The most chaotic board games from Gen Con 2022
Gen Con 2022 felt like coming home for me. After nearly two decades attending board gaming’s Super Bowl, I’ve developed some very close friends that I enjoy seeing every year. Going two years without renewing those relationships was entirely too long. This year, after the vendor floor closed, we weren’t interested in playing the latest Euro-style game, or a campaign in a box, or a big, sprawling Ameritrash strategy game. We just wanted to have a lark, and the selection of new games on offer perfectly suited our needs.
In fact, I think the best games at Gen Con this year were the lightest, most frivolous things you could imagine. But more than anything, the best games this year were chaotic — including the title that might just be my own personal game of the show.
Psychic Pizza Deliverers Go to the Ghost Town is a hidden-environment game for 3-5 players. Notice that I didn’t say hidden movement — like say Nuns on the Run, Last Friday, Letters to Whitechapel, or Spec Ops. In this game, every player is given a large laminated grid and a dry-erase marker. The goal is to uncover and deliver a pizza to the people who live in Ghost Town. What kind of pizza does each house want? You won’t know until you’ve found a pizza, and then used your psychic powers to divine where it belongs. The concept is just as batshit as the name — especially when you accidentally stumble onto a teleport space and have to start making your Zork-like mapmaking all over again.
You can purchase Psychic Pizza Deliverers Go to the Ghost Town directly from Board Game Tables Dot Com for $39.00 directly from the publisher.
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