Announcing Age of Steam: Pittsburgh Metro & Denmark
We are very excited to announce that orders are now open for our newest Age of Steam release: Spring 2026 Map Set, featuring Age of Steam: Pittsburgh Metro and Age of Steam: Denmark! This two-map set is being simultaneously co-released at Tokyo Game Market 2026 Spring and Winsome Choose Some 2026, with worldwide shipping beginning in June. Preorder for Pickup at Punchboard Paradise Con and HeavyCon is also available. We are offering a special 10%-off preorder price from now through May 20th! Attendees picking up at U.S. conventions must order before May 15th. Please note that all event-pickup orders for the new set will be un-numbered.
As a special thank-you to the Winsome Choose Some community, all attendees of Winsome Choose Some 2026 will receive a free copy of the set. ★Please note: Hiro will be at the Neon Comet Games booth [エリア59] both days for Tokyo Game Market Spring 2026 until the early afternoon. Customers who preorder must pickup their order at the booth before 2:00 PM Sat/Sun.
This new set contains two substantial Age of Steam expansions, with combined player count ranges from 3–6 players. Both maps replace the standard Display Boards with integrated admin areas printed directly on the game board, and each introduces a distinct new strategic puzzle while preserving the familiar tension of classic Age of Steam. EEach set will include two maps, each in two distinct parts, printed double-sided, in full-color on 11 x 22.55″ (279 x 573 mm) 80# silk poster cover stock, as well as a full-color punchboard with all non-cube tokens, a bag of 14 white Tourist cubes for Pittsburgh Metro, and full-color rule sheet(s) in your choice of English, Japanese, and/or German.
– Pittsburgh Metro –
In Age of Steam: Pittsburgh Metro (3–5p), designer Michael Webb returns to one of America’s great rail cities, shaped by steel, rivers, bridges, hills, neighborhoods, and transit corridors. The central idea behind Pittsburgh Metro first emerged while Mike was developing Montréal Métro, one of his best-known Age of Steam designs, originally published in 2007. Though that mechanism was eventually removed from Montréal Métro, it found its ideal home here, in a map whose auto-Urbanizing transit depots create tense races, long-term planning opportunities, and a city that unfolds differently from game to game. Largely completed roughly 15 years ago, Pittsburgh Metro now finally makes its way into print and to your gaming table.
New City tiles enter the board through a variable Future Transit Depots system, replacing the standard Urbanization and Goods Growth phases with scheduled municipal development. Players must take notice of where the New Cities will be programmatically added to the map, position their networks around future demand, and adapt to shifting opportunities as Pittsburgh’s metro area expands. The map also comes with white Tourist cubes, which can only be delivered to the white Tourist Attractions, as well as a new Special Action: Stroll, which allows players to tactically manipulate cube availability on nearby Cities.
– Denmark –
In Age of Steam: Denmark (3–6p), we are proud to bring one of JC Lawrence’s unpublished Age of Steam designs to print for the first time. Originally web-published in 2007 and available for years only as a digital print-and-play release, Denmark never received the same visibility as JC’s previously published maps, but it has always had something special: a lean ruleset, a punishing economy, crowded rail networks, and a locomotive system that pushes Age of Steam into unusual strategic territory.
This edition gives the map the physical treatment it deserves, with new graphic design, integrated admin areas, dedicated components, and rules available in English, Japanese, and German. Sea routes keep everyone entangled, the early game is unforgiving, and auction discipline matters even more than usual. Players can ride the coattails of other players by leasing train advancements, scraping by on limited capacity, and then make a dramatic late-game leap in Links when the timing is right. It is clean, competitive, deeply interactive, and ready to escape its digital binds to find its place on your table.
Also Available: SNCF: Keystone Connection
Now listed for $20, originally $35 — a 40% discount.
Released quietly as a free bonus for Winsome Choose Some 2025 attendees, SNCF: Keystone Connection is now available more broadly for players who missed it the first time around. Designed for use with SNCF, Paris Connection, or SNCF: France & Germany, this compact expansion brings the system to Pennsylvania with a new coal-driven economic layer.
Keystone Connection keeps the clean, sharp stock-and-route play of SNCF intact while giving players new ways to shape company value. Railroads begin off the board and must be started. Coal enters the map as both a resource and a scoring opportunity. Red and blue Cities become more valuable as Coal accumulates, while company Coal boxes can increase Railroad Income in different ways. The result is a small, rules-light expansion with meaningful new incentives for timing, route selection, and investment.
The expansion includes one map in two distinct parts, printed double-sided, in full-color on 11 x 17″ (279 x 432 mm) 80# silk poster cover stock and an English-only ruleset. No additional components are included. To play, players must own a copy of the base game. Players using the original Winsome Games edition of SNCF must supply an additional token for each railroad to use the Income Track. ★This item ships from the U.S. — Customers placing an order for pickup at Tokyo Game Market Spring 2026 must order SNCF: Keystone Connection separately; we will not have this item available to purchase in-person at the event.
