Gobgob heard a rumour about a vault full of gold. Gobgob has packed a shovel.Dungeons & Dragons: Vault of Dragons is a competitive Forgotten Realms board game from Gale Force Nine, designed by Aaron Dill. You lead a shady faction on the streets of Waterdeep, all chasing whispers of a hidden vault of gold beneath the city. Send your followers to locations to dig up rumours and treasure, brawl with rival factions for control of key spots, and try not to attract the City Watch. Piece the clues together, then head down into Undermountain to find the vault first.Gobgob's favourite bit: The brawls. Scrapping with rival factions over the best spots in the city, all while keeping one eye out for the City Watch. Gobgob considers this a normal Tuesday.👥 2–4 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 is a viscount now. Please address Gobgob accordingly.Viscounts of the West Kingdom is a strategy board game by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald from Garphill Games, the third game in the West Kingdom trilogy. Around 980 AD the King's grip is slipping, and as a viscount you travel the kingdom building influence with the people. Construct buildings, write manuscripts, work in the castle and gain deeds for new land to score points, while recruiting better townsfolk to your hand along the way. The game ends when the kingdom slides into poverty or rises to prosperity, or both.Gobgob's favourite bit: Building your deck of townsfolk. You start with a few so-so helpers and swap in better ones as you go, so your hand gets stronger every lap of the kingdom. Gobgob only hires people who laugh at its jokes.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 60–90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+🇳🇿 Made in NZ. Support a local creator!📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob keeps its whole army in a bag. It's a very small army.War Chest is a two-player (or two-versus-two) war board game by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson from AEG. Draft a mix of military units, then battle to capture key points on the board with your control markers. Each round you draw three unit coins from your bag and use them to deploy, move, attack, recruit and more. There are no dice, so it all comes down to smart choices and good timing. First side to place all their control markers wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Bag building. Your army lives in a bag, and recruiting adds more coins of your chosen units, so you slowly shape what you'll draw next. Managing the coins in your bag matters just as much as the ones on the board.📦 In the box: 74 unit coins, 4 royal coins, 16 unit cards, 16 control markers, 4 bags, an initiative marker and a board.👥 2 or 4 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Foggy London. One sneaky villain. Gobgob has a magnifying glass and a hunch.Whitehall Mystery is a hidden-movement deduction board game from Giochi Uniti, by Gabriele Mari and Gianluca Santopietro, the designers of Letters from Whitechapel. Set in London in 1888, one player is Jack, secretly moving through the streets and writing each step behind a screen. Everyone else plays the detectives, working together to follow the clues, box Jack in and make the arrest.Gobgob's favourite bit: Jack's moves are written down in secret, so the detectives only find traces of where Jack has been. Every clue narrows the net, and Jack gets to sit there looking very innocent. Gobgob's poker face needs work.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gotta catch 'em all. Gobgob is short three Poké Balls.Splendor: Pokémon is a Pokémon take on Splendor, the classic engine-building card game. On your turn, collect Poké Balls, catch a Pokémon by paying its cost, or reserve one for later and grab a wild Master Ball. Every Pokémon you catch gives you a permanent discount on future catches, so your collection snowballs. First to 18 points triggers the final round. This copy is the Korean edition.Gobgob's favourite bit: Evolution! At the end of your turn you can evolve one of your Pokémon if its next form is on the table and you can pay for it. There are also Rare and Legendary Pokémon, and Legendaries need a Master Ball to catch. Gobgob is saving up for one.👥 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

Earth is closing. Gobgob is picking the dream crew for the spaceship.World Changers is a card-drafting board game about history's big names. You are captains of an interstellar spaceship, and Earth is no longer fit to live on. Recruit a crew from people across all of human history to start again on a new planet. On your turn, either invite a person from the shared display onto your team or pass. When the cards run out, or everyone passes in a row, the team with the most Legacy wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Every historical figure has their own special effect, and the game comes with a booklet of art and stories about all 32 of them. Gobgob learnt something and is very proud.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 10 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The app says UFOs incoming. Gobgob says "ten more seconds, please".XCOM: The Board Game is a co-op board game from Fantasy Flight Games, designed by Eric Lang, based on the XCOM video games. You and your team lead XCOM, the world's last defence against an alien invasion. Launch Interceptors to shoot down UFOs, send soldiers on missions, research alien tech and defend your base, all while keeping global panic from boiling over. Survive long enough to launch one final mission and drive the invaders back. Play with a team or solo.Gobgob's favourite bit: The free companion app runs the alien invasion in real time. It picks one of five invasion plans, throws surprises at you and puts you on a timer, then gives you an untimed phase to sort out the results. It also teaches the rules and has Easy, Normal and Hard settings. Gobgob plays on Easy. Gobgob is not ashamed.👥 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

Gobgob has the popcorn ready. Now Gobgob needs a cinema.Popcorn is a bag-building board game from IELLO, designed by Victor Saumont. Each player runs their own movie theatre over nine rounds. Buy new movies, build or upgrade your theatre, and use ads to lure in guests. Then it's showtime: draw guests from your bag and seat them in front of the right films. Happy guests earn popcorn, and whoever fills their popcorn box best wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Seat the right guests in the right spots to trigger their special powers, and match them to a film they love for a bonus. But movies get stale the longer they run, so you have to keep bringing in fresh blockbusters.👥 2–4 players  |  ⏱ 60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob built a whole planet before lunch. It's mostly ice.Planet is a family board game from Blue Orange, designed by Urtis Šulinskas. Everyone starts with their own bare planet core. Each turn you pick a landscape tile of mountains, ice, forests, deserts or oceans, and add it to your world. As the game goes on, animal cards go to whoever best matches each animal's favourite habitat. Build the most densely populated planet to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your planet is a chunky 12-sided 3D core you hold in your hand and turn as you build, and the landscape tiles snap on with magnets. It looks brilliant on the table.👥 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

Gobgob has three diseases to cure and one very small box.Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America is a smaller, faster version of the classic co-op board game Pandemic, from Z-Man Games. Three deadly diseases are spreading across North America, and your team has to travel between cities, treat the sick, stop outbreaks and share research to find the cures in time. It's a great way to learn Pandemic, or to play it when you've only got half an hour.Gobgob's favourite bit: The Crisis cards. They're shuffled into the player deck and throw nasty surprises at your team, so even a short game keeps you on your toes.👥 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 washed its hands. It did not help.Pandemic is the classic co-op board game by Matt Leacock, published by Z-Man Games. Four deadly diseases are spreading around the world, and your team of specialists has to stop them. On your turn, spend up to four actions to fly between cities, treat infections, share knowledge, build research stations and collect matching cards to discover cures. Then the infection deck spreads more disease, and hidden Epidemic cards make things much worse. Cure all four diseases and everyone wins. Let outbreaks get out of hand, or run out of time, and everyone loses. A modern classic and one of the best ways into co-op games.Gobgob's favourite bit: Outbreaks. Let a city get too sick and the disease spills into every neighbouring city, which can set off a chain reaction round the globe. Gobgob screams every time.👥 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

Gobgob composed a symphony. It's mostly kazoo.Ovation is an engine-building board game about classical composers, designed by Kirsten Lunde and published by Looking Glass Workshop. Each turn you pick one of four actions: Seek Inspiration, Seek Fortune, Seek Patronage or Perform. Inspiration is your main resource and comes in three tones, Joy, Passion and Sorrow, which you spend to gain cards and perform your great works. Hit certain goals to earn Maestro cards, and the game builds to a crescendo. Most points wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Your rivals' performances inspire you too, so a big show from the next player can set you up for your own masterpiece. There's a solo mode for composing alone.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 40–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob made a lovely clay pot. Gobgob is keeping it.Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture is a board game about the famous handicrafts of Oaxaca (say "wah-HA-kah") in southern Mexico. You're a family of skilled artisans getting ready to sell your wares to tourists at a busy tianguis, a big outdoor market in Oaxaca City. Make crafts, specialise in the types you're best at, and fill your Market Stall. Whoever has the most valuable collection of crafts in their stall at the end of the final round wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Specialising pays off. Focus on particular craft types and your handicrafts become more desirable, so you're always choosing between doing a bit of everything or going all in on one thing.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob took one tile. Now Gobgob has three new jobs. Classic.Nova Luna is an abstract tile-laying board game by Uwe Rosenberg and Corné van Moorsel, published by Edition Spielwiese. Each turn, pick a tile from the moon wheel and add it to your growing layout. Every tile comes with its own tasks, which you complete by placing tiles of the right colours next to it. Finish a task and you put one of your markers on it. The first player to place all their markers wins. There's a solo mode too.Gobgob's favourite bit: The moon wheel. Taking a cheap tile moves your pawn only a little way round the wheel, so you get another go sooner. Grab the fancy tile and you might be waiting a while.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has been crowned king. The Higgledies are not impressed.Ni no Kuni II: The Board Game is a co-op kingdom-building board game from Steamforged Games, based on the Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom video game, with artwork credited to the game's original artists. Work together to rebuild the Kingdom of Evermore: complete quests, battle monsters, gather resources and win over new citizens. Build the brightest kingdom you can before the forces of darkness close in.Gobgob's favourite bit: Winning citizens round. Each new citizen makes your kingdom stronger, so every quest feels like it's building towards something. Gobgob wants them all.👥 1–4 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube