Weekly Roundup

Something unusual happened this week. Wondrous Creatures vaulted from #11 to the top of the BGG Hotness - and simultaneously, its brand-new expansion Winterfall debuted at #8. A base game and its expansion occupying the hotness simultaneously is rare enough to be worth noting. Seven new entries replaced seven departures, including Stonesaga, War of the Dragon: The Wheel of Time, and Earthborne Trailblazer - all of which had been generating real buzz just a week ago. The turnover is sharp, and the stories buried in the data are worth digging into. ...

The designer of Dominion just put a moon colony through a blender - and the hobby is watching. Moon Colony Bloodbath by Donald X. Vaccarino storms to #1 this week, while Terraria: The Board Game, which owned that throne just three weeks ago, has already vanished from the list entirely. That’s the Hotness in a nutshell: brutal, fast, and completely unsentimentalabout last week’s darlings. Thirteen of the twenty spots are brand-new entries - one of the biggest shakeups in recent memory - and the stories buried in this week’s data are genuinely worth digging into. ...

Last week, Lairs was sitting comfortably on the throne at #1. This week? It’s plummeted to #41. That’s not a fall from grace - that’s falling off a cliff, bouncing off several ledges, and landing in a ravine. In its place, Terraria: The Board Game has dug, fought, and crafted its way to the top of the Hotness - fuelled by a wave of fresh reviews including No Pun Included’s delightfully titled “We Could Not Finish Terraria: The Board Game.” ...

Last week, Dungeon Crawler Carl stormed the Hotness at #1 like a reality TV contestant kicking down a dungeon door. This week? Carl’s been shoved to #12 and the throne belongs to Lairs - the competitive dungeon-builder that’s been quietly climbing for two weeks and has finally claimed the crown. Meanwhile, Eternal Decks has made one of the most dramatic jumps we’ve tracked, rocketing from #14 to #2 in a single week. ...

The dungeon has opened and the hobby is sprinting down the stairs. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Unstoppable has claimed the #1 spot on the BGG Hotness, riding the wave of one of the most beloved LitRPG franchises in modern fiction straight into the board game space. Last week’s entire top 3 - Regicide Legacy, Nippon: Zaibatsu, Yotei - have all been pushed down or out entirely. The crown changes hands fast on this list, and this week it belongs to Carl and Princess Donut. ...

There has been a coup. Regicide Legacy has torn through the Hotness like a blade through a royal court, seizing the #1 spot out of nowhere and dragging its predecessor Regicide along for the ride at #9. Two slots for the same franchise in the top 10 is a statement - and a rare one. This week’s list is the most volatile we’ve seen in a month. Eight new entries. Brass: Pittsburgh drops from #1 to #4. Both Lord of the Rings titles that dominated for weeks have either dropped or vanished entirely. The lesson? The Hotness doesn’t care about your campaign stretch goals from last week. It only cares about what landed today. ...

This week’s Hotness is doing two very hobby things at once. First, it is completely losing its mind over established brands. Second, it is still making room for sharp new designs that can cut through the noise if they show even a whiff of momentum. The result is a list split between giant familiar names and fresh arrivals trying to prove they belong. That tension is the story of the week’s movement: a new Brass: Pittsburgh campaign powers to the top, Middle-earth refuses to leave the room, and a cluster of new entries suggests people are still hungry for discovery, provided the pitch is immediate and the table presence is obvious. ...

BGG Hotness Review: Week of March 30, 2026 This Week’s Top 20 # Game Trend 1 The Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit 🆕 NEW 2 Star Wars: The Queen’s Gambit 🆕 NEW 3 Brass: Pittsburgh 🔺 +10 4 The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship 🔺 +4 5 Brass: Birmingham 🔺 +6 6 The Old King’s Crown 🔺 +1 7 Nippon: Zaibatsu 🔻 -1 8 Grimcoven 🔺 +11 9 Slay the Spire: The Board Game 🆕 NEW 10 SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ➡️ = 11 Arcs 🔺 +4 12 Ark Nova ➡️ = 13 Heat: Pedal to the Metal 🔺 +1 14 Concordia: Special Edition 🔻 -12 15 Phantom Epoch 🔻 -14 16 Voidfall 🔻 -11 17 Magical Athlete 🆕 NEW 18 Harmonies 🆕 NEW 19 Arkham Horror: The Card Game 🔻 -10 20 Spirit Island 🆕 NEW Dropped off: One Piece Dawn Of Liberation, Roborover 2077 Last Hope, Dune Imperium Uprising, All In Predictions, Speakeasy ...

BGG Hotness Review, Week of March 23, 2026 This week’s Hotness is saying something pretty loud. The hobby wants spectacle, yes. But it also wants familiarity. It wants the shiny new sci-fi campaign monster and the comfy old euro in fancy clothes. It wants cyberpunk robots, Roman merchants, cosmic dread, train-era economics, and apparently at least one cozy village-builder trying to elbow its way into the conversation. That mix matters. ...

Welcome back to Crowdfunding Watch. It’s mid-March 2026 and the tabletop funding scene is absolutely stacked - a card game has smashed past £2 million, RPGs are dominating the charts, and one tactical wargame is sneaking up on everyone. Here’s what’s live, what’s worth your money, and what to think twice about. Headliner: The Old King’s Crown - Second Printing & Songs of Home Expansion ...