Gobgob has wood for sheep. Anyone? Anyone?Catan is the classic trading and building board game by Klaus Teuber, from Catan Studio. Build the island from hex tiles (it's different every game), then roll the dice each turn to see which land produces brick, lumber, wool, grain and ore. Trade with the table, build roads, settlements and cities, and be the first to 10 victory points. A Spiel des Jahres winner and a family game night staple.Gobgob's favourite bit: The robber. Roll a 7 and you park him on someone's best hex and pinch a card from them. Gobgob always says sorry. Gobgob is never sorry.👥 3–4 players  |  ⏱ 60+ min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob blinked. Gobgob's team conceded two goals.BONK is a fast-rolling ricochet dexterity game played on a curved wooden board. Two teams each guard a goal and roll steel balls down their slides to smack the wooden ball in the middle into the other team's goal. Run out of steel balls and you're at your rivals' mercy until they fire back. First team to five points wins. Best with four players in pairs, and a hit at any family game night.Gobgob's favourite bit: There are no turns. Everyone fires at once, the wooden ball barely stops moving, and a point can be over in a couple of seconds.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 10 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Ragnarök is coming. Gobgob packed snacks.Blood Rage is a Viking strategy board game by Eric M. Lang, published by CMON. Ragnarök has arrived and each player leads a Viking clan chasing glory before the world ends. Over three Ages you draft Gods' Gifts cards, then invade and pillage provinces, fight battles, complete quests and upgrade your clan with warriors and monsters from Norse myth. Battles are won with figure strength plus cards played in secret, so reading your rivals is half the game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Losing can be winning. Some Loki cards reward you for being crushed in battle, and fallen Vikings head off to Valhalla. Gobgob charges in regardless.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob just wanted the blue tiles. Everyone wanted the blue tiles.Azul is the Spiel des Jahres-winning tile-drafting board game by Michael Kiesling, from Next Move Games. You're a tile artist decorating the walls of a royal palace in Portugal. Each round players take tiles from shared factory displays, line them up on their own board, then move them onto their wall to score for rows, columns and colour sets. Simple to learn, gorgeous on the table and a top family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The floor line. Take more tiles than you can place and the extras smash on your floor for minus points. Gobgob has broken so many tiles.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 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

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

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 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'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'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 drank the potion. Science demanded it.Alchemists is a clever deduction and worker placement board game from Czech Games Edition, designed by Matúš Kotry. You're rival alchemists racing to crack the secrets of alchemy. Mix ingredients and test the results with a companion smartphone app that shuffles the rules of alchemy every game, then publish theories to build your reputation. Sell potions, buy magical artefacts, and hope your theories hold up when the truth is revealed at the end.Gobgob's favourite bit: You can test a new potion on your student... or drink it yourself. Gobgob always drinks it. Gobgob regrets nothing (except the side effects).👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 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 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 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 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