Dice Tower Winners, £2.6M Kickstarter & Fall’s New Board Games

Cult of the Lamb: The Board Game raised more than £2.6 million on Kickstarter. We look at what comes in the box, how the campaign performed, and why this video-game adaptation became one of the week’s biggest tabletop stories.

We also cover the 19th Dice Tower Awards, this week’s crowdfunding highlights, Gen Con’s latest attendance record, the TTGDA’s review of publisher contracts, and new games to watch this fall.

This episode also includes a difficult story from Ukraine. A Russian missile strike destroyed board game publisher Rozum’s main warehouse and approximately 200,000 games. No one was injured.

🕯️ Official Rozum recovery support link:
https://rozum.com.ua/ua/help-link/

CHAPTERS
0:00 Opening
0:27 The 19th Dice Tower Awards
1:15 Cult of the Lamb: The Board Game
1:53 Crowdfunding Roundup
2:35 Gen Con Sets Another Attendance Record
3:07 TTGDA’s Publisher Contract Report
3:32 Rozum’s Warehouse
4:19 Greenwood
4:50 For the Gods!
5:25 Drillers
6:01 Gaudí
6:43 Closing
7:00 Support Rozum

SOURCES
• Dice Tower Awards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThT2VH0fug
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2026/08/10/crowdfunded-euros-from-smaller-publishers-dominate-dice-tower-awards-as-galactic-cruise-claims-game-of-the-year/

• Cult of the Lamb: The Board Game
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperfortgames/cult-of-the-lamb-the-board-game

• Crowdfunding Roundup
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardalchemy/whisperwood
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minmaxgames/lords-of-the-manor
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockportgames/echoes-of-artemis

• Gen Con
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2026/08/11/gen-con-hires-the-dice-towers-camilla-cleghorn-as-head-of-events-as-show-looks-to-scale-beyond-record-attendance/
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2026/08/05/gen-con-tops-74000-attendees-as-record-breaking-show-preps-for-much-needed-venue-hotel-expansion/

• TTGDA Tabletop Market Contract Review
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2026/08/11/who-has-the-fairest-contracts-in-board-games-ttgda-launches-publisher-benchmark-to-improve-treatment-of-designers/
https://irp.cdn-website.com/2b6905d0/files/uploaded/2026-08-11+Report+TTGDA+Tabletop+Market+Contract+Review+-+2026+.pdf

• Rozum
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbgGKX9CG2Q/
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2026/08/03/russian-missile-strike-destroys-ukrainian-catan-exploding-kittens-publishers-entire-200000-strong-inventory/
https://rozum.com.ua/ua/help-link/

• Greenwood
https://www.feuerland-spiele.de/greenwood/
https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/12781/blogpost/181674/let-greenwood-flourish-on-bgg

• For the Gods!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyboards/for-the-gods
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/444234/for-the-gods

• Drillers
https://www.czechgames.com/games/drillers
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/465669/drillers

• Gaudí
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/457557/gaudi
https://devirgames.com/gaudi

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