Board Games as Media looks to be well placed to succeed in its aim to start conversations about board games. Readers already interested in board game studies will find much of interest, but those with most to gain are those new to the topic.

Rerolling Boardgames looks set to be an important volume in boardgame studies, adding to the small but growing number of books that take analogue games as their focus. Readers, whether they are game scholars, game designers, or keen players, will likely find much of interest in what is both an academically interesting and practical set of essays.

Achievement Relocked is a fascinating and genuinely useful book that will be of great interest to anyone interested in game design, as well as to players interested in understanding some of the impulses behind their own in-game decisions.

Readers and players with an interest in adventure games, and those interested in the genre’s many descendants, will undoubtedly find Reed, Murray and Salter’s book both useful and enjoyable.