Top 5 Game Box Art

Kramer's mask trilogy.
AH Blackbeard.
For A/T, I generally like the FFG approach.

I've always loved the box art for the GW version of Fury of Dracula. In terms of horror games it is certainly iconic.




Monsters Menace America has pretty badass boxart. In fact I love the art in this game as a whole. It perfectly captures that 1950s sci-fi look.




Someone else already posted the box art for HeroQuest, so I'll go with my other childhood favorite...




Cosmic Encounter is pretty much the best game ever. The only thing FFG should have done with their reprint was use this art:




I don't own this game, and I've never played it. But the artwork for the 1st edition of Quests For the Dragonlords is super fucking awesome!

Well, shit. I tried to throw up a picture of Chill Black Morn Manor, but my calculator would have none of it.

I love the Omega Virus box.

You also can't go wrong with Paul Alexander's art for Thunder Road, and I'll be damned if I can figure out how to insert an image.

Two standouts:


These speak for themselves.

George Parrish was just a great artist. This is one of his best.

Perfect cover for a great game!

Dredd by Bolland. Can it get any better?

I believe Bolland did the art on the Rogue Trooper game as well...no, wait. I'm wrong. It's Dave Gibbons.

Speaking of iconic covers, the Squad Leader one certainly fits that bill.

Michael Barnes wrote: I believe Bolland did the art on the Rogue Trooper game as well...no, wait. I'm wrong. It's Dave Gibbons.

Yep, Gibbons it was. That whole series of 2000AD licenced boardgames is iconic in its own right: it was a landmark in the use of IP art in boardgame graphic design; and those covers? They're garish for sure but they completely capture the essential energy of 2000AD in those early days.

And it really is a toss-up between Panzerblitz and Squad Leader as the iconic cover: publication dates gives it to Panzerblitz- and those Jadgpanthers on the horizon are hard to beat, but Squad Leader was my game, which tips it in the scales for me.

These are my faves:
Love the sweeping gothic feel of this. Notice the Blessed Light from above shining down on the carnage below. Good stuff.


This ever since saw it in the Sears Wish Book (Christmas catalogue) when I was 10 or 11. This screams FUN!!!


Yes!!!!


I fucking hate this game, but I dig the clean line style illustration. Could be a still from the Fleischer Brother's Superman serials.



Yes, it was my first hobby game but even now I get thrill from looking at the foil embossed words anchored by the goregeously illustrated dragon wings of Chris Achilleos.

Speaking of Achelleos, he also did the cover to GW's Blood Royale. Although, I doubt he wants to take credit for it.

Fire in the Sky and Chaos in the Old World were the two that immediately came to mind for me, so I'll throw up some honorable mentions:

Supremacy 2nd edition: I pulled the french version because the res is much higher, but you get the idea, I love the campy 1980s neon



Formula De: Again, purely for camp value, I can't help but love anything that looks like it was once the box art to an Atari 2600 game