Worker Placement | Board Game Mechanic | BoardGameGeek
Keydom, which was published in 1998, is widely recognized as the first of the worker placement genre of games. Early design experiments with the mechanism include Way Out West (2000) and Bus (1999). Well known examples of worker placement include Agricola (2007), Caylus (2005) and Stone Age (2008). (*) The use of the word "usually" in this ...