Tabletop Reviews

When it comes to filling some of the extra time in the evenings, or during the school breaks, we often tend to crack out a simple board game to play with the kids. Junior Colour Brain is perfect for this situation, and suitable for almost…

Time flies, doesn’t it? I still sometimes think of Everdell as a brand new entry into board gaming, but it’s been over five years since we rated Everdell as our favourite game of the year 2018. Five years is definitely long enough to learn…

I have memories from when I was about seven or eight years old of using my dad's graph paper to plot maps for a game that I was never able to fully realise. It was some kind of adventure through forests and mountains, and in my mind it was…

Ascend to the golden temple in this multi tiered worker placement puzzle for the gods. Don’t you want your potato?

Strap in and get behind the wheel for a frantic race to the finish line set in Corvus Belli’s infinity universe. There are no banana skins in sight or Koopa shells to swerve in this high tech raucous racer. Plasma canons at the ready and…

There’s no doubt that we live in a Golden Age for thematic board games. Long gone are the days of pasted-on themes about trading in outer space or Ancient Greece, and instead we have games like Distilled, which take the specific passions of…

Form a squad of adorable animals through bidding and clever item usage, all in efforts to win the title of the Watchmen of Destiny. Watchmen of Destiny is a set-collecting tabletop game that's all about finding the right heroes, with the…

Ransom Notes is an adult party game where players are tasked with grabbing random fridge magnets and creating sentences that may or may not make sense. This is the type of party game that works well with groups of people that have the same…

Matching cards gets up and out of its seat with Happy Salmon, a game all about clearing your hand by performing the actions on the cards when you pair up with others. Happy Salmon is probably one of the simplest games that I've reviewed…

Team GB: Ready Set Win challenges players to create teams that are battling it out against each other in the Olympics. You will spend your turn trading in specific points for members of your team, who will then be needed when their activity…

Stacking games, as well as other physical games, have intrinsic ties to both the toys that we played with as a child and also with idle-hands activities like cairn-stacking and the assembly of house of cards. Cards vs Gravity takes this and…

Casting players as renowned city planners, Between Two Cities is a tile laying and drafting game for up to 7 players that challenges players to divide their attention between a pair of cities. Each player collaborates with the person to…

Having already reviewed numerous Tiny Epic games — including Tiny Epic Quest, Tiny Epic Pirates and Tiny Epic Dinosaurs — I should no longer be surprised at how well these games live up to the Tiny Epic series moniker. In the latest…

For those looking for a party game, Humble Brag is one that is best played by groups of players who don’t quite know each other well. It’s a card game where you and your friends (you can have unlimited players, really) are trying to brag…

When it comes to classic family card games that even the kids can get involved with, it doesn't get more classic than Snap. Pear Shaped takes Snap and gives it a brighter shine and a cool timer gimmick. Most games carry their name on the…

Horrified is a cooperative, one to four player game where you and (most likely) your friends are all trying to defeat a bunch of different mythical monsters! It features a lot of different combinations of monsters to battle against, each of…

Quick turns, silly artwork and deadly odds made Exploding Kittens into a modern classic. Frankly, I'm surprised that we haven't written anything up about Exploding Kittens before. The main reason might be that it's a phenomenon that…

Cats and dogs are such a popular, well-loved pet that having a board game full of cute cats and dogs, does feel like it would fit in well with most homes. You Gotta Be Kitten Me is a card game where you must guess how many accessories or…

Pog, Jellycow and Wee might sound like characters from a children's TV show, but they're actually fusion animals from The Muddles, an easy to pick-up and play game of set making and card capturing. Big Potato Games have done it again,…

As a child, I never played the original Thunder Road, but thanks to the iconic, Mad Max inspired box art, I was always curious about it. Now, thanks to Restoration Games, a modernised version of the Jim Keifer/Milton Bradley classic is…