The best games from Matt Leacock 🇺🇸👨 2023
Looking for a really good game from game designer Matt Leacock 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Matt Leacock games 2023.
Who is Matt Leacock anyway?
Matt Leacock has been designing dice, card & board games since 1995. The game designer hails from St. Paul, Minnesota, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1971, and currently lives in Sunnyvale, California, USA🇺🇸.
Leacock began developing individual games in the 1990s. Leacock's first published game, Borderlands, came out in 1995 when he was 24 years old - so he's actually been designing games for over 28 years. However, after his first game there was a 5 year break until "Lunatic Loops" - and until his third it took until 2008, so another 8 years.
Famous Leacock games are for example Pandemic, Forbidden Island & the Pandemic Legacy Series.
His daughter, Colleen Leacock, has also taken her first steps as a game designer.
From Minnesota to Illinois to California
Leacock grew up in Long Lake, Minnesota, USA. He then studied visual communications in Illinois at Northern Illinois University, graduating in 1995. He was then drawn to the greats in Silicon Valley.
From employee at IT giants to board game designer icon
Leacock initially worked as a developer for various IT giants such as Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape and Apple as a user experience designer. During his time as an employee, he always developed board games on the side. He finally wrapped up his IT career in July 2014 and switched to designing board games full-time.
"I design the games I want to play and teach. It's hard for me to imagine doing game design for a paycheck." -- Matt Leacock
How good are "Matt Leacock" games?
There are 11 games by Matt Leacock in our Top1000 games list, making Leacock the #11 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.
More information about Leacock
More information about Leacock can be found on:
- Leacock's BGG profile
- Leacock's Twitter feed
- Matt Leacock's Facebook page
- Leacock's Instagram Account
- Leacock's LinkedIn profile
- official Matt Leacock website
- english Wikipedia entry for Matt Leacock
- german Wikipedia entry for Leacock
List of best games by Matt Leacock 2023
In this list we have listed the best board games that Matt Leacock either designed himself - or was involved in designing.
Unfortunately, not all of Matt Leacock's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Matt Leacock that you can buy 2023:
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
Nominated for 21 awards and won 12.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2016
More details for Pandemic Legacy: Season 1- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
Pandemic: Iberia
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Pandemic: Iberia- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Pandemic: Iberia
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Pandemic Legacy: Season 0- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
👍 Good price!55€ at.de
Video reviews for Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
Pandemic
- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Pandemic
Pandemic: The Cure
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Pandemic: The Cure- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu- 2 - 4 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Pandemic: Fall of Rome
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Pandemic: Fall of Rome- 1 - 5 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Forbidden Desert
Nominated for 7 awards and won 4.
More details for Forbidden Desert- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Forbidden Desert
Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
- 2 - 5 Players
- 20 - 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age
Nominated for 10 awards and won 1.
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2010
More details for Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
Nominated for 10 awards and won 3.
⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2018
More details for Pandemic Legacy: Season 2- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
👍 Good price!50€ at.de
Video reviews for Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
Forbidden Island
Nominated for 13 awards and won 5.
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2011
More details for Forbidden Island- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Forbidden Island
Mole Rats in Space
- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Immediately playable
Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
🔥 Great price!14€ at.de
Pandemic: Rising Tide
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Pandemic: Rising Tide- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Era: Medieval Age
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Era: Medieval Age- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Thunderbirds
- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Thunderbirds
Pandemic: Hot Zone – Europe
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Knit Wit
- 2 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Chariot Race
- 2 - 6 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
🔥 Great price!25€ at.de
Video reviews for Chariot Race
Forbidden Sky
Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.
More details for Forbidden Sky- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Forbidden Sky
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