Zoo Ball is a chaotic, zany, flicking extravaganza that you can learn in minutes, and play in a quarter of an hour. It's also a pretty fun time. (Andy Matthews)

Baseball Highlights: 2045 is nothing short of a home run. Comprised of a series of mini-games within the greater game, it plays best as a slugfest between two players vying to win the World Series of the future. Instead of spending two and a half hours at your local ballpark, take a leisurely 45 minute swing with some hot dogs and cracker jack. (Abram Towle)

Eleven: Football Manager is a game about the economics of managing a football (soccer) club, putting the right players on the field, board room decisions and even getting sponsors for your team. Meeple Mountain's Justin Bell reckons Eleven is the closest he has ever seen to a game about the business of sports that actually works. (Andrew Holmes)

Bloodbowl is a steaming mess. Nothing in that game can be said to be designed for balance. Yet there is something appealing about Orcs and Elves tossing around a pigskin (and the occasional Snotling).  (K. David Ladage)