The best games by Jonathan Gilmour-Long 🇺🇸👨 2026

Players assume the roles of news anchors at a desk or in the field within a strange evolving world. The game unfolds over three rounds—Morning News, News at Noon, and Evening Edition—where participants alternately create news stories, repurpose elements from previous rounds, and introduce new articles. Each round prompts players to adapt assigned story elements to their news segments, leading to increasingly bizarre and chaotic narratives as the same news story evolves through different themes.

Mental Blocks is a game of puzzling perspectives where players attempt to complete a puzzle using oversized foam blocks while viewing only one perspective of the design. Teamwork is essential, but there's a time limit, and players face additional challenges, such as restrictions on speaking or touching certain colored blocks. The game includes sixty puzzles in two modes, with increasing difficulty, and players can introduce a traitor to complicate their block-building efforts even further.

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game immerses 2-5 players into a chilling post-apocalyptic world where a dwindling colony of survivors faces threats both from the relentless undead and the darkest corners of human nature. As leaders of survivor factions, players must grapple with their group's well-being while harboring personal secrets and objectives that may conflict with the common goal. The game is part of the "Crossroads" series by Plaid Hat Games, offering an intense psychological survival experience that tests the bonds of trust and cooperation.

Dinosaur Island is a dynamic and competitive board game where players step into the shoes of park managers, tasked with resurrecting dinosaurs and building the most exciting and secure dinosaur park. The game cleverly combines elements of DNA research, strategic park construction, and risk management.

Welcome to Outpost 2, set deep in the Amazon. You and your team have been sent on an expedition into the jungle, where alarming reports indicate that locals are moving away from the riverbanks. Strange creatures have been captured in night vision photos, and you must secure the riverboat while investigating these unusual beings. Can you navigate through the jungle in Outpost Amazon?

Many heroes head into battle, but some never return, leaving their valuable possessions behind. They participate in a bidding war for the vaults they left behind, striving to win precious items by offering gold, victory points, or new abilities. Players take turns as auction masters, engaging in a fierce bidding war to sell rooms filled with treasures to one another.

Players face off against zombies in a skill-based game where they must use tools creatively to eliminate the undead while avoiding being overwhelmed. Form a group of ten survivors based on the bestselling game and explore the city through ten scenarios. Beware, even the slightest noise can attract the zombies, especially with the new and terrifying zombie tower looming over you!

Wasteland Express Delivery Service plunges players into a post-apocalyptic reality where they become drivers for the last delivery company on Earth. Designed by a renowned trio of game designers and illustrated by a famed comic artist, this game combines a rich thematic experience with deep strategic play. Players navigate a devastated landscape, delivering goods between settlements while contending with raider attacks and fulfilling missions for the remnants of civilization.

The realms are divided, their former glory lost and forgotten. The Tyrant Queen has seized the throne, driving the rightful heirs into deep exile. Players are the sons and daughters of once-great houses, gathering followers and recruits under the guidance of advisors to reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

In this game, 2 to 4 players immerse themselves in the world of the classic Atari arcade game. One player controls a gnome who explores the forest and tries to defeat the centipede, while the centipede player slithers to the other end of the board with the goal of destroying the gnome. The gnome player rolls dice to perform actions, while the centipede player lays down cards to spawn fleas, spiders, and mushrooms, aiming to control the board. The first player to eliminate their opponent wins!

As global tensions rise, leaders of powerful nations prepare to defend their people or destroy their enemies. Alliances are formed but remain fragile, and diplomacy is as crucial as strategic planning and acquiring armaments. In this classic arcade-themed game, 3 to 6 players build and launch missiles and weapons to destroy enemy cities while protecting their own. Players negotiate, establish temporary alliances, and secretly plan their attacks, leading to dramatic showdown moments where destruction rains down. The player who best safeguards their cities while obliterating their opponents' cities wins the game.

Welcome to Outpost 1, the first scientific observatory in the frozen tundra of Siberia. Your team has been investigating anomalous activities in the region, but recent events have taken a turn for the worse. As a long winter storm sets in, survival depends on wisely managing limited resources to endure the freezing conditions and unseen threats outside.