German-style board game

Video game iterations of German-style board games, which became popular in the late 1990s and helped build Germany's domination of the board game market (as the nation which produces the most board games per capita) throughout the 2000s and 2010s with the success of games such as The Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride.

German-style board games involve less luck based gameplay than traditional board games, built more around strategy with the majority of games featuring no die rolling (though some still do) and no moving of pieces. The games are built more around economic themes, expanding or "building" rather than conquest or "racing to the end" mechanics.

They also tend to end either after a certain number of turns, after a certain resource has been used up or after a player reaches a specific number of "victory points" (sometimes games may have numerous ending scenarios and which ever of these is reached first) in an attempt to negate the possibility of an "endless elimination" game such as Monopoly or Risk which may see a player eliminated early and therefore have to sit out for hours while the other players complete the (potentially endless) game.

Note: A game does not have to originate from Germany or Europe to qualify as a German-style board game.