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, 11:30pmSaturday: 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, 11:30pmSunday: 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 |
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Fri 6:30-12:25am | ILO drop-in Play to Win Library | Boardgame | Drop-In | G*1 | ILO |
Play to Win Join ILO to play a game from their play to win library, play the game and enter the draw to win some of the games played at the end of the event (draws on Sunday). | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Arcane Dominion | RPG | Full | R02 | Christopher |
Local Designer & Family Friendly While visiting with friends in the old part of town, you've fallen through the floorboards and into the ancient ruins of era's past. Get to your feet and find something to defend yourself from what lies in the darkness... Experience an immersive tabletop RPG where customization and character progression are seamlessly integrated with collaborative storytelling and role play. Use a unique system that incorporates fantasy RPG classics with a modern flair to dynamically train each stat of your character through in-game time! | |||||
Fri 6:30-10:25pm | HEARTH RPG | RPG | 8 available | R04 | Nicholas |
Local Designer & Mature Themes HEARTH is a D20 fantasy roleplaying game based on collaborative, narrative story telling. Our Narrator will be running our first module, Three Streams, where a you will be playing as group of adventurers in search of a local blacksmith in order to fight a terrible beast that lives in the woods. (Gee, I sure hope nothing bad happens to the blacksmith) | |||||
Fri 6:30-9:25pm | Magic, Myth, and Mystery | RPG | 5 available | R01 | Ryan Clement |
Local Designer For centuries, humanity fought a secret shadow war against the creatures of darkness and myth, until one day the unthinkable happened. Peace. In exchange for freely and openly joining human society, the nearly extinct supernaturals agreed to follow human laws so long as humanity stopped its incessant messing around with dangerous magics. You and your human-adjacent colleagues work for OMMM, an international NGO dedicated to stopping rampaging mythological beasts, solving arcane mystical puzzles, confronting illegal sorcery, navigating office politics, and of course managing social media. Magic, Myth, and Mystery is a locally designed rules-light RPG that uses cards rather than dice, giving players more influence over the story. Set in a globe-trotting modern fantasy world not unlike our own, players will choose one of six pre-generated characters, some human and some less so, based on various global legends. Together, they must save the world, or at least avoid making things worse. | |||||
Fri 6:30-9:25pm | The Dealership | Boardgame | Full | GH2 | Eric |
Local Designer & Family Friendly The Dealership is a 1 to 5 player(s) game about competing Independent car dealership, fighting to secure a lucrative partnership! A Med-to-Heavy Euro with Cards (Hand) and resources management ready for you to enjoy! | |||||
Fri 6:30-9:25pm | Arcs | Boardgame | Full | GE4 | Liam Hesketh-Jo |
Mature Themes Space themed 4x on the lighter side mechanically but there can be a lot of nuance in how it is played. Combat plays an important but not overwhelming role in the game. Like a lot of Cole Wherle's games it can get a little bit mean (similar in ways to Root). | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Cryo | Boardgame | Full | GB3 | Kyle Skayman |
Family Friendly Your spaceship has been sabotaged. You survived the crash, but the planet's temperature is deadly at night. With the crew split into factions, you need to work to awaken the passengers from cryo sleep. Get as many underground, near geothermal heat, as possible! Middle-weight game with very easy to understand iconography. No one should be afraid of learning this. (Designer of Dwellings of Eldervale, but much simpler) | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Flame Craft | Boardgame | Full | GF2 | Dora Dickson |
Family Friendly players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. | |||||
Fri 6:30-12:25am | Hegemony | Boardgame | Full | H01 | warren maruschak |
Mature Themes Simulate a whole contemporary nation in this asymmetric, politico-economic euro-game. | |||||
Fri 6:30-9:25pm | Kingmaker the second | Boardgame | Full | H06 | Mark Patek |
Family Friendly Kingmaker: The Royal Re-Launch depicts the period of English history in the 15th century that became known as the Wars of the Roses. | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Lords Of Vegas | Boardgame | Full | GB2 | Kevin Brouwer |
In Lords of Vegas, you buy, sell, trade, and gamble your way to the top as you build your empire along the storied Strip! We’ll play 5-players (including me!) with the newly-released revised edition (base game). All friendly folk (ages 16+) and first-timers are welcome! | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Sagrada | Boardgame | Full | GC3 | Raymond N |
Family Friendly Craft the best stained-glass windows by carefully placing colorful transparent dice. | |||||
Fri 6:30-9:25pm | The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era | Boardgame | 2 available | SH3 | Shannon Wedge |
Mature Themes The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a cooperative adventure game where players take on the roles of customizable heroes, each with unique classes, skills, and abilities that evolve throughout the journey. Players will explore one of the regions of Tamriel, levelling up their characters and facing a mix of strategic combat, dungeon crawling, and narrative-driven challenges. In this demo, players will create their characters and experience a shortened version of the first session of a campaign (which typically unfolds over three play sessions). | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Tiny Epic Galaxies and Beyond the Black expansion | Boardgame | Full | GC2 | Ralph |
Family Friendly Tiny Epic Galaxies is a strategic game where players control galactic empires, expanding influence by acquiring planets and managing resources. With its innovative dice-rolling mechanic and rich game play, it offers a perfect blend of strategy and luck. Beyond the Black is an expansion that adds new ships, pilots, and exploration mechanics to Tiny Epic Galaxies. It introduces deeper strategic elements, allowing players to explore uncharted space, recruit unique pilots with special abilities, and enhance their fleets. | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | WarHammer Underworlds | Boardgame | Full | SH2 | Steven Hunnie |
Family Friendly The new edition of WarHammer Underworlds is upon us! Try this exciting arena combat board game set in WarHammers Age of Sigmar. Enter the Realm of Embergard as each player takes their warband to amass endless glory. Each player will use a 32 card deck to navigate their warbands fighters through the board state, scoring objectives and using gambits and ploys to ensure victory. On top of that players will be able to equip upgrades to enhance their fighters abilities or hinder the progress of their opponent. This game is the ultimate combination of miniature, dice and card game. The demonstration can provide one player learning against the game master, or two people playing against each other while the game master guides them through learning to play. See you in Embergard!!! | |||||
Fri 6:30-8:25pm | Warhammer Underworlds | Boardgame | 4 available | H08 | Jer Johnson |
Mature Themes Two Player skirmish miniatures game. Like the Old World meets Nightmare Chess. A little bit of deck building, dice rolling and luck. I will be teaching anyone who wants to check it out for the first 2 slots Friday night. | |||||
Fri 7:30-10:25pm | D&D 5e - Rosewood Manor | RPG | 1 available | R08 | DM Lytha |
Local Designer & Mature Themes Long has Rosewood Manor stood upon the cliff above the town of Ashenfall. For centuries the manor has passed from one master to another falling further and further into disrepair. That is until the current master of the manor, Lord Xalvador Shadowbrook, spent a vast fortune on it's restoration. Once the repairs were complete and permanent staff hired, things turned horribly wrong. Anyone who spent the night at the manor disappeared without a trace. Adventurers have attempted to solve this mystery only for them to never be seen again. There is now a standing contract from Lord Shadowbrook for anyone who can "survive" the night in the manor, rewarding 1000gp to each person who is still present the following morning.
Rosewood Manor is a One Shot for 3-6 level 5 characters and should take around 3 hours to complete.
Please create a level 5 using Point buy or Standard array for skills and Max HP for level 1. You will then get the average for the remaining levels. Starting equipment + 200gp + 1 Uncommon magic item, Spellcasting Focus or Component Pouch + Enough materials for 1 cast of each spell.
character. | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Dice Baseball - The Lucky 7 | Cardgame | 4 available | GH6 | marc penner |
Local Designer & Family Friendly Dice Baseball - The Lucky 7 is a 2-Player Game. You Choose the Pitch and its Outcome (Pitch Card) and I will take a swing by Rolling the Dice. Let's see what happens next...! You make it all happen...in this Fast Paced, Family Friendly Baseball Game For All Ages. 2 GAME SLOTS AVAILABLE 1v1 per game slot. You're Up...Play Ball. | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Forbidden Island | Boardgame | Full | GH5 | Q4ia |
Local Designer & Family Friendly Co-op games: Learn the classic, Forbidden Island and playtest Q4ia's Usurper. | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Galactic Cruise Learn to Play | Boardgame | Full | GH4 | Dennis |
Local Designer Local Designer. Learn to Play Galactic Cruise with the designer! I will teach you the game and then you'll be able to play about half of a game. Game description below:
Hello, and welcome to Galactic Cruise. Here, we offer our guests something special: the comfort of a luxury cruise with the innovation of space travel. As the first company to offer extended-stay space vacations, we are excited to have you working for us! As a supervisor of this company, youll be expected to not only build these ships and satisfy our guests, but also to help the company thrive by enhancing our company network, inventing new technologies, and growing our workforce. We are a united company, and youll often find that what another supervisor does will make your job easier. Let me be clear, though, this is a competition. Our current CEO will be stepping down in three years, and the supervisor who comes out on top will take his place. | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Gemstones | Boardgame | 6 available | GC4 | Marek Corbett |
Local Designer & Family Friendly Venture into the Gemstone Mine. Beware of cave-ins and rockfalls as you ascend, for the journey is fraught with peril. The darkness and narrow passages can be treacherous, but with a bit of luck and skill, you can safely navigate your way out. Gemstones is a new boardgame created by a local Winnipeg designer. Play time is 60 - 90 minutes. | |||||
Fri 7:30-10:25pm | Reanimated | RPG | 2 available | C04 | Jed Doerksen |
Local Designer & Family Friendly The dead have risen and now all that matters is survival. Join us in this zombie themed TTRPG run by local developer, Jed Doerksen of Trapped Chest and see if you have what it takes or if you will join the ranks of the dead. | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Sneaks and Looters Playtest | Boardgame | Full | GH3 | David Plumridge |
Local Designer & Family Friendly Explore new heights with a prototype game of Sneaks and Looters! Players will have to predict what their opponents are going to next otherwise they will get caught by some of this games surprises! Players will play their movement cards simultaneously but only get to move forward if they are the only card played of that value, everyone else moves backwards on the board! There are also event cards that effect each decision along the way! | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | The Incident and Gloom Lake - A Danger in the Details - Its small town psychics vs Hungry UFOs, Reptilian Skinchangers, and Mind Control Agents. | Boardgame | 3 available | H07 | GMB Chomichuk |
Local Designer Since The Incident I can move things with my mind. I was with my friends when it happened. Yesterday a friend went missing, just after i saw Some Mysterious Strangers/ The Light in the Sky/ The Nice New Neighbors. A voice on the TV/ Record Players to me to Avoid the Light/ Open the Inner Door/Follow the song. The Incident and Gloom Lake. It’s small town psychics vs Hungry UFOs, Reptilian Skinchangers, and Mind Control Agents. | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Dead Man Tell No Tales | Boardgame | Full | GE2 | Amanda |
Dead Men Tell No Tales is a co-operative game. Skelit's Revenge....the most feared ship on the high seas....and you've finally taken it. Captain Fromm and his skeleton crew have amassed a massive treasure, and now is your chance to take it all. Players take on the role of Pirates who are boarding Skelit's Revenge for one purpose....to take the loot. They must battle the flames, the skeleton crew, and their own fatigue if they hope to make it out alive. | |||||
Fri 7:30-11:25pm | Dungeon World | RPG | 2 available | R03 | Lee McFarland |
Family Friendly Dungeon World is a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game. It combines traditional classes and races with collaborative storytelling in a classic fantasy world that we create and explore together. | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Fireball Island: Curse of Vul-Kar | Boardgame | Full | SH4 | Yuriy |
Family Friendly Welcome to Fireball Island where treasure, traps, and turmoil await! Scour the isle with your explorers in your search for the treasures of Vul-Kar all the while avoiding perilous pitfalls and tumultuous turns along the way! But, BEWARE! Vul-Kar is always watching your every move and will unleash his fiery wrath upon all those who dare try to steal his treasures! | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Gaslands: Refuelled! | Miniatures | Full | H05 | Dave Violago |
Family Friendly Gaslands is a tabletop game of post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem. With fast and cinematic rules, it is designed to be played with toy cars, allowing players to ram, skid and race their way through the wreckage of a burnt-out Earth. Hosted by The Fawcett Avenue Conscripts. | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Heroclix | Boardgame | 3 available | GD2 | Robert Neville |
Family Friendly Will be hosting Heroclix games in a battle royal format. Come learn how to play Heroclix! 300-point forces will be pre-made for you ahead of time, and you get to take home the force you play with!! | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Learn to Play Kingswood | Boardgame | Full | GG4 | John reichel |
Family Friendly Learn to play. Players take turns controlling the guild's adventurers moving about the village. The purpose of traveling to 5 different locations is to either build up new or refresh your existing resources. Once you feel like you have enough resources, you will venture out into the Forest to encounter a variety of monsters. These monsters will give you points to add to your glory and some of them provide immediate benefits when they are defeated. The first player to gain 20 glory triggers the end game and once all players have had an equal number of turns, the guild leader with the highest glory total is declared the victor! | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Learn to Play Pathfinder | RPG | 3 available | R07 | PFS |
Family Friendly Learn to Play Pathfinder Second Edition! This fantasy role-playing game is easy to learn. You can play one of the pre-generated characters, or bring your own following the rules for the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program (see details at the link above). | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | Let's Go! To Japan | Boardgame | Full | GB4 | Melanie Godin |
Family Friendly Card-focused game. Plan out your trip by playing activity cards for each day of a week. But watch those energy levels and train tickets! | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Loot | Boardgame | 1 available | GF5 | Cherry |
Family Friendly The official game of SPIEL Essen: Visit as many booths as possible at the games fair to collect points and unlock special abilities. We might be able to play multiple games (if time allows). | |||||
Fri 7:30-10:25pm | Marcher: Empires at War | Miniatures | 2 available | SH5 | Johnathan R |
Family Friendly Marcher is a D10-Based, Alternating Activation wargame played on the company level. Players will take command of a company of soldiers from their selected empire, and utilize infantry, armor, and artillery to achieve victory on the battlefield. | |||||
Fri 7:30-12:25am | PFS 2-03 Catastrophe's Spark | RPG | 2 available | R06 | PFS |
Family Friendly In the ruined cyclopes city of Min-Khadaim, the Pathfinders search for answers into the disappearance of one of their own and the nature of a dangerous ritual. As the Pathfinders delve ever deeper into Iobaria's lost past, will they find the answers they seek, or will they uncover even greater dangers than those that have already been unleashed? Written by Tineke Bolleman. Scenario tags: Metaplot, Vigilant Seal | |||||
Fri 7:30-12:25am | PFS 6-08 Upon Wheels and Rime | RPG | 1 available | R05 | PFS |
Family Friendly A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters. Within Irrisen, Queen Anastasia has spent the better part of a decade testing the boundaries of her rulership and seeing where she can and cannot make change. After enough research and discussion with fellow leaders, she's finally decided full steam ahead on the first of many plans she has to help bring her new home to the forefront of Avistani politics. As an international organization of travelers, she's called upon the Pathfinder Society for their opinions on the platform of her new venture, looking for insights from those who have to cross over wide landscapes, however her meeting with agents and contractors goes off the rails when a group of frost goblins looking to let off some steam launch an attack conducted by a disappointed fey. The Pathfinders will need to catch those goblins and defeat the fey in order ensure that Queen Anastasia's plan doesn't get derailed into the ground! Written by Dave Nelson. Scenario tags: none | |||||
Fri 7:30-9:25pm | RWBY: Combat Ready | Boardgame | 5 available | GE3 | Ben Hofer |
Family Friendly RWBY: Combat Ready is an exciting cooperative game for 2-4 players, with adapted rules for 5 players . It captures the flavor and excitement of the animated web series RWBY from Rooster Teeth, with fast-paced battles, where all players are actively involved and engaged at the same time. This version will include the JNPR expansion and some custom content. | |||||
Fri 7:30-8:25pm | Splendor | Boardgame | Full | GD3 | Maggie |
Family Friendly Collect gems and trade them in to become the best jeweler in town! Can you build your collection to buy the best gems before your competitors snag them? | |||||
Fri 7:30-10:25pm | Weirdwood Manor | Boardgame | Full | C03 | Scott |
Family Friendly Weirdwood Manor is a cooperative board game that marries great adventure gameplay with some euro-inspired underpinnings, as you and your group of valiant companions battle to protect Weirdwood Manor and its enigmatic ruler, Lady Weirdwood, from an invading Fae Monster and his Clockwork Scarab minions. The Manor is a mysterious and magical place where rooms and the pathways between them can shift as time progresses. The game features a unique temporal mechanic; every time a player or the Fae Monster takes an action, time will move forward in the game and the connections between the rooms will shift via unique rotating corridor rings on the game board. Players have some agency in how to use their actions to affect how quickly (or slowly) time moves, but beware, if the players use up their allotted time and have not defeated the monster, they lose! |
39 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.
39 total, 21 full (1 drop-in)
Need help, email us at info@game-itoba.ca