Gobgob built a whole city. Then the city remembered it next time.My City is a legacy tile-laying board game by Reiner Knizia, published by KOSMOS with art by Michael Menzel, and a 2020 Spiel des Jahres nominee. Everyone builds their own city on their own board, fitting building tiles into place as the cards come out. Play through 24 episodes, from your city's early days to the industrial age. New elements join the game as you go, and what you do in one game carries into the next.Gobgob's favourite bit: Once the 24-episode campaign is done, flip the board over for a version you can play again and again. Gobgob's city lives on.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob programmed the mech perfectly. The mech walked into a wall.Mechs vs. Minions is a co-op campaign board game from Riot Games, set in Runeterra, the world of League of Legends. Two to four players pilot home-made mechs as the Yordles Corki, Tristana, Heimerdinger and Ziggs, battling an army of marauding minions across ten story missions. Modular boards and new twists make each mission different, and together they build into one big campaign. It won the 2016 Golden Geek award for Best Cooperative Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Command Line. You program your mech by slotting cards into six slots, then it runs them in order from left to right, whether that's still a good idea or not. Gobgob's mech mostly spins in circles.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Assemble! (Gobgob has been waiting all day to say that.)Marvel United is a co-op superhero board game from CMON. Each player takes an iconic Marvel hero with their own deck of cards, and together you try to foil the master plan of a villain run by the game. Take turns adding cards to a shared Storyline to move, rescue civilians, beat up thugs and clear threats around the city. Complete the missions first, then gang up on the villain to save the day. Cute chunky miniatures, quick rules and lots of teamwork.Gobgob's favourite bit: Teaming up. When you play a card, you can also use the symbols on the card the player before you just played, so heroes combo off each other. Gobgob calls this friendship. Also cheating, but the good kind.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45+ min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a secret identity. It's also Gobgob.Marvel Champions: The Card Game is a co-op Living Card Game from Fantasy Flight Games. Each player becomes a Marvel hero with their own deck of cards, then the team works together to stop a villain before their evil scheme succeeds. The core set comes with five heroes (Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Black Panther and She-Hulk) and three villains to take down, and lots of expansions add more heroes and stories. Play solo or with up to three friends.Gobgob's favourite bit: Flipping your hero card. In hero form you punch villains and foil schemes, but in alter-ego form you rest up and recover. Picking the right moment to change is the whole trick, and Gobgob always changes at the wrong one.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a deck, conquered a city and completely missed dinner.Mage Knight Board Game is Vlaada Chvátil's epic fantasy adventure from WizKids, mixing deck-building, role-playing and classic board game strategy. Lead a powerful Mage Knight across a land held by the Atlantean Empire: explore, recruit units, learn spells, raid dungeons and conquer cities. Play competitive or co-op scenarios, or go it alone with the solo rules. It's big, rich and famously brainy.Gobgob's favourite bit: Any card can be played sideways for a basic move, attack, block or influence. So even your worst hand is a puzzle with a clever answer hiding in it.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob wrote a love letter. Then got knocked out by a Guard.Love Letter is Seiji Kanai's tiny, award-winning card game of risk, bluffing and deduction. Everyone wants their letter to reach the princess, and you'll need help from the people around her to deliver it. You hold just one card. On your turn, draw a second card and play one of them, using its power to peek at a hand, swap cards or knock a rival out of the round. Last one standing, or whoever holds the highest card at the end, wins the round.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Guard. Name a card, and if your target is holding it, they're out. Guessing right feels amazing. Gobgob guesses Princess every single time.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 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

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

Four goals. Four magnets. One very noisy table.KLASK 4 is the four-player version of the magnetic skill game KLASK, by Mikkel Bertelsen. The round board has four goal holes, one for each player. Steer your striker with a magnet held under the board, fire the ball at your rivals' goals and keep it out of your own. The white magnetic pieces still roam the field, looking for someone to stick to.Gobgob's favourite bit: Everyone plays at once. There is no hiding in a corner when three other strikers are all aiming your way. Gobgob defends heroically, and mostly with its elbows.👥 4 players  |  ⏱ 10 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's army is three hunters and a very fast cheetah-centaur. It is enough.Kitara is a strategy board game of conquest, movement and battle, designed by Eric B. Vogel and published by IELLO, with art by Miguel Coimbra. Each turn you draft a kingdom card, recruit warriors, march your troops and attack neighbouring lands. Build an army of hunters, cheetah-centaurs and heroes, protect your herds and crops, and win fights to earn hero tokens worth victory points. The most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles come down to numbers: the bigger group wins, so it is all about marching the right number of warriors to the right place. And the more lands you hold, the more card choices you get.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 40 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob started spelling “snack”. Somebody finished it. Kiitos!Kiitos is a fast card game of words, bluffing and a little deduction. Play a letter and announce the word you're aiming for, then everyone keeps adding letters. If the word can't carry on, switch the target to a new word that still fits. Finish a word for points, or trap an opponent so they're stuck picking up the unfinished word for negative points. It plays a bit like a trick-taking game, just with a dictionary.Gobgob's favourite bit: The name means “thank you” in Finnish, which is exactly what you say when someone finishes your word for you. Fake words are allowed too, as long as nobody challenges them. Gobgob's vocabulary is about 40% real.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob was a dung beetle in a past life. Gobgob is working on it.Karmaka is a competitive card game from the creators of the video game Osmos, played over many lives. Everyone starts as a lowly Dung Beetle and races up the Karmic Ladder towards Transcendence. In each life you score points to climb, play cards for their powers to help yourself or hinder rivals, and tuck good cards into your Future Life to become next life's starting hand.Gobgob's favourite bit: What goes around comes around. Play a card for its power and a rival may take it into their own Future Life, so your clever move can come back to haunt you.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 25–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is going to need a bigger boat.Jaws is a one-versus-many board game from Ravensburger, based on the classic film. One player is the great white shark, and the others play Brody, Hooper and Quint. In Act 1 on Amity Island, the shark hunts swimmers while the crew tries to track it down and keep the beaches safe. Flip the board for Act 2 aboard the Orca, where the crew fights the shark head-on as the boat takes damage. Kill the shark and the crew wins; sink the Orca and the shark does.Gobgob's favourite bit: Two games in one box. How the sneaky hunt of Act 1 goes carries over into the big showdown on the Orca.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hired three gnomes. Two of them are unemployed. Oops.Gnomopolis is a quick city-building strategy board game about underground gnomes moving to a brand-new capital deep inside the Great Mountain. Each turn you draw three gnome meeples from a cup and put them to work: build buildings, train gnomes into specialists, hire more workers, earn gold or build mechanical golems. As your city grows, more gnomes move in. At the end, score coins and employed gnomes, and the most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The gnome cup. You never quite know which gnomes you'll pull out, so every turn is a little puzzle. Just don't leave any gnomes jobless at the end, they cost you.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ About 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob read the tutorial. Gobgob still lost to a Vermling.Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is a standalone co-op fantasy dungeon-crawl board game from Cephalofair Games and designer Isaac Childres, set before the events of the original Gloomhaven. Four new heroes, the Red Guard, Hatchet, Voidwarden and Demolitionist, investigate mysterious disappearances in the city across a 25-scenario campaign. Each turn you pick two ability cards to play, fight monsters, and level up your hero as the story unfolds. A five-scenario tutorial eases new players in.Gobgob's favourite bit: No fiddly map tiles. You play right on the pages of the scenario book, so setup is quick and you get straight to the fighting.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube