At The Table with The Dice Tower - Gen Con Bound 2025
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We're on our way to Gen Con! And here are the games we're most excited about (as well as the ones that are getting the most buzz online). You'll also here where to find us in Indy, where we plan to eat, and how we plan to survive the Best Four Days in Gaming.
00:45 - Releases in the second half of the year.
02:23 - Preparing for Crowds at Gen Con - New Cart Policy
08:15 - Food Trucks
11:15 - Where Will We Be?
19:59 - The Games of Gen Con (BGG Preview: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/77/gen-con-2025-preview)
20:54 - Vantage
23:27 - Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor
23:54 - Lost Ruins of Arnak: Adventure Chest
24:23 - Gwent: The Legendary Card Game
25:26 - Lightning Train
26:32 - Sea Salt and Paper: Extra Pepper
27:11 - Luthier
28:00 - Fliptoons
28:36 - Ruins
30:10 - Nature
30:53 - Rebel Princess Deluxe: Happily Never After
32:00 - Ace of Spades
33:35 - Galactic Cruise
34:31 - Pirates of Maracaibo: Commanders
34:43 - Soda Jerk
36:25 - Point Galaxy
37:04 - Compile Main 2
38:08 - Star Wars Battle of Hoth
38:41 - Galileo Galilei
39:21 - Propolis
39:48 - Final Girl: Shriek
41:32 - VIVO
42:08 - Spooktacular
43:57 - Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons
45:16 - Evergreen: Cherry Blossoms and Bamboo
45:22 - EXIT Advent Calendar: The Intergalactic Race
46:27 - Suna Valo
47:12 - Kronologic: Cuzco 1450
47:44 - Wine Cellar
49:22 - Shackleton Base
49:58 - Knitting Circle
50:36 - Ra: Traders
51:08 - Iliad
51:26 - Gibberers
51:48 - Cat and the Tower
52:42 - Ham Helsing
53:25 - The Four Doors
54:07 - Raising Chicago
54:24 - High Tide
54:39 - If Then
54:59 - Hyperstar Run
55:20 - Jungo
55:43 - Holiday Hijinks 10, 11, 12, Endangered Rescue 2, Journey to Tir na nOg
56:01 - Above and Below: Haunted
56:20 - The Peak Team
57:17 - Our Advice for Surviving Gen Con
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At the table with the dice tower. |
| 0:02.2 | Episode 51. |
| 0:04.2 | Gen Conbound, 2025. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:30.6 | This time we set our sights on Gen Con and the games we'll be seeing there. |
| 0:34.6 | What are we most likely to check out? |
| 0:36.5 | And what is our advice for surviving the Gen Con Gauntlet? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Eric Summerer. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Julie Ahren. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm Tom Vassel and holy moly folks. |
| 0:46.3 | There are a few times over the course of the year where you are busy up to your eyeballs |
| 0:51.3 | in board gaming. |
| 0:52.3 | Eyeballs. |
| 0:53.3 | And this is one of those weeks. |
| 0:55.7 | The week before Gen Con is insane if you are involved with a convention at all. |
| 1:00.5 | Yup. |
| 1:01.2 | So, yeah, we're talking a lot about that. |
| 1:03.6 | And I know some people don't love to hear convention talk as much, but we're going to be |
| 1:06.5 | talking a lot about games that are being released there. |
| 1:10.4 | People often ask me, like in June, |
| 1:13.7 | and they'll say, what are the best games of the year so far? And honestly, I mean, I can |
| 1:18.9 | give you a list because I keep lists. But in reality, the vast majority of games that are |
| 1:26.2 | released in a given year are in the second half, |
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