The best games from Steve Jackson 👨 2021

Looking for a really good game from game designer Steve Jackson 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best Steve Jackson games 2021.

Who is Steve Jackson anyway?

Steve Jackson has been designing dice, card & board games since 1977. The game designer hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA🇺🇸, was born in 1953 and currently lives in Austin, Texas, USA. He is also known as Vargskol Halfblood.

Jackson's first game Ogre he developed in 1977 at the age of 24 - so he has been designing games for over 44 years. Famous Jackson games are for example Munchkin, Zombie Dice & Illuminati.

First degree completed, second dropped out

Steve Jackson earned his bachelor's degree in biology and political science from Rice University in Houston, studied law for two years at the University of Texas, but dropped out in favor of a career as a game designer.

First employee, then game company founder

He first worked for many years at Metagaming Concepts, where he developed the wargame Ogre (focusing on battles between robot tanks in the future) and the fantasy role-playing game The Fantasy Trip, among others. In 1980, he left to found Steve Jackson Games, for which he designed many games, such as Car Wars (futuristic car combat wargame inspired by movies like Interceptor), GURPS (popular generic role-playing game rulebook), and Munchkin (humorous card game parodying the world of role-playing games).

How good are "Steve Jackson" games?

There are 0 games by Steve Jackson in our Top1000 games list, making Jackson the #707 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

More information about Jackson

More information about Jackson can be found on:

• official Steve Jackson website
• Wikipedia entry for Jackson

List of best games by Steve Jackson 2021

In this list we have listed the best board games that Steve Jackson either designed himself - or was involved in designing.

Unfortunately, not all of Steve Jackson's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by Steve Jackson that you can buy 2021: