An estimated 600+ new board games were released at GenCon 2018. That’s enough cardboard and plastic to fill the city dump at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
To commemorate this onslaught of new board games, I whittled it down in order to share my 7 Most Anticipated GenCon 2018 Board Game Releases. Since the release of that list, I have gone to GenCon, had a blast, plus have hauled games home (plus many more games) to give them a thorough play.
I’m now ready to now share the best games of GenCon 2018, after having now played or demoed oodles of them.
My 7 Favorite Board Games from GenCon 2018
GenCon 2018 had a smorgasbord of medium- to light-weight games with SHORT PLAYTIME, many of which have general appeal to families. I was pleased.
Although there were a couple of surprises, many of the games I was anticipated turned out even better then expected and kept their place on this list. Now we wait to see if they have staying power in an industry that is churning through new board games faster and faster.