The most chaotic board games from Gen Con 2022

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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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