Designer board games 2026

Two city planners race to co-design a bikeable, sustainable city. But it’s not that easy: the City Council keeps blocking your plans (think car lobbyists and climate change deniers). Collaborate when it benefits you, but score points by making the smartest bike path connections. Only one player wins and is named Most Sustainable City Planner.

A Poem for New Beginnings is a card-driven, cooperative storytelling game set in an inclusive hopepunk world. Follow the journey of a person in search of self-discovery. Combine multi-use cards to construct small scenes, and discover where the journey leads. Along the way you collect words, which will be woven into a poem by the end of the story.

Breach: Go Loud is a SWAT-themed, co-op, tactical assault game.Forming a four man squad of SWAT operatives you assault a building filled with hostiles and hostages.With a selection of weapons, equipment, skills and cleverly employed tactics you must breach and clear the building of all hostiles before time runs out.

The legendary "Cat in Park" by master painter Pablo Picatto has resurfaced, but nothing is as it seems. The original is hidden amongst forgeries and only the most cunning expert can tell the truth from deceit. Use your unique expert knowledge, read your opponents, and secure the masterpiece for your museum.

In this medium-weight game, players take on the role of mafia families, trying to take control of a city. The game is about worker placement and area control, with the twist of a day/night cycle, which controls the order of play and dynamically makes spaces on the board available and unavailable.

DystopAI is a medium-weight strategy game where players control artificial intelligences managing underground human colonies after the end of the world. Through tile placement, programmed action chains, and risky corruption mechanics, you must balance survival, efficiency, and morality to decide how far you’ll go to save humanity.

The Goats have escaped the fold and are now lost in the woods! You play as The Dutiful Goatherder, The Hungry Wolfpack, The Wicked Cultists or one of several other asymmetric factions. It is your goal to explore the forest and locate the goats. Whoever can find and claim them will decide their fate!

A chaotic Mega Game where up to 20 players must each build their own Carcassonne-like kingdom. The path to victory goes through trading in real time with other players, so rise up and shout for the tiles with Dragons, Chicken and Priests, that your kingdom needs!

“The forest rewards those who know when to grow - and when to let go.”

I Noetico skal du og dine venner sammen kontrollere en enkelt kriger. En kriger besat af ånder. I skal lægge jeres hoveder sammen – bogstavelig talt – men uden at snakke sammen! Vil dine venner forpurre din fabelagtige plan? Kan du håndtere når deres valg modstrider dine? Kun ved at sætte dit ego til side kan I sammen vinde.

Put your brains and brawns to the test against your friends and frenemies, to see who comes out on top. Pit Brawlers is a tactical combat boardgame where you take turns to out maneuver your opponent with powerful weapons and zany mutations, all to be the last brawler standing - And don’t worry about losing an arm or a head, we've got potions for that.

“Pineapple on pizza is a winner!”Postulate is a debate game about the important questions in life, disguised as postulates. No small talk allowed. It is also a game about winning the conversation and trying to solve small missions along the way. Win the argument, win the game.

Starfleet: Ready for Command is a Real-Time Wargame where players command a fleet of starships across the entire table. Form frontlines, outmaneuver your opponent, and execute strategies under the pressure of real-time.

The Kuiper Initiative is a medium-heavy strategic game of discovery and exploration in space. Journey across the Kuiper Belt, land on alien worlds, and make first contact with new civilizations. Upgrade your ship, manage resources, and outmaneuver rivals to save humanity.

Big game hunters gather around a roaring fireplace in the hunting lodge, sipping drinks and bragging about future hunts and their own abilities. After all, anyone can hit an elephant, but who can do it with a drink in their hand and singing the national anthem? A game about bragging, assessing risks and shooting targets with a gun.

In The Poly Agenda, you play as members of a polyamorous relationship. Work together to strengthen your bond across a year of dates as you juggle each other’s schedules and interests, manage stress, and make sure to value both your relationships to each other and your own personal joy.

The Dark Lord has taken over the earth and thrust it into darkness and silence. As a player, you take on the role as a leader of the Elves, Gnomes, Goblins, Orcs or one of the other fantasy species inhabiting the world. Your only chance to restore the light is for each species to communicate their strategy to the others through the sense of touch…

Almost everything in Trianglia is a triangle– except wheels because, well, that would be weird of course! The town board wants to popularize a local trend called a Trisaic, a mosaic of beautiful magnetic triangles. In an effort to drive tourism to the angular town, they are recruiting renowned local artists such as yourself to create one to display in the Town Square… err, I mean Triangle.

The Duke is dead, and so too is his chosen heir. You, his remaining children, return home to mourn and settle a dispute: with no clear succession order, you must prove yourself the most suitable to inherit the title. Yield: the Rightful Heir is a 1v1 strategy game of resource management, tactical movement, and area control. One will succeed. The other must yield.

When the sun reaches its lowest point and the nights are longest, Yule begins. In the shadow of the Yule Oak, the Nissen weave Wishes into its branches, while the Wheel of the Year slowly turns. Preserve warmth, protect life, and give the winter cold its place — every choice shapes the story of winter.