Gobgob would like to report a very good boy. He's a Labrador. He's a fighter.Animal Adventures RPG Starter Set is a beginner-friendly boxed tabletop RPG from Steamforged Games, starring clever cats and dogs on a magical adventure. It uses simple, easy-to-follow rules compatible with 5th edition fantasy roleplaying, and the box has everything you need to start: 4 dog and 3 cat miniatures, 7 character sheets, a double-sided map, a GM screen, tokens and dice. No experience needed, just a love of fluffy heroes.Gobgob's favourite bit: Chantilly the Labrador Fighter, a brand-new hero you'll only find in this starter set. Also, the d20 has a little paw print where the 20 should be.👥 2–8 players  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's farmers want bread. Gobgob's investors want everything.Anno 1800: The Board Game is an economic strategy board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Martin Wallace and based on Ubisoft's hit PC game. Build up industry on your home island in the age of industrialisation, plan your production chains, and send ships out to trade and explore new islands in the Old and New World. Keep your growing population happy: farmers start out wanting bread and clothes, but soon your engineers and investors want luxury goods.Gobgob's favourite bit: Growing your people from farmers and workers all the way up to engineers and investors. Happy citizens are busy citizens. Gobgob's citizens are mostly hungry.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's guild is here to save Arcadia. And to loot it. Mostly loot.Arcadia Quest is a campaign dungeon-crawl board game from CMON, designed by Thiago Aranha, Guilherme Goulart, Eric M. Lang and Fred Perret. Each player leads a guild of three heroes, battling through monster-filled scenarios to overthrow the vampire lord, while also fighting the rival guilds. Complete quests, earn new weapons and abilities, and choose your own path through a branching campaign. No game master needed: the game runs the monsters.Gobgob's favourite bit: It's players versus players versus monsters. Smash monsters for loot one turn, then ambush a rival guild's hero the next. Gobgob is sorry. Gobgob is not sorry.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found a very shiny cursed sword. What could go wrong?Arcadia Quest: Inferno is a standalone expansion for the Arcadia Quest dungeon-crawl board game from CMON, so you can play it on its own or mix it with the original. Four new guilds, the Sharks, Tigers, Crows and Serpents, bring new hero types like Alchemists and Gladiators, then descend into a fiery abyss in a new branching campaign. Watch your step: Brimstone cards make the terrain risky to cross.Gobgob's favourite bit: Damnation. Grab a powerful cursed weapon and watch it slowly corrupt your hero, or rescue the Angels and recruit them for later missions. Gobgob took the cursed sword. Obviously.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob found a priceless pot. Then a sandstorm. Then a thief.Archaeology: The New Expedition is a quick set-collecting card game from Z-Man Games, designed by Phil Walker-Harding. You're archaeologists digging in the Egyptian desert: draw cards to find treasure, trade at the marketplace, explore a pyramid for hidden loot, and sell sets of treasure to the museum at just the right moment. Watch out for thieves and sandstorms!Gobgob's favourite bit: The sandstorm. When one hits, everyone loses half their hand to the marketplace, unless you give up your tent to shelter. Gobgob's tent is always gone by turn two.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 20–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's rabbit ate all the emeralds. Gobgob's rabbit regrets nothing.Argoat is an exploration board game from Japanese publisher Domina Games, designed by Y. Ohashi. Legend says the paradise of Eden lies hidden near a frontier town, and only someone holding all eight Fragments of Ancient Knowledge can find it. Players build the map card by card as they explore, gather knowledge and race to be first into Eden.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your rabbit eats emeralds to hop around the map. And when you negotiate, you can share knowledge with a rival without losing your own copy. Helpful? Sneaky? Both.👥 3–5 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The monsters are at the door. Gobgob is still shuffling.Arkham Horror: Final Hour is a fast co-op board game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Carlo A. Rossi. An Ancient One has torn into our world and monsters are flooding Miskatonic University. Your team holds back the horde while hunting for clues to the two ritual symbols that can reverse the summoning, then stakes everything on one final ritual. Quick for an Arkham game, and properly tense.Gobgob's favourite bit: Each round everyone pairs an action card with a numbered priority card, and the numbers decide which half of each action goes off. No discussing plans while you choose, so it's teamwork by pure vibes. Gobgob is very good at vibes.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob read the forbidden book. Gobgob would like to un-read it.Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a co-op Living Card Game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Nate French and MJ Newman. You play investigators in the spooky town of Arkham, each with a custom deck full of strengths, flaws and weaknesses, working together to solve creepy Lovecraftian mysteries. Scenarios link into a campaign, so the scars, madness and experience you earn carry on to the next story.Gobgob's favourite bit: The chaos bag. Every skill test means pulling a token out of a bag, and Gobgob has learned to fear the little tentacle one.👥 1–4 players (the original Core Set needs a second copy for 3–4)  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob tried alchemy. Gobgob made soup.Ars Alchimia is a worker placement board game designed by Kuro and published in English by Tasty Minstrel Games. You run an alchemy factory in a land powered by magic science: gather resources, take orders from the townsfolk, hire assistants and transmute ingredients at the forges. Four rounds, one year each, and the most efficient alchemist wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Crowding a spot makes it weaker, and to join a busy action you must send in more workers than are already there. Every placement turns into a bidding war with your own staff. Gobgob sends everyone.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 100 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob can describe a banana without saying banana. Mostly.Articulate! is the fast-talking party board game from Drumond Park. Split into teams, grab a card and describe as many words as you can in 30 seconds, without ever saying the word itself. Categories run from Person and World to Object, Action, Nature and Random, and every correct guess moves your team further round the board.Gobgob's favourite bit: The spinner. Land on the right spaces and you can zoom your team forward or knock a rival team back. Gobgob spins with great power and zero aim.👥 4–20 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob changed the rules. Then the rules changed Gobgob.Astronomy Fluxx is a space-themed card game from Looney Labs, part of the famous Fluxx family. It starts simple: draw one card, play one card. But the cards themselves change the rules as you go, from how many you draw to how you win, so the game never sits still. This version is packed with real NASA photos of planets and other wonders of space, so you learn a little while you play.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Goal cards. Just when you're one card from winning, someone swaps the goal and the whole table groans. Then Gobgob swaps it back.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 5–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The island is sinking. Gobgob is still collecting shiny things.Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) is a co-op worker placement board game from Elf Creek Games, designed by Brent Dickman and Galen Ciscell. Atlantis is sinking, and your team must send citizens across the island to gather resources and build a cosmic gate before everything disappears beneath the waves. The coastline pays best but floods first, so every placement is a gamble.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Wrath of the Gods phase. At the end of each round your team has to agree which parts of the island to flood. Gobgob always suggests the bits Gobgob isn't standing on.👥 1–7 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Gatekeeper is watching. Gobgob is hiding behind the couch.Atmosfear: Interactive App edition is the 2019 app-powered update of the classic Atmosfear horror board game. Race around the board to grab a key from each of the six regions, then head to the Well of Fears in the centre for one last nerve-wracking draw before the clock runs out, or everyone loses. The app runs the countdown and brings in the Gatekeeper, who pops up at random to boss everyone around. You'll need a phone or tablet to run it.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Gatekeeper can pop up on a player's own phone, not just the main screen. Gobgob jumped. Twice.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 35–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob is short. The Titan is not. Gobgob brought a ladder.Attack on Titan: The Last Stand is a one-versus-all board game based on the hit anime, designed by Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc. One player is the giant Titan, while everyone else teams up as the heroes defending the supply depot in Trost. The Titan and castle walls stand upright on the table, and heroes climb up and down them to dodge attacks and line up the killing blow.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Titan plays two attacks each round, one face up and one face down. Heroes roll dice and move knowing only half the danger. Gobgob guessed wrong. Gobgob got squished.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

G'day from Gobgob. Something in the outback just woke up.AuZtralia is a strategy adventure board game designed by Martin Wallace. In an alternate 1930s, settlers race to explore Australia: build ports and railways, mine, farm and recruit colourful personalities. Trouble is, the Old Ones are hiding in the outback, and they're waking up. Play solo or with friends, but if the Old Ones win, everybody loses. The rulebook also has a fully co-op variant.Gobgob's favourite bit: Time is your currency. Every action costs time, and once the Old Ones wake they start taking turns of their own. Gobgob always thinks there's more time. There isn't.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube