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Travel with the Ayar, Hunt Salmon, Create an Ofrenda, and Follow General Orders to Japan

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by W. Eric Martin

▪️ UK publisher Osprey Games has announced a spin-off title to 2023's General Orders: World War II, a two-player game from Undaunted designers Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson.

Here's an overview of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, which will debut on September 18, 2025, following pre-release sales at Gen Con 2025:

Take command of feudal lords in tense battles for control during Japan's Sengoku period.

General Orders: Sengoku Jidai pits two competing daimyo against one another in a fight for control over crucial battlefields in 16th-century Japan. Deploy your commanders to seize powerful advantages, secure valuable supply lines, and capture well-defended forts — all while protecting your vulnerable HQ. This standalone game introduces new strategic waterways, ships, and devastating siege weaponry across two battle maps.

This compact two-player game combines the dynamism of a wargame with the cut-throat decision-making of worker-placement games.

▪️ Months ahead of that title, Osprey will publish Peter Ridgeway's Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River, which it describes as "a dynamic two-player card game of competitive area control, careful planning, and very hungry bears".

Here's an overview of this February 27, 2025 release:

Every summer, dozens of ravenous brown bears descend upon the majestic Brooks River in the Katmai region of Alaska. Here they gorge themselves on its summer bounty of salmon that swim up the beautiful, glacial-fed rivers of the Alaskan wilderness.

In Katmai, you will be playing bears to advantageous fishing spots along Brooks River in order to gain dominance, satisfy challenges, and catch delicious salmon. As the fishing spots fill up, you will need to choose your bears carefully, triggering unique abilities that will allow you to take advantage of situations and outwit your hungry opponent.

Katmai weaves together simple mechanisms with rich decision making to create an experience that is contemplative, competitive, and tense. Winter approaches, and the wilderness is yours. It's time to feast!

▪️ I've previously covered Line of Fire: Burnt Moon, another Thompson/Benjamin two-player design, with this June 12, 2025 release taking place in the same setting as their 2024 game Undaunted 2200: Callisto.

▪️ Following that game on July 10, 2025 is Ofrenda, a 1-4 player card-placement game from that Orlando Sá and André Santos that's inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Here's an overview:

The Día de los Muertos is almost upon us. It is time to prepare the ofrenda – a bright, inviting altar to remember those who have passed away. Gather the portraits of your family members, place candles and marigolds to guide their spirits, and make offerings of the things they loved in life.

Ofrenda is a competitive card-placement game for 1–4 players in which you must draft and carefully arrange the portraits of your late relatives on your player boards. Fulfill their wishes, making sure to seat them next to their dearest cousin or far from the food they like least. As your altar starts to fill up, however, it might become difficult to keep everybody happy!

▪️ Osprey's final board game release in 2025 — at least the final one announced so far — is Ayar: Children of the Sun, a 1-4 player game from Mandela Fernandez-Grandon and Fabio Lopiano with art by Ian O'Toole that matches the look of Lopiano's 2020 Merv: The Heart of the Silk Road and 2024's Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa from Lopiano and Fernandez-Grandon.

An overview:

Retell the incredible origin myth of the Inca in this dramatic mid-weight eurogame.

In the beginning, Viracocha the creator brought forth Inti, the sun god, and Mama Quilla, the moon god. From the union of these two gods sprang four sons and four daughters: the Ayar. These siblings were tasked with guiding the first clans and teaching them the skills needed to build a civilization. As they traveled the land in search of fertile ground, the Ayar one by one met their fates until only two remained to found Tawantinsuyu – the Inca Empire.

In Ayar: Children of the Sun, players take control of one of the first clans, journeying with the Ayar across the Andes. Follow their teaching and improve your skills at farming, pottery, weaving, and reed bundling. As well as advancing your own clan, you must influence the progress of the Ayar, ensuring the survival of those who reward your most developed skills. Seek the approval of Mama Quilla through long-term strategy, and please Inti with tactical play. Be careful not to earn the ire of one of these jealous gods because at the end of the game, whichever one favors you least will determine your final score.

The future of your clan – and the Inca civilization – is in your hands.