2022 · 1-4 Players · ~75-150 min · Competitive
Great Western Trail: Argentina offers a compelling standalone reimagining of the GWT system with grain farming replacing cattle ranching, providing a more streamlined experience that stands confidently on its own.
2020 · 1-4 Players · ~90-120 min · Competitive
Merv builds a quietly brilliant euro around a rondel mechanism that makes every move feel like a branching decision tree. The game's city grid, where building placement determines your future action options, creates an emergent strategic depth that rewards careful spatial planning. Mongol invasion threats add welcome tension to the optimization, forcing defensive compromises that prevent the game from becoming a pure efficiency exercise. Some find the presentation understated and the interaction too indirect, but for players who enjoy discovering layered strategy through repeated plays, Merv is a hidden gem of modern euro design.
2019 · 2-4 Players · ~90-120 min · Competitive
Glen More II: Chronicles builds on its predecessor's brilliant rondel-driven tile placement with richer strategic options, eight modular chronicles for variety, and a Scottish theme that comes alive through its terrain-matching and whisky-producing systems.
2021 · 2-4 Players · ~60-90 min · Competitive
Iki recreates the vibrant artisan culture of Edo-period Nihonbashi through a rondel-driven euro where your movement around a shared market street determines which shops you visit and which artisans you can hire. The seasonal structure and fire threat add thematic tension to the economic optimization, and the production quality is outstanding. The interaction through the shared rondel creates a tighter competitive experience than most euros at this weight, though the fire mechanism can feel punishing when it destroys buildings you've invested in.
2018 · 1-4 Players · ~90-120 min · Competitive
Teotihuacan: City of Gods is a heavy euro that earns its complexity through a genuinely original dice-worker system. Moving your workers around the rondel, watching them grow in power, and timing their ascension creates a rhythm unlike anything else in the genre. The rulebook does the game no favors, and the sheer number of interlocking systems will overwhelm players who aren't ready for it. But once the mechanisms click into place, Teotihuacan reveals itself as a precision-built engine of interconnected decisions where every move ripples across the board. For heavy euro fans looking for something that feels distinct from the standard worker placement formula, this one delivers.
2020 · 1-4 Players · 60-90 min · Competitive
Viscounts of the West Kingdom closes out the West Kingdom trilogy with a game that blends deck building, rondel movement, and area influence into a cohesive package. It's lighter than Paladins, more mechanically ambitious than Architects, and finds a comfortable middle ground that rewards repeated play without demanding marathon sessions. The hidden scoring keeps things suspenseful, the solo AI is excellent, and the way the card conveyor belt shapes your options creates satisfying tactical puzzles. The rulebook needs work, some strategies feel underdeveloped, and the thin player boards are a miss. But as a complete euro experience in 90 minutes or less, Viscounts delivers.
2017 · 2-4 Players · ~60-90 min · Competitive
Heaven & Ale wraps a tight economic puzzle inside a rondel that forces you to keep moving forward, creating a game where timing and tempo matter as much as the tiles you collect. The sun-side versus shade-side decision for every tile adds a persistent tension between immediate resources and long-term scoring that makes each placement feel consequential. The scoring system is brilliantly punishing, rewarding balanced development while crushing players who neglect any single element. It's a lean, mean euro that packs more strategic weight into 75 minutes than many games manage in twice that.
2017 · 2-4 Players · ~75-90 min · Competitive
Merlin is a mid-weight Stefan Feld design that combines dice rolling with rondel movement around a circular kingdom, offering a breezy Arthurian euro that's accessible by Feld standards though it never reaches the heights of his best work.
2010 · 2-5 Players · 60-75 min · Competitive / Tile Placement
Glen More marries a clever rondel-based selection mechanism with satisfying tile activation puzzles, creating a strategic experience where restraint in taking tiles often matters more than ambition.
2023 · 2-4 Players · ~60-90 min · Competitive
Hamburg is a streamlined Stefan Feld design built around a rondel mechanism and network building in the historic German port city, delivering a pleasant medium-weight euro that doesn't quite reach the heights of Feld's best work.
2024 · 2-4 Players · ~60-90 min · Competitive
Flatiron channels the early 1900s New York skyscraper race into a rondel-driven euro that rewards careful planning and positional awareness, though it sometimes buckles under the weight of its own structural ambitions.