Passtally is a newly released abstract strategy, tile placement and route building board game from publisher Pandasaurus Games. Designed by Masaki Suga, the game is designed for 2 - 3 players and takes around 20 - 30 minutes to play. Taking turns to place colourful tiles, the board grows as...

Quadropolis is a city building, tile placement board game, released back in 2016 by Days of Wonder. Designed by François Gandon, featuring artwork from Cyrille Daujean and Sabrina Miramon, the game sees 2 - 4 players become mayors for around 45 minutes. These mayors will be competing to get green...

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...

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...

Gingerbread House is the brand new tile placement, set collection board game from designer Phil Walker-Harding - the man behind the epic Barenpark and Sushi Go! Published by Lookout Games, featuring art from Andy Elkerton and Klemens Franz, Gingerbread House sees 2 - 4 players spend around 40...

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a tile placement and drafting board game released in 2018, as part of collaboration between Stonemaier Games and Bezier Games. Designed by Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset the game mashes two previous titles, Between Two Cities and Castles of Mad King...

Orbis is a hot of the press, tile placement board game from publisher Space Cowboys. Designed by Tim Armstrong, with art from Davide Tosello, the game is themed around constructing a world. Throughout the game players take up the role of a God who aims to construct a world full of worshipers, made...

Capital, also called Warsaw: City of Ruins, is a city building board game from 2016, with tile placement and drafting mechanics. From publisher Granna and designer Filip Miłuński, the game sees 2 – 4 players spend around 45 minutes constructing a zone of Poland’s capital Warsaw. With...

Tsuro of the Seas is an abstract strategy board game with a Japanese nautical theme; from designers Tom McMurchie and Jordan Weisman and publisher Calliope Games. Released in 2012, this is a sequel to the 2004 title Tsuro and follows a similar path. The game plays for a touch longer than the...

Queendomino is the sequel to Blue Orange's Spiele des Jahres winning Kingdomino. Designed by famed designer Bruno Cathala, the game sees players building out their kingdoms via rectangular tiles, in a similar way that the age-old game of dominos works. Being a standalone title, on its own...

Topiary is a one of the new breed of abstract puzzle games, which has a theme overlaid. The gameplay revolves around tile placement, worker placement and area control mechanisms. Released in 2017 this board game from designer Danny Devine and publisher Fever Games is still very much hot of the...

Terraforming Mars is a science fiction themed engine building, tile placement and card based board game from designer Jacob Fryxelius and publisher FryxGames. The game sees 1 - 5 players take control of giant corporations, in the 2400s. Unsurprisingly from the title, these corporations are looking...

Bärenpark is a tile placement board game, with hints of set collection, released in 2017 by Lookout Games and Mayfair Games. Designed by Phil Walker-Harding, Bärenpark is for 2 - 4 players and takes between 30 - 45 minutes depending on the player count and experience. Players take up the roles of...

Favelas, released towards the end of 2017, is a tile placement board game with hints of dice influencing mechanics. Designed by Chris Bryan and published by WizKids, the game sees 2 - 4 players using hexagon shaped tiles to construct a colourful interpretation of the Rio de Janeiro favelas. Taking...

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, released back in 2015, is a set collection and tile placement board game from designer Christopher Chung. Published by Foxtrot Games and Renegade Game Studios the title sees 2 – 4 players become artisans before an upcoming festival. The game lasts around 30...

Kingdomino is a family orientated tile placement, pattern making board game; for 2 - 4 players from Blue Orange. Designed by famed Bruno Cathala, the man behind games such as 7 Wonders Duel and Five Tribes, the game sees players claim and place colourful tiles like dominoes to create a kingdom. As...

Rick & Morty Anatomy Park is tile placement game based on the iconic episode of the hilarious show Rick & Morty. The game sees 2 - 4 players constructing a theme park inside of a homeless man called Ruben. For those uneducated about the experiments of Rick, for some reason Ruben is perfectly happy...

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...

Patchwork is an abstract puzzle based tile placement board game for two players from famed designer Uwe Rosenberg, which sees a quilt be sown and points scored. Using time wisely, players will look to fill in a 9x9 grid using scraps of fabric, overtime creating a patchwork style quilt. Rosenberg is...

Whistle Stop is a train game, so it isn't an original theme. Saturation point is almost reached with the likes of Ticket to Ride for light games and Great Western Trail for those looking for a heavy train game. There is tile laying, resource collection, delivery mechanics and even a standard point...