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JAMES VAUGHAN

The Big Potato Games designer on how he got us with his 2018 debut Don’t Get Got.

10 OF THE BEST TRAIN GAMES

We’re here to help you choo-choo-choose your next excursion by rail – from the simply themed network builders up to the complicated economic sims, we’re going to offer up some of our favourite ‘train’ games. Join us then as we build up a head of steam, and ask: “tickets please?”

Role Call

Would you take a look at all the adventure on offer in this month’s ROLE CALL – that’s a serious amount of supplements

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Exchange, Expand, Exploit, Extinguish in the deceptively pleasant looking Photosynthesis

SOLO DEXTERITY GAMES

We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time This month: solo dexterity games

EDUARDO BARAF

The Herbaceous designer draws a good hand for Japanese classic, Hanafuda

LET’S BE LEGENDS

Descent: Legends of the Dark answers the question: “how can we make the coolest dungeon crawler ever?”

MYANMAR

This month we’re heading to the Southeast Asian

WARRIORS RISE OF THE FROZEN WASTES

We enter the frozen wastes of the Icecrown Glacier in a new Pandemic System game based on World of Warcraft’s most famous villain – The Lich King

ENCAPSULATE 1997

The millennium creeps closer but the nineties still has plenty to offer. Sit back and enjoy learning about the best that 1997 could offer

DIE

++YEAR 3231++INCOMING TRANSMISSION++ From Personal Collection – Unearthed Artefact - “Die”

SICKSTARTER

A Dangerous Game: Why I won’t back tabletop Kickstarters again

THE DEAD EYE

We’ve got our eye on the stereoscopically sensational The Dead Eye

YES, AND?

Choose your own party adventure with Big Potato’s biggest game yet

NOPE

We speak to creators Elan Lee and Matt Inman about Exploding Kittens explosion into the party game market

UNFOLDED

The new Mazescape games ask us, can we draw our way out of a paper map?

STREETS

PLAYED Streets is a small box tile laying

OVERBOSS: A BOSS MONSTER ADVENTURE

Once upon a time, a tiny card game

COFFEE TRADERS

PLAYED Coffee trading is a complicated business. You

BOTANIK

Duelling puzzle games are the genre I didn’t

7 SUMMITS

PLAYED In 7 Summits players take charge of

UNDER FALLING SKIES

Under Falling Skies is an unusual game. Apart

STICKY CTHULHU

PLAYED Asa reimplementation of an older game goes

RAILROAD INK: LUSH GREEN EDITION

Railroad Ink: Lush Green Edition does to Railroad

GUILD MASTER

PLAYED What would it be like to actually

TOKYO JIDOHANBAIKI

Continuing his reign as the designer who tries

TOKYO JUTAKU

Stacking games are their own little world in

THE DARKEST HOUSE

PLAYED As its heart, The Darkest House is

TICKET TO RIDE: EUROPE 15 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Ticket To Ride: Europe often tops the list

SPY CONNECTION

PLAYED Spy Connection sees players attempt to create

TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD

Welcome aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad; an aesthetically bleak

SPARTACUS

PLAYED Content warning: this game revolves around buying,

UNDYING SANDS

The humble hex crawl doesn’t seem to get

HAPPY LITTLE DINOSAURS

Happy Little Dinosaurs is a game about the

STARFINDER: GALAXY EXPLORATION MANUAL

PLAYED Where other RPGs are often limited by

THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS

Sometimes, the simplest way to understand what you’re

MASTERS OF THE NIGHT

Masters of the Night is a game where

ANSAGRAMS

PLAYED Dropping on our doorstop just short of

MANDALA STONES

Mandalas are pleasing circular designs, whose creation is

BREW

Brew has pretty much everything I, personally, think

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE - VENDETTA

.PLAYED You’re on the hunt for new recruits,

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – RIVALS

I’ve had a long time to digest this

LEAGUE OF INFAMY

PLAYED Kickstarter really needs a Caveat Emptor warning.

VALOR AND VILLAINY: MINIONS OF MORDAK

Valor & Villainy: Minions of Mordak begins as

UNMATCHED: BATTLE OF LEGENDS

PLAYED I should probably confess immediately, that I’ve been

THE LOST EXPLORERS

A New World has been discovered! Unfortunately, not

THE INITIATIVE

PLAYED Corey Konieczka’s first game from his new

RED RISING

Such a dazzling game of many colours — it is red and yellow and green and brown and…

FURNACE

PLAYED A lightweight Euro with a handful of

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY GAME

When looking at superhero and card game crossovers,

TACOCAT SPELLED BACKWARDS

With a head full of Exploding Kittens, this

NEMESIS

This month we’re painting up some nightmares crawling through the vents

MIGHTY LANCER GAMES

Nathan and Emma (Mr & Mrs MLG in the community) run Mighty Lancer Games, a store in Bridlington that recently moved to a new, bigger premises. We catch up with them about being a FLGS.

A BALLROOM SHOWDOWN

Each month we bring you a smorgasbord of roleplaying tools and ephemera, this month: Ballroom Dancing

ON SECRETS

This month we discuss whether it’s worth keeping secrets from your party

tabletop time machine

HALMA