The best games by Corné van Moorsel 🇳🇱👨 2026

Nova Luna is an abstract tile-laying strategy game that focuses on careful planning and decision-making. Players are tasked with fulfilling objectives by placing tiles strategically, creating a unique and engaging gameplay experience.

Players build a large wildlife park without fences or cages. Animals need their natural habitats like grasslands, bushes, rocks, or lakes. Each player starts with an entrance tile and will take turns selecting animal tiles while adding the corresponding landscape to their park. Achieving the landscape needs for various animals becomes increasingly challenging as the game progresses through three seasons, with bonus points awarded for objectives met during each season. The player with the most points at the end wins.

Players assume the role of zoo owners, each starting with some money and a plot of land. Over five years, five zoo tiles featuring different animal species, paths, and possibly trees are auctioned annually to the highest bidder. The aim is to attract as many visitors as possible, as each visitor contributes points at the end of the year, and ultimately, players seek to outperform their opponents.

Players build caravan routes across the board, aiming to reach the most popular and lucrative caravan spots near beautiful lakes. Points are awarded for controlling lakes with gold coins and connected caravan groups once all lands are filled. After a second round with some adjustments, the player with the most points is crowned the Gipsy King.

Factory Fun is a dynamic and engaging board game where players take on the role of factory managers, aiming to construct the most efficient and profitable manufacturing plant. Through strategic placement of machines and careful management of resources, players connect inputs and outputs to optimize their production lines. The challenge intensifies as the factory floor becomes increasingly crowded with machinery, making the puzzle of connecting all components without unnecessary expense more complex.

Champions 2020 shares the same core mechanics as StreetSoccer, developed over thirty years, but is set in a year where some football rules have been updated for smoother gameplay. Unlike StreetSoccer’s five-a-side format, this game simulates full stadium football with 11 players per team. Players showcase advanced skills, resulting in dynamic performances, while also facing the challenges of fouls and penalties that add complexity to the match.

Players move their grasshoppers across the board to reach the opponent's corner while preventing their opponent from doing the same. The board layout is randomized each game, keeping play fresh and exciting.

Players start a resort on a tourist island with just a single plot of land. They can build chalets for tourists, create attractions to keep them longer, or set up signs to guide visitors to their resort. Managing limited family members for various tasks is crucial, as each action consumes time, emphasizing the importance of wise money and time management.

Players connect city areas via trade routes across different terrain types, including farmland, hills, mountains, forests, and water. To build these routes, players must first gain knowledge of the various region types by traversing them with their farmer. While this game shares similarities with Morisi, it features different tile components, scoring mechanisms, and introduces elements not present in Morisi, requiring distinct strategies for success.

Players seek to occupy good fields around the lakes. By forming territories with tribes on adjacent fields, they can benefit from more areas. Territories can be combined as long as both benefit, resulting in increasingly larger regions.