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Games of Essen 2025 – RANKED
We hope you enjoy this week’s video, which is an elongated and trundling trip through MOST of the games that we played at this year’s Essen! This is a chunky video in a loose, chatty format – we do hope you enjoy it as something a little bit different!
Read More5 MORE Great Small Games!
Games! Games! Games! It’s the small ones that usually slip through the cracks, so Tom’s back with another roundup of recent favourites!
Joraku and Bottle Imp fill the trick-taking quota for the video, whilst Naishi and Iliad present a bit of two-player tension. Bean Counters Inc is also there, because he’s a goofy guy and we love him.
Read MoreReview: 3 Chapters
This week we’ve got a review of 3 Chapters – a small-box trick-taker with more twists than you’d expect. Save that Dragon for late? Spec heavy into Peter Pan? Go witch or go home? Enjoy the video!
Read MoreReview: The Old King’s Crown
Royalty! Crowns! Betrayals! Horses!
In this dramatically thorough video, Tom is taking a long hard look at ‘The Old King’s Crown’ – perhaps the greatest game to be released this year?
As gorgeous to look at as it is phenomenal to play, we’ve been collectively smitten by this one since first we flipped one of its tarot-sized-terrors. Get a big mug of something mean*, settle into your throne, and let us regale you with many a tale of betrayal…
*Wine? Wine feels like a mean drink. Either that, or milk.
Read MoreDogs of War – A Classic Reborn
FUN STUFF: We’ve been hard at work resurrecting a SU&SD favourite – Dogs of War is back!
Hugely exciting news today folks, a game we fell in love with more than 15 years ago is finally coming back into print.
And this time it happened because of more than BLIND WISHING – Dogs of War is the second game in our new SU&SD Presents line: a series co-published with Play to Z games in which we find games we love and help make them even better. We handled a lot of the art direction for this new version, and we can’t wait for folks to get their grubby (or clean) hands all over it. And finally, after ALMOST TWO DECADES, Matt gets to have a copy of Dogs of War on his shelf.
Read MoreReview: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
It feels like we’ve reviewed a cool HUNDRED of these games, but this week we’ve got something a little bit special – a Lord of the Rings co-op based on Pandemic, and one of the most comprehensive and skillfully crafted games we’ve seen in years, The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. Pop an elf on a dwarf, sit back, and ENJOY.
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8 New Co-op and Solo Games │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #7
The finale of Board Games Direct is HERE! And we’ve got an interesting selection of boxed THINGS to show you! This episode focuses on games to play co-operatively or on your jolly lonesome – with an exciting peek at the next game from the folks who made BEAST, an especially shiny game about Hercules, and an unexpected peek at Animal Rescue Team – the first of two games that we’re co-publishing!
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