The best games from Richard Garfield 🇺🇸👨 2023
Looking for a really good game from game designer Richard Garfield 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Richard Garfield games 2023.
Richard Garfield has become world famous for his smash hit "Magic the Gathering" - but he has also invented some other very good board & card games. We bring light into the darkness and have picked out the best for you.
Who is Richard Garfield anyway?
Richard Garfield has been designing dice, card & board games since 1993. The game designer hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1963 and currently lives in Kirkland, Washington, USA🇺🇸. His full name is Richard Channing Garfield.
Garfield's first game "Magic: The Gathering" he developed in 1993 at the age of 30 - so he has been designing games for over 30. Famous Garfield games include King of Tokyo, Magic: The Gathering, Android: Netrunner & RoboRally.
In 1998, Garfield was inducted into the Origins Award Hall of Fame.
Inventor of collectible card games... and patent holder
Richard Garfield is one of the most famous game designers in the world. He was granted a patent on trading card games for his first game, Magic: The Gathering - now a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. Since then, he has designed many award-winning collectible card games and board games.
Garfield's childhood & youth
Richard Garfield spent his childhood traveling the world as his father worked in architecture. Eventually, they moved to Oregon when he was 12 years old. While initially interested in puzzles, his passion for games began with the discovery of Dungeons & Dragons. Richard Garfield designed his first game "RoboRally" at the age of 13 - but did not find a publisher until 1991, when he published it in 1994.
Professional career
Garfield earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computational mathematics in 1985. He then initially worked at Bell Labs, but eventually continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, this time in combinatorial mathematics. He then received a PhD in mathematics from the same university in 1993.
He was then a professor of mathematics at Whitman College before co-founding Wizards of the Coast (WofC) - also abbreviated as "Wizards" and the original publisher of Magic. Today, WofC is now owned by Hasbro.
Then, when Magic was published in 1993, Garfield decided to take a full-time job as a game developer.
How good are "Richard Garfield" games?
There are 9 games by Richard Garfield in our Top1000 games list, making Garfield the #18 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.
More information about Garfield
More information about Garfield can be found on:
- Garfield's BGG profile
- Richard Garfield's Facebook page
- official Richard Garfield website
- english Wikipedia entry for Richard Garfield
- german Wikipedia entry for Garfield
List of best games by Richard Garfield 2023
In this list we have listed the best board games that Richard Garfield either designed himself - or was involved in designing.
Unfortunately, not all of Richard Garfield's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Richard Garfield that you can buy 2023:
King of Tokyo: Dark Edition
- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
King of Tokyo
Nominated for 19 awards and won 7.
More details for King of Tokyo- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!27€ at.de
Mindbug: First Contact
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Mindbug: First Contact- 2 Players
- 15 - 25 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Hive Mind
- 3 - 12 Players
- 30 - 90 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Bunny Kingdom
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Bunny Kingdom- 2 - 4 Players
- 40 - 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!44€ at.de
Video reviews for Bunny Kingdom
The Great Dalmuti
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for The Great Dalmuti- 4 - 8 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!7€ at.de
King of New York
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for King of New York- 2 - 6 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Dice Hunters of Therion
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Carnival of Monsters
- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Carnival of Monsters
Dungeons, Dice & Danger
- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Android: Netrunner
Nominated for 6 awards and won 3.
More details for Android: Netrunner- 2 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
RoboRally
Nominated for 3 awards and won 2.
More details for RoboRally- 2 - 8 Players
- 45 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for RoboRally
Pecking Order
- 2 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Treasure Hunter
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Treasure Hunter- 2 - 6 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
KeyForge: Call of the Archons
Nominated for 9 awards and won 3.
More details for KeyForge: Call of the Archons- 2 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for KeyForge: Call of the Archons
Magic: The Gathering
Nominated for 9 awards and won 6.
More details for Magic: The Gathering- 2 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
The Hunger
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for The Hunger- 2 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Twitch
- 3 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Robo Rally
- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
King of Monster Island
- 1 - 5 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Shadow Blades
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle
- 4 - 6 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
KeyForge: Mass Mutation
- 2 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
KeyForge: Age of Ascension
- 2 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Filthy Rich
- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Greedy Greedy Goblins
- 2 - 4 Players
- 25 - 35 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Ghooost!
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Ghooost!- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Ghooost!
KeyForge: Worlds Collide
- 2 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- Medium difficulty
Portal
- 2 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
- 2 - 5 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
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