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Fire and Swords Expansion - War of the Ring The Card Game
Epic Battles in northern Middle-earth locations with new factions joining the fray! Embark on a grand adventure to Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, and...
View full detailsBoop the Halls
Boop the Halls is a deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging Strategy Board Game for two! The hoomans are hanging ornaments on the highest boughs...
View full detailsTerraforming Mars Board Game: Automa
Terraforming Mars: Automa provides a new solo experience when playing Terraforming Mars. Instead of racing against the clock, the Automa lets you c...
View full detailsTerraforming Mars Board Game: Prelude 2 Expansion
Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2, the sixth expansion for Terraforming Mars, focuses on cross-expansion effects, prelude cards with ongoing effects and...
View full detailsNine Tiles Extreme
It's the "Extreme" version of "Nine Tiles" - now more chaotic than ever before!After having sold over 200,000 times, the popular board game "Nine T...
View full detailsRafter Five
In Rafter Five, you and your fellow players want to build as large a raft as possible — but you want to end up being the only one who can board it....
View full detailsDaitoshi Board Game
We have finally perfected the power of steam, and we can now use it to our advantage! We live in an unprecedented era of progress, and new steam-po...
View full detailsThe Crew Card Game: Mission Deep Sea
The Crew: Mission Deep Sea In this highly-anticipated follow up to the original cooperative card game The Crew: Quest for Planet 9 — winner of the ...
View full detailsThe Crew Card Game: The Quest For Planet Nine
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View full detailsSnatching Pears - The Mad Memory-Matching Pear-Snatching Party Game!
PRE-PEAR FOR A MEMORY-MATCHING, PEAR-SNATCHING SHOWDOWN! HILARIOUSLY HECTIC, TRAVEL-FRIENDLY FUN Snatching Pears is compact, carbon neutral, and cr...
View full detailsDobble Lilo & Stitch
This Lilo and Stitch edition of Dobble features numerous symbols and characters from the beloved film, including Stitch, Lilo, Nani, a surfboard, a...
View full detailsAndromeda's Edge Board Game: Exotic Matter Expansion
Seek out new life in Exotic Matter, the promotional pack for Andromeda's Edge. Contents of this pack were all originally offered on the gamefound ...
View full detailsAndromeda's Edge Board Game: Supernova Component Upgrade Kit
Elevate and enhance your standard copy of Andromeda's Edge with the Supernova Component Upgrade Kit! You'll trade your cardboard resources and cred...
View full detailsToriki Board Game: The Castaway
Toriki: The Castaway Island is a cooperative family game of adventure, exploration, and survival. Using Scan & Play technology to mix digital e...
View full detailsQuartz: The Dice Game
It seems that new mines keep being discovered... But these mines aren't that big and all the dwarves will have to run to get the most out of them i...
View full detailsCaptain Obvious Board Game
Captain Obvious is a competitive party game in which players are rewarded for being as obvious as possible. Write sentences with a meaning that's ...
View full detailsJoyride Board Game: Survival Of The Fastest
Summary Joyride: Survival of the Fastest is an explosively fun board game of loud, fast, high-interaction racing for two to four players. Tacticall...
View full detailsIntarsia Board Game
The Café de Paris is in urgent need of renovation to ensure that it continues to attract guests from around the world. Players in Intarsia are arti...
View full detailsThe Chameleon: Picture Edition
QUICK TO LEARN EASY TO PLAYLook at the picture, use one word to describe it, then find the Chameleon. Board games for families should all be this e...
View full detailsDreadful Meadows
Welcome to Dreadful Meadows - a land of tricks and treats, where kooky Confectioners compete to be this season's sweetest supplier! You play a Conf...
View full detailsPusheen
Pusheen is internationally recognised brand, with hundreds of products available worldwide but the Pusheen stacking game is one of a kind. This gam...
View full detailsStar Wars Villainous - Revenge at Last
Darth Maul and Captain Phasma join Ravensburger’s award-winning game system in this “expandalone” box that can be played on its own or combined ...
View full detailsOh My Pigeons! Party Game
Watch the pigeons strut and bob around the park and try to lure then to your bench with food. Play a card, draw a card, or roll for pigeons on your...
View full detailsChronicles of Light- Darkness Falls
Step into a magical world where the essences of Disney’s brightest heroes unite to vanquish the sinister Darkness. Forge an unbreakable alliance as...
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Our game shop has an extensive library in store which is free to borrow games from, so you can book a table or just pop in store with your friends and grab a game from our shelves. From Zombicide to Coup and Exploding Kittens - it is all here!
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from 3846 reviewsHas everything I’ve always wanted, the only store I think of first for warhammer as they have more than gamesworkshop even stock themselves when I’ve bought miniatures. Even when not in stock they order in for me. The best for prices for anywhere I’ve found, staff always helpful and friendly when I go in and been going for years for products, Pokémon products I used to go for when my son was young and still return for my families warhammer 40K needs. Brushes, paints, terrain decorations, dices, you name it they probably have it!
A lovely shop with plenty of choice , staff who really want to serve you (don’t always find this in some shops! ) All staff are on hand to share knowledge and opinions, Always seem to see the same young lady who has often offered her opinion on what she thinks would be a good purchase for us , we’ve purchased two games on her recommendation and have loved both !!
Excellent customer service , a real pleasure to shop here
The shop is very close to a car park, the staff are really friendly and knowledgeable, I'm always nervous going in to a new game shop as some can be very clicks and that is not the case here, if your in to your minatures or board games or D and D look no further, unfortunately I've moved to Suffolk so don't go in store as much as I'd like but if I'm ever in Norwich I'm definitely going here.
Excellent gaming space with friendly and knowledgeable staff! Whatever you enjoy - be it miniature games, card games like MTG or board games, Athena is a great place to enjoy it! Downstairs there’s also a great store with all your hobby needs at competitive prices.
Athena staff are so helpful and friendly. I cannot fault them. Nothing is too much trouble their knowledge and their willingness to share that knowledge is one of the things that draw me to return again and again Athena is level of stock is fantastic and their ability to order in whatever you want is incredibly helpful I would recommend Athena to everyone who is interested in board games, tabletop, gaming, and role-play games
The shop, the gaming, the events are all brilliant! However, what makes this place amazing? The staff, they all love varying hobbies, there is always someone who is knowledgeable and can help and nothing is ever too much! These guys and gals go above and beyond in a daily basis, I don’t know if I could ever praise them highly enough, well worth a visit, stop and play a game or two. B
Having never purchased anything from Athena before, I was a little sceptical. I was trying to order a book as a thank you to my son. He had missed the online order with Warhammer due to family problems, so couldn’t get this book, he was disappointed so I Googled the book and Athena popped up. I did wonder if it was too good to be true. A company selling a Warhammer book that had already sold out. I went through the purchase process which was really easy, although it is usually always easy to spend money! I did have a feeling that I would not end up getting this book. But to say this company keeps you informed is an understatement. From the moment I purchased a book from Athena I had correspondence. I was then kept up to date with the whole process. This for me was a delight when most companies just say thanks for your order and it’s on its way. I felt I had a more personalised experience. I would certainly buy from Athena again just for this experience. Thank you Athena for having this book in stock, you have made a university student very happy.
I am old so remember the days of the Games Room on Elm Hill being the only good game store in Norwich. Now there are many but Athena has it all with a great stock of games, brilliant friendly staff and plenty of table space to play with friends or join organised events. Very highly recommended whatever your needs.
We booked a table to play a few board games while my son attended the Yu-gi-oh Thursday tourney... Had a lovely evening, accompanied by lovely coffees and cakes. The staff are very friendly, and even took time to speed teach us a new game we had not played. Lovely evening, Thank to all the team at Athena Norwich.
My mother used Athena Games to get me the cool alternate cover "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything" D&D book for my birthday. It arrived extremely promptly, and she said the customer service was really excellent. She wasn't 100% sure she was buying the right thing, but found speaking to people extremely helpful. 5/5 excellent service & help. Plus I had a great time reading the book on my Birthday, it arriving on the day which was before I even thought it was available in England! 100% Awesome
A great staff. I was first apprehensive to message Athena Games on FB as I didn't really have a clue where to begin, I just knew I wanted to build a Nurgle Army. Mitch replied to my message extremely quickly and helped and advised me without ever trying to sell me anything. With this I instantly bought the items from them there and then as there was no 'oh, if you buy the Battletome you'll find the answer in there' it was all just a pleasant conversation. Also when I went to collect my items from the shop, Chris was nice enough to stop and chat to me about it for a bit. Overall an extremely pleasant experience to which I have gone bad a couple of times since. Thank you!
I have used Athena games a few times now for online orders and have been very impressed with them. Their prices and shipping costs are competitive and delivery is very quick, with you being kept well informed of when to expect your package. I would have no hesitation in recommending them. Excellent service all round.