5 Hotly Anticipated Board Games - The Hype Factor August 2026
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Hello and welcome to board stupid. My name is Wayne and I'm Matt. It's time for another episode of the factor.
In the art factor, we cover all the games of the ones that we are more interested that are upcoming in the next future. Some are going to be retail, some are going to be crowdfunding, crowdfunding, but we're trying to cover a mix of games that are coming out and we are really interested.
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All right. The first game that we want to uh talk about this month uh is quite interesting because it's the first game from [snorts] the Leather games teams after the big division,
the big split. If you don't know, uh, Cole Worly was the lead designer at Leader Games and was responsible for many of their large successes, such as most recently Root and Arcs and Oath in the middle of those games. He's now gone on to start his own company, Fairy Giant Games, along with Kyle Faren.
So, he's taken uh some of the team with him to start this new venture. So, it means Leader Games is going to have a whole new look,
new artists,
and a new design philosophy.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. uh some of the old team sts to cover everything that is going to be root related because Rooty stays with the we we with leather game but um the games we want to talk about it is their first kind of like post things and we're talking about cart cart sounds super fun so this is uh by Alita Robertson who is the design lead on this and again no Kyle Ferin so completely new art design so that's going to very interesting as well by Kyle Armstrong. And um yeah, this is going to be really really fun. It looks looks like uh Thunder Road Venture.
Yes. But but but but with kids and cards. So that's quite that's quite a unique um uh look. Uh basically what you're trying to do, you building your own car uh with scraps and uh and stuff. You're going down the hill and trying to win the race against your friends. Love it. uh racing and you'll try not to crash into bushes or um light light imposed uh or stuff like that. You can kick the other cards
the other cards. But uh the the game is basically this. You um you're going to have your card at the start of your turn. You decide the speed of that you want to move. You will have to move that amount of speed. Um and then you got the other things that will tell you is the control. So how much control and control is basically how you steering your um your card. Um on top of that you can upgrade your card getting different pieces. So you will have different powers that you can do. Uh but it seems like um it seems very cool. Doesn't seems that heavy. It feels like that leather game is it trying to go toward the
looks like a different design philosophy or
mainstream less less particular and more like cuz it's very appealing in both the the artwork um the the game loop uh and it's a game I I definitely want to play.
I 100% fancy playing this just sounds super cool especially this sort of combination control speed idea was really really fun upgrading your car sounds super cool. Yeah, I think this is going to be a really intriguing one. I'm very excited to play Cart. Uh,
so this is going to come crowdfunding soonish. We'll put the link down below.
Next on the list, we're going to keep with the racing theme cuz this seems to be the thing for for this particular everything with a with a different twist. And for this, we're playing nostalgia.
Absolutely. This is this is pure nostalgia beat. And this is it is carpet racers.
Yeah. So carpet racer mini cars on the carpet micro machine.
Micro thinking micro machine. So this is actually very exciting. This is pink trouidor that is doing the uh the publishing but it's by Thomas Hollik who's been having a rocket couple of years designer from left and right.
Yeah. Left doing stuff is doing kingdom deliverance 192. It's doing carpet racer. Yeah. Um, so knowing him, I'm expecting a very good game. The production looks absurd with this like with your board being like a like an old style controller.
Yeah. Like video game and it's going to be like like Yeah. an action point movement system uh where you got like a like literally a micro machine and you're trying to to to win the race with cards with hand. Yeah. Um Yeah. with the with the hand management look. It reminds a lot of like CG style.
Yeah, CG style car
play car play. Uh yeah, it's this this sound dope. Like
it does sound dope. It looks It looks awesome. It's big, bold, bright, and colorful. Uh the gameplay loop sounds very fun. Um I mean, we're really excited to play this game. Cannot wait to try it.
This one is high on the list. This uh it reminds me a lot. I used to play a lot of video games were called Ignition back in back in the days.
Uh if you're if you remember that, let me know in the comment below. Yes, I played Ignition. It was a great great Micro Machine style game.
And like um this is scheduled for a 2026 release, so we are going to be trying to find absolutely we'll ask the question.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of Wayne's uh favorite recent uh games, even if he said the the second edition, is Parks. Spark second edition is you you love it. I love it. It's it's a very very good game. Uh Parks first edition was very well received. The second edition is a
all condensed with all the expansion with the with a different graphics. I'm not going to say better or worse because people are mad about the that conversation. It's different with the different things. Um, but staying on the different with the same different um, uh, graphic design, they're coming out with a new parks
parks Europe.
Love it.
So, instead of being just in the US, instead of just going into US parks, you got everywhere around you. Of course, we have some beautiful parks over this side of the world. Yes, we do. And Europe is of course stunning and diverse and beautiful. And there's a couple from the UK as well which is very exciting and Ireland which I love to see. There's some Italian national parks as well. I'm very excited to play this game. It is basically taking the same parks infrastructure. So the engine of the game being the same. You have your two hikers. You need to get them to the end of the trail. You do that by stopping along the way to take photos, to take actions, getting in the way of the other players, trying to create a nice little resource management system, uh, and all on the way to visit the big parks of Europe. That's what you're doing.
And you're collecting the cards with the resources that you get along the way. But the important things is the journey and not the points. eggs, so they say.
Uh, but um overall the game is the sameish with a couple of new twist, a couple of couple of changes. Uh, that is going to be
if you really love parks, make you want to get this parks Europe as well. There is a couple of interesting elements that they've added which I'm quite keen on like this kind of chalet system where you can go and visit the chalet instead of doing some of the other stuff which might may be influenced by the camping in uh in in park second edition. Um this I backed it myself right because this it's been pre-ord
like a pre-order rather than a craft. Looks like it's adding a couple of extra elements which might satisfy those that want just a little more out of the park system. I mean I what I didn't want to do was miss out on what might be the definitive version of this game.
Yes, that's that's that's the thing that what I was going to say is do you need another parks?
Probably not. But
maybe not. But maybe this is going to be like
an even more refined version. I don't I don't see anything wrong with the with the original is honestly the second edition. you might love it even more or or you might not for whatever that's your
that's your problem. If if you say if you think that pox is a
an okay game and you had fun for it and you already own it maybe not it might be that definitely plus I'm happy that is in Europe and not in the US.
Well there you go.
Sorry guys I know in the US you got some magnificant places uh but everything is always about the US. Can let's do Europe.
Exactly. Let's come to Europe. So, something I didn't know about Matt until right now is he has fantasies of being a courtroom prosecutor.
Oh, yes. Oh, come on. Who doesn't love like one of those like um
Tell me the truth.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those those like courtroom dramas I love suit that was like uh but there is a million of them and uh what law and all this whatever my mom
love to watch. Um uh but yeah, the that tension of the courtroom uh we going to probably get a feeling of in the new um game from Mind Clash game in the uh play line that is the boyful is the mega heaven boy for reverend the mega heavy and then the play lines when they got uh more accessible
more accessible one was ember heart that was the their first one from from last year. Uh but anyway, uh what this game is, you are basically dividing two teams. Uh one is going to be the prosecutor and one is going to be the the the defendant. Um you both going to work on the same case. Uh but you basically need to find evidence, keep evidence secrets, press uh the the um witness or hide information from the other team and blah blah blah. And you need to convince the juror, but you're basically playing against to win the case being the ultimate to say I No. What did they say? Pound.
Yeah.
The verdict. I did the verdict.
So, this is courtroom the noir trilogy.
Oh, yeah. We haven't said the name.
You should probably know that. This is caught that girl. Very excited. I don't blame him. It sounds cool. So, look, the idea of being in this courtroom drama, playing in a team- based environment, trying to get your case in order to make sure that you've got the right information, there's some interesting stuff going on here cuz like as we were reading through the description and learning about the game, it was like so far this just sounds like courtroom roleplay.
Fine,
but it's the game. The game is interesting. So utilizing these different elements of information, you present your case and I think you're trying to hit certain points which are in like a case book checked by the opposition and it gives me a little feeling might be utilizing elements from here light.
Yeah, exactly that we really love it. It's um um again it's uh deduction game as well that
game. Yeah. Uh I don't know since the the fun that we had with here lies. I can't wait to play this one where it's kind of like uh the games is between uh between two and six players. So, I guess you get you get teams of three or or maybe like you can do just one versus one.
That could be really cool as well. One playing the two um uh advocates like Yeah, I think I think this sounds really cool. has got potential for uh for being a very cool game like
different and extremely unique and again scheduled for this year. We're going to try and get our hands on Courtroom the Noir trilogy.
Last one for this list is something quite personal. Uh cuz uh we we both used to be in bands.
We did. Yeah. A long time ago. And uh at the time we hoped that the we wouldn't make it as a as a rockstar.
Yeah.
Uh instead we're doing videos on YouTube about ball games. So um very different. However,
I think we we found something that put these two things together with the beat Rockstar of the galaxy. Not even just of of of Earth.
Of Earth of the Galaxy. Like that is that's awesome. This is like David Bowie.
Star of the Galaxy.
Uh it's the beat rockstar of the galaxy is the new games from the guys from Nerd Lab games. We love those guys.
Final Titan
more about that. It's just mashing it out every time. Um, tell us more. What is this game? Cuz it sounds cool.
Does sound cool. Again, scheduled for this year, the beat Rockstars of the Galaxy is a limited communication cooperative game. Those words already
issue make my ears prick up. I get very excited about that. where you're going to be playing members of an alien rock band.
Yeah, of course.
Galaxy in the galaxy. Of course you are. Uh and you're going to be trying to um play the best set lists to smash your your set out at each of different venues across the galaxy. You got 26 different venues
with different basically scoring mechanisms. Yeah, exactly. All this sort of stuff. and you're trying to make this, you know, each song in each order, uh, you know, finish like nice and loud or on point or if you want to like bring it like to a downer, trying to play the songs in the right order to get the crowd up on their
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Sounds super fun, super interesting. Um, and
yeah, not not a lot of like more information about the game, but the game is already on pre-order like online, so it's it's going to come out in uh 2026, I think, on the on the net lab game. It's a 20 pound game, don't you?
It's a lowrisk pun.
Yeah, exactly. It's it's like it's a card game and uh Yeah, just like it looks it looks silly
good like fun stuff.
It's just like there is always more than what you see. Uh so we're really cool. I think the team is is is sounds cool. Sounds cool, man. Some of the images are like and of course it's going to be a lot of like
taken from real bands and making Yeah. Come on. Come on. It's But on Net Love is um it's one of those publisher that is just like bang bang bang.
He's doing some great stuff. So yeah, I'm not expecting anything less from um the the beat Rockstars of the Galaxy.
That was it for another episode of
the eye factor.
We did it. We did it again.
And this is the last one. Maybe
maybe there might be one more. We might be We might do one more. We norally we do them up until
Essen and then that's it because after that it's all
Essence. Yeah. We might do another mod. Let's see if we can squeeze one between in September. Uh but yeah, just like again, these are the games that prele our um
Spidey sense make us
make us tingle. Uh and um yeah, just like and some of them we don't know too many things, but just like the excitement that's the that's the
that's the beautiful thing. Try before you buy, go and check out these games cuz I know that I certainly will be trying to find some of these. You can always check out the rest of the videos of the hype factor. We do one and have them every month this year
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