Game Previews from GAMA Expo 2020 V: Hyperspace, Evil Dead 2, Steamwatchers, Super Fantasy Brawl, and Ascension Tactics: Miniatures Deckbuilding Game

Game Previews from GAMA Expo 2020 V: Hyperspace, Evil Dead 2, Steamwatchers, Super Fantasy Brawl, and Ascension Tactics: Miniatures Deckbuilding Game
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I'm back with another handful of games that BoardGameGeek previewed on its livestream from GAMA Expo 2020. You can find all 70+ games on our BGG Express YouTube channel, with another forty still to be published over the next several days. Publishers are responding from their home shelters with images for titles not yet in the BGG database, which will help me make those thumbnails a bit more attractive than our frozen faces would be.

For this round-up, I'm highlighting titles that will contain miniatures, which typically means that the games will engulf your entire table, although that's not always the case.

• To start things off, we'll look at Ascension Tactics: Miniatures Deckbuilding Game from Justin Gary and Stone Blade Entertainment, with this being a title that was debuted at the show and that won't hit retail until 2021.

As you can probably tell from the name, this design pairs the deck-building aspect of Ascension with a tactical miniatures game and a distinct lack of dice.





• We first saw Super Fantasy Brawl from Jochen Eisenhuth and Mythic Games at the FIJ 2019 fair in Cannes (video link), and now a year later Mythic's Sam Healey led us through a much more polished version of the game.





• Healey also presented an overview of Mythic's Steamwatchers from Marc Lagroy, which was on Kickstarter (link) at the time of the broadcast. In the game, you lead a nomadic tribe across a frozen Europe in search of elusive and transient steam columns that allow you to grow food and survive.





Evil Dead 2: The Boardgame from Jasco Games and Lynnvander Studios features an ugly face on a heartwarming story (as told here in August 2019) of how this game came to exist.





• Miniatures are a hallmark of releases from Petersen Games, so you will not be surprised to find them in Sandy Petersen's Hyperspace, an asymmetric 4X design that was Kickstarted in February 2019.

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