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.
Released and being reviewed
Scotland Yard
Overdue
Hacienda
Status: promised for end of March 2012 (moved back from mid-March, now in beta testing)
Developers: Cube Your Mind

From the website: “Hazienda HD is iPad adaptation of the famous “Hazienda” by Wolfgang Kramer. Original “Hazienda” is great family strategy game and we believe that thanks to mobile version it will bring fun and enjoyment to many players.”
Civil War – Battle for Gettysburg
Status: promised for April
Cities and Knights Expansion
Status: promised for April 2012 (moved back from February, now in beta testing)
Developers: USM
As the final phase of the beta is still running, we’d like to give you an update on the current development status of the next Catan expansion. However, first of all we’d like to thank all beta applicants for their interest – and all those who made it into the beta – for the valuable input we’ve already received!
Right now our focus is fine-tuning the computer opponents (AI): “Cities and Knights” introduces numerous new rules and elements that will add both depth and variety to the game. We want to make sure that the AI makes use of all these possibilities, but we’ll also tune the different AI opponents to difficulty levels that will suit both beginners and advanced Catan players. So far the testers’ feedback has been a great help, but we’ll certainly need some more time to polish the expansion for release. We’ll let you know as soon as our testing is complete!

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.
Upcoming
Through the Ages
Status: promised for May 2012
Age of Industry
Status: promised for May 2012
Agricola
Status: promised for Spring 2012 (moved back from Spring to Summer and back again)
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.
Summoner Wars
Status: promised for before June 2012
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!
Le Harve
Status: promised for mid-June 2012 (pushed back from March)
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.
Magic: the Gathering; Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
Status: promised for Summer 2012 (go figure)
For more info, go here.
Red November
This was due out January 2012, and pushed back to 2nd Quarter 2012. Initially reports from gamezebo suggest that this has become vapourware. However, later reports are still promising the release of the game.
A Brief History of the World
Status: promised for July 2012 (however it is clear that Codito are focusing on Le Harve first and foremost, so this will undoubtedly be worked on after that game’s release).
El Grande
Status: promised for October 2012
Eclipse
Status: promised for 2012
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

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

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
Alien Frontiers
Cadwallon: City of Thieves
Dominant Species
Dominion
Developer: Funsockets

Kingsburg HD
Navegador
Olympos
Pandemic
Rivals of Catan
Shogun
Thunderstone
You can play a facebook version of this game here: http://apps.facebook.com/thunderstone/
Troyes
RUMOURED
Puerto Rico Expansions

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!
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.)”
Pandemic
Currently in development, no further information.
Suspended
Vapourware
Race for the Galaxy
Status: promised for early 2012

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.











































Comments
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?
Hello everyone,
Ascension Return of the Fallen is now available. Write now i’m downloading the update to buy it.
Marc, I too am waiting for a response from the developers. I have yet to get one so I assume it is vapourware.
Sorry for the mistake, I meant RIGHT NOW.
Hi guys
I am also waiting an answer from kingsburg developers but no aswer comes……
Yep, I’m pretty sure any Kingsburg developments are vapourware.
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?
Carcassonne app update went live this morning! And it’s awesome!
Hi, I notice that forbidden island is available on the store however not reviewed, what is anyones experience.
My experience can be found here:
http://ipadboardgames.org/2011/forbidden-island/
Hi Mark,
Forbidden island is Definitely recommended!!!!
Match Up is a good retro memory game.
Thx Christos
Another one for this list – Clever Mojo Games is working with HanClinto Games to bring Alien Frontiers to the iPad.
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
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
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?
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
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.
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?
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.
Will try now, it is possible I think.
Gotcha. Thanks for checking into it.
Success! Thanks and Cheers!
oohh my god, I need to work a lot to pay all of them… but I am happy to do it
Kingsburg just got an update that fixed ipad issues!!!! Good news.
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
It works Marc!!!
Downloded update. Crashes halfway through load on my iPad. Tried reset. No luck. Not impressed.
Hi team, great news glitches fixed for iPad so although has x2 button for iPhone and touch works fantastic for iPad Yaye!
Reds Marc
I agree Marc. The Kingsburg update is really good on ipad!!!
Christos/Marc.
Are you using an iPad2? It doesn’t run on my iPad1!
Hi Gurgeh, yes I am using an IPad vs 5.01
Check your iOS version
Ipad2
It’s also being reported on BGG that it crashes on iPad1.
To Gurgeh
ipad2 for Kingsburg
Hi again guys
Any news on Dominion????
Thanks
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.
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
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
Caylus is available for download, will give you my impressions once played tonight.
Caylus on iPad is very well done, little sprites, nice graphics, great ia,misometric view, great help system, give this a total thumbs up!
There is a free version of Dominion in appstore and it works!!! Look for it asap, it went live last night!!
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.
If the official Dominion app is yet to be released, why did it disappear from this list?
I am putting it back up momentarily. I started writing a review before I discovered its illegitimate nature.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/8299657#8299657
Apparently it has the blessing of Rio Grande, at least until the official one comes out.
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.
Codito’s chances of hitting its announced dates are roughly similar to my odds of becoming the Boston Celtics’ starting center.
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
I’ve given it a crack and I’m very impressed.
Looking forward to doing the review of the iOS version.
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
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!
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.
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.
I am just getting into boardgames on the ipad. Do you think they will ever have Ikusa ( Samurai Swords) on the ipad?
Hello everybody,
Any news on Catan C&N expansion?
Youll know as soon as I know.
Hate to bring this up again, but the RSS feed on this article hasn’t worked since Jan. 3.
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?
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.
Can u try changing the feed to ipadboardgames.org/feed? Could be that the feedburner one is stuck on flipboard somehow.
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.
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.
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!
From now on, I will adjust the publication date to reflect the changes. This should probably fix the issue.
Hello,
Another addition to this excellent list
Rivals for Catan
http://cdn1.exozet.com/beta/rivalsforcatan_en.php
Rgds
Christos
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
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.
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).
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.
So much for promised February release of cities an knights
Hello,
It’s a shame, I really like Catán, and I’m waiting for cities & knights for the iPad. I will buy it without thinking.
In other order of ideas, I thought you’d like to know there’s a very good game called Yaniv on the app store. I think it would be nice if you make a review of it. Is a very simple card game, a bit of luck and a bit of strategy, but is really fun.
False alarm,
Yesterday I saw an update of Catan in the app store and thought it was the Cities & Knights expansion… But no, it was bug fixes. Based on this, I think the expansion is late again, I mean, why release a bug fixing update when you could have incorporate those fixes in the new version that includes the expansion?
Anybody knows something about this?
Playdek has returned the date for Agricola to Spring 2012. I suppose this means it could be available within 3 months. They’ve acquired a number of licenses the last few months so perhaps they are accelerating what they have on their plates already.
Playdek has Nightfall submitted yesterday
Fealty is in the appstore!
Links on this page are broken. For example, click the Dominion or Nightfall links – instead of the new page being loaded, this page will reload.
Nightfall is also in the appstore!!!!
I looked for nightfall but only found fealty. How did you find nightfall?
I found Nightfall, just do an app search.
When I do an app search for nightfall all I find are wallpaper apps. Player searches only come up with ascension and food fight. If someone can link the app store page I’d appreciate it.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nightfall/id493828796?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
You can add queen games’ Shogun to the list according to this…
http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/9306/ios-news-queen-shogun-guardian-cross-fealty-combat
Done
Hi Angelus. Great job on the site – thanks for keeping us up-to-date on developers’ release plans. I’m wondering, though, if you have any word on Dominion. Around the end of February you suggested that it might be a few weeks, but have you heard anything since then?
No news sorry, just hav to wait an see.
Agricola went back to a summer release. That stinks. How about some screen shots at least, morningstar?
If there are screen shots available, I’m not aware of them. I don’t make the news I just report it.
Also, who’s developing Race for the Galaxy? Should the release be changed to late 2012?
It was such a long time ago that this was reported that I don’t know it’s status any more. I suspect that because we haven’t heard anything that it’s unlikely to be coming out any time soon.
What’s the deal with Cadwallon? I’ve been waiting ages for that game on iPad. It was supposed to come out months ago, yet it’s not even on the “rumored” page of this site. Great game! I’d love to see it get some coverage and maybe light a fire under the developers!
I’ve never even heard the rumour, direct me to a source and I’ll add it up.
Sorry. I posted these a few days ago, but I guess they didn’t go through. Here are a couple websites for the “upcoming” Cadwallon game for iPad.
http://www.cyanide-studio.com/games/cadwallon/
http://m.facebook.com/cityofthieves.game?id=124656500981022&_rdr
Another month gone and still no Cities andvKnights release
Asking about the Cities and Knights expansion
USM @USM_News
@A_Morningstar The developers are working at fullspeed on the expansion. As soon as we know the final date, we’ll let you know!
Yggdrasil released yesterday, May 03…fyi
Well, it definitely seems that Dominion has been put on the back burners. Maybe now that the unofficial app has come out, there is no need to rush the official app. *SIGH*
Gaye to Yggdrasil being added, downloaded looking forward to playing!
Yaye not Gaye! Lol!
So a few updated, basically I’ve got confirmation that Red November is back on the table (yay!) and that A Brief History of the World is likely scheduled to start work AFTER the release of Le Harve.
Just an update, the sagegames website now shows Through the Ages as a July 2012 release date.
BUMMER, I was really looking forward to A Brief History of the World
Hello,
I think this link maybe interesting in order to see Sage-Codito board games developing plans:
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/60529/sage-board-games-for-ios
Battlecon is on AppStore
Ascension SoS is out: cool
Also Battlecon: first impression is better then I expected!
Still waiting for Le Havre, Agricola, Through the ages, age of industry… It’s too too long! Can’t wait to play.
Fortunatly i’ve got yggdrasil to help me wait, as well as caylus, puerto rico etc… Except that on gets tired of old games and always wants more and more!
Is Scotland Yard really released? I can’t find it on the AppStore
Scotland Yard just released, downloaded, will give feedback.
Downloaded Scotland Yard. First impressions: over-priced, boring, poor use of screen real estate.