Tabletop

The original Endangered was perfect for this, offering a superb framework that led to great stories. The second big box expansion is now with us, and I can safely say that Endangered: Australia is a generous, imaginative expansion that…

Yotei is a charming, tightly engineered bidding‑and‑building game that blends worker placement, hidden‑information auctions, and escalating card synergies into a warm and yet surprisingly competitive contest at the foot of Mt. Yotei. The…

Tension is an iconic trivia game that, somehow, we haven't played with our local tabletop group. We did previously have a family game night with Tension Junior, which is the child-focused version of the board game, but now it was time to…

Every major set for Star Wars Unlimited comes with two pre-constructed decks and Homeworlds continues this trend with the Grand Moff Tarkin and Chewbacca decks, with each featuring wildly different ways to achieve victory. Each of the…

For the Gods! is a smart, tightly engineered area‑majority game that blends mild bag‑building, fast-paced tactical movement and an abstracted (but competitive) monument construction theme into a quick, clean contest across the ancient…

I've previously played the original Codenames, along with the mobile edition of the game, so when I saw Codenames: Pictures, I was very aware of the concept and knew exactly what I should expect. For those that have not played Codenames,…

Last Magic Monday (Is this the official name for the segment? Maybe. Is it my own internal name for this segment? Absolutely). I walked you through my top 5 picks for Commanders from the new Reality Fracture set. This time, I’ll take you…

Headway is a card-based game all about using your skeleton parts so that you can eat soul juice that's within your enemy skeletons! I played a two player version of the game at Game Con Canada, where I faced off against the other player,…

Fusing together Battleships and Hangman, Battle Flips feels both novel and almost instantly understandable. A lot of different board games pass through our doors here at Big Boss Battle, everything from complex, multi-hour monstrosities…

Over the past ten years we've reviewed an absolute stack of board games here on B3 and (secretly) we've played even more. Pounce answers a question that a lot of games don't even attempt to: What do you do with your winnings? What I mean by…

When you think of who would create a 'rules-lite, narrative-first roleplaying game' the name that jumps to mind is probably not going to be Paizo; the publisher behind Pathfinder, a system known for its complexity and granular detail, which…

Alien: Evolved Edition is a roleplaying game from storied Swedish publisher Free League. Combining the widely used Year Zero engine with the tense, lonely world of the famous sci-fi horror series, Alien is probably the definitive way to…

One of the consistent complaints about Universes Beyond sets is that they don't advance the Magic story. They turn what can usually be a lore-rich game into just a slideshow of nostalgia bait. So, here's a novel concept for you. What if,…

In Long Cow you'll take on the role of a cattle rancher, competing against other players to raise the largest possible herd, including some of the longest possible cows, all while the other players race to do the same. Somehow, Long Cow…

Star Wars Unlimited releases its 9th mainline set, Homeworlds, today, on the 9th of October. It features 260 new cards, the new fortify keyword, two new token cards, a new style for prestiges and much much more as well as marking the games'…

Star Wars Unlimited has been going strong for a few years now and its most recent set release, Homeworlds, shows that it isn't going to slow down any time soon. Homeworlds is absolutely brimming with new keywords, tokens, and the new…

Marvel Crisis Protocol – Alliances: Night of the Goblin is a streamlined, fully cooperative board‑based experience that distils the cinematic energy of Atomic Mass Games Marvel: Crisis Protocol miniatures game into a more accessible format.…

Now, hopefully you all saw the fabulous Reality Fracture preview we got to do before the set launched. Now it’s here though, we’ve seen what the set is truly made of, and my word... The Echoverse isn’t just a “perfect” multiverse, it’s…

Welcome one and all to the time of year where we can put jumpers back on, enjoy enough hot chocolate to raise the GDP of several cocoa producing nations and crack on with some great board games. As we move into the festive period as well,…

Extreme Outliars are one of those types of games where you are sort of getting to over-know your friends, through rude questions that dig into your opinions on various things in the world. The actual design of how you play the game is the…