The pre-order list: November 2025
Robyn JarvisWelcome to November's pre-order list. Get ready to cozy up with our new selection of games!
'Tis (nearly) the holiday season, so throw that duvet over yourselves, start the kettle, and welcome in the new selection of comfy and competitive titles!
Reserve any of the items below and pay when they come in by emailing us at info@odysseygames.co.uk
Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor: Expected November
£26.99
Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor is a stand-alone game within the Forest Shuffle family and introduces a brand new habitat and features new species with new abilities and bonuses to explore. As in the earlier original Forest Shuffle, in Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor players compete to build the most valuable environment by placing trees and shrubs, then attracting species to these locations to create an ecologically balanced habitat for flora and fauna.
A Wild Venture: Expected November
£29.99
- a full wooden token set to replace all 72 standard tokens and coins
- a set of 120 premium glossy card sleeves to protect your beautifully illustrated cards
Wingspan Fan Art Packs: Expected December
£45 (packs also available individually)
A charming and compact box for the fan Designed Cards Packs.
In cooperation with Elizabeth Hargrave, fan creation coordinator Travis Willse, and a few selected designers, Stonemaier Games has printed 6 fan-designed bird promo packs.
Each of the different packs contains 25 completely new birds from a region (Asia, Great Britain, Continental Europe, U.S.A., New Zealand and Canada) already covered by Wingspan.
Compile 1 & 2: Expected 15th December
£19.99
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 Darkness to Water 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.
But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you'll end up playing right into your opponent's hands.
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. This second pack offers a whole new array of Protocols for you and your fellow AI to go head to head against.
D&D Eberron, Forge of the Artificer: Expected December
Price £24.99
Welcome to Eberron, where magic meets wondrous inventions. Play as the Artificer: the ultimate creative class. You’re not just an inventor or spellcaster. You’re an innovator, a bold-hearted visionary, with the potential to change the world. Creativity and ingenuity are your best weapons. Awaken your potential as master of the forge with this rules expansion for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. • PLAY THE ULTIMATE CREATIVE CLASS—Become a master of magical inventions with the revised Artificer class, redesigned for the new Core Rules • 5 ARTIFICER SUBCLASSES—Choose from 4 revised Artificer subclasses and 1 new subclass: the Cartographer • SPARK NEW CHARACTER IDEAS—Explore 5 revised species, 18 backgrounds, and 28 feats, including the redesigned Dragonmarks, which are no longer species-locked • EXPERIMENT WITH NEW OPTIONS—Eberron: Forge of the Artificer includes new spells, bastions, and magic items • CRAFT EXHILIRATING ADVENTURES FOR YOUR PARTY—Use 3 different campaign models with guidance for building fantasy noir, political thriller, and pulp adventure campaigns in the world of Eberron • OVER 20 NEW MONSTERS—Create imaginative D&D encounters with over 20 new monsters, each inspired by a campaign model!
Defenders of the Wild: Expected December
£54.99
Area control meets fantasy adventure in this new cooperative board game game from T.L. Simons, creator of Bloc by Bloc, Henry Audubon, designer of PARKS, and illustrator Meg Lemieur. Play as one of four unique animal factions to clear pollution, fight mechs, breach walls, build camps, and rewild factories across a modular map that changes with each game.
Gazebo: Expected December
£39.99
Fill the botanical gardens with fragrant flowers, lush foliage, and soothing waters as you erect your gazebos among the tranquil features and atop prized patios.
In Gazebo, players take turns placing premium dominos on the shared garden map to establish nooks — that is, two or more contiguous terrain spaces of the same type: flower, foliage, or water. When a player creates a nook, they place one of their gazebos on top of it, and by connecting their nook to a patio, they can claim the patio and place a gazebo on it.
But not all is peaceful in this game of garden landscaping. Larger nooks can absorb smaller nooks, and patios can be stolen by cunning rivals. The first player to place all of their gazebos on the board wins!
Gingham: Expected December
£39.99
The race is on! Ants have found an abandoned picnic blanket ripe with sweets, but there aren't enough for every colony...
Gingham is a tricky game of confection connection. In this game, players position their queens around the gingham picnic blanket and deploy their ants to connect sweets and claim the stockpiles they create.
The lead player determines which edge of the playing area all players must play on each round. Everyone then places their queen next to a row on this edge, then deploys an ant into the row where they place their queen. The catch is that you cannot deploy your ant beyond the stitch in the blanket, and the rows closer to the star at the end of the row offer fewer options. That said, whoever places their queen closest to the star becomes the leader of the next round and places their queen next to a row on any other edge of the playing area; players take turns in order of the queens in the previous row. Do you opt for a better turn order position for next round or more flexibility for ant placement this round?
By connecting matching sweet tokens with a line of your ants and by surrounding and claiming stockpiles, players score points. Sweet tokens are stacked atop one another after connecting, with sugar cubes being left behind; place next to a sugar cube to claim it as they can be spent on powerful abilities. Stretch your ants across the blanket, and grab the biggest piles of sweets to prove your pint-sized royalty!
Lord Of The Rings Trick-Taking Game: The Two Towers: Expected January
£24.99
The journey continues in the magical world of Middle-earth in The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game, a narrative-driven co-operative card game that lets players take on the roles of heroes and villains in Tolkien's legendary work, The Two Towers. This standalone game follows 2025's The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game with chapters 19-36 of gameplay. The chapters can be played in any order and playing the earlier game isn't required, but ideally you play them in sequence.
Magical Athlete: Expected January
£26.99
Players all start with seed money, used to draft a team of racers.
The racers come out in random order, and each has a unique power (mostly modifying movement rules, sometimes giving extra pre- or post-race abilities). The draft is as follows: shift any unbought racers down one step on the board (decreasing prices as they shift), then add a new card to the display.
If all spaces are full, must buy one. After players have their racers (a few will remain out of game), there will be 4 or 5 races. For each race, players secretly and simultaneously choose a racer. Then, in turn order, simply roll d6 and move your racer. Of course, special powers modify movement throughout the race. The first 2 finishers score VP (more VP in later races); the most VP after all races wins!
Brass Pittsburg: Expected 2026
Price TBA
From Roxley and Gavan Brown, co-designer of Brass: Birmingham, comes Brass: Pittsburgh, which allows you to re-experience the explosive late 19th-century industrial boom of America's Gilded Age in its northeastern "Steel Belt" region. Players take on the role of a ruthless industrial titan in the age of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Frick as they build sprawling networks of railways, pipelines, steel mills, oil refineries, and more.
Sail Legacy: Expected August 2026
Price TBA
In Sail Legacy, you and your best matey will go on an adventure across thirty unique missions. Upgrade your ship, outfit your characters, and tune the deck itself to avoid a watery grave!
Sail Legacy evolves from the core Sail game mechanisms as you cooperatively use "must-follow" trick-taking to take on the unforgiving ocean — and the mythical beasts that call it home. Based on the combination of symbols in the trick, you'll steer the ship, charge ahead, or fire the cannons. Throughout the game, you'll tweak your pirate's asymmetric player powers. Will you have a well-balanced team or specialize in one area?
An epic campaign awaits. Live with the consequences of numerous branching decisions. Express your creativity with customization. Most of all, don't sink. No two tales will be the same!