As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Grant Van Nostrand
AKA Non-Linear Uno. Seat guests at a table for points, without starting a fight.
January 2025
Nylon Equestriknights – Entry #8418
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Colin Carter Stratton | Kenneth Zieres
Nylon Equestriknights is the second game in the Nylon series. Play as magical horses that need to stop the evil from destroying Steel City.
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FAB Arcane – Entry #8417
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Colin Carter Stratton | Kenneth Zieres
You’ve been chosen as one of the apprentices in a tournament of wizards. You have three days to see who can most impress the faculty with what you’ve learned at their school before you may graduate.
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Dream Guardians – Entry #8416
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Colin Carter Stratton | Kenneth Zieres
To battle across three different realms to defend your dreams.
Imagine the thing that is the Guardian of your Dreams. Define the most important things about that Guardian.
Imagine the thing that is the Guardian of your Dreams. Define the most important things about that Guardian.
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Kudzu – Entry #8412
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Caleb Blais | Green Turtles Studio | SangHee Kim
Kudzu is a cooperative game that mixes city-building, deck-building, resource management mechanics to achieve scenario-based goals while fighting against invasive plants overtaking the map.
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Things on Pedestals – Entry #8391
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Vicki Langer
There's a statue of thing*âť—
Have you been helped/hurt by thing*âť“
Are your feelings/experiences with thing* importantâť“
Let's discuss, write a new description, and spread the newsâť—
* any noun
Have you been helped/hurt by thing*âť“
Are your feelings/experiences with thing* importantâť“
Let's discuss, write a new description, and spread the newsâť—
* any noun
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Not a Real-Word game – Entry #8389
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Vicki Langer
Parv-grat-sper-pocalypse-osis is that little shred of hope, for hope, that we hang on to during world ending disease events. Thankfully, we have demon-dyna to help us get out of this slump!
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Penguin Battlemages – Entry #8387
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Felix Jordan | Jan-Thomas Hulha | Joakim Engfors
Defeat your opponents in this chaotic Bomberman-inspired strategy game by moving around the board, setting traps and rotating ice floes!
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Fathomless – Entry #8379
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Jaime Browne
It's 1840 and you've been hired by one of the big Ocean Lines to guard your ship against the chaotic influences of the Old Ones. Time accelerates as your ship does. Guide your ship to glory, or doom.
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1-on-1 Basketball – Entry #8376
As Presented in January 2025
Designer(s) | Eric Dittmore
A quick, basketball-themed trick-taking game. Win tricks to shoot the ball, then roll a die to see if you make your shot.
