Gobgob's shelf is full. Gobgob is buying another game anyway.Shelfie Stacker is a dice-placement board game all about the most relatable problem in the hobby: fitting your latest haul onto your board game shelf. Over 7 rounds, groups of three dice are rolled into piles, and each die is a board game waiting for a home. Everyone secretly picks one of their 8 action cards, which sets the turn order and gives a one-off power, then you take dice and slot them into your shelf following the placement rules. Plan carefully, and after 7 rounds the best-stacked shelfie wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The action cards pull double duty. A low card gets you first pick of the dice, but a better power might be worth waiting for. Gobgob always wants both.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a space station. Gobgob forgot the doors.Space Gate Odyssey is a sci-fi strategy board game about colonising a newly found system of planets. Each player leads a Confederation with its own space station in orbit. Move your engineers to activate the control rooms, add new modules to your station, and send your settlers through space gates to claim the best spots on each planet. Once a planet fills up, influence is scored and new planets open up. After all five are colonised, the most influential Confederation wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Building your station like a puzzle. Where you put each module and how far the airlocks are from the gates decides how fast your settlers get through. And don't leave corridors open to space. Nobody likes that.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's familiar is a very hungry toad. Gobgob is also a very hungry toad.SpellBook is a fantasy strategy board game from Space Cowboys, designed by Phil Walker-Harding. You're a wizard competing in the Annual Grand Rite, each with a spellbook and a familiar to look after. Take magical Materia from the shared Vortex, then use it to learn new spells or feed your familiar. Every spell you learn gives you a lasting power, and clever combos get stronger as the game goes on. The game ends when someone fills their spellbook with seven spells or fully feeds their familiar, and the most points wins. There's a solo mode too.Gobgob's favourite bit: Timing your spells. Cast one early and you get its power straight away, or hold on and unleash it later at full strength. Gobgob never waits. Gobgob regrets this.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The island is fighting back. Gobgob is on the island's side.Spirit Island is a co-op strategy board game designed by R. Eric Reuss. Colonising Invaders have landed, and you are the ancient spirits of the land, working with the islanders who live there to drive them off. Each spirit has its own powers and style. Every round you all choose power cards at the same time, while the Invaders explore, build and ravage across the island in a pattern you can see coming. Scare them enough and they'll flee, but let blight spread too far and the island is lost. Big, clever, and a favourite for solo play too.Gobgob's favourite bit: Fast and slow powers. Fast ones hit before the Invaders act, slow ones land after. Planning a turn feels like a puzzle, and pulling off a perfect combo feels amazing.👥 1–4 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 collects shiny things. Finally, a game that gets it.Splendor is an award-winning gem-trading board game by Marc André, published by Space Cowboys. You're a Renaissance gem merchant. On your turn, take gem tokens, buy a card, or reserve one for later (and grab a gold wild token). Every card you buy gives you a permanent gem discount, so your little engine grows until you can snap up the big, valuable cards. Attract a visiting noble for bonus prestige, and first to 15 prestige points triggers the end.Gobgob's favourite bit: The snowball. Early cards seem tiny, but a few turns later they're paying for everything and you're buying the fancy stuff for free. Very satisfying. Very sparkly.👥 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 has five Infinity Stones. They're painted pebbles. It still counts.Splendor: Marvel is a Marvel take on the gem-trading board game Splendor, designed by Marc André and published by Space Cowboys. Collect Infinity Stone tokens and spend them to recruit heroes and villains, who give you permanent bonuses and Infinity Points. Use those bonuses to recruit bigger names and claim locations, then gather enough power to take the Infinity Gauntlet before Thanos does. The core rules are pure Splendor, with a new colour setup and a new way to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Avengers Assemble tile. It's worth points, and it jumps between players whenever someone assembles a bigger team, so everyone's fighting over it all game.👥 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 hid 400 nuts in autumn. Gobgob found three.Squirrel or Die is a quick, cheeky tile game from Fight in a Box, designed by Seppy Yoon. You're a backyard squirrel with one goal: survive the winter. In Autumn, everyone takes turns revealing tiles and building the landscape, hiding food and hazards along the way. Then Winter arrives, and you have to dig through what you squirreled away, hoping to be the last squirrel standing. Think memory game meets multiplayer minesweeper.Gobgob's favourite bit: You help build the danger in Autumn, then have to remember where it all is in Winter. Your own traps are the scariest ones.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 20 min  |  🎂 Ages 11+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob will trade two sheep for one dilithium. Final offer.Star Trek: Catan is the classic Catan trading and building board game relaunched in space, published by Mayfair Games in 2012. Build outposts and starships instead of settlements and roads, collect dilithium, tritanium, food, oxygen and water from the planets around you, then haggle with the table to spread across the galaxy. Roll a 7 and a Klingon ship swoops in to shut down a planet.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Support Cards. Each one stars a crew member like Kirk, Spock or Uhura and lets you bend the rules, such as cheaper trades or dodging the discard on a 7. Use one, then swap it for another. Gobgob always fights over Spock.👥 3–4 players  |  ⏱ 75 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Darth Vader is watching the table. Literally. There's a bust.Star Wars: Dark Side Rising is a co-op card and dice game set in the run-up to A New Hope. Each player leads a Rebel cell from a different base, with a starting leader such as Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Cassian Andor or Hera Syndulla. Work together to recruit heroes like Obi-Wan, Han Solo and the droids, send agents across the galaxy to places like Scarif and Jedha, and stop the Empire before the Death Star is finished.Gobgob's favourite bit: The sculpted Darth Vader bust sits on the board, calling the shots for the Empire. Gobgob found it hard to concentrate with him staring like that.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob hid the Rebel base under the couch. The Empire checked there first.Star Wars: Rebellion is an epic strategy board game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Corey Konieczka, that squeezes the whole original trilogy onto your table. One side plays the Galactic Empire with Star Destroyers, TIE fighters, stormtroopers and the Death Star. The other plays the Rebel Alliance, outgunned but sneaky. Move fleets and troops across two big boards of famous planets, and send leaders like Leia, Luke, Vader and Tarkin on secret missions.Gobgob's favourite bit: The hidden Rebel base. The Rebels secretly pick where it is, and the Empire has to hunt it down with probe droids before time runs out. Find it and crush it, or watch the Rebels rally the galaxy and win. It's cat and mouse, but the cat has a Death Star.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 180–240 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob's spaceship has cup holders. That's the whole upgrade.Starcadia Quest is a standalone campaign board game from CMON in the Arcadia Quest family, this time blasting off into space. Each player leads a crew of two heroes on a mission to stop the dastardly Supreme Commander Thorne and his army. You all want Thorne beaten, but only one crew gets the glory, so you're racing and scrapping with each other just as much as with the bad guys. Cute chunky miniatures and a campaign that carries on from game to game.Gobgob's favourite bit: The rivalry. Teaming up against Thorne only lasts until someone spots a chance to ambush another crew. Gobgob has never once trusted its friends in this game, and it was right not to.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob started a pop group. The fans are mostly other goblins.Starlight Stage is a Japanese card game about producing idols. Start with three newcomer idols, then train them up with lessons, events and Produce cards until your agency is packed with stars. Each idol card has talents (notes, diamonds and hearts) that pay for new cards, so your group gets stronger and can recruit even better idols. When the Produce card deck runs out, whoever has the most popularity points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your idols are your money. Play one to take a lesson, grab an event or swap them out for a shiny new recruit, then take them all back at the end of the round. Watching a scrappy trainee turn into a headline act is very satisfying.👥 3–4 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 logged in. Gobgob can't log out. Please send snacks.Sword Art Online Board Game: Sword of Fellows is a co-op dice game based on the Sword Art Online anime. Team up with friends, or play solo, and roll dice to battle a series of enemies in the world of Aincrad. Use each character's unique fighting techniques to link attacks together and take down the monsters before they take you down.Gobgob's favourite bit: Chain attacks. Use the right techniques and your attacks link together into one big combo, just like in the anime. Gobgob shouts "Switch!" every time. Nobody asked it to.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob went back in time to fix one mistake. Made four new ones.T.I.M.E Stories is a co-op story adventure board game from Space Cowboys, designed by Manuel Rozoy. You are agents of the T.I.M.E Agency, sent back into the bodies of people in other times and worlds to stop disasters that threaten reality. Each scenario is a deck of cards laid out like a big picture: explore locations, find clues, fight dangers and solve puzzles before your time runs out. The base box includes the first scenario, Asylum, set in an early 20th-century asylum.Gobgob's favourite bit: Failing is part of the plan. Run out of time and you're pulled back to the Agency, then sent in again, now knowing where the traps and clues are. Each run gets smarter, until you nail the perfect run.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob grew the perfect bamboo. The panda ate it.Takenoko is a charming family board game by Antoine Bauza, published by Bombyx and Matagot. You tend the Emperor's bamboo garden, laying hex plots, digging irrigation and growing green, yellow and pink bamboo, while a very hungry giant panda munches its way through the garden. Each turn you take two actions, moving the gardener to grow bamboo or the panda to eat it, all to complete your secret objective cards.Gobgob's favourite bit: The weather die. Sun gives you an extra action, rain grows bamboo, storms let you move the panda, wind lets you double up and clouds hand out garden improvements. Gobgob always prays for storms.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube