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AT A GLANCE

Time to endure and survive

RORY O’CONNOR

The designer of Holding On and Prisma Arena tells us a story about his huge tabletop debut: Rory’s Story Cubes

10 OF THE BEST GAMES IN THE SPIRIT OF HEROQUEST

HeroQuest is back (through Zaavi in the UK), but until it arrives we’ll need some quests to be heroic in in the meantime. Matt and Rich of Steamforged have put together their top picks for games which have a little bit of that HeroQuest magic about them. Their own love letter to the dungeon crawler, Bardsung, is released later this year. So, what are the greatest treasures hidden beyond the winding corners of the dungeon crawler genre? Let’s explore…

ALONE

Scrambling around in the dark, losing your way and running into a man-sized, man-hungry worm are all pretty standard experiences in this asymmetrical space horror

ALONE AT THE GATEWAY

We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time This month: the solo gateway game

MARTIN NEDERGAARD ANDERSEN

The designer of breakout classic, Bandido, is here to talk about a slightly older classic. The timeless Mahjong

IN THE SHADOW OF THE OBELISK

Dávid Turczi talks us through his collaboration with Daniele Tascini, and his best shot at the BoardGameGeek top 100 since Anachrony

FINLAND

This month we travel to the northern reaches of Europe

SPACE INVADERS

We talk to the creator of one of the most anticipated games of the year, the solo space invaders meets independence day homage: Under Falling Skies

WAVELENGTH

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THE NETWORKS

Tune in with Gil Hova for his game of TV tussles

MAKING MONSTERS

We talk to the master of horrors, Mike Mason, about making your teeth sharp and tentacles various, but obscured

BIBLIOPHOBIA

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THE CASE FOR BEING UNIRONICALLY ENTHUSIASTIC

Tabletop Gaming’s online editor, Charlie Pettit, asks ‘what’s so wrong with being excited about our games?’

STREET LEVEL

The creator of Villagers returns with a spiritual sequel, Streets. We talk about creating these small box economies and the art that goes into them

CHANGE

A FREE GAME FOR YOU TO PLAY INSIDE EVERY ISSUE OF TABLETOP GAMING!

COSMIC FROG

Intergalactic amphibian gluttony is one hell of a pitch for a board game – leap with us then into the cosmos as we introduce Cosmic Frog

COSMIC FROG

Jim Felli tells us what’s hopping out there in the cosmos

MARIPOSAS

If you were a fan of last year’s avian hit Wingspan

PRISMA ARENA

The kindest skirmish game you’ll ever play

GLASGOW

The world’s greatest city (in this reviewer’s unbiased opinion) finally gets a game

ALMA MATER

It’s an interesting aspect of the Eurogame scene that

HARRY POTTER STRIKE DICE GAME

First impressions count. So, when you lift the lid

GODSPEED

As opening hooks go, ‘The Space Race was a lie’ is

COOPER ISLAND

Cooper Island is a bountiful place. A visual feast

ROME & ROLL

Rome & Roll is no ordinary roll and write.

RIDE THE RAILS

Whenever a board game has a small rulebook, I'm intrigued.

DEEP VENTS

Diving straight into Deep Vents is not recommended

UNLOCK!: STAR WARS ESCAPE GAME

The Unlock series is a group of escape room inspired

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

In the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire, there's a brave little hobbit whom we all admire

DETECTIVE: A MODERN CRIME BOARD GAME – SEASON ONE

Detective: Season One is the newest entry into the

CTRL

Area control, but in three dimensions, and a bit like

MONSTER MANSION

Hidden within this small-box game from Ludonova are

DELVE: A SOLO MAP-DRAWING GAME

Anna Blackwell’s fantasythemed zine Delve is as much

SIDE EFFECTS

This is not the kind of mind game we’re into. Side

TEKHENU

Like a crossover album we didn’t know we were waiting

TINY EPIC DINOSAURS

It’s odd to think that with Scott Almes’ latest foray

ENDANGERED

At the time of writing much of California is on fire.

EUROPE DIVIDED

Europe of the last 30 years has been a fairly confusing

WWE: HEADLOCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

Who as a youngster, and let us be honest, even as an

BOOMERANG: AUSTRALIA

G’day mate! Crikey! Kangaroos! And all those Australian

SMALL WORLD OF WARCRAFT

Small World is something of a modern classic. In the

BANDIDA

Returning to Martin Nedergaard Andersen’s classic

NUTTY NOODLES

You would be forgiven for confusing Nutty Noodles for

MYSTERIUM PARK

Come one! Come all! To the mystical magical delights

EMPYREAL: SPELLS & STEAM

How does another train game follow the tracks of the

STAR TREK ADVENTURES: THE KLINGON EMPIRE

Ever since they menaced their way onto the screen some

ICEWIND DALE – RIME OF THE FROSTMAIDEN

Buried in a land of eternal winter and prowling death

ICEWIND DALE: RIME OF THE FROSTMAIDEN

We speak with Chris Perkins, principle designer for D&D about paranoia in Icewind Dale

THE MONSTERS OF PLANET APOCALYPSE

Meet a fresh set of horrors sprung from the mind of Sandy Petersen, now in glorious colour

ARDEN HOLIDAY COTTAGE

Owner of the Arden Holiday Cottage, creator of the Geek Retreat, Hester Binge talks about opening a gaming themed holiday cottage

LET’S SPLIT

Whether you’re in a horror movie, or in the middle of an RPG campaign, there’s few worse ideas than everyone splitting up

1836 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

In September I attended a Zoom lecture on ‘Games of