Andy Bergmann's fourth pocket-sized co-op dungeon crawler passed 17 times its Kickstarter goal in a day. Pledges start at $20, with all four games for $70.

Solo dice puzzler Dice Commandos: Infestation funded in 17 minutes and has passed $53,000 on Gamefound. The campaign closes early on Saturday 3 October.

R2i Games' standalone sequel to haunted house dice game Don't Go In There adds vampires, passing $35,000 on Kickstarter in under a day. Here's how to back it.

Want a stand at UKGE 2027? Bookings open 1 October, stands are not rebooked automatically, and the UKGE team is taking meetings at SPIEL Essen too.

London-raised comedy writer Rebecca Channon's folk horror maze game for PostCurious passed $100,000 within a day of launch. The Kickstarter runs to 29 October.

Conan by Monolith: Tales of Tortage and Zamora brings pirate and thief adventures to the miniatures game and has taken over €390,000. It closes 15 October.

Nantwich's Worgan Games has more than doubled its £9,999 Kickstarter goal with a bluffing card game about burning through nine lives. It runs until 3 November.

White Dwarf 529 is a Halloween special with a Gitz vs Skaven trick-or-treat battle report, on pre-order from 3 October. Ideal for a club's Halloween night.

Mushroom Forage adds two clans, three mushroom types and new rules to Feya's Swamp, by Terra Mystica's Helge Ostertag. English due in the first half of 2027.

Games Workshop's Custodes wave is up for pre-order this week, with a Limited Edition Codex, a Combat Patrol, and the Land Raider and Contemptor off to Legends.

The Outer Hebrides' volunteer-run comic con returns this Saturday with board games, Mario Kart Gaslands, RPG tables and £8 adult tickets. Here's what's on.

Slitherine's Bolt Action video game adds a free army painter: swap helmets, camo and decals, and turn a Sherman into a Zippo. No paid cosmetics, it says.

Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Delta Reign prereleases start 24 October. What's in the Build & Battle Box, UK prices, and how shops can run a learn-to-play day.

Dice Throne Nexus takes the duelling dice game into technofantasy on Kickstarter from 13 October. Meet the heroes so far, from Snyper to speedster Ghostrunner.

Paolo Mori, the designer behind Libertalia, Ethnos and Toy Battle, is Lucca's Board Game Designer of the Year 2026. Here's which of his games to play first.

D&D Beyond teases Project_Lamordia, a modern techno-thriller take on Ravenloft's Frankenstein domain run by Viktra Mordenheim. Full reveal lands 13 October.

On Call, a co-op game from Singapore's King and the Pawn, has you running an emergency department for three days, with an optional mode played in total silence.

Chaosium's Old Ones Origins, Samuel W. Bailey's Cthulhu Mythos rebuild of Forbidden Stars, funded 19 minutes after launch. Every backer gets a free expansion.

The Sea Salt & Paper duo have a fantasy tile-laying game coming from Azul publisher Next Move. Fantasy Tiles is on UK pre-order at £33.99 for 29 January 2027.

Saturday at SPIEL Essen 2026 is now 90% sold, with Thursday and Friday at 75% and Sunday at 50%. If your group is going, now is the time to book tickets.

Fantasy Flight has hit its first release delay on Star Wars: Unlimited Homeworlds. UK prereleases still start 2 October, but Carbonite Boosters will be late.

Days of Wonder's Rocket Rollout, a dice-bag space race by debut designers Mark Elsdon and Søren Brandborg, is on UK pre-order for March 2027 at £62.49.

Manchester Board Game Festival has opened nominations for 15 community awards, from Best Session Host to Game of the Year. Entries close on 23 October.

London On Board's seaside board game weekend returns to Eastbourne's Cumberland Hotel from 6 to 9 November. Weekend passes are £50, and rooms are going fast.

Fantasy Flight Games brings back 2005's Arkham Horror 2nd Edition as Arkham Horror: Remastered, its first ever crowdfunder, live on Gamefound from 21 October.

Reiner Knizia designed Readers Digested, a Discworld board game from Modiphius set in the Unseen University Library. Pre-orders are open now at £45 and £60.

Scotland-based Mazaza Games, the studio behind Kavango, debuts Scavengers at SPIEL Essen: a quick bidding card game about hungry animals at a Kalahari carcass.

Chesterfield's Board & Bean opens its new South Street home on Saturday 3 October with a free launch party, then hosts a £15 Dementia UK fundraiser game night.

From 10 October, Warhammer stores will help you build, paint or both on one of eight miniatures, with a bring-a-friend intro game and two collectable coins.

Jasper de Lange's Bohemians, Portal Games' card game about struggling artists in 1900s Paris, is now on Board Game Arena for 2-4 players as a premium title.

Games Workshop has revealed Orlock Road Warriors, Road Sergeants with cyber-mastiffs and Ogryn Minders for Necromunda, plus two new gangs in a new book.

Restoration Games' Lord of the Rings revival of The Queen's Gambit is funded on Kickstarter, with 150+ miniatures and playable 3D Minas Tirith and Mordor.

Archon Studio's Factory, Bulwark and Forge expansions for Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Board Game have passed €1m on Gamefound, with the Forge at last.

Two Newcastle friends begin a real playthrough of The Campaign for North Africa on 30 October after an 18-month practice run. They expect it to take 20 years.

Power Grid designer Friedemann Friese's Toshi is a simultaneous city-building tile game set in Sengoku-era Japan, from Munich publisher arsEdition, out soon.

Everdell Journeys, the drafting spin-off from James A. and Clarissa A. Wilson, closed on Kickstarter with $981,305 from 8,066 backers, just shy of $1m.

Warcradle is boxing up a two-player Armoured Clash starter, The Scouring of Singapore, with two full forces, terrain, a campaign book and dice for November.

Korean publisher Playte is reviving Thurn & Taxis, Manila, Carolus Magnus and more classic Euros for SPIEL Essen 2026, with most games priced €10 to €26.

Michael Menzel, creator of Legends of Andor, designed Kosmos's Batman: Gotham City Crimes, a co-op 2-4 player story game with 40 miniatures, out October 2026.

Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva's Drops of Evil has witches brewing the deadliest poison. Horrible Guild brings limited copies to Essen, with shops in January.

Storybrewers' Jane Austen RPG Good Society returns in a second edition, now past AU$190,000 on Kickstarter with a reworked reputation system. It ends 9 October.

Edinburgh's More Fun With Games runs its first megagame, Rebel Country: A Squadron of Rogues, on 7 November in Leith: about 60 players, beginners welcome.

Jim Krohn's next Band of Brothers wargame follows the British 11th Armoured Division across Europe, and passed $17,000 on Kickstarter in under two days.

Stefan Feld's new Euro Medico has you secretly plotting routes as a medieval barber chasing the title of Medicus. English edition €59.99, out in October.

Simone Luciani and Alessandro Cuneo's Shugendo launches at SPIEL Essen: flip cards to grow your farm, but push too far and the spirits bite. £32 in the UK.

Fanatical's XCrawl bundle puts 40 Goodman Games PDFs, from the 3E core book to XCrawl Classics, into one £16.05 tier. Deadly dungeons, live on pay-per-view.

The Unheist of Hearthburn House is live on BackerKit. Kobolds race to sneak a sleeping dragon's treasure back into a house that rotates under their feet.

Dinosaur Office is a free one-page solo RPG by wyrmturn. Work a 9-to-5 in Dinosaur World while hiding the fact you are not a dinosaur. Cards and a d6 needed.

Dice Throne's 2026 update: Accessory Packs drop to $19.99, promos become event rewards, Digital's on track for early 2027 and Nexus hits Kickstarter in October.

IELLO's Fragments, from Guilty designer Yohan Servais, turns jigsaw pieces into locks and keys for a story game. Solara and Fungataï are due in autumn 2026.