Games collection
12 games in this collection.
Find the board games released in 2025 that players are watching, learning, reviewing, and discussing. This collection brings together the year’s most widely covered new board games, so you can quickly see which titles are generating the most interest across the hobby.
Editorially updated October 2, 2026
2025T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, Koltin Thompson
Hello, and welcome to Galactic Cruise.
1 - 4 players90 - 150 minHeavy weight
2025Matt Leacock
As members of The Fellowship and the allies who rise to aid them, you must embark on a journey that may either save or doom Middle-earth.
1 - 5 players60 - 150 minHeavy weight
2025Jamey Stegmaier
Vantage is an open-world, co-operative, non-campaign adventure game that features an entire planet to explore, with players communicating while scattered across the world.
1 - 6 players120 - 180 minMedium weight
2025David Gordon (I), Michael O'Connell (II)
You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world's seas and oceans.
1 - 5 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
2025Bryan Bornmueller
The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game is a co-operative card game that plays out over eighteen chapters that lead players through the events of the novel The Fellowship of the Ring.
1 - 4 players20 minLight weight
2025Donald X. Vaccarino
Cities on the moon!
1 - 5 players45 - 90 minMedium weight
2025Richard Borg, Adrien Martinot
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth is a game of heroic and fast-paced battles of miniatures that's set on the ice planet Hoth and reenacts one of the most famous scenes of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
2 - 4 players30 minLight weight
2025Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, Josh Wielgus
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a cooperative tabletop adventure set during Tamriel's Second Era - specifically during the events of the Planemeld, as the Order of the Black Worm…
1 - 4 players120 - 240 minVery heavy weight
2025Adam Kwapiński
Nemesis: Retaliation is the third installment of the Nemesis horror board game series.
1 - 5 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight
2025Dave Beck, Abe Burson
Luthier transports players to the height of classical music in Western Europe, when the art of the instrument was upheld equally by skilled craftspeople, noble patrons, virtuoso performers, and…
1 - 4 players90 - 150 minHeavy weight
2025Richard Garfield, Takashi Ishida
Magical Athlete is a racing game of pure chaos!
2 - 6 players30 minLight weight
2025Max Anderson, Zac Dixon, Austin Harrison, Toby Sarnelle
In Tend, players take on the role of a pioneer working for the Zenith corporation to start a homestead on a new alien world.
1 - 6 players60 - 90 minHeavy weight
We count visible board game videos from different channels, including reviews, how-to-play guides, and gameplay. Games with coverage from the most creators appear first, followed by the total number of videos.
