Catalog

Michael Kiesling · Plan B Games

Tile-drafting as tranquil as it is tactical. Beautiful on the table, easy to teach.

Randy Flynn · Flatout Games / AEG

Puzzle the Pacific Northwest together: habitats, wildlife, and very satisfying hexagons.

Donald X. Vaccarino · Rio Grande Games

The game that invented deckbuilding. A 2009 Spiel des Jahres winner and still the genre’s cleanest entry point.

Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel

Classic dungeon fantasy, told through Powered-by-the-Apocalypse rules. The gateway drug into PbtA design.

Wizards of the Coast

The one everyone knows. Still a great first table, and worth playing given the enormous popularity and support materials.

Peter Lee & Rodney Thompson · Wizards of the Coast

Deploy agents and hire adventurers to expand your control over the city of Waterdeep. One of the cleanest worker-placement gateways around.

Adrian Adamescu & Daryl Andrews · Floodgate Games

Draft dice to build a stained-glass window. A quiet, gorgeous puzzle of a game.

Marc André · Space Cowboys

Renaissance merchants race to grab gems and please nobility. Simple rules, real depth, plays fast.

Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson · Restoration Games

King Arthur vs. Medusa vs. Sinbad vs. Alice in Wonderland. Fast, tactical, endlessly mixable.