Save Palisade as a Rat Queen, Conduct Total War in Rome, and Survive a Green Hell

Total War: ROME – The Board Game captures the essence of the video game and allows up to four players to play as the leaders of Rome, Carthage, Greece, and Gallo-Germania, covering the time period from 250 BCE to 50 BCE. The base game can be played in under three hours, with planned expansions that will allow players to dive deeper into managing battles emulating the video game further.

Green Hell: The Board Game is a fully co-operative, non-legacy, campaign, survival game for 1-4 players. The board game follows the recipe for success implemented by its electronic counterpart by introducing a highly optimizable set of survival mechanisms, pitting players against a changeable and unpredictable jungle environment.


In the game, players are all members of a search and rescue party sent into the Amazon rainforest to locate Jake Higgins, the protagonist known from the computer game. Avoiding too many spoilers, the plot of the board game campaign runs its own course and uses some hallmark elements of the overarching Green Hell story, without spoiling the electronic adventure to anyone.

Apart from the characters in the team — who have varying roles and asymmetric skills (the survival expert, the guide, the medic, the scientist) — the other main character of the game is the jungle itself. With a map based on random card set-up, providing modularity and an ever-expanding area to cover (each scenario will allow players to uncover a part of a greater region, and sometimes the players will have to backtrack to an already known location), the jungle creation system introduces variability and unpredictability to each session.


You need to collect resources from which you'll craft weapons, armor, and some items required to finish scenarios in the campaign. You need food and water as well, of course, not to mention a safe place to camp.

Forge friendships and find your family as you take on the role of the rat queens in Rat Queens: To the Slaughter. Choose from four rat queens, each with asymmetric and unique playstyles, in order to save Palisade from total destruction. Power up your queen with new abilities and friendship as you take on hordes of monsters. Each queen comes packed with upgradeable abilities you have to spend gold to learn, allowing you to customize your queen differently each game to fit what the party needs!


Players spend the first half of the game defeating monsters to earn rewards to upgrade their ability deck and stats in order to prepare for the Big Bad hiding in the wake. The more monsters you defeat, the more powerful you become and the more time you have before the Big Bad arrives, with that enemy being determined by which monsters escape. Combat is a simplified version of RPG-style combat with easy-to-learn dice checks for attacks and abilities.

From the first sip to the last drop. Sisters. Warriors. Queens. Friends to the very end.