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Designer: Spencer Lloyd Thomas | Publisher: Play Monkey Games As a company just starting out, Play Monkey Games possesses a confident remit: “To create family friendly board games that both kids and a

Designer: Reiner Knizia | Publisher: Pegasus Spiele Paws Up turns you into a pet influencer (a petfluencer?), who must set up a variety of cute shots to receive likes (or rather, points) on this cardb

Designer: Toshiki Arao | Publisher: Cocktail Games Jungo is the latest in a long line of ladder-climbing/shedding games to come out of the East, with the format first making an impact in the West with

Designer: Stephen Kerr | Publisher: Thunderworks Games The future is now, and it’s resource management. Metrorunner comes in a striking purple box, ablaze with neon colours. That visual scheme carries

Designers: Florent Baudry, Adrien Fenouillet | Publisher: IELLO Full disclosure: I didn’t really play with toy soldiers as a kid, despite having two brothers. I didn’t think much of this until I saw T

Designer: Alexandros Kapidakis | Publisher: Dranda Games What constitutes originality? Inventiveness and creativity are clearly important, and not being a direct copy of something else helps. But beyo