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This year Kapitein Spel visited SPIEL Essen, the world-famous board game fair, where more than 220,000 visitors came together to discover the latest releases. A

Unmatched: Bruce Lee vs Muhammad Ali is Restoration Games' answer to a question physics refused to settle. It is not a simulation. It is a twenty-minute, card-d

Looking for the best dice games? The Captain takes you through the top 10!

Think back for a moment to the school atlas of your childhood. It is a book of maps. Maps have one particularly useful property: they tell you where you are in

Codenames is an accessible word game for groups of four or more that you can explain in a few minutes. One player gives clues, the rest guess. It is quick, affo

One person calls something a gateway Euro, another asks if it is a deck-builder, and a third warns about analysis paralysis. Every genre you will come across, e

Vinyl, cassette or streaming: everyone picks their own era and builds a timeline. This is how you play Hitster Battle of the Generations, including the token ta

Choose Codenames if you want to get going quickly and often play with a big group; everyone gets it within two minutes. Choose Decrypto (NL) if you have a regul

In this medium-weight Euro game, published by Osprey Games, players dive into the origin myth of the Inca. Each player represents one of the first clans of Tawa

Scan a card, listen and place it in the right spot in your timeline. This is how you play Hitster, with an explanation of the tokens, Spotify and the editions.

A maze that shifts every turn and twelve secrets to find. This is how you play Doolhof Junior, even with a four-year-old.

In Forestry, everything revolves around trees and timber. You step into the shoes of a forest manager. It is up to you to fulfil contracts, but make sure you ke