Tabletop Reviews

Fill your flock to win in Oh My Pigeons, a game of nicking and flicking your feathered friends. When you review board games as regularly as we do here at B3, you start to noticed patterns in the games that are released by larger publishers.…

Halo: Flashpoint from Mantic Games brings the fast paced action of the Halo video game universe to the tabletop. Two players will match wits and face off across a variety of scenarios using authentic characters and weapons from the series…

Eurogames — with lots of complex interactions, ways to score points and indirect ways to mess with your opponents — have reached a ridiculously high standard in the last few years. With games like Brass: Lancashire, Age of Innovation,…

There are some tabletop games that have very unique meeples; The little characters that players play as. Often, these are just a unique artstyle, but in Intergalactic Plumber, they are actually created to be a large part of the game. These…

Despite three seasons of gigantic Kickstarters, Marvel United might be one of the best games that you’ve probably never heard of. Originally designed by Eric M. Lang and Andrea Chiarvesio and published by CMON, this solo, cooperative or…

Anyone who has read my reviews of Zombicide: Second Edition or my recent 14 Best Dungeon Crawlers article will already know that I am a big fan of the Zombicide system. Zombicide is a series of cooperative, zombie-bashing miniatures games…

Despite the lunar calendar saying otherwise, it would appear to be the year of the Dog Man, with this being the second (of three) Dog Man board games that we'll have reviewed so far this year. Unlike Dog Man Flip-o-Rama there's a little bit…

Wine making Virtuoso? Lord of the grapes? Crushing it at the vineyard? Viticulture World is the new cooperative expansion for worker placement classic Viticulture from Stonemaier Games that challenges you to synchronise your efforts with…

Sometimes, we play longer games at our tabletop group! Revenge of the Dictators is a medium length (that's longer for us, for certain), strategy game where you are looking to convince the president of the United States to let you take over…

For my daughter it's become Dog Man day everyday. She's got all the books and we recently completed the videogame. There's big hype for the upcoming movie, and, now, we've been playing the Dog Man board games, starting with Dog Man…

Every other Monday, for the last couple of years, myself and my family go along to a local board game café and play through something new. There's been a lot of favourites over the years, but it often comes back to the drawing games, with…

Bucolic green fields and sweeping manorial lands fill the ever-shrinking lands of The Dramark: The setting of Our Brilliant Ruin, an assimilation of the Edwardian (Belle Époque) High Society of Western Europe with a dark, cosmic horror. …

Get ready to roll and write in this grab and go battle criss crossing the biggest board game realms from Stonemaier games. Dry wipe markers at the ready!

I am a big fan of Taskmaster, the TV show. I’ve actually seen every episode out and often rewatch them in the evenings when I want to watch something that’s always funny and surprising. Taskmaster: The Board Game tries to take the concept…

We’ve played a few of these sort of charades styled games by now — the ones where players have a deck of cards and need to get their partner to guess the word or phrase on the card without you saying the word or phrase. Pass the Biscuit is…

Let's Go! To Japan is a brand new game from designer Josh Wood and publisher Alderac Entertainment Group, and offers one to four players the opportunity to plan their dream holiday in one of the most unique countries in the world. With…

There's little more thrilling than taking a risky move and having it pay off in a big way. Good Face Bad Face is built entirely around that concept, with players literally stacking the deck in their own favour while also trying to secure a…

If you’ve got family coming around for Christmas this year, then you are likely looking for a good board game to play with them. The idea of playing a board game together, after you’ve all finished dinner, is simply traditional! The Very…

Recall and reflexes come together in Polar Panic an easy to play game that's perfect for all ages, however does need a fair bit of space. If you're looking for a meal in the frosty arctics of the utmost Northern Hemisphere then you'll need…

Deception and Recall aren't often mixed together in games, but it's the crux of That's Not a Hat which is both quick to learn and, coincidentally, incredibly easy to recall the rules of. That's Not a Hat is such a memorable, clever game…