Ten Years and 3,000 Posts: Meeple Mountain by the Numbers

A few weeks ago Meeple Mountain hit a pretty significant milestone: we published our 3,000th post on this site. 3,000 Reviews, Articles, Top 6 Lists, News, and Topics- that’s crazy! Since I started Meeple Mountain in 2015 our writing team has grown from 1 (me) to over 70 contributors, published some of the best content the tabletop industry has seen, and lots of it! This year also represents another important milestone—it’s the year we turn TEN! Join me as I take a stroll down memory lane and reflect on what got us to ten years and 3,000 posts.

In the Beginning – 2015

When I was growing up, I played games all the time with my family: Rummy, Risk, Frontier 6, all sorts of games. But then through my 20s I didn’t play many games at all. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I was introduced to Ticket to Ride. Like many people who grew up on traditional games, Ticket to Ride simply blew me away. It had so many components: train pieces, multiple decks of cards, a massive board with a map of the United States, and a box that was bigger than any other game box I’d ever seen. I won’t say I was hooked right then, but that was my entry point to the hobby. From then on I started reading everything I could find about board games.

Back in 2015 board game media looked much different than it does today. No TikTok, very few video channels, and most of what you could find online was written. I discovered a number of websites who published written reviews of board games: BoardGameQuest, iSlayTheDragon, CardboardRepublic, and several others. But mixed in with those quality sites came other websites which weren’t great: reviews and articles that were poorly written, with spelling and grammar errors, and a general lack of care given to their output. I was coming off a stretch of time where I’d written hundreds of technical blog posts about software development, as well as co-authoring several books. So I was well aware of what it took to produce written content that was pleasing to read.

I decided that I could do better, and so I wrote a few board game reviews on my professional blog (Dice Bazaar and Battle Sheep to start with). But then I realized that if I was going to do more of these, I needed a different place to publish them. And since I was a web developer, I decided to build a website. I spent several weeks brainstorming ideas for names until I settled on Meeple Mountain. I liked the alliteration, and since I’m well over 6 feet tall, I thought it would also be a fun nod to my height.

And so at the end of 2015, Meeple Mountain was born.

2015 Stats

• Reviews – 3
• Total posts – 3
• Total Unique Contributors – 1
• All time posts: 3

And Then? – 2016

Since it was just me at first, I could publish a review whenever I wanted to. Early on it was usually around one a week, but I had no set schedule. I published reviews of games I had bought and loved: Kahuna, Gravwell, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, I even started a “game every day” challenge for all of 2016 and kept that up to date as the year went on. And then in July of 2016 something unexpected happened: I met someone else who also loved board games, and was interested in writing for the site. Up until then I hadn’t given any thought to what Meeple Mountain could be, I just liked playing and writing about board games. But when E. Longwell joined, we started brainstorming and realized that this could be the start of something great.

With two of us we could publish more often, without either of us having to work “harder”. But more importantly, we realized that we could sharpen each other by proofreading each other’s work: offering suggestions, catching small errors, and generally making our content better than it could be alone. And since four eyes are better than two, it also meant that we could pay more attention to board game announcements, news, and do a better job of keeping our fingers on the pulse of the industry. In addition to reviews, we started publishing more articles, our well-respected Top 6 lists, and we also started doing interviews with notable industry folks like Alexander Pfister,  A. J. Porfirio from Van Ryder Games, and others. We didn’t realize at the time that we were laying the foundation for becoming a recognized and well-respected board game media outlet.

And then another windfall: two friends of ours from Nashville expressed interest in writing for Meeple Mountain. Jesse Fletcher and David McMillan were both friends of ours from various board game nights and they liked what we were doing. And just like that we doubled in size again. Two people with a distinct set of skills and interests, became four. Now “we” liked heavy board games instead of just lighter games, and “we” also gained experience in humor and music. Meeple Mountain was growing up, and changing right before my eyes. By the end of 2016 we’d gained two more team members: Nathan Baker and Dave Seiler, and while neither of them are still with us, they proved that what we were doing was attracting notice.

Notable Posts from 2016

• Nashville Game Night Featured on Nashville News Channel 5 – our monthly game night was featured on local CBS affiliate News Channel 5.
• How Meeples are Made – we partnered with Panda Manufacturing to interview their Vice President of Business Development on the manufacturing process they use to make meeples. Fun fact, this article is the number one search result for the term “how meeples are made”.

2016 Stats

• Articles – 31
• Interviews – 8
• News – 15
• Reviews – 41
• Top 6 – 13
• Total posts – 108
• Total Unique Contributors – 6
• All time posts: 111

An Explosion – 2017

2017 turned out to be a banner year for Meeple Mountain. Even though we were six at the beginning of the year, our name continued to spread locally through board game groups and word of mouth and before the end of February we had added 4 new local writers: Aaron Edwards, Andrew Plassard, Jessi Goodwin, and JP.

One thing that was gratifying about 2017 was that we were able to parlay our growing notoriety into publisher contacts, which meant that instead of only reviewing games we owned, we could reach out to publishers and request copies of games that we would then review on the website. And while we’d done it a few times in 2016, I didn’t feel comfortable making official requests until 2017. One of the best relationships we made that year was with the small but mighty company Button Shy Games. They were doing something really unique: putting out “wallet games” in which every release contained only 18 cards. While this had been done before, those other companies saw that as a gimmick. Button Shy, on the other hand, leaned into it putting out quality titles like Turbo Drift and Circle the Wagons (my personal pick for game of the year in 2017).

2017 also saw the first time our growing team got the chance to attend a board game event together: Gen Con 2017. We rented hotel rooms and took the place by storm. We recorded hours of interviews with Czech Games Edition, Cephalofair, Gamewright Games, Ravensburger, CMON, Blue Orange Games, Arcane Wonders, Restoration Games, and many others. We published our first “post Gen Con” wrap up (that has become a hallmark of attending any industry event), and we even published one of our longest running, regularly updated articles: our board game convention calendar (updated several times a month since 2017).

By the fall we were publishing 4-5 articles per week on average, and starting to think about ourselves as a “real writing team”. We had an official release calendar (that we still use to this day), we peer-reviewed our content internally before publication, and we had a Slack channel we used to communicate amongst ourselves. But it was our decision to post an official call for contributors at the tail end of August that really opened the floodgates. And by the end of the year we had another 7 contributors: Adam Murray, Dietrich Stogner, Jared Monger, Jonathan Elder, Justin Gibbons, KM Riley, Kurt Refling, and Philip Chen.

This new group of writers expanded our horizons in more ways than one: KM Riley is not only a published author, but was deep into role playing games and she went on to publish some of our most-viewed articles on being a dungeon master (DM). Kurt Refling, along with his wife Kathleen Hartin and good friend Ashley Gariepy (more on them in 2018) would go on to become important members of the team and would help guide us towards important initiatives like improving our internal diversity and calling out the work of women in the board game industry.

2017 was also the year I moved us from a low-tech publishing solution to the industry standard WordPress platform, along with a redesign of the website. This made it easier for the writing team to upload the content themselves without me being the blocker. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made, and it enabled so much progress that I’ll talk about later.

Notable Posts from 2017

• Top 6 Board Game Stepladders – This was a term that we coined, which referred to any three games which represented a theme, mechanism, designer, etc. One would be mass market and the other two would be a step lower and step above in complexity.
• What if Board Games were Rock Bands – one of our earliest humor posts, it went on to spawn a Happy Salmon t-shirt.
• Most Anticipated Games of 2017 – this was the first in our lengthy Most Anticipated series. Nowadays we break it down by event: Gen Con, Essen SPIEL, etc. But back in the day it was just one!
• Guide To Board Game Conventions – Originally written as a guide to help gamers know what to expect at large board game conventions, we also added a convention calendar which has been kept up to date every few weeks since 2017.
• A Board Gamer’s Guide to Wargaming – Jared would only write two pieces for Meeple Mountain, but for many years this was the most viewed article on the site. Plus it would set the stage for many more wargame articles in years to come.

2017 Stats

• Articles – 36
• Interviews – 5
• News – 5
• Reviews – 79
• Top 6 – 13
• Total posts – 138
• Total Unique Contributors – 17
• All time posts: 249

23 Contributors?! – 2018

At the beginning of 2018 I was feeling pretty happy with Meeple Mountain and our writing team. In January I published the first Meeple Mountain Year in Review—what would go on to become an annual Year in Review recap.

In 2018 we leaned into the call for contributors first started in 2017 and did two more: spring and fall. This brought in another wave of new voices including Alex Colby, Andrew Holmes, Art Franz, Ashley Gariepy, Kathleen Hartin, Leslie Ewing, Logan Giannini, Marcus Cathey, Scott Pepper, Than Gibson, Tyler Williams, and Wendy Barlow. 2018 was also the year we went international by having writers in The United States, Canada, and Wales.

Thanks to the influx of new team members, and the fact that we started really hitting our stride, 2018 was the first year we broke 200 published articles in a single year. And with the addition of Ashley and Kathleen, we had three Canadian team members. We started calling the three of them “Maple Mountain” and would change the site’s branding to a custom logo for holidays like Canada Day.

But probably the biggest thing to happen in 2018 was the Diamond Climber Awards. While there are some legitimately huge awards like the Spiel des Jahres, there are also many smaller awards, including some from board game media outlets like ourselves. We discussed internally and felt that with a large writing team like ours, we had enough variety of opinion and tastes that we could publish an award. And so we launched with 12 categories, with a combination of internal selections and fan voting. Our first Diamond Climber Award nominations were announced at the end of 2018, with the winners being revealed at the beginning of 2019.

Notable Posts from 2018

• Top 6 Types of Games That Are Surprisingly Hard to Teach – Kurt really leaned into time he spent as a game teacher at a board game cafe and taught us about teaching games.
• A Mother and Daughter Walk into Dice Tower Con… – Wendy Barlow penned a touching story about expectations at a board game convention; and how wrong she was.
• Top 6 Games that Changed Board Gaming Forever – I dug deep into the hobby and revealed my picks for the 6 most impactful board games in modern gaming; the ones that changed the face of the hobby.

2018 Stats

• Articles – 49
• Interviews – 5
• MM Awards – 9
• News – 1
• Reviews – 124
• Top 6 – 12
• Videos – 1
• Total posts – 202
• Total Unique Contributors – 23
• All time posts: 451

2019

2019 is the year that it all really started breaking loose, and we really started to come into our own. We had published 270 amazing articles, and reviews, but we also had some hilarious humor posts that are still great to this day. We released the first in our humorously titled satire series Perfect Information Press–intended as board gaming’s answer to The Onion or Babylon Bee, and delivered humor as “news”. Kurt’s piece on “Soulless” Euro Games Condemned by Christian Leaders threw many people for a loop, but they kept coming back with more submissions by other team members.

2019 was the year that Meeple Mountain saw its highest single day traffic ever. Ian suggested that Dungeons & Dragons might be changing its name due to missed expectations from players—what if there were neither dungeons or dragons in any given campaign? It hit the front page of Google News, generated over 100,000 page views in a single day, and the next day was almost as high, and many many people failed their insight checks as to whether this article was real or satire.

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Our efforts at bringing in new team members continued to pay off as we released biannual calls for contributors. Joining as contributors were Brody Sheard, Bryan Gerding, Dylan Speed, Gary Chavez, Ian Howard, Jim Becker, Mark Iradian, Paul Booth, Rachel LeCompte, Reagan Duggins, Robert Crowter-Jones, Thomas Wells, Tom Franklin, and Will Hare.

Brody Sheard immediately took over primary video reviewer duties for the Meeple Mountain YouTube channel. And was later joined by Tyler who switched from written to video content.

Gary, along with Ian and Art, spearheaded the creation of our board game design series, and all three of them would go on to publish many amazing game design articles.

Notable Posts from 2019

• The Road to One Million Pageviews – On September 19, 2019 (not quite 4 years after we went live, Meeple Mountain hit one million pageviews. I reminisced about how we got there.
• The 100 Most Important Board Games of the 2010s – this was Kurt’s labor of love, I can’t imagine how long it took him to compile and write. But it stands as a testament to his knowledge, discernment, and dedication to board gaming.
• The Ultimate Worldwide Guide to Board Game Cafes – intended as a companion piece to our board game convention calendar, this is the largest list of board game cafes all over the world, kept up to date with internal and external submissions.

2019 Stats

• Articles – 54
• Humor – 22
• Interviews – 4
• MM Awards – 13
• News – 1
• Reviews – 143
• Top 6 – 14
• Videos – 19
• Total posts – 270
• Total Unique Contributors – 37
• All time posts: 721

2020

Our spirits were high going into 2020. Our team was solid, our place in board game reviewing was solidifying.

And then COVID hit.

One of the worst disasters the world has ever seen had a silver lining for the board gaming industry—people all over the world were discovering, or rediscovering, board gaming as they were forced to stay at home. Sales of puzzles and tabletop games went through the roof, and websites allowing players to enjoy their favorite board games online were everywhere. We published a flagship article which condensed many different ways to game while isolated, we released videos on how to use Tabletopia and Tabletop Simulator, and we did our best to help lonely and isolated people keep themselves occupied with board games by publishing a record 383 articles.

We added 7 more contributors to the site in 2020: Dave Wood, Emily Krieble, Joe Fonseca, Nalin Chuapetcharasopon, Nicholas Leeman, Reid Conley, and Alette Smith (Scriv the Bard).

Thanks in part to COVID, solo gaming was on the rise and so Joe, Dave, and Than began publishing wargame and RPG related articles and reviews. The goal being to acclimate traditional board gamers to the joys of an alternate slice of tabletop gaming and to meet everyone where their interests lay. Since then we’ve published many additional articles and have done a great job of encouraging our readers to try something new.

The final thing we did in 2020 was to create a support channel in our Slack group. This was internal only and gave our team a place to talk about personal issues, and anything that might be weighing them down mentally, physically, or emotionally. This gave us the chance to learn more about our “coworkers” personal lives, and relate to them as real people and not just a byline on the website.

Notable Posts from 2020

• A Definitive Guide to the Spiel des Jahres Board Game Awards – imagined by Ashley Gariepy, and exhaustively researched, this might be the most thorough compilation of Spiel des Jahres history on the internet. It contains a list of every recommendation, nominee, and winner in the entire 45 year history of the award. Thank you Ashley!
• Why Representation in Board Games Matters – Kathleen had a passion for justice, and she poured her heart into this piece.
• Gaming While Isolated – a primer on how to game while alone: either by choice, or as during the COVID period,

2020 Stats

• Articles – 49
• Humor – 4
• Interviews – 2
• MM Awards – 8
• News – 1
• Reviews – 193
• Top 6 – 9
• Videos – 117
• Total posts – 383
• Total Unique Contributors – 33
• All time posts: 1,104

2021

Even though COVID cast a pall over the entire world, 2020 wound up being pretty good for Meeple Mountain. New team members, a dramatic increase in published content, and several new teammates. I expected to ride 2020’s wave into 2021, but our traffic died off a bit. As well, several writers decided to move on, and for the first time in our history, we published fewer articles than the year before. The COVID burnout was real. While board gaming itself was still growing in popularity, our team had less time to spend _writing_ about games because everyone was still trying to figure out what the new normal would look like.

And while that was certainly a blow, I couldn’t have expected what was going to happen in 2022. Looking back, 2021 was a foundational year in our history, with several team members joining; ones who would go on to become part of the core of Meeple Mountain today.

New contributors: Andrew Lynch, Bob Pazehoski, Jr., Casey Ward, Justin Bell, Ly-ann Tan Low, Matt Montgomery, and Sacha Lywood. Of particular interest with this group: Bob had been a frequent commenter on the site for a year or more and he finally decided to throw his hat in the ring. And with the addition of Ly-Ann (based in Singapore) we become a truly global outlet. And both Justin and Andrew would go on to become incredibly prolific contributors.

Notable Posts from 2021

• Carcassonne 20th Anniversary: A History and Celebration of Carcassonne – a massive tribute to Carcassonne, and a celebration of one of the most well known hobby games in history.
• Board Game Raffle for Food Security – We partnered with a number of organizations around the US and Canada to help raise over $1,500 USD for families who were still struggling with the aftereffects of COVID.
• The Ultimate Guide to Board Game Design Services – A companion piece to our guide to board game convention and cafe guides, Gary Chavez imagined this piece as a resource to the board game industry, targeted towards board game designers and publishers. Think of it as Angie’s List for the board game industry.

2021 Stats

• Articles – 36
• Humor – 2
• Interviews – 2
• MM Awards – 10
• News – 2
• Reviews – 194
• Top 6 – 8
• Videos – 44
• Total posts – 298
• Total Unique Contributors – 35
• All time posts: 1,402

2022

At the end of 2022 I looked back and realized that not only had we almost doubled the number of reviews we’d published, but we’d almost doubled the number of posts we’d published overall, completely blowing the doors off any previous year, with a whopping 544 articles. It was simply astonishing that an all-volunteer team could publish 10 or more articles a week, while still maintaining quality writing, insight, and a great sense of humor.

Another important note about 2022: it was the first year that our team members started attending conventions regularly—and writing about them. We’d attended Gen Con, and other local events, but 2022 was the year it became a regular occurrence. In the following years, we attended Essen SPIEL, PAX Unplugged, Congress of Gamers, TRAXX, and even Festival International des Jeux in France.

2022 was also the year we made some pretty impactful changes to the site. First off we went from “designing” every review header custom, to the standard design and layout you see on the site today. Given the volume of reviews we were releasing, this made sense because it was easier for me to create them—yes, all of our headers are manually created. The end result is a more consistent appearance, and saved a lot of time

Our team also wanted a way to easily draft a focused piece about a specific topic: board games about robots, games about nature, games where you solve a mystery, etc. The goal of this was to get SEO on a niche subject and hopefully get a dribble of clicks to the site, “the long tail” of content.

This year we also created a feature on our site called the Crowdfunding Roundup—a free service we offer to the tabletop publishing community, as a way of giving back to this hobby we love so much. The purpose being to showcase tabletop related Crowdfunding campaigns for our readers. To date, we’ve listed almost 1,500 campaigns and helped many publishers realize their dreams of a published board game.

New contributors: Ammar Alabdullah, Thuan Tran, and Zack Church.

Notable Posts from 2022

• Expanding Everdell: A Ranking – Bob loves Everdell so much that he spent time rating and ranking every Everdell release. The result is a glorious celebration of the woodlands and lakes of that magical locale.
• Yes, I Concede – Justin explores what it means to to concede and how it might just be for the best.
• The Board Game Designers Guide to US Intellectual Property Law – One time author, and VA-barred attorney Thuan Tran dives into the intricacies of US IP law. Yes he’s a real attorney, but not he’s not your attorney, so take it with a grain of salt.
• A Celebration of TableTop: A 10 Year Retrospective – Andrew Holmes delivers yet another of his amazingly well-researched articles on a subject near and dear to many in the board gaming world: Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop. And even though Tabletop has been retired for almost 13 years, the series still holds a special place in our hearts.

2022 Stats

• Articles – 65
• Interviews – 7
• MM Awards – 9
• Reviews – 387
• Top 6 – 6
• Topics – 24
• Videos – 46
• Total posts – 544
• Total Unique Contributors – 24
• All time posts: 1,946

2023

In addition to continuing to release tonnes of high quality reviews and articles, 2023 was notable for one main reason (in two parts): feature development. As part of my desire to create more surface area on the website, I decided I wanted to create a “trending board game” section of the site. Much like the feature on the BoardGameGeek website, it combines data from various sources and outputs a list of popular games. But that alone wouldn’t be that interesting or useful. So in addition to displaying a list of hot games, this feature also mixes any content we have for that game: reviews come first, then article, list, or topic mentions—basically anything we have that mentions that game. The result is a glorious celebration of the work of our entire team, combined with the games our readers are also interested in.

But perhaps the most divisive feature we added in 2023 was “star ratings”—basically a numeric rating which can be applied to a review. This serves a few purposes: it allows the readers to skim the review (or read it in full) and get an immediate sense of the reviewer’s feeling about a game. Our rating system runs from .5 to 5.0 in .5 increments. A bit confusing to explain, but very easy to understand.

The reason I say “divisive” is that not only was it not a clear-cut decision about whether to add star ratings, several members of our core team were on the fence about their usefulness. Some writers argued that a rating cheapened the review while others thought that having a single number made their overall opinion of the game much easier to understand. In the end we decided that the positives outweighed the negatives and moved forward. The primary benefit is SEO (search engine optimization). It’s been shown that if a search result has a star rating (like you see below), a user is more likely to click on the link.

The biggest challenge was having a large enough pool of reviews to make them worthwhile in aggregate. So I wrote a spreadsheet that allowed each writer to input a rating for all their past reviews, and then I imported that information into the database. And all of a sudden we went from 0 reviews with ratings to over 1,500.

New contributors: Alvin Ng, Collin Hancock, and K. David Ladage. A quick call out that K. David has been one of the biggest cheerleaders this site has ever had. He was a constant source of kind words, thoughtful remarks, and good nature. And much like Bob, he decided he wanted to contribute to the site as a writer as well. He also brings a wealth of knowledge about classic RPG and tabletop games.

Notable Posts from 2023

• Into the Voidfall – a 5 part series on the massive game Voidfall from Mindclash Games by Justin. Part long-form review, part critique, all Voidfall.
• Justin and Andrew to to Essen SPIEL – members of our team had met each other in person prior to 2023, but this was the first year we did it in another country!! Also, pieces like this help cement our status as the number 1 search result for “most anticipated games of Essen SPIEL”.
• 18XX: A Beginner’s Journey – in 2023 Justin dove into the world of 18XX train games with a passion. This article was the result…and he’s still going strong!
• Klaus Teuber (1952-2023) – 2023 was the year we lost Klaus Teuber, the legendary and celebrated designer of Catan (formerly Settlers of Catan). Andrew Lynch’s article was a touching homage to Teuber’s legacy.

2023 Stats

• Articles – 52
• Humor – 1
• Interviews – 6
• Reviews – 410
• Top 6 – 9
• Videos – 51
• Total posts – 529
• Total Unique Contributors – 24
• All time posts: 2,475

2024

For almost as long as we’ve been around, we’ve been collecting email addresses for our newsletter; even though we really only had one for a few months many years ago. Managing content for a newsletter is like running the website…in miniature. It takes a good amount of time to gather, format, and enter all the information we wanted to include. So together with Associate Editor Tom Franklin (who volunteered to be the newsletter editor), we started planning for the resurfacing of the Meeple Mountaineer.

In addition to a unique intro, we chose to include recent posts (a handful of the newest articles on the website), a hand-crafted puzzle, board game news (in partnership with BoardGameWire), 3-5 posts pulled from Meeple Mountains archive from 5 years ago, upcoming board game conventions, crowdfunding campaigns that are ending soon, and posts pulled from our upcoming release calendar. The newsletter is a microcosm of the entire Meeple Mountain website, and it’s wonderful! Now that we’re releasing the newsletter once a week, we’ve grown from 2,500 subscribers to over 2,800 in just over 6 months. And as we hone our delivery, we expect that number to grow dramatically in 2025.

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I also decided to extend our star rating functionality. While displaying the rating on a review page was useful, there was no single page where readers could go to see all of our 5 or 4 star reviews. So after more code and much scratching of my head, I released our “board game reviews by rating” pages. Now our readers can easily see games our team thinks are 5 stars, or .5 stars for that matter.

The last thing I did was to build a tool for our writers to build their own headers. Up until this year, every header on the site was created by yours truly. Not only was this a huge time sink it meant that the team had to wait on me to create the header. That meant I was a bottleneck and that’s no bueno. So I spent time building a tool that would allow them to enter the name of the game, their own name, and the software would retrieve the image from BoardGameGeek and create the headers for them.

New contributors: Abram Towle, Adam Knight, Joseph Buszek, Karlo Arciaga, Clayton Schoonover, Kaz Lyon, Kevin Brantley, and Quill Turner. In a move that hearkens back to our earliest days, both Kevin and Joseph are from Chicago, and members of Justin Bell’s game groups. Personal references are always the best, especially when these guys are going to see each other every week. Welcome aboard you two!

Notable Posts from 2024

• The Trick Taker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Our man Andrew Lynch loves trick-taking games, and so we encouraged him to write about them. The result is a whirlwind trip through the various types of trick-takers, as well as some of his favorites.
• The Board Game Convention tag – This year our team went to a record number of conventions (eight!!) including the US, Germany, and France. And we wrote about them all! We even had four members of our team in Germany for Essen SPIEL 2024!
• On Gateway Games – The Meeple Mountain team looked at “gateway games”, a term that often gets a bad rap because many experienced gamers look down on them for being “too easy”. But really a gateway game is any game that encourages someone to get into the board gaming hobby—and that’s never a bad thing.

2024 Stats

• Articles – 87
• Humor – 4
• Interviews – 8
• Reviews – 402
• Top 6 – 10
• Videos – 14
• Total posts – 526
• Total Unique Contributors – 25
• All time posts: 3,001

2025 and Onwards!

Looking back at the things that we’ve done over the past ten years, it’s easy to feel a sense of pride at what I’ve accomplished, but in reality I’m merely the conductor for this amazing vessel called Meeple Mountain. We are a patchwork collection of personalities, tastes, and opinions, all of whom have become my friends. I am honored to serve as their Editor-in-Chief and cruise director as we travel across the landscape of tabletop gaming.

We’ve completed more than I could have imagined, but looking ahead, I know that our best years are still to come. I don’t know exactly what the future holds for Meeple Mountain, but I’m thrilled to be a part of it. I hope you stick around and find out with us!

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Cheers
Andy Matthews
Meeple Mountain
Founder / Editor in Chief