Tabletop Gaming

Tabletop Gaming is the UK’s only monthly magazine dedicated to all types of gaming on your tabletop. From board games, card games, roleplaying games and miniatures we have you covered every month in 100 pages.

WHAT TURNS A GOOD GAME NIGHT INTO A GREAT ONE? • Trusted reviews with must-play recommendations to help you choose games everyone will enjoy!

Tabletop Gaming

Welcome

WHAT′S HOT? • Join us as we take a look at some of the new games that are getting people talking. What’s being viewed and reviewed, and is it right up your street or something you’re crossing the road to avoid?

UPCOMING INDIE RPGS

INDIE RPG INTERVIEW: CHRIS MCDOWALL

FROM The Vaults • With a history spanning 11 years, we crack open past issues of Tabletop Gaming magazine to rediscover the games, creators and conversations that shaped the hobby

GHOST IN THE MACHINE • The Ghost in the Shell TTRPG takes the original, iconic manga as its source, bringing cybernetic espionage and existential intrigue to your tabletop!

UK GAMES EXPO 2026: SHOW REPORT • From Edgerunning against the clock to KPop D&D, here’s every great game we saw at the UK’s biggest tabletop gaming show.

“LOCAL GAME STORES ARE THE HEART OF TCG COMMUNITIES” • asmodee CEO Thomas Koegler believes independent and hobby retailers play a big part in a TCG’s success, while the biggest Kickstarter in history has an interesting choice to make

GAME ADJACENT • The best loot Birmingham had to offer, in honour of UK Games Expo

tabletop Glossary • Welcome adventurers, to the tabletop – where deck building has nothing to do with the patio, and worker placement isn’t part of a recruitment agency. If the terminology used to describe the games we know and love can feel like trying to learn a new language, let our glossary demystify, and have you speaking tabletop in no time at all

GAMING FOR GOOD • Feel better after you’ve gathered around a tabletop? You’re not the only one, as the benefits of gaming are finally starting to be understood and quantified

ROLEPLAYING SAFETY TOOLS • Make your tabletop fun for everyone using these inclusive gaming mechanisms

PEELING BACK THE SHRINK-WRAP • Zara Reid and Matt Brown, designers of the 100 per cent plastic-free boardgame Kavango, discuss the challenges of making a sustainable product

ALL EYES ARE ON THE BOARD, NOT ON YOU • How two psychologists set out to discover what tabletop gaming can teach us about autism, social connection and wellbeing

CAUGHT THEM ALL YET? • Pokémon is booming, with huge sales and busy tournaments

ON THE CARDS • Less money, more cards!

TRY THIS IF YOU LIKED… FLIP 7

TABLETOP’S STARTING XI • Ever wondered who’d take to the pitch at a football tournament featuring the best and brightest from the world of tabletop? Wonder no more as we pick our ultimate squad!

UNBOXED: FLAMECRAFT • Game Designer Manny Vega reveals how a sinking ship was righted to create one of the cutest games ever to hit the tabletop

DICE AS SACRED OBJECTS • Hereward Proops, lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands, discusses the exalted status dice attain at the tabletop

CAT EARTH • Purrrfect family fun

CATEGORIES • Fun, to the letter

FLORA FUNGA • This dandy little lion doesn't half roar

IN A WORLD • Cards adjacent to humanity

PICK ‘N PACKERS • Pontifications on picking up or packing in Pick ‘n Packers. Now say that five times fast!

PURRRAMID • A purrrsh your luck Knizia classic?

BIGLY • It’s big on strategy

FLOCKERS • High-flying birds

TWITTENS • Fancy a bimble?

3 WITCHES • Hubble bubble tricks and trouble!

CHICKENS ’N ALIENS...