10 Most Beautiful Board Games

9. Obscurio

Libellud make the Dixit series, beautiful games with beautiful cards.

They also make the Mysterium series, beautiful games with beautiful cards.

So when I say that Osbscurio is Libellud’s most beautiful game, that’s a take you could fry an egg on.

Gameplay-wise, it’s Mysterium with a traitor mechanic, so that’s a whole bunch of boxes ticked for me RIGHT quick.

You’re a bunch of wizards stuck in a magical library being helped to escape by a sentient book. WWWWWHIMSY. Each round 6 of these gorgeous round cards are put out.

These are potential magic doorways, but only one of them will get the team closer to escape. The magic book, and bloody look at this component, so beautiful, to try and help the team pick the right door, picks two more cards and uses these fancy magnetic arrows to point to bits on them that’ll help provide clues.

But one of the players is a secret traitor who is adding red herring cards in the mix to try and confuse people.

It’s a very fun little communication deduction game, but what really makes it sing is the presentation. These weighty plastic chips, the stunning artwork, the board, the magnetic, it’s all so polished you just want to sit and stare at it.