Strategy
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Where board games and arcade legends collide.
Deep-dive reviews, tabletop strategy guides and arcade high-score chases — written by a scrappy crew of players from Shoreditch, London.
Arcade
Cabinet Classics
Reviews
Box-Fresh Verdicts
Community
Game Night Files
Our mission
We test every game so your table night never falls flat.
Arcade Battle Legends started in 2016 as a Sunday game-night newsletter and grew into a full blog read by more than 90,000 players a month. We play each title to completion, weigh rulebooks against real fun, and publish honest verdicts you can trust before you spend a penny.
640+
Games reviewed
90k
Monthly readers
8
Years running
The columns
Where our best writing lives.
Scroll through the sections we publish every week — swipe sideways to browse.
Deep Reviews
The Verdict Files
Every new release scored on fun, depth, table presence and replay value after at least five full playthroughs.
Strategy
Meeple Masterclass
Opening plays, engine-building tricks and endgame maths that turn a losing streak into a winning habit.
Arcade
High Score Chase
Pattern guides and pro techniques for the golden-age cabinets we hunt down across London's barcades.
Community
Game Night Files
Reader-submitted house rules, campaign diaries and the best tables and cafes to play at in the city.
The crew
The players behind the posts.
A small team of writers who've logged more table hours than we'd admit to our families.
Priya N.
Editor-in-Chief
Euro-game obsessive and the final word on every review score we publish.
Marcus D.
Arcade Correspondent
Holds three UK cabinet high scores and reviews every barcade worth the trip.
Sofia R.
Strategy Writer
Breaks down tactics with spreadsheets nobody asked for and everybody loves.
Liam O.
Community Lead
Runs our Shoreditch meetups and keeps the reader mailbag overflowing.
Reader mailbag
What the community says.
★★★★★Their verdict on Terraforming Mars saved my group from a £60 mistake, then their expansion pick became our most-played game of the year. Genuinely useful reviews.
★★★★★I followed the Pac-Man pattern guide from the High Score Chase column and finally cleared the ninth key at the Shoreditch barcade. Two years of trying, done in a weekend.
★★★★☆The Meeple Masterclass on engine-building completely changed how I play Wingspan. My partner is furious that I keep winning now. Clear writing, no fluff.
★★★★★I discovered our whole family's favourite co-op through their beginner guide. The way they rate table presence and setup time is exactly what a busy household needs.
★★★★★The monthly game-night meetups they run near Old Street are brilliant. I turned up not knowing a soul and left with a regular group. Real community, not just clicks.
★★★★☆As a shop owner I trust their scores enough to stock by them. The Verdict Files are consistent and they own up when a hyped release underdelivers. Rare honesty.
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