Tabletop Day – Demos & Playtests

We are proud to host local game designers at our Tabletop Day 2025 event!

We are proud to host these local game designers at our International Tabletop Day event on Sat June 7, 2025!

Schedule of Game Demos

  • 12 – 2 pm: BIOME (Lioness Games)
  • 2 – 3pm: Ugly Pickle | Chronoforms
  • 3pm: RAFFLE prize announcements
  • 3:30-6pm: Lucy in the Dungeon | Ugly Pickle | Chronoforms

Demos of Faekin will take place after the raffle, as based on demand

Faekin

FaeKin is an elegant social deduction game which thrusts you into the role of children born from the forbidden love between the heirs of the Fae Courts of Summer and Winter. In the wake of your parent’s demise and the tumultuous blending of seasons, the Fae realm finds itself in a delightful quandary about what to do with you.

Embracing their whimsical nature, the Fae have devised a game to unravel the fate of you misbegotten shape-shifting offspring, all while determining which season shall reign supreme.

Crown the player in your court with the highest value identity and dagger the player in the opposing court with the highest rank to win the game! Information about a player’s identity is revealed with each duel. Can you trust your own instincts, let alone your fellow Fae?

Lioness Games
Host: Leonie Grundler

biome

Biome is an exciting new board game where conservation meets gameplay. Combine strategic card placements and engine building in this nature themed tableau builder for 1-4 players.

Raise baby animals, feed and protect them, achieve biodiversity, and activate unique flora and fauna abilities to create the best Biome and win the game!

Lioness Games
Host: Leonie Grundler

Ugly Pickle

Ugly Pickle is a competitive, high pressure game built for players who hate to lose. It’s a real time board game which uses a companion app to create dynamic difficulty. For a preview, please see “How to Play Ugly Pickle in 5 minutes” on youtube.

Host: William Bee

Chronofiends

Chronofiends is a cooperative sci-fi board game for 1–4 players where every second counts. A space station has been caught in a shrinking time loop—and only you and your team of quirky, time-touched aliens can set things right. Explore a maze-like station, dodge rampaging aliens, and gather powerful gear as you race to fix the timeline. But be careful: every action costs time, and when the loop resets, things get tougher. Easy to learn, full of surprises, and packed with replayable scenarios, Chronofiends is all about strategy, working together, and unraveling the puzzle!

The game should 90 minutes to learn and play for 3-4 players.

Spacemole Games
Host: Patrick Liddell

Lucy in the Dungeon with Heroes

Lucy in the Dungeon with Heroes (always bring the cook) is a 2 player game of head to head tactics. This game is a dungeon “keeper” (verses dungeon Crawlers) with a light cooking theme but bold, card battle flavors which play out on a compact, 8 x 8 grid (for congested mayhem).

Dungeon crawlers wield their keen minds and blades in a quest for their next meal, while the spilled blood of heroes arouses the dungeon to malicious ecstasy!

Play/learn time: 1-2 hours (30min is all that’s needed to fully grasp the unique and engaging mechanics)

Mousechief
Host: Keith Nemitz

EGL Status Update

It is our goal to keep this fantastic group that Gordon created (back in 2011!) continuing & active as the prime board game meetup for San Francisco.

We are actively seeking a new venue for our regular meetups. If you’ve any leads or recommendations for community rooms, meeting spaces or the like that can serve as a home for the EGL, please contact us at info@sfegl.com.

Too, perhaps you would consider reaching out to your own online collective with a post on Facebook, Twitter, etc, in case someone in your circle has any leads? Thank you!

Consider contacting your collective with the following request:

In search of a community room…my boardgame group is in search of a community space for our regular (weekly or biweekly) meetups; if you’ve any leads or recommendations re: community meeting rooms (think community centers, churches, etc), please let me know.

Background: The SF European Gaming League (www.sfEGL.com) is a sober, recreational group that gathers to play games, build community and occasionally host fundraisers. On average we bring together about 30-40 people, one night per week, with a core group of regulars. We are open to everyone, and have rotating hosts to welcome new visitors to our group!