This guide is for English speakers that are looking to buy board games, and accessories in Taiwan.
WHERE TO BUY?
Swan Panasia Games
https://boardgamer.org/ ✔ Largest game selection ✔ Stable website ✔ Huge selection of accessories: card sleeves, boxes, and other things ✔ Always remember to ship tax receipt in the box ✔ Usually have a promotions: spend $1000/2000/3000 and up and get a free game, get points for every order too
GoKids
https://www.gokids.com.tw/ ✔ Mostly focused on younger kids, with limited selection of ‘serious’ board games ✘ Terrible website - difficult to navigate ✘ Always ““forget”” to include tax receipt in the box, need to call/email to remind them ✘ Don’t bring many new games to Taiwan every year
Kanga Games
http://kangagames.com/ ✔ English website ✔ Good selection of silly games for kids, and abstract games ✘ Very small selection of games compared to other big 2 companies
Taiwan Boardgame Design
https://www.tbd.com.tw ✔ Locally designed games! ✘ Small selection
WHERE TO RESEARCH GAMES?
BoardGame Geek (BBG)
https://boardgamegeek.com/ ✔ Easy to compare games here: complexity, ratings, reviews from other users ✔ Can download PDF copies of game rule books ✘ Need account to download PDFs
The Dice Tower reviews
- Video reviews of games
- Multiple reviewers
- Can also find the reviews on YouTube
Game Boy Geek reviews
- Video reviews of games
- Reviewer looks like Stuart from The Big Bang :D