Five super-weird board games you've probably never heard of

Gloomhaven is big, it’s long and it’s the best board game in history. Fantasy adventurers going around killing monsters, and it’s a cooperative team game, so no fighting over who wins! For one to four players.

Fox in the Forest is a lovely trick-taking card game with amazing illustrations. Once you learn the rules, you’ll never want to stop playing. For two players.

In Dead of Winter, it’s the zombie apocalypse (topical) and you lead a colony of survivors – but each of you has a secret objective, and one of you can be a traitor! For one to five players.

Viticulture is one of the best ‘worker placement’ board games of all times. Plan ahead in order to produce the best wines in the region against your opponents, while all sorts of visitors are coming to try a taste, and your grapes are slowly ageing and getting better. For one to six players.

In Horrified, the monsters from Universal Pictures (the Mummy, the Invisible Man, Dracula) have been unleashed in town and you have to stop them. It’s a cooperative game that is fairly simple and that takes you back through the horror movies of your past. For one to five players.