Most Anticipated Tabletop Games of 2026 (Including One You Can’t Buy Yet)
Short answer: 2026's biggest tabletop stories so far include the record-breaking Cyberpunk Trading Card Game (over $26.9M raised, the most funded tabletop game in Kickstarter history), Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork (over $3.2M raised, shipping to backers in Q2), and a wave of new party games chasing the post-Exploding-Kittens crowd — including Eat Your Neighbor, which hasn't launched its Kickstarter yet but is already building a pre-launch waitlist.
The big funded stories of 2026 so far
Cyberpunk Trading Card Game — closed April 17, 2026, with $26,953,978 raised from 47,676 backers, making it the most funded TCG and the most funded tabletop game in Kickstarter history to date.
Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork — from Modiphius, raised over $3.2 million and began shipping to backers in Q2 2026.
Moytura — a tarot-sized card game pairing strong artwork with asymmetric faction abilities and tight tactical combat, drawing comparisons to a compact, heavily-themed euro game.
New party and card games to watch
All In: Predictions — designer Phil Walker-Harding (known for Sushi Go) brings a gamer-focused twist on poker-hand manipulation, letting players discard cards for powers and reclaim cards others discarded.
Rock Hard 1977: Ear Candy — combines music trivia with resource management, positioned as a potential party-game breakout of the season.
Eat Your Neighbor — hasn't launched its Kickstarter campaign yet, which makes it the wildcard on this list. It's a card, dice, and board game for 2–6 players about betrayal, backyard BBQs, and getting your neighbors' "Nugs" eaten, run over, or buried before they get yours — built for the crowd that's already worn out Exploding Kittens and Cards Against Humanity. No funding numbers to report yet, because there's no campaign yet — but that also means early sign-ups get first access to backer pricing the moment it opens. Get notified at launch →
Why watch a game that hasn't even launched?
Every game above already has funding numbers because they've already run their campaigns. The actual edge in backing crowdfunded games is getting in before the numbers exist — when early-bird tiers are still open and pricing hasn't climbed. If you back projects specifically to catch that window, a pre-launch signup list is the highest-leverage five seconds you can spend on a game you're curious about.