Unboxed the Board Game Blog

It’s Christmas! And that means it’s time for our annual 12 mini reviews in 12 days series. We kick things off with my most played game of...

#Mysterium is a cooperative deduction game using #dixit style artwork to give clues to a murder. It is also a game that needed an...

#Celestia has been a firm favourite from the day I introduced it to the family. There was initially some resistance to it from my little...

Back in the heady days of 2012 I missed out on the #Zombicide #Kickstarter and ever since I’ve always wanted to play the game but been...

#Karuba is a fun little racing game with one annoying problem… It’s only 4 Player! My regular gaming group is five or on occasion six...

Christmas is a great time for me, gaming wise. Lots of free time allows me to finish those games that just didn’t get the attention they...

Tragic Events is a cool little expansion for #FlashPointFireRescue which unfortunately might never be coming to retail. At this point I...

Designed by gaming legend Richard Borg, #BattleofBritain is a recent #Kickstarter reprint picked up by my long time gaming buddy and...

One of my favourite games of the moment is T.I.M.E Stories. We played this at #GamesNight for the first time last year and we were all...

It wouldn’t be Christmas without the obligatory #MarvelLegendary expansion. As some of you might know, Legendary is my little brother’s...

So this week, as a festive treat to myself, I took part in my first ever Organised Play event (At the North West Games Center in...

With Star Wars back to stay the franchise is more alive now than it has ever been and if you haven’t seen Rian Johnson’s excellent 8th...

I was not expecting our first game of the festive season to be Hey! That’s My Fish, however we ended up playing some simple games on...

It’s Christmas so I decided to give my #GameNight group a little present and picked up #PandemicLegacy. Okay, it’s mostly a present for...

Okay Granddad, put #Scrabble back in the cupboard, it’s time to learn a real word game! In Paperback you begin the game with a deck of...

My collection has grown vast and unwieldy with 300+ titles and as such it is difficult for me to find games that don’t already resemble...

“All ahead full!” The Captain yelled as the airship pulled away from the Teacup dock and out into the violent storm that raged across the...

Codenames is such a simple concept but it really is a fun game. Each team is composed of spies and a spymaster. The spymaster simply has...

Grand Moff Tarkin stood on the bridge of the imperial Star Destroyer and with a snarl and a curled lip he simply uttered the words “You...

The race is on to build the best burgers, make them big and juicy and filled with all manner of delicious ingredients. Sounds great, but...