New York Zoo is a polyomino tile placement board game, from publisher Feuerland Spiele. Designed by Uwe Rosenberg, featuring artwork from Felix Wermke, the game sees 1 - 5 players placing animal enclosures and attractions into their zoo, and breeding the likes of penguins and kangaroos. Lasting...
Bandido is a card based cooperative route building game, published originally in 2016 by Helvetiq. Designed by Martin Nedergaard Andersen, the game sees 1 - 4 players trying to stop a prisoner from escaping via tunnels below his jail cell. Playing in under 15 minutes, cards will be placed, snaking...
Late Arrivals is an expansion for the tile placement and drafting board game The Isle of Cats, released in 2019 by publisher The City of Games. Designed by Frank West, the expansion adds more cats, more boats and the components to play with more players - increasing the player count from 1 - 4 cat...
Hans im Gluck has finally reprinted Carcassonne Hunters and Gatherers, which was originally released back in 2002 and has been out of stock for a number of years. Designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, this version reimplements the classic Carcassonne, though it remains a tile placement game for 2 - 5...
Meeple Land is a brand new amusement park themed tile placement board game, from publisher Blue Orange Games. Designed by Cyrille Allard and Frédéric Guérard, featuring artwork from Tomasz Larek, the game sees 2 - 4 players attempting to build the best park for bus loads of colourful meeples....
Calico is a brand new quilt and cat themed pattern matching, tile placement board game from publishers Flatout Games and AEG. Designed by Kevin Russ, featuring artwork from Beth Sobel, 1 - 4 players will be using hexagonal tiles to stitch together a beautiful quilt - which naturally will attract...
Cloud City is the brand new tile placement board game from designer Phil Walker-Harding. Published by Blue Orange, the game sees 2 - 4 players become city planners for the Cloud City. Building out the city, skyscrapers can be linked via walkways, votes will be gained and only one architect will be...
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...
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...
Bärenpark The Bad News Bears expansion released last year but has recently been restocked, so more gamers can bolster their polyomino bear parks. Designed by the man behind the base game, Phil Walker-Harding, the expansion comes from publisher Lookout Games. The player count has not been expanded...
Traintopia is the brand new railroad themed drafting and tile placement board game from publisher Board & Dice. Designed by Przemek Wojtkowiak, featuring artwork from Jakub Fajtanowski and Zbigniew Umgelter, the game plays in around 30 minutes with 2 - 4 players. Players will be claiming...
Qwirkle is a simple abstract strategy and pattern building board game from publisher MindWare. Designed by Susan McKinley Ross, Qwirkle is for 2 - 4 players and plays in around half an hour. Coming with wooden tiles, this is a game about matching colours or shapes in an effort to score maximum...
Age of Giants is an expansion for both Kingdomino and Queendomino, despite having only the prior name on the cover. Published by Blue Orange, coming from famed designer Bruno Cathala, giants, a tile tower and quests are all added into the tile placement, pattern building experience. The expansion...
Tapestry is the latest release from famed board game designer Jamey Stegmaier. Published by Stonemaier Games, Tapestry is a civilization style title, featuring variable player powers, tile placement, tech tracks and more. Playing in around 1.5 - 2 hours, the game sees 1 - 5 players advance their...
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...
