The best games from Rob Daviau 🇺🇸👨 2023
Looking for a really good game from game designer Rob Daviau 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Rob Daviau games 2023.
Who is Rob Daviau anyway?
Rob Daviau has been designing dice, card & board games since 1999. The game designer hails from Maine, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1970 and currently lives in Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸.
Daviau's first game "Trivial Pursuit Star Wars Episode I" he developed in 1999 at the age of 29 - so he has been designing games for over 24 years. Famous Daviau games are for example Pandemic Legacy Series, Betrayal at House on the Hill & Downforce.
Initially employed by Hasbro
In 1998, Daviau joined Hasbro. He initially developed various expansions and special editions to established board games such as the Trivial Pursuit series, Monopoly versions, Stratego and Risk series.
Risk Legacy led to independence
But then he was mentored to develop Riskiko Evolution / Risk Legacy. It was designed as a legacy-game and featured permanent changes to the game material. Risk Evolution, however, was also his last game for Hasbro.... because he recognized the potential of the legacy principle and went off on his own - to invent, for example, the games of the Pandemic Legacy series.
The 2015 cooperative board game Pandemic Legacy (Season 1) is based on the game Pandemic by Matt Leacock, with whom Daviau collaborated on the latter. He applies the legacy concept to this game. He is now mostly known for his legacy games, e.g. SeaFall from 2016.
Wife also from gaming
He is married to Lindsay Daviau. Lindsay has worked in the board game industry in production, prototyping, playtesting, graphic design, and art direction. He met her while working at Hasbro.
She is one of two art directors at Restoration Games. Rob has been the Chief Restoration Officer there since 2016. The publisher's goal is to bring the best out-of-print board games back to life and republish them (such as Downforce).
Teaching Game Design
Rob has been a visiting professor of game design at Hampshire College and NYU, has contributed articles to several books on game design, and has been a speaker at dozens of conferences. He has guest lectured on game design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and New York University, among others.
How good are "Rob Daviau" games?
There are 11 games by Rob Daviau in our Top1000 games list, making Daviau the #11 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.
More information about Daviau
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List of best games by Rob Daviau 2023
In this list we have listed the best board games that Rob Daviau either designed himself - or was involved in designing.
Unfortunately, not all of Rob Daviau's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Rob Daviau 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
👍 Good price!61€ at.de
Video reviews for Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
Unmatched: Cobble & Fog
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Unmatched: Cobble & Fog- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!40€ at.de
Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!36€ at.de
Cthulhu: Death May Die
Nominated for 6 awards and won 1.
More details for Cthulhu: Death May Die- 1 - 5 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!83€ at.de
Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot
- 2 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!26€ at.de
Unmatched: Jurassic Park – InGen vs Raptors
- 2 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Downforce
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Downforce- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
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!50€ at.de
Video reviews for Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar- 2 - 4 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar
Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie- 2 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 2 - 4 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Stop Thief!
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ 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!43€ at.de
Video reviews for Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
Heroscape Master Set: Swarm of the Marro
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Heroscape Master Set: Swarm of the Marro- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Dinosaur Tea Party
- 3 - 5 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Dinosaur Tea Party
Risk Legacy
Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.
More details for Risk Legacy- 3 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Risk Legacy
Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit
- 2 - 4 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Machi Koro Legacy
- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for Betrayal at House on the Hill- 3 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Betrayal Legacy
Nominated for 5 awards and won 1.
More details for Betrayal Legacy- 3 - 5 Players
- 45 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
ShipShape
- 2 - 6 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Heroscape Marvel: The Conflict Begins
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Heroscape Marvel: The Conflict Begins- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Heroscape Master Set: Battle for the Underdark
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Indulgence
- 3 - 4 Players
- 40 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Indulgence
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game
- 2 - 5 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Risk: Star Wars – Original Trilogy Edition
- 2 - 5 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Mountains of Madness
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Mountains of Madness- 3 - 5 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Mountains of Madness
Clue: Harry Potter Edition
- 3 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 9+ years old
- Easy to learn
Ultimate Werewolf Legacy
- 8 - 16 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Ultimate Werewolf Legacy
Battleship Card Game
- 2 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
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