TtT: Apex Legends – 26th August 2025

This Week’s Feature Game is: Apex Legends

Some legends are born, some are forged in the fires of the battlefield! Airdrop into the battle royale mayhem and work together with your other squadmates to eliminate your opponents and ascend to the Apex to be the last Legend standing. Based on the popular videogame, this miniatures wargame for 2–6 people recreates the videogame experience and takes place on the Kings Canyon map.

This will also be the largest (and possibly most valuable) prize we have ever given away in the 12+ years of Tabletop Tuesday. So, one you should definitely join us this Tuesday, so that you can become a Tabletop Tuesday legend yourself!

Last Week’s Feature Game was: Console Wars

“SEGA! Now that is a name I have not heard in AGES! I fought alongside your father in the last Console Wars… until he turned to the Nintendo side!” This week’s feature game is a perfect fit for TtT, given that we are a boardgame event in a videogame themed bar. Console Wars is a humourous set collection game for 2-5 players. Conquer your foes by amassing the best collection of popular games, while building your fanbase.

“Join us and together we can rule the gaming bar!” Or more accurately, you could win a copy of Console Wars just by trying it out on the evening.

The Previous Week’s Feature Game was: Gnome Hollow

Gnomes! Guardians of Gardens! Masters of Mushrooms and Floral Sentinel! Gnome Hollow tasks 2-4 players with using tile and worker placement alongside set collection to plant rings of mushrooms, harvest as many as possible to sell them at market.

It sounds like a strategically fun game with some lovely looking components. Join us in the garden zone (or more accurately Loading Bar in Stoke Newington) this Tuesday and you could take some Gnomes home just by trying out Gnome Hollow during the evening.

Regular Features:

Also, note that every 1st Tuesday of the month is our Social Night Special: featuring:
• Blood on the Clocktower: Featuring the Carousel Expansion Tokens from the 05.08.2025: Free to play and beginners welcome.
• Star Wars Unlimited Sealed Draft Event: £15 Entry (but you get more than £15 worth of cards.) Places are (somewhat) limited so please let us know in advance if you would like to join. Beginners welcome but please try and be prompt for a 7.30 pm start.

What: A celebration of the best board, card and tabletop games with themed nights and prizes – all washed down with awesome gaming cocktails! We usually feature a new game every week. Each week you can play this new game for free and usually have the chance to win a copy just by playing the game throughout the evening.

When: From 8pm until 12pm! But feel free to turn up early and play more games! (Feel welcome to turn up earlier, there are usually people playing from 7pm.)

Where: 129 Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0PH

Please note that the bar has moved location (from Dalston) and is now nearer Stoke Newington station.

Cost: Free entry and games are free to play, just make sure you buy your drinks!

Feature Game: Most weeks we feature a different game. There is usually the opportunity to win a copy of this game just by playing it on the night. Everyone that plays the feature game is entered into a free prize draw near the end of the evening.

Join us every Tuesday and (most weeks) you could win a copy of the feature game just by trying it on the night!

New for 2025: Traitors Aboard!, Station to Station, Flip 7, Happy Home, FateFlip: Washed Ashore, Wyrmspan, Dobble Super Mario + Demo of Halo Flashpoint, Kluster Duo, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game: Clone Wars Edition, Piles, Stardew Valley: The Board Game, Tic Tac Trek, Dungeons, Dice & Danger Level 8: Super Mario, The Castles of Burgundy, Neon Reign, Horrified: World of Monsters, Tinderblox: Storm Edition, Ofrenda, Scout, Wrath of Fire Mountain, 800 Pound Gorilla, Hues and Cues

New for 2024: Herd Mentality, Flesh & Blood, Block Party, Klask, Klask 4, Honeycombs, Jaws, Mycelia , Ancient Knowledge, The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game, Downforce , Minecraft: Builders & Biomes, Kluster, KUGO, ArcheOlogic, The Princess Bride: The Adventure Book Game, Cards Vs Gravity, Jurassic Park: Danger!, Magnate: The First City, Ransom Notes, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Planted, Dobble: Star Wars: Mandalorian, Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes It All, Puns of Anarchy, Anarchy Pancakes, Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power, Hook & Ring Battle, Alien: Fate of the Nostromo, Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps, The Chameleon, Woof Days & Sounds Fishy: Travel Edition

New for 2023: Living Forest, Next Station London, Keyforge: Worlds Collide, Meeple Land, Love Letter, Unmatched: Hell’s Kitchen, OK Play, Museum Suspects, Chicken Vs Hotdog, Oceans, Coatl, Forbidden Island, Kingdomino Origins, Sushi Go Party!, Betta, Match 5, A game about Cute Comical Creatures and trying to identify them after someone makes noises, A game about auctioning cubes after winning an auction to become the auctioneer, Happy City, Connecting London, Herd Mentality: Moosic & Moovies, Cóatl The Card Game, True Crime Stories, Obey the Clay, Allegra, Magic The Gathering: Starter Kit, P for Pizza, Phantom Ink, Kittin, Catstronauts, Tinderblox, Hitster, Flesh & Blood, You Can’t Say Umm, 20 Second Showdown

To Play: We have an extensive, ever growing library of over 100 titles! (N.B: A large portion of the games previously listed are now available to play at the Peckham location.)

You may have seen Tabletop Tuesday and Loading Bar featured on Episode 6 of 2014’s BBC’s The Apprentice. You can read more about that here!

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