Tabletop Reviews

  IELLO are known for their beautifully crafted, straightforward games, often focussing on lighter mechanics and gameplay with a family-friendly feel. Whilst Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon shares IELLO’s usual exceptional production qualities…

I’ve gone to a few escape rooms, they’ve been expensive yet memorable experiences. That said, I don’t often have time during the day to book up an escape room and organise my friends. Escape Room: The Board Game takes the idea of an escape…

The relationship between board games and video games is a strange one. Obviously board games came first, and have inspired many a digital conversion — yet sometimes, the opposite is true. Taking the immediacy of video games and translating…

When I think back to my review for Chronicles of Crime, it was obvious at the time that the game was designed with expansion content in mind. After all, several add-on scenarios were available on day one, and, most tellingly, the box…

If you’ve never heard of Pax Pamir, then you’re probably not a fan of war games or political simulations — and you know what, that’s totally fine. For those who are fans however, the return of Pax Pamir is something that has been long…

Up until now, I think that every drinking related board game I’ve played has been strictly a party game, usually with a real focus on drinking and very little actual game. Drunkgeon, whilst undoubtedly linked to the consumption of alcohol…

In Ryan Laukat’s The Ancient World: Second Edition, each player will take control of a city state vying for the attention of five migratory tribes, fleeing from rampaging titans. To do this, each city must be bigger, better equipped and…

Chocolatiers is a two to five player tabletop game about creating very beautiful boxes of chocolates. I backed it on Kickstarter a while back and have eagerly waited for the day to come when the box arrived. That day was recently, and it's…

When it comes to sloths, there is one thing that comes to mind — being slow. Sloths are known for being slow, lazy animals, which isn’t really the best for winning things like races. Running? Being fast? Not taking naps? It’s just not…

Senshi, from Arcane Wonders, is a small box, very low key design from Dan Manfredi. The game centres around the idea that each player is one of the titular Senshi — a trainee monk under study from an ailing master. With the master fading…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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 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…