Thames & Kosmos My Island | Legacy Board Game | Kosmos Games | Multi-Player | 2-4 Players | Strategy Game
Best for
Best Charterstone (family)
Amazon rating
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Current price
$39.70
Updated May 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Sources behind this verdict
10 reviewers weighted by source trust
The consensus
What reviewers found
Synthesized across the trust-weighted source mix below.
Across the reviewers we read, My Island is positioned as the approachable, family-weight entry point to the legacy format. BoardGameGeek's listing frames it as a competitive legacy game built around developing a personal hex-tile island over a campaign, and r/boardgames discussion of the closely related My City system, also by Reiner Knizia and Thames & Kosmos, repeatedly highlights how each session genuinely changes from the last, with bigger shifts arriving every few games. Reviewers in community threads note that it teaches quickly and is significantly lighter than the Pandemic Legacy titles, making it a strong pick for families or mixed-experience groups who want the legacy 'unfold' feeling without the multi-hour sessions.
What reviewers liked
- Quick teach and short session length make it the most family-accessible legacy pick in the candidate set
- Community consensus praises meaningful between-session progression
- Competitive (rather than cooperative) format avoids quarterbacking issues
- Strong Amazon rating (4.7) across nearly 700 reviewers
Where it falls short
- Strategic depth is light compared to Pandemic Legacy seasons, per community discussion
- No verified-tier expert reviews in our signal pool to anchor technical claims
- Competitive scoring can feel uneven if player skill differs widely
- Single-campaign replay value is limited, as with all legacy titles
Across the reviewers we read, My Island is positioned as the approachable, family-weight entry point to the legacy format. BoardGameGeek's listing frames it as a competitive legacy game built around developing a personal hex-tile island over a campaign, and r/boardgames discussion of the closely related My City system, also by Reiner Knizia and Thames & Kosmos, repeatedly highlights how each session genuinely changes from the last, with bigger shifts arriving every few games.
Reviewers in community threads note that it teaches quickly and is significantly lighter than the Pandemic Legacy titles, making it a strong pick for families or mixed-experience groups who want the legacy 'unfold' feeling without the multi-hour sessions. The trade-off, surfaced in several community comments, is that the strategic depth is modest compared to heavier legacy campaigns, and players who go in expecting Gloomhaven-tier complexity will find it slight.
For a household looking for a competitive legacy experience that everyone from 10 up can join, the trust-weighted consensus is that My Island delivers reliably, even if it won't satisfy heavy-strategy gamers.
- Explore this new mysterious island by placing down various kinds of hexagonal tiles! As the game progresses new actions and more space on your island will open up to you!
- My Island can be taught quickly and has plenty of scenarios that add additional rules to keep the game fresh.
- With a similar playstyle to My City, Reiner Knizia has taken the best parts of his original game and refined them for a whole new standalone story.
- Using field, house, wall, and trail tiles players must lay out their island carfully tile by tile without damaging the forest!
- Features an "eternal mode" to continue the fun even after you have finished the legacy portion of the game.
The progression is fantastic, with every game generally being slightly different than the last (and bigger changes happening every 3 games).
Just played it a couple weeks ago. We enjoyed it for the most part, and really liked the investigation portion of it. My one problem is that ...
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