The best games from Martin Wallace 🇬🇧👨 2023

Looking for a really good game from game designer Martin Wallace 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Martin Wallace games 2023.

Who is Martin Wallace anyway?

Martin Wallace has been designing dice, card & board games since 1993. The game designer hails from Southampton🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, UK🇬🇧, was born in 1962 and currently lives in Australien 🇦🇺.

Wallace's first game "Lords of Creation" he developed in 1993 at the age of 31 - so he has been designing games for over 30 years. Famous Wallace games are for example Age of Steam, Brass: Birmingham & Lancashire, .

First employed, then founded several game publishers.

Wallace first worked at Games Workshop for a while, and then began developing games in earnest in the early 1990s, his first game being Lords of Creation. Eventually, German companies picked up some of his games, such as Und Tschüss, Volldampf, and Tempus. He has also published a number of games through his own company Warfrog/Treefrog. These include titles such as Struggle of Empires, Princes of the Renaissance, and "Age of Steam. Wallace has been a full-time game publisher and designer ever since.

Currently - after a bit of a hiatus as a game developer - he has started a new company: Wallace Designs.

Strategy Games & Railroads in Focus

Wallace is known for designing complex strategy games that feature a variety of historical settings. Two themes he has frequently used are the construction and operation of railroads and the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. He has earned a reputation for blending elegant European-style game mechanics with the strong themes more typical of American-style games. Many of his games include economic systems with rules for income, taxes, and debt.

Interviews with Martin Wallace

There are two interviews with him on Boardgamegeek:

• Interview I
• Interview II

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How good are "Martin Wallace" games?

There are 20 games by Martin Wallace in our Top1000 games list, making Wallace the #2 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

More information about Wallace

More information about Wallace can be found on:

• Wallace's BGG profile
• Wallace's Twitter feed
• official Martin Wallace website
• english Wikipedia entry for Martin Wallace
• german Wikipedia entry for Wallace

List of best games by Martin Wallace 2023

In this list we have listed the best board games that Martin Wallace either designed himself - or was involved in designing.

Unfortunately, not all of Martin Wallace's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Martin Wallace that you can buy 2023: