An asteroid is coming. Gobgob is building the komodo dragon a lovely new home.Komodo is a strategic tile-laying game where you play zoologists racing to build new habitats for animals of Australasia before an asteroid hits. Lay terrain tiles of forest, grassland, desert and water, then place your animal cards on connected blocks of the right land. Bigger habitats score more points, and wild cards let you trade tiles, remodel the map or swap animals. Play competitively, or team up in co-op mode to save all 32 animals.Gobgob's favourite bit: The wild cards. Steal a tile, remodel a finished habitat or force an animal swap right when a rival thinks they're set. Gobgob apologises to nobody.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

All hands on deck! Gobgob has a saber and absolutely no plan.Kraken Attack! is a co-op family board game by Antoine and Esteban Bauza, published by IELLO. The terrible Kraken's tentacles are rising around your pirate ship, and your crew must work together to hold them back. Roll dice to see which tentacles creep closer, then play action cards to slash with sabers, fire pistols and cannons, and repair the ship. If the tentacles smash four holes in the hull, you sink.Gobgob's favourite bit: The funny faces. Some action cards have a silly face on them, and every one makes the Kraken angrier. Push it too far and the Kraken itself climbs onto the ship board. Gobgob pulled a face anyway.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 25 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob looked behind the curtain. Gobgob would like to un-look now.KULT: Divinity Lost is the fourth edition of the classic horror roleplaying game, published by Helmgast and Cabinet Entertainment. The world around us is an illusion, and humanity is trapped inside it. Players are ordinary modern people who start to glimpse the truth: hidden citadels, forgotten gods and the things wearing human faces. It's built for GMs who love personal, mature horror and players who want to uncover their characters' dark pasts.Gobgob's favourite bit: It runs on a Powered by the Apocalypse-style engine. Roll two ten-sided dice, add your modifier: 15 or more is a clean success, 10 to 14 gets you there at a cost, and under 10 means the illusion bites back.🏆 ENnie Award winner for Best Writing and Best Cover (2019).📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Skadoosh! Gobgob has mastered kung fu. Mostly the snacking part.Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game is a co-op dice-rolling adventure from Modiphius Entertainment, based on the DreamWorks films. Play Po or one of the Furious Five, Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Crane and Viper, and team up to defeat Tai Lung and other villains. Beat foes, finish quests and help each other to earn karma, then upgrade your hero and unlock legendary artefacts from Master Shifu. Each hero comes as their own miniature.Gobgob's favourite bit: Karma. Helping your teammates is how you grow stronger, so being a good friend is also the best strategy. Gobgob is being extremely helpful. Please notice.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 10–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found the treasure. Then someone moved the walls.Labyrinth is the classic moving-maze family board game from Ravensburger, designed by Max Kobbert. Some maze tiles are fixed to the board and the rest slide. On your turn, push the spare tile into a row to shift the whole maze, then walk your piece along the new paths. Race to collect the treasures on your secret cards and get back home first. Simple enough for kids, and sneaky enough for grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Pushing a row doesn't just open your path. It can also shove a rival's perfect route into a dead end. Gobgob calls this “home renovation”.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's mech has one weapon, three shields and a very large sticker of Gobgob.Lancer is a mud-and-lasers mech roleplaying game by Miguel Lopez-Hall and Tom Bloom, published by Massif Press. Thousands of years after a climate catastrophe, humanity has spread across the stars under a central government called Union. You play mech pilots on campaign, from mercenaries to idealists, flying custom mechs licensed from the galaxy's big manufacturers. It has deep, tactical grid combat for your mechs, plus lighter narrative rules for the pilots when they're on foot. Best for groups who love building characters and crunchy tactical fights.Gobgob's favourite bit: Build your mech your way. Instead of experience points, pilots earn License Levels that unlock frames, weapons and systems, and you can mix parts from different mechs into one very personal war machine.📖 Core rulebook for the Lancer tabletop RPG, with setting and mech combat rules.📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob knows what “defenestrate” means. Gobgob would rather not demonstrate.League of the Lexicon is a word trivia board game for language lovers, pedants and the endlessly curious, from Two Brothers Games. Roll the die to pick a category, from word origins and definitions to usage and long-forgotten meanings, then answer to earn Artefacts. Collect the right Artefacts to claim victory. With two difficulty levels, younger word-nerds can join the grown-ups at the table.Gobgob's favourite bit: The questions dig into where words come from. You'll leave knowing a strange new fact about a word you've used every day of your life. Gobgob now corrects everyone. Gobgob has fewer friends.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 30–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob assembled a super team. It is mostly Deadpool.Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is a superhero deck-building card game from Upper Deck, designed by Devin Low. Pick a Mastermind villain like Magneto, Loki, Dr. Doom or Red Skull and their evil Scheme, then shuffle together a few of the 15 hero decks, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk and Iron Man. Each turn, recruit heroes to power up your deck and fight the villains pouring into the city. Take down the Mastermind to end the game, but if the Scheme succeeds first, everyone loses.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's co-op and competitive at once. Everyone must work together to stop the Mastermind, but only the player with the most victory points gets the bragging rights. Gobgob saves the city. Gobgob also counts the points.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob went into the sewers for glory. Gobgob came out smelling of glory.Legends Untold: The Great Sewers Novice Set is a co-op card-based adventure game. Your party of heroes explores the sewers, building a map as you go and facing foes, traps, obstacles and characters who may or may not want to chat. Tests use three six-sided dice, but the real trick is teamwork: there are several ways past every problem, each with its own reward. The box holds 8 scenarios, 4 new heroes and the Lizardkin, new foes that also work with other Legends Untold sets.Gobgob's favourite bit: Talking to the locals is a risk. Push your luck with an NPC and you might get a great reward, or you might make them very, very cross. Gobgob pushes every time.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ About 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

En garde! Gobgob has a foam sword and a very specific set of rules.Let's Hit Each Other with Fake Swords is a silly action party game from Exploding Kittens, with two squishy foam swords in the box. Each round, cards are split into piles, then on the count of three everyone points at the pile they want. Nobody else picked yours? It's yours. Two of you picked the same pile? Swords out: duel for it, following the wild rules on the cards. Collect three sets of three matching cards to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The duel rules. Fight while standing on one leg, keep your knees together the whole time, or throw your sword in the air and catch it before you can swing. Watching is almost as fun as fighting. Almost.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Foggy streets, one sneaky villain, and Gobgob with a very small lantern.Letters from Whitechapel is a hidden-movement deduction board game set in London's Whitechapel district in 1888, designed by Gabriele Mari and Gianluca Santopietro. One player is Jack the Ripper, secretly moving between numbered spots on the map. Everyone else plays a police detective, working together to corner Jack before he slips away. It's a tense one-versus-all strategy game for grown-up game nights.Gobgob's favourite bit: Jack's route is written down in secret. The detectives search the streets one spot at a time, asking "Was Jack here?" Every yes tightens the net. Every no makes Gobgob sweat.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 90–150 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has two left feet. Luckily, this dance is all cards.Lindyhop is a co-operative trick-taking card game for two, designed by Kiwis James Smeal and Mark Kaneko. It's inspired by the Lindy Hop, the swing dance born in African American communities in 1920s New York. Deal out the music cards to build a song, then play tricks as dance moves to work through it together, scoring points as you go. Every dance, try to beat your best score.Gobgob's favourite bit: Some cards have powers that only switch on during certain parts of the music, and you can't tell your partner what's in your hand. Run out of dance cards before the song ends and you score nothing. No pressure, dancers.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob counted the llamas. Then an alpaca stole one.Llamas Unleashed is a cheeky party card game from Unstable Games, the makers of Unstable Unicorns. It's a stand-alone game with its own 135-card deck, built on the same core rules with plenty of new twists. Fill your Field with Llamas, Alpacas, Goats and Rams, then use Magic, Instant, Upgrade and Downgrade cards to boost your herd and mess with everyone else's. Build your herd first to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Herd Bonus. Get three animals of the same type in your Field and you unlock a bonus, from extra cards to protection to pinching from your friends. Gobgob recommends goats. Always goats.👥 2–8 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's answer was "cheese". Gobgob's answer is always "cheese".Loaded Answers is a question-and-answer party game, a fresh spin on the classic Loaded Questions. Everyone answers a question in secret, then you try to work out which friend wrote which answer. Guess right, write the favourite answer or match the player on turn, and you earn Money Cards. Everyone gets three turns, so you can watch the cash pile up.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's not only about guessing. Write the best answer and you get paid too, so the whole table turns into a comedy contest with prize money. Loaded, get it?👥 4–6 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is secretly running the city. Please don't tell anyone.Lords of Waterdeep is a worker-placement strategy board game set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons, from Wizards of the Coast and designers Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson. Each player is a masked Lord secretly ruling the City of Splendours. Send your agents around town to recruit adventurers, complete quests, buy new buildings and play Intrigue cards on your rivals. After eight rounds, the Lord with the most points wins. It took home the 2013 Origins Award for Best Board Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Build a new building and every time someone else uses it, you get a reward too. Gobgob calls it passive income. The other Lords call it rude.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube