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  • The Strange Games Festival 2026 Opens!

    Reception will be open from 2pm on Friday 28th August 2026.   Please do not arrive before this time unless you have a volunteer role that requires it.  

  • Site Shop Open

    Site Shop Open
    Site Shop

    The site shop will be open and sells cold drinks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, marshmallows (and wooden sticks!), popcorn, milk and logs (as well as various camping essentials) Phone charging and tickets for Axe-throwing and Archery activities can also be bought here Card accepted

  • Checkout Library and Info Point open

    Checkout Library and Info Point open
    Kipling Lodge (Small Lodge)

    Speak to our friendly info point volunteers and borrow from our large library of boardgames (play for free, return same day) These are games we think are particularly fancy or heavy; there is also a Games Stash of lots of other games in the Activity Centre

  • Welcome Meet

    Arena

    The official opening meet of the Festival! Come gather on the arena to be officially welcomed and find out more about things you can expect over the weekend. Attendance isn’t mandatory but is heartily recommended!

  • Beginner Werewolf

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on your part. These… Read More »Beginner Werewolf

  • Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on… Read More »Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

  • Campfire Storytelling with Jon

    Campfire Storytelling with Jon
    Main Campfire

    Huddle close in the firelight for more tales of wonder! Age-old myths and brand-new yarns, from far afield and right on the doorstep: Jon is a Brighton-based storyteller with a captivating delivery and love of stories that connect past, present and future, our surroundings and ourselves. He performs regularly around the country in clubs, schools,… Read More »Campfire Storytelling with Jon

  • Campfire Sing-a-round

    Campfire Sing-a-round
    Main Campfire

    Join us by the campfire and take a bit of downtime with music, song and pleasant company. Bring yourself, your songs, your voices, your instruments and your enthusiasm, and share with everyone the music you love. We'll go around the circle -- Blood on the Clocktower style -- and if you want to sing a… Read More »Campfire Sing-a-round

  • Site Shop Open

    Site Shop Open
    Site Shop

    The site shop will be open and sells cold drinks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, marshmallows (and wooden sticks!), popcorn, milk and logs (as well as various camping essentials) Phone charging and tickets for Axe-throwing and Archery activities can also be bought here Card accepted

  • Checkout Library and Info Point open

    Checkout Library and Info Point open
    Kipling Lodge (Small Lodge)

    Speak to our friendly info point volunteers and borrow from our large library of boardgames (play for free, return same day) These are games we think are particularly fancy or heavy; there is also a Games Stash of lots of other games in the Activity Centre

  • RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

    RPG Meetup
    Willows3/RPG Glade

    Each morning and afternoon, we will be having a gathering of RPG lovers to help players and GMs find each other for any games to be played that day. First, GMs will have the chance to pitch a game they would like to run that day and, afterwards, players will have the opportunity to ask… Read More »RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

  • Beginner Werewolf

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on your part. These… Read More »Beginner Werewolf

  • Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on… Read More »Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

  • S.P.I.E.S.

    S.P.I.E.S.
    Rifle Range

    SPIES is a simple social deduction wordplay game played over the course of 1 hour. The game is built around helping people break the ice and make new friends. You'll be given a single word to use in conversations to help you find members of your team, you'll also be trying to find out information… Read More »S.P.I.E.S.

  • RPG: The Laundry

    Willows3/RPG Glade

    The Laundry RPG 2e (C7D6 system, cosmic horror and civil service bureaucracy)   RPG Glade Table Number: 8

  • RPG: The Haunting of Ypsilon-14

    Willows3/RPG Glade

    "The Haunting of Ypsilon-14" - A Mothership TTRPG one shot This is an OSR style roleplaying system that is very easy to learn, set far into the future. Mankind has conquered the galaxy and subjected it to destructive capitalism. Similar media - Alien franchise, Starship Troopers, Bioshock, Borderlands. Roleplaying beginners are very welcome. You don't… Read More »RPG: The Haunting of Ypsilon-14

  • The Strange Games Quiz!

    Stage

    Test your nerdy knowledge at the annual Strange Games quiz! Do you know your Catan from your Carcassonne? Form a team of up to 5 people and join us to battle it out for the glory of being crowned the Geekiest Gamers!

  • Tabletop Rescue

    Helvellyn Marquee

    Tabletop Rescue will be at the Strange Games Festival on Saturday with a huge selection of pre-owned board games and RPG books for sale: We are eBay UK's #1 seller of pre-owned board games and can be found at www.ebay.co.uk/str/tabletoprescue We bring our most popular and best condition games to events and are able to… Read More »Tabletop Rescue

  • MegaS.P.I.E.S.

    S.P.I.E.S.

    MEGASPIES is a relaxed game you can play throughout the whole event in the background of anything else you're doing. The game is built around helping people break the ice and make new friends. You'll be given a single word to use in conversations to help you find members of your team, you'll also be… Read More »MegaS.P.I.E.S.

  • Megagame – Crisis: Mars

    Arena Marquee

    Crisis: Mars is a small 2.5 hour megagame for up to 18 players, played in small teams with an emphasis on negotiation and simple rules. The year is 2241 and humanity has colonised the inner solar system with space stations and mining in the asteroid belt, and a colony and terraforming project on Mars. In… Read More »Megagame – Crisis: Mars

  • RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

    RPG Meetup
    Willows3/RPG Glade

    Each morning and afternoon, we will be having a gathering of RPG lovers to help players and GMs find each other for any games to be played that day. First, GMs will have the chance to pitch a game they would like to run that day and, afterwards, players will have the opportunity to ask… Read More »RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

  • Beginner Werewolf

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on your part. These… Read More »Beginner Werewolf

  • Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on… Read More »Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

  • Megagame – The Black Swan Crisis

    Arena Marquee

    The Black Swan Crisis is a narrative focused game of geopolitics meeting the unknown. Deploy your limited resources wisely and creatively, cooperate or betray, and create a shared narrative that shapes the world's future. International relief efforts, civil wars, political tormoil - the world is in crisis and you will take on the role of… Read More »Megagame – The Black Swan Crisis

  • RPG: Eat the Reich

    Willows3/RPG Glade

    Looking to run Eat the Reich which is a ttrpg system set in WW2 Paris and the players are vampires seeking to find and kill Hitler, it's a fun rules lite action orientated game.   Content warnings: Light horror themes and ideally 15+ but can be adjusted for younger adults   RPG Glade Table Number:… Read More »RPG: Eat the Reich

  • Stage Show: Role-Playing James

    Stage

    Adventurers wanted for magical journey through a mythical realm, all told with the power of improvisational comedy, overly large dice, and the power of imagination (due to budgetary cuts). Have you ever wanted to be a powerful mage and throw fireballs at cultists? Or a cunning thief, stealing the key to the vault from a… Read More »Stage Show: Role-Playing James

  • Campfire Storytelling with Jon

    Campfire Storytelling with Jon
    Main Campfire

    Huddle close in the firelight for more tales of wonder! Age-old myths and brand-new yarns, from far afield and right on the doorstep: Jon is a Brighton-based storyteller with a captivating delivery and love of stories that connect past, present and future, our surroundings and ourselves. He performs regularly around the country in clubs, schools,… Read More »Campfire Storytelling with Jon

  • Campfire Sing-a-round

    Campfire Sing-a-round
    Main Campfire

    Join us by the campfire and take a bit of downtime with music, song and pleasant company. Bring yourself, your songs, your voices, your instruments and your enthusiasm, and share with everyone the music you love. We'll go around the circle -- Blood on the Clocktower style -- and if you want to sing a… Read More »Campfire Sing-a-round

  • Site Shop Open

    Site Shop Open
    Site Shop

    The site shop will be open and sells cold drinks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, marshmallows (and wooden sticks!), popcorn, milk and logs (as well as various camping essentials) Phone charging and tickets for Axe-throwing and Archery activities can also be bought here Card accepted

  • Checkout Library and Info Point open

    Checkout Library and Info Point open
    Kipling Lodge (Small Lodge)

    Speak to our friendly info point volunteers and borrow from our large library of boardgames (play for free, return same day) These are games we think are particularly fancy or heavy; there is also a Games Stash of lots of other games in the Activity Centre

  • RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

    RPG Meetup
    Willows3/RPG Glade

    Each morning and afternoon, we will be having a gathering of RPG lovers to help players and GMs find each other for any games to be played that day. First, GMs will have the chance to pitch a game they would like to run that day and, afterwards, players will have the opportunity to ask… Read More »RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

  • Beginner Werewolf

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on your part. These… Read More »Beginner Werewolf

  • Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on… Read More »Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

  • S.P.I.E.S.

    S.P.I.E.S.
    Rifle Range

    SPIES is a simple social deduction wordplay game played over the course of 1 hour. The game is built around helping people break the ice and make new friends. You'll be given a single word to use in conversations to help you find members of your team, you'll also be trying to find out information… Read More »S.P.I.E.S.

  • Megagame – Raven Banner

    Arena Marquee

    For decades Danish raiders have been pillaging the coasts of England, but recently the “Great Heathen Army” conquered the northernmost kingdom of Northumbria. As a Saxon aristocrat or Danish raider you will be fighting and negotiating to ensure the best future for yourselves in this chaotic and violent era. The Raven Banner is a megagame,… Read More »Megagame – Raven Banner

  • The Sunday Market

    Village Square

    The Sunday Market takes place in the main square from 12pm-2pm (on Sunday!), with a wide range of unique handcrafted, geek or games related items available from our community's talented members.   Come along to the main square between 12pm and 2pm on Sunday to see what's on offer. Sellers set up from 11:30 -… Read More »The Sunday Market

  • Megagame – Den of Wolves: New Eden

    Arena Marquee

    In this game you will play a member of a space fleet, survivors of a massive attack from the nation of Wolf – decimating and subjugating the other settled worlds. Together you will be trying to survive in space, flee further Wolf attacks and find a new home for your people – a New Eden.… Read More »Megagame – Den of Wolves: New Eden

  • RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

    RPG Meetup
    Willows3/RPG Glade

    Each morning and afternoon, we will be having a gathering of RPG lovers to help players and GMs find each other for any games to be played that day. First, GMs will have the chance to pitch a game they would like to run that day and, afterwards, players will have the opportunity to ask… Read More »RPG Meetup – Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!

  • Beginner Werewolf

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on your part. These… Read More »Beginner Werewolf

  • Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

    Beginner Social Deduction
    Cub Glade/SD Glade

    Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team's goal. This could involving lying on… Read More »Beginner Blood on the Clocktower

  • Puzzled Pint

    Arena Marquee

    Puzzled Pint is a non-competitive, accessible team puzzle event. Imagine a team pub quiz but replace all the questions with word puzzles, picture puzzles, logic puzzles, ciphers, maybe some puzzles with things to cut out and manipulate and probably a few puns, and you've got the idea. Hints are always free and we'll make sure… Read More »Puzzled Pint

  • Campfire Storytelling with Jon

    Campfire Storytelling with Jon
    Main Campfire

    Huddle close in the firelight for more tales of wonder! Age-old myths and brand-new yarns, from far afield and right on the doorstep: Jon is a Brighton-based storyteller with a captivating delivery and love of stories that connect past, present and future, our surroundings and ourselves. He performs regularly around the country in clubs, schools,… Read More »Campfire Storytelling with Jon

  • Campfire Sing-a-round

    Campfire Sing-a-round
    Main Campfire

    Join us by the campfire and take a bit of downtime with music, song and pleasant company. Bring yourself, your songs, your voices, your instruments and your enthusiasm, and share with everyone the music you love. We'll go around the circle -- Blood on the Clocktower style -- and if you want to sing a… Read More »Campfire Sing-a-round

  • Site Shop Open

    Site Shop Open
    Site Shop

    The site shop will be open and sells cold drinks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, marshmallows (and wooden sticks!), popcorn, milk and logs (as well as various camping essentials) Phone charging and tickets for Axe-throwing and Archery activities can also be bought here Card accepted

  • Checkout Library and Info Point open

    Checkout Library and Info Point open
    Kipling Lodge (Small Lodge)

    Speak to our friendly info point volunteers and borrow from our large library of boardgames (play for free, return same day) These are games we think are particularly fancy or heavy; there is also a Games Stash of lots of other games in the Activity Centre

  • House Games

    Arena

    Come along, pick a house, and show your mettle at a combination of mental, physical and practical games.

  • Farewell Meet

    Arena

    Join us for a recap of the best bits of the weekend and the traditional enormous group photo!