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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kitchen Rush (and Piece of Cake expansion) — A tasty treat
If you’re familiar with the Overcooked video games, then you’ll be right at home with Kitchen Rush from Artipia Games and Stronghold Games. Designed by David Turczi and Vangelis Bagiartarkis, Kitchen Rush was first released in 2017 and…
Dice Throne Season 2: Gunslinger Vs Samurai — Rolling brawl
If you like a light, airy board game that doesn’t take itself too seriously, then among the many options available to you is the noble dice chucker. Since the origins of gaming, human beings have revelled in the fun of throwing roughly…
Holmes: Sherlock and Mycroft — Brotherly love
Did you even know that Sherlock Holmes, The World’s Greatest Detective was actually one of two brothers? Neither did I, but in the card game Holmes: Sherlock and Mycroft from publisher Devir Games and designer Diego Ibanez, two players…
Ancestors Legacy — Old school consolement
Whilst I feel that I’ve begun every one of my Xbox reviews lately with a rant about the lack of strategy games, I’m beginning to think that someone out there is actually listening to me. Today’s review is for Destructive Creations squad…
Kanban Drivers Edition — Endurance race
The meaning of the word ‘Kanban’ originates from Japan and refers to a manufacturing system that uses clear and simple cue cards to drive factory workers to achieve maximum efficiency with minimal waste. In Vital Lacerda’s Kanban board…
Ramen Fury — Balance flavor before you eat
Delicious bowls of ramen are something I’ve enjoyed time and time again. Ramen Fury allows you to whip up combinations of the soup through constructing the perfect mix of toppings, all before slurping it down to gain points! Ramen Fury is…