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This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Great Western Trail Designer: Alexander Pfister Year: 2016 Country: Austria Publisher: eggertspiele I’ve played several worker placement games, but in the phrase of a “how to play” video I watched, Great Western Trail is a worker movement game. The players are ranchers in Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Heroquest Designer: Stephen Baker Year: 1989/2020 Country: U.K. Publisher: Milton Bradley & Games Workshop / Avalon Hill Everybody’s seen the video about how HeroQuest is the best game ever made, right? And it’s all true, every word of it. I first played HeroQuest Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: War of the Ring – Second Edition Designer: Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi & Francesco Nepitello Year: 2011 Country: Italy Publisher: Ares Games War of the Ring is a big, sprawling two-player strategy game in which one player controls the Free Peoples and Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Tales from the Loop – The Board Game Designer: Rickard Antroia & Martin Takaichi Year: 2022 Country: Sweden Publisher: Fria ligan I’ve previously known the Swedish publisher Fria ligan for their roleplaying games, which have made them perhaps the best single roleplaying publisher Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Terraforming Mars Expansion: Prelude Designer: Jacob Fryxelius Year: 2016/2018 Country: Sweden Publisher: FryxGames I was coming home from the library recently, with a couple of different boardgames I was intending to try for this study project. The culture at our apartment building is extremely Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization Designer: Vlaada Chvátil Year: 2015 Country: Czechia Publisher: Czech Games Edition Among boardgame people, there’s broad consensus that Monopoly sucks. Why is this game so popular when better-designed games provide much improved experiences? These complaints Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia Designer: Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone Year: 2013 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games It’s interesting to compare Viticulture and Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia from Stonemaier Games. Both are worker placement games and clearly share the same DNA, Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Red Rising Designer: Alexander Schmidt & Jamey Stegmaier Year: 2021 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games The boardgame Red Rising is based on the series of novels by Pierce Brown, about a future in which the people of our solar system have been color Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: War of the Ring: The Card Game Designer: Ian Brody Year: 2022 Country: Italy Publisher: Ares Games A competitive card game built around the Lord of the Rings trilogy, War of the Ring: The Card Game is also inspired by the War of Continue Reading