Tabletop Reviews

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…

Well, here we are — no new or particularly exciting racing games in the board game world for ages, yet now we have HEAT: Pedal to the Metal, Thunder Road: Vendetta and finally Joyride all landing in rapid succession. For me, HEAT is still…

Games like The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era don’t come around very often. The size, scope and scale of Chip Theory Games’ latest effort — not to mention the cost of producing it — speaks volumes about the confidence of the…

The Doomlings Mythlings Expansion is all about playing out of order and building non-specialised decks. The Mythlings Expansions is one of a bundle of 'booster pack' style expansions available for Doomlings. In this case, it includes 16…

It’s been a long time since the first Crossroads game — Dead of Winter — was released. Since then, this choose your own adventure style system has been through a number of iterations, with settings that feature living toys, anamorphic…

It seems completely natural — excuse the pun — for board games to use natural history as a theme. The slow pace, the thematic concepts and the general appeal of animals and nature just seems to be a great fit for the medium. But what…

Back in December 2017, the original Azul wowed the boardgaming world with its simple gameplay and beautiful yet straightforward components, and even became our best light to medium weight game of the year. Since then, Azul has spawned…

If you’re a fan of Portal Games' Robinson Crusoe, then perhaps their latest release — Thorgal — might also appeal to you. This solo or cooperative game charts the adventures of a lesser known Belgian cartoon hero (the titular Thorgal), but…

Doomlings is a quick-play set collection game that plays out through several ages, with each player evolving their own little beasty to score big come the final sunset. We actually wrote about Doomlings about three years ago, when Jupiter…

Spy Guy's latest outing is into a fantasy setting that's quite often explored on the boardgame. Rather than Pizza and Traffic Cones, SpyGuy Fantasy has you collaboratively searching out Potions, Coins and Arrows. Before I start, I should…

Finspan takes players beneath the waves and casts them as divers seeking to discover and observe the widest variety of aquatic life over four weeks (rounds). Just as in the previous games each of your marine species will give you specific…

Any experienced gamer will know the name Reiner Knizia — but the good doctor tends to split opinion when it comes to whether his games are any good, or not. Here at B3, we enjoyed Yellow & Yangtze and loved The Quest for El Dorado, but…