In Finchley and beyond...

To help commemorate our ruby anniversary, we're trying to collect as many memories as we can from people who have been our customers over the last 40 years. Whether you started shopping at Leisure Games in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s or 2020s, we want to hear from you? Tell us about your first visit, or a regular game night you attended. Or maybe you were part of one of the more unusual events we've hosted over the years? You can let us know your memories by filling in this short form: https://forms.gle/FxTw4d1aV5LW3MgH8 We'd also welcome any old photographs you...

Slate & Chalcedony, the latest book for Troika! RPG by Melsonian Arts Council is being launched on an unsuspecting public on Thursday 28th September. Join us at 100 Ballards Lane, Finchley (nearest tube: Finchley Central), to meet the people responsible and celebrate this terrible transgression with them. You can pre-order your copy of Slate & Chalcedony and get it signed on the day!

At the start of each year we have a look back on our best selling games to see what trends are emerging, what's on the rise and what's fading in popularity. In this blog post we'll look at our best selling roleplaying games of the year.

Above and Below is a unique mixture of a storytelling and town-building game for 2-4 players. Each person plays a small group of villagers who are attempting to build a settlement, while exploring the labyrinthine caverns which they discover beneath them. Mechanically, the game is incredibly simple. You start the game with three villagers and you take turns giving them one of a number of tasks: recruit more villagers, build new buildings, "harvest" commodities from an existing building, earn gold and explore the caverns. The main resource is gold, and each new building or villager will cost you. As you...

Carcassonne is one of my formative tabletop gaming experiences, and I'm obsessed with Star Wars, so I suppose it was inevitable that I would grab myself a copy of Carcassonne: Star Wars at the earliest opportunity. Last year we were been bombarded with licensed Star Wars games at the family end of the spectrum. Some have been surprisingly good, such as the new Risk: Star Wars (which more closely resembles the highly regarded Star Wars: Queen's Gambit from 1999 than it does Risk) but most of them have been simple reskins of existing games, with very little imagination put into them. Carcassonne: Star Wars...