Deep board game worlds with a playful local heartbeat.

HutChu Games is an excellent endeavor to create deep, complex, and challenging board games for serious minded folk.  Explore our featured worlds and join our community where we celebrate every turn, every strategy and every gathering around your game table.

Prototype cover for Playground Empires

A company built from convention luck, hobby obsession, and table-born ideas.

HutChu’s origin story begins with a BGG.con grand prize: an all expense paid trip to Essen SPIEL, and a run of convention fortune that helped turn a passion for board games into a publishing venture. The company emerged from the ground up with a focus on serious game design, playtesting energy, and a collaborative approch to bringing ambitious titles to market.

Today, HutChu’s catalog reflects that foundation: games built by people who play them, tested by communities who care about them, and publish with the belief that the best games bring people back to the table again and again.

2015

The origin story traces back to a BGG.con grand prize trip to Essen SPIEL, where one of the founders had a memorable run winning games they had no business winning.

2016

The company emerges as a creative outlet for game design, playtesting, and publishing.

2019

HutChu Games successfully Kickstarted Plunderbund bringing the fantasy-black market business game to market.

2023

HutChu Games and APE Games co-published Martin Wallace’s Chaos Cove, expanding the catalog and demonstrating HutChu’s abiilty to partner with renowned designers.

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Prototype cover of Playground Empires

An epic game of pint-sized heroics for 2-6 players. Area of Control. Kickstarter in 2026.

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