Set in the Forgotten Realms, within the Dungeons and Dragons fictional universe, Lords of Waterdeep is not a game of adventuring, but rather a game of sending adventurers out to achieve your own political goals within the city of Waterdeep. Lords of Waterdeep is a solid worker placement game, where the tastiest moment is hearing your opponent groan in frustration as you take the spot they needed to go to. Plays 2-5 players.

In Marvel Champions, you and a group of teammates will play as iconic Marvel heroes, facing one of several well-known villains. This game is highly customisable, with several heroes and villains ot choose from, and for each hero, four different aspects. Will you be an Aggressive Spiderman or a She-Hulk for Justice? Each hero plays differently, and every villain presents their own unique challenges. Excelsior!

Your spaceship is falling apart, there’s at least one alien sneaking around somewhere and your crew can’t be trusted. What do you do? Well, in this epic game of survival you’ll write your own story of survival as you stumble from one claustrophobic encounter into the next frightening situation. Everyone who played Nemesis had immersive stories to tell about how their character got rid of alien slime in a burning shower, or how they managed to lure the alien into an escape pod. This enormous game takes an hour or 3 and plays up to 5 cosmonauts.

In Nova Luna, you draft tiles to complete adjacency combos in this beautiful, abstract tableau builder. Each decision difficult as you weigh your goals against those of your opponents. Plays up to 4 players.

Pandemic: Hot Zone takes the famous cooperative game and condenses it into a rapid affair, cutting right to the meat of the game. Make difficult decisions while a disease ravages Europe (hmm… this sounds familiar), all within about 30 minutes. If you’ve wanted to try Pandemic, but worry the full game is too much, try this one out. Plays 2-4 players.

Board games are great at making you feel stuff, and this cooperative survival game for 1 – 4 players excels at making you feel what it is to be stuck on a deserted island. You not only get to explore the island, find food, repair your hut and try to escape in Robinson Crusoe: this very hard to beat coop-game gets you to experience death and suffering in all kinds of novel and interesting ways. Rainstorms, tigers, natives trying to cook you, diseases. You name it and it might as well be the the last thing this game makes you feel.

Based on the amazing videogamed (which is itself influenced by board games), this deluxe edition of Slay the Spire: The Board Game has you play as one of four unique characters cooperatively: growing in power with every fight and building truly broken combos to eventually slay the eponymous Spire. If you want to experience the full 3 Act version of the game, you’re going to need half a day, but the experience is well worth it.

In Sleeping Gods, you and up to 3 friends become Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew, lost in a strange world in 1929 on your steamship, the Manticore. You must work together to survive, exploring exotic islands, meeting new characters, and seeking out the totems of the gods so that you can return home. This is a enormous and sprawling campaign game, where a single campaign is estimated to take 10-20 hours – not one you’ll finish at a meetup, so exercise your right to borrow this bad boy!

Such a delicious looking game; please don’t put the components in your mouth! Steam Up! is a competitive game for 2-5 players where you are grabbing different food items from rotating dim sum choices. Tasty tasty!