The Strange Games Festival 2023 - a long August bank holiday weekend of games and camping. Board games, Role-playing games, Werewolf, Blood on the Clocktower, marquees, food stalls, and much… Read More »The Strange Games Festival 2023
If you need to 'pause' for whatever reason during the festival, a quiet and reflective outdoor space will be available throughout the weekend. Take some time out - sit under… Read More »Quiet and Reflective Space
Please only sign up if you have played Firefly before. If you played on Saturday in the novices' game, that will be good enough. Fictitious people may die
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… Read More »Site Shop Open
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… Read More »Checkout Library and Info Point Open
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A three day version of BBCs The Traitors, but without the £100k prize or Claudia Winkleman. Designed to happen alongside whatever else you want to do at the festival. An… Read More »The Strange Traitors – Mourning Briefing
Supervised kids play session in low-ropes climbing area
Enjoy a calm and social start to your morning in the village square with some painting. Materials and inspiration will be provided to paint a ceramic coaster with your own… Read More »Craft and Cuppa – Paint a Coaster
Whether you’d like to meet new friends to play with (perhaps you’re attending the festival alone?) or you’re brand new to board games and want to learn something new, this… Read More »New Friends & New Players Gaming Sessions
Rolling games of Werewolf and Blood on the Clocktower will be on offer during these times by Festival mods. Please see the board in the Social Deduction Glade for more… Read More »Werewolf & Blood on the Clocktower
All expansions available. Suspicions, blind accusations and cutthroat survival are the name of the game. Age 12+, some adult content and character assassination etc Under 18s should be accompanied… Read More »Battlestar Galactica – Game 1
Knights Tower will be providing rolling sessions of medieval combat training, historical talks and photo opportunities! For more details, please visit the Knights Tower staff at the arena during this… Read More »Knights Tower Medieval Combat School
Climbing sessions will be run by the site during this time window You can buy tickets and get more information at the site shop (the shop is open 9am-8pm daily)… Read More »Climbing Wall
A brand new, cooperative board game based on the awesome dwarf mining game! Brave the depths of the planet Hoxus to mine precious minerals while fighting off hordes of Bugs.… Read More »Deep Rock Galactic
Craft Fair for all your beautiful wares and goodies. If you're interested in selling your geeky, game-y, handcrafted wares, please complete the google form here: https://forms.gle/uyXdLEmLY4UC9syp6 Any problems, questions, etc,… Read More »Sunday Market
Due to popular demand a second Speakeasy has opened! For fairness, please only sign up to this game if you did not attend Saturday's Speakeasy The Fed's have gotten… Read More »Speakeasy
'PlayCulture create exciting, tactical, sneaky games that make you feel like a kid again! Zombies is a large-scale app-supported infectious outdoor tag game! Evade zombies, pick up health packs, become… Read More »PlayCulture: Zombies & PirateGold
A one-off Frostgrave scenario! All participating players can bring their own warband (even if it's currently running in another campaign) and I'll run a scenario involving treasure, a Big Bad… Read More »Frostgrave
A Rime of the Frostmaiden Adventurer’s League Adventure. A trek toward Icewind Dale turns deadly when an avalanche blocks the heroes’ passage through the Spine of the World. Rescued by… Read More »D&D 5E – Ice Road Trackers
Whether you’d like to meet new friends to play with (perhaps you’re attending the festival alone?) or you’re brand new to board games and want to learn something new, this… Read More »New Friends & New Players Gaming Sessions
Rolling games of Werewolf and Blood on the Clocktower will be on offer during these times by Festival mods. Please see the board in the Social Deduction Glade for more… Read More »Werewolf & Blood on the Clocktower
This event is only open to qualifying players from Saturday's Groups Stages and Quarter-Finals. If you'd like to join the tournament, please sign up to the Saturday event to secure… Read More »Modern Classics Multi-Game Tournament: Semi-Finals & Grand Final
Based on “The Resistance” party game, this is a secret identity social deduction game for 10 players with unique roles for each player, around 45 minutes per game. There’s an… Read More »The Resistance: Hostile Intent
Avatar Legends: The RPG is a heroic fantasy game set in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra in which you and your friends take… Read More »Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game
A live-action game based on the true story of Nicaraguan Sign Language, where deaf children in a country with no official sign language spontaneously created their own. Players embody students… Read More »Sign
The Tower Looms before you, its Cold Iron walls absorbing what little light filters through the mist. The ancient gates long barred and sealed now stand agape as though the… Read More »The Secrets of the Black Library (D&D 5e)
All expansions available. Suspicions, blind accusations and cutthroat survival are the name of the game. Age 12+, some adult content and character assassination etc Under 18s should be accompanied… Read More »Battlestar Galactica – Game 2
Using D&D 5e in a Planescape-inspired contemporary fantasy setting, this mystery sees players investigate a string of disappearances occurring around the river Yuok. A role-play heavy one-shot using battlemaps and… Read More »Yuok River Rescue
A three day version of BBCs The Traitors, but without the £100k prize or Claudia Winkleman. Designed to happen alongside whatever else you want to do at the festival. An… Read More »The Strange Traitors – Round Table
An exciting display of full contact medieval combat by Knight’s Tower
Modern horror RPG using jenga rather than dice. Try and escape a camping trip gone horribly wrong but maybe don't get too attached to your character. Content warnings: horror,… Read More »Dread
Rallyman is a dice-based, push-your-luck, racing game full of nail-biting action, catastrophic spins, and dastardly manoeuvres. Some of us Rallyman addicts will be returning to the track with fancy new… Read More »Rallyman
As someone among you could know, from the twenty years of experiences, games and ideas that Wherewolf has provided me, a new game is coming soon. One of its characteristics… Read More »From “Wherewolf” to “The Books of the Shadow”
You are a hobbit in a village that is not the Shire but is basically the Shire and you are going to have adventures with your friends which may extend… Read More »Hobbits!
Rolling games of Werewolf and Blood on the Clocktower will be on offer during these times by Festival mods. Please see the board in the Social Deduction Glade for more… Read More »Werewolf & Blood on the Clocktower
Ever wondered how the hills were made? Where the sun goes at night? Who built that empty house on the edge of town? Let Jon show you...! Jon is a… Read More »Campfire Storytelling with Jon