New Game Round-up: Defeat the Batman Who Laughs, and Look for Restocks of Great Western Terra Mystica

New Game Round-up: Defeat the Batman Who Laughs, and Look for Restocks of Great Western Terra Mystica
Board Game: The Batman Who Laughs Rising
• In a March 2020 post on NY Toy Fair 2020, I mentioned several licensed IPs that I saw at numerous booths throughout the show, with one of those licenses being "The Batman Who Laughs" from DC Comics.

Further evidence of this trend comes from the fifth title in U.S. publisher The Op's "Rising" series of co-operative games: The Batman Who Laughs Rising. In this 1-4 player design from Andrew Wolf and Patrick Marino that's due out in Q4 2020, players must work together to defeat a weird amalgamation of Batman and Joker. In more detail:
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In The Batman Who Laughs Rising, a passage from the Dark Multiverse has allowed the most dangerous evildoers to infiltrate Gotham City, and these Dark Knights alongside their menacing leader are eager to do their worst to the city.

Board Game: The Batman Who Laughs Rising

Players roll dice and work together to save the multiverse, starting with one of four starting heroes — Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, or Batman — and recruiting allies such as Harley Quinn, The Flash, and Cyborg, whose skills can complete objectives or help recover what is lost to darkness. Take out villainous versions of Batman such as The Merciless, The Dawnbreaker, The Murder Machine, and more before facing off with the psychotic Joker-ized antagonist himself, who's represented by a custom-sculpted, full-color figure who commands a fistful of chained Evil Robins!
Board Game: Gaia Project
Board Game: Terra Mystica
• U.S. publisher Capstone Games has been working with German publisher Feuerland Spiele since 2018, and that relationship is strengthening in 2020 with the transition of the English-language versions of Gaia Project and the Terra Mystica line from Z-Man Games — where those titles first appeared in 2017 and 2013, respectively — to Capstone.

Nothing is changing in the games themselves. As Capstone notes in a press release announcing the deal: "As we gear up for continuous production cycles, our goal is to prevent any issues of availability of Terra Mystica and Gaia Project. Although the logo on the box may be different, future reprintings will be fully compatible with existing stock." The two games are due out in Q4 2020, along with the Terra Mystica expansions Fire & Ice, Merchants of the Seas, and Mini Expansion 1, the exact contents of which is unknown to me.

Board Game: Great Western Trail
• Speaking of restocks, eggertspiele notes on Facebook that roughly two thousand copies of Great Western Trail are headed to the U.S. and "we aren't expecting to have another shipment until October". If you want a copy, pester whichever store you buy from to secure a copy for you. Good luck!

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