SPIEL 2026 Day 1 Review. The Madness Begins

It's Spiel-tacular season and Board Stupid went to Spiel 2026 in Essen to see all the latest and greatest board game releases. In this video we talk about all the exciting games we saw, the play test of Rebirth 2, and the games that are selling out as well as talking about the industry news we picked up. We talk about the Asian board games in hall 5, the wild queues for Final Titan, and our picks for a couple of dark horse games for this year. Games being rushed for include Greenwood, Almighty, and Final Titan. We also found some gems in President Maker and Hack Clad Spiel never fails to blow our mind and we can't wait to see what's in store on day 2. Join our Patreon to get access to perks including early access, exclusive industry content and Patron only Giveaways!   / boardstupid   You can find us on Instagram at instagram.com/boardstupiduk. For all media or publisher inquiries, please email Wayne at ukboardstupid@gmail.com Our outro song is AI generated, concept, chords, lyrics by Matteo Genovesi and Wayne Tomsett. We use Gemini to touch up thumbnails created originally by Wayne in Canva.