Mezen
Players: 1–5 • Ages: 8+ • Play time: 30 min.
Mezen
Publisher: Arcane Wonders
Item Code: AWGAW20MZ
MSRP: $39.99
Releases January 15, 2025
Mezen is a puzzly tile-based game in which players will compete to achieve a series of scoring goals by removing tiles from their 5×5 board, flipping them over, sliding the tiles above them down, and then adding the newly flipped tiles from the top. The gorgeous Siberian art makes Mezen’s table presence absolutely stunning.
Ito
Players: 2–8 • Ages: 8+ • Play time: 10 min.
Ito
Publisher: Arcane Wonders
Item Code: AWGDTE20IT
MSRP: $14.99
Releases January 15, 2025
Ito is a cooperative game in which you and your friends will each get your own secret number. You then have to try to put in order as a group based on the clues you give related to the chosen theme. At the start of the game, each player gets a secret number card that can have a value between 1 and 100. The trick is for everyone to understand their intentions just by hearing theme-based clues. Do you and your friends see eye to eye in how you view the world? Have fun finding out in this exciting party game!
The Chameleon
Players: 3–8 • Ages: 14+ • Play time: 15 min.
The Chameleon
Publisher: Big Potato Games
Item Code: BPO90005
MSRP: $19.99
Releases January 15, 2025
One of you is the Chameleon! In this board game, your job is to blend in and not get caught. Catch that Chameleon! Everyone else is trying to work out who the Chameleon is. Everyone suspects everyone else at the beginning. One word can give you away! Using one carefully chosen word based on a secret topic, you each try to smoke out the Chameleon, who doesn’t know what the secret topic is.
BattleTech: ilKhan’s Eyes Only
BattleTech: ilKhan’s Eyes Only
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Item Code: CAT35905
MSRP: $49.99
Releases January 15, 2025
ilKhan’s Eyes Only is a BattleTech sourcebook detailing the events on Terra, around the former Fortress Republic, and the coreward regions of the Capellan Confederation from 3151 to mid-3152. Included are a full historical summary of events in those regions of space, personality, and unit profiles of key players—many appearing here for the first time—and game information along with a glossy campaign map to bring it all to your BattleTech tabletop.
Curses & Covens
Players: 4–6 • Ages: 8+ • Play time: 5–20 min.
Curses & Covens is an all-versus-one game in which one player takes on the role as the witch hunter, while all other players are towns trying to protect the friendly witches! The aim of the witch hunter is to capture five witches, while the towns want to form a coven of three witches of the same suit in one player’s hand to win.
Curses & Covens
Publisher: Good Games Publishing
Item Code: GGP024
MSRP: $20
Releases January 15, 2025
The game plays through four main phases: Census, where all the towns’ cards are revealed; Arrival, where the witch hunter observes then deals 1 new card to each town player; Travel, where town players consider the new card they’ve received and then each give or request a hidden card to or from other town players; and Hunt, where the witch hunter picks two cards in total from the towns, trying to capture witches while avoiding innocent villagers, dangerous ritual cards, or the fake witch which frees previously captured witches. These repeat until one side has won.
The town players need to communicate carefully to consider their options, how to manage risks and protect key cards, and understand when to make decisive moves, all while the witch hunter listens. Both roles require players to weigh up probabilities and consider previously discussed plans against new imperatives that might signal necessary changes in strategy as the round progresses.
Tidal Blades: The Roleplaying Game
Tidal Blades, and its setting of Naviri, has a unique feel and sensibility. It’s a game and setting that shines bright with community, helpfulness, joy, delight, science, and celebration. In this fantasy water world, wonder blends with advanced time-altering technology. Crocs, turtles, and fish-folk cohabit peacefully with humans in a vast floating city. People trade with fruit and travel between the various docks on watercrafts, powered by small energy devices known as shells.
Tidal Blades: The Roleplaying Game
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Item Code: MCG293
MSRP: $69.99
Releases January 15, 2025
Despite the paradise-like setting, Naviri is in dire need of heroes. Powerful sea monsters have started breaking out of the hyperdimensional barrier that protects the area. And of course, just like any city, Naviri has its share of smaller dangers—dark corners, dark dealings, and dark characters—that all need to be dealt with.
While there are definitely obstacles to overcome and challenges to face, the focus of the game is on the ways in which characters and the community can work together to keep their beloved home safe and thriving. Characters may find themselves gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a much-beloved local chef, tracking down a group of thieves who’ve stolen an unstable piece of technology, or battling a giant sea monster with a volcano on its back—all while racing watercrafts across the sea, attempting to befriend local wildlife, or competing in contests of skill and strength.
Better Letters
Players: 1–6 • Ages: 8+ • Play time: 15–20 min.
Better Letters
Publisher: Play to Z
Item Code: PTZ734052
MSRP: $25
Releases January 15, 2025
Better Letters is played in six rounds. Each round, a growing grid of word rule cards are made. Within 60 seconds, players come up with a word that uses a many of those rule cards as possible. The more you use, the higher your score. If you use the same rule card another player uses, your score will be reduced.
Scores can increase due to bonus tokens and using most of your own tokens. Finally, personal goals add to your score when you complete them. All in all, Better Letters is a new type of word game.
Sapelli All Dice Box
Sapelli All Dice Box
Publisher: Q-Workshop
Item Code: QWSWAALL02
MSRP: $35
Releases January 15, 2025
Perfect for your dice! Crafted precisely and finished by hand, the Sapelli All Dice Box is a must-have for dice enthusiasts. Functional two-part design, cork lining, and magnetic closure ensure your dice safety. The natural sapelli wood color adds elegance. It features the QW logo on the bottom and “All Dice Tell a Story” on the lid. Perfect for collectors and gamers, it combines practicality with aesthetics.
All January 15 Releases
| Code | Description | MSRP |
| AWGAW20MZ | Mezen | $39.99 |
| AWGAW20MZPM | Mezen: Playmat Set | $17.99 |
| AWGDTE20IT | ito | $14.99 |
| BPO186086 | P For Pizza (Original) | $12.99 |
| BPO90004 | Cards vs Gravity (Pro) | $19.99 |
| BPO90005 | The Chameleon | $19.99 |
| BPO90007 | Chicken vs. Hotdog | $19.99 |
| BPO90012 | Herd Mentality | $19.99 |
| BPO90022 | Sounds Fishy | $19.99 |
| BPO90029 | You Can’t Say Umm | $19.99 |
| BPO90042 | Dumb Questions To Ask Your Friends | $19.99 |
| BPO90059 | Tilt ‘N’ Shout | $24.99 |
| CAT35905 | BattleTech: ilKhan`s Eyes Only | $49.99 |
| DYE1401 | Rate My Friends | $24.99 |
| GGP024 | Curses & Covens | $20.00 |
| IBCIMP1 | Imposter Syndrome | $24.99 |
| MCG293 | Tidal Blades: The Roleplaying Game | $69.99 |
| MCG405 | Monte Cook’s: Diamond Throne | $74.99 |
| PTZ734052 | Better Letters | $25.00 |
| QWSWAALL02 | Sapelli All Dice Box | $35.00 |
