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Deep Rock Galactic is a breakthrough hit
I’ve heard a lot about Deep Rock Galactic, and we’ve certainly covered it here at B3 — but I’d never played it myself. Dwarves, beer, mining etc — I felt I’d seen and done it all before. But on the tabletop things hit differently. Creating…
Twisted History – Trivia but strange
We’ve played a large number of trivia games during our time covering tabletop games. However, Twisted History has trivia questions I’ve never been asked or wondered the answer to — and that’s its point! Split between six eras of history,…
Go for Gold is a race to match sports for medals
Go for Gold is a fast paced game of plucking matches out from under the nose of your opponents, an Olympic game of speed and dexterity, if you will. When it comes to games with card or tile-based pieces is there anything more pure than the…
The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls and its Requiem expansion will take you to dark places!
Originally released in 2018, The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls has recently been revitalised via a significant expansion known as The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls: Requiem, and a whole host of smaller booster packs that add between 10 and 15…
Smash Down is a trivia game of quick fingers and quicker thinking
There's always a bit of a gulf between adults and the kids when you play family trivia games. Smash Down fixes that with a find-the-world game board as well as fun finger pointers to save people from crushing fingers. Smash Down is a…
Warhammer 40,000: The Ultimate Guide – An ultimate entry point
Warhammer 40,000 is an extremely intimidating setting for newcomers, I should know. We’ve all been there at one point or another, being stood staring up at rows upon rows of miniature model kits wondering “What’s all this about different…
Wizards and Co is an unusual game about timing and placement
With a well respected design team and a fantastic artist in Miguel Coimbra, Sinister Fish Games could be onto a winner with Wizards and Co. Hot on the heels of a string of great games including Villagers and Honk!, Wizards and Co retains a…
Skyrise is a steampunk delight that delivers satisfying area majority through clever bidding
We all know by now that Roxley Games make some fantastic products, and in most cases, they are not shy about shouting it from the rooftops. Released initially as an (almost) million (Canadian) dollar Kickstarter with multiple, massively…
Delivery Witches takes Mika and the Witch’s Mountain to your kitchen table
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a stunning video game that’s all about a little witch who is trying to deliver packages, upgrade her broom, and make it to the top of a mountain. It’s not a game that instantly screams “make a tabletop…
Castellans of Valeria is a clever area control game that’s all about timing
It’s been a while since we last reviewed a game from the Valeria universe, but whenever I’ve played a game in this series, I’ve always been fairly impressed. Whilst most of the Valeria games are card driven, Castellans of Valeria is a fully…
Hans im Glück’s 2024 remaster of El Grande is an area control tour-de-force!
Imagine yourself in the shoes of a powerful lord — or Grande — in Medieval Spain. The power of the King is waning and you, along with up to four other Grande’s, are mustering your forces to succeed (or possibly overthrow) him. This is El…
Top Three Board Games at Draughts Hackney
Myself, my partner and three of our friends finally got along to Draughts in Hackney to see their impressive board game collection! Draughts have a primary location in Waterloo, and the Hackney building does look small from the front, but…
Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars is a fast-paced skirmish game that is great for casual combatants
Here at BigBossBattle, we are big fans of Free League Publishing, with reviews of both Tales From the Loop: The Board Game and Forbidden Lands under our belts. You can imagine my excitement then, when I heard about Mutant Year Zero: Zone…
Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan – roleplaying made simple
We’ve been reviewing games from Mighty Boards for quite a few years now, with games like Petrichor, Posthuman Saga and Vengeance: Roll and Fight among them. Heck, we’ve even interviewed the legendary David Turczi in association with Mighty…
Herd Mentality is an amoozing game of following the herd
Enough milking these cow puns dry, on to the review. Herd Mentality is a party game for four plus players from Big Potato Games. In Herd Mentality you are aiming to be the first player to round up eight bovines. Achieve this by aligning…
History Heroes: A Little Slice of History is an easy-playing educational twist on dominoes
History. You either love it or hate it. Well, that or you like very specific, niche bits of it. The main reason for that is because its so vast, but its also not relatable — people don't draw the same connections between it as they do with…
Junior Colour Brain is a colour guessing game fit for all
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…
Everdell Farshore is the cleaner, tidier sequel to our 2018 Game of the Year
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…
Agemonia – big, bold and brilliant
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…
Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire – Gain fame and influence!
Ascend to the golden temple in this multi tiered worker placement puzzle for the gods. Don’t you want your potato?