No Loading Games Brings More Cyberpunk to the Table

Canadian publisher No Loading Games debuted in 2025 with Gwent: The Legendary Card Game, and at Toy Fair NY in February 2026 it highlighted three upcoming releases, all bearing licensed IP, that will expand its catalog.

Each player has twelve cards in a 3x4 grid, with a Pac-Man card in one of the center spaces and the other cards initially face down — Non-final graphics and packaging

Arnaud Perez's PAC-MAN: Craze Maze is the most straightforward of these titles, with each player starting with a 3x4 grid of face-down cards, with their personal PAC-MAN occupying one of the center spaces. On a turn, you can flip a face-down card in your grid or replace one card with another, with the goal of creating a point-rich labyrinth that your PAC-MAN can maneuver through easily once someone finishes their grid and ends the round.

PAC-MAN: Craze Maze is for 2-5 players, is due out in June 2026, and will retail for US$15.

A grid of octagonal and arrow-shaped tiles form a complete grid that's occupied by cardboard standees in various regions — Mock-up of *Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Hunted*

Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Hunted is a co-operative game for 1-4 players based on the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series based on the Cyberpunk 2077 video game.

No matter the player count, you'll use all four characters in each game, playing in real-time to explore and expand the board as you work toward completing one mission or another.

All of the components of Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Hunted, including player boards, stacks of tiles, a dozen standees, and tokens

Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Hunted is due out in September 2026 and will retail for US$40, with each game taking about 25 minutes.

Components for Blue Lock Striker: cards showing soccer moves, dice, and a tiny game board featuring half of a soccer field

The anime series Blue Lock focuses on the competition to become the top striker in Japan, earning a place on the country's World Cup team — and Blue Lock Striker is a 2-4 player adaptation of this series that plays in 15 minutes. That's all I can tell you about the game, which is shown in mock-up form here.

The glass structure of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is on the left of the image, while the right shows characters from the Miraculous anime series, as well as a woman surrounded by butterflies — View from the back of a construction vehicle transport truck

I recall visiting the Spielwarenmesse toy and game fair in the late 2010s and being dumbfounded by this teenager wearing a ladybug costume that was being licensed by SO MANY COMPANIES. Not being a youngster, the Miraculous cartoon series was a complete mystery to me, but jump ahead ten years, and now Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous' lead character, is adorning a several-story building right outside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center during Toy Fair. I guess that series has made a successful leap to the U.S. — or at least someone hopes it will.