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What is an 'eurogame' in today's scene? (self.boardgames)
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How would you define an eurogame today? Or do you think the distinction has become meaningless?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I still use it as a contrast to thematic games. In a thematic game, the rules and mechanisms are in service of presenting a theme. In a euro, there is a strong emphasis on clean rules and focused mechanisms even if they are only tangentially related to the theme they are trying to represent.