CARAVAN
Threading the needle
Designer: Joseph Huber | Publisher: Rio Grande Games
If Caravan had been published in the early-to-mid 2000s, we might be talking about it alongside other classic gateway Euros. It has a robustness of a game which when it sets out its rules, for anyone, it does so with no pretext of you ever having played a game like it before. Like allthe best gateway games do. It also, as an aside, has an art and component style which these days seems antiquated. This is just another reason it won't look out of place next to Carcassonne or Catan. Quaint or tired, your mileage in this desert may vary.