The best games from Doris Matthäus 🇩🇪👩 2024
Looking for a really good game from game designer Doris Matthäus 👩? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Doris Matthäus games 2024.
Who is Doris Matthäus anyway?
Doris Matthäus has been designing dice, card & board games since 1989. The game designer is from Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany🇩🇪, was born in 1963 and currently lives in a suburb of Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany🇩🇪.
Matthäus's first game, Esels-Rennen ("Donkey Race"), she developed in 1989 at the age of 26 - so she's been designing games for over 35 years. Famous Matthäus games include Ursuppe, Mü & Mehr, or Frank's Zoo.
Married to a game developer
In 1992 she married the game developer Frank Nestel. With him she published many own games in the self-publishing company "Doris & Frank".
Mainly artwork designer
Doris is one of the top designers in the German board game scene. She has designed the artwork of three games of the year (Carcassonne, El Grande & Elfenland). In one year, she managed to design all four top winners of the German Game Prize "Deutscher Spielepreis 1998" (1st place, 2nd, 3rd and Kinderspielpreis).
Initially fully analog
Until 1995, she had nothing at all to do with computers. All her work was done with real paints on real canvases. Even after that, she designed a lot of artwork in analog and then scanned it.
How good are "Doris Matthäus" games?
There are 1 games by Doris Matthäus in our Top1000 games list, making Matthäus the #273 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.
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List of best games by Doris Matthäus 2024
In this list we have listed the best board games that Doris Matthäus either designed herself - or was involved in designing.
Unfortunately, not all of Doris Matthäus's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Doris Matthäus that you can buy 2024:
Frank's Zoo
More details for Frank's ZooFrank's Zoo is a lively card game that challenges players to strategically rid themselves of all their cards across multiple hands, with scoring based on how quickly players can empty their hand each round. The game can be enjoyed in two modes: with consistent solo play or with alternating partners, adding a layer of strategy in team play.
- 3 - 7 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
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*Igel Ärgern + Tante Tarantel
- 2 - 6 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
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- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Tante Tarantel
- 3 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Mü and Lots More
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Mü and Lots More- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Mü & More
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Mü & More- 2 - 8 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 11+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Esels-Rennen
- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Primordial Soup
Primordial Soup is a unique strategy game where each player guides a species of amoeboid organisms in an evolving ecosystem. Players must navigate a world where species depend on each other’s excreta for survival. The goal is to evolve your species to enhance its population and genetic sophistication. The game involves moving organisms, feeding, adapting to environmental changes, acquiring new genes, reproducing, and ultimately scoring points. The game ends when a species reaches 42 points or the environment cards run out. The available genes offer various abilities like improved movement control, efficient metabolism, and enhanced reproductive or defensive capabilities.
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Primordial Soup- 3 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Banana Republic
- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Ark
- 3 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Urland
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Urland- 3 - 5 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
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- 2 - 6 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
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