The Pre-order List: May 2025
Robyn JarvisWelcome to May's pre-order list. Here is all the games we are super excited to hit shelves in the next couple of months:
Potions of Azerland: Expected 16th May
£49.99
In Potions of Azerland you will, you guessed it, make potions!
Gather resources from the forest, increase your knowledge in various potion types, go to the market to collect and trade goods, then make your potions to drink for unique powers or fulfill the orders of travelers who come to your town!
Potions of Azerland utilized a unique simultaneous action selection mechanism where understanding the goals of your opponents in each round will give you the upper hand.
Decide whether to drink your newly made potions for temporary boosts and prolonged powers or give them to an ever changing group of travellers for points and other bonuses. After 6 rounds the player who has garnered the most prestige will be the winner!
The Dark Quarter: Expected 16th May
£57.49
Welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1980: a vibrant city of music, food, and magic. Neon lights flicker in dirty puddles up and down Bourbon street; the innovations of the modern world clash with ancient and terrible traditions; and murder is never simple. The Beaumont Agency, staffed with a roster of brilliant, colourful, and ultimately flawed private investigators, specializes in solving cases that no one else can crack.
In The Dark Quarter, a co-operative app-driven adventure game set in a dark, fantastical vision of 1980s New Orleans, players each take control of a Beaumont agent and work alongside one another to solve the worst crimes that New Orleans has to offer. It's a world full of magic, where hexing curses are sold on every street, where voodoo priestesses and creatures of the night are lurking around every corner, and where even the most mundane crimes have a tinge of the supernatural to them.
Through multi-scenario campaigns, the game tells a rich, dynamic story and invites players to make critical decisions that will not only affect their characters, but change the direction and course of the story. The characters are not simply avatars, easily replaceable from scenario to scenario; instead, they are woven into the very fabric of the story itself. Their destiny and the destiny of New Orleans are inextricably linked together.
Pergola: Expected 30th May
£37.99
Apothebakery - The Culinary Alchemists Deluxe Edition: Expected June
£58.99
In a land filled with perilous dungeons and treacherous monsters, take on the legacy of an Apothebaker — an ancient lineage of culinary alchemist healers. Sought after far and wide by adventurers in desperate need of salvation.
With the help from your trusted Forries, collect ingredients and valuable resources from the wilderness. Brew elixirs and bake cakes of salvation to heal and rejuvenate adventurers on the brink of doom.
Over the course of 6 rounds, players compete for the most reputation by strategically achieving objectives, healing adventurers and casting powerful spells. There are 3 phases per round; Foraging, Alchemy and Healing.
Embrace the role of an Apothebaker, accumulating reputation for each adventurer you heal and every bake you undertake. The player who gains the highest reputation by day’s end will claim victory!
Magic the Gathering: Final Fantasy: Releasing 13th June
The series represents a rich universe with iconic elements that fans have come to love over the franchise's history. You'll see characters from every mainline FINAL FANTASY game, each depicted through the lens of Magic: The Gathering.
We are aiming to stock everything from the standard booster packs up to collector boosters and bundles. Don't forget to pre-order to avoid disappointment!
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship: Expected end of June
£69.99
Defy fate and save Middle-earth! The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is Matt Leacock's most mechanically-rich Pandemic System design to date. Gather heroes to defend the havens of Middle-earth from advancing shadow troops, complete objectives that will change each time you play, and help Frodo evade the hunting Nazgûl as he travels to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.
One Honk Two Furious RPG: Expected June
The Geese and Humans of the village of Wingsdown have an uneasy relationship. An unspoken agreement has been in place for centuries: as long as the humans stay in their village, and leave the local pond where the gaggle lives alone, the Geese will leave them alone… Besides the odd bread-raiding party, perhaps.
However, of late, the humans have been slowly encroaching on the pond. Ground has broken on the site of a new coffee shop on the edge of the pond, and its time for the gaggle to take their home back!
Storyfold - Wildwoods: Expected 1st August
£34.99
Storyfold: Wildwoods is a narrative solo adventure game in which you play as a young girl named Luma, and her bear companion, Brom, as they set out to heal the forest from a dark and mysterious shadow.
In Storyfold: Wildwoods, you will use the innovative Storybook with its built in dashboard to progress in a replayable campaign.
Each session of Wildwoods is a single scene, with multiple scenes forming a chapter. The choices you make will impact Luma’s journey across the chapters as she confronts her fears.
Twinkle Twinkle: Expected August
Draft clickity-clackity, transparent tiles to fill your star chart and explore the universe. You'll connect Constellations, build belts of Asteroids, and study your Satellites with the game's modular scoring system. Be careful of those pesky Black Holes—that is, unless you've got the perfect place to put them!
Twinkle Twinkle also features a variable turn order: the tile you draft determines how early you go in the next round. The market shows what's coming next, so plan ahead!
Waddle: Expected August
Connect groups of penguins and claim fish!
Try to balance area control (surrounding the fish) with forming large groups (known as Waddles!). The variable turn order is tracked by marbles!
Merchants of Andromeda: Expected August
In Andromeda, cash is king. Use any method in the galaxy to get it!
Win Dutch Auctions, compete in mini-games, and play space-politics!
Compile 2: Expected August
Vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer. Solve for sentience.
In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Chaos to Mirror are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game.
Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality.
Compile: Main 2 brings 12 new protocols to use either alone or mixed with your Main 1.
Gwent: Expected September
£44
After a decade in the making, the iconic card game from The Witcher universe is finally coming to tabletops. First introduced in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt—a video game that has sold over 50 million copies and ranks among the top 10 games of all time—Gwent quickly captured the hearts of millions. Since then, The Witcher has expanded into a hit Netflix series, while Gwent itself has evolved into standalone digital adaptations, including its own mobile app.
Now, for the first time, Gwent is stepping into the physical realm. With the full backing of CD Projekt Red and the official Witcher license, this 1v1 duel game delivers an authentic experience. Boasting over 400 cards faithfully reproducing the iconic designs from The Witcher 3 and a playmat, Gwent is ready to transform any surface into a battleground.
With unprecedented levels of demand, this stunning reproduction is a must-have for Witcher fans and card game enthusiasts alike.
Everdell Silverfrost: Expected December
Essentials edition: £49.99, Collector's edition £99.99
A new standalone game in the World of Everdell. Put on your snowshoes, light the beacons, and explore Silverfrost. We are thrilled to introduce the next standalone game in the Everdell Edge of the Map series, which explores the exciting and diverse countries bordering the Everdell Valley. The series launched in 2023 with Farshore, which took players to the northern coastal country. Farshore offers players a lighter, more breezy Everdell experience. Now, it is time to venture south, beyond the snow-capped Spirecrest mountains, to the bold country of Silverfrost. Featuring breathtaking art from Lukas Siegmon, get ready to be swept away to a stunning new location in the world of Everdell!
Deep Regrets: Expected 2025
£49.99
Deep Regrets is a an unfortunate fishing game about pulling progressively more horrifying things out of the ocean. Decide what to eat, what to sell, what to mount, and how many regrets you're willing to carry, as you push yourself too far and spiral towards a conclusion in this strategic horror fishing game.
You'll roll bespoke tackle dice at the start of each turn to determine your strength for that round and then decide whether you'll stay at sea or return to port to sell fish, buy provisions, and recharge your energy.
Survey the sizes of shadows on the backs of 9 different fish shoals at three depths, determining what you think you can afford to catch and if you want to risk it for a potentially better reward. Flip fish, spend dice, add them to your collection - but beware of reveal and catch abilities that can have various effects on the game! As your eyes spy more and more horrifying things, you'll collect Regrets cards - which drive up your madness but also give you access to more dice and increase the value of weirder fish. It's a risk/reward scenario as you balance your madness, knowing that at the end of the game the player with the highest value of Regrets will have to discard their most valuable mounted fish.
Earthborne Rangers: Expected 2025
£84.99
Earthborne Rangers is a customizable, co-operative card game set in the wilderness of the far future. You take on the role of a Ranger, a protector of the mountain valley you call home: a vast wilderness transformed by monumental feats of science and technology devised to save the Earth from destruction long ago.
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Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated 2 - Darkest Magic. Expected 2025
£114.99
Set off on an adventure with 2-4 players in a magical world filled with wonder, mystery, and maybe even some candy... if you think you deserve it.
Mistborn: The Deckbuilding game. Expected June
£44.99
Based on the hit Mistborn novel series by Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn Deckbuilding game takes players into the world of Scadrial! From designer John D Clair, players get to control iconic characters from the series and "burn" metals to unlock Allomantic powers in fast-paced battles.
Mistborn is a standalone deck-building game in which you “purchase” cards as you play to build and improve your deck. "Burn" metals to activate cards. Each metal has its own strengths: damaging opponents, earning mission points, and manipulating allies. There are multiple ways to win! Defeat your opponents in furious allomantic battles or complete a series of perilous missions before your enemies do.
Play head-to-head against your friends, or take on the The Lord Ruler in solo or co-op play!