Snow Planner takes the concept of a dice-as-workers game, layers on a lovely theme, and delivers a really solid Japanese import special.

Now in it's 21st year, UK Games Expo (UKGE) is the largest Hobby Games Convention in the UK. A fun event appealing to families as well as the enthusiast.

Join a therapy ritual to summon and conquer your inner demons in this spatial puzzler game for 1-4 players.

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It’s Autumn, or Fall for my transatlantic friends. Time to hunker down with warm, comfy things, and that includes games.

I went into Here Lies with no preconceptions and with barely any idea what the game was about, and came away both surprised and delighted.

The little box makes it feel like it’s going to be something smaller and lighter, but there’s a thick, juicy game here.

Call it a toy, call it a gimmick, call it a quality-of-life improvement, call it what you want, but the sucker dart in the Salamandra box is genius.

It’s a cliché to say it, but Kobayakawa is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Four renowned euro-style board games return with triumphant new editions.

Tally up is great, and for around £15 it’s really a question of why shouldn’t you buy it?

A beautifully made game in the same vein as Azul, but maybe not enough there for fans of meatier games.

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A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Eternal Sevens does for Sevens what Eternal Decks did for games like The Crew or Hanabi.

A review copy of Vantage was kindly provided by Stonemaier Games. Thoughts & opinions are my own. Vantage landed last year with a lot of hype behind it. Jamey Stegmaier’s baby, years in incubation…

ALT: Wadsworth (Tim Curry) Shocked in Clue

My battered old copy of Citadels still gets played, and it will continue to for years to come.

Ringyo (Ringyō / 林業) is a game about forestry in Edo-period Japan. Well, kinda. It’s more accurate to say that it’s a game where you’re a Daimyo in Japan overseeing a province covered in trees and…

It’s a cliché to say that Japanese designers a) love trick-taking games, and b) do trick-taking better than anyone else, but when you play a game like Joraku you understand where it comes from.

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