Gobgob packed snacks for Mars. Gobgob forgot the oxygen.On Mars is a heavy strategy board game by Vital Lacerda, published by Eagle-Gryphon Games. You're a chief astronaut helping to turn a tiny Mars base into a self-sustaining colony. Up in orbit you grab blueprints, tech and supplies; down on the surface you build mines, power plants, water extractors, greenhouses, oxygen factories and shelters, then explore with your rover. Every building feeds the next, so the colony grows as one big chain. Complete missions and earn the most points to win. There's a solo mode too.Gobgob's favourite bit: Where your astronaut is standing decides what you can do. Each round the shuttle flies between the space station and the surface, and you choose whether to hop on. Gobgob missed the shuttle. Twice.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 90–150 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob planted one cherry tree. Gobgob wants forty more.Ohanami is a quick card-drafting game by Steffen Benndorf, where everyone builds their own Japanese garden from a deck of cards numbered 1 to 120. Each turn you keep two cards from your hand, pass the rest on, then add them to up to three rows. The catch: a new card must be higher than the top of a row or lower than the bottom. Over three rounds you score blue water, green plants, grey stones and pink cherry blossoms, and each colour starts scoring at a different time. A light, clever family card game that's easy to teach.Gobgob's favourite bit: The pink cherry blossoms only score at the very end, and the more you have the faster they grow: 1 point, then 3, then 6, then 10. Gobgob hoards pink and hopes nobody notices.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob packed snacks, a sword and a very long map. Adventure awaits.Near and Far is a story-driven adventure board game by Ryan Laukat, published by Red Raven Games, and the follow-up to Above and Below. Lead a band of wanderers across a strange, beautiful world in search of the Last Ruin. Stock up on food and gear in town, recruit adventurers, fight bandits and rusty robots, and hunt for treasure out on the map. Play a campaign across ten maps from the included atlas, or pick a map for a one-off game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The storybook. Land on a special spot and a friend reads out an encounter, then you choose what to do. Your hero's tale grows every game, and Gobgob's hero always chooses the risky option.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 90–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob tried to eat the workers. They were not that kind of mint.Mint Works is a tiny worker placement game from Five24 Labs, designed by Justin Blaske, that fits in a mint tin. Your mint tokens are both your workers and your money: place them on locations to earn more mints, grab first player, buy plans or build them. Built plans give you points, and some give handy special powers too. Once someone reaches 7 points, the round finishes and the best builder wins. A brilliant first step into worker placement games.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every mint you spend on an action is a mint you cannot spend on a plan. It is a pocket-sized money puzzle, and Gobgob keeps going broke.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 10–20 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob is a matchmaker now. Results may vary.Love Formula is a card-drafting game from Gwin Games. You back a few couples and try to set them up on their perfect date, while quietly ruining your rivals' romantic plans. Each round has a draft phase, where everyone picks the cards for their hand, and a play phase, where you use them to plan dates and cause chaos. Play both phases twice, and the best matchmaker wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The sabotage. Planning a lovely date for your couple is only half the job. The other half is making sure someone else's date goes hilariously wrong.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 15–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob planted one flower in the desert. It is thriving. Gobgob is thrilled.Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon is a tile-laying strategy game from IELLO, designed by Bruno Cathala and Evan Singh. You are gardeners turning the desert into the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Lay garden tiles to grab gems, then spend them on Trees for points or upgrades that boost you for the rest of the game. Send your apprentices into the flower gardens to score, and block your rivals where you can.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every tile you place can snatch a gem and grow a garden at the same time, so the race for the best spot gets tense fast.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob laid the first brick of Gloomhaven. Then argued about where the tavern goes.Founders of Gloomhaven is a competitive city-building board game by Isaac Childres from Cephalofair Games, set hundreds of years before Gloomhaven. Each player leads a fantasy race helping to build the city from scratch. Play action cards to place resource buildings, turn basic goods into advanced ones, and deliver them to building sites to earn prestige. Every race can only produce a few resource types, so you'll need to use your rivals' buildings too.Gobgob's favourite bit: The building votes. Players regularly vote on which new buildings get proposed and where they go, and you can spend influence to swing the result. Gobgob always votes for the tavern.👥 1–4 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 power level is over nine thousand. Gobgob checked.Dragon Ball Z: Road Trip is a Dragon Ball Z family board game from Aquarius. Travel across the real world and the other worlds to stop Babidi's forces and the evil Majin Buu. Take board actions, build up your ki energy and earn wishes to collect four special support items. Be the first Saiyan to bring all four back to Kami's Palace and you're crowned the strongest in the universe.Gobgob's favourite bit: The race back to Kami's Palace. Everyone is chasing the same goal, so the last few turns get very shouty. Very Dragon Ball.👥 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 picked a side in the sky city. Then Booker showed up.BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia is a strategy board game from Plaid Hat Games, based on the BioShock Infinite video game. You lead either the Founders or the Vox Populi, building an army to take ground in the floating city of Columbia, completing objectives and bidding your influence to sway events as they unfold. The first faction to 10 victory points wins. Play one-on-one, or four players in two teams.Gobgob's favourite bit: Booker and Elizabeth are loose in the city, causing havoc for both sides. The best-laid battle plans rarely survive them.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob tried to hold the sand together. The sand had other plans.Realm of Sand is a fantasy board game set in Ragusa, where the Realm of Sand, the source of all magic, is slowly dying and reality has started to shift. While the Queen travels the realm waking the power of ancient glyphs, you play royal magicians racing to assemble those glyphs and stabilise the magic. Rebuild the realm best and you become the hero of Ragusa.Gobgob's favourite bit: The story. You're royal magicians working against the clock while reality bends around you, and Gobgob treats every glyph as a tiny act of heroism.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has had enough of these royals. Grab a deck, we ride at dawn.Regicide is a co-op fantasy card game from Badgers from Mars, designed by Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger and Andy Richdale. Together you storm the castle and take down twelve corrupted royals: the Jacks, then the Queens, then the Kings. Play cards to attack, and each suit adds its own power, like healing your deck, drawing cards, shielding you from the enemy's hit or doubling your damage. Then the enemy strikes back, and you must discard enough cards to survive. Beat the last King and everyone wins. You can even play it with a standard deck of playing cards.Gobgob's favourite bit: Defeat an enemy with exact damage and you recruit them to your side, straight onto the top of the deck. Gobgob loves a reformed Jack.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 10–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob got shipwrecked. Gobgob blames the cook.Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is a co-op survival board game from Portal Games, designed by Ignacy Trzewiczek. You are castaways washed up on a mysterious island, working together to explore, gather food and wood, build a shelter and tools, and hold off wild beasts and wilder weather. Each scenario gives you a different goal, from lighting a signal fire to uncovering the island's secrets, and hundreds of event cards keep every game unpredictable. It won the 2013 Golden Geek for Best Thematic Board Game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Send one castaway on a job and you roll the dice and hope. Send two and it's a sure thing, but then who is fetching dinner? Every turn is a very nervous juggling act.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–120 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The woodland looks cosy. Gobgob has checked. It is not.Root is an asymmetric strategy board game of woodland war from Leder Games, designed by Cole Wehrle. The Marquise de Cat builds up an industrial empire, the proud Eyrie Dynasties want their forest back, the Woodland Alliance spreads sympathy and sparks revolts, and the lone Vagabond wanders about questing and meddling. Every faction plays by its own rules and scores in its own way, so each seat feels like a different game. It won the 2018 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Eyrie must carry out their Decree every turn, and it keeps growing. Miss a single order and the birds fall into turmoil and lose points. Gobgob loves watching proud birds panic.👥 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 has read up on the saints. Some of them were very strange.Saints: The Card Game is a fast, clever card game about the weird and wonderful lives of the Catholic saints. It squeezes the strategy of a collectible card game into a single box. Each player holds a small hand of saints, and every saint card has several abilities, passive effects and even effects that kick in after they die, so a handful of cards can combo in surprising ways.Gobgob's favourite bit: The saint cards are huge, bigger than tarot cards, and packed with four or five abilities each. Dying is not the end; some saints get better at it.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Find a how-to-play video on YouTube

Gobgob built a tower. Someone put a dome on it. Rude.Santorini: Second Edition is the Greek-island abstract strategy board game from Roxley, designed by Gordon Hamilton. Each turn you move one of your two builders, then build a level next to it. Climb onto the third level of a tower and you win on the spot. Simple enough to learn in a minute, deep enough to keep you plotting. God Power cards give each player a special rule-breaking ability. This second edition has upgraded buildings and hero figures, and revised, rebalanced god cards.Gobgob's favourite bit: The dome. Pop one on top of a three-level tower and nobody can ever climb it. The perfect way to crush a rival's dreams one tile before victory.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 15–20 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube