1What we do
Meeplebury reviews digital board games for players and families in Canada: the digital editions of modern board games, and a few video games built like them. We write only about games we have played across many evenings, and every review says how long a game lasts, how many can play, where it ends cleanly, who can reach you online and what it costs.
2Why a worker-placement board?
In a worker-placement game you have a handful of workers and more good spaces than you can fill, so every round is about choosing. That is exactly how an evening works. So we built the site as a board: tonight has one worker for every ten minutes, each game costs as many workers as it lasts, the stretch between two games costs one, and when the workers run out the round is over. Nobody can buy more.
3Where the name comes from
A meeple is the little wooden figure that stands for you in many modern board games; a bury is an old English word for a small town. Meeplebury is a small town of meeples: a place to find a good game, and to know when to send everyone home. The meeple in our logo is our own drawing.
4Who writes the reviews
A small team of long-time board game players who also play the digital editions on computers, consoles, tablets and phones, together with parents who set up the family settings on every device we mention.
5How the site is paid for
Not by anyone in the games business. There are no adverts, affiliate links, sponsored reviews or products for sale. We host no games, run no accounts and take no payments.
6Conflicts of interest
If a reviewer has a personal or professional link to a game, a publisher or a designer, someone else writes the review and it says so. We accept no gifts, trips, early copies or in-game items in exchange for coverage.
7The artwork
Every picture of a game’s world is an original illustration made for Meeplebury in the spirit of that game’s own look: a sunny tile-built countryside for one, a watercolour forest for another, a red planet in retro science fiction for a third. None of it is official artwork, a screenshot or a real person.
8Why Canadian English?
Canadian spelling where it matters, prices in Canadian dollars, ESRB ratings and Canadian help services. Every review also says whether the game plays in French. No pop-ups, no autoplaying video or sound and no tracking of any kind.
9Corrections
Spotted a mistake? Tell us through hello@meeplebury.com. Every report is checked, and corrections are made on the page itself.