The best games by Richard Breese 🇬🇧👨 2026

Keyflower is a strategic board game designed for 2-6 players that spans over four rounds, each representing a different season: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The game combines elements of auction, tile placement, and resource management set in a medieval world. Players start with a "home" tile and a team of workers, using them to bid for new tiles, gather resources, and build their village.

Aladdin's Dragons (also known as Morgenland), developed from Richard Breese's Keydom, evolves the bidding and resource management mechanics into a vibrant, strategic board game that transports players to a realm of magical intrigue. Through clever placement of numbered bidding chips on a tripartite board, players engage in a tense contest of wits and bluffing. The objective is to amass wealth and magical artifacts, with treasure tokens serving as the pivotal currency for advancement.

Keythedral takes you into the heart of Keydom, where the monumental task of building the Keythedral unfolds. Players act as planners, marshaling resources from the countryside to construct this grand edifice through five progressive stages, each demanding a unique set of materials. As the structure grows, so does the complexity of your strategy.

The great river Key Flow flows through the new Key Lands, transporting ships loaded with resources for building and trading. Players develop their own unique villages along the river, sending workers called "Keyples" to work in their own businesses as well as those of their neighbors. The game, based on ideas from the award-winning Keyflower, unfolds over four seasons, allowing players to earn points through their buildings, animals, and other items.

Players develop their own London district based on their home tile using large hexagonal location tiles, which provide victory points and generate resources. The game unfolds over four epochs, with new location tiles available for bidding in each era, featuring resource-generating tiles and building blocks. Players choose from five actions on their turn, including bidding, resource generation, and expansion, and the game concludes when the last boat sets sail at the end of the fourth epoch, with the highest-scoring player winning.

Players aim to score the most points by placing tiles on their personal land board. Points are awarded based on the size of contiguous groups of field tiles, as well as for workers placed on their land. Each player has six workers and can bid for up to two tiles during their turn, while the game ends after the tenth event tile is drawn.

Players create their own menagerie of up to six creatures, each represented by up to six cards. These cards introduce, breed, evolve, and adapt creatures based on their class, continent, and habitat, with unique abilities. Movement of game pieces along paths and migration between boards is triggered by the cards, creating opportunities for breeding and earning additional points. At the end, points are calculated based on the abilities of creature cards, their positions on boards, and game tiles, determining the winner. An introductory game for up to three players is included.

Summer arrives in the forest, bringing life to the glade. Players fill their personal forest boards with sets of tiles depicting creatures, leaves, and forest fruits. By completing sets of tiles, they can place fly agaric tiles on the central tableau or add them to their supply, aiming to score the most points by the end of the game. After mastering the base game, players can transition to the "Matching" variant, aligning their tiles with the creatures, leaves, or fruits on their boards.

Reef Encounter is a strategic board game designed by Richard Breese that simulates the complex and vibrant ecosystem of a coral reef. Players engage in the growth and protection of various coral types, using polyp tiles and strategically placing shrimp counters to defend against attacks from other corals. The game combines elements of resource management and tactical positioning, requiring players to consume polyps from neighboring corals to gain valuable polyp tiles.

Keyper is a highly interactive game for two to four players, played over four seasonal rounds: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Players manage their own village boards and various colored key tokens that act as specialists in different activities, while also having the ability to cooperate with other players during turns to benefit both parties. The game features strategic decisions based on the seasonal availability of actions and resources, with the goal of scoring the most points through diverse strategies.