Tabletop

Texas Hold It, from the creators of Cyanide and Happiness and similar card game Joking Hazard, have put together a compact card game about avoiding “piss” or holding it in to avoid being whizzed on by a varied group of cowboys and bandits.…

Fled, designed by Mark Swanson (of Feudum fame), is a game about escaping from an unjust regime — not just thematically, but mechanically. It’s a game of tight spaces, limited options, and constant pressure. Following on from our 2023…

There’s a particular kind of joy that comes from discovering a game that feels both familiar and fresh — a game that invites you in with a warm smile and then quietly reveals its cleverness over time. Come Sail Away!, designed by Daryl Chow…

Explore Brighthelm, defeat monsters and ascend to rule the land in Pauper's Ladder. There’s something quietly magical about a game that doesn’t try to be the biggest, boldest, or most complex thing on your shelf, but instead focuses on…

Explore the world and race to complete your jet-setting objectives in Atlas: Explore the World. There’s a quiet, enduring appeal to games that invite us to explore — not through conquest or competition, but through curiosity and connection.…

There’s a certain kind of game that doesn’t just ask you to play — it asks you to scheme. Black Metro, the debut title from Emesh De Zoysa and Absolute Ascendency, is one of those games. It’s a modern, asymmetric area control experience…

Total War is one of my favourite video game series. You can imagine my excitement when I saw that Total War: ROME - The Board Game was in development and immediately began to imagine how they might have captured some of the best mechanics…

When we first reviewed Tokaido back in 2018, it was already 6 years old and board gaming was entering a Golden Age with innovative new games being released weekly and entirely new mechanics emerging all the time. Somehow, even then, Tokaido…

Sometimes, board games are a really great way to connect with other people and get to know them. That’s Dope is one of these types of games; one that prioritises conversation and uses cards to connect with the other people that you are…

Don't Panic continues to be an approachable, family-friendly game of quick-thinking and list making. Iteration, not innovation, is the way that you keep a B-tier board game on shelves. Don't Panic is a perfect example of that, looking back…

Thousand Year Old Vampire is a solo, journaling RPG that — in no time — underlines the value of memory and humanity. When you write about board games, tabletop games and videogames you write mostly about iteration. In fact, for most of my…

Here at BigBossBattle, we’re big fans of Zombicide: 2nd Edition. We raved about it in our review, we ranked it highly in our list of the 15 Best Dungeon Crawlers and we even enjoyed the stupid digital spin-off. Heck, we love CMON’s zombie…

As reliable as your favourite mug, Days of Wonder followed on from the successes of Ticket to Ride, Five Tribes, Smallworld and Memoir ‘44 when it released HEAT back in 2023. Designed by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen and…

300 dollars doesn't go far in the modern world, but it still seems quite a lot for a chess set. That said, the GoChess Lite Modern is more than just an ordinary set. This is an attractive, well made set at competition size, with attractive…

You don’t see many big box eight player games these days, but with Between Two Castles Essential Edition, Stonemaier Games offers up the perfect option for those occasions when you have a full house, and a smaller game won’t cut the…

In Garden Heist players race to rack up points by sneaking up the board in a clever twist on hide and seek. While I'm almost 100% certain that somebody has made a wargaming-style game that adapts hide and seek to the table, after all, they…

I've played many, many, TCGs in my time. My main card game used to be Cardfight!! Vanguard, run by Bushiroad, before switching over to Magic: The Gathering in 2023. I've also indulged in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Flesh and Blood, Weiss Schwarz, Dragon…

Things move slowly in the world of board games, and the rumour mill is often turning long before anything actually materializes. This is often true when it comes to remaking older games — and in the case of 2017’s Ethnos, there seem to have…

I am going to admit, this is the second Lord of the Rings board game I have played, and I have still not read the books or seen the movie. However, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game, is a simple to follow,…

The Doomlings Techlings Expansion adds modifications into the quick-play, set collection game, giving you the chance to refine and tweak your traits in cool new ways. The Techlings Expansions is one of a bundle of 'booster pack' style…