Eurogame

In America, where classics like Monopoly dominate, Eurogames still have an avidly geeky following.

No other Eurogame has had the same impact that Settlers [of Catan] had.

The game [Settlers of Catan] achieved a huge success: it received the “Game of the Year” award of the German game critics, and it was the first “eurogame” to become widely popular outside Germany, […]

Costikyan specifically describes eurogames as a genre that “prizes strategy and planning,” yet, perhaps surprisingly, it is rare to find examples of eurogames that do not contain some element of chance.

Magnum Sal is a eurogame about exploration of a salt mine (second oldest still operating salt mine in the world).