Board Game Arena

I was recently playing a game of Terraforming Mars in a tournament with 2 other players. In this game I ran out of time and so did another player at the table. At some point my turn was being skipped and I'm not contesting that. What puzzles me is that once the game was considered over, the other tw...

While I appreciate the creativity and strategy that go into many board games, I find myself troubled by the tone and framing of this one. The language of “discovering new lands,” “expanding empire,” and “crushing everyone” evokes the history—and ongoing reality—of settler colonialism and violence a...