Upcoming Board Games



This post is a standing list of upcoming games as we get more and more news.

Note this is an incomplete list but it will be updated on a frequent basis.

Cities and Knights Expansion

Status: promised for February 2012
Developers: USM

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Previously I reported hints that the Cities and Knights expansion might be on the horizon for the popular city-building game Catan, and of course since then we have confirmation that a Cities & Knights expansion for iOS is in being developed. Cities and Knights is particularly exciting because it builds on one of the existing gateway games that enables people into more complex strategy games. Add Cities and Knights and you suddenly have a much more in depth strategy. In Cities and Knights, players have to also watch out for outside barbarian invasions, soldiers (now knights) are much more versatile and strategic, and the cities are more involved (creating walls and building metropoli) – all of these create new and interesting uses for your resources. More, there is now a ‘tech tree’ that comes from the commodities that can be traded for.

NB: an interview with USM is forthcoming.

Le Harve

Status: promised for March 2012
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In Le Havre, a player’s turn consists of two parts: First, distribute newly supplied goods onto the offer spaces; then take an action. As an action, players may choose either to take all goods of one type from an offer space or to use one of the available buildings. Building actions allow players to upgrade goods, sell them or use them to build their own buildings and ships. Buildings are both an investment opportunity and a revenue stream, as players must pay an entry fee to use buildings that they do not own. Ships, on the other hand, are primarily used to provide the food that is needed to feed the workers.

After every seven turns, the round ends: players’ cattle and grain may multiply through a Harvest, and players must feed their workers. After a fixed number of rounds, each player may carry out one final action, and then the game ends. Players add the value of their buildings and ships to their cash reserves. The player who has amassed the largest fortune is the winner.

Race for the Galaxy

Status: promised for early 2012

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When it first came out, Race for the Galaxy was billed as the game with the steepest learning curve. What they actually meant was the game in common use with the steepest curve, but even then that claim is spurious and subjective. In any case, the subtle implication is that Race for the Galaxy does have a steep learning curve (probably on par with or easier than Ghost Stories).

Race for the Galaxy is a race to build the pre-eminent galactic civilisations by through different worlds with various different goods and development that represent technical and social advancements. The balance is one of resource management and role placement across a bunch of different phases, very similar to Puerto Rico.

A Brief History of the World

Status: promised for April 2012
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Through the Ages

Status: promised for May 2012
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Summoner Wars

Status: promised for Spring 2012
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In July, we learned that Incinerator Studios had partnered up with Plaid Hat Studios to bring to us Summoner Wars, and it’s apparently nearly here. With Incinerator Studios having been behind the conversion of Ascension Wars, we can probably expect an excellent result.

Summoner Wars provides the strategy of deck construction card games with the tactics of miniature war games. Summoner Wars for iOS brings this excellent blend of card-play and board position play to life on iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. Developed with Plaid Hat Games, Summoner Wars for iOS let’s you fight for the future of Itharia, anytime and anywhere!

Nightfall

Status: promised for Spring 2012
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Nightfall brings AEG’s modern horror deck-building game to iOS. As a Universal iOS game application, Nightfall provides a fantastic world and unique game mechanics to everyone with an iPhone 3Gs or iPhone 4, iPad or iPad 2, iPod Touch 3 or iPod Touch 4.
The sun has retreated from the earth. A week ago the sun shone its last and chaos began. People fear for their existence, while scientists struggle to explain the phenomenon. Until they came. The creatures of nightmare — vampires, werewolves, and ghouls — have begun to appear throughout the world, and they show no sign of hesitation in claiming the dark world as their own! Nightfall puts players in control of minions of the night, fighting one another for control of an Earth shrouded in eternal night. Werewolves, vampires, ghouls, and those who fight them see no need to hide from the public, waging their war in the streets.

Agricola

Status: promised for Spring 2012
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Agricola is coming to iPad! In Uwe Rosenberg’s game, set during Europe’s recovery from the plague, players send their family members out to plow fields, sow crops and build fences. Add rooms to your farmhouse and expand your family! Many hands make light work, and give you extra actions each turn. But, each season the Harvest comes along and every family member must be fed! By developing and improving your farm, the civilized world is revitalized. Providing an intuitive interface and beautiful presentation, Agricola for iOS lets you play this Spiel des Jahres-winning game wherever you are.

Age of Industry

Status: promised for May 2012
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El Grande

Status: promised for October 2012
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Eclipse

Status: promised for 2012

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Eclipse was one of a few games announced for next year part of the Big Daddy Creation’s roadmap, from their news blurb:

“Eclipse places you in control of vast interstellar civilizations, competing for success. You will explore new star systems, research technologies and build spaceships to wage war with. You may design your own starships: each player has four ship types that they can build and design as they will. Eclipse has seven different species for you to choose from (with different characteristics and abilities). Customized star systems and the dynamic technology tree ensure that each session of Eclipse is unique! Based on the board game from Touko Tahkokallio and Lautapelit.fi.”

Stronghold

Status: promised for 2012

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Also part of the Big Daddy Creation’s roadmap, from their news blurb:

“Stronghold is a strategy game telling the story of a siege. Players take opposite sides, one has to defend the stronghold, the other has to break into the castle as soon as possible. The defender has a small amount of soldiers manning the walls, while the invader has an infinite legion of them! The invaders build war machines, equip their soldiers, train them and use black magic rituals to achieve victory. Meanwhile, defenders repair walls, build cannons, train soldiers and do everything they can to hold the castle as long as possible. Based on the board game from Ignacy Trzewiczek and Portal Publishing.”

Zombiaki

Status: promised for 2012

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Also part of the Big Daddy Creation’s roadmap:

“Zombiaki is a 2-players game. It lets you feel emotions of desperate fight between zombies and humans. Objective of the zombies is to eat the people, but people want to save their own lives, which is possible if they survive until the sunrise. Game with humor and strategy. Based on the card game from Ignacy Trzewiczek and Portal Publishing.”

IN DEVELOPMENT

7 Wonders

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Alien Frontiers

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Dominant Species

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Dominion

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Fealty

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Kingsburg HD

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Navegador

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Pandemic

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Red November

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Rivals of Catan

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Thunderstone

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RUMOURED

Puerto Rico Expansions

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I made an enquiry with the developers about the potential implementation of its hard to find and rare expansions. To quote Chris Ewington, President of Codito “As for Puerto Rico, we are very glad you (and many others! icon smile Upcoming Board Games ipad screenshot are happy with our implementation and we will continue to work to improve it and add new features. We also hope that the expansions will be available in the future, but we are still working out some of those details with Ravensburger. (It’s highly likely that they will be available eventually, but we aren’t sure about when that will happen yet.)”

Comments

  1. Posted by Marc on December 8th, 2011, 21:55 [Reply]

    Hi would you email me directly regarding kingsburg, I have been attempting to get in touch with the developers of kingsburg that it is un playable on ipad2 due to glitch problems…. However I can’t seem to get a response, I was thinking about trying to contact apple get a refund, however if the game player would let us who use iPads get the upgrade to use.. I am happy waiting.. Can you email me directly with your recommendations?
  2. Posted by Carlos Ascanio on December 9th, 2011, 04:43 [Reply]

    Hello everyone,
    Ascension Return of the Fallen is now available. Write now i’m downloading the update to buy it.
  3. Posted by Angelus Morningstar on December 9th, 2011, 14:55 [Reply]

    Marc, I too am waiting for a response from the developers. I have yet to get one so I assume it is vapourware.
  4. Posted by Carlos Ascanio on December 9th, 2011, 20:30 [Reply]

    Sorry for the mistake, I meant RIGHT NOW.
  5. Posted by Christos on December 10th, 2011, 23:09 [Reply]

    Hi guys
    I am also waiting an answer from kingsburg developers but no aswer comes……
    • Posted by Angelus Morningstar on December 11th, 2011, 12:47 [Reply]

      Yep, I’m pretty sure any Kingsburg developments are vapourware.
  6. Posted by Marc on December 13th, 2011, 23:17 [Reply]

    Thanks everyone who responded regarding my thread, like me you sound frustrated that we can’t get an answer on this one… I just wished the developers could have the decency to respond, it maybe all with our while in contacting apple with the same complaint… Does anyone know the channel for letting apple know of the problem and getting a refund?
  7. Posted by Dan on December 15th, 2011, 13:12 [Reply]

    Carcassonne app update went live this morning! And it’s awesome!
  8. Posted by Marc on December 17th, 2011, 10:34 [Reply]

    Hi, I notice that forbidden island is available on the store however not reviewed, what is anyones experience.
  9. Posted by Christos on December 17th, 2011, 22:47 [Reply]

    Hi Mark,

    Forbidden island is Definitely recommended!!!!
  10. Posted by Tombo on December 18th, 2011, 08:05 [Reply]

    Match Up is a good retro memory game.
  11. Posted by Marc on December 18th, 2011, 20:59 [Reply]

    Thx Christos
  12. Posted by Gurgeh on December 27th, 2011, 16:04 [Reply]

    Another one for this list – Clever Mojo Games is working with HanClinto Games to bring Alien Frontiers to the iPad.
  13. Posted by Christos on December 27th, 2011, 23:20 [Reply]

    Hi guys,

    Could you please share with us a link or more info regarding Dominion and it’s developers???

    I cannot find anything more on the internet.

    Thanks
  14. Posted by Christos on December 28th, 2011, 03:23 [Reply]

    Hi guys

    I have news from Kingsburg developers. There will be a fix pretty soon for glitches and possibly a universal app!!!!!!!

    Happy new year to everybody
  15. Posted by Gurgeh on December 28th, 2011, 12:23 [Reply]

    I am confused!
    After the Cyclades review Angelus posted a comment about Kingsburg saying that “…….. the original company that developed it is no longer in possession of it.” But then Christos posts that the Kingsburg developers are updating it.
    Does anyone know what is really going on with Kingsburg?
  16. Posted by Christos on December 28th, 2011, 14:18 [Reply]

    I hope I have correct info guys……but as far as I know from an email I got from Just Funny Games an update will be live soon (it is on approval stage from Apple).

    I hope it’s true….

    Happy holidays to everybody
  17. Posted by Gurgeh on December 29th, 2011, 01:19 [Reply]

    Ah – now I get it. The original developer of Kingsburg was iNigma and the Just Funny Games web site does show Kingsburg as one of their games.
  18. Posted by World B. Free on January 2nd, 2012, 09:42 [Reply]

    I hate to ask for something as the new guy, but the updates to this list don’t appear in the RSS feed. Can you please make that happen?
    • Posted by Angelus Morningstar on January 2nd, 2012, 15:40 [Reply]

      I don’t know if that’s feasible, but I’ll bring this to the attention of the site developer. It might not be since this is a static page rather than an page that sends out news bulletins.
      • Posted by James Bruce on January 3rd, 2012, 01:57 [Reply]

        Will try now, it is possible I think.
  19. Posted by World B. Free on January 2nd, 2012, 20:36 [Reply]

    Gotcha. Thanks for checking into it.
  20. Posted by World B. Free on January 3rd, 2012, 10:08 [Reply]

    Success! Thanks and Cheers!
  21. Posted by Gerardo Castellanos on January 3rd, 2012, 11:04 [Reply]

    oohh my god, I need to work a lot to pay all of them… but I am happy to do it
  22. Posted by Christos on January 3rd, 2012, 13:32 [Reply]

    Kingsburg just got an update that fixed ipad issues!!!! Good news.
  23. Posted by Marc on January 3rd, 2012, 13:36 [Reply]

    Hi team got a response from just funny games, a new version is now available for download of kings burg, will let you know if it fixes glitches for iPad. Regards Marc
  24. Posted by Christos on January 3rd, 2012, 13:37 [Reply]

    It works Marc!!!
  25. Posted by Gurgeh on January 3rd, 2012, 13:41 [Reply]

    Downloded update. Crashes halfway through load on my iPad. Tried reset. No luck. Not impressed.
  26. Posted by Marc on January 3rd, 2012, 13:53 [Reply]

    Hi team, great news glitches fixed for iPad so although has x2 button for iPhone and touch works fantastic for iPad Yaye!
    Reds Marc
  27. Posted by Christos on January 4th, 2012, 10:46 [Reply]

    I agree Marc. The Kingsburg update is really good on ipad!!!
  28. Posted by Gurgeh on January 4th, 2012, 15:23 [Reply]

    Christos/Marc.
    Are you using an iPad2? It doesn’t run on my iPad1!
  29. Posted by Marc on January 4th, 2012, 17:56 [Reply]

    Hi Gurgeh, yes I am using an IPad vs 5.01
    Check your iOS version
  30. Posted by Marc on January 4th, 2012, 17:57 [Reply]

    Ipad2
  31. Posted by Gurgeh on January 5th, 2012, 01:49 [Reply]

    It’s also being reported on BGG that it crashes on iPad1.
  32. Posted by Christos on January 5th, 2012, 04:28 [Reply]

    To Gurgeh
    ipad2 for Kingsburg
  33. Posted by Christos on January 5th, 2012, 07:50 [Reply]

    Hi again guys

    Any news on Dominion????

    Thanks
  34. Posted by Angelus Morningstar on January 5th, 2012, 13:41 [Reply]

    When I find out news I pretty much update this page. So what I know is already here.

    If people have stuff that isn’t here, they’re welcome to contact me about it.
  35. Posted by World B. Free on January 7th, 2012, 19:46 [Reply]

    I emailed Rio Grande about Dominion and got a response:

    Hello, I was wondering if you could provide any information about the digital release of Dominion. I’m constantly checking the app store like a little kid on Christmas. Thanks!

    Should be by this spring. Thanks Jay
  36. Posted by Carlos Ascanio on January 10th, 2012, 17:49 [Reply]

    Hello everybody,
    As my contribution to this excellent website, I tell you the people of codito stated in the board game geek page they have plans to release Le Havre in March ’12
  37. Posted by Marc on January 16th, 2012, 17:58 [Reply]

    Caylus is available for download, will give you my impressions once played tonight.
  38. Posted by Marc on January 17th, 2012, 18:48 [Reply]

    Caylus on iPad is very well done, little sprites, nice graphics, great ia,misometric view, great help system, give this a total thumbs up!
  39. Posted by Christos on January 21st, 2012, 00:46 [Reply]

    There is a free version of Dominion in appstore and it works!!! Look for it asap, it went live last night!!
    • Posted by Angelus Morningstar on January 22nd, 2012, 04:35 [Reply]

      Be aware that this is an unlicensed version of Dominion, and that DXV has come out asking people not to support it. Since they’re illegally using original art assets, I’m not sure how long it’s going to last or if it will see any further development.
    • Posted by World B. Free on January 22nd, 2012, 13:37 [Reply]

      If the official Dominion app is yet to be released, why did it disappear from this list?
      • Posted by Angelus Morningstar on January 22nd, 2012, 18:39 [Reply]

        I am putting it back up momentarily. I started writing a review before I discovered its illegitimate nature.
  40. Posted by Jeremy Hinton on January 23rd, 2012, 17:46 [Reply]

    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/8299657#8299657

    Apparently it has the blessing of Rio Grande, at least until the official one comes out.
  41. Posted by darkpact on January 24th, 2012, 00:00 [Reply]

    Navegador was announced in Essen last year (see first pic in this posting: http://de.trictrac.net/news-essen-2011-fur-die-daheimgebliebenen.php) and is missing in this list.
  42. Posted by TheDukester on January 28th, 2012, 11:54 [Reply]

    Codito’s chances of hitting its announced dates are roughly similar to my odds of becoming the Boston Celtics’ starting center.
  43. Posted by Jeremy Hinton on January 30th, 2012, 08:51 [Reply]

    Not iOS per se, but Thunderstone is up on Facebook. Basic cards free, for the most part, but the rest broken up into expansions for Facebook Coins. Great Tutorial (which explained to me a rule I had read wrong, doh!) and it has a single player campaign. If the iOS port is anything like this one, I’m very very excited.

    apps.facebook.com/thunderstone
    • Posted by Angelus Morningstar on January 30th, 2012, 13:56 [Reply]

      I’ve given it a crack and I’m very impressed.

      Looking forward to doing the review of the iOS version.
  44. Posted by Angelus Morningstar on January 31st, 2012, 12:24 [Reply]

    Some news on the potential iPad version of Kingsburg, from an email from the developers.

    “We made some try with Kingsburg Serving the Crown on iPad, but we saw that we have to do major changes in order to do something.
    Unfortunately the owner of the license doesn’t have hi-res images, needed by the new retina display. So we are studying a solution that can be good for players without changing all the original arts of Kingsburg.
    Meanwhile, we fixed all the bugs that new generation devices had, so right now the app is absolutely playable on iPad and iPad2.
    Hope you will be able to enjoy Kingsburg Serving the Crown or other iNigma products.
    Regards.
    –
    Giacomo Santopietro
    iNigma by Tiopi srl
    All for Games
  45. Posted by Andrew Gray on February 2nd, 2012, 15:36 [Reply]

    Any word on potential development of a ‘Power Grid’ app? It’s a great game and would be wounderful to see brought to the iPad!
  46. Posted by Raymond F on February 2nd, 2012, 22:47 [Reply]

    Do you know if Bohnanza will ever get an update or be redone so that all the cards will be used and the 2 player variant will work? Sorry, i dont know if this is the proper place for this question.
  47. Posted by Capnlanky on February 5th, 2012, 15:26 [Reply]

    I have yet to play Agricola, but its reputation is great… I can’t wait for its release!

    I’m considering picking up Food Fight, but I’m waiting for the review.
  48. Posted by daves on February 5th, 2012, 17:58 [Reply]

    I am just getting into boardgames on the ipad. Do you think they will ever have Ikusa ( Samurai Swords) on the ipad?
  49. Posted by Carlos Ascanio on February 7th, 2012, 05:13 [Reply]

    Hello everybody,
    Any news on Catan C&N expansion?
  50. Posted by World B. Free on February 7th, 2012, 21:52 [Reply]

    Hate to bring this up again, but the RSS feed on this article hasn’t worked since Jan. 3.
    • Posted by James Bruce on February 8th, 2012, 01:18 [Reply]

      this feed? http://feeds.feedburner.com/ipadboardgames – it’s working fine from my end. Do you just not see it updating, or getting some kind or error, or?
      • Posted by World B. Free on February 9th, 2012, 20:50 [Reply]

        I don’t see it updating. I’m using the Flipboard app and I’m subscribed to the feed. I get updates for all the game reviews, and I was getting the updates on this story for a while, but they stopped a while ago.
        • Posted by James Bruce on February 10th, 2012, 03:43 [Reply]

          Can u try changing the feed to ipadboardgames.org/feed? Could be that the feedburner one is stuck on flipboard somehow.
          • Posted by apml on February 12th, 2012, 18:30

            The problem I have with this article (wrt RSS) is that I don’t get a new unread item in my Google Reader RSS feed when this page is updated. I have to click on the old article (Jan 3rd) to find that the contents of the page have updated. This kind of defeats the purpose of RSS alerting me to a new article. I am using http://feeds.feedburner.com/ipadboardgames, and I don’t think it is feedburner problem.
          • Posted by James Bruce on February 13th, 2012, 01:25

            The latest page update shows January 2nd/3rd, yes. If the date on the post is adjusted, it will reappear in the RSS feed. Maybe Angelus forgot to update the date on the page. I’ll let him know.
          • Posted by World B. Free on February 12th, 2012, 22:18

            Unfortunately there’s no way to change the feed in Flipboard. The weird thing is that it worked the first two times after you started including the updates to this article. Oh well. Thanks for trying. Cheers!
          • Posted by Angelus Morningstar on February 14th, 2012, 15:55

            From now on, I will adjust the publication date to reflect the changes. This should probably fix the issue.
  51. Posted by Christos on February 10th, 2012, 04:33 [Reply]

    Hello,

    Another addition to this excellent list
    Rivals for Catan
    http://cdn1.exozet.com/beta/rivalsforcatan_en.php

    Rgds
    Christos
  52. Posted by Mutajon on February 16th, 2012, 06:37 [Reply]

    Sadly, I think Pandemic should be taken off the list (at least until further notice).
    That’s a real shame. Aside from the fact I was really looking forward to it, what was done thus far looks just awesome…

    Source:
    http://gamasutra.com/blogs/HenryTruong/20120215/9451/To_Clone_Or_Not_To_Clone.php
    • Posted by aaronsullivan on February 17th, 2012, 07:49 [Reply]

      Apparently, Z-Man games is working on a from-the-ground-up version for themselves instead of using the finished one. Annoying that they couldn’t at least try to come to a new deal or something.

      Anyway, it means it’s still on its way, I guess.
  53. Posted by Eric Herman on February 17th, 2012, 13:07 [Reply]

    Actually, a different Pandemic app is being developed in house by Filosofia/Z-Man (though I agree that version looks fantastic, and it’s a shame that wasn’t released long ago).
  54. Posted by Mutajon on February 18th, 2012, 06:34 [Reply]

    Wow, that further notice sure did come fast! :-)

    Anyway, it’s indeed a real shame that they couldn’t come to some agreement and release what looks to be an amazing implementation of the game. Now it’ll probably take them forever to start all anew.

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