by W. Eric Martin

▪️ On Dec. 31, 2025, Jamey Stegmaier hosted a preview video of Stonemaier Games‘ 2026 release schedule, giving teasers for each title, with more info to come as each game nears release. In chronological order:

• January 21: The fourth Wingspan expansion from Elizabeth Hargrave will be available for purchase through the Stonemaier webstore, with this expansion featuring birds from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

In this expansion, hummingbirds are introduced as a new card type with a smaller card size (aside from the hummingbirds already present in the Wingspan game line, which are treated like all other birds). The expansion includes a shared gameboard that seems like a perch upon which to place these tiny tweeters.

• January 21 is also the launch date for a new Viticulture expansion that Stegmaier describes as another take on the Tuscany board, with this being a four-season board with new mechanisms and twists.

• Q2 2026 will bring Euphoria: Essential Edition, with this including a mildly tweaked Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia base game and the Ignorance Is Bliss expansion, which will no longer be available separately. The tweaks focus on a new gameboard layout to make the game more intuitive to teach and play, with this gameboard being available separately in case you already own the originals.

• Q2 2026 will all see an expansion for David Gordon and Michael O’Connell‘s Finspan, as well as a small April Fool’s Day product.

• Q3 2026 features two big items that I imagine will be present at Gen Con 2026. The first is a standalone Wingspan game from Hargrave for 1-5 players that, Stegmaier says, “offers a Wingspan-like experience playable in 20-30 minutes in a much smaller box”. The game is almost entirely cards, with gameplay being icon driven and featuring a row-activation element.

• Q3 2026 will also have a standalone 1-2 player dueling game that simultaneously serves as a new expansion for both Scythe and Expeditions.

How? The dueling game is effectively a Scythe vs. Expeditions race to four stars on a tight gameboard that includes a new Scythe faction and a new Expeditions mech. These new elements can be used as expansions in the earlier games, and all existing factions and player mats from Scythe and all existing characters and mechs from Expeditions can be used in this game. (Metal components will be available separately to match the “Ironclad” edition of Expeditions.)

If you’re unfamiliar with the earlier games, you’ll need to learn the rules for both of them in order to play.

• A smaller Q3 2026 release will be an Origin Story expansion that features twenty-ish new cards for use in the final round.

• Q4 2026 will see Stonemaier Games release Antoine Bauza‘s Namiji in a smaller box than the original Funforge one. This box will include the Aquamarine expansion and can be recognized by the Stonemaier logo.

• Finally, Q4 2026 brings the lone original game on the Stonemaier schedule — the first Stonemaier title set in “The Smoking Bones” universe created by Andrew Bosley that he describes this way:

Stegmaier says that Stonemaier has been working on a series of games set in this universe, with this particular title resulting from a designer’s unrelated submission that seemed ideal for this series. The design is a mid-to-heavy Eurogame that will debut at SPIEL Essen 26 and feature engine building, track advancement, worker placement, and airships.

▪️ Thunderworks Games released a far more succinct overview of its plans for 2026, with:

• A Stonespine Architects expansion being crowdfunded in Q2.

• The Tenpenny Parks: Winter Lights & Spooky Nights Expansion crowdfunded in October 2025 will be fulfilled in Q2, with this item debuting at Gen Con 2026.

• Another Gen Con 2026 release, codenamed “Q”, is a small box game set in the World of Ulos universe of Roll Player, Cartographers, and Stonespine Architects.

• Speaking of Cartographers, something for that game line will be crowdfunded in Q3 2026.

• And something will be coming for the Gen Con 2025 title FlipToons.