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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Here are our top 15 games from UK Games Expo #UKGE2026 1- Cat Earth *SOLD OUT 2- Shadow Ninjas *SOLD OUT 3- Guildlands 4- Long Cow 5- Feed the Kraken 6- Loot 7- Cadaver 8- Flora Funga 9- Cat Ass Trophy 10- The Crooked Crown 11- Karak 12- Skullduggery 13- Zensu 14- Crown the Unicorn 15- Word Thief

Infographic showing the front of the box for the top 15 games for Outset Media and Cheatwell Games at UK Games Expo 2026.

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Fun with Boxes @funwithboxes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Welcome to Fun with Boxes, Ep362: How to Play Shadow Ninjas The Board game designed by Kedric Winks and published by Outset Media Games and Cheatwell Games @outsetgames.bsky.social @cheatwellgames.bsky.social youtu.be/KAd9XQzehz8

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How to Play Shadow Ninjas Board game | Designed by Kedric Winks | Outset Media & Cheatwell Games

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Fun with Boxes @funwithboxes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Welcome to Fun with Boxes, Ep 340: How to Play Cat Earth from designer Gareth Edwards and published by @outsetgames.bsky.social and @cheatwellgames.bsky.social Join me as I guide you through how to setup and how to play this wonderful game from designer Gareth Edwards youtu.be/hVonunRI9jY

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How to Play Cat Earth | A Board Game by Gareth Edwards | Outsetmedia Games & Cheatwell Games

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Fun with Boxes @funwithboxes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Welcome to Fun with Boxes, Ep 342: How to play Ape Town, from designer Reiner Knizia and published by @outsetgames.bsky.social and @cheatwellgames.bsky.social Join me as I guide you through how to setup and how to play this great new Reiner Knizia game! youtu.be/wVcBFN_u4gs

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How to Play Ape Town A Board Game by Reiner Knizia | Outsetmedia | Cheatwell Games

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

NY Toy Fair opens in a little over an hour... countdown is on. See us in Booth #127. It's the top floor, first aisle on the left side. Great place to start your day.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Cat Earth was definitely our most talked about game at London Toy Fair. Arriving in our Canadian warehouse in about 3 weeks, US warehouse in 4 weeks, and our UK warehouse in 5 weeks.

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Ken Boyter @kenboyter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Tom Vasel ranks Guildlands NUMBER 1! Top 10 Games That Did Something Different of 2025. Time: 9:24 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfk0DZWOC9Y @outsetgames.bsky.social @cheatwellgames.bsky.social @boardgamedesignuk.bsky.social #boardgames #boardgamecommunity #BoardGameGeek #TabletopGaming #tabletopgames

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Ken Boyter @kenboyter.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Rolling with the Beard Top Ten Board Games of 2025! Guildlands: Dane’s number 7 Timestamp: 18:21 Fountains: Eric’s number 3: Timestamp: 32:41 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O-zmIoVShg @outsetgames.bsky.social @cheatwellgames.bsky.social @boardgamedesignuk.bsky.social #boardgames #boardgamegeek

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Top 10 Board Games of 2025!

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This sums up Guildlands perfectly. Great review from Meeple Mountain. We often hear that Guildlands feels unbalanced. We've logged just shy of 1,000 plays. While it may not seem so on your first play, once you've played the game a few times (and various guilds), those perceived inbalances go away.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The big surprise for me... Crown the Unicorn appeared on our best-sellers list in 14th spot. This is a quick little tile game for kids. Very cute... but still a kids game at Pax Unplugged. Didn't expect to see this sell so well. Similar to Zensu, we sold out before the last day.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ape Town was 12th on the list. This is our new Knizia game. Originally published in Europe by Piatnik, we have localized Ape Town for North America. I like this game more and more each time I play. We had a few copies at Gen Con, but Pax Unplugged was the first con since the game launched.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Guildlands was 7th on the best-sellers list. Outset does localize games for a lots of companies, but most of the games we publish are in the party/kids/trivia sphere. This is our first real entry into the hobby game market. Still in it's infancy, but exciting to see it grow in popularity.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Zensu was 6th on our list of best-sellers, but would have placed higher if we hadn't sold out. We ran out very early - had 1 copy left to start the Sunday. People even bought all our demo copies. We should have brought more copies. Zensu a surprisingly fun two-player abstract strategy game.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Here are our top 15 games from Pax Unplugged: 1- Shadow Ninjas 2- Feed The Kraken 3- 5 Minute Mystery 4- 5 Minute Dungeon 5- Curses! Foiled Again exp. 6- Zensu 7- Guildlands 8- One Hit Heroes 9- Karak 10- Loot 11- Pyschobabble 12- Ape Town 13- Cat Ass Trophy 14- Crown the Unicorn 15- Karak Regent

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Board Game Addict UK @boardgameaddictuk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A marvellous lane battler style game from @cheatwellgames.bsky.social @outsetgames.bsky.social Reminds me of classics such as Schotten Totten but with new twists. Well worth a look!

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Cheatwell Games 🔜 Essen @cheatwellgames.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

April Mitchell demoing To Do or To Don’t at PAX U

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Cheatwell Games 🔜 Essen @cheatwellgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Come see us at Gen Con. we are in the event hall.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Fantastic review of Guildlands by Eric of Rolling with the Beard. Which guild will you play? youtu.be/fGlj6nQVjkQ?...

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Guildlands board game review

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

What a great night. We had our pre-lauch party in Toronto for Guildlands (the official launch being at #GenCon2025). Over 50 people in attendance. It was a great mix of retailers, content creators, and inventors - including the game's designers Ken Boyter and Kedric Winks. Next stop Indianapolis.

Pre-launch party for Guildlands board game.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Gen Con official launch for Guildlands. Play 1 of 6 guilds and rebuild the city of Ferrum's Ford. BREAKING NEWS! We will have 500 copies of the Messengers' Guild expansion - a exclusive expansion only available at conventions. Free with the purchase of the base game. Introduces a 7th unique guild.

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Messengers' Guild expansion guild for Guildlands

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Who wants to play Reiner Knizia's new game Ape Town? We are running learn-to-play events at Gen Con. Ape Town is getting good reviews on BGG. Link to events: www.gencon.com/events?game=... One event is SOLD OUT, but spots are still available at our other 7 events. #OutsetMedia #Knizia #GenCon2025

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"This means the replayability of this game is just outstanding" "A big Fun With Boxes thumbs up" Thank you Phil 😍 Check out this video about our new game Guildlands. Join the inventors for the game's official launch at #GenCon2025. Some events are SOLD OUT, but there are still spots available.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Yahooooo!!! My copy of Guildlands arrived today 🥳 Official launch at #GenCon2025. Meet the inventors Ken Boyter and Kedric Winks. Play one of six guilds and rebuild the city of Ferrum's Ford. Event link: www.gencon.com/events?game=... Some events are SOLD OUT, but still plenty of spots available.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The BGG page for Guildlands is now active... yahoooo!!! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

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Guildlands

A city building tile laying game with asymmetric powers dependant guild selection.

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

For all you "dissectologists" out there - and yes, this is a real word - our puzzle brand #CobbleHillPuzzles has their own page on BlueSky. @cobblehillpuzzles.bsky.social

A clip of a webpage showing the definition of a "dissectologist" which is someone who loves jigsaw puzzles

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Got some great news today!!!! We now have a bigger space at #PAXU. Doubled our booth size to 20' x 20'. And also got some more demo tables. How awesome is this for some amazing Friday news!?! Thank you @chriswhitpan.bsky.social

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Cheatwell Games 🔜 Essen @cheatwellgames.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Come play LAMBADA at UKGE: stand 3A-314. Play letter cards on top of the word LAMBADA while avoiding the forbidden colour. Play the fifth card of the same colour or the forbidden colour, and you’ll draw extra cards. Can you outmanoeuvre your opponents and empty your hand first?

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Outset (Dave Manga) 🔜 Essen @outsetgames.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Origins was a HUGE success!! Here are our top 9 games (ranked by units sold) at #origins2025 #1 - Feed the Kraken #2 - Shadow Ninjas #3 - 5 Minute Mystery #4 - 5 Minute Dungeon #5 - 5 Minute Dungeon Curses *sold out* #6 - Psycho Babble #7 - Lambada *sold out* #8 - Zensu *sold out* #9 - Loot

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Cheatwell Games 🔜 Essen @cheatwellgames.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Come and play Shadow Ninjas with Inventor Kedric Winks at Origins booth 1019.

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Cheatwell Games 🔜 Essen @cheatwellgames.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Come play Shadow Ninjas at UKGE with inventor Kedric Winks!

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