Top 10 Most Anticipated Board Games 2020 (plus some extras)

Kevin talks about his most anticipated board games being published in 2020. No Kickstarter games included in the list.

11. Sonora - Pandasaurus Games
10. Succulent - Renegade Game Studios
9. Merchant of Dunhuang - Mandoo Games
8. Stellar - Renegade Game Studios
7. Fort - Leder Games
6. Mariposas - AEG
5. My City - KOSMOS
4. Chrono Corsairs - TMG
3. Dice Realms - Rio Grande Games
2. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars - Space Cowboys
1. Tekanu - Board & Dice

Honorable Mentions:
Time Stories: The Hadal Project - Space Cowboys
Welcome to...New Las Vegas
Terraforming Mars Legacy or Dice Game?
Teotihuacan Expansion: Shadow of Xitle
Nevada City - Rio Grande Games
Rococo Deluxe - Eagle Gryphon
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
New Stonemaier Games - Sand AND Cape
Pandemic Legacy Season 3

[lotuslove]

Great video. Looking forward to reviews on several. Succulent might need to rethink one of their meeples....🧐

[rahdo]

fantastic list kevin! i only wish you had made a top 50 instead of 10 :)

man, i also wish space cowboys had made it clear in the rules that it's pronounced hay-dle... why do publishers never do this?!?!?!

[derickkopff]

7th Citadel (Kickstarter)
Atlantis Rising (2nd Ed.)
Empires of the North Expansions

[S.Kapriniotis]

I liked this video, even though I've never heard of most of the games in it. It's impressive how different people have different tastes!

[garys]

I have no guesses concerning the themes of the Stonemaier games called Sand and Cape, but one thing is for sure -- they will be seriously hyped! 😊

[runelarsen]

Thumbs up for Hadal Project. Played it last weekend. And gotta say that our group kinda thought that we were through with T.I.M.E stories after playing all the white series (with great joy), and ready to move on with something else. And along comes Hadal and the Revolution/Experience series, and gets us hooked right back in again... great job!

[charlesreed]

A top Kickstarted list would be great if you have time. I don't have time to research new games and only rely on a few sites such as your, Rhado, Dice Tower, etc... Thanks for what you do.

[leeleeroq]

Excited for the Teotihuacan expansion. And I might add, great new groovified intro! Is still my favorite opening in the gametalk biz.... 👍

[arcubal]

Sonora and MyCity look and sound really fascinating! Chrono Corsairs looks awesome, but I'm not sure about the complexity/crunchiness of the mechanics. And yes, the next evolution of T.I.M.E Stories is a definite must in my book. I don't care what critics say about this game series, I think it's always an awesome game experience! One of Stonemaier's games (my guess is 'Sand') is an open world sandbox exploration world, for which I'm really hyped. This may be my first Stonemaier game I'll add to my collection (yes, I know...)

[codydavis]

So many kickstarters I'm hoping to receive this year! Reichbusters, Iwari, Carnival Zombie (hopefully), Yedo Deluxe, Trudvang, Kanban EV, Project Elite, Tidal Blades, etc. Tekhenu sounds promising really love Tascini's designs. And looking forward to all the Marvel Champions stuff releasing this year. There will be probably a dozen games coming out that are going to catch my eye but have to be very very selective from now on.

[LukeVenables]

Ride the Rails by Capstone is pretty up there for me. Also, Root: Underworld by Leder Games, This War Without An Enemy by Nuts Publishing, and Kanban EV by Eagle Griffon Games are all Kickstarters I'm keen on in 2020.

[canionboyd]

I bit the bullet and cot the Rococo "crodfunded" on CrowdOX. The art looks fantastic, and people had good reviews of the 1st edition of the game.

[NatanelApfel]

Oooh Dice Realms sounds really interesting. I loved the dice construction element of Dice Forge and this sounds very similar!

[LeeroyPorkins]

I'm pumped for Dwellings of Eldervale, Altar Quest, Hour of Need, and Tiny Epic Dinosaurs. Also MORE Talisman Expansions 🤣

[vwilliams]

I am looking forward to finally receiving Seize The Bean. It has been 2 years getting it out to backers. First time publisher, Quality Beast, had a well conceptualized basic product, but needed to have fleshed out more of the details before going to Kickstarter. That being said, they have poured a lot of effort and love into this game. The final product looks like it is going to be fantastic. Also looking forward the new Wingspan expansion later this year. And Museum, which is on the shelf behind you, will be delivering a new expansion and 2nd edition/deluxe version with some rule tweaks and clarifications.

[MichaelJones-tifx]

Chrono Corsairs and Dice Realms look very interesting!

[MichaelJones-tifx]

Perhaps you could secure one of those Hadal Project posters as a part of your spring KS.

[CB-yhdb]

Dude....if you are doing a top 10 most anticipated you have to do a top 10 KS and top 10 non-KS. If you exclude KS games that's, in my estimation, excluding at least 20-30% of the most anticipated games. There is Marvel United, Ankh, Wonderland's War, Dwellings of Eldervale, Viscounts of the West, etc. To be fair, Tantrum House did do a video on Top 2020 Kickstarter projects predictions so I guess that is like a most anticipated.

[AFatalPapercut]

My City sounds kinda interesting not gonna lie

[TorIverWilhelmsen]

Ended up dropping my pledge for Oath after watching a gameplay video, but am awaiting the Root expansion. Other than that, there's Venice, the new edition of Yedo, and the weirdest Cthulhu Wars expansions.