Tabletop

The meaning of the word ‘Kanban’ originates from Japan and refers to a manufacturing system that uses clear and simple cue cards to drive factory workers to achieve maximum efficiency with minimal waste. In Vital Lacerda’s Kanban board…

Delicious bowls of ramen are something I’ve enjoyed time and time again. Ramen Fury allows you to whip up combinations of the soup through constructing the perfect mix of toppings, all before slurping it down to gain points! Ramen Fury is…

Tabletop games come in so many different shapes, sizes and themes. Ones with food in them tend to be my favorite, personally, but nature games also catch my eye. Herbaceous Sprouts is one such game — I saw it on a shelf at a shop and…

In the fantasy city of Helgarten, illegal combat bouts mechanical abominations against cruel and outlandish hybrid creatures in a pit fight known as The Underleague. A game for two to five players (that works by far the best at two or…

Right, when I received Dead & Breakfast I had hoped that the game would be based around food, however  It turns out, instead, that the title is a pun on bed and breakfast. This game instead has you creating haunted hotels for you to…

Since Games Workshop agreed to license its intellectual property to external organisations, we’ve seen a rich and varied mixture of video, board and other games covering every aspect of the worlds of Warhammer. One recent game to take…

You may already have heard of IELLO Games range of Mini Games, the most popular of which is almost certainly Schotten Totten. There are several others in this series of simple, small box experiences however, and with IELLO launching…

Zombie Dice is a luck based, dice rolling game that was first released around five years ago. Two or three expansions later, and the whole lot of expansions has been combined and compressed into the Horde Edition that we’re reviewing…

Games demonstrated at Essen always tend to create quite a buzz, and those with unusual mechanics and attractive artwork can really stand out among the sea of eurogames. Silk, from designer Luis Ranedo and artist Roc Espinet, was first…

Whilst you may not assume that fishing and board games have much in common, both are generally relaxing pastimes that demand complete immersion into the situation. Coldwater Crown and its recent expansion, The Sea, combine these hobbies by…

In Kraftwagen, each player is a car company mogul during the halcyon days of the early 20th century. The players will obtain victory points by building desirable car bodies, adding powerful engines and investing in race day technology.…

Many creatures go on a journey in the hope of making to a magical land. One that might be a castle made of cakes and full of wondrous items. Creatures and Cupcakes is a very simple tabletop game that takes the idea of moving magical…

With a theme as potentially dry as the production of power, it takes a design team with flair and imagination to create a compelling board game from it. Games like Power Grid have achieved this to some extent in the past, but I was curious…

When it comes to reviewing board games, there are numerous considerations to bear in mind. Who will this game appeal to? How well does it represent the genre that it resides in and, perhaps most importantly, what does it do to…

Whilst you may not have heard of them, gretchins are an ever present (albeit very much sidelined) feature of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000. These expendable creatures are maniacal and cunning, yet they love nothing more than getting…

They key to winning is staying ahead of your opponents, which means trying to keep them behind. Movement is important, but using power-ups is the real way to victory.

Do you have an unquenchable thirst for adventure? Do you enjoy questing through the anime worlds inspired by Bakugan and Dragonball Z? Are you looking for a game that offers a wide variety of ways to play, with support for solo,…

Villagers is fast and easy to set up, simple to teach and yet it features very deep gameplay that becomes more and more immersive as you play more of it.

In Artipia Games’ A Thief’s Fortune, the players each take responsibility for a different, alternative timeline, belonging to the same unfortunate individual. With thematic links to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, A Thief’s Fortune is…

Those futuristic-seeming sushi places where conveyor belts of food move around — just waiting for you to grab up exactly what you want — are always a great place to explore and try out new bits of food. Sushi Roll is a dice rolling tabletop…