Gobgob recommends this for loud tables. Five minutes, zero chill.5-Minute Dungeon is a co-op, real-time card game where your party has just five minutes to smash through a dungeon together. Pick one of ten heroes, each with their own deck and special powers, then race to match the symbols on each monster and obstacle with cards from your hands. Beat the boss and the next dungeon awaits, each tougher than the last, all the way to the fifth and final boss.Gobgob's favourite bit: There are no turns. Everyone slaps cards down at once while the clock ticks, and Gobgob has never once stayed calm.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 5–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Someone stole the MacGuffin. Gobgob has questions.5-Minute Mystery: The Museum of Everything is a co-op, real-time detective game. Your team searches busy museum scenes for hidden symbols, unlocks clues about the thief, then narrows down a line-up of suspects to make the arrest before time runs out. Case files change the rules every game, so each mystery plays a little differently. Quick enough for a lunch break, tricky enough for grown-ups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Some case files make you solve the whole thing without talking. Gobgob did not last.👥 1–6 players  |  ⏱ About 5 min per case  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob can name three cheeses. Just not in five seconds.5 Second Rule is a fast, loud party game from PlayMonster. Someone reads a card, like "Name 3 breeds of dog", flips the twisted timer, and you've got five seconds to name three before the marbles hit the bottom. Sounds easy, until everyone is staring at you. Perfect for family game nights, parties and big groups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Blank out and the next player gets the same card, but they can't reuse anything already said. The answers get weirder every time it goes round.👥 3+ 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 recommends this for big game nights. Seven players, thirty minutes, no waiting around.7 Wonders is the award-winning card-drafting board game from Repos Production, and the very first Kennerspiel des Jahres winner. Each player leads an ancient city like Babylon or Rhodes, growing its military, science, trade and culture over three Ages while building a mighty Wonder. Everyone picks a card at the same time, then passes the rest of their hand along, so even a seven-player game zips by.Gobgob's favourite bit: Passing your hand along and watching your neighbour take the exact card you needed. Every. Single. Time. Gobgob holds grudges.👥 3–7 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob recommends this for date night. Loser does the dishes.7 Wonders Duel is the two-player version of 7 Wonders, by Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala. Over three Ages you take cards from a shared layout on the table, some face-down, and every card you grab can open up a better one for your opponent. Build your city and race to raise your Wonders, then win on points, or end it early by marching your army into their capital or collecting six different science symbols.Gobgob's favourite bit: The tug-of-war army pawn. Push it all the way into your opponent's capital and you win on the spot. Gobgob always goes for the army.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob broke into a biotech tower. For science.Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc. is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Matthew Dunstan and Phil Walker-Harding. Your team sneaks into the headquarters of Monochrome Inc., a biotech company with some nasty secrets. Explore rooms, pick up items, combine them, talk to people and read what happens in the adventure book, like a point-and-click computer game on your table. It plays over three chapters, and your choices steer how the story ends.Gobgob's favourite bit: There's no timer, so take your time, poke at everything and try combining the weirdest items you can find. Gobgob tried combining everything with everything.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 3 chapters, about 75 min each  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob woke up in a dungeon. Again.Adventure Games: The Dungeon is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Phil Walker-Harding and Matthew Dunstan. You all wake up in a medieval prison cell with no memory of how you got there. Explore the old castle's dark rooms, pick up items, combine them and look up what happens in the adventure book, like a classic point-and-click computer game played around the table. Three chapters, and your choices shape the ending.Gobgob's favourite bit: Nothing gets torn up or destroyed, and there's no clock ticking. Just a creepy old castle, a pile of odd items and your whole team arguing about what to try next.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 3 chapters, about 75 min each  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob checked in. Gobgob would like to check out now, please.Adventure Games: The Grand Hotel Abaddon is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Matthew Dunstan, Phil Walker-Harding and Ute Wielandt. You're guests at a grand old hotel where strange things keep happening. Ghosts, or something more rational? Explore the rooms, collect and combine items, question the people you meet and read how the story unfolds in the adventure book. Three chapters, with choices that change where the story goes.Gobgob's favourite bit: The KOSMOS helper app can read the story passages aloud, so nobody spoils a clue by peeking at the next paragraph. Gobgob is a known peeker.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 3 chapters, about 75 min each  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's field trip took a very strange turn.Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island is a co-op story adventure board game from Thames & Kosmos, designed by Phil Walker-Harding, Matthew Dunstan and Chihiro Mori. You play four uni students on a research trip to a volcanic island, where mysterious things are happening. Explore locations, gather and combine items, solve puzzles and make choices as the story unfolds in the adventure book. How it ends is up to your team.Gobgob's favourite bit: Combining items is where the magic happens. Put two odd finds together, or use one on a location, and see if the story opens a new path. Gobgob's notes now look like a conspiracy wall.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ About 75 min per chapter  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob recommends this for anyone who misses air hockey. And cats.A Game of Cat & Mouth is a fast two-player dexterity game from Exploding Kittens. The box opens up into the board, a giant cat face, and each player grabs a magnetic cat paw. Bat and fling the balls over to your opponent's side, and the first player to get all the balls of one colour across wins. Five minutes to learn, and a hit for family game night.Gobgob's favourite bit: The box IS the game. Unfold it, grab a paw, and it's instant pinball-meets-air-hockey chaos.👥 2 players  |  ⏱ 15–20 min  |  🎂 Ages 7+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob drew a perfect cat. Everyone voted for Gobgob anyway.A Fake Artist Goes to New York is a hilarious drawing party game from Oink Games, designed by Jun Sasaki. Each round the Question Master picks a category and secretly writes a word for every artist, except one player, who just gets an X. Everyone adds a single line to a shared picture, twice around the table, then you all vote on who the fake artist is. Brilliant social deduction fun for big groups.Gobgob's favourite bit: Getting caught isn't the end for the faker. Guess the secret word and they still win! So the real artists have to draw just enough to prove they know it, but not so much that the faker works it out.👥 5–10 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob drew itself with big sparkly eyes. It's a whole new goblin.BESM (Big Eyes, Small Mouth) Fourth Edition is the anime and manga tabletop RPG from Dyskami Publishing, built on the Tri-Stat System. The core book has everything a GM and players need to create characters and start playing, with no other books required. Comedy or drama, fantasy or sci-fi, it's built for whatever anime adventure you have in mind.Gobgob's favourite bit: Character creation. You build your hero from the ground up with points, so if you can picture it in an anime, you can probably make it. Gobgob made a goblin with a very big sword.📖 336 full-colour pages  |  Hardcover  |  Tri-Stat System📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob heard a creak upstairs. Gobgob is not going upstairs.Betrayal at House on the Hill is a spooky exploration board game from Avalon Hill. You and your friends explore a haunted mansion that you build as you go, one room tile at a time, picking up items, omens and creepy events along the way. Then the Haunt begins: usually one of you turns traitor, the rest must band together to survive, and the game becomes a brand-new scenario with its own rules. With 50 different haunts, no two nights in the house play out the same.Gobgob's favourite bit: When the Haunt starts, the traitor leaves the room with their own secret rulebook while the heroes huddle over theirs. Nobody knows exactly what the other side is plotting. Delicious dread.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a plan. Gobgob will tell you the plan later. In a flashback.Blades in the Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game by John Harper, published by Evil Hat Productions. You and your friends play a crew of daring scoundrels chasing fortune in Doskvol, a haunted industrial-fantasy city where ghosts roam the streets. Pick a playbook like the Cutter, Lurk or Whisper, found a crew of assassins, smugglers or shadows, then pull heists, dodge rival gangs and the city watch, and climb the criminal underworld. Perfect for players and GMs who love a heist story.Gobgob's favourite bit: Flashbacks. Skip the endless planning, jump straight into the job, then reveal you bribed the guard all along. It might cost a little stress, so plan… eventually.📖 Complete standalone RPG, and the original Forged in the Dark game📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gobgob has a tough choice to make. Three tough choices, actually.Blank Marry Kill is a cheeky, adults-only party card game. Three characters go up for judgement and three fates are on the table, but one of the classic fates gets swapped for a random new verb each round. Everyone secretly votes on which fate the Judge will pick for each character, then takes turns adding attribute cards to sway the Judge towards their guess. Score points for guessing right, and the Judge role rotates around the table.Gobgob's favourite bit: Playing attribute cards to shamelessly change the Judge's mind. One well-timed card can turn a sure thing into a total twist.👥 3–10 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 18+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube