Top 5 Upcoming TableTop Games

Getting a little bored of your current board games? Check out these cool new games!

Board games, card games, RPG? We love them all and are always looking for new games to play. Here’s a roundup of upcoming games we look forward to playing!

1. Mega Man The Board Game

Jasco Games / Via kickstarter.com

After finishing a successful Kickstarter campaign, Mega Man the Board Game will be going into production. Created by Jasco Games and officially licensed by Capcom, the game is expected to ship in October. The Jasco Games team promises to take the classic formula that made the original Blue Bomber so memorable and transfers it to a whole new arena.

2. Ghoulash: The Last Game on Earth

Ghoulash / Via ghoulash.com

The original pen and paper game was created in 1982 by Mike Suchcicki, and his son Joe has worked on updating the game into different formats over the years. This latest version emulates the dungeon crawl of the original game and works for 2-4 players. Each person assumes one of the characters in the Ghoulash universe and has their own special abilities!

3. VGHS Board Game

VGHS IndieGoGo / Via indiegogo.com

It’s a board game about playing video games! During the Indiegogo campaign for season 3 of Video Game High School, Freddie W and RocketJump announced a special perk for backers, a VGHS board game made by Plaid Hat Games. Just imagine Freddie playing himself--again!

4. Portal Board Game aka “Portal: Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game”

While the official board game title is still undecided, Valve and Cryptozoic have announced a Portal board game is in the works. Portal fans will have to wait a while to explore the board game version of Aperture Laboratories as Cryptozoic currently aims to release the game late in the fourth quarter of 2014. Images of the game have been marked as prototype, but the demos look pretty promising!

5. Firefly Role-Playing Game

Margaret Weis Productions / Via margaretweis.com!/~/product/id=29762279

Why not add a Firefly RPG to get the Browncoats excited? Thankfully, fans of the beloved (but short-lived) television series don’t have to wait very long, Margaret Weis Productions has pre-orders of the game available now!