What's New?

New titles are in stock – including several I spotted at Spiel in October – and I'm adding them here a few at a time. I particularly like Amul, Blitzkrieg!, Dawn of Mankind and the utterly bonkers Wormlord. And all the others!

Don't forget my clearance sale and I still have some odds and ends (including games with dings and dents) at special prices.

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221B Baker Street Expansion Pack

A further tranche of cases for the detectives to take up in Holmes's London: £12.00.
 

Amul (Remo Conzadori and Stefano Negro)

This is a neat set-collecting card game themed around the markets of the eponymous medieval Persian city. The clever mechanisms make it a challenge to get the best out of your cards and I'm particularly taken with the way new cards appear as the player count goes up: £26.00.
 

Out of stock
 

Blitzkrieg! (Paolo Mori)

It's sub-titled "World War Two in 20 Minutes" and pretty much lives up to this billing. It's a terrific tactical tussle of deploying troops to win campaigns in the several theatres of war. And it plays in under half an hour: £25.00.
 

Out of stock
 

Blitzkrieg! Nippon Expansion (Paolo Mori)

This is a bonkers expansion. It assumes an Axis victory in WW2 followed by a war between Germany and Japan in North America. The board works in a different way, which offers an alternative challenge: £10.00.
 

Dawn of Mankind (Marco Pranzo)

Another find at Spiel, this is a cracking game of developing your tribe of 'cavemen'. Through the game individual meeples are born, live and die. Along the way they hunt, gather and create art so that you score points. Great stuff: £35.00.
 

EXIT: The Catacombs of Horror (Inka and Markus Brand, Ralph Querfurth)

The latest crop of EXIT co-operative 'escape room' games includes this double length challenge. The players are searching the catacombs below Paris for their missing friend: £17.00.
 

EXIT: The Haunted Roller Coaster (Inka and Markus Brand, Ralph Querfurth)

Another of the latest crop of EXIT co-operative 'escape room' games has the players on the Ghost Train ride at the fair when it breaks down. Can they make their way through the shocks and scares, some of which seem very real: £11.00.
 

EXIT: The House of Riddles (Inka and Markus Brand)

Another of the latest crop of EXIT co-operative 'escape room' games has the players invited to join an exclusive detcives' club. However, no sooner have they arrived than there is a scream and the door shuts. Can they find out what's happening and escape? £11.00.
 

Ishtar (Bruno Cathala and Evan Singh)

An ingenious game of creating the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon. However, all players start with is an area of desert and a few water sources: £32.00.
 

La Stanza (Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro and Paulo Soledade)

Clever heavyweight (and hefty) game set in the Renaissance with players recruiting historical figures and sponsoring art, exploration and politics: £50.00.
 

MegaCity: Oceania (Jordan Draper and Michael Fox)

Gorgeous-looking game that's a terrific mixture of dexterity (stacking pieces on cardboard tiles that you then have to slide into position) and tactics (getting the right pieces and tiles). More clever stuff from the Hub guys: £35.00.
 

Nova Luna (Uwe Rosenberg and Corné van Moorsel)

Fiendish tile-laying game where each tile provides patterns to match with other tiles, each of which has patterns to match with other tiles, each of which has patterns... Too clever by half: £24.00.
 

Paris (José Antonio Abascal Acebo)

The City of Light provides the setting and light is the way to win. Players position polyomino buildings on the board, but they only score if they're adjacent to streetlights – which were placed in the first part of the game. Clever and good-looking: £20.00.
 

The Taverns of Tiefenthal (Wolfgang Warsch)

Fascinating game of attracting visitors to your village tavern. There are cards to manage and dice to draft to provide the cash and beer (!) that add cards to your deck. Intriguing stuff: £30.00.
 

Tea or Coffee (Heike and Stefan Risthaus)

A quick-playing, breakfast-themed card game. Nice. And that'll be coffee for me, please: £6.50.
 

Tricky Druids (Carlo Rossi)

Players are competing to complete their secret potion, but can only use ingredients that are refused by other players. There are some clever tactical elements in this family-orientated game: £24.00.
 

Wormlord (Jonathan Bittner and Andrew Cedotal)

Wonderfully bonkers real-time game of grabbing territory with your 'worms' (shoe laces, effectively). It takes just ten minutes: £25.00.