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▪️ While wrapping up a crowdfunding campaign for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, publisher Flatout Games has already announced its next two releases for 2026, with Forage feeling very on-brand thanks to company owners Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich handling the design and Beth Sobel providing the art. As for what’s happening in this 1-6 player design:
Each round, roll the forage dice and reveal a unique journey tile. Choose a combination of dice, then explore, store, or give gifts. As you carry out actions, you earn bonuses to power up future actions or make additional moves to complete goals. At turn’s end, draw one of the three types of cards and add it to your tableau, giving you more ways to combo and complete goals.
Completing exploration cards involves traversing trails through the forest and collecting bonuses by surrounding them via a spatial puzzle that extends as you add cards to your tableau. Completing pantry cards involves storing goods in jars and unlocking bonuses as you complete rows and columns within your shelves. Completing gift-giving cards involves collecting specific ingredients in the exact quantities to produce gifts, providing you with immediate and endgame scoring bonuses!
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▪️ The other upcoming Flatout title is Honeypot from Fantastic Factories‘ Joseph Z. Chen, and this is also a 1-6 player design:
This set-collection game features a massive deck of cards that will confront you with a new collection of items each round. How can you arrange these cards so that others are encouraged to take what will hurt them in the end? As the game progresses and your tableau of cards grows, you’ll need to keep watchful to avoid being stung.
If you step far back from this Kwanchai Moriya cover, you’ll find this sloppy bear transformed into a nuclear-powered ursine that radiates strength from its chest. Well, that’s what I saw anyway…
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▪️ Now let’s jump to another game about mammals handling sticky substances: Wombat Poo, the next release by Phil Walker-Harding from his Joey Games brand. Here’s an overview of this 2-4 player game aimed at players aged six and up:
If you have played 2015’s Wombat Rescue, then you will indeed grasp the knowledge of wombats’ wonky digestive system, but whereas that game challenged you to use poop to navigate through a dangerous environment, Wombat Poo — which is due out in December 2025 in Australia and March 2026 in the U.S. — is more straightforwardly a game about stacking poop. Here’s a teaser image from Walker-Harding:
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