Go Renegade against Networks in Deckers, Dump Skunks, and Rediscover the Conquest of Paradise | BoardGameGeek News

by W. Eric Martin

▪️ Deckers is a new edition of Richard Wilkins‘ 2018 game Renegade from Victory Point Games, a game that somehow passed me by completely. Ah, well, thanks to today’s reprint-and-revision market, everyone will get a second or third bite at the apple.

Here’s an overview of the setting in this 1-4 player game that Deep Print Games will release in 2025.

In Deckers, you will hack into a network of five servers, either solo or co-operatively as a team of up to four, winning or losing together.

The network is operated by one of the available super-massive computers (SMCs), each with a different level of complexity and its own unique style of defenses that you will need to overcome.

Once jacked into the servers, you will assume decker profiles, each with a special ability, moving across the server’s spaces and uploading decker pieces onto the network to expand your control while removing as many of the SMC’s pieces as possible. Each round, you get a new objective you try to fulfill to gain the upper hand. If you manage to complete the final objective, you ultimately claim victory.

▪️ In March 2025, I wrote about Sweet Takes, Hasbro‘s 2025 edition of Hisashi Hayashi‘s card game Gummi Trick, then in early May 2025, I wrote about Beat the Heat, a Hasbro version of Wolfgang Kramer‘s 6 nimmt!.

As it turns out, Hasbro has even more new editions of older games in the works, with these editions scheduled to debut at Gen Con 2025. Priorities, a 2020 party game from Clarendon Games, is one such title, with players in this party game trying to guess how someone will rank random actions and objects such as “sharing feelings” and “Hawaiian pizza”.

Snailed It! is a new edition of Michael Modler‘s 2023 Cabanga!, a card game in which you try to play out your hand of cards without being penalized by others who could play in the gaps you create. (For more details, watch my April 2024 overview.)

▪️ Kevin McPartland‘s Conquest of Paradise debuted in 2007 from GMT Games, saw a second edition in 2016, and is getting overhauled for a third edition from PHALANX in 2027 — yes, two years out from a crowdfunding campaign launched in late May 2025. Here’s the basic pitch:

The publisher notes that this release will be part of its “PHALANX Limited” line, which means the game will be available only through crowdfunding, late pledges, and (possibly) its website should it have stock on hand after fulfilling the campaign — whereas many commenters on its Gamefound campaign point out that they’re waiting on crowdfunded PHALANX projects years overdue.

As always, don’t back a crowdfunding project unless you’re okay with not getting anything because who knows what might happen in the next two years…