The Dragon Army is at the gates. Gobgob volunteered to hold the door.Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn is a co-op fantasy board game from Wizards of the Coast, set in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Krynn. Your band of heroes battles the Dragon Queen's army, moving between battlefields and adventure locations to tip the scales of the war. Play through a campaign of scenarios, each with its own goals, and work together to win the war.Gobgob's favourite bit: It connects to the D&D adventure Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen, with rules for bringing your characters across. Gobgob's paladin is very excited about the promotion.👥 3–5 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 opened a dino park. The T-Rex wants its own pen.Draftosaurus is a quick, cute family drafting game from Ankama. Grab a handful of chunky dinosaur meeples, keep one, pop it into a pen on your park board, then pass the rest to the next player. Each pen scores in its own way, so every dino choice counts. The best park at the end wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: The placement die. Each turn one player rolls it, and everyone else has to follow its rule for where their dino can go. Gobgob loves rolling it at the worst possible moment.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob bet on the red car. Gobgob is driving the blue one.Downforce is a fast car racing board game from Restoration Games, based on a classic design by Wolfgang Kramer. First, everyone bids to own the six race cars. Then you play speed cards to move them around the track, and place secret bets on who will win as the race passes the betting lines. Each player also gets a special power. The most money at the end wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Most cards move several cars at once, including other players' cars. Timing is everything, because a great card for you can be a gift for your rival.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 20–40 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Every picture tells a story. Gobgob's stories mostly involve snacks.Dixit is the dreamy storytelling party game from Libellud, designed by Jean-Louis Roubira and illustrated by Marie Cardouat. Each round, the storyteller picks one of their beautiful, strange picture cards and gives a clue: a word, a sentence, even a sound. Everyone else secretly adds a card from their hand that fits the clue, then all the cards are shuffled and revealed. Now vote on which one was the storyteller's. It won the Spiel des Jahres in 2010, and it's a lovely family game for mixed ages.Gobgob's favourite bit: The scoring twist. If everyone finds your card, or nobody does, you score nothing. So your clue has to be not too easy and not too hard. Gobgob's clue was "cheese". It did not go well.👥 3–8 players  |  ⏱ 30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob always roots for the baddie. Finally, a game that agrees.Disney Villainous is a strategy board game from Ravensburger where everyone plays a classic Disney villain. Pick Maleficent, Ursula, Jafar, Prince John, the Queen of Hearts or Captain Hook. On your turn, move your villain to a new spot in your realm, take the actions shown there, then refill your hand. Play allies, items and effects to chase a win goal taken straight from your movie. This is the award-winning base game, and it mixes with every other Villainous box.Gobgob's favourite bit: Fate. Choose a rival, draw two cards from their Fate deck, and drop the worst one on their board. Suddenly Peter Pan is standing in Captain Hook's way. Gobgob cackles every time.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 50–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 10+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob has a case file, a laptop and far too many open tabs.Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game is a co-op investigation board game from Portal Games, designed by Ignacy Trzewiczek, Przemysław Rymer and Jakub Łapot. You play agents of the Antares National Investigation Agency, working through five linked cases in order. Follow lead cards, question witnesses, weigh the evidence and crack each case. Slowly, a bigger mystery joins the cases together.Gobgob's favourite bit: It breaks the fourth wall. You log into the Antares online database to dig into suspects and records, and you can search the real internet for clues too. Bring a device with a web browser.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 120–180 min  |  🎂 Ages 16+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob went down into the dungeon. Gobgob came back with loot and a limp.Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) is a fantasy dungeon-crawl board game from Fantasy Flight Games. One player is the scheming overlord and up to four others are heroes, exploring caves, ruins and cursed forests built from double-sided map tiles. Play single quests or a full story campaign where your heroes level up, learn new class skills and buy better gear between adventures. The free Road to Legend app can even take the overlord's seat, so the whole table plays co-op.Gobgob's favourite bit: The custom dice. You build your attack pool from your hero's weapon and skills, then spend any surge symbols you roll on extra damage and nasty special effects.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 120–180 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob can't tell you about this game. It's classified.[redacted] is a Cold War spy board game of bluffing and betrayal from LudiCreations, designed by Mihály Vincze, Dávid Turczi and Katalin Nimmerfroh. Secret agents sneak room by room through an embassy reception, hunting for their side's files. Nobody knows who's on which team, so you'll interrogate, steal and scrap your way to the goods, then escape by helicopter, or make sure the other side never gets off the roof.Gobgob's favourite bit: When two agents meet, both secretly pick Friendly, Neutral or Attack at the same time, then reveal. Gobgob always picks Friendly. Gobgob is lying.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 45–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob will absolutely help you fight the monster. Right up until the last hit.Cutthroat Caverns is a semi-co-op dungeon card game by Curt Covert, published by Smirk & Dagger Games. Your party has to work together to survive nine encounters in the caverns, because if everyone falls, nobody wins. But only the player who lands the killing blow on a monster claims its prestige, so the backstabbing starts early. Survive to the end with the most prestige to win.Gobgob's favourite bit: Kill stealing. Everyone chips away at the monster, then someone sneaks in the final blow and takes all the glory. Gobgob has been on both sides of this. Gobgob prefers the glory side.👥 3–6 players  |  ⏱ 90 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Royal scandal season is here. Gobgob has placed its bets.Cursed Court is a betting and deduction board game by Andrew Hanson, published by Atlas Games. Over three years of royal scandal, you bet your limited influence each season on how the schemes of nine key nobles will turn out. Some information is public, some is secret, and some is shared only between you and one other player. Read the table, back the right nobles and grow your fortune.Gobgob's favourite bit: The secrets you share with another player. You both know something the rest of the table doesn't, so you might end up backing the same scheme. Or not. Gobgob is keeping very quiet.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 30–60 min  |  🎂 Ages 14+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Gobgob put on a fedora and started making deals.Crimopolis is a 1920s gangster strategy board game by Sven Obermaier, published by Cheap Sheep Games. Start as a small-time crook, recruit gangsters, explore the city tile by tile, pull off jobs and take over your rivals' assets to earn prestige. It mixes Euro-style strategy with plenty of direct player conflict, and you can adjust how long the game runs. It won Best Physical Game at the 2020 NZ Games Festival.Gobgob's favourite bit: Ambushes. Jump a rival's gang and you can take over their assets. Gobgob is very sorry. Gobgob is not sorry.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 30–100 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Winter is coming. Gobgob wants a comfy chair and a bowl of soup.Creature Comforts is a cosy worker placement board game by Roberta Taylor, published by Kids Table Board Gaming. Through spring, summer and autumn, you send your woodland animal family into the forest to gather supplies, then spend them on comforts to make your burrow the snuggest spot for winter. The family with the most comfortable den wins. Lovely art and a gentle theme make it a great family game.Gobgob's favourite bit: Fall short of a goal and your critter learns a lesson, so they're better prepared next time. Even bad luck helps. Gobgob has learned many, many lessons.👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 45 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

Save the planet, turn a profit. Gobgob likes both.CO₂ is a heavy strategy board game by Vital Lacerda about the race to clean energy. Each player runs an energy company answering government calls for new green power plants. Gather expertise, money and resources to build them, trade Carbon Emissions Permits on a changing market, and share know-how at energy summits. Score for your plants, goals and expertise, but keep pollution in check, because if it gets out of hand, everyone loses.Gobgob's favourite bit: The permits market. Carbon Emissions Permits rise and fall in price all game, so buying low and selling high is part of saving the world. Gobgob calls this "green investing".👥 1–5 players  |  ⏱ 120 min  |  🎂 Ages 12+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Queen is throwing a banquet. Gobgob is throwing shade.Courtisans is a quick card game of court intrigue by Romaric Galonnier and Anthony Perone, published by Catch Up Games. Each turn you get three cards: play one at the Queen's table to raise or lower a family's standing, one in your own domain, and one in a rival's. When the banquet ends, cards from well-loved families score points and cards from disgraced families cost points.Gobgob's favourite bit: Spies. Some cards are played face-down, so nobody knows which family they belong to until the very end. Gobgob loves a surprise ending.👥 2–5 players  |  ⏱ 20–30 min  |  🎂 Ages 8+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube

The Duke? Oh, Gobgob definitely has the Duke. Please don't check.Coup is a quick bluffing card game by Rikki Tahta, published by Indie Boards & Cards. Everyone starts with two secret character cards and two coins. On your turn, take an action like collecting coins, stealing or assassinating, and claim whichever character you need to do it, whether you have it or not. Anyone can call your bluff. Lose both cards and you're out. The last player standing wins.Gobgob's favourite bit: Getting challenged when you really do have the card. Flip it, your accuser loses a card, and you get to look very smug. Gobgob practises the smug face in the mirror.👥 2–6 players  |  ⏱ 15 min  |  🎂 Ages 13+📚 Dice Goblin Library game: borrow it at Dice Goblin.🎥 New to it? Watch how to play on YouTube