GAME-ITOBA Please note, Game-itoba is a volunteer event and of course things do come up, events may be rescheduled or cancelled at short notice, we will try to notify you by email should that be the case but it may not be possible.
Everything (Featured Games, Open Games)
Friday: 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
Saturday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
Sunday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm
Key:- Play to Win | Tournament | Local Designer | Sponsor | For Kids | Family Friendly | Mature Themes
| When | Game Name | Type | Spaces | Location | GM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10:30-2:25pm | Warhammer 40k King of the collosseum | Miniatures | 2 available | SH1 | Jon |
| Family Friendly King of the Colosseum is a unique 500 point format For Warhammer 40000. Each mission and deployment is exactly the same, but that doesn’t mean each game is! The matches are incredibly challenging to play as each unit risked and potentially lost can make a big impact on the game outcome. This is not a Demonstration and Players will require to bring their own army | |||||
| Sat 11:30-2:25pm | Vantage | Boardgame | Full | G56 | Melanie Godin |
| Vantage is an open-world, co-operative, non-campaign adventure game that features an entire planet to explore, with players communicating while scattered across the world. With nearly eight hundred interconnected locations on four hundred cards and over nine hundred other discoverable cards, the world is your sandbox. | |||||
| Sat 11:30-5:25pm | WarHammer Underworlds | Boardgame | Drop-In | H10 | Steven Hunnie |
| Family Friendly A fast paced arena combat board game set in the mortal realms of WarHammers Age of Sigmar. Players will take their warband in a quest for total glory by vanquishing their opponent. Through the use of a 32 card deck players will move their fighters around the board in an attempt to strike down the opposing warband, score objectives, execute ploys and upgrade their fighters to dizzying new heights. Only one warband will win…will it be yours??? | |||||
| Sat 12:30-2:25pm | Valor & Villainy: Antagonist's Arsenal | Boardgame | 2 available | G41 | James Van Nieke |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly *Local Designer & Artist!* 1-6 Heroes team up to take down the Evil Wizard Mordak before he sets the world on fire in this zany RPG game! This playthrough will also feature new content from the Antagonist's Arsenal Expansion. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-2:25pm | Paint and Take | Other | Drop-In | SH2 | game-itoba |
| Crafting With thanks to the Army Painter for sponsoring the 'Paint and Take' table, come try their amazing SpeedPaint 2.0 system and take away your own hand painted miniature. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | ARCS | Boardgame | Full | G36 | Sebastian |
| Family Friendly A highly confrontation space game! Do the best you can with the hand of cards you are given, with a trick taking adjacent mechanic. Move around your space fleets, build and tax your cities (or your rivals!), influence the courts to your cause, and perform epic raids on your rivals. Nothing you have is nailed down. There will be conflict, and you will collapse!If you are unfamiliar with the game, teaching will take a half hour. There is a lot to this game, it's pretty meaty.Leaders & Lore (plus it's expansion) will be available if everyone is experienced with the game. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-4:25pm | Bunnies & Burrows | RPG | Full | M10 | Craig |
| Mature Themes The roleplaying game of intelligent rabbits has been around since 1976! In this newer, 3rd edition of the game, you will take the role of an intelligent rabbit in the style of the film Watership Down. Note that, even though you are playing rabbits, this is an adult game with violence and even some horror themes, so it is not intended for children. No experience necessary; rules will be taught. Looking to get into the vibe? Check out this prologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsY2i0Cz_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsY2i0Cz_k | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | Magnus Archives | RPG | Full | M07 | Luci Wright |
| Mature Themes For 200 years, the Magnus Institute has quietly collected statements like these from people of all walks of life, detailing their personal experiences with the supernatural. Your organization is dedicated to cataloging and researching these incidents—but it’s becoming clear they aren’t as isolated as they first appear. There are connections between them—connections that suggest existential dangers to the world as we know it. The Magnus Archives is a horror TTRPG created by monte cooke games and based on the hit podcast The Magnus Archives. Players comfortable with the system may prepare a character in advance, however premade characters will be provided. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | SFS2 #1-07: Seize and Destroy | RPG | 5 available | L02 | Pathfinder & Starfinder Society (PFS) |
| Family Friendly A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 2nd-level characters. Starfinder Society Scenarios are adventures which immerse you as a hero in ongoing Starfinder Society storylines. Scenarios contributing to the year-long metaplot have a note on their product pages. Running time 2-3 hours. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-2:25pm | Survive The Island | Boardgame | Full | G03 | Dylan Watson |
| Family Friendly A cutthroat game(that you shouldn't take too seriously) in which players seek to evacuate their adventurers — especially those of a high value — from a sinking island to maximize their score. DON'T PLAY if you don't enjoy meanness/take that in your games. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | Vantage | RPG | Full | M12 | Michael Penner |
| Mature Themes You and your team crash land on a strange alien world with a single mission. You each land in a different place on the planet and must work together to navigate this new world. Will you complete your mission? Will you achieve your destiny? | |||||
| Sat 12:30-2:25pm | Veiled Fate | Boardgame | Full | G16 | Kevin Brouwer |
| Family Friendly Veiled fate is part social deduction, part strategy game. Players control the actions of Demigods, doing their best not to make their own identity known. Newcomers welcome! We’ll play with myself and my wife (5p total). Ages 16+. Will be playing with some elements from the Tribunal expansion! | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | The ÎLO Play to Win Zone | Boardgame | Drop-In | ÎLO | ÎLO |
| Play to Win Join ÎLO to play Faraway, Fighting Fantasy Adventures, Flight, King of Tokyo, Knarr, Luz, Mozaik, Oliva or Sauros and potentially take the game home with you at the end of the weekend. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Arcane Dominion: The Train Through Trollwood Forest | RPG | 2 available | C02 | Christopher J.R.R. Penner |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly An odd sound from the woods draws you in to investigate. There you will find new faces, friends, and foes. The question remains... will you make it out?This is a role-playing game that uses the Arcane Dominion TTRPG ruleset (D&D adjacent), dice and characters will be waiting for you! | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | DICE FOOTBALL-Go For It | Boardgame | 4 available | G51 | Marc Penner |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly Local Designer & Family Friendly Dice Football is a 2-Player Game. You Roll the Dice to try and Sack the QB or Pick-Off the Pass...While I Roll the Dice to Run the Ball or Throw the Long Bomb. Can I move the ball down the field, and Kick the Game Winning Field Goal? You make it all happen...in this Fast Paced, Family Friendly Football Game For All Ages. 2 GAME SLOTS AVAILABLE 1v1 per game slot. CFL / NFL...either way...Down-Set-Hup!!! | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Learn to play: Pixel Planes, Happy Salmon | Boardgame | 6 available | G06 | Montana Quiring |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly Learn to play some fun real-time card games. Family friendly! | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | Simple Superheroes: One Decade Later | RPG | 5 available | M11 | Compose Dreams Games |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly In celebration of the 10th year of Simple Superheroes, play as a super who has been fighting the good fight for 10 years. Is it time to hang up the cape? Mentor a new hero? Or upgrade your abilities? Make your veteran superhero with the designer of the game. How will you face the threat of time? | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | THE COFFIN SOCIETY 1888: BLOOD OF THE CATACOMBS | RPG | 3 available | C06 | GMB (Gregory) |
| Local Designer THE COFFIN SOCIETY 1888: BLOOD OF THE CATACOMBSThe Curse is spreading throughout the city. Can the Coffin Society find the hidden grave boxes of Dracula before their own perished loved ones return? Coffin Society 1888 : A Danger in the Details is a TTRPG created illustrated (and run!) by GMB Chomichuk This Storyline develops over the course of the weekend. Your actions will have consequences on this Story. Feel free to come back or check in on how your Plot Twists affect future chapters. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | 10 minute RPG | RPG | 1 available | C03 | Lee McFarland |
| For Kids This beginner friendly roleplaying game runs in an hour or less. It is a great chance for new and experienced rpg players to collaborate and win the day! (requires some reading) | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Arena of Blood | Miniatures | Drop-In | M01 | David Violago |
| Family Friendly Arena of Blood is a different kind of miniatures game from Wiley Games. Playing card activation, with modifiers to who swings a blow first. Your gladiator's 4 skills add abilities, armour, extra dice, and re-rolls. These are also your hit points; you lose skills as you are wounded. Different gladiator types are represented, plus some other creatures. Can you face a bear?NO measurement of movement, or of firing range if you have a bow or javelins. You move where you will as part of the activation; the fighting area is so limited you get right to bashing about. (It’s been 28 years since the first time I was introduced to a game that had no measurement - the excellent Crossfire, by Arty Conliffe). Fast play with very cinematic outcomes.All painted miniatures provided. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Between Two Cities - Capitals | Boardgame | 1 available | G65 | Kirby |
| Build a shared city with each of your neighbours. Can you make both thrive?If we manage to get a second game in we will add the CAPITALS expansion which adds parks and bridges. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Blueprints of Mad King ludwig | Boardgame | Full | M03 | Cheryl Petursson |
| Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig is a game featuring an ever-so-satisfying flip and sketch mechanic! This full-color drawing experience scratches the itch for strategy, creativity, and competition! There is a lot to keep track of as the king keeps changing his desires for his new castle. Come prepared to pay attention and check your work as we go. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Bullet | Boardgame | Full | G15 | Joel Toews |
| Family Friendly Do you love Puzzle Fighter? Tetris Attack? Puzzle video games in general? Then Bullet might be right up your alley! | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Cubitos | Boardgame | Full | M06 | Kevin Petursson |
| Family Friendly A simple race where rolling dice lets you move and buy more dice. Push your luck, come on... you know that next roll is going to be a good one. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | Daggerheart | RPG | Full | M05 | Michael Beck |
| Mature Themes This will be a introduction to the high-fantasy lands of Daggerheart. A new (2025) D&D-adjacent system with focus on narrative-driven play and fast-paced combat. Starting from pre-generated player characters that you will flesh out, we will spend a short bit of time to collaboratively create the scenario/setting. That means: You -- the players -- are storytellers with me. What will happen? Nobody knows at this point, but we will play to find out together! New players to Daggerheart or TTRPG in general are welcome. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | DC United: Batman Hush | Boardgame | 2 available | M08 | Diogo Tozetto |
| Family Friendly Beginner friendly game! DC Super Heroes United: Batman Hush core boxShowcase villain: Joker and Harley. Bonus (if time allows): Superman (Controlled) | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | Dinogenics | Boardgame | Full | SH3 | Raymond N |
| Family Friendly Build and manage your own dinosaur island resort. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy | Boardgame | 1 available | H08 | Ross Cooper |
| Family Friendly This is designed as a teaching game so all players will be Terra, people who have played before are still welcome. A game of Eclipse places you in control of a vast interstellar civilization, competing for success with its rivals. You explore new star systems, research technologies, and build spaceships with which to wage war. There are many potential paths to victory, so you need to plan your strategy according to the strengths and weaknesses of your species, while paying attention to the other civilizations' endeavours. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | Goblin Quest | RPG | Full | C05 | Kyle Tichon |
| Family Friendly Goblin Quest is a tabletop roleplaying game about slapstick violence, fatal ineptitude, and the greatest adventure of your life!Play five goblins each (in sequence, not parallel) and watch them meet hilarious ends while failing to achieve the most basic tasks. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Intro to 2-player games | Boardgame | 2 available | G13 | Tess Gehman |
| Are there two of you? Are you tired of needing more people to play games? In this session, players can choose from a variety of 2-player games to learn. Selected games are: Boop, Codenames: Duet, Kelp, Lacuna, Land vs Sea, Lost Cities, Morels, Patchwork, and Skyteam. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Next Station London, Next Station Paris | Boardgame | Full | G23 | John Reichel |
| Family Friendly Play Next Station London, then if time permts Play Next Station Paris, or London again | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Ninja Academy | Boardgame | 1 available | G54 | Armando Galindo |
| Family Friendly Your training alternates collective trials and duels, in a series of varied tests drawn randomly. For example, try to be the first player to place a Ninja meeple on each of your fingertips, or be the quickest to assemble 5 wood logs vertically! Be strong enough to collect points depending on your score, but be also strategic enough when you bet on the winner of each duel! ⚐ Your opportunity to practice the game ahead of the "Winner Keeps The Game" match on Sunday. ⚐ | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | One Honk Before Midnight | RPG | Full | C01 | Sean Vincent |
| Family Friendly One Honk Before Midnight is an upcoming TRPG that takes place in a world that has been invaded by a gaggle of angry geese. Similarly to Untitled Goose Game – an indie smash hit that released in 2019 and has players controlling a goose who’s attempting to ruin as many people’s days as possible – One Honk Before Midnight tasks players with spreading goose-based chaos across a local town. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | PFS2 #3-07: The Locked Lodge | RPG | Full | L04 | Pathfinder & Starfinder Society (PFS) |
| Mature Themes A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters. Pathfinder Society Scenarios are adventures which immerse you as a hero in ongoing Pathfinder Society storylines. Scenarios contributing to the year-long metaplot have the metaplot tag on their product pages. Running time 4-5 hours. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | PFS2 #7-08: The Haunted Corridor | RPG | 2 available | L01 | Pathfinder & Starfinder Society (PFS) |
| Family Friendly A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters. Pathfinder Society Scenarios are adventures which immerse you as a hero in ongoing Pathfinder Society storylines. Scenarios contributing to the year-long metaplot have the metaplot tag on their product pages. Running time 4-5 hours. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-2:25pm | Through the Desert | Boardgame | 1 available | G44 | Daniel Maciel |
| Family Friendly From the award-winning game designer Reiner Knizia comes a game of strategy, patience, and cool plastic camels! The desert is still treacherous, mysterious, and without mercy. But for those willing to risk the dangers of the shifting, sun-baked sands, the desert holds riches beyond compare. In Through the Desert, two to five players each control a tribe of nomads vying for control of the desert. By establishing caravans and taking over oases, the players gain points as their tribes increase in power. Strategy is essential in deciding how and where to build your tribe's caravans. There are multiple ways to gain points and several ways to win. Should you try to build the longest caravan? Or should you dominate the desert's oases? Don't forget to keep an eye on your opponents' caravans, or you may find your own tribe cut off from valuable water holes. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Who Would Win? | Boardgame | Drop-In | SH6 | Darryl |
| Family Friendly In Who Would Win? two players each draw one character card, then turn up an event card. Each player then has 20 seconds to argue why his character would win whatever event is presented. Why would Albert Einstein beat Darth Vader at gardening? Could Lassie beat Mark Twain in a singing contest? You tell me!The other players serve as the jury and vote on which player had the better argument; that player receives the event card. The first player to win five event cards wins the game. | |||||
37 games in this slot, thanks to all of our GMs for making Game-itoba such a great place to try new games
Please note, Game-itoba is a volunteer event and of course things do come up, games may be rescheduled or cancelled at short notice, we will try to notify you by email should that be the case but it may not be possible.
37 total, 16 full (5 drop-in)
Need help, email us at info@game-itoba.ca