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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

That game looks fine to me visually. I don't need some artistic masterpiece to have fun, but when a game looks like this:



It's just kind of hard to feel invested. I mean that **** is plain ugly. Like there wasn't much thought put into the visual aspect of the game at all, they just had an idea that would be fun and plopped some muted colors and dice images down. (This is Castles of Burgundy, by the way).

It's one of THE premier eurogames, and is currently ranked #12 all-time on BoardGameGeek. I definitely appreciate how intelligently the gameplay was built but yeah it's just rough to want to play that when I can play a eurogame that looks like this instead even if the game might be technically designed a little worse (this one is called Yamatai):

Spoiler for taming that big pic:

I agree Castles of Burgundy doesn't look very attractive. It seems clear the only concern was how many squares and hexagons they could possibly cram everywhere possible. Then someone said "wait, we should splash a landscape .jpg across the whole thing for a theme" and to the printers it went.

My personal pick for biggest eye sore I've played would be the Warhammer 40k version of Talisman, named "Relic":



I mean... what the hell am I even looking at here. It's everything and the kitchen sink visual design at it's worst. I've played this game and sometimes just spaced out to the point of the board conveying no information to my brain anymore.