Perennial, designed by Emily Vincent and published by Flatout Games, is a tile-laying puzzle game set in a prairie garden. I love polyomino games, and Perennial scratches that itch in a new way. Th…

After several years, YouTube finally made it's audio descriptions feature available to all channels with advanced features access.

A free, open-source color-coding system now exists, and it is the closest anyone has come to building a code that makes any game colorblind-friendly. In a previous essay, I asked whether a Universa…

Forage – designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, with graphics by Shawn and Dylan Mangini and illustrations by Beth Sobel – is the latest in the Flatout Games/AEG sm…

I met Matt Paquette in 2021 while playing and reviewing Mariposas (see Colorblind Games Review). I was impressed by the game’s subtle double-coding for accessibility, and designer Elizabeth H…

“I wasn’t going to eat it. I was just going to taste it.” Honeypot – designed by Joseph Z. Chen with art by Kwanchai Moriya and graphic design by Brigette Indelicato –…

Troyes Dice, designed by Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, and Alain Orban, puts players in the City of Troyes during the Middle Ages, when society was organized around three orders: the nobles, …

Welcome to 52 Duels, where 1-2 players use a 52-card deck to launch attacks, block damage, use items, and level up their hero’s unique skills. The deck also serves as each player’s life, so d…

Like a beautiful child, growing up free and wild… Cascadia: Alpine Lakes is a standalone follow-up to the 2022 Spiel des Jahres winner Cascadia. Designed by Randy Flynn and illustrated by Bet…

For colorblind board gamers, the most significant challenge is usually identifying player pieces. Even in games that are otherwise colorblind-friendly, most games continue to distinguish multiple p…

In Propolis—designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich—players deploy worker bees to collect pollen, fortify their positions, and construct hives to appease their queen. It comb…

I am excited to welcome Sarah Reed back to share her experiences and recommendations to support board gamers with visual accessibility barriers. This is a follow-up to Sarah’s previous essay …

One of the launch partners of the Accessible Games Initiative, Microsoft is first to integrate the accessibility tags on Xbox storefronts.

Great Western Trail: Second Edition is designed by Alexander Pfister, with art by Chris Quilliams and published by eggertspiele, among others. Players take on the role of ranchers herding cattle fr…

Mattel will make slight design changes to its card games so that gameplay is accessible for people with color blindness, too.

To wrap up 2024, I’m writing a series of mini-reviews for board games new to me this year. You’ll see a variety of accessibility barriers and some excellent mitigations to help make the…

Chip Theory Games introduces 20 Strong, a compact gaming system that delivers engaging solo experiences across multiple universes. Designed by Josh J. Carlson, it offers an interesting approach to …

Knitting Circle, designed by Emily Vincent and illustrated by Beth Sobel, is the newest in the long-running series of tile-laying puzzle games from Flatout Games. Players compete as knitters creati…

Quirky Circuits: Penny & Gizmo’s Snow Day! was designed by Nikki Valens with art by Danalyn Reyes, and published by Plaid Hat Games in 2022. It is a budget-friendly implementation of the …

Big Game in a Little Box Accessibility TL;DR. Components and iconography are language-independent and well-sized, eliminating reading during gameplay. All non-dice components are double-coded by sh…

Accessibility TL;DR. Cartographers is accessible to colorblind players. Low vision gamers might struggle with font size and style of the scoring cards, but only four are used each game and they do not...

Roll/Flip/Verb-and-Write games have become some of my favorite tabletop experiences, from some of the simplest like Criss Cross and QWIXX, to my current favorite: Cartographers (Colorblind Games revie...

Postmark Games does it again. Scribbly Gum: Print at Home Edition is designed by Phil Walker-Harding with illustrations by Meredith Walker-Harding. It's co-published by Joey Games and Postmark Games, ...

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn is an expandable card game designed by Isaac Vega; art by Fernanda Suarez, David Richards, and Thander Lin; and published by Plaid Hat Games. It is most commonly ...

Join us Live for TWO TIMES THE LIST! Arwen of Cardboard Time and Brian of Colorblind Games have joined forces to present their Top 20 list! Join in on the ...

Wolves, designed by Connor Alexander (Cherokee Nation) with art by Sa'dekaronhes Esquivel (Kanyen'kehà:ka/Mexican Indigenous) and Ovila Mailhot (Sto:lo / Nlaka'pamux Nation) is published by Coyote & C...

The bluest skies you've ever seen... and the hills the greenest green... Cascadia is one of my all-time favorite games—a breezy tile-layer I find delightful. For the upcoming Cascadia: Rolling Rivers ...