Project L is a polyomino puzzle board game from publisher Boardcubator, released in 2020. Designed by Michal Mikeš, Jan Soukal and Adam Spanel, the game sees 1 - 4 players spend 20 - 30 minutes collecting Tetris-like shapes, using them to fill in puzzles and scoring points. With levels of puzzle...

Kemet Blood and Sand is the Egyptian themed, area control, strategy board game from Matagot. Designed by Jacques Bariot and Guillaume Montiage, featuring artwork from Arnaud Boudoiron and Pierre Santamaria, Kemet sees 2 - 5 players commanding troops and creatures from Egyptian mythology. In...

Dobble XXL is the giant sized version of Zygomatic’s speedy observation card game, known as Spot It in the US. Designed to be played outside by 2 - 8 players, individual games take around 10 minutes. Coming with four unique game modes from The Circle to Wolf, these are brand new Dobble modes...

Trails of Tucana is a flip and write, route building style, board game - published by Aporta Games. Designed by Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, featuring artwork from Gjermund Bohne, the game sees 1 - 8 players journeying out across the island of Tucana - for around 15 minutes....

Ultra Pro has just released a brand new range of officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons playmats. As part of a Cover Series, this playmat features the extended artwork that adorns the cover of the latest D&D fifth edition book, Candlekeep Mysteries. Whether these are used by adventurers,...

Charterstone, released originally back in 2017, is a worker placement, legacy style board game from Stonemaier Games. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier, featuring artwork from Lina Cossette and David Forest, the game sees players tasked with growing a new village for the Forever King. Being a legacy...

WizKids has just released a range of Pre-Painted Critical Role miniatures for use in Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. With a large range of sets to be released, the first three Factions of Wildemount are now available. These sets are the Dwendalian Empire Set, the Kryn Dynasty & Xhorhas Set...

There is no doubt that Wingspan is a popular board game. We loved it when we reviewed it, it’s got reprint after reprint and it won most awards possible for a hobby board game. Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games have since released two expansions for Wingspan adding birds from two new...

Orcs Must Die 3 is not actually the third game in the franchise, but it does return to the same style as Orcs Must Die 1 and 2. Developed by Robot Entertainment, the game pits players against waves of orcs, trolls, elementals and more, across a range of gamemodes. Fan favourite traps and weapons...

Snakesss is the brand new party game from Big Potato Games, featuring hidden roles and trivia! Designed by Phil Walker-Harding, the game sees 4 - 8 players answering trivia, but not always wanting the group to get the correct answer! Playing in 20 minutes, players will be ordinary humans trying to...

Burgle Bros was Kickstarted back in 2015, seeing players robbing a bank. In 2019 a sequel was released, deflecting the crime away from the banks and onto the local casinos. Tim Fowers, the designer and the single man publisher behind both games, is now offering gamers the chance to upgrade their...

Tenfold Dungeon is a brand new range of modular terrain for tabletop RPGs, made from cardboard to hit more affordable price points. Funded on Kickstarter in 2019, a range of Tenfold products were backed by over 1,200 people. Today, we are taking a look at two sets from the range: The Town and...

Rajas of the Ganges The Dice Charmers is the brand new roll and write board game from publisher HUCH! Designed by Inka and Markus Brand, featuring artwork from Dennis Lohausen, the game sees 2 - 5 players using dice to gain goods to sell, journey along the Ganges river and visit the palace....

Dice Legacy is the brand new dice based roguelike city builder, from DESTINYbit and Ravenscourt. Landing a ship on an uncharted ringworld, players will be using dice to survive the upcoming winter and far beyond. Starting with only a few peasant dice, players roll the dice and then send them out...

Mini Motorways is the brand new, single player, casual simulation game from developer Dinosaur Polo Party. Released on Steam and Apple Arcade, the game sees players build out the road networks of a bustling metropolis. With the traffic being the problem, cars just want to get back and forth to...

Roll Player is a dice drafting board game themed around creating a Role Play Game character, from publisher Thunderworks Games. Designed by Keith Matejka, featuring artwork from JJ Ariosa and Luis Francisco, the game sees 1 - 4 players using dice to flesh out dwarves, humans, dragonborn and more....

After going digital only last year the UK Games Expo was back in Birmingham for the 2021 show this past weekend. With hundreds of stands, from huge publishers and distributors like Asmodee and Fantasy Flight Games, through to indie companies like Stuff by Bez, UKGE 2021 had plenty to offer...

Seven Bridges is a brand new dice drafting based roll and write board game from Puzzling Pixel Games. Designed by Ronald Halliday, the game sees 1 - 6 players exploring the streets of the European city of Königsberg, by drafting parts of routes. Lasting around 30 - 40 minutes, players will visit...

Colt Super Express is a speedy reimplementation of the action queue and hand management board game Colt Express, published by Ludonaute. Designed by Cédric Lefebvre and Christophe Raimbault, featuring artwork by Jordi Valbuena, 3 - 7 players will be once again trying to outwit their opponents in...

Wizkids has just released an adventure centerpiece in the form of the Dungeons & Dragons Icons of the Realms The Tower. This 37cm / 14.5 inch tall, multi-floored, pre-painted plastic tower features removable windows, buttresses, staircases and more. It could be an abandoned, crumbling, overrun...

Wingspan is a bird themed, tableau building, board game from publisher Stonemaier Games. Designed by Elizabeth Hargrave, featuring artwork from the likes of Beth Sobel and Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo, the game sees 1 - 5 players attract birds to their wildlife reserve. Lasting around an hour,...

ARRRmada and Build-A-Robot are two expansions for Starcadia Quest, from publisher CMON. Designed by the likes of Thiago Aranha, Guilherme Goulart and Eric M. Lang, these expansions add new monsters for crews to tackle, new map tiles and new quests across new branching campaigns. From space pirates...

Lost Cities Roll & Write is the brand new dice based board game from publisher Kosmos. Designed by Dr Reiner Knizia, the game sees 2 - 5 players going out on coloured expeditions, rolling dice and discovering artifacts along the way. Lasting around 20 minutes, the majority of the game is...

Alongside the release of Curves, WizKids has released WarLock Tiles III - Angles. Again, coming in the two standard WarLock Tiles styles, Town & Village and Dungeon, these ditch right angles in favour of 45 degree walls and tiles. Coming with triangular tiles, EZ clips and diagonal walls, the...