The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly — Boardgame Box Art

“You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” – Will Rogers

If you are browsing through your friendly local game store, or through the game listings at BoardGameGeek, chances are that your initial introduction to a board game comes from the artwork on the box. The cover, the sides, and the back of the box all need to engage with you—draw you in, spark something in your imagination—in order to entice you to part with hard earned cash. As with anything, some games have wonderful artwork (the good), some games have awful artwork (the bad), and still others have artwork that makes you scratch your head wondering why (the ugly). Today, K. David Ladage and Joseph Buszek each look at three games which fall into those buckets and let you know which games might be worth your time but are hiding behind the wrong first impression, and which peaked with the box.

Joseph Buszek

The Good - On Mars

I can’t think of a board game designer and artist more closely linked than Vital Lacerda and Ian O’ Toole, who have collaborated on eight big box titles for Eagle-Gryphon Games. Of all the gorgeous covers created by O’ Toole for Lacerda, On Mars still grabs…

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