Batman: Gotham City Chronicles

Welcome

Could 2018 be the biggest year yet for board games?

At a Glance

Play the latest from the makers of Ticket to Ride, Catan, Pandemic, X-Wing and more at Tabletop Gaming Live 2018

First Turn…

Before he set about Terraforming Mars, the Swedish designer and his creative family were already reaching for the stars with his debut title, Space Station

10 of the Best

Agricola and A Feast for Odin creator Uwe Rosenberg

Role Call

As 2018 rolls on, we’re battling our way through multiple new books for Conan and a pair of promising scif-fi releases

All the Jahres

Replaying the winners of the Spiel des Jahres so you don’t have to

My Favourite Game

After causing a Fiasco and busting through Ghost Court, the indie roleplaying designer admires the ‘less is more’ brilliance of streamlined storytelling RPG Archipelago

Have You Played?

Harvest the rewards of Uwe Rosenberg’s magnificent farming Euro and let it worker-place its way into your heart

Kickstarting from Scratch

With its creative gameplay pinned down, Holly Gramazio and her team embark on a search to put the ‘art’ in Art Deck

Play it smart

Life on Mars? Settling the Red Planet may still sound like sci-fi, but ambitious games like Terraforming Mars are increasingly taking inspiration from real life

Tabletop Time Machine

One of the most famous and instantly recognisable board

Making Miniatures

From the metal models of wargames to the plastic pieces finding their way into more and more board games, miniatures are everywhere. But how are they actually made? We follow the entire process from start to Finish

How We Made

The swan song in Martin Wallace’s deckbuilding trilogy brings to a close a tale spanning hundreds of years, from historical warfare to the colonisation of space. With the next chapter of his own story just beginning, the designer looks to the stars

Evolution

Games aren’t just fun – they can also help you boost your brainpower. Professors and students tell us about the cranium-cramming benefits of Darwinian delight Evolution

Masks of Nyarlathotep

More than 30 years after it debuted, Call of Cthulhu’s Masks of Nyarlathotep remains one of the greatest roleplaying adventures ever created. With the globetrotting horror tale returning to drive a new generation of players insane, we revisit a true classic

The 7th Continent

As the choose-your-own-adventure epic approaches its Finale, co-creator Bruno Sautter considers what’s next

Hearthstone

Hearthstone has taken the world by storm with its digital take on collectible card games. Its latest expansion sees it tackle another tabletop favourite: the dungeon crawler. But can an app really live up to the experience of physical gaming?

Battle for Rokugan

Legend of the Five Rings expands with an excellent area control spin-of. Or are we just bluffng?

Charterstone

The latest effort from the creator of Scythe builds beautifully on the legacy genre

Pandemic: Rising Tide

this waterlogged take on the co-op classic gets bogged down in extra admin

Genesys

A blank slate to build on

First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet

”Houston, we have a problem. And another. And another…”

Gaia Project

An exquisitely taxing zero-gravity balancing act

Khan of Khans

Can you teach an old duck new tricks, as a venerable background meets modern card gaming?

A Game of Thrones: Catan – Brotherhood of the Watch

High wall, high price

Legacy of Dragonholt

Choose your own adventure in the world of Runebound

Fallout

Atom bomb baby or nuclear waste?

Tales from the Loop: Our Friends the Machines & Other Mysteries

Prepare to be thrown for a loop

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

A lesson in Defence Against the Deck Arts

Through the Desert

Don’t eat tasty-looking camels, kids!

Fog of Love

Commit yourself to one of the most unique gaming experiences in years

Star Saga

Will the sequel to Dungeon Saga let you play among the stars?

Smile

Lucky to leave you smiling

Breaking Bad: The Board Game

Designer: Antoine Morfan, Thomas Rofidal | Artist:

Who Should We Eat?

Designer: Mike Harrison-Wood, Chris MacLennan | Artist:

Painting guide

Space: the final frontier. Join us on our continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilisations, and boldly paint where no brush has gone before as we spruce up the TNG models for the Trekkie RPG

Dungeon Master’s Guide to Roleplaying

Cor blimey, guv’nor! Learn how’ta make yer non-player characters come ter life with a lemon squeezy addition: their own distinct voices

Event Report

Aaron Lawn chats about moving the north Wales meetup to a youth hostel and why the gloomy start of the year is the best time for gaming together

Shop Spotlight

Mick Paget talks about the store’s move from Buntingford to Stevenage and why some people visit even if they don’t plan to play