Is This Really What We Want? – AI Art in Board Games

At Essen 2025, I picked up a review copy of Kingdom Legacy, the latest release from Swedish design Jonathan Fryxelius and publisher FryxGames. I hadn’t heard anything about it prior to the convention—nothing drives home the vastness of our ecosystem like counting the games at Spiel that you’ve never heard of—but I was intrigued by the idea of a solo six-hour legacy game no larger than a standard deck box. I wanted to know how it worked.

Curiosity is a powerful motivator, and solo games are easier to table, so Kingdom Legacy was the first game I played when I got home. I spent a good amount of time with it and would love to write about my experience, but that is a review that will never be written. After an hour or so of playing, I realized that Kingdom Legacy uses AI art, and we here at Meeple Mountain have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to AI-generated material. When a publisher fills out the review request form, one of the provisos reads:

Note: Meeple Mountain does not review games which use AI generated artwork or content. If we discover that a game uses AI generated artwork or content in their final product, we will decline to accept a review copy or, if a…

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