“Landmarks” isn’t the best title for Rodrigo Rego and Danilo Valente’s Landmarks, and not only because a heap of other board games go by the same moniker. (We are all of us indentured to SEO.) Rather, it’s because “Landmarks” sounds like one of those games where you’re visiting a bunch of state parks. Bo-ring. It deserves better.

Picture the solipsistic vocabulary terror of Vlaada Chvátil’s Codenames, the cooperative nature of its own spinoff Duet, and an adventure that sees players dodging traps, digging up treasure, and managing a dwindling water supply. That’s Landmarks. It’s sublime.

Apart from that title. Landmarks. Landmarks. Blech.

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