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Originally teased by publisher Iello at Essen Spiel 2021, King of Monster Island by designer Richard Garfield and artist Paul Mafayon is a cooperative, monster-battling game. Like its predecessors King of Tokyo and King of New York , players take on the roll of a monster looking to smash, but this time you’re not smashing each other... You’re working together to smash an even greater menace living in the volcano on Monster Island.

Using similar mechanics to the other “King of” games, players will...

Origins: First Builders , designed by Adam Kwapinski with artwork by Zbigniew Umgelter and Aleksander Zawada , was first published by Board & Dice in 2021. And now to add more goodness to the game, the publisher has announced the release of its first expansion, Origins: Ancient Wonders . The expansion adds two new modules to the Origins: First Builders game which can be added in separately or mixed together.

The first module adds in eight Ancient Wonders, a majestic new building type that can be added...

Publisher Matagot is releasing St. Patrick , a trick-taking game designed by Haig Tahta and Sasha Tahta Alexander (co-designers of Salvage ). Its played over several rounds for 25 - 30 minutes, and is intended for 2-4 players. The goal is to retain the most life points while hunting snakes and recovering relics. As the title name implies, there’s an element of luck as you keep pushing for relics and increase the chance of disaster, by suffering snake bites.

Each round of the game has three phases which consist...

Cryptozoic Entertainment has announced Rotten Tomatoes: the Card Game. This upcoming party game for up to twenty players is themed around Rotten Tomatoes , the website that aggregates movie and tv reviews. Players begin the game with a set of random Movie Cards that include the title, a description, and its Tomatometer score. The Tomatometer score represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film. Each turn the active player is read the details of a movie and attempts to guess its Tomatometer score...