01 / Top pick
The next game
worth your table.
Meeplezilla reads your BoardGameGeek collection and pulls the games sitting closest to what you already love, out of 31,119 ranked titles. Not a list to scroll. The three you'd never have found.
Everyone's shelf, one game.
Add the players at the table. Meeplezilla reads each collection and finds the game that sits where all your tastes overlap, tuned to the time you have and the weight you're in the mood for.
The shape of
your collection.
Every collection has a fingerprint. Meeplezilla reads yours back to you.
Meeplezilla
BGG Member Since 1954 763 Ratings 292 Owned 103 Wishlisted
- Auction: English
- Delayed Purchase
- Auction: Once Around
- Automatic Resource Growth
- Tech Trees / Tech Tracks
- Best at 2p
- Era 2010s+
- Mostly 30-100 min
- Weight 2.6 avg
Ways to explore,
and what's next.
The map
Most recommendation tools give you a list. Meeplezilla gives you a map. 31,119 BGG-ranked games, each a dot, positioned by what it plays like, not just what it shares tags with.
What it is
31,119 BGG-ranked games, each a dot, positioned by what it plays like, not just by shared tags. Swap the axes (complexity, luck-vs-strategy, interaction, abstract-vs-thematic) and the dots reflow. Drop in your BGG username and your collection lights up: owned games get a ring, rated games full opacity. Click a dot, get its eight nearest neighbours.
Under the hood
A 256-dimensional embedding per game, learned from real BGG ratings across 25,000 player profiles (not just shared tags). The 2D positions you see come from UMAP, a dimensionality-reduction technique that tries to preserve who’s near whom.
31,119 ranked games 192 mechanics 85 categories
Wander by
The mechanical and thematic DNA of every game, pulled out as browsable indexes. Pick a mechanic, see what builds on it. Pick a vibe, see what shares it.
Hidden gems
A short editorial list, rotated weekly. No popularity boost, no sponsored slots, no autogenerated copy.
An auction game where the leftover stuff you didn’t bid on becomes its own engine. Best 30-minute brain workout in the hobby.
See it on the map →A civilisation game collapsed into 90 minutes. The tech tree is shared, the votes are real, and the corpus has slept on it.
See it on the map →Mozart’s requiem turned into a hand-management Euro about commissions and travel. Quietly one of the best 2022 had.
See it on the map →15-minute interrogations between two people. Fits in a pocket. Will start arguments at every table.
See it on the map →Deduction-by-app. Plays like a logic puzzle that argues with itself. Underrated by a country mile.
See it on the map →A trick-taker for one. Ten cards, a worn-out PnP, and the only solo game that has ever felt like a story.
See it on the map →What's cooking
Things land in fits and starts. Here’s what shipped, what’s next, and what I’m stuck on. Ideas, complaints, and "wouldn’t it be cool if…" all welcome.
- v2 recommender engine: faster, better recommendations, more control
- Filter panel: rating, play time, players, year, mode
- 31,119 ranked games loaded
- Per-game neighbourhood star charts
- Game-night wizard (party of N, time budget, weight ceiling)
- Designer & publisher hub pages
- "Best of [year]" landing pages
- Compare two games side-by-side
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