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News
World War 2 deckbuilder Undaunted: Normandy lands in Early Access on PC
With a mobile version also planned.
Review
Warcry: Crypt of Blood review - a miserly starter set that provides an incomplete introduction to the Warhammer spin-off
Age of Sigmar’s skirmish sibling gets an introductory box at last, but the value here is poor.
Feature
Tabletop creators struggle to plot their future amidst Twitter’s still-burning ashes
The death of the bird app at the hands of Elon Musk leaves designers big and small in the lurch.
News
Critical Role: Campaign 3 adapted into co-op card game by Flamecraft designer
Hells Bells! It’s Bells Hells!
News
Monopoly maker exec imagines a future where board games sport “AI-driven game mechanics”
Chat GPTabletop.
Feature
The Witcher’s latest board game is a monster-slaying romp that can’t match the rich world of the video games
Combat outshines story in the solid, if shallow, action-adventure adaptation.
News
Dorfromantik board game sequel trades idyllic calm for a village building competition
Duelling windmills.
News
Co-op party game I Felt... is like Codenames with emotions instead of words
Guess how I’m feeling.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Prepare for a healthy dose of The Witcher content!
News
Everything Ever is a modern spin on the classic party game Scattergories
A game about everything, everywhere, all at once.
News
Avant Carde turns classic Uno into literal art (and a better game)
With a very impressive folding box!
News
Warhammer 40k’s next board game resurrects a rare miniature from Blackstone Fortress
The dreaded Ambull returns at a reasonable price.
News
Use your blindfolded friend’s thumb as a joystick in hilarious-looking racing board game Turbo Kidz
From Decrypto and Turing Machine studio.
News
Corvids is a card game about being a thieving little crow, and tweezers are your beak
Something to crow about.
News
Chill village-building board game Dorfromantik takes home Spiel des Jahres 2023
Mysterium Kids and Challengers! among other winners at one of tabletop’s biggest awards
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Terrifying horror and terrific trains!
News
Catan is coming to Nintendo Switch, season pass announced for Xbox and Playstation editions
Expansions arriving in near future.
Deals
Risk's Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition is down to £35 on Amazon Prime Day
One Risk to rule them all.
Opinion
The Spiel des Jahres doesn’t deserve to be board gaming’s biggest award in 2023
40-plus years on, the German prize is still the most prestigious accolade a board game can receive - despite a very spotty history of winners.
News
Risk Strike sells a 20-minute version of the classic world domination board game, sans world map
Pocket-sized Genghis Khan simulator.
News
Coyote & Crow maker’s new semi-cooperative board game only has a winner if nobody loses
Meeples for all the peoples.
News
Find board game recommendations, D&D party members and more on the Dicebreaker Discord
Chat with fellow board game, tabletop RPG and trading card game lovers!
Best Games
Best of the rest: 8 Spiel des Jahres winners you haven’t heard of
Winning board gaming's biggest Game of the Year prize doesn’t always mean going down in the history books.
News
King’s Dilemma, Evergreen publisher to handle neighbourhood building board game Sunrise Lane
Reiner Knizia’s latest design goes back to an old well - civic planning
News
Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s asymmetric board game casts all but one player as horror film victims
Don’t try the local barbecue.
News
Cyclades Legendary Edition hauls in half a million in crowdfunding for revamped Bruno Cathala board game
I gave all my lunch money to Zeus.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Cats, casters,currents and cantankerous gods.
News
Exploding Kittens studio’s latest party game sees players betting on each other’s abilities
Complete tasks Without Fail
News
Gloomhaven’s bite-sized board game Buttons & Bugs coming from Mountains of Madness designer
Finally, a Gloomhaven box below lethal throwing weight.
Best Games
10 must-see board games to check out at Gen Con 2023
From excellent publishers to exciting licensed games.
News
Culinary party game Drawn Hungry is like Cards Against Humanity with delicious recipes and no gross aftertaste
Card cook, won't cook.
News
Crossroads of Destiny retells the story of Team Avatar through a board game from the Disney Villainous team
Sokka gang won't need bending to win.
News
Kickstarter steps further away from a blockchain future but stops short of promises
The crwodfunding company's Community Advisory Council might have pulled that particular bacon out of the frying pan.
News
Bridgerton board game readies for a turn within the Netflix series adaptation machine
Scandals, suitors and the search for a good licensed board game.
News
New Walking Dead and Invincible board games celebrate the comic series’ shared 20th anniversary
Mantic Games returns to the Walking Dead well and picks up adult-bent Superhero series Invincible for its trouble.
Opinion
Empyreal is the perfect train game for people who don’t like train games
One to choo-choo-choose.
News
West Kingdom trilogy makers return to the North Sea to remake the board game that started it all
Righting the shipwrights.
News
“There are chances” of a Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion-esque version of Frosthaven
With potential new stuff coming from Gloomhaven creator.
News
Pathfinder, Cyberpunk and Boop win big at 2023 Origins Awards
The people love cat hijinks on a bed.
News
Monty Python’s Flying Circus collides with Zombicide in the co-op game’s latest expansion
It’s getting out of spam.
News
Sushi Go spinoff fills the the table with rotating steamer baskets and family style dishes
Steamed dumplings are serious business
News
Root creator Cole Wehrle, indigenous RPG Coyote & Crow among finalists for 2023 Diana Jones Award
The pyramid-shaped award for “excellence in gaming” also includes a journalist for the first time.
News
Exploding Kittens reimagines Dobble as a chaotic, pancake-themed party game
Who ordered the shortstack with cactus and raw ribeye?
News
Hanabi designer teams up with co-founder of 7 Wonders studio to create new publisher
Two board games already on the way.
News
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. board game cracks $2m in crowdfunding for a campaign-focused cooperative “zone crawler”
A replayable Zone Survival Mode won’t be included in the base game post-crowdfunding.
News
Climate change charity’s deckbuilding game Carbon City Zero wants to set an eco example for the real world
Work together - or separately - to bring your carbon levels to zero.
News
Sky Team’s tense, co-op cockpit simulator board game will hit the runway at Gen Con ahead of fall release
It takes two to tarmac.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Monsters, mayhem and Mordor.
News
Puerto Rico 1897, pulled from shelves after a disastrous launch, will receive a corrected edition this autumn
Publisher Ravensburger confirms new box will include updated rulebook, missing tiles and added building text.
News
Monopoly Scrabble mashes together the two board game classics in one Frankensteinian tabletop crossover
Honestly, how has this never happened before?
How To
How to play Root: board game's rules, setup and scoring explained
Send little cute animals to fight for the dominance of the Woodlands.
News
Looking to learn how to play Warhammer 40k before 10th Edition? Dicebreaker members can now save 10% on Vanguard Tactics’ expert courses
Jump into 40k for the first time or move over from 9E to the new rules with ease.
News
Monopoly has lost favour with Gen Z compared to other age groups, says survey
Millennials dominate the hobbyist demographic, but their generational juniors aren’t far behind
News
Firefly board game is getting a seriously fancy, seriously hefty collector’s edition for its 10th anniversary
Massive box includes everything ever made for the game, plus a new expansion and upgraded components.
Feature
Sudoku meets Minesweeper in nifty puzzle board game Tiwanaku - hands-on impressions
It’s definitely a grower.
News
Cluedo Conspiracy twists the murder mystery formula with hidden identities and an island resort vibe
Whodunnit on holiday.
Deals
D&D starter kit and Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion amongst buy two, get one free sale on board games, RPGs
Online sale at Target and Amazon include a wealth of great tabletop titles.
Feature
Scythe spin-off Expeditions feels more like a missed opportunity than a direct sequel – hands-on preview
Not exactly meteoric.
News
War of the Ring: The Card Game maker announces price and date for Against the Shadow expansion
Google: Route me to Mt. Doom in incognito mode, please.
News
Disney Villainous plans Gen Con tournament and introductory board game ahead of Oogie Boogie expansion
You're joking, you're joking. I can't believe my eyes!
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Painting, apawthecary and more!
News
Noughties wargaming classic Heroscape will still see a return after last year’s failed crowdfunding run
Renegade Game Studios picks up the miniatures game’s reboot after Age of Annihilation missed its goal last autumn.
News
A Smurfs tabletop game is on the way from 7 Wonders and Dead Cells designers
In time for the blue pop icons' 65th anniversary.
News
Terraria: The Board Game digs up a co-op tabletop adaptation for the 2D Minecraft-a-like
Mined for inspiration.
News
Gloomhaven: Second Edition will feature revised classes, scenarios, story and miniatures
“Gloomhaven is well-loved, I’m not sure anyone would call it perfect.”
Best Games
10 board games and tabletop RPGs to check out at UK Games Expo 2023
It's time to take a trip to Birmingham.
News
Challengers 2 reveals a sequel to the capture-the-flag deckbuilder hot off its Kennerspiel des Jahres nomination
Standalone game will also work as an expansion for the original, with over 70 new characters.
News
Ticket to Ride legacy board game features a western-themed campaign from Pandemic Legacy co-creators
The good, the bad and the business-minded.
News
Classic gamebook series Fighting Fantasy is being turned into a co-op RPG card game by Brass designer
Martin Wallace’s Fighting Fantasy Adventures will adapt four of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s choose-your-own-path books.
News
Warhammer 40,000 video game Space Marine is getting a board game
Board game adaptation of the video game adaptation of the sci-fi miniatures game spin-off of the fantasy wargame.
Opinion
Ameritrash is dead - long live Ameritrash
How two opposing styles of board game found harmony.
News
Board game executive apologises for sexist reply to Wingspan creator’s criticism of industry sexism
AEG’s Ryan Dancey tells tabletop players to “hold me accountable” for publishing projects from underrepresented groups.
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Suffragettes, legends, Romans and mice.
News
Don’t miss your chance to win $130 worth of premium RPG dice by watching us play D&D live at MCM Comic Con London!
We’ve got $800 worth of accessories to give away thanks to Misty Mountain Gaming.
How To
How to play Go: rules, setup and scoring explained
Slowly build your frontiers and dominate the board on Go.
News
It looks like a Ticket to Ride legacy game is on the way
Pandemic Legacy designers Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau are teaming up with the venerated train game’s creator Alan R. Moon on a mysterious new project.
News
Battletech, Shadowrun maker spins up a dedicated board game division for future projects
The first title will be a personal project from the son of a veteran employee.
News
Cardboard Edison 2023 winner is a puzzly board game about microscopes, mosaics and algae
Plankton can be beautiful, too.
Deals
Win a copy of the real-life Orlog dice game from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!
Got my Eivor on that.
News
Spiel des Jahres 2023 nominees: Dorfromantik, Fun Facts and Next Station: London shortlisted for Game of the Year award
With a ‘Special Prize’ for puzzle series Unlock!
News
Good Omens’ official board game summarises past battles’ between Heaven and Hell ahead of second season
Apocalypse in a box.
Opinion
Poll: How important is a board game's artwork to you?
Different strokes for different folks.
News
Terraforming Mars producer wants screen adaptation to be as “enduringly good” as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lego Movie
“Adaptations have no business being half as good as they are.”
Feature
What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!
Playing games Till the Last Gasp.
News
A third of Monopoly players in the UK have argued over the board game classic, survey finds
YouGov survey also crowns Brits’ favourite playing piece.