Educational Resources
The following published resources have been essential to my development as a proponent of game therapy. This is not an exhaustive list of everything that exists in this field – this is the list of … Read more
Game Therapy
Numbers League
A Superhero themed math based standalone card game for ages 8 and up. Villains lurk in the streets of Infinity City and the only hope is the Numbers League. Assemble your team of Superheroes, use … Read more
Accessible List of Tim Everton’s Games
No. GAME Adrenaline Arctic Scavengers Akrotiri Bang! The Dice Game Blood Bowl Bushido Cosmic Encounter Camel Up Cockroach Poker Colt Express Concordia Deception: Murder in Hong Kong Dinosaur Island Dominion Dungeon Fighter Dungeon Petz Flashpoint: … Read more
Portobello Market
London, 1901. At the world famous Portobello Market, the goal in the morning is to secure the best places to build stalls. Try to place your stalls in the most lucrative manner, cut off your opponents, … Read more
Pirates of the 7 Seas
Pirates of the 7 Seas is an innovative, fast and competitive board game full of events from everyday pirate life: plundering, old maps, and horrible gigantic krakens. Adventures, new ports and powerful rituals are waiting … Read more
Odin’s Ravens
Every morning Odin sends his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, across the entire world to bring back news of what life is like on Earth. Naturally, after thousands of years, they’ve gotten a little competitive. Race … Read more
Monster Lands
Monster Lands is a competitive dice-placement game that combines resource management, worker placement, and fun combat. You will take on the role of the leader of a small clan of brave warriors, competing to win … Read more
Mission: Red Planet
With technology rapidly developing and the human population growing, Victorian-era Earth is in dire need of fuel, land, and other natural resources. Fortunately, automated probes sent to Mars have discovered celerium, an ore that can … Read more
Maximum Apocalypse
Maximum Apocalypse is a cooperative roguelike adventure game for 1-6 players. In Maximum Apocalypse, civilization has already fallen. The players are survivors of the apocalypse whose mission is to survive the hostile landscape. The game … Read more
Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport
Scoundrels of Skullport adds new content for Lords of Waterdeep. It’s not one, but two, complete expansions: the sprawling dungeon of Undermountain and the criminal haven of Skullport. Each thrilling location has unique characteristics and … Read more
Lords of Waterdeep
Waterdeep, the City of Splendors – the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control … Read more
Kemet: Ta-Seti
A veil of shadows has taken over the lands of Kemet. As the souls of the fighters float above the black lands of ancient Egypt, a gloomy wind provides a new inspiration for the gods … Read more
Hit Z Road
In the fast-paced and morbidly kitschy game Hit Z Road, you and your fellow players embark on a road trip going south from Chicago along America’s famous Route 66 — now infested by zombies. As … Read more
Hanamikoji
Welcome to the most famed Geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geishas are elegant and graceful women who are skilled in art, music, dance, and a variety of performances and ceremonies. Greatly respected and … Read more
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories is a cooperative game in which the players protect the village from incarnations of the lord of hell – Wu-Feng – and his legions of ghosts before they haunt a town and recover … Read more
Flash Point: Fire Rescue
The call comes in… “911, what is your emergency?” On the other end is a panicked response of “FIRE!” Moments later you don the protective suits that will keep you alive, gather your equipment and … Read more
Dungeon Petz
Become the leader of an imp family that has just started a new business – breeding and selling petz. Sound simple and safe? Well, we forgot to mention that those petz are for Dungeon Lords. … Read more
Dungeon Fighter
Explore spooky dungeons, find glorious treasure, buy powerful magic items, and challenge the most horrible creatures. Will your party be able to defeat the final boss? In Dungeon Fighter, a fully cooperative board game, players … Read more
Dinosaur Island
In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. … Read more
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong is a game of deduction and deception for 4-12 players that plays in about 20 minutes. In the game, players take on the roles of investigators attempting to solve a … Read more
Colt Express
On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Pacific Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers on board. After a few minutes, gunfire and hurrying footsteps on the roof can … Read more
Cockroach Poker
Cockroach Poker is a reverse set collection game that has nothing to do with poker – except that the game is all about bluffing, with cards that show cockroaches, rats and stink bugs. The goal … Read more
Cosmic Encounter
Build a galactic empire… In the depths of space, the alien races of the Cosmos vie with each other for control of the universe. Alliances form and shift from moment to moment, while cataclysmic battles … Read more
Blood Bowl
Description from the publisher: Blood Bowl is a game of Fantasy Football. The basic game features a match between two teams drawn from a number of fantasy archetypes, playing a warped version of American Football. … Read more
Tabletop Simulator
Create your own original games, import custom assets, automate games with scripting, set up complete RPG dungeons, manipulate the physics, create hinges & joints, and of course flip the table when you are losing the … Read more
Accessible List of Lucas Li’s Games
The following is a handy accessible list of the games that Lucas Li has access to. TABLE TOP GAMESWarhammer 40k – linkWarcry – link CARD GAMESOnce Upon a Time; The Storytelling Card Game – linkMagic … Read more
Accessible List of Dean’s Games
The following is a handy accessible list of the games that Dean Ramsbottam has access to. BOARD GAMESPandemic – linkSettlers of Catan – link ROLEPLAYING GAMESDungeons and Dragons 5th Edition – linkCall of Cthulu – … Read more
Accessible List of Tarquin’s Games
The following is a handy accessible list of the games that Tarquin Murnane has access to. TABLETOP GAMESStar Wars: Armada – linkStar Wars: X-Wing – link CARD GAMESChez Dork – linkStar Wars: Destiny – link … Read more
Accessible List of Michael’s Games
The following is a handy accessible list of the games that Lucas Li has access to. TABLE TOP GAMESGaslands – linkMarvel Universe Miniatures – linkStar Wars: X-Wing the Miniature Game – linkStar Wars: The Card … Read more
Thunder & Lightning
In Thunder & Lightning, players take on the role of Thor or Loki and fight their way through an army in an epic mythological showdown. Because Loki has already stolen Odin’s Crown, the Allfather has entrusted … Read more
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
In the co-operative trick-taking game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, the players set out as astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. What about the rumors about the unknown planet about? The eventful journey through … Read more
Western Legends
Western Legends is an open-world sandbox tabletop adventure for 2-6 players set in the American Wild West. Players assume the roles of historical figures of the era, earning their legendary status in a variety of ways: … Read more
Sailing Toward Osiris
Pharaoh is dead and his funerary barge sails slowly down the Nile toward his tomb where his spirit will stand before the judgement of Osiris. Pharaoh had no offspring so tradition holds that the governors … Read more
Quacks of Quedlinburg
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are charlatans — or quack doctors — each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch … Read more
Arctic Scavengers
In the year 2097, the entire Earth was enveloped in a cataclysmic shift in climate, plunging the globe into another ice age. Nearly 90% of the world’s population was eliminated, driving the survivors to band … Read more
Dragon and Flagon
The Dragon & Flagon is a tavern world-renowned for its most magical drink, The Dragon. Legend has it that one sip of The Dragon can give a hero wondrous abilities beyond their wildest dreams — … Read more
Warhammer 40K
There is no time for peace. No forgiveness. No respite. There is only war. After more than forty thousand years of war and strife among the stars, Humanity stands on the brink of extinction. Beset … Read more
Rush n Crush
First the players choose a driver from among six armed and dangerous psychopaths. They hop aboard futuristic, armoured and over-equipped vehicles. And the race begins. The goal is to be the first across the finish … Read more
Adrenaline
In the future, war has left the world in complete destruction and split the people into factions. The factions have decided to stop the endless war and settle their dispute in the arena. A new … Read more
Quacks of Quedlinberg: Herb Witches
The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Herb Witches expands the town of Quedlinburg with four new sets of items: The Witches – new characters with special abilities that players may use once per game Locoweed – a … Read more
Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game
Once Upon A Time is a game in which the players create a story together, using cards that show typical elements from fairy tales. One player is the Storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients … Read more
Stuffed Fables
Stuffed Fables is an unusual adventure game in which players take on the roles of brave stuffies seeking to save the child they love from a scheming, evil mastermind. Make daring melee attacks, leap across conveyor … Read more
Cthulhu Wars
Cthulhu Wars is a strategy boardgame in which the players take the part of alien races and gods taken from the Cthulhu mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft. The game is physically large, and includes sixty-four figurines of the … Read more
Magic the Gathering
From the official website: In the Magic game, you play the role of a planeswalker—a powerful wizard who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your … Read more
Zombicide: Green Horde
This sequel to the Zombicide: Black Plague will bring players back into a world of deadly medieval fantasy, this time filled with infected orcs and goblins who will put survivors to the ultimate test. This green menace … Read more
The Pursuit of Happiness: Community
The Pursuit of Happiness: Community expansion introduces the concept of the local community. Community cards, a new type of cards, allow you to engage in various community events and choose their outcome, with a new board … Read more
Small World
In Small World, players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate them all. Designed by Philippe Keyaerts as a fantasy follow-up to his award-winning Vinci, Small World is inhabited by a … Read more
Wingspan
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It’s designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, … Read more
Road Kill Rally
“Road-Kill Rally simulates the fast paced action of futuristic motorized death sports where superstar drivers in weapon-laden cars race through the streets of America in search of blood, fame and fortune. Points are scored by … Read more
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness is a game in which you take a character from birth and you live the life you always wanted. Using a worker-placement mechanism with time as your workers, you take on projects, … Read more
Specter Ops
A secret agent of A.R.K. has infiltrated a top secret Raxxon facility, attempting to complete three mission objectives before they escape — but they are hunted by genetically modified Raxxon Hunters. Players can choose which … Read more
Reef Encounter
Reef Encounter is about life on a coral reef! Using polyp tiles, players grow different types of corals, which they can protect from being attacked by other corals through judicious placing of their four shrimp counters. … Read more
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project makes you the leader of a great nation’s atomic weapons program in a deadly race to build bigger and better bombs. You must assign your workers to multiple projects: building your bomb-making infrastructure, … Read more
Shadows Over Camelot
Shadows over Camelot is a cooperative/semi-cooperative hand-management and deduction-based board game for 3–7 players. Each player represents a knight of the Round Table and they must collaborate to overcome a number of quests, ranging from defeating … Read more
Tiki Topple
Welcome to Tiki Island, home to nine colorful carvings all competing to be the top Polynesian Idol! In the fast-paced game Tiki Topple, players try to maneuver your secret tikis to the top of the line … Read more
Sushi Go Party!
In the super-fast sushi card game Sushi Go!, you are eating at a sushi restaurant and trying to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for collecting the most sushi … Read more
Profile on Tarquin Murnane
Tarquin Murnane has been running and teaching games since the mid 90’s and has become very good at it. After meeting Michael Thorburn, he was convinced to use his talents and knowledge on a professional … Read more
Profile on Brady Irwin
Brady Irwin is a masters degree-educated social worker whose side-hustle is a private practice focusing on psychosocial recovery coaching, strengths-based/solution focused counselling, vocational counselling/coaching, life coaching, non-clinical counselling interventions/adjuncts. Brady utilises various positive gaming techniques … Read more
Profile on Michael Thorburn
The Game Therapy Network is just the beginning of Michael’s endeavour to develop a community of peer support workers across Melbourne involved with gaming sessions and game making workshops. Michael is a Leisure Counsellor who … Read more
Dungeons and Dragons (RPG)
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. The game has been published by Wizards … Read more
Champions (RPG)
Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games designed to simulate and function in a four-color superhero comic book world. Champions, first published in 1981,[1] was inspired by Superhero: 2044 and The Fantasy Trip as one of the first published … Read more
Firefly: The Board Game
Firefly is a very thematic “Pick up and Deliver” board game for 1-4 players ages 13+ average play time is approximately 45 minutes per player. “ Awards & Honours 2013 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board … Read more
Mutants & Masterminds
Game Title:Mutants & Masterminds. Type of Game:Super Hero Role Playing Game Awards & Honors: Synopsis of Game World: Mutants & Masterminds (abbreviated “M&M” or “MnM”) is a superhero role-playing game based on a variant of … Read more
Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue
Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue is a cooperative game set in an action-movie universe for 1 to 12 players, ages 13 and up. Players control teams of survivors as they fight off a zombie horde controlled … Read more
Super Squadron (RPG)
Description Super Squadron is a superhero role-playing game system.[1] The “Rule Book” (60 pages) covers character creation and descriptions of over 75 powers, magic spells, artifacts, encounters, world background, and romantic involvements.[1] The “Adventure Book” … Read more
Star Wars: Armada
Massive Star Destroyers fly to battle against Rebel corvettes and frigates. Banks of turbolasers unleash torrential volleys of fire against squadrons of X-wing and TIEs. Engineering teams race to route additional power to failing shields. … Read more
Zombicide Season 1: Base Game
Zombicide is a collaborative game in which players take the role of a survivor – each with unique abilities – and harness both their skills and the power of teamwork against the hordes of unthinking undead! … Read more
Talking Bull
3-6 players Unique scoring, both from asking the question to the answers A lot of bluffing involved Great fun for all
Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. This is one of Game Therapist Michael Thorburn’s favourite games, and one that … Read more
Game of Thrones: Westeros Intrigue
Game description from the publisher: Game of Thrones: Westeros Intrigue is a fast-paced game of cards and intrigue at court, created by renowned game designer Reiner Knizia. Every game is played over a series of rounds, … Read more
Star Wars: Destiny
Star Wars: Destiny is a collectible dice and card game of battles between iconic heroes and villains that encompasses characters, locations, and themes from the entire Star Wars saga. In Star Wars: Destiny, two players engage in a fast-paced … Read more
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Foot Street Fight Game
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ weapons have gone missing and it’s up to you to help find them. Roll the die, travel through the path of manhole covers and reveal what’s underneath them. Will it … Read more
Zombicide Season 2: Toxic City Mall
Type of Game: Advanced Board Game. This expansion brings four new survivors and ten mysterious Zombivor heroes, not to mention ten new missions, four of which can be played with the other game from this same … Read more
Pictionary
Playing Pictionary may remind you of Charades, but with drawing on paper instead of acting out the answers. In Pictionary, though, both teams’ (or even all three teams’) clue givers may be drawing at the … Read more
Skylanders: Pop n Race
A 2 to 4 player racing game Ages 5 and up. Race to be the first player to get all four of your movers to the finish. Comes with a colorful plastic game board with a … Read more
Wasteland Express Delivery Service
Wasteland Express Delivery Service is the depraved brainchild of a superstar team of acclaimed game designers: Jon Gilmour (Dead of Winter), Matt Riddle (Fleet, Morocco), and Ben Pinchback (Fleet, Morocco), brought to technicolor life by … Read more
Boss Monster
Inspired by a love of classic video games, Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game pits 2-4 players in a competition to build the ultimate side-scrolling dungeon. Players compete to lure and destroy hapless adventurers, … Read more
This Is Not A Test
This Is Not A Test is a skirmish miniature game with a post-apcolyptic theme. The website notes: Greetings wastelanders! If you’re just tuning in, my name is Johnny Atom-Bomb, your humble host broadcasting live from … Read more
Star Wars: Imperial Assault
Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a strategy board game of tactical combat and missions for two to five players, offering two distinct games of battle and adventure in the Star Wars universe! Imperial Assault puts … Read more
Star Wars Monopoly
Conquer the Star Wars galaxy in this intergalactic, hyperdrive version of the fast-trading property game, Monopoly! You can play on the Rebel or the Empire side, and your mission is to conquer planets and build … Read more
King of Tokyo
In King of Tokyo, you play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens—all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. At the … Read more
Fallout: Monopoly
Welcome to the world of fallout, as the Overseer has hand picked you to venture beyond the safe confines of your Vault to explore a world destroyed by nuclear war. Do you have what it … Read more
Zombicide Season 3: Angry Neighbours
Zombicide Angry Neighbors challenges you to face off on a whole new breed of zombies! These Seeker zombies have you and your friends in their sights and will chase you to your bitter end! Every … Read more
AXIS and Allies: Pacific
AWARDS & HONORS 2001 Origins Awards Best Historical Board Game Winner From the publisher’s website: Axis & Allies Pacific is the second stand-alone game expansion to the Axis & Alliesgame system. In this game, three main powers … Read more
AXIS and Allies: D-Day
AWARDS & HONORS2005 Årets Spill Best Strategy Game Nominee2004 Origins Awards Gamers’ Choice Award Winner From the Avalon Hill web site: It’s the morning of June 6, 1944. As Allied forces prepare to storm Normandy’s … Read more
AXIS and Allies: Guadalcanal
AWARDS & HONORS 2008 JoTa Best Monster Board Game Nominee It depicts WWII on a grand scale, full global level. Up to five players can play on two different teams. From Wizards website: A sweeping … Read more
AXIS and Allies
AWARDS & HONORS 2008 JoTa Best Monster Board Game Nominee It depicts WWII on a grand scale, full global level. Up to five players can play on two different teams. The Axis which has Germany … Read more
Trivial Pursuit
Trivial Pursuit is the original trivia game that started it all. Each player has a circular playing piece with six pie-shaped holes. The goal of the game is to collect a pie in each color. The … Read more
Doctor Who: The Game Of Space and Time
Experience the excitement of a hunt across space for the Key of Time. En route you will meet old enemies like the Daleks and Cybermen – and many new ones. You are racing to collect … Read more
Test Match
Players play out a live-action cricket game with miniatures on a felt board. The cricket ball is a small ball bearing, which one player bowls from a bowler (who has a long “chute” the ball … Read more
Zombicide: Black Plague
Zombicide: Black Plague takes the zombie apocalypse into a fantastical medieval setting! The arcane powers of the Necromancers have unleashed a zombie invasion in the age of swords and sorcery, and it’s up to your group … Read more
Welcome to the Dungeon
Welcome to the Dungeon — first released as Dungeon of Mandom — is a push-your-luck dungeon delve in which 2-4 players take turns essentially daring each other to go into a dungeon with less equipment than they start … Read more
Discworld: Ankh Morpork
Martin Wallace and Treefrog Games present Ankh-Morpork, set in the largest city-state in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Lord Vetinari has disappeared and different factions are trying to take control of the city. Each player has a secret personality … Read more
Sentinels of the Multiverse
A mad scientist holds the world hostage with his terrifying inventions. An alien warlord from a far away galaxy brings his limitless army of bizarre minions to conquer the planet. A giant rampaging robot cuts … Read more
Kevin Bloody Wilson’s Pub Krawl
Type of Game: Board game The Kevin Bloody Wilson Pub Krawl is an hilarious, fast-paced and just slightly naughty board game for 2 to 6 players- male, female or mixed! But then, what else would … Read more
Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak
Type of Game: Advanced Board Game. Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak takes the players to an indoor environment with vicious close-ranged fights, Prison Outbreak contains all the needed material for a new player to enter the Zombicide … Read more
Star Wars X-Wing Miniature Game
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game is a tactical ship-to-ship combat game in which players take control of powerful Rebel X-wings and nimble Imperial TIE fighters, facing them against each other in fast-paced space combat. Featuring … Read more
Rat in a Stack
Fun pop-up action game! Players take turns to insert pitchforks in to the stack, to try and flush the Rat out of the Stack!
Ghost Fighting Treasure Hunters
In a dark and dreary house, every sound sends a cold chill through your bones. A door opens – is someone there? You hear whispers, but no one answers when you call. Your eyes and … Read more
Marvel Universe Miniatures
This game is a small scale skirmish level game where Superheroes and Villains face off against each other in a 3D tabletop set up. It could be a city, the Wakandan desert, the Savage Lands, … Read more
Fallout: The Board Game
Fallout is a post-nuclear adventure board game for one to four players. Based on the hit video game series by Bethesda Softworks, each Falloutscenario is inspired by a familiar story from the franchise. Survivors begin the game … Read more
Escape From Colditz
Escape From Colditz is a 1-vs-many semi-cooperative game where one player is the Security Officer of the German forces, and the others are Escape Officers for various nationalities or prisoners of war (POWs). Escape Officers … Read more
Ticket to Ride
With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in under 15 minutes, while providing players with intense strategic and tactical decisions every turn. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they … Read more
Star Wars: The Card Game LCG
Star Wars: The Card Game is a two-player card game that puts one player in command of the Rebels (light side, with the factions Jedi, Rebel Alliance, and Smugglers And Spies), and one player in … Read more
Betrayal At House On The Hill
AWARDS & HONORS 2005 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Advanced Game Nominee 2004 Origins Awards Gamers’ Choice Award Winner From the press release: Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players … Read more
Star Wars: Empire VS Rebellion
Claim victory in the Galactic Civil War in Star Wars: Empire vs. Rebellion, a fast-paced card game for two players. In every game, you and your opponent match wits and resources over key events. If you … Read more
Forbidden Desert
Gear up for a thrilling adventure to recover a legendary flying machine buried deep in the ruins of an ancient desert city. You’ll need to coordinate with your teammates and use every available resource if … Read more
D20 Modern (RPG)
d20 Modern is a modern fantasy role-playing game designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan. It was published by Wizards of the Coast and released in November 1, 2002. The game … Read more
Formula De
Formula D is a high stakes Formula One type racing game where the players race simulated cars with the hope of crossing the finish line first. This is a re-release of Formula Dé with several changes from the … Read more