Recent Articles & Reviews by Kurt Refling

Kurt Refling is an Associate Editor with Meeple Mountain. In addition to his own writing, Kurt works to review and edit most articles which go on to be published. Kurt originally joined the Meeple Mountain team as a Guest Author in December 2017. Some of his favourite articles include:

• The Top 100 Most Important Games of the 2010s, a deep dive into a decade of development and growth in the board game industry.
• Fiasco Review - Praise for Beautiful Catastrophes, where Kurt geeks out about narrative storytelling.
• Top 6 Reasons Why I Play Games, Explained in the Ten Hundred Most Used Words, a piece about why we play games that plays with language and accessibility.

Kurt has been active in the tabletop industry since 2014 when he started working at a board game café in Ottawa, ON. He would go on to become the café's lead game teacher and library curator, a position he held until its closure in 2016. In the years since, Kurt has spent time as a playtester, rulebook editor, and game designer. Kurt's favourite games tend to be simple abstract strategy, elaborate Euro puzzlers, and narrative RPGs.

When he's not doing tabletop stuff, Kurt makes a living as an analyst. He loves a lot of things: poetry, cooking, dancing, indie games, and his wonderful partner.

Kurt can also be found on Twitter.