We sifted through the chaos to bring you a big list of games we think you should be paying attention to going into the last few months of the year. (If you want some sense of what that cardboard chaos looks like, our Gen Con 2019 image gallery is a good place to start.)Īnd then there are the games-more games than you could play in a lifetime, all being released at once. 2019 was the con's 52nd year, bringing with it a record-breaking 538 exhibiting companies and a truly impressive 19,600 ticketed events. INDIANAPOLIS-If it's early August, you can count on one thing: we're gonna be in downtown Indianapolis with 70,000 other board gamers, forgoing sleep, food, and general wellbeing to play a truly ridiculous amount of new tabletop games at Gen Con, the self-described 'Best Four Days in Gaming.' Gen Con is America's largest and longest-running tabletop games convention.
Stardew Valley: The Board Game-a loving production but a mixed review from Grandpa.Aliens board game is another ho-hum dungeon crawler.