Ancient Robot Games

Unfortunately we've had to cancel the board game night tonight due to a leak in the ceiling that has damaged the boardgame library. We're very sorry for the inconvenience if you were booked in for tonight. Hope to see you all for games another night soon!

The Try Me Buy Me demos with @AsmodeeUK are back today! Pop down to the shop and try Azul Duel, Superstore 2000, Happy Mochi and Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking Game! Yanna will be here demoing the games until 5pm today! #ancientrobotgames #trymebuyme #boardgamedemo #boardgame

Dune Imperium Bloodlines is here! Secure your bloodline in the new expansion for Dune Imperium and Dune Imperium Uprising. Bloodlines introduces new leaders, contracts, and cards into the Dune universe! Come get yours in store, we're open until 7pm today! #ancientrobotgames

Winners of Moonstone Marchbruary! Congratulations to Acho and Dan for joint first place in our Moonstone League! Hope you enjoy the prizes from the Goblin King himself. We're always planning new events, so keep an eye on our socials for updates! #ancientrobotgames #moonstone

Come take a shot at the World Championships with the official 2025 National Qualifier at Ancient Robot Games on the 23rd of March! Anyone is welcome to join our first official CATAN Tournament regardless of experience levels. Get your tickets through the link in our bio!

As well as Wingspan and Wyrmspan, we now have Finspan 🐠 Dive deeper into the ocean in search of ever expanding collection of fish in this fintastic engine builder game! Finspan is finspired by Wingspan but no knowledge of the previous games is required. Get yours in store!

Happy Azul Duel release day! Craft beautiful ceilings for Sintra Palace! The duel version of Azul adds a new dimension to the game play, in which you determine the pattern the tiles are placed in. No knowledge of the original Azul is required for the duel version! #Edinburgh

March is almost here along with some fantastic new events we have coming up! Our playtest nights are back with one on Saturday 1st of March! The Star Wars Unlimited Jump to Lightspeed Pre-release will be on the 8th of March. Get your tickets through the link in our bio!

The revised D&D monster manual is unleashed today! The new manual contains more monsters than ever. Face off both familiar creatures from D&D 5E and brand new horrors including the arch-hag and the blob of annihilation! Come get yours, we're open until 7pm as usual!

We had a great time at the Try Me Buy Me demo event with @AsmodeeUK yesterday! Thanks to everyone who made it in and tried some of the newest additions to our board game library and to Yanna for demoing the games! #ancientrobotgames #boardgamedemo #boardgameshop #edinburgh

We'll be closed tomorrow 24.1. due to the weather warning to ensure the safety of our customers and our staff. Please get in touch with us if you have a booking for tomorrow and we're happy to reschedule it for you.  Thank you all for your understanding. Please stay safe!

Welcome to our Try Me Buy Me demo event this Sunday from 1-6.30pm! We're running a drop-in event with @AsmodeeUK to showcase some fantastic new additions to our board game library, like Perspectives and Inori. Just drop in on the day! #ancientrobotgames #boardgamedemo #edinburgh

Thanks everyone who joined us for Forbidden Psalm yesterday! Hope you enjoyed your adventures as much as we enjoyed seeing your amazing warbands at the end of the world! Keep an eye on our socials for more exciting events! #ancientrobotgames #boardgamecafe #scotland #edinburgh

Join us this Sunday for a day of Forbidden Psalm, Skirmish gaming at the end of the world! Bring any five models or use our spare models to make your warband and battle it out through series of missions on behalf of a devious mage! Get your tickets through the link in our bio!

We're back! 🎉 Between stock take, deep cleaning and reorganising everything for another year of gaming, we've been busy while the shop's been closed. See behind the scenes photos! We're finally back to our regular 10.30-19.00 opening hours. #ancientrobotgames #boardgames

Merry Xmas everyone! Thank you all for making ARG such a lovely community. Hope you all have a wonderful festive period! We couldn't get a nice picture of all of us during our Xmas dinner a couple of days ago but we had a lovely time! Thanks @leithdepot #ancientrobotgames

We've got some fantastic new releases and exciting reprints of old favourites this week! The long awaited reprint of Ra, brand new games the Gang and Yro, and the 1-4 player version of Canopy, Canopy Evergreen have arrived! We're closing earlier today, so pop in early to browse!

Christmas Opening Hours 20th Dec: 10.30am - 5.30pm 21st - 22nd Dec: 10.30am - 11.00pm 23rd - 24th Dec: 10.30am - 9.00pm 25th Dec: 10.00am - 2.00pm 26th - 29th Dec: 10.30am - 7.00pm 30th Dec - 2nd Jan: Regular hours 3rd - 10th Jan: CLOSED Thank you all for such a fantastic year!

Christmas tote bags are here! We are so excited to share our limited print run of Ancient Robot Games Christmas bags for December! Instead of our logo Big Rob, this year we are highlighting more of our robot friends! Thank you @CharleysChalk for the fantastic design! #edinburgh

New board game arrivals! Whether you're teaming up or dueling for victory, we have some exciting new games! Work together in The Emerald Flame, a narrative puzzle game in three parts. Or compete to save cats in the two player game Isle of Cats Duel! #ancientrobotgames