If you have ever lost a whole evening to the canal-and-rail knife fight that is Brass, here is news worth clearing the table for. Roxley Games has funded Brass: Pittsburgh, a brand new entry in the Brass series, and the studio says its Gamefound pledge manager is targeting the end of June, with a late pledge open for anyone who missed the campaign.
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Start organising for freeBrass is heavy-euro royalty. Brass: Birmingham, the 2018 reworking co-designed by Gavan Brown, knocked Gloomhaven off the top of BoardGameGeek's rankings in 2023 and has been a fixture near the summit ever since. Pittsburgh reunites Brown with original Brass designer Martin Wallace and swaps Georgian England for America's Gilded Age. You play an industrial magnate in the late-19th-century Steel Belt, laying railways and pipelines while racing to fire up steel mills and oil refineries before your rivals corner the market.
For a 2 to 4 player game running 60 to 120 minutes, Roxley is promising the same tight, interlocking economy the series is loved for, with new industries layered on top. The studio says it has leaned on pacing and on cutting the frustration and analysis paralysis that can bog a long euro down, and a solo mode is in the works. Gaming Trend gave an early build its Best of Gen Con nod in 2025.
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Find events near youThere is no firm retail date yet, with the crowdfunding edition shipping first. If your group already bickers over Birmingham, Pittsburgh looks set to hand you a fresh map to fight across. Might be time to round up a regular game night.
Sources: Roxley Games | Gamefound update | Gaming Trend | BoardGameGeek
