In some ways, the name says it all: Innovation is a game that wasn’t afraid to try new things. The success of Dungeon Petz and games like it would open the door for other well-known sequels, including Caverna (2012), Forbidden Desert (2013), Gaia Project (2017) and Altiplano (2017). While sequels were not unheard of in the board game industry- famous examples include Elfenland (1998) and Tikal II (2010)- Dungeon Petz was part of an early wave of board game sequels that would become increasingly more popular over the course of the decade. #97: Dungeon Petz (2011)Ī heavy strategy game that contrasts cute theme with complex mechanisms, Dungeon Petz is best known as the sequel to Dungeon Lords (2009). This title would become the crown jewel for Restoration Games, which has continued their relentless pursuit of retro-chic with games like Conspiracy: The Solomon Gambit (2019) and, soon, Return to Dark Tower (2020). In 2018, the game would be brought back to life by Restoration Games, a studio specializing in updating and revitalizing games whose licenses have fallen by the wayside.Īlmost more important than the gameplay is what Fireball Island stood for: the wonder of a childhood toy, lovingly recreated into something that would still be fun for the grown-ups who remembered it.
#98: Fireball Island (2018)įireball Island’s iconic moulded plastic board and marble-driven action made it a cult classic, with used copies of the 1986 original retailing for hundreds of dollars online. A Few Acres of Snow blurred the lines of what makes a traditional wargame, opening the door for games like Root (2018) to find their own audience in the years that would follow. When Martin Wallace combined the theme and elements of a wargame with the more euro-style mechanism of deck-building, he created a special crossover appeal that would make the game attractive to those outside the wargaming bubble. Players must decide the direction in which they want to lead their empire- and their strategy- by adding cards to their deck. While A Few Acres of Snow is by its nature a wargame of area control and player conflict, the main gameplay mechanism is deck-building. One player leads the French empire, the other takes charge of the British. #99: A Few Acres of Snow (2011)Ī Few Acres of Snow is a card-driven wargame for two players fighting for control of North America. All signs point to no slowing down for the Imperial Settlers franchise. The game has also received the roll and write treatment with Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write (2019). Since its release, there have been six Imperial Settlers expansions that add more cards, new factions, and changes to gameplay, as well as a standalone game, Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North (2019).
The goofy and inviting artwork in Imperial Settlers has certainly helped the game’s appeal, in the very least to disguise how aggressive and interactive it can be for such a mechanically Euro game. Imperial Settlers, a reimplementation of Ignacy Trzewiczek’s 51st State (2010), is a civilization and engine-building card game in which players control one of four factions to build their empire.
Please join us as we explore The 100 Most Important Board Games of the 2010s, and why they matter in 2019. The entries in this list have been selected for reasons as diverse as the games themselves, but efforts were made to highlight innovation, popularity, and games that had a particularly strong impact on those that followed and the industry as a whole. From the smallest card game to the most densely packed box of Kickstarter excess, today’s tabletop world owes so much to the games that came before. The last decade has seen more board games designed and manufactured than any other point in history. Ten years is a long time in board gaming! Join us as we look back on the smart, influential, weird and crazy things that emerged from the last decade of games.
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