My Most Anticipated Board Games Of 2025!

[@itsjacobj]

Your previews of Storyfold: Wildwoods, Tend, Critter Kitchen, and Knitting Circle convinced me to back/late pledge! I’m super excited for those and Tea Witches this year as I build my collection now that I’m getting back into the hobby

[@gamesbymondo]

I've played Daydream and it's amazing. Thanks for mentioning Tea Witches!

[@MrButlertron9]

Your new setup is great! Way to go 🎉

[@One_Stale_Donut]

Wonderful list, very diverse as usual! Can't wait to see reviews and playthrough.

[@boardtoplay]

Quality is great! Solid list, looking forward to a lot of these titles.

[@kelseyy108]

Wow these all look so good!! I'm super excited for Tea Witches and can't wait for my Parks and Potions Kickstarter to arrive! I haven't heard anyone mention The Sixth Realm or Forestry yet, but they both look right up my alley! I think my wallet is going to hate 2025 😂

[@shawntrewartha]

Lighting and Picture look great!! Love the channel! :)

[@MadMark118]

The quality is looking great. I'm looking forward to both The Dark Quarter & Arydia to finally show up.

[@justineld4905]

This seems like a cool list. I'm so interested in astronomy type stuff that I made a special note of Star Gazers and Observatory, even though there's no pictures or other info. Also, here's my personal list of games that should be out in 2025 here in the US: 1. Galileo Galilei. A rondel action selection game where you collect cards of different night sky observations, like constellations. 2. Diatoms. An abstract (but based on a real from of art) tile laying game where the tiles are different colors and shapes (but not polyominos). 3. Ovation. A card based engine building game where you play as famous composers trying to put on performances. 4. Valheim. A co-op survival and boss battling game that's based on the video game. This one I'm extra excited for since I'm an ALL-IN backer. Just gotta keep my fingers crossed it actually ships when they say they are hoping to: October. Otherwise this could potentially become a "2026 most anticipated game!"

[@HelloSoloGamer]

Great list! I’m also anticipating many of these! Especially Tea Witches 😍 I ordered Snow Planner from Japan and hoping to play it this month, it looks very fun!

[@IncarnateDan]

I can’t wait for Tea Witches! Never heard of Daydream but definitely gonna check it out

[@tabletalkreviews]

Ada's Dream was excellent, can't wait for that to release so I can play again. The Sixth Realm is from a publisher that has always impressed me, and I like the other games in the same setting (such as Rise to Nobility). Vantage intrigues me, simply for those dice. Daydream cover looks like the image used for one of those lo-fi music streams. Lairs was really fun too, excited to see the full game and unlock all the extra monsters, rules, or whatever surprises there are.

[@AeronwyD]

The new camera is giving a really sharp & clear image! I have only tried Railroad Ink on BGA and don't enjoy it much, but Railroad Tiles looks very intriguing. I cannot WAIT to get more information about Vantage! Coming of Age is another on my watch list. Tea Witches is near the top of my watch list. So much that I reached out to ask if there was a crowd funding page I could follow for notifications. They said it won't be crowd funded, just going right to retail, currently planned for August. (But I'm not excited for this one, nope not one bit.. *grin*) Galactic Cruise & LA Patisserie Rococo are also on my list. Need to figure out how to shorten that list!! 😅

[@justineld4905]

The company behind Forestry, Pink Troubadour, is pretty new, but this isn't the first time I've seen them. For me personally, I have my eye on Galileo Galilei. Pink Troubadour has that game listed on their website, though I believe it's Capstone Games that's publishing it in the US. It's supposed to be a Q2 release here. Also, if you look at the list of designers of that game, you'll see Thomas Holek listed. Not only is he the designer of Galileo Galilei, he also did Tea Garden and the recently very popular SETI.

[@GameMarketWest]

I'm looking forward to my copy of Floe arriving! Garden Lake looks great as well.

[@jordanw2741]

I can't believe how much I loved Calico... Not usually the kind of game I go for. That's why I had to back Knitting Circle and why it is my most anticipated. Also looking to get my hands on the LOTR trick taking game and Regicide Legacy (original is a phenomenally good game that only requires a deck of cards).

[@jordanw2741]

26:23 penta would be five, so likely five tiled polynominal shapes. So probably fixed size.

[@Ian-R-Wilz]

You mentioned 9=all 10 of my top 10 most anticipated that I did on my channel somewhere on this video: 3 are in your top 12 4 are in games you covered 2 are games you've played once 1 on the list at the end that you forgot to mention Basically the first person perspective oin Vantage is that you crash land on a planet and you are communicating with others but you can only see what you can see and not what they can see but can describe things you see to others. So you might be seeing the same thing from different places. He has put up several design diaries of the game.

[@brianb5145]

I backed Parks & Potions on Kickstarter. Looking forward to fulfillment in June. Looking forward to playing the game.

[@paulsalomon27]

I don't figure you'll be at GAMA, but I'll there with great looking prototypes for all 6 Wave 1 GameHead titles. I'd love to show it off.

[@Ineedyourloveforever]

Love this list! 🥰 I'm going to Japan in March - if you have any tips on researching which games to get & bringing games back home, please do share them if you want to!

[@VictoriaKetchum]

So many great games!!!! My head is exploding!!!! There are still titles from Essen and then all these new ones!!!! Oh my!

[@BoardGaymesJames]

Critter Kitchen will hit retail in April Fellowship of the Ring trick taking releases tomorrow. Forestry is coming out at Essen with a possible simultaneous North American release. Asked the publisher to add some more images for my Upcoming Euros video talk can check out. Garden Lake will be an Essen release for 2025 but Albi has started going to pax so possibly then! no new images there yet but they said soon! Tea Witches releases at GenCon Great list! Go ahead make a list of 50!

[@floydandtotoro]

ooOooOh Daydream! yaaas! 🙋🏼‍♀️xoxo

[@Oaklestat]

I'll be interested what you think of Sixth Realm. I was underwhelmed

[@RobertoPanetta81]

Parks & Potions is fantastic.

[@ryangrace8576]

Very good list! Were you still looking for some social media branding help - did some work in the past and would like to assist.

[@TheOpGames]

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[@turtlevader]

Yomi 2!