Charterstone, released originally back in 2017, is a worker placement, legacy style board game from Stonemaier Games. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier, featuring artwork from Lina Cossette and David Forest, the game sees players tasked with growing a new village for the Forever King. Being a legacy...
Fallout Shelter may be more commonly known for being an app but recently Fantasy Flight Games have released a board version. Designed by Andrew Fischer, the game turns the app gameplay of building out a vault into a competitive worker placement contest for 2 - 4 players. Vying to become the next...
Pendulum is a brand new real time, worker placement, game from publisher Stonemaier Games. Designed by Travis P. Jones, the game sees 1 - 5 players take up the roles of nobles attempting to succeed the Timeless King. With actual time at their disposal, players will gain power, rise in...
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...
Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a dice based worker placement game from publisher Stonemaier Games. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone, featuring artwork from Jacqui Davis, the game sees 2 - 6 players trying to get a slice of the dystopian future, whilst keeping their workers...
Everdell is a fantasy, animal themed worker placement board game from publisher Starling Games. Designed by James A. Wilson, featuring artwork from Andrew Bosley, Cody Jones and Dann May, the game sees 1 - 4 players becoming hedgehogs, squirrels and more. With an aim to build a city beneath the...
Paladins of the West Kingdom is a worker placement board game from publishers Garphill Games and Renegade Game Studios - released in 2019. Designed by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald, featuring artwork by Mihajlo Dimitrievski, the game sees 1 - 4 players build fortifications, commission monks,...
Architects of the West Kingdom is a worker placement based, strategy, board game from publisher Garphill Games. Designed by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald, featuring artwork from Mihajlo Dimitrievski, the game sees 1 - 5 players become architects for just over an hour. Using resources, buildings...
Underwater Cities is a worker placement, city building and hand management board game that was released last year. Designed by Vladimír Suchý, featuring artwork from Uildrim and Milan Vavroň, 1 - 4 players are tasked with fixing the Earth’s population problem. Instead of looking to the stars...
Dinosaur Island is a thematic strategy board game, which was Kickstarted back in 2017. Published by Pandasaurus Games, the game has since hit retail stores and a new print run has just come in. Designed by Jonathan Gilmour and Brian Lewis, the game sees 1 - 4 players spend around an hour and a...
Victorian Masterminds is a worker placement board game from CMON Limited, released earlier this year. Designed by Antoine Bauza and Eric M. Lang, featuring art from Davide Tosello, the game sees 2 - 4 evil masterminds wreaking havoc now that Sherlock Holmes is out of the picture. Lasting around an...
Gùgōng is a brand new card placement board game from designer Andreas Steding, artist Andreas Resch and publisher Game Brewer. Based on the Former Palace, or in Chinese Gùgōng, the game is firmly themed around the glorious Forbidden City, in the heart of Beijing. The year is 1570, with China...
The River is a brand new worker placement game from Days of Wonder, the publisher behind the incredibly popular Ticket to Ride franchise. Designed by Sébastien Pauchon and Ismaël Perrin, featuring art from Andrew Bosley, the game sees 2–4 players take up the role of mayors - as they attempt to...
Tuscany Essential Edition is a version of the first expansion for Viticulture, the famed wine making worker placement title from Stonemaier Games. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone, this expansion features a new game board to play on, a brand new card type and special workers. Each element...
Agricola All Creatures Big & Small Big Box is the brand new printing of the farm themed, 2-player only, worker placement board game from Lookout Games. This big box includes both inventively named expansions: More Buildings Big and Small and Even More Buildings Big and Small. Designed by Uwe...
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...
Rajas of the Ganges is a brand-new worker placement and dice rolling board game from designers Inka Brand and Markus Brand. Published by HUCH! the game sees 2 - 4 players trying to accumulate both fame and wealth, with a full game lasting about an hour. Set in 16th century India, players take up...
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...
The Godfather: Corleone's Empire is the brand new Eric Lang board game described as an area influence game with worker placement, or in mafia terms “thugs on a map”. Players take up control of families aiming to be in the position to take control of the city, should anything accidental...
