La Boite de Jeu
La Boîte de Jeu is a French micro-publisher of board games, designing and French-localizing tabletop titles across narrative, strategy, and family genres for hobbyist consumers, distributed primarily through Blackrock Games in France.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2013
- HeadquartersArceau, France
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2C
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What La Boite de Jeu does
La Boîte de Jeu is a French board game publisher (SAS) headquartered in Arceau, France, operating as a micro-studio with 1-10 employees and a registered share capital of €9,000. The company has built a catalog of 47+ titles spanning narrative adventure games, two-player strategy, cooperative, party, dice drafting, and worker placement games, with series franchises anchored by Backstories (point-and-click-style perforated card mechanics) and Butterfly Effect (choice-driven cooperative narratives). Beyond original design, La Boîte de Jeu acts as a French-localization and distribution partner for international publishers (Brotherwise Games, Pandasaurus Games, Van Ryder Games, Hobby World, Ninth Heaven Games, ICE Makes), bringing titles such as Call to Adventure, Dinosaur World, Enquêtes à Los Angeles, Les Hauts Fourneaux, and Dinogenics to the French-speaking market.
The business sells physical board games on a one-time purchase model at price points ranging from approximately €12 to €100, with an active launch pipeline running through 2026. Distribution is handled primarily through Blackrock Games as the anchor wholesale partner in France, supplemented by direct e-commerce via the company's own website. Products are promoted through content marketing (product pages, press kits, rulebooks), organic social (Instagram and Facebook), and crowdfunding (Kickstarter, used for higher-priced projects like From the Moon). The Backstories series has received regional industry recognition via the Sabliers d'Or award in 2024.
The customer base is consumer-facing, primarily targeting board game enthusiasts and families seeking narrative, strategy, or family-friendly experiences, with no disclosed enterprise or B2B contracts. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and the company operates without evidence of venture capital, private equity, or external ownership. Leadership is led by Isabelle Jeuge-Maynart as Director of Publication.
La Boite de Jeu firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- La Boite de Jeu
- Legal name
- LA BOITE DE JEU
- Website
- https://laboitedejeu.fr
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2013
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- La Boîte de Jeu is a French micro-publisher of board games, designing and French-localizing tabletop titles across narrative, strategy, and family genres for hobbyist consumers, distributed primarily through Blackrock Games in France.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
La Boite de Jeu industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Board Games
- NAICS
- Hobby, Toy, and Game Retailers (45912), Doll, Toy, and Game Manufacturing (339930)
- SIC
- Retail-Hobby, Toy & Game Shops (5945), Games, Toys & Children's Vehicles (No Dolls & Bicycles) (3944)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Board Game & Puzzle Specialty Retailers (CRALALAA)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Strategy/Euro Board Games Retail (CRALALAC), Family/Party Board Games Retail (CRALALAB), Miniatures Games & Tabletop Skirmish Games Retail (CRALALAH)
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Where La Boite de Jeu is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Arceau
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
La Boite de Jeu business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2C
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D
Revenue model
- Board Game Sales: La Boîte de Jeu generates revenue through the sale of physical board games. Games are sold at various price points ranging from approximately €12 to €100 depending on complexity and components. Revenue is one-time per transaction as these are physical products with no subscription component.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One time/ perpetual license | Pay-as-you-go | Standard board games priced between €12-€25 |
| One time/ perpetual license | Pay-as-you-go | Premium/larger box games priced €35-€100 |
| One time/ perpetual license | Pay-as-you-go | Expansions and add-ons |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels5 records
La Boite de Jeu product offering
Product offeringCore offering
La Boîte de Jeu publishes and distributes a catalog of 47+ board games for the French-speaking market, encompassing both original titles and French localizations of international games. Offerings span narrative card-based adventure games (Backstories, Butterfly Effect), strategy games (Architects of Amytis, From the Moon, Inheritors), cooperative games (Cerberus), party/family games (Foxy, Danger, Super Plushies), and licensed adaptations (Call to Adventure).
Product overview
La Boite de Jeu is a French board game publisher offering a diverse portfolio of tabletop games across multiple genres. Their portfolio includes narrative adventure games (Backstories series, Butterfly Effect series), strategy games (The Architects of Amytis, Insurrection, Inheritors), party/family games (Foxy, Grumpf, Super Plushies), cooperative games (Cerberus), dice drafting games (Daimyo, Huns), worker placement games (From the Moon, Les Hauts Fourneaux), and licensed games (Call to Adventure with expansions for Kingkiller Chronicle and Epic Origins). They also publish localized versions of games from international publishers (Brotherwise Games, Ninth Haven Games, Pandasaurus Games, Van Ryder Games, Hobby World) for the French-speaking market. The company distributes primarily through Blackrock Games in France.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Backstories: A narrative card game series with Point and Click video game mechanics where players interact with environment cards.
- Butterfly Effect
- Cerberus
Products and services
- Backstories Series A series of narrative card-based adventure games using point-and-click style mechanics; players interact with panorama environment cards using perforated action cards to advance through branching storylines with real consequences.
- Butterfly Effect Series A cooperative narrative game series where players make choices that traverse different Eras and accumulate Knowledge to progress through multiple endings, including 7 different endings in Alter Ego.
- The Architects of Amytis A 2-player strategy game where architects compete to design the most prestigious city for Queen Amytis of Babylon, featuring tile placement, King's Projects, and alignment-based scoring mechanics.
- 10' to Kill A deduction, movement, and stealth game for 2–4 players where each player has a secret hitman among 16 characters and must eliminate targets while deducing opponents' identities.
- Cerberus A semi-cooperative game for 3–7 players where participants attempt to escape from the underworld while Cerberus pursues them, with betrayal mechanics determining who reaches the escape barque.
- Clash of Rage A confrontation and skirmish game for 4 players where each controls a different army (Bohorg, Steamfield Barony, Godleif, Army of the Tomb) competing to conquer elven cities and forge legendary equipment.
- From the Moon An expert worker placement game where players manage space corporations preparing humanity's migration from Earth, featuring rover crews, astronaut management, and mission contribution mechanics; crowdfunded via Kickstarter.
- Insurrection A card-based game for 2–5 players where players act as Rebel chiefs building armies to either defeat Queen Kristin (Good victory) or spread corruption (Evil victory), featuring hidden card selection and pool exchange mechanics.
- Inheritors A card management game where players compete to prove themselves the worthiest heir to lead the Five Realms by gaining influence, honors, and completing quests through an Open Market (Winchester Draft) system.
- Danger A trick-taking card game for 3–5 players (with 2-player and team modes) where the challenge is not winning points but keeping them until the end, as only the lowest value of each ten scores.
- Aurealis A competitive 2-player expedition game where adventurers travel through a wondrous region, collecting Discovery and Renown tiles by playing Adventurer cards, building excavation sites, and managing base camps.
- Crab vs Octopus A 2-player asymmetric discard card game where crabs and octopuses compete for dominance under the sea, featuring different powers for each species and symmetrical/asymmetrical modes.
- Daimyo: Rebirth of the Empire A dice drafting game of resource management, area control, and card combos set in a post-apocalyptic world where players compete to become Emperor through influence, relics, buildings, and army.
- Dinogenics A competitive game for 2–5 players where each builds and manages their own dinosaur park, collecting DNA, building fences and facilities, and populating parks with dinosaurs that may escape if neglected.
- Dinosaur World A park-building game where players recruit workers, manage DNA dice, clone dinosaurs, purchase attractions, and balance park safety versus excitement over 5 rounds to score the most Victory Points; French localization of the Pandasaurus Games title.
- Enquêtes à Los Angeles A mystery investigation game set in 1940s Los Angeles where players take on detective roles while one player acts as the Chisel (game master), using the ARC system to control suspect responses through bluffing and manipulation; French localization of the Van Ryder Games title.
- Evil Corp. A strategy game for 2–4 players where each manages a team of monsters to terrorize villages, competing to become the new CEO by taking control of two villages through the Terror track.
- Foxy A simultaneous observation and memory game for 1–5+ players where participants estimate animal counts across revealed cards, with betting mechanics for doubling points.
- Super Plushies A family game for 6+ players where participants create superhero teams by recruiting heroes and equipping them with gloves, boots, capes, and masks through dice-rolling resource collection.
- Grumpf A fast-paced cooperative/competitive game for 2–6 players where tribes race to place tokens on boards to fulfill hunting conditions and collect trophies.
- Les Hauts Fourneaux An auction and production game set in the 19th-century industrial revolution where players bid on companies, extract resources, and optimize production chains to accumulate wealth; French localization of the Hobby World title.
- Huns A dice drafting game where players perform raids, resist plagues, recruit mercenaries, and collect equipment to become the next Khan through card combinations.
- Ilôs A hand optimization, meeple placement, and resource management game set in a discoverable archipelago where players settle islands, produce resources, and manipulate market prices.
- Call to Adventure A character-crafting card game where players build heroes through choices between immediate rewards and long-term potential, competing to craft the hero with the greatest destiny through heroism or villainy paths; French localization of the Brotherwise Games title.
- In the Palm of your Hand A memory and mime game for 2–8 players where participants act out memories from Leon's souvenir box using physical objects held in another player's hand.
Companies that use La Boite de Jeu
Customer profileSegments1 record
Ideal customer profiles1 record
La Boite de Jeu technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
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AI maturity
App detail
Feature1 record
La Boite de Jeu partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.
- Blackrock GamescorePrimary distributor for La Boîte de Jeu products in France, handling the majority of game distribution across their portfolio including titles like 10' to Kill, The Architects of Amytis, Cerberus, Danger, and many others.
- Brotherwise GamesmajorPartnership for localizing and distributing Call to Adventure and its expansions (The Name of the Wind, Epic Origins) for the French market. Brotherwise Games is the original publisher with La Boîte de Jeu handling French localization and distribution.
- OrigamesmajorCo-publisher for Cerberus and web design partner for the La Boîte de Jeu website. Origames is a game design studio and publisher that collaborates on game development.
- Van Ryder GamesmajorPartnership for French localization of Enquêtes à Los Angeles, originally published by Van Ryder Games. La Boîte de Jeu handles the French version publishing and distribution.
- Pandasaurus GamesmajorPartnership for French localization of Dinosaur World, originally designed by Brian Lewis, David McGregor, and Marissa Misura and published by Pandasaurus Games.
- Hobby WorldmajorPartnership for French localization of Les Hauts Fourneaux (High Furnaces), originally published by Hobby World. La Boîte de Jeu handles French version as 'La Boite de Jeu & Friends'.
- Ninth Heaven GamesmajorPartnership for French localization of Dinogenics, originally published by Ninth Heaven Games for the French market.
- Fearless FrogminorPublisher listed for Call to Adventure: Epic Origins (French version) and Dinosaur World (localization by Fearless Frog).
- ICE MakesmajorCo-publisher for Inheritors with La Boîte de Jeu. ICE Makes is the game designer/publisher for this title.
Scale indicators2 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights4 records
La Boite de Jeu competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Matagot: French board game publisher (Targui, Kingdomino). Comparable as a domestic French publisher with a portfolio of strategy/family games of similar scale and price points.
- Ludonaute: French board game publisher (Ark Nova, via Kiesling). Comparable as a French publisher with a mid-sized catalog of strategy and family titles.
- Iello: French board game publisher known for King of Tokyo, Bunny Kingdom, and other family/strategy titles. Comparable as a French-language publisher with a similar catalog spanning family and hobby games distributed through European channels.
- Repos Production: Belgian board game publisher (7 Wonders, Concept, Just One) acquired by Asmodee. Comparable as a European hobby-game publisher with a multi-genre catalog targeting families and hobbyists.
- Origames: French board game publisher and co-publisher of LBDJ's Cerberus. Directly comparable as a French publisher of strategy and family games with overlapping distribution networks.
Broad incumbents
- CMON (Cool Mini Or Not): Global publisher of Zombicide, Blood Rage, Marvel United. Comparable as a board game publisher with miniatures and hobby titles, with Kickstarter as a core channel; broader in scale but similar product-market overlap on miniatures and Kickstarter-driven releases.
- Asmodee: European board game giant with hundreds of titles including Catan, Ticket to Ride, 7 Wonders. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the same hobby/board game category, though far larger and operates across multiple segments.
Emerging players
- Brotherwise Games: US publisher of Call to Adventure, Boss Monster. Comparable as a niche hobby publisher whose IP LBDJ localizes for the French market; similar scale and game-type focus.
- Pandasaurus Games: US-based publisher of Dinosaur World, Nimble, and other hobby titles. Comparable as an English-language publisher with a similar mid-sized catalog of strategy and family games; LBDJ handles French localization.
Regional players
- Blackrock Games: Primary distributor of LBDJ products in France, also a publisher of board games (including its own titles). Comparable as a French-market distribution and publishing peer with overlapping game-portfolio exposure.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat3 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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La Boite de Jeu leadership team
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Profiles1 record
La Boite de Jeu funding detail
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Funding rounds
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Frequently asked questions about La Boite de Jeu
What does La Boite de Jeu do?
La Boîte de Jeu publishes and distributes a catalog of 47+ board games for the French-speaking market, encompassing both original titles and French localizations of international games. Offerings span narrative card-based adventure games (Backstories, Butterfly Effect), strategy games (Architects of Amytis, From the Moon, Inheritors), cooperative games (Cerberus), party/family games (Foxy, Danger, Super Plushies), and licensed adaptations (Call to Adventure).
Is La Boite de Jeu a public or private company?
La Boite de Jeu is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was La Boite de Jeu founded?
La Boite de Jeu was founded in 2013. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is La Boite de Jeu based?
La Boite de Jeu is headquartered in Arceau, France, in the Europe region.
How does La Boite de Jeu make money?
One revenue line is on record: board Game Sales.
Who are La Boite de Jeu's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Matagot, Ludonaute, Iello, Repos Production and Origames. Broad incumbents are CMON (Cool Mini Or Not) and Asmodee. Emerging players are Brotherwise Games and Pandasaurus Games. Blackrock Games is listed as a regional player.
Does La Boite de Jeu have an API?
No public API is recorded for La Boite de Jeu.
What industry is La Boite de Jeu in?
La Boite de Jeu's product category is Board Games. Its primary akta.pro industry code is CRALALAA, Board Game & Puzzle Specialty Retailers, with a secondary code of CRALALAC, Strategy/Euro Board Games Retail. Its NAICS code is 45912 and its SIC code is 5945.