer, is back this year in Franchise of Fear where all the players are trying to survive as they are trapped within a fast food store. Blorp! is a tile-laying game in the Carcassonne genre, where players try to create a completed (all sides closed) blorp, earning the most points for their largest Blorps of each color.

Pivoting to a combat-oriented game, the constructable-miniatures space-combat game, Snap Ships Tactics, is back. In addition to reprints of past ships and content, there has been a new crowdfunding effort to release a new series of double-sized ships as well as a Capitol Ships Box with pieces and rules to build crazy big ships.

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