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AT A GLANCE

VILLAGERS AND STREETS FOLLOW-UP MOON ANNOUNCED Sinister Fish

JOHN D. CLAIR

The LA-based creator of Mystic Vale and Rolling Heights casts his mind back to his food-flinging 2013 debut Rumble Pie

10 OF THE BEST FAMILY GAMES

Families come in all shapes and sizes, and so do the games we love to play. Whether your family is trying to be considerate of Grandma, or little ones who’ve graduated from My First Board Game, we’ve got something in this list for everyone

Role Call

Diceless RPGs and a tabletop take on Dark Souls? It’s going to be an interesting Spring if ROLE CALL has anything to say about it!

KINGMAKER

This 1974 War of the Roses game is getting a remake later this year, so we thought it was a good time to see whether it was worthy of ascension

GETTING THE SOLO BUG

We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: catching the solitaire gaming bug, and learning to love it

ALAN PAULL

The co-owner of Surprised Stare Games offers us a glance at the 70s miniatures-meets-boardgame war experience of Seastrike

LIFE FINDS A WAY

We chat to the scientists who are bringing legacy Dino-DNA to our tabletops

JORDAN

Just under three and a half thousand miles

LOOPER

We jump into the 80s that never was, while still trying to get home in time for tea

DO EUROS FEEL LUCKY, PUNK?

Euro Games are typically lauded for the limited role that luck plays in their rules. Simon Castle looks at why that might be a mistake

CORE SPACE: FIRST BORN

We return to Core Space to experience the new standalone game, First Born

20 YEARS OF YU-GI-OH!

We look back on a game that’s still going strong after 20 years

PACK IT AWAY OR PACK IT IN!

Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

ENCAPSULATE 2004

It’s nonstop hits this year, as we look at one of the biggest years for modern tabletop gaming

UNDEATH

We bring you a smorgasbord of roleplaying tools and ephemera, this month: undeath

THE THREE FEATURES OF A GOOD BATTLEFIELD

Stopping battlefields going fallow

BULWARK GAMES

Bulwark Games is a Wirral based board game café a reader contacted us directly to recommend. We talked to Ross about how this new FLGS has been doing

tabletop time machine

What’s the difference between a card game and

TALES FROM THE LOOP: THE BOARD GAME

The tallest of tales

STROGANOV

Horses, songs and scenic Siberia

PATHFINDER: ABSALOM CITY OF LOST OMENS

Explore the Big Smoke

DINOSAUR WORLD

Putting the ‘Bit’ in ambitious

CULTS OF CTHULHU

The creepiest church in town

DIABOLIK: HEISTS AND INVESTIGATIONS

Classic comic cops and robbers

HIBACHI

A delicious mix of dexterity and planning

ARK WRIGHT: THE CARD GAME

Beige: the base-coat of big business

MASCARADE

There is something delectably exciting about the mystery

KINGLESS

If you have ever wondered what happens when

WE CARE

Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a co-operative card game

OLTRÉÉ

Happy homecoming

ELECTOR COUNTS

Count us in

SANCTUARY: THE KEEPERS ERA

Solid card slinging

IT’S A WONDERFUL KINGDOM

Sometimes less is more

THAT TIME YOU KILLED ME

Timeless

MINT BID

One of the first Kickstarters I ever backed

FAMILY BUSINESS

Take That games can be brutal, but Family

CLOUDAGE

Bring out the blimps!

CLOUDAGE

We get cloudbusting with Alexander Pfister

ALMADI

A diamond in the rough

DICE TRIP: GERMANY

Just stay at home

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE CARD GAME – REVISED CORE SET

We’re going on an advent– Oh wait. We’re dead

HIPPOCRATES

Is your reason for buying unguent a little rash?

MYSTIC PATHS

A word game that gets lost in the woods

WONDER BOOK

Don’t judge a book by its cover

ARC: DOOM

It’s the end of the world as we know it

LEVEL 20

Level 20’s box has all of the artistic

TROLLFEST

A cacophony of fun

CAPE MAY

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

HAUNTED ALMANAC

Do not fear, explore

THE SALTY SEPULCHER

An old map allegedly leads to the lost

UNFATHOMABLE

Making the Deep Ones look ship-shape, before they consume you