List of games at Gen Con '26 with the most demand
Last Friday, the Director of Events at Gen Con shared this list of games with the most "underserved demand." That refers to games with the highest ratio of "people who want to play" versus "games available." For example, there was unmet demand for D&D events, even though there were more than a 1,000 events at Gen Con, because it's so popular.
The majority (all the listings in bold) were RPGs:
- Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Call of Cthulhu
- Dungeon Crawler Carl Unstoppable
- Kingdom Death: Monster
- Cosmere RPG
- Daggerheart
- One Piece Card Game
- Pathfinder
- Shadowdark
- Delta Green
- Dungeon Crawl Classics
- Alien
- Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game
- Draw Steel
- Savage Worlds
- Clank!
- The One Ring
- Vaesen
- Lancer
- Blades in the Dark
- Mothership
- Shadowrun
- Starfinder
- Vantage
- SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Arcs
- Cypher: Old Gods of Appalachia
I have to say the Dungeon Crawler Carl being at the top is especially impressive, since they ran more than 100 events (gauging by the Gen Con events search) with over 800 total seats.
Here's the full text that he posted on the Discord server for Buried Giant Studios:
>Here is a list of some of the games with the most unserved demand from 2026.
Some of these are very much driven by specific groups (most of the unserved D&D demand is for prominent groups like Avantris or Baldman Games, for instance) and it's pretty dominated by RPGs, but if someone is looking for motivation to run a game and wants a safe pick that'll likely fill a table, this is a reasonable starting point.