Tabletop Reviews

It's a battle of emotions in this board game as we squint through the fog of love to fulfil our character's needs and keep their relationship successful.

Ever wanted to be a wine magnate? We explain how we frustrated our friends in this Essential Edition of Viticulture, all for the glory of the grape.

Colour the board with mosaic tiles in Azul, an easy-to-learn board game inspired by Moorish azulejos mosaics.

We find Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, where any myriad of insane events could lead our friends to turn against us in this easy-to-play board game.

Friendly faces are few and far between in the city of New Angeles, where we play as heads of megacorporations to stake our claim on the city.

Become a druid to save the Mystic Vale in this fast-paced card game.

Amid the ever-increasing stack of board games at B3-HQ is a favourite which keeps getting dragged out as a warm-up game: Ninja Dice. 

There's some bluffing involved as we encounter new rules in Ticket to Ride's massive expansion boards, France and the Old West.

Creeping out from under popular board game Pandemic's shadow is its spin-off Reign of Cthulhu, seeing you save the world from Old Ones instead of disease.

With this year's Star Wars hype train fully underway, we take a look to see if Star Wars: Imperial Assault is still a good gaming investment three years on.

It's hard to describe how my feelings changed from beginning the game with an unmarked map and characters called "Scientist" or "Researcher" to having cities on the brink of collapse, diseases named after 80's action movie heroes and each…

T.I.M.E Stories is a pseudo role playing game that is absolutely at its best when played by exactly four players, with a rapidly diminishing return when three, two or even one player is involved.

Much like the classic Sid Meier video game that it is unofficially linked to (but clearly emulates,) Through the Ages: a New Story of Civilization is initially quite a daunting beast to get to grips with.

Near and Far is a storytelling and victory point collection game with a lighthearted but extremely strong adventuring theme running throughout.

Dodge roll, die. Dodge, roll die. Dodge, roll, die.

In Eric Lang's critically acclaimed Blood Rage, players take control of rival Viking clans during the time of Ragnarok - aka, The End of the World. All Vikings dream of a glorious death and a place at Odin's table in the halls of Valhalla,…

Dead of Winter from Plaid Hat Games, Dead of Winter has players controlling survivors in a colony after the civilised world has fallen in zombie apocalypse.

... and now you realise your purpose here - to build the finest series of structures that Yamatai has ever seen and in turn, win Queen Himiko's favour.

We rip and tear our way through the amazingly high quality (and astonishingly similar to the 2016 video game release) Doom board game.

Dice Forge, from Régis Bonnessée, is a revolutionary title where each player rebuilds their pair of dice as you play through the game.