The best games by Luke Laurie 🇺🇸👨 2026

Players control unique factions in an epic worker placement game set in a magical world filled with elemental monsters, dragons, wizards, and warriors vying for dominance over eight elemental realms. The game combines worker placement, area control, engine building, and unique worker units, allowing players to place workers, regroup, and activate adventure cards while exploring powerful action spaces. Ultimately, players with the greatest elemental dominance will rule Eldervale.

Explore the dazzling, uncharted region of space at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy, filled with the remnants of a precursor civilization and patrolled by malevolent extraterrestrial raiders. Lead a desperate faction striving to establish a new civilization, starting with just a space station, a few ships, and limited resources. Players will engage in resource gathering, claim moons, acquire modules, and compete for dominance in various fields to advance on the progress track, while strategically navigating challenges posed by opponents and raiders.

Scott Caputo, the designer of Whistle Stop, has teamed up with Luke Laurie to create a new worker placement strategy title. In this standalone game, players leave behind the railways and take to the skies with airships, warships, and hot air balloons. Players invest their company’s profits in new technologies in the Rocky Mountains, while their workers build elaborate structures and gather resources amidst rising waters that create tension on the dynamic game board. Each game evolves differently, offering endless replay value as players decide between acquiring new abilities or building various contraptions to secure victory.

A failed mission leads to rising tensions aboard a colony ship that has crash-landed on a frozen, unexplored planet due to an act of sabotage. Leaders of rival factions fight for survival and control over underground caves, taking strategic actions to prevent further sabotage and rescue their crew in cryostasis. Players must gather resources, enhance their platforms, and use versatile cards to conquer caverns and secure victory in this harsh environment.