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Donut Nab — Fast reflexes needed
Fast reflex games have a very specific audience. People who like living on the edge, waiting for a card to be placed so that they can grab whatever is in the middle of the table. In Donut Nab, that item is three different colored donuts,…
RONE 2e — Tidy boxful of post-apocalyptic aggression
In RONE (Races of a New Era) 2 players face off across a post-apocalyptic landscape in a battle for supremacy. Each player has a hero with unique abilities and they must deploy units, tactics and technologies to bring about a grisly end for…
Flashpoint: Fire Rescue — Hot under the collar
If you stare into the looking glass back through tabletop history, you’ll spot that we once reviewed Hotshots, a firefighting themed cooperative game from Fireside Games. Hotshots was not the first game to riff on the idea of firefighters…
Checkpoint: The Hearth, Osaka
The Hearth Board Game Bar and Cafe is a small but rich community. We wrote about the experience there in this article.
Talisman: Legendary Tales — A game of Luck
Talisman: Legendary Tales is aimed at a new, much younger audience and even though it is faster and simpler than the original, it also manages to be way, way smarter. When you mention Talisman to a modern board gamer, you’ll likely get one…
Foodies — Building the best food court
When it comes to food courts, one of the best parts of being in one is the variety of food around you. In Foodies, you are looking to make your food court the most popular one around. Foodies takes a simple concept and gives you so many…
Zombies!!! — Greens and brains
Every fortnight, some of the team at B3 meet up to play tabletop games together, trying out new games and playing some old favourites. This week, we played Zombies!!! by Twilight Creations, Inc.
Robotech: Ace Pilot — Dice blast
There are lots of dice based minigames emerging in the market, but few of them carry the same level of interest as those with big licenses. Robotech: Ace Pilot is a brand new “small footprint” game from Japanime Games, who recently…
Mob Sitters — Dangerous jobs for side money
Babysitting doesn't ever pay enough. As a babysitter for the mob, however, there are far more chances to earn money. Mob Sitters gives those opportunities to you, but with those hopes of earning more cash comes a fear of getting caught by…
Futuropia — The future is fairly bright
Generic looking Euro-American people are shown on the box of Friedemann Friese’s Futuropia, they dance awkwardly at an almost empty discoteque, relax on beaches and enjoy open fires with their friends. This is because they have achieved…
Time of Legends: Destinies — Arc de Triomphe?
Hot on the heels of recent Kickstarter blockbuster Time of Legends: Joan of Arc reaching its fulfilment date, Time of Legends: Destinies is a brand new, joint venture between veteran publishers Mythic Realms and augmented reality experts,…
Fast Food Fear! — Hungry, confusing monsters
You and two to five other players all are cooks in a very fast, very demanding kitchen. Legoblah Swamp is full of monsters, each demanding fast food with very little waiting time. In Fast Food Fear! you need to deliver these orders in…
Valeria: Card Kingdoms (with expansions) — a land of plenty
Valeria: Card Kingdoms is a one to five player game about tableau and engine building in the name of the kingdom, which is being ravaged by threats from all sides. Our review includes content from the base game, as well as the Flames and…
Battlestar Galactica — Elegance and depth in one of the best board games of all time
We take a new look at a tabletop classic in Fantasy Flight's Battlestar Galactica.
Churrascaria will make you hungry
I play a lot of food-based tabletop games. A lot of them. Never before has one of these games made my mouth water as much and made me want to recreate the food as Churrascaria has. Luckily for me, the tabletop card game has its own…
Boss Monster — Desktop dungeoneering
If you enjoy retro, 8-bit platform games and you’re on the lookout for a fast paced, unusual card game, then Boss Monster might be right up your street. It combines classic pixel art with the unique concept of having players act in the…
Get Me a Fresh Brain — A real Frankenstein!
It’s not often that you’ll find a board game with a theme as unusual and potentially divisive as Get Me a Fresh Brain, but this B-Movie themed pick up and deliver game packs a lot into a small box and offers players a competitive head to…
Kiss Her Before The World Ends Changes — Apocalypse Feelings
Released in Mid January at the beginning of 2019, Kiss Her Before The World Ends is a GMless and diceless TTRPG developed by Alice Grizzle As she explains in the interview below, Kiss Her Before The World Ends is a wonderful example of what…
Cogs and Commissars — Boxed-up bolshevik
Anyone who has watched enough sci-fi movies will know that the robot revolution is only a matter of time. Some think that the end will be violent and overt, as depicted by Terminator, whilst others still struggle to believe that we’re not…
Dice Throne Adventures — Roll and run
If you recall back to our (very recent) review of Dice Throne: Season Two, you’ll recall that we lauded Roxley Games' latest dice chucker for being a simple, enjoyable head-to-head game that paired the randomness of dice rolling with the…