Unboxed the Board Game Blog

With our first successful meetup done and dusted I expected a full twelve months to pass by before I would have another opportunity to...

In all my years gaming, there is one experience that stands out above all others as my favourite and that was a my first and only game of...

Okay, so I’m back with my new series Game Night Reviews. Each game in the series has been played at my friendly game night with my...

Today I’m going to be taking a look at a preview copy of the Red Expansion for Stak Bots from Dogeared Games. I’ve been a fan of this...

A little under a year ago I wrote about an upcoming game from a preview I had been sent called The Agents. Everything I wrote in that...

When Blood Bowl was announced as a new deck building game, way back in the mists of time, I was excited to play it. Firstly because I...

Other than bringing new cards and variety to the table ROC brings with it a brand new co-op variant known as Siege, which offers a very...

Theme Humanity has been wiped out, leaving behind only sentient robots, programmed to kill, doomed to forever battle until only one bot...

Theme You are a woodcutter, armed with your trusty axe you head off into the wood to carefully remove the bark from a tree without...

This is going to be my first of two reviews of Descent, focusing entirely on the mechanics of the game and the differences between first...

I’ve been a fan of Bruno Faidutti since I first played Citadels, so this small boxed Whist variant intrigued me. Bringing a mix of...

When I first played Nightfall I thought it was a pretty good, fast and brutal game, but that, no matter how you played, it was more luck...

So, while at UK Games Expo I had the pleasure to meet and interview John Yianni, he was a delight to talk to and a very nice man. John...

Theme In Heart of Doom the hero’s vanquished Doom itself and in doing so they shattered the Thunderstones and were transported to a new...

A couple of months ago I went out and bought myself a nice Android Tablet. Primarily I was sick of carrying around my massive 17” laptop...

I don’t often write negative reviews and when I do I try and write constructive reviews, rather than outright hate. Often if I can’t find...

Unlike most gamers I’ve never really played “Richard Garfield’s other game”, Magic: The Gathering. Although I did own a starter set of...

It’s been almost a year since I started playing Thunderstone with my review of Dragonspire. Since then I’ve bought and played every...

How can we forget the fabled Hills of Emyn Muil where Sam and Frodo spent most of a book wandering aimlessly lost until that “sneak”...

Fans of this blog will know that I’m reasonably invested in the fantasy realm of Terrinoth, created by the guys over at Fantasy Flight,...