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10 OF THE BEST STACKING GAMES

Away from the world brain burning Euros, grizzly wargames and paranoid social deduction games comes a little slice of dexterity joy – the stacking game. In what might as well be called ‘the children of Jenga’ we offer some of our favourite games to stack all the way to the roof

Role Call

Between the sandworms, Lovecraftian fascists and gritty post-apocalypses, it’s a dark month for ROLE CALL. How about we cheer ourselves up with some new games?

CASTLE PANIC

Don’t panic, or do if you really want, with this classic tower defence game of cooperation and boulder dodging

5 ALTERNATE WAYS TO PLAY 5 MODERN CLASSICS

Rules remix for some of our favourites

WELCOME TO THE DUNE-IVERSE

With the spice about to flow into the box office (after many pandemic related delays), we’ve all had a good year for Dune games. We catch up with Portal Games’s Ignacy Trewiczek to talk about their entry, and round up 2021’s Dune gems

Tabletop Time Machine

1200 COURIER CHESS A peculiar take on roleplaying

AT A GLANCE

TUNE IN FOR THE TABLETOP GAMING MAGAZINE AWARDS AND A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

FRANK WEST

The Isle of Cats creator looks back at his ambiti MMO-inspired debut, The City of Kings

IT’S THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION

We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: winning is for losers

BROTHERWISE GAMES

Chris and Johnny O’Neal of Brotherwise Games give us a two for one on their favourite games this month

COMING HOME

We got our hands on Antoine Bauza’s latest masterpiece

MONGOLIA

This month we’ll be taking a look at

THIS MEANS WAR

We get behind the shield wall of Total War: ROME with it’s designer, Simon Hall

LEAVING EARTH

Once again we’re leaving home, and the planet, but how far will we get?

BETTER ART MAKES MORE ARTFUL GAMES

Making the argument for more inventive artwork in gaming

THE VOID IS CALLING

Can you hold back the Voidborn in this new Euro-4X in space

1999

And so we say farewell to the Nineties, but not without a few more classic releases to round out the decade. Join us as we leave the radical 90s in the dust

HELP! SCREEN ZOMBIES ATE MY GAMING GROUP!

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

HORRIBLE, JUST HORRIBLE

We catch up with the always inventive Horrible Guild to hear how they fashioned a gaming studio that never does the same idea twice

THE SNALLYGASTER SITUATION

Kids with bikes have be-spoke capers

LAWYER UP

We rest our case

SNAKESSS

Be more mongoose

SNAKESSS

We swap sushi for snakes with Phil Walker-Harding, and talk about making social deception games slither

SCOTT PILGRIM MINIATURES: THE WORLD

Strapline: Break, battle and roll

EXCEED: BLAZBLUE

A fight to get to the table

DRAGON PARKS

You’re going to need more sheep

ENCHANTED PLUMES

Unlike the peacock’s dramatic tail, Enchanted Plumes, a

FIESTA MEXICANA

More games should come with recipes. In fact,

MASS TRANSIT

Start and stop traffic

HEROES OF TENEFYR

Deck-est Dungeon, anyone?

LIFE SIPHON

Take a bite out of vampire chess

SONAR FAMILY

Anything but sub-optimal

MINING COLONY

Ignore the space-mining theme, it’s totally irrelevant here.

CHRONICLES OF CRIME: 1900

SOLO REVIEW

TENTACLE TOWN

Tentacular

GORINTO

The antithesis of zen… in a good way

FOR THE KING (AND ME)

Royalty by the book

DOCTOR WHO RPG

Regenerating Roleplay

FUNKY MONKEY

Funky Monkey gives players one of the most

WINTER QUEEN

In Winter Queen, players draft chunky crystal pieces

MISS MATCH

Miss Match is one of those games that

HANAMIKOJI

There’s something special about exclusively two player games.

ALIEN: COLONIAL MARINES

Another bug hunt

NEW YORK ZOO

Only takes you safari

ALLEGORY

The game of Allegory is not so much

STOP THE TRAIN

Stop the Train is pitched as a thrilling

GLADIUS

Gamblin’ Gladiators

COLOSTLE

One of the most charming contenders to emerge

DESCENT:JOURNEYS IN THE DARK

Join us on part one of our epic journey through Descent: Legends of the Dark, we begin with the heroes

PLANET JJ’s

Planet JJ’s may have only opened two months ago, but we spoke to Jo about how brilliantly the Board Game Cakery has been going

RITUALS

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

THE PRICE OF BETRAYAL

What’s a little stab in the back between friends?