Mayfair Games

Mayfair Games is a publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English throughout the world. They license the worldwide English-language rights to publish the The Settlers of Catan series from Catan GmbH. The genre of Crayon Rails board games was started by Mayfair's publication in 1982 of Empire Builder. Mayfair Games was originally founded by 1981 by Darwin Bromley in Chicago, ... More
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