March 18 - 21, 2027 in Toronto 🇨🇦! Join us for four incredible days packed with the best of tabletop gaming, industry panels, tournaments, and more!!
https://breakoutcon.com/ It’s a great time to be a gamer! Never before has the table-top gaming hobby in all its various forms enjoyed such popularity. There are more venues at which to game than ever before. Yet, for many years now, Toronto has lacked a dedicated multi-day convention purely focused on table-top gaming. Breakout – Gaming Convention was conceived to provide a local space in which h
Breakout 2027: Bigger than ever. We are already so excited!
Who's in for another incredible four days of the best tabletop gaming?!!!
07/01/2026
Looking to do some good on Canada Day?
One of our talented industry guests, Helena Real, is looking to remain in Canada and you can help! Her gofundme, which will help her access legal support for her claim, is 85% funded and needs less than $1500 to reach its goal!
If you can help, or would like to learn more about why it is not safe for Helena to return to Chile, please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-pay-my-lawyer-so-i-can-stay-in-canada (or search gofundme's page for Helena Real).
For context, Helena is a TTRPG designer, editor, and translator. She’s the co-designer of Dungeon World 2, the upcoming sequel to the acclaimed PbtA game. She has designed other TTRPG materials for various games and systems since 2015, including 7th Sea: Second Edition, Bluebeard’s Bride, and Avatar Legends, among various others. She also authored two Fate Worlds: The Way of the Pukona and Ngen Mapu. Pukona won the "Best Setting" award at the Indie Groundbreaker Awards 2019. She also received the 2020 IGDN Diversity Sponsorship.
TONIGHT! TOMORROW! Churchill, 7:00 - 10:00 PM.
Check out the Rainbow Gaming Social, a fun and welcoming space for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, friends, and allies to gather and connect through gaming! Family-friendly, tweens, teens, adults, all are welcome!
Whether you're a seasoned boardgamer or RPG player or just curious to try something new, the Rainbow Gaming Hub, powered by Changeling Gaming, is ready to play with you and teach from a selection of classic, modern, and indie games from their collection. Drop in anytime, grab a game, and jump into the action with friends—or make new ones right at the table! Their instructors are always happy to facilitate player introductions.
TODAY!!! Say hello to our Guest of Honour Alara Cameron! Friday, March 20th 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Provincial Hall).
Alara Cameron is a board game designer and developer from Ontario, Canada. She often works with intellectual properties, and strives to provide players the opportunity to explore and experience their favourite worlds. Her focus in design and development is on cultivating experiences that create links between the actions players take in the game, the narrative the game presents, and the emotional arc of play. Some of her recent design credits include Grendel: The Game of Crime and Mayhem, Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising, and Gods of Midgard.
https://breakoutcon.com/articles/2026/january/breakout-welcomes-alara-cameron-2026-guest-of-honour
TODAY!!! Say hello to our Guest of Honour Alara Cameron! Friday, March 20th 4:00 - 6:00 PM.
Alara Cameron is a board game designer and developer from Ontario, Canada. She often works with intellectual properties, and strives to provide players the opportunity to explore and experience their favourite worlds. Her focus in design and development is on cultivating experiences that create links between the actions players take in the game, the narrative the game presents, and the emotional arc of play. Some of her recent design credits include Grendel: The Game of Crime and Mayhem, Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising, and Gods of Midgard.
https://breakoutcon.com/articles/2026/january/breakout-welcomes-alara-cameron-2026-guest-of-honour
Say hello to our Guest of Honour Avery Alder! TODAY! Friday, March 20th 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Provincial Hall North).
Avery Alder is an award-winning tabletop role-playing game designer hailing from Treaty 6 territory. For the past nineteen years, Avery has been designing games about q***r identity, relationships, community, precarity, and the end of the world. Her work includes The Quiet Year, Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and Going For Broke. Her love of game design has also led her into teaching, workshop facilitation, and design consulting.
https://breakoutcon.com/articles/2026/january/breakout-welcomes-avery-alder-2026-guest-of-honour