Here's the unlikely sentence of the week: Christopher Badell, the designer behind Spirit Island (BGG 8.3, a perma-fixture in the site's top 10 of all time), has made a party game about doomscrolling. Welcome to Greater Than Games' summer 2026 line-up, where the cooperative-strategy crowd are flexing some very different muscles.
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See how it worksBadell's title is Digital Detox, a party card game where players try to clear their endless feed of cat videos and memes by lobbing the worst posts back at each other before the screen-time clock runs out. It's a tonal world away from his usual fare, which is part of the appeal.
The other reveal will rattle anyone who watched Homestar Runner on a beige iMac. Dangeresque: Crime Scene Tamperer is designed by Mike and Matt Chapman (The Brothers Chaps), with Strong Bad himself, in shades, playing Detective Dangeresque. Players are incompetent criminals manipulating evidence at the scene of the crime, planting and swapping cards across three rounds to dump Guilt tokens on rivals while keeping their own pile small. Lowest Guilt at the end wins. RRP is around £20, and after years of teasing at Gen Con since 2022, it's finally hitting tables this summer.
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Start organising for freeBoardgamewire reports the revived studio, now back with founders Badell and Paul Bender after a chaotic stint under Flat River Group, has a "high-single-digit number of games" cooking, including two heavy hobby titles. Original Sentinels artist Adam Rebottaro has rejoined as a creative collaborator, with a fresh Sentinel Comics expansion teed up for crowdfunding in 2027. They'll be at Gen Con 2026 in Hall G's Entrepreneurs Avenue. Need an excuse to dust off the orange cup? Set up a Strong Bad-themed game night and pre-game with some web cartoons.
Sources: Greater Than Games | Boardgamewire | ICv2
