Carcassonne Amazonas, the 2016 release in the Around the World series from Hans im Glück and Z-Man Games, is a tile placement board game. Designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, with art from Vicki Dalton, the game sees 2 - 5 players swap the French countryside town of Carcassonne for the thick Amazon...
Forbidden Sky is the third instalment in the Forbidden series of cooperative board games, from famed designer Matt Leacock - the man behind the Pandemic series. Published by Gamewright, featuring artwork by C. B. Canga, the game sees 2 - 5 players stuck on a floating platform amidst an electrifying...
Treasure Island is a brand new deduction board game with a heavy pirate theme, published by Matagot and designed by Marc Paquien. As the lore goes Long John Silver is a bit down on his luck. His crew has tied him up in the black tower and is badgering him with questions, attempting to unveil the...
Carcassonne Safari is the fourth full game to be released as part of the Carcassonne: Around the World series. Featuring the tile placement mechanics the series is known for, this hot off the press board game is designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published by Hans im Glück. Safari sees 2 - 5...
Pyramid of Pengqueen is a retheming of a 2008 dice rolling and memory board game called Fluch der Mumie, or Curse of the Mummy. Designed by Marcel-André Casasola Merkle, the game now sees 2 - 5 players involved in a penguin themed treasure hunt. Instead of being caught in a high school the...
Gunkimono is a Samurai themed territory building board game from publisher Renegade Game Studios. Designed by Jeffrey D. Allers, the game is a reimplementation of the 2009 title Heartland - moving away from farms to a war-torn feudal Japan setting. Taking on the role of daimyos 2 - 5 players will...
Pandemic Iberia is a cooperative board game set in the Iberian Peninsula in 1848, published by Z-Man Games. Designed by Jesús Torres Castro and Matt Leacock, Pandemic Iberia sees 2 - 5 players take around 45 - 60 minutes trying to cure diseases across the region of Portugal and Spain. Gone are the...
Ticket to Ride Heart of Africa is the third map collection expansion for the base games of Ticket to Ride. Released in 2012 by publisher Days of Wonder, from designer Alan R Moon, this expansion for 2 - 5 players is set in the lower half of Africa. This is a single-side board expansion, unlike some...
Sailing Toward Osiris is an ancient Egyptian themed worker placement board game, which was released earlier this year (2018), by Daily Magic Games. Designed by W. David MacKenzie, with art from Denis Martynets, the game sees 2 - 5 players spend around 60 - 90 minutes (based on the player count)...
The Climbers, originally released back in 2008, is an abstract racing and climbing board game from designer Holger Lanz and publisher Simply Complex. The title sees 2 - 5 players striving to climb up a colourful cube-based structure, that is designed differently each and every game. Players are...
Century: Golem Edition is a reimplemented/rethemed version of the board game Century Spice Road, both of which were released in 2017. Coming from designer Emerson Matsuuchi the Golem Edition was initially only available at conventions or online but is now out for wider release. This instalment of...
Tokaido is a Japanese theme point to point movement board game journey, from Funforge, released originally back in 2012. Released right at the end of last year was the 5th anniversary edition, which this review focuses on, not to be confused with the collector's edition. Designed by Antoine Bauza,...
Meeple Circus released at the end of 2017 is unsurprisingly a circus themed board game which is designed around dexterity, from publisher Matagot. Designed by Cédric Millet, the game sees 2 - 5 players become ring masters during two rehearsals and a final grand performance, where you must impress...
Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails is a travel themed set collection and route building board game from designer Alan R. Moon and publisher Days of Wonder. This is the first game in the series that players will not only be constructing train routes across land but also sail across the oceans and seas....
Jamaica, originally released back in 2007, is a pirate themed racing game, which features dice rolling and card based actions. Designed by Malcolm Braff, Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon, and published by GameWorks, the game sees 2 – 6 players in a race around Jamaica. Getting around the...
Istanbul is a pick up and deliver board game from designer Rüdiger Dorn and publisher Pegasus Spiele. The game sees 2 – 5 players become wheelbarrow towing merchants in the busy Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, for around 45 – 60 minutes. Goods such as fruit and spices must be transported and sold,...
Zendo, originally released back in 2001, is an abstract puzzle game that has just had a new edition released from designers Kory Heath and Andrew Looney. Published by Looney Labs the game is for 3 – 5 players, though via a variant works with 2, with rounds lasting anywhere between 5-20 minutes....
Port Royal is a push your luck card game from designer Alexander Pfister and publisher Pegasus Spiele. The game reimplements the gameplay of Händler der Karibik though ups the card deck from 110 cards to 120. This tweak allows Port Royal to accommodate 2 - 5 players, with the game lasting 20 - 50...
Minute Realms is the brand-new card based city building game from designer Stefano Castelli and publisher dV Giochi. Aiming to be a compact city builder the game is built for 2 - 5 players and aims to take no longer than 30 minutes. As the king of a realm, players must construct buildings, gain and...
Lords of Waterdeep is a fantasy themed worker placement game where 2 - 5 players take up the roles of masked lords. Each of these lords must recruit agents, deploy workers and complete quests in an attempt to rack up points. As the name suggests this all takes place in the Forgotten Realm's city of...
Carcassonne Gold Rush is the second title in the "Carcassonne: Around the World" series of games, which sees the base game of Carcassonne slightly adapted and taken to a new location. In this version players will take up the roles of cowboys in 19th century North America in the midst of the gold...
Star Wars Imperial Assault originally released back in 2014 however we have only just got our hands on this gloriously themed dice rolling, strategy game. Utilizing some light role-playing mechanics to create an almost Star Wars RPG game, Imperial Assault pits rebel heroes against the Empire, after...
Released back in 2008 Galaxy Trucker: The Big Expansion was the first of many boxes that adds content to the incredible base game, unsurprisingly, called Galaxy Trucker. This expansion box truly is big, expanding the game in a variety of ways. A new lifeform has been added in, something else to...
Z-Man has just released the Carcassonne Big Box 2017, with the game hitting the shelves of Friendly Local Game Stores within the next few weeks. Saying this, the Carcassonne Big Box 2017 cannot really be classed as a game. It's more a bundle of an incredible game with 11, yes 11, expansions....