Today we have a couple of battle map books from Loke BattleMats to review, for use when playing Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder or any RPG which uses a 1 inch square grid system. For variety this review focuses on The Big Book of Battle Mats Vol. 1 and The Giant Book of Battle Mats Vol. 2,...

FUSE is a real time, cooperative board game from publisher Renegade Game Studios, released originally back in 2015. Designed by Kane Klenko, the game sees 1 - 5 players hastily attempting to disarm a bomb, with the help of some dice! For around 10 minutes players will be rolling dice, frantically...

The Isle of Cats is a strategy board game from publisher The City of Games, that features card drafting, tile placement and plenty of cats! Designed by Frank West, the game sees 1 - 4 players set out to rescue cats before their home is destroyed. By drafting baskets, luring cats with fish and...

Alongside the launch of the latest Dungeons & Dragons adventure book, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Wizards of the Coast has released a themed dice set. Coming with 11 dice, 20 illustrated character and monster cards, two dice trays and a double sided map of Icewind Dale, there is...

Ctrl is a brand new 3D strategy, puzzle like board game from publisher Pandasaurus Games. Designed by Julio E. Nazario, the game sees 2 - 4 players vying for control of the battlefield, a 3x3 central cube, for around 20 minutes. Using 3 blocks at a time, players will build up areas of control,...

Splendor Marvel is the brand new edition of the set collection, tableau building board game, from publisher Space Cowboys. Designed by Marc André, the game sees 2 - 4 players attempting to be the first to collect the infinity stones, to obtain the Infinity Gauntlet before Thanos can. Based upon...

Cities Skylines The Board Game is unsurprisingly a title based upon the city building video game of the same name. Published by Kosmos, the board game is a cooperative experience, with tiles placed to create the growing city. Designed by Rustan Håkansson, the game sees 1 - 4 players using cards...

Spicy is a brand new bluffing based card game from publisher HeidelBÄR Games. Designed by Győri Zoltán Gábor, featuring artwork for Jimin Kim, the game is about a contest between three big cats taking on a hot spice contest. In around 10 - 15 minutes, 2 - 6 players will play chili, wasabi and...

Tang Garden is a brand new tile placement board game from publisher ThunderGryph Games. Originally funded on Kickstarter, the game has now had a retail release. Designed by Francesco Testini and Pierluca Zizzi, featuring artwork from Matthew Mizak, the game sees 1 - 4 players design a zen like...

Spirecrest is one of three expansions for Everdell that adds new content and even an extra board into the mix. Designed by James A. Wilson, the expansion doesn’t change the 1 - 4 player count, though does slightly extend the playtime of the game by around 10 - 15 minutes. From weather conditions...

Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power is a brand new board game from publisher Ravensburger, featuring unique player powers and objectives. Designed by the team at Prospero Hall, the game sees 2 - 4 players take up the role of Marvel Villains for around an hour. Coming with Thanos, Hela, Ultron,...

Scooby-Doo Escape from the Haunted Mansion is a brand new cooperative, escape room style, board game from publisher The Op (previously USAopoly). Designed by Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim and Kami Mandell, the game sees players working together as the Mystery Inc gang to solve the mystery of Lady...

The Thieves Guild Premium Set is a brand new pre-painted scatter terrain set from WizKids’ Pathfinder Battles product line. While it is created with Pathfinder in mind, it is perfectly usable for Dungeons & Dragons, utilizing the same sizings. Made up of 15 pieces, there are a range of...

Tiny Towns is an abstract strategy board game from publisher AEG, where creating patterns with resources helps construct city buildings. Designed by Peter McPherson, the game sees 1 - 6 players adding resources to their personal gridded payer boards, before trading them in for a range of point...

Continuing our dive into the WarLock Tiles range from WizKids, today we are looking at the Summoning Circles set. This set offers gamers five pre-painted summoning circles, of different designs, coming with an LED base they offer gamers the chance to bring a spot of glow to their D&D or...

Ticket to Ride Amsterdam is the brand new route building, set collection, board game - from publisher Days of Wonder. Designed by Alan R. Moon, this small box version is based on a map of 17th century Amsterdam. Featuring locations such as Westermarkt and Waag, 2 - 4 players will gain cards and...

Marvel Infinity Gauntlet is a brand new card game from publisher Z-Man Games, themed around Thanos’ search for the six infinity stones. The game is designed by Alexandar Ortloff and Seiji Kanai, the man behind Love Letter which this new game is based upon. Infinity Gauntlet takes the much loved...

It’s 1920 and The Great War has ended, but in this alternate reality tensions between the key nations of Europa are still high. Based upon Polish artist Jakub Różalski’ 1920+ universe, nations have dieselpunk like mechs at their disposal, as well as ground troops. Since the end of the war...

My City is a brand new legacy style city building game, from well known designer Reiner Knizia. Published by Kosmos, the game sees cities built up from polyomino shaped tiles, akin to Tetris pieces. As a legacy game things will change and adapt across an arc of 24 individual games, with sealed...

Welcome To…  is a flip and write board game based in the 1950s, where players attempt to build out the perfect neighbourhood of parks, pools and a street of number ordered doors. Originally available via a Kickstarter campaign in 2018, the playmat for this amazing title has just been...

Recently we reviewed one of the base WarLock Tile sets, Town & Village, along with a range of additional sets including Stairs & Ladders and Expansion Box 1. Today we are looking at some more content in the WarLock Tiles line, the Doors & Archways set. Featuring 14 items, the set...

Recently we looked at the Summer expansion for Welcome To… and today we are here to look at not one, not two, but three more expansions: Halloween, Outbreak and Doomsday. All of these come from publisher Deep Water Games, featuring a rules sheet, a few expansion specific cards and a pad of...

Camel Up originally came out in 2014 and now a shiny new edition has been released by publisher eggertspiele. As with the original edition, this second edition lists Steffen Bogen as the designer and Chris Quilliams as the man behind the artwork. One slight change from the offset is that Camel Up...

Dominion, originally released back in 2008, is the deck building board game that started the entire genre. Published by Rio Grande Games and designed by Donald X. Vaccarino, the game sees 2 - 4 players become monarchs. Born into the royal family of a small kingdom players will want to expand their...