Best Board Games Coming to Retail in August, 2024
August is a HUGE month for retail releases because of Gen Con! So many games!
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Intro – 00:00
River Valley Glassworks – 02:11
Forges of Ravenshire – 04:26
Reef Project – 05:59
Adulthood – 08:11
Pagan: The Fate of Roanoke – 10:09
Cities – 11:39
Rock Hard 1977 – 13:35
Moose Match Mayhem – 15:10
Let’s Hit Each Other With Fake Swords – 16:56
Fruitoplay – 18:47
Murray the A**hole Frog – 21:04
Far Cry: Escape From Rook Islands – 22:55
Compile – 25:20
Terminus – 27:35
Nunatak: Temple of Ice – 29:06
Nestlings – 31:13
The Cat Mitt Game – 33:09
Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan – 34:57
Biomos – 37:22
River of Gold – 38:58
Jewels for the Emperor Penguin – 41:19
Lovestruck – 43:45
Comic Hunters – 45:34
Gnome Hollow – 46:55
Flip 7 – 48:40
Metrorunner – 50:20
The Mandalorian Adventures – 52:02
Gateway Island – 53:23
Outro – 55:07
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Reef looks like the most appealing for me from the list. I'm still waiting to get Arcs and Andromeda's Edge sometime this Fall!
I would love to play River Valley Glassworks but I'm a Kickstarter backer and our games are still MIA 🙃. I was surprised by how much we enjoyed our demo of the Mandalorian Adventures at Gen Con. It was much more strategic than I expected.
With River Valley Glassworks you can also get the Founder's Edition which has glass pieces. I'm very excited to get this easily accessible game to my table with my newbie game friends. I'm also looking forward to Reef Project. I've already received my blinged out copy Nestlings as well as my copy of Gnome Hollow. Thanks for the heads up on so many MORE games I never knew about!
You can definitely be social playing computer games. Terraria is a great game for that and is also getting a board game adaptation. Yes board games allow for this in person but now I'm curious how you feel about boardgamearena and tabletop simulator.
Playing rock hard 1977 this weekend or as soon as I finish learning the rules 🙂
Woo hoo! Just ordered a copy of Rock Hard! And we got a copy of Adulthood at GenCon!
Ark Nova let's you decide part way through the game your end game scoring card.
Looooooove River of Gold. Rock Hard: 1977 was good as well.
Thanks for sharing the Metrorunner release!
Game of Life definitely does not have dice! It has a spinner. I’ll look out for Adulthood.
I watched this with my five-year-old and nine-year-old and Let's Hit Each Other with Fake Swords immediately sparked an interest in plotting what they'd do the next time they got $20 in a card. I had to refrain from saying they could easily go outside and hit each other with real sticks, because they'd be like okay, thanks, best suggestion you've in a long time, mommy. And I'd have two minutes of silence before someone would appear back in the house crying.
The cat mitt game looks hilarious! 🤣
We need more games with buoys in them, just because I like the sound of the word. Buoy… buoooooy. Say it… buoooooooy. It's so satisfying.
Yeah Grant! Take better care of Grant! Grant deserves nice things!
Always look forward to this monthly video.
Would also love to see a monthly recap of games you’ve been playing and loving or….not loving.
Played Gnome Hollow and Cities last night! They're both excellent games. Cities might be the smoothest game experience I've had all year.
i also should get a massage
@48:20 I.C.P. Alert
Reef Project looks fantastic! I'll be looking to pick that one up asap.
How does Adulthood compare to Pursuit of Happiness? Thanks Grant.
love your videos
Woohoo! Forges of Ravenshire is finally going to be available this month. Thank you Grant!
I see a ton of positive comments on cities!
I have to check out gateway island, several times recently I was a little stuck with complete non-gamers who asked me what the games I like was like, and I don't have a lot of short games in different styles (I liké my workers placement, ressources management and engine building heavier or with a twist). This may enable me to introduce what this is about to different kind of players!
I have never had a video speak to me as much as when you spoke about The Game of Life. The same exact thing happened to me. I’ve been trying to get my nieces and nephew into good games all their life and then my brother gifted them that mess. Since I’m games uncle, of course they asked me to play. That game is just as bad as everyone says and I definitely cursed my brother a lot through my forced smile all game 😂