Unboxed the Board Game Blog

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...

Legendary is my most played game ever. With a whopping 320 plays under our belts this game is a firm favourite at the table. That being...

The Hype-Train had long since pulled out of the station when I finally jumped on board with Machi Koro. The Deluxe edition of the game...

Backstabbing, murder, full frontal nudity, this game has two of those three things, I’ll let you figure out which ones. Most games set in...

A while back I introduced LOTR LCG to a friend of mine by resetting the game back to its roots and playing through the core set and...

Since its release two years ago Imperial Assault has been a consistent fixture of my tabletop gaming. We’ve played the main campaign...

The Settlers of Catan is one of those games I like to own everything for. Because all the expansions for SoC are bolt-on modules (with...

Over the years my friends and I have played many wargames but the one that has stuck for my friend Dave is Flames of War. FOW is a 15mm...

The Forbidden series from Matt Leacock was spawned from one of the classic co-op games of all time, Pandemic. Now, co-op games aren't...

X-Wing was one of those games I never really intended to get into. Firstly it's a pre-painted miniatures game, which automatically makes...