Time for a round-up of new and upcoming card games, although (unless my research has failed me) only one of these titles is actually new:
▪️ As memed on Facebook on March 23, 2026, Pandasaurus Games will be the new English-language publisher of Uwe Rosenberg's Bohnanza following the closure of AMIGO's U.S. office at the end of 2025.
▪️ Another Pandasaurus item: U.S. retail Walmart named Bruno Cathala and Théo Rivière's Sea Salt & Paper its game of the month for March 2026, with this edition of the game including both the Extra Salt and Extra Pepper expansions. (Yes, I realize March is almost over.)
Historical aside: Walmart started featuring a "Game of the Month" in May 2025 with Flip 7, and its choices have been eclectic over the past ten months, with Chutes & Ladders: Bluey in July 2025, Cows in Space (in which you use a magnetic headband to pick up cows) in August 2025, and Exploding Kittens: The Board Game — TOTY's game of the year for 2026 — in November 2025. (Cows in Space was a TOTY nominee in this category, as was Walmart's December 2025 game of the month: Connect 4 Frenzy.)
▪️ In 2026, Devir will release new editions of Taiki Shinzawa's American Bookshop and Urs Hostettler's Tichu...but only in Spanish.
▪️ Speaking of Shinzawa, in June 2026 GameHead will release Tricks of the Future (as shown at GAMA Expo 2026) — or Trick to the Future (as shown on BGG) — with this being a new edition of Twinkle Starship, which was originally released as §egment Trix.
This trick-taking game has four suits of cards numbered 0-8, with purple always being trump, and each player starts with 5 or 6 fuel rods. As you play tricks, following suit if possible, you can modify a card's value by placing fuel rods on the card, rotating the card, or both. (Each card shows its possible values on the edges.)
After all tricks have been played, if you end up winning more tricks than the number of unspent fuel rods you have, you score 0 points. Spending fuel is easy, so it's not rewarded! In the earlier versions of this design, you needed to win exactly as many tricks as the number of your remaining sticks, but this scoring rule has been softened for Future, with an exact match now scoring twice as many points as when you have more remaining sticks than tricks.
Also, if you win zero tricks, you score 3 points per empty fuel rod space, rewarding you for being generous with your fuel while letting someone else take the trick...although you might be setting them up to fail, of course.
▪️ Circadia is a new design from Hisashi Hayashi and Synapses Games due out in June 2026 that plays with 2-5 people and that carries the appeal of Lost Cities in you managing a hand of cards while trying to lay them out in the right order.
Cards come in three suits in values 1-5, and three scoring cards (called "habitats") are revealed for each suit at the start of play. On a turn, you collect one or more cards from the river, then play cards of a single suit and value into one of three rows, with each row being a single suit and with all added cards being equal to or higher than the last card in this row.
At turn's end, you can cash in a row to claim a habitat card as long as you have at least as many cards in the row as listed on the habitat card, with larger numbers being worth more points. However, habitat cards come in day and night varieties, and you must collect them in an alternating sequence.
As soon as someone has at least 15 points in collected habitats, you complete one more round, then dab in honor of the winner.
