Sentinels of the Multiverse fans have had a weird month. In April, digital studio Handelabra bought the Greater Than Games brand and the Sentinel Comics IP out of the wreckage of the company's Flat River Group ownership. On 12 May, Greater Than Games co-founders Christopher Badell and Paul Bender announced they'd bought the whole thing back, promising a stack of new releases and a return to the studio's indie-publisher roots.
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Find events near youThe reacquired pile includes Sentinels of the Multiverse, the cult cooperative card game where superheroes punch supervillains via a clever no-GM combat system, and the Sentinel Comics RPG. Spirit Island, the other big game Greater Than Games used to publish, stayed with its other owners and is not part of the deal. Adam Rebottaro, the original Sentinel Comics co-creator and artist, is rejoining as a creative collaborator.
Badell told BoardGameWire the team is 'in the development process on a high-single-digit number of games right now'. Two are landing this summer: Digital Detox, a party game about phone addiction by Badell, and Crime Scene Tamperer, a social deduction game from Homestar Runner brothers Mike and Matt Chapman. Designer Darrell Louder has also recovered the rights to baseball game Bottom of the Ninth, which Greater Than Games will republish. A new Sentinels expansion is slated for a 2027 crowdfunding campaign.
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See how it worksThe team running things now is Bender as CEO, Badell as Chief Creative Officer, Katie Nale as COO, SaRae Henderson as Art Director, and Matthew Kroll as Creative Director. They'll be at Gen Con 2026 in Hall G's Entrepreneurs Avenue if you fancy saying hello.
Sources: Greater Than Games | BoardGameWire
