News Freak War throws Exploding Kittens and Pokémon into a blender for a trading card game you can play at parties You don’t even need to build a deck, but you can if you like. May 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Hannibal and Hamilcar bring two out-of-print classic historical wargames back to crowdfunding (Sponsored) Gamefound campaign offers exclusive metal miniatures for pair of card-driven strategy games. May 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Terraria’s co-op board game will tunnel its way onto Kickstarter later this month Mine, mine, mine. May 15, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Western Legends is the closest board game to Red Dead Redemption I've played, and it's getting a story-driven spin-off Build up a town, Deadwood-style, with “permanent” changes based on your decisions. May 15, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Neon Hope blends Android: Netrunner and the Arkham Horror LCG into an optimistic cyberpunk co-op card game Play your cards right to avert a dystopian future. May 14, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Board Game will give you another chance to get a miniature David Bowie codpiece in time for the movie’s 40th anniversary There’ll be a new expansion and figures for those who already own it. May 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News After Kids on Bikes and Kids on Brooms, the beginner-friendly RPG series puts Kids in Capes The youth will inherit the world, but first they must save it. May 8, 2024 Chase Carter
News Ashes is basically an indie Dark Souls tabletop RPG for a single Chosen Undead Rise, Fall, Rekindle, all with a deck of playing cards. May 8, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
Feature Who’s the top horror movie monster? This rowdy mix of Cabin in the Woods and Betrayal at House on the Hill lets you decide Spooktacular! May 7, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Kinfire Council is an asymmetrical political bout full of cultists, political schemes and hidden knives Protect the city, but also your own neck. May 3, 2024 Chase Carter
News Mörk Borg’s official action figure is a skeletal tribute to the Swedish doom-metal RPG No bones about it. Well, all bones actually. May 1, 2024 Chase Carter
News Cult card game Warlord: Saga of the Storms plans a grand return of “the game you already know how to play” There’s a new warlord in town. April 30, 2024 Chase Carter
News This pocket-sized set is like Game Pass for board games, giving you something new to play every week One pocket, 100 components, a whole year of games. April 27, 2024 Chase Carter
News No more arguments about movement and line-of-sight in games like Warhammer? This mobile app wants to handle it all for you with a picture Sci-fi shooter Light Speed: Arena will debut the Tablescope tech, with a companion for WWII dogfighter Wings of Glory in the works. April 19, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News MÖRK BORG meets church orthodoxy wars in folk horror RPG Black Powder and Brimstone Those Puritans are armed and dangerous. April 19, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Reel in nightmares from the depths in Dredge-inspired horror-fishing card game Deep Regrets You’ll be hooked. April 18, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Stewpot’s melancholy RPG about finding calm after a life of adventure gets a hardcover book Swords to plowshares…and ladles, mugs and brooms. April 17, 2024 Chase Carter
News Adventure Time RPG’s original ‘Yes And’ system still in the works, will be released after D&D 5E version Cryptozoic claims the new system “needed more development time and licensor approvals.” April 17, 2024 Chase Carter 4 comments
News The Laundry RPG’s second edition imagines nightmares just slightly more horrific than office work Mondays, am I right? April 15, 2024 Chase Carter
News Blair Witch Project creators are making a "forgotten" board game supposedly played by fairies Emerald Anvil's other projects unfortunately include an NFT-powered digital land ownership game. April 9, 2024 Chase Carter
News Old-school RPG adventure The Gardens of Ynn takes a roguelike, Annihilation approach to Alice in Wonderland “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.” April 6, 2024 Chase Carter
News Battle cosmic horrors as Roman legionaries in co-op miniatures game Cohors Cthulhu Et tu, Shoggoth? April 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Marvel United board game spinoff tackles the DC Comics universe with Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman Clown thugs to the left of me, Joker cards to the right. April 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Bugsnax card game brings the bizarrely charming video game of edible critters to the table Kinda bug, kinda snack, all cardstock. April 3, 2024 Chase Carter
News Sci-fi RPG Substratum Protocol channels the “deep delving mystery” of Subnautica and In Other Waters Pandion’s latest title supports both subterranean solo play and group delving. March 28, 2024 Chase Carter
News Don’t Starve’s board game adaptation takes roguelike survival from the wilderness to the kitchen table Better craft plenty of torches. March 28, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News D&D 5E shrinks down to a Borrowers and Arrietty-like world in Adventures in the Household RPG Diminutive & Dangerous. March 27, 2024 Chase Carter
News Railroad Tiles takes the roll-and-write train game on a trip to a Carcassonne-like sequel One of the best travel board games shakes up its winning formula. March 26, 2024 Chase Carter
News Mystic Punks RPG’s half weird magic and half grungy counter culture vibes get an official book Gnarly crust. March 26, 2024 Chase Carter
News Rapscallion wants to be One Piece and Our Flag Means Death fans’ favourite tabletop RPG A “strange pirate” RPG five years in the making. March 25, 2024 Chase Carter
News Super-lightweight RPG Cairn dives back into the forest with a more fleshed out second edition Putting the “Oh, sh–” in OSR. March 25, 2024 Chase Carter
News Grant boons or bane to humans who beseech your monstrous aid in dark fairytale RPG Kedamono Opera Beauty is in the eye of the legendary beast. March 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Board-game video game Armello becomes board-game board game as D&D 4E designer's adaptation hits Kickstarter No need to rabbit on about it. March 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Almost a fifth of money raised by Kickstarter projects goes to scam campaigns, report alleges Crowdfunding platform denies claim about its own internal figures. March 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis 2 comments
News Battle cosmic horrors as kitties in rules-light RPG Cats of Catthulhu, back with a 10th anniversary edition Dare you read the Nekonomicon? March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News One of the oldest board games in existence seeks crowdfunding for a brand new version The Royal Game of Ur wants a facelift. March 9, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Puerto Rico 1897 publisher promises no AI art in final release after deluxe edition backlash "Generative AI cannot be used in any part of the art process for this Ravensburger game." March 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Altered becomes biggest-ever TCG Kickstarter after raising $7m for groundbreaking approach to collecting cards Revolutionary CCG from Dixit creator’s new studio will let players print as many cards as they like. March 1, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Dying Light’s parkour-loving zombie killers will roam an entire modular city block in the official board game Roll dice for both combat and wall jumping across a city with a vicious day/night cycle and UV components. Feb. 28, 2024 Chase Carter
News SPONSORED: Our Brilliant Ruin RPG brings the social drama and romance of Downton Abbey to a doomed world with no happy endings Struggle your way up the social ladder - and to survive. Feb. 28, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Blister Critters is a Gamma World-meets-Ren & Stimpy RPG where mutated animals rule the world You can’t spell ‘saturday morning cartoon’ without radiation! Feb. 21, 2024 Chase Carter
News Dune board game becomes the Kwisatz Haderach with a comprehensive new edition of the rebooted classic in 2025 Bene. Feb. 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Star Trek Ascendancy enters its Final Frontier with a definitive collector’s edition of the sci-fi board game Setting coordinates for Gamefound later this year. Feb. 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News The Adventures of Conan gives the barbarian hero a new board game later this year Quest across Hyboria by rolling dice. Feb. 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News The Walking Dead RPG studio’s dark reimagining of Coriolis is “The Terror meets Deadwood in space” They better have deep-space archaeologist Timothy Olyphant. Feb. 20, 2024 Chase Carter
News Guide a massive sci-fi caravan with a bag of dominoes in artbook-meets-RPG The Details of Our Escape Developed as a digital residency in partnership with artist Linnea Sterte and and author Renee Gladman. Feb. 19, 2024 Chase Carter
News After making $100m on Kickstarter, Zombicide studio CMON takes future board games exclusively to Gamefound CMON breaking up with the crowdfunding behemoth is a clear sign of change on the horizon. Feb. 19, 2024 Chase Carter 3 comments
News ARC designer’s hit solo RPG The Magus gets an English print release about power, ambition and sacrifice Momatoes' meditation on "the infinite loneliness of power" comes with a 78-card, fully illustrated Oracle deck. Feb. 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Revolt against the corrupt Crown - and then be the baddies - in revolutionary RPG Guillotine Heads (and dice) will roll. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Egyptian board game Kemet returns this year with six-player support, solo play and new modes Modular expansions headed to a crowdfunding campaign later in 2024. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Build the first-ever computer in crunchy board game Ada's Dream from Arborea studio Alt-history Eurogame imagines a world where Ada Lovelace survived to complete the Analytical Engine. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Befriend talking rats to take on monstrous gods using Scrabble tiles in RPG The Far Roofs Attack and dethrone God - or at least nibble at their heels. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Community megadungeon honouring late D&D designer Jennell Jaquays seeks an expanded physical book Proceeds from Return to Perinthos will first benefit Jaquays family to offset medical bills and funeral costs. Feb. 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Warpath’s epic miniature wargame want to woo you away from Warhammer 40,000 No Space Marines, no Emperor of Man, but all the same large-scale sci-fi battles. Feb. 15, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News FÄNGELSEHÅLA transforms an IKEA instruction manual into a minimalist tabletop RPG Flatpack adventures, assembly required. Feb. 14, 2024 Chase Carter 4 comments
News Solo RPG From Midgard to Eternity borrows from God of War and Banner Saga in showing the end of a Viking life Are you impressed, ye gods? Feb. 14, 2024 Chase Carter
News Forgotten Waters studio reveals next Crossroads board game from Mice and Mystics creator, Wandering Galaxy Plaid Hat plans its first Kickstarter this summer for sci-fi adventure. Feb. 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Community Radio RPG basically lets you make your own Welcome to Night Vale episodes, and it’s back with a 2E Radio roleplay. Feb. 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Pen actual songs about a post-apocalyptic UK in lyric-writing RPG Punk is Dead Be Like a Crow creator’s game riffs on Mörk Borg with a tour to play music and slay capitalist vampires. Feb. 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Kickstarter rival Gamefound had its biggest year yet in 2023, with $12m Nemesis sequel taking the lion’s share Nemesis: Retaliation and adaptations of The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher and STALKER helped revenue to almost double to $56 million. Feb. 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Make real-life masks to explore an enchanted forest as werewolves in folklore RPG Little Wolves Fae queens and furballs. Feb. 7, 2024 Chase Carter
News Roguelike RPG Children of Morta gets a cooperative board game where strength is thick as blood The family that slays together stays together. Feb. 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Downton Abbey meets Game of Thrones in a new tabletop RPG from D&D and Vampire: The Masquerade writers Apocalypse ball. Feb. 2, 2024 Chase Carter
News February’s month-long celebration of tabletop RPG zines returns - here’s how you can join in Zine Month, ZineQuest, it’s all A4 to me. Feb. 1, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Printer-friendly Altered TCG finds immediate crowdfunding success for alternative collection model Former Dixit studio head raises over €1,000,000 on Kickstarter’s first day. Jan. 31, 2024 Chase Carter
News Zombicide maker will complete two flailing Kickstarter projects from Darkest Dungeon board game studio Mythic Games told backers the projects would be "excessively difficult, if not impossible, to complete" without asking for more money. Jan. 29, 2024 Chase Carter
News Sci-fi MMO EVE Online warps to the tabletop with massive 4X strategy board game Can CCP Games translate its spacefaring subterfuge and spreadsheet-keeping to an analogue format? Jan. 26, 2024 Chase Carter
News Crime heist RPG Swyvers sounds like an even down-and-dirtier Blades in the Dark “A grotty system for running a grotty game.” Jan. 24, 2024 Chase Carter
News Mausritter’s community created a 250-room megadungeon for the mouse-and-magic RPG Tomb of a Thousand Doors combines an entire game jam into a sprawling, deadly dungeon crawl. Jan. 23, 2024 Chase Carter
News Ghibli-esque Mothership setting Cloud Empress gets an expansion inspired by Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Land of the Living and Land of the Dead explore two more grand slices of Cloud Empress’ unique post-apocalyptic world. Jan. 22, 2024 Chase Carter
News Dungeoneering wizard gang RPG Ars Magica returns with a definitive fifth edition We will deal with you, me and my wizard crew. Jan. 18, 2024 Chase Carter
News Brass: Birmingham designer says next sequel aiming for Kickstarter in late 2024 Roxley designer Gavan Brown says the as-yet-unnamed board game is their “current top priority”. Jan. 18, 2024 Chase Carter 2 comments
News Monty Python and the Holy Grail's official board game includes a working catapult Fend off the roaming Black Knight, French style. Jan. 16, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Use a tarot deck to weave stories of magical academia and personal growth in solo RPG The Covens of Midnight Choose your patron, study hard and trust the cards. Jan. 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City brings a colourful upgrade and expansion to the road-balancing board game I wonder if you know how they build roads in Tokyo. Jan. 15, 2024 Chase Carter
News Cooperative battler Regicide announces a legacy edition with stickers and campaigns Regicide Legacy takes the monarchical struggle to new, fantastical locations. Jan. 12, 2024 Chase Carter
News Legend in the Mist turns City of Mist into a rustic fantasy RPG that's more than another D&D Son of Oak’s dip into the fantasy waters trades endless stats for description-based move sets. Jan. 10, 2024 Chase Carter
News YouTube’s favourite dungeon master earns $4.6 million to create a fantasy RPG beyond the influence of D&D Matt Colville’s MCDM RPG escapes fantasy heartbreaker territory with a mega-successful crowdfunding campaign. Jan. 5, 2024 Chase Carter 9 comments
News Building a community in Our Fantasy Town genuinely takes a village… of crowdfunding backers Grassroots grass lawns. Dec. 13, 2023 Chase Carter
News The Electric State RPG channels Tales from the Loop’s techno-nostalgia through a dystopic American lens From sea to neuronic sea. Dec. 5, 2023 Chase Carter
News Nature board game Cascadia is getting a series of flip-and-roll-and-write spin-offs There’s dice in them thar hills! Nov. 29, 2023 Chase Carter
News Moonrollers is a new, risky dice game from Mythic Mischief makers Set in the same tabletop universe as Moonrakers, this push-your-luck dice game searches for the perfect crew. Nov. 28, 2023 Chase Carter
News Dark Souls board game maker picks up Streets of Rage-inspired board game beat 'em up Street Masters Street Masters joins Altar Quest as another orphaned Blacklist title rescued by the Manchester-based Steamforged Games. Nov. 28, 2023 Chase Carter 3 comments
News Incredible Tetris-like puzzle game Bullet is back with a reprint and two new expansions SHMUP it up. Nov. 15, 2023 Chase Carter
News Play deadly hide-and-seek as a shark and octopus in two-player board game Kelp Kelp yourself to a bite. Nov. 10, 2023 Chase Carter
News Wingspan designer’s new board game is all about the symbiotic relationship between trees and mushrooms Elizabeth Hargrave translates another personal hobby into a theme-heavy tabletop title. Nov. 9, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Into the Odd RPG’s Arthurian-inspired prequel is a mix of Elden Ring and The Green Knight Escape to The City. Nov. 8, 2023 Chase Carter
News Bid for spell components on the forest floor in the newest board game from the makers of Calico and Cascadia Wingspan, Cascadia and Viticulture illustrator Beth Sobel portrays a fantastical forest of foxes. Nov. 3, 2023 Chase Carter
News Flamecraft makers’ next board game is Iron Chef-meets-Supermarket Sweep full of whimsical animal cooks Just imagine the hair nets. Nov. 3, 2023 Chase Carter
News Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG reprint revives a 1980s tabletop oddity Heroes in a hardcover sourcebook. Nov. 1, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Kingdom Death dungeon-crawling meets Baldur's Gate 3's campfire hangs in board game Hope: Chronicles of Osmae Stand strong together to defeat monsters, then cut each other's throats back at base. Oct. 31, 2023 Chase Carter
News Unsettled and Vindication designer’s MMO-like Spirit Fire claims to be the first “living board game” This high fantasy solo board game boasts World of Warcraft, Metroidvanias and living card games among its influences. Oct. 25, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Stationfall maker’s new influence card game puts you in charge of the Enlightenment-era Illuminati Become the eye in the pyramid. Oct. 25, 2023 Chase Carter
News RPG anthology Do Not Adjust Your Set explores modern urban legends with spooky tabletop one-shots Talking holes never promise anything good. Oct. 25, 2023 Chase Carter
News Dicebreaker Dicebag: Halloween Edition is full of frog wizards, murderous VTubers and interdimensional agents Plus, a sweeping, epic tabletop RPG of Southeast Asian martial arts and melodrama. Oct. 24, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News The Hidden Isle uses tarot card readings to create a swashbuckling guardian in the gorgeous RPG It’s time to divine. Oct. 18, 2023 Chase Carter
News Outer Rim: Uprising is a Mothership RPG setting-in-a-box full of android unions and cracks in the universe Everything you need to work and die alone in the black void space. Hooray! Oct. 11, 2023 Chase Carter
News Strategic video game Armello trades a digital board for a real one in upcoming adaptation from D&D 4E designer From pixels to plastic. Oct. 6, 2023 Chase Carter
News Saw: The Jigsaw Trials will bring the gory horror franchise to board game night via Kickstarter Here’s hoping for a Billy the Puppet miniature. Oct. 5, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Explore haunted heartlands and flooded coasts of a post-apocalyptic America in Backwards’ two new RPG books America is dead, long live America! Oct. 4, 2023 Chase Carter