The pre-order list: October 2025
Robyn JarvisWelcome to October's pre-order list. Here are all the games we are super excited to have hit shelves in our future!
We are psyched to see these titles in store soon, and look forward to hearing your reviews of both our spooky titles and our cozy comforts!
Reserve any of the items below and pay when they come in by emailing us at info@odysseygames.co.uk
Wyrmspan Dragon Academy: Expected October
£27.99
As a budding dracologist, you open an academy for fledgling dragons to achieve their full potential! The world of Wyrmspan also expands with a wide variety of new dragons and caves, objective tiles, Dragon Guilds, and a new round tracker that presents you with an income choice when you pass for the round.
Tokaido Duo: Expected October
£21.99
Welcome, travelers, to the Japanese island of Shikoku! Tokaido Duo is a standalone game inspired by Tokaido but featuring completely new mechanisms. 1-2 players use a quick dice draft each turn to steer three unique characters on different tracks around the smallest of Japan’s main islands.
A Place For All My Books: Expected October
£29.99
A Place for All My Books is a puzzley book gathering, sorting, and organizing game in which players arrange stacks of books in different rooms of their apartment as personal projects. When done, they can admire their accomplishments and gain their rewards – not least of which is renewed energy, which they can then spend to head out into the village - to pick up more books!
This Game is Killer 2: Expected October
£14.99
You are trapped in an arctic outpost with a Horror that can mimic any life form. No one trusts anyone anymore. The object is simple: Stay away from everyone else and Stay Alive! Survive at any cost — and kill the Horror by figuring out who among you isn’t Human this round.
Sanctuary: Expected October
£49.99
In Sanctuary, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically-managed zoo for animals and visitors. A supply of 135 unique zoo tiles provides you with animals, buildings, and projects. In every game, you want to find the best mix from those available to build the most successful zoological establishment. Different effects on the tiles will help you to achieve conservation goals and to increase the attraction of your zoo.
The Old Kings Crown: Expected October
£64.99
The Old King’s Crown is a game of card-driven conquest, where you play as heirs to a vacant throne, vying for control of an ancient, overgrown kingdom. Wield unique abilities and leverage your followers’ traits to best outwit your opponents across a map that stretches from the teetering heights of the castle to the dappled light of the necropolis.
Botany: War of the Posies: Expected October
£14.99
You are the esteemed head gardener for a celebrated botanist who perpetually returns from expeditions with rare and exotic specimens from around the globe. You approach your duties with the utmost seriousness, although some people have the audacity to suggest you might be a tad too competitive. Your physician has advised you to find a means to unwind. Perhaps designing a new garden could serve as a delightful method of relaxation.
Botany: Festive Foliage: Expected October
£18.99
'Tis the season of giving, and what finer gift than the thrill of festive plant hunting! Festive Foliage adds a delightful Festive Specimen deck, along with new Items, esteemed Characters, and the most charming of additions - a splendid Christmas Tree Garden Feature. Partake in the merriment and spread the joy of the season!
Festive Foliage requires Botany base game.
Artistry: Expected October
£37.99
It is the height of the Art Nouveau movement that is taking the world by storm, and you, an intrepid young artist of much ambition and…well…no fame, are determined to make your workshop the talk of all the latest artistic journals. If only you could decide WHAT to make.
Little Artistry: Expected October
£29.99
Gather your materials and be inspired by renowned storybook illustrators from the Golden Age of Illustration. Choose the right tiles to buy illustrations from old-fashioned fairy tales and nursery rhymes in this delightful game for two to four players. The player who gains the most Storybook Points is the winner!
Little Artistry is the perfect introduction to Artistry for families and children.
Deep Regrets (Restock): Expected October
£39.99
Deep Regrets is 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.
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
D&D Eberron, Forge of the Artificer: Expected December
Price TBA
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
Price TBA
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
Price TBA
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!