4 Best Board Games for 4-Year-Olds, and What to Do When They Lose
Four is often the age where a board game finally works properly. The rules stick, the turns come round, and nobody eats the pieces. It is also the first age where the game can end…
6 Legacy and Campaign Board Games for Couples, and Whether the Box Survives
There is a wall most couples who play together hit somewhere around the third month. You own five or six games. You like them. You have also played them enough that you both know the…
X-Men Board Games: What You Can Actually Buy Before Marvel’s Wolverine
Marvel's Wolverine arrives on PS5 on 15 September 2026, and a lot of people are going to finish it and go looking for an X-Men board game. What most of them will find is not…
5 Best Board Games for 2-Year-Olds That Are Actually Rated for 2+
Search for board games for 2-year-olds and the same two titles come back on almost every list: Snail's Pace Race and Get Up for Pup. Both are good games. Both are also rated 3 and…
4 Best Cooperative Board Games for Couples (And the One Problem Nobody Mentions)
The advice is usually the same. Play something cooperative. Nobody loses to the other person, nobody sulks, everyone wins together. That advice is half right, and the half that is missing is the half that…
5 Best EXIT Games to Start With, Ranked by Difficulty
There are dozens of EXIT boxes. They cost about the same, they are the same size, and on a shelf they look interchangeable. They are not. Picking the wrong one as your first is a…
5 Best Marvel Board Games to Play Before Avengers: Doomsday
Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Marvel has just shifted the marketing into a higher gear. A new trailer premiered at Disney's D23 event in August, introduced on stage by Robert…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Board Game Review: Is It Just Pandemic With Jedi?
The most common question about this box is also the most reasonable one: is it just Pandemic with a Star Wars sticker on the lid? Short answer, no. Longer answer, it keeps the skeleton of…
5 Best Star Wars Board Games to Play Before Ahsoka Season 2
Every time an Ahsoka trailer drops, the same thing happens. People finish watching and go looking for a way to stay in that galaxy a little longer. Search for a board game with Ahsoka in…
Christmas Board Game Gift Guide: What to Buy for Anyone
Buying a board game as a Christmas present is harder than buying one for yourself, and for a specific reason: you are not choosing a game, you are guessing at a person. Their patience, their…