Tabletop Gaming

Tabletop Gaming is the UK’s only monthly magazine dedicated to all types of gaming on your tabletop. From board games, card games, roleplaying games and miniatures we have you covered every month in 100 pages.

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WHAT’S HOT? • Join us as we take a look at some of the new games that are getting people talking. What’s being viewed and reviewed, and is it right up your street or something you’re crossing the road to avoid

THE INDIE ROUNDUP • This month my selection is distinctly sci-fi themed, for reasons that will become apparent…

FORGED IN HOPE • The new world of Daggerheart

CHAOS KITTENS • It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Exploding Kittens exploded onto the market. So how do you say Happy Birthday? Well, with a board game!

UNBOXED: SPRAWLOPOLIS • Rob Burman speaks to Steven Aramini and Danny Devine about the creation of one of Button Shy’s most popular series

ON THE FLY • The board game recommendations for your next holiday

UK GAMES EXPO 2025 – THE BIGGEST AND BEST YET • We all mark our calendar, save our gaming money, and begin strength training to carry the sheer number of board games we want for UK Games Expo, but did this year live up to expectations? A resounding yes

UK GAMES EXPO

HOW TO BE A BETTER PLAYER • Chris Lowry dives into what you can do personally to make any gaming session greater

DICE, DRAMA, AND NEW WORLDS • George Chrysostomou sits down with the Critical Role star

TERROR AT THE TABLE • Fear is fundamental to the human experience. Find out how FiveEvil brings that to your tabletop

ICONIC, EPIC, FABLED! • Big news ahead for Disney Lorcana

ON THE CARDS • Let’s Get Nerdy

AND THE AWARDS FOR BEST MEEPLE GOES TO… • As awards season draws to a close, let’s imagine together that Board Games had the same glamour and prestige with their own televised ceremony…

TRY THIS IF YOU LIKED… LOST CITIES

FLYING HIGH • Reflecting on ten years of Osprey Games, and the legacy that saw it forming

THE PIVOTAL GAMES OF OSPREY GAMES

CAMPAIGNS OF CHAOS • A dive into the world of marketing… but not as you know it

around the world in 80 plays ENGLAND

tabletop Glossary • Welcome adventurers, to the tabletop – where deck building has nothing to do with the patio, and worker placement isn’t part of a recruitment agency. If the terminology used to describe the games we know and love can feel like trying to learn a new language, let our glossary demystify, and have you speaking tabletop in no time at all Written by Emma Garrett

3 MORE FILLER GAMES

YOUR WORLD YOUR RULES • We return to another edition of Your World, Your Rules, where we equip you with the tools, concepts, and characters to create an RPG campaign that you and your party can get lost in

AUSTRALIS • Is this a turtley awesome family game you should shell out for?

TAKENOKOLOR • A peaceful panda party

BOX ONE • Think Outside The Box

AVERAGE JOE • Why be outstanding when you can be average?

TIC TAC TREK • Tic Tac to Tactic

DUNGEON KART • Mario Kart gets its board game

FLOWERS • Design yourself a mathematical garden

SEASIDE • Oh we do like to play beside the seaside

DILUVIUM • After the flood, who will dominate?

SEPTIMA • Double, double toil and trouble!

BEYOND THE HORIZON • View from the top of the tech-tree

FIREFLY: THE GAME 10TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION • “I don’t believe there is a power in the ‘Verse that can lift this box”

DEEP REGRETS • Something fishy is going on

AZUL: DUEL •...