Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid Core Game

The village raiding finally makes it off the phone and onto the table.

A board game adaptation of the mobile game, built around the bit everybody actually plays it for — assembling your troops and throwing them at somebody else's carefully defended village.

It's a big box with a lot in it, and it lands somewhere in family strategy territory rather than pure luck. Worth knowing before you buy it for a nine-year-old that it is a real game with real decisions in it.

Perfect for: Clash players, families who want something meatier than a card game, and parents hoping to reclaim some ground on their own terms.