Burgraves of the Western Kingdom

Each turn you play a card from your hand to your player board; the value of that card determines how many spaces your viscount pawn moves around the rondel board, and the location where you land determines which action you perform. After the action, you can add a townsfolk to your personal deck, which drives the deck-building element. Corruption and virtue move a track back and forth and yield deeds or debt that affect both points and the end-game trigger. The game ends when the deeds or debt pile runs out; whoever has the most victory points then wins.

Burggraven van het Westelijk Koninkrijk (Viscounts of the West Kingdom) is the third installment in Shem Phillips and Sam Macdonald's West Kingdom trilogy, and it elegantly weaves the series' deck-building element with rondel movement and area control. The virtue/corruption track, which simultaneously affects points, actions, and the end of the game, is widely praised as one of the trilogy's cleverest game mechanisms. Reviewers call it a worthy conclusion to the trilogy that also plays excellently on its own, although the learning curve for beginners is slightly steeper than in previous installments.