Obscurio is the brand new deduction and hidden traitor game from publisher Libellud. Designed by L'Atelier, featuring artwork from Xavier Collette, the game is somewhat like the cooperative title Mysterium, though one of the players isn’t working with everyone else. Across the 45 minute game, 2...

Catan Starfarers is the brand new reimplementation of the 1999 space exploration title The Starfarers of Catan. Published by Catan Studio and KOSMOS, this space themed exploration and trading game was designed by Klaus Teuber, and features artwork from Michaela Kienle and Franz Vohwinkel. The game...

Decktective Bloody-Red Roses is the first in a new line of one time cooperative murder mystery titles from publisher dV Giochi. Designed by Martino Chiacchiera and Silvano Sorrentino, featuring artwork from Alberto Besi, the game utilizes memory and hand management to progress the storytelling....

The Herb Witches is the first expansion for The Quacks of Quedlinburg, a bag building and push your luck board game from publisher Schmidt Spiele. Designed by Wolfgang Warsch, featuring artwork from Dennis Lohausen, the expansions sees an additional cauldron added for a 5th player, herbal witches...

A Year of Rain is a real time strategy title which recently released into Early Access. Clearly wearing heavy inspiration from Warcraft III on its sleeve, the game is a small-scale RTS. Each player (or AI) has a hero character, as well as regular troops, with resource points to capture and exploit...

Hanabi Deluxe II, a cooperative board game with set collection and memory mechanics, has recently been released by R&R Games. Designed by Antoine Bauza, the original game was released back in 2010 and was a card game. The game sees 2 - 5 players working together for around 30 minutes to put on...

The Harry Potter 4-Pack is one of the first sets available as part of the Funkoverse Strategy Game series. While published by Funko Games, the game system was designed by the highly regarded team at Prospero Hall - the designers behind Disney Villainous and the Jaws board game. This set sees 2 - 4...

New Discoveries is the first expansion for Underwater Cities, a city building and worker placement game from Delicious Games. Designed by Vladimír Suchý, featuring artwork from Milan Vavroň, this expansion is about adding modules to the game - rather than an overhaul. New metropolises will be...

Pappy Winchester is the brand new auction, bidding and set collection board game from Blue Orange Games. Designed by Jérémy Pinget, featuring artwork from Sylvain Aublin, the game sees 3 - 5 players squabbling over their share of inheritance from Pappy. Lasting around 40 minutes land will be...

Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle – Defence Against the Dark Arts not only has an insanely long title it has also just been released by publisher The OP (previously USAopoly). Designed by Kami Mandell and Andrew Wolf, the game sees 2 players dueling for around 45 minutes. Unlike Harry Potter Hogwarts...

Spyfall Time Travel is the third installment in the main Spyfall series of games, excluding Spyfall DC, coming from publisher Hobby World. Designed by Alexandr Ushan, the game sees 2 - 8 players whisked through time for around 30 minutes. Featuring artwork from Sergey Dulin, Anton Kvasovarov and...

Dwar7s Fall is a tile and worker placement board game from publisher Vesuvius Media. Being both the designer behind the game and the artist it is fair to say the game is by Luís Brüeh. The game sees 2 - 4 players building castles, collecting shiny gems and defeating monsters - all taking around...

Frontier Developments is back with their brand new simulation and management title, Planet Zoo. Ditching hyper coasters and log flumes for a vast range of animals, players will get to craft habitats for over 70 animal species; including everything from Elephants to Lemurs, and even varieties of...

Dragon Market is the brand new set collection and movement title from publisher Blue Orange. Designed by Marco Teubner, featuring artwork from Tomasz Larek, the game sees 2 – 4 players jumping across moving boats, each with their own sailor and merchandise. Lasting around 30 - 40 minutes players...

Letter Jam is the brand new cooperative word based game from Czech Games Edition, the publisher behind the popular title Codenames. Designed by Ondra Skoupý, the game sees 2 - 6 players crafting words for around 45 minutes. Throughout that time players will be deducing their own letters, helping...

Similo Fables and History have both just been released from Horrible Guild, one of the publisher’s Essen Spiel 2019 releases. Designed by Martino Chiacchiera, Hjalmar Hach and Pierluca Zizzi, the game plays with a wide player count of 2 - 8 players. With games lasting 5 - 10 minutes, players...

Deckscape The Curse of the Sphinx is the latest escape room like cooperative card game from publisher dV Giochi. Designed by Martino Chiacchiera and Silvano Sorrentino, featuring artwork from Alberto Bontempi, this sixth installment sees 1 - 6 players stuck in Egypt for around an hour. Whilst...

Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 7 – Japan & Italy is the latest expansion for Ticket to Ride (or Ticket to Ride Europe). Released by publisher Days of Wonder, designed by Alan R. Moon, these maps are for 2 - 5 players - taking around 45 minutes to play. As an expansion this does not...

Rurik: Dawn of Kiev is a brand new euro style strategy board game from publisher PieceKeeper Games. Crowd funded on Kickstarter in 2018, the game is now stores - officially releasing today (November 5th). Designed by Stan Kordonskiy, Rurik sees 1 - 4 players take up the roles of different leaders...

No, it’s not 2007 but Call of Duty Modern Warfare has just been released by Infinity Ward. After 12 years Activision decided to revisit the game they recently remastered, with what is not a re-envisioning but a new take on Modern Warfare. Available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC (via...

Kingdomino Duel is the first roll & write in the Kingdomino series of games from publisher Blue Orange. Designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc, as the name may suggest, the game is designed specifically for two players. In around 20 minutes, players will roll dice to form dominos,...

Wicked to the Core is the first of two Disney Villainous expansions from design collective Prospero Hall and publisher Ravensburger. The team behind the likes of Jaws is back, with three new wicked characters; Snow White’s Evil Queen, Hercules’ Hades and The Princess and the Frog’s Dr....

Essen “Spiel” 2019 has come and gone for another year. With the organisers confirming this year’s event was the biggest to date - with over 1,200 exhibitors and 1,500 new games - there was plenty to see, buy and play. While it was impossible to try everything out we strived to get hands on...

TEAM3 PINK and TEAM3 GREEN are team based dexterity titles, which have just been released by Brain Games. The two sets, which slightly differ, individually offer components for 3 - 6 players. Designed by Alex Cutler and Matt Fantastic, TEAM3 sees players’ communication skills tested, as...