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Dune Imperium by Dire Wolf Games and designer Paul Dennen released in 2020 to critical and public acclaim. The hybrid deck-builder and worker placement game has players use certain cards to allow worker access to matching spaces on the board. Unplayed cards then contribute to purchasing more cards at turns end. The first expansion Rise of Ix brought the already thematic title further into Frank Herbert's Dune Universe , adding more cards and board spaces themed to the technologically advanced world of Ix.

And now, during...

As part of the Dice Tower Summer Spectacular Mega Announcement Video, publisher CMoN revealed their upcoming release Stranger Things: Upside Down, a cooperative board game by Rob Daviau , in which players try to save Hawkins from the Upside Down. Stranger Things: Upside Down is scheduled for a retail release in 2023.

Daviau and CMoN previously teamed up for the cooperative adventure Cthulhu: Death May Die , co-designed by Eric Lang . Daviau's other designs include the Pandemic Legacy series ( Season 1 , Season 2 , and...

The 15th Annual Dice Tower Awards have been announced! Watch the announcement here .

These awards are for games released in the USA in 2021. They were voted on by a wide array of reviewers, podcasters, many of which are not affiliated with The Dice Tower. The voting does NOT include Tom Vasel. Votes are tabulated and scored in Jason Levine's secret hideout. Full disclosure, I (Jordan Shoenberger), did vote on these awards, but it does not appear that many of my selections won in their respective categories. But thus is life.

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Also a Spectacular announcement , publisher Smirk & Laughter has announced Tesseract by designer James Firnhaber . Tesseract is a cooperative game centered around a block of 64 custom d6 dice, 4x4x4. The dice come in 4 colors, and have the standard values of 1-6. Players take actions each turn with the goal to collectively bank 24 unique dice, one of each color and number. Possible actions on a turn include taking a visible die into their lab board, manipulating lab dice to a certain value, or...