Who we are

“BoardGameBoys is a young studio doing this the modern way, where design, quality control and sales all happen around the same table, without needless middlemen or big-corporation rigidity.

We make games that create moments, games that belong to the whole table. They were born out of northern evenings and one question: shall we play something?”

Our story

Everything good starts at a table people want to come back to.

This company wasn't born from market research, or from a complicated spreadsheet. It was born from the moment we realized we'd already been doing this for years: calling people together and making sure nobody wanted to leave first.

Evenings like that happen less often than they used to. Not because they're any less good, but because the modern world offers endless easier ways to fill an evening: a screen that never turns off, and attention split in ten directions at once. Spending an evening together now takes something more and more people have forgotten to ask for: another person's undivided attention.

BoardGameBoys exists because we believe being together matters more than any single product. We're not building a company around one idea, but around whatever brings people back to the same table.

We don't measure success by how many games we sell, but by how many evenings run longer than intended. That's what everything we make is aimed at, our current releases and the ones not yet even designed.

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Founders

Arvo Alanko

Arvo Alanko

Operations and partnerships

Runs the company side and looks after retailers and partners.

Tommi Rahkonen

Tommi Rahkonen

Design & marketing

Lead game designer. Handles the visual identity of the games and the company's marketing.