UK Games Expo 2024: Live Blog

Gerry heads over to the Intrepid Games stand at UKGE to have a chat with Dan about their upcoming resource management strategy game.  Corporations have invested in the largest space ship but catastrophe is unavoidable and most of the original crew die upon crash landing.  Choose your crew wisely and take over as much land as possible for your corporation.  Check out Lander: After the Crash here.

Gerry has a chat with the team from Effekt Publishing about their new game Tales of The Old West which is ran on Free League Publishing’s Year Zero engine.  Tales of The Old West sees players take on the darkness of man rather than devil or beast.  Check it out here.

We have a chat with the guys from NeuroCraft Studios about Code Blade a very interesting Cyberpunk table top game with a bunch of unique rules that makes this rule system stand out from all the rest.  Check it out on their website.

Gerry heads over to Catalyst Game Labs who are at UKGE 2024 with a massive diorama of Battletech at their stand and the scale of the diorama is incredibly impressive showing off the scale of the dropships in the Battletech universe.  Check out more from Catalyst Game Labs here.

Most of us know Free League Publishing for their RPG books and adventures but they have branched out in their newest game Zone Wars, a table top skirmish game where you and your opponents attempt to seize control of territory and items with your gangs of bloody thugs.  Check out more from Free League Publishing here.

Bloodforged Games are here with their awesome Sci-Fi game that we’ve featured as part of Indie Of The Week. Sythopian Wars is their go at an awesome Sci-Fi game with a twist and some great mechanics for you to get your head around. It also features some gorgeous miniatures and will be coming to crowdfunding soon.

This amazing game from Hatchling Games helps you and your friends learn sign language by casting spells in your RPG adventure.  Inspirisles is not just a fantastic RPG game it also helps you and your fellow players learn a very important life skill while having a boat load of fun!  Check out Inspirisles and much more on their website.

Vynestra is a series of books adding influences of ancient rome to your DND 5E campaigns as well as a bunch of new Gods, beasts, realms, spells and items to change up your 5E campaigns.  Whether you want an entire new realm to win the favour of the Gods of that realm or just want some new spells to try out Vynestra has got everything you could possibly want.  Check out Vynestra here.

Kraken Wargames make some of the industries greatest playing mats and they even make some incredible mouse pads for any PC gamers out there and now they’ve decided to branch out into canvas paintings of some of our favourite films, shows, animes and video games!  Check out the new canvas range on Kraken Wargames website.

Gerry has a chat with Luke from Iconiq Studios about their newest game SAW The Jigsaw Trials.  You and up to five other players have been captured by Saw and are attempting to build the deadliest traps you can in order to eliminate your opponents and become Saws successor!  Check out what else Iconiq Studios have to offer here.

Gerry takes a trip over to hall two to have a chat with the team from Great Escape games about how well the new edition of Dead Mans Hand has done and what the plans for the future are as well as their newest releases since the new edition has came out.  Check out more of Great Escape Games here.

Gerry is joined by Catherine from Wayland Games as the two take a trip around Wayland Games Sizeable stand at UKGE 2024.  Whether you’re looking for family board games, Games Workshop products or a master grade Gundam kit, Wayland have it all and so much more.  Warcradle Studios are showing off demo games of Armoured Clash their mass battle game where players bring a lot of big chunky armoured vehicles along side battalions of infantry and specialists.

Disclosure: OnTableTop and its companies are part of the group of companies owned and operated by Wayland Games Ltd since 12/10/2020.

Gerry has a chat with Annie from Bad Squiddo Games about the newest additions to their range.  Bad Squiddo Games do a plethora of female miniatures from historical minis to Sci-Fi and everything in between, they’ve even added a bunch of scenery to their catalogue from grass tufts to snow flock.  Most excitingly they have a new range of miniatures out at UKGE 2024,  Capybaras and Guinea Pigs as well as Zombies and Ghouls!  Even if you fancy zombified guinea pigs or ghoulish capybaras, Bad Squiddo Games have you covered.  Check out their range here.

We have a talk with Mark and Viktor about what Devir has brought to UKGE 2024.  Between their four games Salton Sea, Sand, Cities and Rock Hard they absolutely have a game that you and your friends will have a blast playing.  Check out their website here.

Gerry got to chat with the folks from Czech Games Edition and covers the brand new games they have been working on including the awesome Seti which has certainly grabbed our attention.

Of course Gerry had to stop off with the folks from Goblin King Games to talk about the awesomeness that is Moonstone. The game has gone from strength to strength and it’s multi-award winning don’t you know? Gerry talks about what’s new AND what they have this year at the show.

Sam Steele of Misfit Hobbies got to chat to us about some of the awesome roleplaying game supplements that he has been working on over the last while. There is also new game on the way called Cryptborn, an excellent roll-and-write idea for those wanting a bit of solo play.

Raybox Games are a favourite of ours and it’s great to see them back here at UK Games Expo showing off their new game and some of their classics. Coming later this year is the awesome The Cats Of Mont Saint-Michel which takes their “game in a book” formula and adds it to an anthropomorphic adventure.

Gerry has a lovely chat with Kate from Monte Cook Games about No Thank You Evil a wonderful roleplaying game for people aged 5-15 a very easily ran game aiming to help kids get a grasp of the roleplaying world at a young age and help them feel more comfortable working with a team by leaning into the need to collaborate with other players in order to adventure forth!  The Weird is another roleplaying game where everything is normal because everything is weird!  Make your adventure as weird and wacky as you can imagine with characters just as strange.  Lastly, Old Gods of Appalachia is an award winning roleplaying game based on the worlds folklore.  As humans build railroads through the Appalachian mountains, nature is fighting back and some of the worlds most horrifying folklore is coming to life.  Check out Monte Cooks games here.

Gerry has a chat with Joshua from Compose Dream Games to have a look at their incredible selection of Roleplaying books and adventures.  With a catalogue of nearly 200 books and over 44 publishers there is no way you won’t find something that peaks your interest.  Check them out on their website.

Gerry gets to have a wonderful chat with Warren about his novella and miniatures range based on the Realms of Tiberium, a world and story made by Warren himself and beautifully turned into novellas with a fantastic miniatures range to accompany it.  Check out the Realms of Tiberium here.

Gerry meets up with Becky from Rolltex for a chat about their amazing textured rollers.  Unlike many other rolling pins these rollers are spherical in shape making it a lot easier and faster to texture your miniatures and their bases.  Check out the Rolltex website here.

We stop in with Modular Realms to check out their amazing magnetic dungeon tiles, which come in a wide range of designs, making them perfect for a spot of dungeon delving.

Learn more about Modular Realms on their website.