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I now return you to your regularly scheduled index of content.
Recommendations
If you are looking for recommendations for specific games that may work with specific accessibility requirements, check out our recommender tool!
Board Game Reviews
Here are our board game reviews, along with their associated teardowns. Our board game reviews are discursive, comprehensive, and ideally conformant with our principles regarding the New Board Game Journalism. We post new board game reviews on a Wednesday, with the corresponding accessibility teardown posted on the following Saturday.
You might also be interested in our full master-list if you want to see all the games and all the grades.
Editorials
In addition to our usual board game reviews, we also occasionally post editorials. These are funded by our generous Patrons.
- 180 Days Later… (editorial)
- Acquisitions & Consumption – You’re Welcome in this Hobby (editorial)
- A Year of Meeple Centred Design – Talking about You and Me and the Games People Play (editorial)
- Board Games and Social Isolation (editorial)
- Busting the myths around Sociological Accessibility (editorial)
- Dealing with the Inaccessibilities of a Luxury Hobby (editorial)
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017 (editorial)
- How Do We Make Accessibility Sexier? (editorial)
- I’m A Fraud – The Signed Confessions of Michael Heron (editorial)
- Mindful Jargon (editorial)
- Misleading with Play Counts (editorial)
- Some Honest Reflections on Patreon (editorial)
- Stay in your Lane (editorial)
- The Accessibility of House Rules (editorial)
- The Fun of Inaccessibility (editorial)
- The Terrible Twos – the Second Anniversary of Meeple Like Us (editorial)
- Universal Inaccessibility in Board Games (editorial)
- Unwon and Unwinnable Causes (editorial)
Academia
In addition to our usual board game reviews, we occasionally put out some properly academic content. That’s because a number of us are essentially working in a kind of board game academia.
- Meeple Centred Design: A Heuristic Toolkit for Evaluating the Accessibility of Tabletop Games (blog post | academic paper)
- Eighteen Months of Meeple Like Us: An Exploration into the State of Board Game Accessibility (blog post | academic paper)
- Adventures in the World of Board Game Accessibility Seminar (video)
- Axschat with Michael (video)
Special Features
In addition to our usual board game reviews, we also occasionally post special features on a range of topics.
Accessibility in Action
Top Ten Lists
Books, Movies and Documentaries
In addition to our usual board game reviews, we also occasionally review other media.
- Haynes Tabletop Gaming Manual (review)
- It’s All A Game (review)
- Monopolists – Obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world’s favorite board game (review)
- Under the Boardwalk (review)
Actually, it’s about ethics in board game reviews
In addition to our usual board game reviews, we are also very interested in the topic of ethics in criticism. Ethics in general, really.
The New Boardgame Journalism – The Art of Board Game Reviews
We have some thoughts on the best way to approach board game reviews, and we record those here.
- Bloom’s Taxonomy of Board Game Reviews (editorial)
- Game Criticism and the Myth of the Objective Review (editorial)
- New Boardgame Journalism – with apologies to Kieron Gillen (editorial)
- New Game Journalism Reader (special feature)
- Reviewer Isolationism in the Hobbyist Media Landscape (editorial)
- In Defence of Board Game Review Scores (editorial)
Patreon exclusive content
The content here is exclusive to our patrons. We never restrict access to our board game reviews, but there’s plenty of other stuff that you’re missing..
Patreon Newsletter
Patreon roundup newsletters are exclusively available to $1 Patrons.
Depth Year Diary
Depth year diaries are available to $3 Patrons a year in advance.
Meeple Monthly Roundup
Monthly roundups of the best from tabletop media in the month are available to $3 Patrons a year in advance.
