EverBoard Debuts $500 AI-Powered Game Table That Turns “Sushi Juggling Cats” Into a Playable Game

EverBoard, a new digital game table priced at $499.99, has been announced as launching exclusively through Best Buy this holiday season, bringing generative AI to the family game-night table. The device, which debuted Thursday morning, features EverVibe Game Creator — a system that lets players type or speak a simple prompt like “sushi juggling cats” and receive an original, playable game in return. Built around a 21.5-inch touchscreen, the console targets households looking for more than digitized versions of classic board games, betting that AI-driven imagination will keep players coming back.

The hardware itself is a 21.5-inch, 1080p touchscreen designed to sit at the center of a table. Its 10-point display supports up to six players seated around all four sides, with controls oriented toward each person’s seat. A fold-out stand lets the screen lie flat, stand upright in portrait mode, or sit in a traditional widescreen orientation. The unit includes a built-in battery and a carrying case, making it portable enough to move between rooms — a notable departure from the bulky, power-hungry predecessors in this space.

How EverBoard’s AI Game Creator Works

Players can describe the game they want in their own words, or pick from menus offering themes, rules, controls, and visual styles. EverVibe then asks a handful of setup questions — how many people are playing, where they’re seated, whether computer-controlled opponents should appear, and whether tapping, dragging, or directional-pad controls are preferred. Casual players get a quick variation on a familiar genre, while more ambitious creators can define custom rules, turn structures, scoring systems, and win conditions. Once a game is generated, players can refine it with plain-language instructions like “make it faster” or “change the board to outer space,” with each revision saved as a new version so mistakes can be undone.

“Sushi Juggling Cats” may sound like the sort of game thing that a child might blurt out on a chaotic car ride when they’re overtired, but that’s also the point. EverBoard was announced Thursday morning as a new $499.99 digital game table launching exclusively through Best Buy this holiday season. The company is betting that families want more than just digital versions of Monopoly and Scrabble — it wants to use AI to let imaginations run wild.

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Among the examples shared with Polygon, one prompt — “a bluffing card game where you lie about the cards in your secret hand” — produced Bluff & Bluster, a game for two to four players seated on opposite sides of the screen, complete with hidden hands and customizable card backs. To make secret information work on a shared display, EverBoard ships with four privacy films that players slide over designated sections of the screen, keeping cards and tiles visible only to the person sitting directly in front.

AI Creation Comes With Limits — And Another Subscription

EverVibe relies on generative AI models supplied by what EverBoard calls “established commercial providers.” Prompts are routed through EverBoard’s cloud service, so customers never create third-party accounts. An adult configures the device and decides whether EverVibe is enabled, along with who is allowed to use it. Questions that break the company’s content rules are “declined politely,” and EverBoard plans to publish its full privacy notice and adult-managed consent process before the product ships. The company says it will not train AI models using players’ prompts or creations, and its contracts will prohibit its providers from doing so as well.

Ownership extends well beyond the initial hardware purchase. Every EverBoard includes one month of EverPass, the platform’s subscription service, which grants access to the full library plus the capacity for five Game Creator creations per month. EverPass costs $29 for three months or $99 annually, while EverPass Premium adds $50 per year for five times the creation power — up to 25 quick games, five enhanced games, or a combination. Without an active subscription, owners can still access a free starter collection of 10 games, and resubscribing restores a catalog that EverBoard says will include more than 50 games at launch, with additional releases monthly.

Confirmed Hasbro titles so far include Monopoly, Connect 4, Chutes and Ladders, and Scrabble, alongside puzzles, drawing activities, and arcade-style games. Hasbro also owns Clue, Risk, Battleship, Candy Land, and The Game of Life, though it remains unclear which of those will appear.

Digital Game Tables Have Been Here Before

EverBoard is far from the first company to pitch a large touchscreen as the future of family game night. When Arcade1Up’s Infinity Game Table was reviewed in 2021, it was compared to the Amazon Kindle — a single device capable of storing a growing library of familiar board games. It supported six players and once included digital Hasbro games, until that license expired. Half a decade later, as AI has become increasingly prevalent, EverBoard looks and probably feels rather familiar to the Infinity Game Table, with obvious upgrades. More recently, Board pursued the same intersection of physical and digital play from another direction, utilizing bespoke physical components to play games intended specifically for its 24-inch display.

Aside from the privacy films, EverBoard doesn’t seem to have much in terms of accessories at this point. It appears to marry everything the Infinity Game Table and Board have to offer — licensed Hasbro board games on a digital touchscreen alongside other bespoke gaming experiences — with one key difference: players can create their own games as well. It is also smaller and more portable, running on a battery rather than requiring continuous AC power. Even without EverVibe, it would feel like the natural next step forward for this kind of console.

Looking Ahead

Whether EverBoard becomes the digital game table that finally sticks may depend on whether EverVibe can produce something families genuinely want to play more than once. “Sushi Juggling Cats” sounds pretty funny, and the image of gameplay seems like enough to delight any child. But turning those three words into a good game is a much harder thing to pull off — especially when trying to anticipate all the weird prompts a young child might provide. The holiday season will tell whether EverBoard’s combination of proven licensed games and open-ended AI creation is enough to earn a permanent spot on the family table.