Indie Board Game Showcase: Boston
Hello and welcome to our 2026 Indie Board Game Showcase event. Scroll down to see a list of all the games we have being demoed here today, along with a map of where you can find them.
Orange Section
Cash Cannoli - (Negotiation, 4-10 players) - Inherit the family cannoli shop by bluffing, bribing, and negotiating your way to the top. (Christopher Wagstaff)
Defense of the Hearth - (TCG, Solo, 1v1 players) - Whether you’re conquering a solo campaign or outsmarting a rival in head-to-head PVP, Defense of the Hearth delivers the definitive Tower Defense card game experience. (Gabrielle Guerrero Cordero)
Office Orcs - (Card Game, 2-4 players) - Fantasy meets Corporate America in this breezy Area Majority card game with a Blackjack style bust mechanic; layoffs are coming to the human realm, help downsize by moving your Orc around the office's rooms to eat as many Businessmen as possible. (Daniel Glaser)
Pirates of the High Teas - (Set collection, Whimsical, 2-4 players) - A whimsical game of piracy and pastries! (Pink Hawk Games)
Scales of Influence - (Social strategy, 3-8 players) - A hidden identity game crossed with the world of Tarot card readings. (Unphazed Games)
Super Chonk - (Quick card game, 3-6 players) - Play as cats who want to become purrr-fectly chonky by dashing to the bowls at dinnertime. (Pink Hawk Games)
Triangle of Power - (Card battler, 2+ players) - The Card Battler For Everyone! Battle anyone on a level playing field in this easy‑to‑learn, quick‑to‑play fantasy fight for the crown. (Antonio Morales)
Teal Section
Duat - (Abstract puzzle strategy, 2 players) - Your goal is simple: first one to push an enemy piece off the board wins! (Unphazed Games)
Forget Me Knot - (Light strategy family card game, 2-5 players) - Tie a ribbon, remember the fun — the card game of savvy shopping grandmas! (Poppy Play Design)
Joust - (Competitive tactical strategy card game, 2 players) - Joust is a fast-paced tactical card duel where positioning, economy, and battlefield strategy decide who lands the final blow. (Elvis Dapshi)
Once and For All - (Lane battle card game, 2 players) - Once and For All is a strategy lane battle card game in which two warring factions race across time to prevent the discovery of time travel. (Aaron Krol)
StrongHolds - (Castle Building, Engine Building, Push Your Luck, Dexterity, 2 players) - StrongHolds is a competitive castle building game featuring dozens of unique magnetic tiles that allow players to build vertically (and launch attacks!) unlike any other game. (Nelson de Castro)
Dark Blue Section
Bedlam - (Social Deduction, 8-15 players) - A hidden role social deduction game where you must capture all the patients of an Insane asylum! But you have to figure out if your a patient yourself. (Marc Johnson)
Fight Sequence - (Card game, tactical, fighting, hand management, 2 or 4 players) - The head-to-head card game of psychics THINKING about fighting! Players build sequences of cards that resolve in reverse order, and use their psychic powers to edit sequences in their favor. (Triple Rainbow Games)
Hedged In - (Spatial puzzle, strategy, 2 players) - A wizard's duel of passive-aggressive gardening! Use your hedge-raising magic to annoy your rival by making their path to their goals longer than yours! (Triple Rainbow Games)
Honed Souls - (Card game, microgame, fighting, hand management, 2 players) - Players are sentient magic weapons, competing to be the next magic item chosen for the TTRPG campaign. Rock-paper-scissors with a big twist! (Triple Rainbow Games)
Knock - (Abstract Strategy, 2 players) - Knock is a two-player abstract strategy game of deduction, positioning and controlled aggression — think kooky chess but with holes that pieces can fall into. (Danny Lindholm)
This Fight is Staged! - (Card game, strategy, playing cards, cooperative, 2 players) - A cooperative duel of play fighting! Team up with a friend, impress the audience with your play-fighting skills, and get that standing ovation! (Triple Rainbow Games)
Green Section
Add-Jective - (Party game, 3-8 players) - Add-jective is a co-operative wordy party where you have to add adjective to a board by finding a noun to fits every adjective in its row and column. By make sure to pass information about your secret genre to the other players before the grid fills up! (Duncan Davis)
Bad Eggs - (Push-your-luck, 2-6 players) - Crack open eggs to make bigger and better omelettes than your opponents, but crack open too many bad eggs and lose all your points! (Millrat Studio)
Bad Pixel Art - (Party game, 8 players) - Bad Pixel Art is an 8-bit-themed creative party game in which you use Tetris-like shapes to describe words. (Corey Chu)
Black Forest - (Strategy/Adventure, 5 players) - In Black Forest, up to four people play as outsiders, exploring and trying to find a hidden heart and sunblade, while one person plays as the Lord of the forest, who attempts to stop them by manipulating the map and summoning monsters. (Nebulore Games)
Cloven Playing Tiles - (Puzzling, Hiding, Racing, Worker Placement, 1-4 players) - Venture into Cloven Playing Tiles! Your very own playground of abstract board-games, with many genres of play to explore. 🧭🍀 (Anthony Fanticola)
Croak & Dagger - (Social Deduction/Party, 4-13 players) - Everything was lovely at the pond… until the plug was pulled, the water drained out, and someone left the plug with a dagger in it in my house. This is not good. I’m the Scapefrog, and I think this was the work of the Sabotoader. (John Bucciarelli)
Olympian 15 - (Social Deduction, 3-8 players) - The Greek Gods of Olympus are at it again: Smite your opponents before they get you! When the chaos clears, who will hold the most Tribute? (Duncan Davis)
Paparazzi - (Party, 8 players) - Paparazzi is a cooperative party deduction game in which one person (the "Celebrity") strikes a pose describing 4 words on the table, while the other players ("Paparazzi") take real photos and work together to figure out what's being conveyed. (Corey Chu)
Scrapbook - (Party game, 2-6 players) - 1000s of old photos finally come in handy! (Millrat Studio)
Smatch! - (Multigenerational universal fun, 2-4 players) - SMATCH! is a fast, refreshingly clever card game that rewards attention — and your willingness to switch gears. It starts simple: play a card that’s different from the one beneath it. That’s it. But suddenly, everyone at the table is laughing, connecting, and finding patterns where they weren’t looking before. (Gene Mackles)
Softball Showdown - (Sports Simulation, 2-4 players) - This card game, created by Athena (12) and Cora (10), is suitable for two teams of 1-2 players and mimics a softball match by blending strategic thinking with elements of chance as players compete to score the most runs. (Athena and Cora Sylvia)