The best games from Matthias Cramer 🇩🇪👨 2023
Looking for a really good game from game designer Matthias Cramer 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Matthias Cramer games 2023.
Who is Matthias Cramer anyway?
Matthias Cramer has been designing dice, card & board games since 2010. The freelance game designer born near Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany🇩🇪 in 1970, is married and currently lives in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 🇩🇪. He works full-time as an IT project manager at Brenntag Group (a trading company for chemical products).
Cramer's first game "Glen More" he developed in 2010 at the age of 40 - so he's been designing games for over 13 years of games. Famous Cramer games besides Glen More include Lancaster, Rokoko & Watergate.
Boardgames intensified since his studies
Cramer was drawn into a circle of board gamers more or less by accident during his student days. This was before Settlers of Catan, so most of the available games with some complexity were published by Avalon Hill.
First prototypes during his studies, then a longer break
At this time he also created his first prototype, a clone of 1830 set in today's economy, but where players make cars from raw materials. This prototype consisted of a huge number of cards and completely filled the floor of his living room. Later he turned his attention to Euro games and stopped developing games for a few years.
First published game then in 2010
In the late 2000s, he started developing games again when he found the old box with the car manufacturing game. He started to turn this into a Euro game. Other projects followed very quickly, like Lancaster, Highlands (which is now Glen More) and Helvetia.
How good are "Matthias Cramer" games?
There are 6 games by Matthias Cramer in our Top1000 games list, making Cramer the #37 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.
More information about Cramer
More information about Cramer can be found on:
- Cramer's BGG profile
- Cramer's Twitter feed
- Cramer's LinkedIn profile
- german Wikipedia entry for Cramer
List of best games by Matthias Cramer 2023
In this list we have listed the best board games that Matthias Cramer either designed himself - or was involved in designing.
Unfortunately, not all of Matthias Cramer's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Matthias Cramer that you can buy 2023:
Watergate
Nominated for 9 awards and won 4.
More details for Watergate- 2 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!22€ at.de
Video reviews for Watergate
Glen More II: Chronicles
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Glen More II: Chronicles- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Glen More
Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.
More details for Glen More- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 - 70 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Rococo
- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Plums
- 3 - 5 Players
- 30 - 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Lancaster
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2011
More details for Lancaster- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Castle Rampage
- 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Fight for Olympus
- 2 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Kraftwagen
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Kraftwagen- 2 - 4 Players
- 75 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Lancaster: Big Box
- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Dynasties: Heirate & Herrsche
- 3 - 5 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Helvetia
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Helvetia- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
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