To be fair, there is a reason these weighty boxes of booze, skincare or Bond memorabilia are so popular: the best ones are really very good, delivering top-shelf products with a weighty saving. Only the uninitiated leave it to the end of November to snap one up. SIX CHALLENGING GAME MODES – 25 games in a variety of different game types: Match 3, Candy Lines, Christmas puzzles, 2048 Presents, Pixel Art and Xmas Sudoku. Each day you will have multiple new levels to play! We’re of course talking about advent calendars. Forget those boring ones with 24 little chocolates behind the window. It’s not that we don’t like chocolate, but we can have that any time. Instead, we want something gaming-themed. 24 little windows filled with video game merchandise and related geeky goodness. What could be better? For Day 13 we sought to brighten up your hallways, refresh your gaming space, or otherwise demonstrate your love of the hobby to visitors, with a gaming poster from the incredible Meeple Design. Imagine that above Rolling Realms, the game from day 14, and a gorgeous dice holder, mat, and set of dice, as day 15 saw provided by Barrel of Dice. An Advent calendar is used as a fun and exciting way to count down the days of Advent, leading up to Christmas. The first day of Advent is traditionally on the Sunday that either falls on, or closest to 30 November. Depending on the year, it can be anywhere between 27 November and 3 December. Most Advent calendars have 24 little doors which are opened one by one to reveal a small gift or treat. Do You Start an Advent Calendar at 1 or 24?

Gotta catch ’em all! Okay, just who wouldn’t want this Pokémon-themed advent calendar? Behind its 24 windows you’ll find 16 figurines of popular Pokémon creatures, along with eight Christmassy accessories. The figurines are obviously the highlight here, with many of our favourite Pokémon included – there’s Scorbunny, Bulbasaur, Eevee, and even an adorable Pikachu holding a Christmas gift.

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Finally, we needed a Must-Play awarded game for our Christmas treat, and what better than the one to rule them all? The phenomenal The One Ring Starter Set from Free League was under the tree at Christmastime, calling to you from Tolkein’s worlds of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

There’s also a Pokémon Mega Construx advent calendar, which lets you build some of your favourite Pokémon. Over the course of 24 days, you’ll open a window and get an individual part to slowly build your very own model sized 911. You can choose from loads of colours, I think the light green looks amazing! Yes, your road is still littered with badly carved pumpkins, but capitalism's favourite holiday waits for no-one, and it's apparently time to buy yourself a posh advent calendar. Because of the small parts, this advent calendar is suitable for ages 14 and up. It comes with everything you need to really feel the power of electronics… minus the actual power. But, with just 3 AA batteries, you’ll be good to game! Passing ten days to go, we took you to new worlds with Steamforged’s Epic Encounters: Island of the Crab Archon. Perfect as a standalone encounter, or blended into your existing RPG, it’s also a perfect mini to get painting. But from combat to tranquillity, fictional crabs to village bliss, day seventeen brought us Village Rails from Osprey, where you build a new railway network across the sprawling countryside, to the “oddly specific” demands of the locals. And if that doesn’t get your brain whirring, Coiledspring for day 18 gave Cortex, a party challenge game –and a fun sponge brain to go with it Days 19-24of Tabletop Gaming Advent Calendar 2022

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You will hardly be able to sleep because tomorrow another surprise is waiting for you. In ADVENT CALENDAR, each day you wake up to another challenging & exciting game. Many of these games you can also play with family and friends.

Five Nights at Freddy’s and ‘Advent Calendar’ are not two things we expected to find together, but here we are. Created by Funko, this calendar contains 24 Five Nights at Freddy’s-themed ‘Pint Size Heroes’. They’re essentially tiny Funko Pop! vinyl figures, measuring between 1.5 and 2 inches tall. Aww. If you prefer your Christmas season to have a bit of nightmare fuel stitched into it, then this is surely one of the best gaming advent calendars you can buy. Not sure what you want to play yet? Conversely, dying to get your hands on a specific game? Day seven offered a months subscription to Rent, Shuffle, & Roll, a board game library that will post games to you to play. So whether you’re been eyeing Ark Nova or Imperial Assault, renting the game first gives you the best chance to try it out before committing it to your shelf. Speaking of your shelf though - days eight and nine saw us add two more games to it, with Family Business from Lookout Games, and Last One Alive, by Ares Games. Now in it's third year, the hugely successful calendar not only offers huge savings on a wealth of games and gaming adjacent items, but is a hand wrapped, perfectly crafted countdown to Christmas,building the excitement ahead of the big day in a way that only fans of the tabletop can enjoy.So, there we have it, a list of the best advent calendars for nerds this year has to offer. Let me know in the comments below what you plan on buying and who you plan on buying it for. More Gaming Content