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Board Games are in Trouble, and it's NOT Why You Think
🕑 Added 2025-07-31 17:30:01 +0000 UTCThree years ago, we talked about how the pandemic threatened the board game industry but now, tariffs, buyouts, and bad business practices are doing the damage. In this video, we will break down how massive distribution shakeups, global manufacturing fragility, and sky-high tariffs are pushing tabletop publishers to the brink. From Alliance’s wild bankruptcy saga to why your favorite games might cost more (or vanish altogether). It’s capitalism, consolidation, and chaos!
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John Lumsden Jr.
So what I'm hearing is we can expect Hecknomancer by Christmas.
Jason Youngberg
There's another problem. Finding people to play. New games are also competing against used/existing games. I go to a TTRPG and sci-fi conventions. They have a board games library. You find a game, play it with some other people at the convention, put it back. It may be for sale in the dealer's room, but you got to have fun for the admissions fee. Then you have a housing problem. Why buy a game if you don't have a place to put it? So much of our entertainment is digital only not only for cost reasons, but for storage space. People don't have much storage space when you have to share an apartment with at least one other person.
