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I imagine that game announcements will be slow in the months ahead given that many publishers have delayed their release schedule, but for now I'll plow ahead with another handful of video overviews of upcoming titles, with release dates likely to be adjusted from whatever is stated below.
• Meeple Mountain was a surprise to me as I don't think Peter Vaughn of Breaking Games even mentioned it to me when I booked him on BGG's livestream. (We had lots of extra time on the schedule when I arrived in Reno, so whenever I'd run into a publisher on that first day, I'd ask whether they had something to show me that wasn't already booked.)
Meeple Mountain is the name of a water park that you'll explore over the course of the game, with your meeples jumping into various pools based on where they land at the base of the slide hidden inside the figure of a GIANT MEEPLE. Watching the video below will give you a much better idea of what I'm talking about.
• Bézier Games has announced Ted Alspach's Silver Coin the day that GAMA Expo 2020 opened, so we had some notice of the game but not much. This title can be combined with the earlier titles Silver and Silver Bullet, with your goal being the same no matter how you play: Ditch members of your village to lower the number of werewolves you attract, with the lowest score after four rounds winning the game.
• This thumbnail for Flick Wars from Shaun Austin, Andrew Tullsen, Breaking Games, and Print & Play Productions shows an older cover image, whereas the box that Tullsen had on hand in Reno was huge. No matter — I'll update the image when I can, and for now you can listen to him describe this disc-flicking game in which defeated enemies are transformed into obstacles that everyone then has to work around.
• WWE Cage Battle is a transformation of Charlie Price's Kung Fu Zoo from WizKids into a new arena, specifically a caged wrestling match, with the dice functioning as your wrestlers.
• With two other flicking games in the mix, I thought I might as well make it three, so here's an overview of Pitch Out, a design by Adrien Charles that Gigamic has licensed from Jocus and already released in Europe. We saw a mock-up of this game in wood at FIJ 2019, but Gigamic has gone with plastic components to keep the price down for the worldwide release.
In the game, each player has their own team of characters with unique powers, and you use the plastic layers of the carrying case as obstacles on the table that you need to play around.
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