They further relate:
In a family you usually prefer harmony to competition, thus "family game" is a very precise term.
I'm dying
as someone who grew up with extremely, brutally vicious "family games" like monopoly??? oh my GOD what a cultural divide!!!!
As a foreigner who has sat around a table and played a range of titles typically considered 'Eurogames' with a couple of different German families,
no the fuck they do not.
Eurogames are a peculiar subset of board games quite commonly made by, or popularized in, those lands within the borders of the broadly-defined region of Europe. Czechs will insist that their games should count where Germans will stridently insist they don't and 'those were our ideas anyway,' England gets sniffy when anyone insists they've made a eurogame, and with Australia being invited to Eurovision, quite honestly the whole thing is open to being anyone's bag.
A eurogame is best categorized by being able to be played to completion in either eight minutes or four days; it has a manual of rules printed on an A4 sheet or in several leather bound legal texts requiring the use of a forklift to move; the suggested ages on the box are limited largely by how old one must be before deviousness and chicanery trump understanding of complex rules; and they typically revolve around resource allocation and thwarting other players' plans rather than direct competition and conflict, which is in no way actually typical of the European experience since Charlemagne first invented the eurogame on Christmas Day, 800 CE.
