Our 2023 Board Game Predictions!

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In would be curious on their thoughts regarding the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice game, as it is based on the V-Commandos (now V-Sabotage) mechanics, which I seem to remember being reviewed favorably.

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I’d be curious to see what they think of Slay the Spire: The Board Game too.

I haven’t played it, but looking at it looks to be a pretty good adaptation of the game. Granted, Slay the Spire has a lot of board game in it’s DNA, so maybe it doesn’t quite count, but still. It’s the first of the video games as a board game I’ve ever considered getting.

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I know it’s been predicted before, but I can definitely see this year seeing the start of Kickstarters going into decline. Recessions and living costs will begin to bite in earnest, postage costs will become realistic, and the unsustainability of continuous massive boxes will become apparent.

Watch now as it doesn’t happen.

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Late to the party, I was trying to put my thoughts in order and it’s hard sometimes, LOL.

I definitely think the gap between crowd-funded and retail games will keep widening, until the bigger crowd-funded games (things like Cthulhu Wars, let’s say) aren’t economically sustainable anymore and collapse under their rising production costs. The latter will likely take more than a year, but it’s surely coming.

Sorta stunned that there hasn’t been a Marvel Pandemic already, to be honest. Wouldn’t be surprised if that was in the cards. Also, I thought that the Bloodborne board game, at least, had been well-received in general?

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While I know that Quinns’ prediction regarding kickstarter vs traditional boardgames was purely based on size of the box, there is a study that claims that crowdfunded games drive innovation in the board game industry:
Does crowdfunding really foster innovation? Evidence from the board game industry - ScienceDirect.
I thought this might be interesting to some here. In brief, the authors mined data from BGG and compared combination of mechanics (dice-rolling, deck-building etc.) between crowdfunded and traditionally published games and whether (1) crowdfunded games have more novel mechanics than traditional games (2) and whether these novel combinations are then frequently adapted across the industry in games that were published later.

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They were busy launching the Star Wars one. The OG for money-grabbing franchise.

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Saw this article and was immediately reminded of this episode: Great Western Trail: New Zealand, or Sheep, Ships, and Gold, Oh My! | BoardGameGeek News | BoardGameGeek

Great Western Trail: New Zealand has four types of workers you can hire in the game. You have shepherds to help you acquire better sheep cards, craftsmen to help you build those glorious private buildings, sailors to move your ship on the sea routes board, and sheep shearers which help you shear your sheep and earn money based on their wool value.

Put a point on the board for Tom!

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Should I count Alice Is Missing as an RPG review for Quinns?

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Damn, a Y&Y rerelease instead. Though, that doesn’t mean we won’t get a new Tigers & Pots …

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So how did it come out?

Quinns:

  1. Increased gap between crowdfunded games and retail games. (+15% / -10% but that’s not really measurable.) no
  2. No official videogame adaptation published in 2023 is any good. (No SU&SD recommends?) yes
  3. SU&SD will rave about a VR game. no
  4. First 1-player-only game in BGG top 100. no - Final Girl’s at 164
  5. Quinns will video review an RPG yes [Alice is Missing]
  6. Dominoes! no

Tom:

  1. Z-Man announces/publishes a Pandemic Marvel. no
  2. Pandemonium Institute announces a new BotC set, rules finished* and playable by 31 October. no
  3. Major revamp/rerelease of Tigris & Euphrates. no but do we count Huang?
  4. Two games from 2023 will have entered the BGG top 10. no, highest I see is Hegemony at 144.
  5. Great Western Trail NZ prominently includes sheep-shearing. yes
  6. A game will be shipped that’s 60lb/27kg+. no but I may well be wrong
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No. :stuck_out_tongue: I’m wrong that there will be an announcement. Still having fingers crossed on a reprint this year

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I think there are two videogame games that might stand a chance - Frostpunk and Deeprock galactic.

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Indeed. For that matter Emily seemed to feel pretty positive about Dorfromantik, but not quite to the Recommends level.

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Does Alice is Missing not count? Everywhere describes it as an RPG.

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Fair! I’d mentally pegged that as pre 2023.

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