10 Most Beautiful Board Games

1. Parks

This is the newest game on the list, so maybe chalk this up to recency bias, but this game was an instant purchase for me the moment I saw it.

Love national parks, and this game actually incorporates art from the Fifty Nine Parks Print series, an art production house that works in conjunction with a number of superb graphic designers to create these stunning poster quality prints of the various national parks of America.

Look at this one, how about this one, look at this fucking guy, thy’re all in the game, which sees hikers moving down this randomly generated trail, performing actions, taking lovely wooden tokens, collecting gorgeous park cards, snatching up this metal first player token that’s unreasonably satisfying to hold, the whole experience is crafted with such love and care.

Be warned, playing this game will make you want to take a holiday that you can’t afford.

There’s a lot of different bits of artwork in this game, all combine don the table, but the simplicity of the Fifty Nine Parks style of graphic design, and warm, evocative palette of colour means that instead of becoming a visually busy jumble of different icons, which is so often the case with large euro game boards, this game’s images all work together to create this lush panorama of charming images.

You could say it’s more than the sum of its… parks. I hate me.

And that’s our list.