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Such is the weird ebb and flow of time, that this is my first column actually written in 2026. The Winter Solstice has come and gone and every day gets a little brighter, and hopefully a bit warmer (it has been pretty cold in Scotland of late!). This month I have a bunch of games that I am personally looking forward to out of excitement, nostalgia and curiosity. BLADES ’68 If you are a follower of mine, you’ll know that Blades in the Dark by John Harper is one of my favourite games. It sees you taking on the role of criminals in a mystical, Victorian-style city called Doskvol and vying for control of the underworld. The sun is broken and the streets are wreathed in fog, darkness and darker…

TABLETOP BEER £3.80 a can What happens when you pair London’s immersive Dungeons & Dragons bar with an Edinburgh-based nano-brewery? Beer. The two parties have joined forces to create a light, refreshing and super-sessionable table beer. If you’ve played D&D, you’ll know that games can last beyond three hours, so a beer that can be enjoyed over a long time is the perfect pairing for an adventuring party. Tabletop beer’s artwork comes courtesy of designer and tattoo artist Orion – a lifelong D&D fan known for illustrating “weird little creatures,” who was particularly excited to bring the concept of a “biblically accurate d20” to life for the can design! Closetbrewing.com/products/closet-brewing-tabletop TALES OF SORDANE NOVELISATION £TBC Game publisher and miniature maker Sordane Publishing is gearing up for its first ever novel.…

Designer: Toshiki Arao | Publisher: Cocktail Games Jungo is the latest in a long line of ladder-climbing/shedding games to come out of the East, with the format first making an impact in the West with the traditional card game President in the 1980s. The mechanism returned to the table with a bang in the 1990s with big hits such as Tichu (1991) and The Great Dalmuti (1995), while the continued popularity of SCOUT (2019) showed there is plenty of life in that old ladder yet. This is Japanese designer Toshiki Arao’s third game in his own ladderclimbing series, following Hachi Train (2021) and Nanatoridori (2023), and it feels the most polished, for better or worse. As is traditional, you’ll win the game if you can shed all of your cards…

Designer: Exploding Kittens | Publisher: Exploding Kittens It’s time to set sail into a vibrant storm of colourful card chaos. Row Your Goat has a surprising amount of fun packed into its pocket-sized box, making it perfect to whip out whenever there’s a lull in proceedings. The game is extremely simple to learn, reminiscent of Tic-Tac-Toe but demanding both a keen eye and ninja-like reflexes. Players deal all the cards out before taking turns placing a single card face up within an imagined three-by-three grid, ensuring all blank spots are filled before beginning to stack the cards atop one another. Play continues until one of the following occurs: a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line of cards of the same colour is formed; or three goat cards on matching flotation devices…

Designer: Yoni Goldstein | Publisher: The Dietz Foundation Chicago ’68 models the protests-turned-riots at the Democratic National Convention of the titular year. This was a significant moment in United States history, with demonstrators baring their anger at the Vietnam War, police brutality and general political disenfranchisement. It was a release valve swung open by a mass of people that wanted to be heard and seen. They would throw fists and bricks in an effort to fight back against the boot at their throat. Yoni Goldstein’s debut design models this event with all of the carnage and tension of a gripping historical wargame. This is a card-driven affair with each player controlling a coalition of two forces. On the protestor side are the Yippies in concert with the National Mobilization Committee…

Designers: Stefan Feld, Ulrich Fonrobert | Publisher: Queen Games Marrakesh currently sits comfortably in the top 500 games on Board Game Geek, ranking fifth among popular designer Stefan Feld’s designs. While it is admittedly a bit of a table hog and takes a while to set up, it’s an excellent Eurogame in Feld’s typical point salad style. With that in mind, did it need an expansion, and is the add-on any good? One group that will definitely approve are solo gamers, with two different options available. Half of the 16-page rulebook for Camels & Nomads is dedicated to Pashabot, your new opponent. However, those who prefer a simplified version receive a straightforward solo option instead. This version simply takes its share of cubes from the tower, limiting your options with…

Designer: Alexandros Kapidakis | Publisher: Dranda Games What constitutes originality? Inventiveness and creativity are clearly important, and not being a direct copy of something else helps. But beyond that, it’s more of a feeling you get when experiencing something for the first time. It’s something I always look for in a new-to-me board game, and having played well over 1,000 different titles, originality is a tag that has to be earned. And so, to Mutagen, a well-produced tile/worker placement game with a sci-fi/mutations theme and excellent art from The Mico. The iconography is OK once you get used to it (there isn’t enough of it to be problematic long-term), and the theme carries itself as far as it needs to. That really isn’t very far, though, as this is a…

Designers: Maximilian Lichtner, David Poluda | Publisher: Tabletopper Games An asteroid has careened into the sun, causing violent solar storms. Earth has been transformed into a post-apocalyptic, irradiated wasteland where only the crafty survive. Welcome to Under Our Sun, a cooperative survival exploration game in which resources are scarce, so you’ll need to scavenge materials and craft equipment to endure. You start the game in an isolated settlement, a lone hex tile on an empty map that will be generated as you draw new hex tiles to add. Symbols on each indicate if they contain enemies, resources, loot or random events. You’ll explore the map as one of four different characters: Veteran, Medic, Scout or Thickskin (tank), each with different strengths and unique skills. The game is divided into three…

Designer: Andrew E.C. Gaska | Publisher: Free League Publishing Alien is one of those franchises that instantly lends itself to a roleplaying game. It’s ambitious, broad in its storytelling and features some of the most iconic antagonists in the history of cinema. Any movie that can inspire this number of spinoffs, video games, comics, novels and, yes, even a few other tabletop experiences, deserves to be expanded into an RPG. One that allows players to immerse themselves in this terrifying world. Free League Publishing released its Alien roleplaying game in 2019, featuring a simple mechanical system with rich storytelling opportunities. It garnered plenty of critical acclaim, winning three ENNIE Awards. So, what needed changing to create an Evolved Edition? Well, Free League has produced a range of new materials for…

Designers: Russ Law, Tim Sharville, Paul Sharville | Publisher: Gunpowder Studios What should you stock up on before heading into a dungeon? Experienced gamers might cite staples such as bags of ball bearings and a 10-foot pole, but Book of Dungeon begs to differ. Part puzzle book, part fantasy adventure, it’ll open its doors to anyone with a pencil, a pair of dice and some courage (and you don’t even really need the dice, as flipping the pages handles that function). Based on Bag of Dungeon (where tiles are pulled from a bag), this clever spinoff proves that a compelling dungeon crawl doesn’t need minis, maps or hours of set-up. At its core, it’s a draw-and-play adventure book – equal parts choose-your-ownadventure and tactical skirmish, with quick monster confrontations, traps…

Designer: Mike James | Publisher: Thiad Games The little wargame is a challenging genre. Boiling humanity’s worst habit down to a tight 30 minutes of stabbing and flanking can be a tall order. But Ages of War: Battle for the Bronze Age knocks it out of the colosseum in a slim shoebox-sized attempt. Ages of War replaces all of the potential chits, maps and hexes of traditional wargames with a bunch of cards. Most of these cards are used to define the borders of the battlefield. On that battlefield you’ll deploy your troops, who can move about, attack and shoot orthogonally, to defeat your enemy. And that’s it – there are no scenarios, control markers or turn limits to worry about. It’s a good old fashioned (well, Bronze Age) slugfest…

Designers: Florent Baudry, Adrien Fenouillet | Publisher: IELLO Full disclosure: I didn’t really play with toy soldiers as a kid, despite having two brothers. I didn’t think much of this until I saw Toy Story and the Bucket O Soldiers headed out on reconnaissance to spy on Andy’s birthday. I could identify with all of the other toys except those, and it made me feel like I’d missed out. Sometimes this job is better than therapy. It was with some exhilaration that I opened up Little Soldiers and scoped out this troupe of table storming, carpet bombing forces. Little Soldiers is one of those games that looks reassuringly simple but is hiding a surprising amount of depth in its toy box. At its heart, it’s an accessible skirmish game using…

Yahtzee is the original roll-and-write game and offers classic dice-rolling action. As well as the excitement of chucking dice and getting lucky, you get the brain tickling excitement of figuring out the best move. Experienced players will reliably score much higher than newbies, which I think proves that although there’s a high percentage of luck, there’s also enough decision making to keep you in control. You choose which dice you want to keep and which you want to reroll, then you choose which box to put your final offering into. Every time I play, I am still shocked by how exciting the simple act of rolling dice is. Much like the cries of “Bingo!” or “Eureka!”, a shout of “Yahtzee!” is enough to bring a crowd to life. If you’re…

Often with RPGs we have to buy a large book (or books), and do a lot of the work ourselves. While this can be fun in and of itself, sometimes I long for something easier to access. To this end, let’s have a look at some awesome RPG starter sets, some of which – I hope you’ll allow me this small indulgence – border on the mainstream of the RPG hobby. WARHAMMER FANTASY/THE OLD WORLD UK Publisher Cubicle 7 is the home of Games Workshop-related RPG products. The original Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay lives on here with a brand-new edition and a really excellent starter set. It’s packed with colour character sheets, a decent adventure, dice, maps, tokens and everything you need to get in on this most venerable of British…

It would be unbecoming to begin our trip to Georgia without addressing the country’s part in the greatest game of all – the game of love (which is dated by today’s standards, if you ask me). Specifically, I’m referring to the game of Flirt, a card game with Persian origins that became prolific among 20th century Georgian intellectuals frequenting the country’s literary salons. Flirt decks contained 36 botanically illustrated cards, with every flower being paired with a flirtatious phrase. Six or more players would pass cards to one another, name a flower, and then use the corresponding phrase to initiate a conversation. The first to give away all of their cards (without their advances being rejected) wins. Flirt was reproduced in 2020 and is now published by the Union of…

You’ll likely recognise the name Ravensburger, even if it’s just from seeing it on the corner of a jigsaw box. Often associated with innovation and vibrancy across a vast array of products, these days its making a splash with its foray into trading card games (TCGs) with Disney Lorcana. The company is only just scratching the surface of what it may be able to produce in the tabletop space, but with its penchant for creating concepts that last, we can’t wait to see what it produces in the decades to come. THE BEGINNING Ravensburger was originally founded in 1883 by Otto Robert Maier. It should come as no surprise that the company began in Ravensburg, in Southern Germany. Maier signed his first author to a contract and was off to…

Designer: Spencer Lloyd Thomas | Publisher: Play Monkey Games As a company just starting out, Play Monkey Games possesses a confident remit: “To create family friendly board games that both kids and adults alike want to sit down together and play.” Muster: Raise The Banners is its first attempt. With a small box, short playing time and minimal components, this seems at first glance to be more pegged towards kids. However, a closer look reveals unexpected strategy woven through its medieval-themed tapestry. This two-player head-to-head lays the gauntlet for an area-influence battle across five castles. Each person takes turns to place a Banner card from their hand beneath a banner-corresponding castle. Banner cards must be placed in ascending order according to Strength (Strength Two cards can only be placed on…

Designer: MAGNET | Publisher: Zatu It’s not often you see the time to play a game listed on the box as five to 10 minutes and think, “You’ll be lucky!” But that’s the challenge Yubibo offers to anyone looking to pick up its sticks (and balls, if you get that far) and connect with other players. This cooperative dexterity game involves the players’ hands, wooden sticks and some spongey balls. In Japanese, “Yubi” means finger and “bo” means stick so the name translates as “Fingersticks.” Players bridge the gap between themselves using the wooden sticks, maintaining pressure so the sticks don’t fall. Each participant chooses a colour to play and those colour cards create a central deck. Players then take turns drawing cards to indicate which other player they’ll connect…

Designers: Simone Luciani, Nestore Mangone | Publisher: ThunderGryph Games While Darwin’s Journey might not be a new kid on the block, some games leave such a strong impression that it feels criminal not to cover them. It’s hardly surprising that the designers behind Tzolk’in, Grand Austria Hotel, Barrage and Newton came up with an excellent Euro game, but this might be their best yet. For starters, it’s lovely to look at – as long as you’re happy with a historically themed game that has a pretty (if brown and beige) table presence. The tile and card sketches are excellent, and the map is fantastic. It’s just a shame the iconography lets things down in places, but apart from a bit of rulebook diving (I’d suggest printing your own reference sheets),…

Designer: Stephen Kerr | Publisher: Thunderworks Games The future is now, and it’s resource management. Metrorunner comes in a striking purple box, ablaze with neon colours. That visual scheme carries over into every component of the game and sets the scene for a battle of wits between you and your fellow hackers. In Metrorunner, you play as a denizen of a cyberpunk city, hacking into systems and taking on jobs. The focus of the game is to collect resource cubes which can be cashed in to score “job” cards, each of which reward you with points and potential upgrades. This is achieved by moving around a board, landing on spaces to either gather resources, draw cards or attempt to hack into the mainframe. Most actions are simple – collecting cards,…

Designer: Tomáš Holek | Publisher: Czech Games Edition SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence was one of the games of 2024, claiming a slew of nominations and awards while quickly cementing a place in the Board Game Geek top 20 games of all time. This made an expansion inevitable, and it has arrived in the shape of SETI: Space Agencies. The biggest change is in the game’s Organisations (and no, I have no idea why they didn’t call them space agencies). There are 11 Organisations in the box, with two dealt to each player at the start of the game (from which you’ll pick one). Each gives the player starting resources and income, plus several unique abilities. The Organisations are incredibly varied, affecting every aspect of the game – and to…

Designer: Reiner Knizia | Publisher: Pegasus Spiele Paws Up turns you into a pet influencer (a petfluencer?), who must set up a variety of cute shots to receive likes (or rather, points) on this cardboard world’s version of Instagram. Importantly, you need to get the pictures of your cute pet out into the world before your opponents do so as to reap more of that sweet, sweet fake love. This is a set-collecting card game from Renier Knizia and has the usual mix of being quite clever in a gentle way with strict rules and play structures. Lots of piles of points cards, three decks to draw your display from, and specific sets of starting cards make this a bigger table experience than the box suggests. But hey, who doesn’t…

Designers: Jonathan Hicks, Tomas Härenstam | Publisher: Free League Publishing Rapture Protocol is a cinematic scenario for the newly released Alien Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition and is designed to act as a contained, limited adventure for players to engage with. It’s a concept that plays into the title’s famous Cinematic mode, which received such high acclaim when the RPG was originally released. This new narrative is intended to highlight the additional rules and changes brought into the game, while welcoming new players with a gameplay experience that should feel familiar. Everything has gone into making the players feel as if they are interacting with a sequence of scenes from the Alien movies themselves. The narrative begins onboard a small starfreighter, as the crew makes a resupply run to the Jeremiah…

Designers: James Isaacs, James Gill | Publisher: Hammerforge Chronicles This is an homage. A tribute. A love letter. To the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks that first lit our imaginations.” The intro page not only tells you where the creators got their inspiration, it also gives you a pretty good idea of what you’re going to find when you delve further into the pages of Legion of the Necromancer. Publisher Hammerforge Chronicles is named for its founders’ previous careers: Metal Hammer magazine once counted James Isaacs (graphic designer) and James Gill (writer) among its number. It’s easy to believe all those years of absorbed metal culture tinge every page. If you’ve ever dipped into an early Fighting Fantasy book, you’re in for a real treat. Gill’s writing captures a suitably grim fantasy…

Designer: Proyecto Enigma | Publisher: Draco Ideas Off we go, once more, to war; simulated with cards, of course. 2GM Tactics is a card-driven wargame which gives players the opportunity to recreate battles from the Second World War or play out some alternative history scenarios. There are two main ways to play: either a historical battle, where each player takes the role of either the German or American forces for a specific event during WWII, complete with appropriate combat units, objectives and terrain; or a pitched battle, where each side can build their decks how they choose and get creative with the toys they want to play with. The two main phases of gameplay are deck construction and combat. Before the battle begins, players are given a budget of “AP”…

Designer: Joseph A. McCullough | Publisher: Osprey Games The son of Peleus pressed on in search of glory, bespattering his unconquerable hands with gore.” It’s not hard to see why you’d want to play wargames in the age of epic heroes and monsters, where combat was decided with the strength of arms and the favour of gods, and fights were between the scions of gods and the mortals who knew that they were but playthings. Warriors of Athena is presented in two books, Heroes and Quests, both of which are required to play the game with anything beyond heroes on each side. Although you could always recreate the siege of Troy. As you might have gathered, the essence of the game is to play through heroic stories that are centred…

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS – TRICK-TAKING GAME Designer: Bryan Bornmueller Publisher: Office Dog Artists: Elaine Ryan, Samuel R. Shimota Like its predecessor, the artwork here is beautiful, using colourful illustrations that resemble stained-glass windows. However, this is a standalone title, so you don’t have to have played the original Fellowship of the Ring – Trick Taking Game. The box features 17 new chapters of co-operative (or solo) missions. Will things be getting more complicated? Well, there are now white and black tower tokens, and four other tokens optimistically named “burden tokens.” The first game was wonderfully balanced, exciting and challenging, introducing new characters and twists on standard trick taking with each round. This will be a success if it’s even half as good. Check it out…

Since its introduction, crowdfunding has been a valuable tool for the board games industry. The pitch is simple: people pay in advance for boardgames to guarantee that the game is funded and the manufacturer offers exclusive goodies and early release as a thank you. It’s a great bargain that has led to many games being funded that might otherwise be an impossible pitch to publishers. What about trading card games (TCGs), though? Well, newcomers to the TCG scene Weirdco, a company formed of TCG afficionados, is attempting to prove that these can thrive on crowdfunding platforms, with the release of the upcoming Cyberpunk TCG. We’ve discussed the everexpanding and potentially over-saturated TCG market in this column, with a new game launching seemingly every month, but Cyberpunk seems like a good…

Sometimes inspiration can come from the most unusual of places for game designers. Perhaps they’ll be out on a walk and suddenly have an idea for a forest-management game. Maybe during a traditional game of poker a designer is inspired to make a miniatures skirmish game that uses poker hands for combat. For Wolfgang Warsch – the creator of Quacks of Quedlinburg – that Eureka moment came while having a bath! But before we jump in the tub, here’s a little reminder of what Quacks of Quedlinburg is all about. Oh – and it’s worth noting that there are now two versions of Wolfgang’s classic. The original, Quacks of Quedlinburg, which was first published by Schmidt Spiele in 2018, and an alternative version just called Quacks, which was released by…

Designers: David Gordon, Jonathan Gilmour-Long | Publisher: Mighty Boards When considering classic fiction genres, the heist is the best suited to board games, but it’s also hugely underused. The number is even smaller after removing co-ops such as Burgle Bros and Chronicles of Crime, leaving even fewer possibilities for getting your Ocean’s 11 on. Pinched! is here to redress the balance. Those looking for a twisty-turny complex experience in the Ocean’s vein will be sadly disappointed, though, as Pinched! is very much a light, family affair. You aim to bluff your opponents, allowing you to sneak off to locations alone and steal all the loot, collecting sets of items (cards) to turn into money (points). The theme fits the mechanisms well, as does the beautifully realised cartoony artwork. There isn’t…

Designer: RalBru Games | Publisher: RalBru Games It’s an old adage, and one that’s proven true time and again, but you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover – or a board game by its box and construction. As Hamlet would say, “The play’s the thing.” So it’s with some shame that we admit we opened the unassuming box containing ButtChess (a name my six-year-old nephew loves, but which I think would have benefitted from more conversation at the branding meeting) and embraced disappointment. Functional but unexciting plastic pieces and a very simple board (albeit it split into two so it fits into a much smaller box) didn’t inspire confidence. A quick glance at the included rules also failed to muster any joy – oh look, someone’s remade Draughts (or…

Designer: Meng Chunlin | Publisher: Dranda Games While cute usually means pretty and appealing, it can also be a nod to something clever in a simple yet pleasing way. You only have to look at the Explorers of Navoria box to see that it more than delivers in terms of visual appeal, and it’s also pretty clever in a cute way, too. I find the artwork (also from game designer Meng Chunlin) extraordinary. While there’s a definite Root vibe, the beautiful dayglow world of Explorers of Navoria comes alive on the table. It’s hard not to examine little details when awaiting your turn, as there are so many funny little squiggles and a wealth of imagination poured into each corner. In terms of gameplay, it’s a relatively light action-selection and…

Designer: Robert Hovakimyan | Publisher: IV Studios You know how it is, when you’re in the middle of running an intergalactic mining mercenary movement – and you just can’t get the staff! Moonrollers is a push-your-luck dice-rolling game where you attempt to recruit enough bodies to fulfil prestigious space contracts. IV Studios has consistently produced some of the most polished and strategic games in the hobby, with the incredible Mythic Mayhem getting a coveted Must-Play from us a few months ago, so I was excited to get my hands on Moonrollers. As a small box, low-complexity game, it doesn’t disappoint on physical appearance. It has a crisp design, transparent cubes and – my gaming Achilles heel – fistfuls of futuristic-looking custom dice. The visual experience of this game is high…

Designers: Luc Rémond, David Simiand | Publisher: Hobby World Many of my favourite board games scratch the direct competition itch in subtle rather than overtly aggressive ways. Tundra is just that kind of game, being a relatively light Euro with pretty, eye-catching artwork, but with genuine teeth when it comes to trying to outscore your opponents. You play as a selection of anthropomorphised characters, developing an area of tundra to hopefully please the Tsar and become their Viceroy. The artwork is top-notch and fits the theme perfectly, although the theme is completely superficial and could have been anything. But if it provides an excuse to use cute wooden animeeples and buildings, who’s complaining? Each player starts with an identical set of order boards and gets four of their seven dice…

Designer: Reynaldo Madiñan | Publisher: Naldobean games Dungeons & Dragons casts a long shadow across the TTRPG world – with its status as origin of the hobby, D&D’s influence is undeniable. Some designers run as far away from D&D as possible, embracing a different philosophy of design. Others stay close to the source while trying to stand out with their own take. Break!! RPG, designed by Reynaldo Madiñan and illustrated by Carlo Tartaglia, is firmly in the latter category. This is one of those RPGs that lays its stall out on the front cover. You’ll be playing that party of characters, or something equivalent to it, snacking on a smorgasbord of anime tropes. This is Break!! from top to bottom: an anime-inspired fantasy world that’s lovingly filled with all the…

Designers: Dominic McDowall, Calum Collins, Sam Taylor, Zsombor Svab | Publisher: Cubicle 7 Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull throne! It doesn’t exact scream nuanced and meaningful gameplay, and for years, the conundrum has been how do you enjoy a game where the primary goal of those you serve is to destroy, corrupt and otherwise triumph over those who serve other gods? Particularly when several of the people in your party serve those other gods… Character creation takes up the first third of the book, and allows you to start fast with more than 20 pregenerated archetypes, or to get more involved and build the character and group the way you’d like to. It’s well laid out and illustrated, terms and symbology are explained at the beginning,…

Designers: Chris Gabrielson, Brian Kromrey | Publisher: Bad Crow Games Company of Heroes is an intensely popular real-time strategy (RTS) video game. It’s StarCraft with Shermans, Panzers and MG42s. The boardgame adaptation originally debuted in 2021, and it was an excellent miniatures skirmish experience with resource management, base building and a rich tactical foundation. It’s criminal the game was not more widely heralded, likely a consequence of its restricted crowdfunding availability. Now, it’s back with a 2nd Edition. That means cleaned up rules, re-balanced units and a completely new product format to support retail. This is still one of the most electric and interesting combat games in recent years. What’s fascinating here is that it manages to capture an essence of its real-time parentage in a turn-based format. One key…

Designer: Adam Kwapiński | Publisher: Awaken Realms When a game reaches its third iteration, it’s usually a proven commodity. This is absolutely the case with Nemesis: Retaliation, the third and supposedly final entry in Awaken Realms’ popular Alien-inspired dungeon crawler. This edition takes the setting into an abandoned installation, one flooded with a quantity of xenomorphs never before seen. Don’t worry, you have military hardware and a squad trained to use it. While the original Nemesis broadly evoked Ridley Scott’s original Alien film, the follow up Lockdown hewed more closely to Alien 3. Nemesis: Retaliation, unsurprisingly, mimics James Cameron’s brilliant Aliens. Cue much more carnage, as intruders are gunned down almost every round, sometimes by the truckload. Automatic weapons, grenades and a bevy of skills result in maximum action. In…