by W. Eric Martin

▪️ In September 2024, U.S. publisher Restoration Games announced that it would reprint the out-of-print Unmatched: Bruce Lee expansion, pairing Lee with Muhammad Ali in a standalone two-player game that will bear the name Unmatched: Lee vs Ali.

In a seminar at Gen Con 2025, Restoration revealed the figures in this set, which is designed by Noah Cohen, Rob Daviau, and Justin D. Jacobson, as well as the game's cover:


This late 2025 release features two new battlefields and a new miniature for Bruce Lee. Should you already own the 2019 expansion and want to include both Lees in a game, now you can keep track of which one was originalLee released and which is newLee available.

▪️ At Gen Con 2025, Restoration teased the next IP-related title in the Unmatched game line — Unmatched: Hellboy, with the only info about this 2026 release being that Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will do the game's cover, and it will contain four characters and two new battlefields.


▪️ Unmatched: Cobble & Fog will be released from Restoration's metaphorical vault and reprinted in 2026.

▪️ Unmatched will see another new release in 2026 — Unmatched: Stars and Stripes, which will include three entries from Restoration's 2020 Unmatched deck-design contest, with Rosie the Riveter from Chet Dudick and Charles Peters being one of the four winners. The George Washington and Wyatt Earp decks were runners-up in that contest.


▪️ Two other Restoration titles will be expanded, with Thunder Road: Vendetta – Interstate of Decay being a four-part campaign that pairs Mice and Mystics designer Jerry Hawthorne with Thunder Road: Vendetta designers Dave Chalker and Brett Myers.

Thunder Road: Vendetta – Interstate of Decay will be crowdfunded in 2026.

▪️ Finally, in late 2025 Restoration will crowdfund Return to Dark Tower: Expeditions, with this being an analog expansion — that is, with no digital elements — that can be combined with the Return to Dark Tower base game and its other expansions. Here's a teaser description:

This crowdfunding campaign will also include reprints of Return to Dark Tower and its expansions.



▪️ In the Gen Con 2025 exhibit hall, Restoration showed off a mock-up of Battle Monsters: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, which was crowdfunded in mid-2025 and due out in 2026.