100 Boardgames

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

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game Expansion: Pegasus Expansion Designer: Corey Konieczka / Daniel Clark, Corey Konieczka & Tim Uren Year: 2008/2009 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is one of the baseline games everyone keeps referencing in my Continue Reading

This is a series of posts where I play 100 boardgames. Game: Viticulture Designer: Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone Year: 2013 Country: U.S.A. Publisher: Stonemaier Games One of the traditional qualities of eurogames is that the theme and visuals have to be studiously mild. You can safely bring them out with elderly relatives you don’t Continue Reading