City of My Nightmares is Vaesen stepping out of the woods and into the gaslit arteries of 19th‑century Stockholm and the shift feels both bold and inevitable. Free League has always treated their settings as a living organism, but here the city becomes a full‑fledged character: crowded, restless, and humming with unseen things that slip between the cracks of modernity. The campaign’s four linked mysteries span roughly a year in‑game, and that long arc gives the book a sense of breath and...

There’s a particular kind of magic to the Shire, not the fireworks‑and‑wizards sort, but the quieter enchantment of a place where the biggest scandal of the week might be a missing pie, a suspiciously well‑trimmed hedge, or a rumour that someone’s cousin’s neighbour once saw an Elf. Hobbit Tales leans fully into that magic. It’s a book that doesn’t just describe the Shire; it invites you to live in it for a while, to breathe its slow rhythms, to wander its lanes and fields with the gentle...

The Umbrella Academy: The Board Game aims to capture the messy, dysfunctional heroics of the Hargreeves siblings, and for the most part it succeeds by leaning into fast, scenario‑driven co‑op play. Rather than trying to be a sprawling tactical epic, it focuses on tight, objective‑based missions where the team scrambles to contain threats, chase villains, and prevent yet another apocalypse. The result is a game that feels like a playable season of the show: chaotic, stylish, and always one bad...