Gobgob drove the dodgem straight into everyone. On purpose.Dice Dodgems is a quick strategy game of bumping and dodging from City Square Studios. Everyone steers miniature dodgems around the arena. Bump your rivals, dodge their hits and be the last player with dice left to win. The rules are easy to pick up, but reading where everyone else will move turns it into a sneaky, chess-like battle.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bouncing. Predict where your rivals will bounce next and line up the perfect bump. Gobgob mostly bumps the wall.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.

Gotham needed a hero. Gobgob volunteered.DC Deck-Building Game: Rebirth is a superhero deck-building game from Cryptozoic Entertainment. Pick a hero like Batman, Superman or Wonder Woman, buy powerful cards to build up your deck, and race around the city to stop villains before they reach their destination. Play it competitively, solo, or as a co-op campaign of eight scenarios where your heroes grow stronger from game to game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your hero actually moves. Being in the right spot on the city board to cut off a villain matters as much as the cards in your hand. And the campaign scenarios come in resealable packets, so nothing gets ruined and you can play them again.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 15+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob died. Gobgob went back to the bonfire. Gobgob died again.Dark Souls: The Board Game is a brutally tough co-op dungeon crawler from Steamforged Games, based on the famous video game. Your party explores the map one area at a time, learns each enemy's attack patterns, manages stamina carefully and gears up before taking on a mini-boss and then the main boss, including the infamous Ornstein and Smough. Plenty of plastic miniatures, plenty of dying.Gobgob's favourite bit: The bonfire. When anyone falls, the whole party heads back to the bonfire and every enemy resets. It's punishing, it's fair, and Gobgob has never been so determined to beat a boss.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 90–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Four armies. One planet. Lots of shiny crystals.Cry Havoc is an asymmetric, card-driven area control war game from Portal Games, set on a sci-fi world. Each player commands one of four very different factions, the Humans, Machines, Pilgrims or Trogs, each with its own units and abilities. Move troops, build up your strength and fight over regions rich in precious crystals. The box is packed with 54 miniatures, a big board and over 100 cards.Gobgob's favourite bit: Battles aren't just about who has the most troops. You split your forces between controlling the region, taking prisoners and wearing down the enemy, so you can lose the fight and still come out ahead. Gobgob loses a lot of fights. On purpose. Mostly.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Flick. Clack. Twenty points. Gobgob lives for the clack.Crokinole is a classic dexterity board game from Canada, dating back to the 1870s. Players take turns flicking wooden discs across a round wooden board, aiming for the high-scoring rings in the middle. A ring of pegs guards the centre, and if an opponent's disc is on the board, your shot has to hit one or it gets removed. Sink a disc in the centre hole for 20 points. A brilliant family game for all skill levels.Gobgob's favourite bit: Knocking your opponent's disc off the board and leaving yours sitting pretty. It's the most satisfying clack in all of board gaming, and Gobgob will not be told otherwise.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is a bounty hunter now. Cash only, no questions.Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade is a competitive deck-building board game from Don't Panic Games, based on the classic anime. Play as one of the four Bebop crew members and prove you're the best bounty hunter by earning the most reputation. Buy cards to improve your deck, fly from planet to planet, and team up when it suits you to catch criminals wanted by the ISSP. The game ends when Vicious is captured or gets away.Gobgob's favourite bit: If you're on the same planet as another crew member, you can use their special ability too. Gobgob only visits friends when it's useful.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got in the giant robot. Nobody told Gobgob how to drive it.Core Connection: Rise of Atlantis is a competitive, anime-style deck-building card game from Japanime Games. Each player pilots a Resonant, a giant mecha, fighting to free society from the army of Atlantis. Build up your deck, kit out your Resonant with Attachments and Tactics, beat monsters to gather Energy, then use it to take on the Atlantis Lords. This is the base game, with everything you need to play.Gobgob's favourite bit: Kitting out your mecha. Every Attachment you bolt on makes your Resonant feel more like your own. Gobgob's has a lot of attachments. Possibly too many.👥 2–4 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 tiptoed past the dragon. Then Gobgob tripped. CLANK!Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure is a deck-building board game designed by Paul Dennen. Sneak into an angry dragon's mountain lair, grab an artifact and get out alive. Everyone starts with the same small deck and adds better cards as they go: Skill buys new cards, Swords fight monsters and Boots move you through the dungeon. Delve deeper for richer loot, but the further you go, the harder the escape.Gobgob's favourite bit: Making noise. Clumsy moves add your coloured cubes to the Clank! pile, and when the dragon attacks, the pile goes into the bag and cubes are drawn out. The more racket you've made, the more likely it's you getting chomped.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Hold the front page. Gobgob found a clue.Chronicles of Crime: 1900 is a standalone co-op detective board game from Lucky Duck Games, designed by David Cicurel and Wojciech Grajkowski, and part of the Millennium Series. It's 1900 and you're Victor Lavel, a young journalist in Belle Époque Paris chasing murders, kidnappings and robberies. Scan evidence with the free app, question suspects and solve escape-room-style puzzles built into each case.Gobgob's favourite bit: The puzzles. Open a locked safe, decode a secret message or track a suspect across a map. Stuck? Your colleague Charlotte, who runs the paper's puzzle column, will slip you a hint.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

A knight with prophetic dreams. Gobgob mostly dreams about snacks.Chronicles of Crime: 1400 is a standalone co-op detective board game from Lucky Duck Games, part of the Millennium Series. You're Abelard Lavel, a knight in 1400s Paris with strange visions of crimes past and future. Scan locations, suspects and evidence with the free app, question the locals and crack the case before time runs out. Vision Cards give dreamlike clues, and your family (a monk, a merchant and a spy) share what they know.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your faithful dog. Give him an item that belongs to someone and he'll sniff out where it leads. Best detective in Paris, honestly.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob scanned the suspect. The suspect looked nervous.Chronicles of Crime is a co-op detective board game from Lucky Duck Games, designed by David Cicurel, that mixes cards and a board with a free app. Scan locations, suspects and evidence with your phone, question witnesses and follow leads, then name the killer before time runs out. The box includes a tutorial and five cases, with more to download in the app.Gobgob's favourite bit: Crime scenes. Hold up your phone (or pop it into VR glasses) to search the scene for clues, then hunt through the evidence cards for what you spotted.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Trolls at the gate. Gobgob has packed snacks.Champions of Midgard is a Viking worker-placement board game with dice-rolling battles, from Grey Fox Games and designer Ole Steiness. Your clan has sailed in to defend a harbour town from trolls, draugr and other beasts of Norse myth. Place workers to gather resources and warriors, then send your fighters out to battle monsters near and far for glory and the favour of the gods. Most glory at the end becomes Jarl.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your warriors are custom dice. Build a longship, sail across the sea to face a monster, and roll to see whether your crew comes home as heroes or as fish food.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob traded three turmeric for one cinnamon. Worth it.Century: Big Box collects the whole Century trilogy from Plan B Games and designer Emerson Matsuuchi: Spice Road, Eastern Wonders and A New World, plus all the promos and the new Golden Deals mini-expansion. Each one is a quick, easy-to-teach board game about collecting and upgrading goods to score points. Play them on their own, or combine them for seven different ways to play.Gobgob's favourite bit: Spice Road's rest turn. You play trader cards to upgrade cheap spices into fancy ones, then take a turn off to pick every card back up. Rest at just the right moment and your engine roars.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob traded sheep for spaceships. No regrets.Catan: Starfarers takes Catan into outer space, from Catan Studio. Explore a galaxy that changes every game, found colonies and spaceports, win over alien peoples and fend off space pirates on your way to victory points. You still collect resources on dice rolls, but now you fly your ships across the stars too, where wormholes, merchants and pirates are waiting.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your mothership is also a shaker. Give it a rattle and it decides how far you fly and whether you hit an encounter. Bolt on boosters to go faster, freight pods for trading and cannons to scare off pirates.👥 3–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Yo ho ho and a barrel of molasses. Gobgob's a pirate now.Catan Junior is the kid-friendly, pirate-themed take on Catan from Catan Studio. Roll the die to collect wood, goats, molasses, cutlasses and gold from the islands, then spend them on ships and pirate hideouts to spread across the sea. Simple trading, sturdy tiles instead of cards and a two-player map make it a great first strategy board game for families. Be the first to control seven pirate hideouts to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Ghost Captain. He sails in and stops an island producing anything. Spooky, but polite: unlike the grown-up robber, he never steals your stuff.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 6+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube