5 Games From Gen Con 2026 I’m never culling. Codenames @criticalrole , Swing Shot Tower, The Gang
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Ah, Gen Con spin over for about a month now and I'm going to tell you the five games from Gen Con 2022 and 2026 that I'm never going to have leave my collection. First is this one right here. It's called Jump Masters. There's a deluxe version, but you don't need it. This one's perfectly fine. It's from Neon Knight Games, which is pretty much just Chip Theory Games spin-off company for when they want to make cool games instead of big heavy stupid stuff with poker chips. This one is like Chinese Checkers, but with cool special abilities and you draft these characters at the beginning and it's fantastic. My family adores it. I think it's a great pick for game night as well. And the more cards that come out for this game, the better it's going to get. Highly recommend this one. It is not on most people's radar. Put it on yours if you like Chinese Checkers. You know, when they give something a deluxe gold box edition that's stupid heavy, it's probably a pretty good game and The Gang Deluxe Edition, I will echo in on the chorus of people saying The Gang is freaking awesome. It's cooperative poker. It comes with luxified components, super freaking nice cards that you'd feel like in a casino, real poker chips. These aren't as heavy as you'd want them to be, but they're still great. And it's like a cooperative poker game. I've literally played this with three people who did not play poker and all three of them enjoyed it, which is it's a ringing endorsement for this one.
Number three is Driller's, which is like currently one of the most popular board games on the planet for us nerds. So, I'm not going to get too much into it, but believe the hype if you like combo-tastic games. But the one that I worry most people might miss out on is Codenames: Critical Role Adventures cuz if you think this is just another version of Codenames, well, well, then you'd be correct, but there's enough here that it's freaking awesome. So, you actually get like these characters here and there's like seven of them that you got and then you can level them up and each of them have their own different special abilities. But by having these different special abilities, this then means that there's different aspects and quirks that you could put into the game, which will allow you to unlock new ways to have deduction and have a better chance of winning. And it is it is great. I don't know a single dang thing about Critical Role. Never watched in my life, don't really care, don't role-play much, but dang it, this is the definitive version of Codenames. Aside from the Harry Potter one, I haven't played that one that also also looks amazing, too. But man, they're on fire, CG. And for my final selection, I actually don't know if there is a guaranteed fifth one. Oh, wait. Oh, wait.
YEAH, I KNOW. BADABOOM! Swing Shot Tower. This thing is going to sell millions upon millions upon millions of units. I'm playing right now, in fact. You just You do that and you hope Oh, you get it if it gets on the peg, you get to take the peg with you, and then you unwrap it, and then the next person goes, and you're trying to get points, and this is it's so addictive. LIKE, OH OH LOOK HOW CLOSE I WAS. YEAH, I'LL GET THE NEXT ONE.