After two years of supply chain delays, pandemic-impacts on conventions, pushed-back Kickstarter campaigns and more, 2022 felt like the opening of the gates, with dozens of quality games hitting the shelves and a legitimately hard time getting them all to the table.
2023 is looking to be an even bigger year with hundreds of games on tap (that we know of), and hundreds more likely on the horizon. We’ve combed through the list of what we know is coming in 2023 and narrowed down a list of our 50 most anticipated games of the year.
Enjoy the full list below (including a select few expansions set to release in 2023), or read more on each through Board Game Geek – links with each of the entries.
Andromeda’s Edge
Arcs
Voidfall
Rolling Heights
Pampero
The Artemis Odyssey
Atiwa
Scholars of the South Tigris
Copan: Dying City
Tabriz
Empire’s End
First in Flight
Fit to Print
Imperium: Horizons
Future Energy
Let’s Go! To Japan
Daybreak
Inventions: Evolution of Ideas
The Fox Experiment
Alhambra: The Red Palace
My Island
The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
Darwin’s Journey
Distilled
Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
Stationfall
Unconscious Mind
Septima
La Granja: Deluxe Master Set
Oranienburger Kanal
Skyrise
Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game
Legacy of Yu
Stellaris: Infinite Legacy
Lords of Ragnarok
Dune: War for Arrakis
Age of Inventors
Mercurial
Marvel Zombies
Hamburg
Amsterdam
New York City
Marrakesh
Anticipated Board Game Expansions
Ark Nova Aquarius
Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate
War of the Ring: Kings of Middle Earth
Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Renovations
Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy: Outcasts/Seekers
Wonderland’s War: Shards of Madness
Iki: Akebono Expansion
