Stefan Feld

Your first game of The Castles of Burgundy probably felt like this: you stared at a player board covered in coloured hexes and tiny symbols you couldn’t read without squinting, someone spent ten minutes explaining what silvers do, you placed tiles in the wrong regions twice, you lost track of what your dice were even supposed to accomplish, and when scoring came around, someone had quietly built an enormous ship empire while you were busy decoding the iconography. ...