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Dog Park is a breezy walk through the park
In Dog Park, players take on the thematic role of a professional dog-walker, and must build out their collection of customers (dogs) and focus on specific collections to score loads of points. With bidding, set collection, variable…
Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion is one to keep an eye on!
We’ve all experienced the disappointment of a ropey adaption. Be it from page to film, game to screen or when established fantasy worlds are transported into the board gaming universe. These sorts of things can often feel like cynical cash…
Snap Ships Tactics blends fast paced fun with deep strategy
Snap Ship Tactics is perhaps both the most obvious and yet unexpected idea that I’ve seen in board gaming. It takes a simple, snap-together construction toy and turns it into a head-to-head tabletop duel reminiscent of Fantasy Flight Games’…
Eternal Palace takes painting by numbers to a whole new level
The Emperor can be tricky to please. Eternal Palace from Alley Cat Games is designed by Steve Aramini with art by Quentin Regnes. This dice placement game sees players take on the role of Chinese nobles seeking to earn the most imperial…
Dragonkeepers challenges you to control a shared spellbook to herd dragons
Herd dragons and complete magical amulets and gems in order to win in short and approachable Dragonkeepers. There aren't too many games that come in A4-sized boxes and promise a humble playtime of 20 minutes, especially not ones that scale…
Pirate Borg explained
If you're looking for a rules-light, dark Caribbean TRPG setting, one that takes place in the time of piracy but is littered with the undead, the monstrous and the eldritch, then look no further than Pirate Borg. Pirate Borg is, when it…
Ghost Blitz requires fast movements!
Ghost Blitz is a bit different from the tabletop games we have previously played, and actually works better with smaller groups of people. It’s a game that has a collection of wooden pieces and a deck of cards, challenging players to very…
Ghost Castle, the classic 80s board game, is a fine fit for Halloween
Ghost Castle is back, perhaps you never knew it the first time around, but it's back now. The early seventies game, Which Witch?, was a classic, race-to-the-finish board game with a tower-powered trap gimmick that made it instantly…
Mind the Gap is Line-Hopping Fun for All
From the iconic map design to its succinct and distinctly British cautionary phrase the London Underground is instantly recognizable. Mind the Gap is a game about negotiating the subterranean network beneath London, hopefully with more…
Agents of Dune is the ultimate onboarding tool for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium
It's not uncommon for companies to try and take existing universes and spin them out into role playing games, with franchises like Xena, Dr Who and Discworld already having tRPGs it was just a matter of time before Dune made the jump, with…