The 5th birthday issue of award-winning board-gaming magazine Senet is on sale now!

UK, London, 28 February 2024: Issue 18 of Senet is published today!

This latest premium-print celebration of tabletop craft and creativity marks the 5th birthday of the magazine, which originally launched after a successful Kickstarter campaign back in January 2020.

The issue includes...

• A special 5th birthday issue roundup of our favourite games since Senet's launch in 2020.
• An interview with independent British designer Ellie Dix, creator of A Midsummer Night's Fayre and The Jane Austen Game.
• A detailed dig into the theme of Ancient Egypt, with insights from Reiner Knizia, Phil Walker-Harding and Alf Seegert.
• A journey through the skirmish genre, from HG Wells' Little Wars to Frostgrave and Marvel: Crisis Protocol.
• The board-game art of New Yorker cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen, featuring Inner Compass, Santa Monica and Rebuilding Seattle.
• Previews of Fame & Fable, Onoda, Knitting Circle, and more!
• Reviews of the latest releases, including Ironwood, Katmai: The Bears of Brooks River, Rebirth and SETI: Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence.
• Shelf of Shame with Andy Bush of Absolute Radio.
• A new puzzle from Ira Fay.

Co-founded by James Hunter (formerly The Times/The Sunday Times) and Dan Jolin (Empire), Senet is an independent quarterly magazine printed on high-quality, heavy-stock paper. Its readership now includes over 2,500 subscribers worldwide. Every gorgeously designed issue contains in-depth features, interviews with cutting-edge designers and artists, and the world's best writing on all things tabletop.

Senet was recently included in Boing Boing's 2024 Christmas Gift Guide, which said, "It's hard to overstate how beautiful and well-designed Senet magazine is... This is a deep and thoughtful magazine for game enthusiasts looking to gain a better understanding of what goes into a truly great and memorable game."

Senet was also previously included in Actualol's "11 Gifts for Board Gamers (That Aren't Games)", in which presenter John Purkis described the magazine as "a thing of beauty", with "such a striking, sophisticated aesthetic, you feel classier just holding it."

240 x 165 mm, 74 pages
London, UK
Quarterly
First published in 2020
Editor: Dan Jolin
Art director: James Hunter


Released: 28 February 2025