Does a mechanic a board game genre make? We talk about how a game is a “deck builder” but does that actually answer the question of what genre the game is? Or is it merely one of the mechanics that makes up the game?
This is certainly sounds like a weird philosophical question the Cardboard Philosophy boys would tackle… 
Join Steve, Robert and Evan as they discover that classifying games by genre is sometimes easier said than done!
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Cites and Sources
Age of Steam - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4098/age-steam
Blood Rage - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/170216/blood-rage
Botswana - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398/wildlife-safari
Byzantium - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19348/byzantium
Dominion - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion
Dune: Imperium - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/316554/dune-imperium
Great Western Trail - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193738/great-western-trail
Irish Gauge - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161882/irish-gauge
Just One - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254640/just-one
Lost Ruins of Arnak - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/312484/lost-ruins-arnak
Lunar Rails - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6663/lunar-rails
(but the game Steve was trying to remember was actually 21Moon https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/308305/21moon)
Marvel United - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298047/marvel-united
On Mars - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184267/mars
Pipeline - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256730/pipeline
Power Grid - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid
Ra - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12/ra
Taverns of Tiefenthal - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/269207/taverns-tiefenthal
Terraforming Mars - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167791/terraforming-mars
Through the Desert - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/503/through-desert
Skull - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/92415/skull
Stephenson’s Rocket - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/204/stephensons-rocket
Warhammer - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2162/warhammer-40000-third-edition
Wavelength - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/262543/wavelength