We built the place we were looking for.

For more than ten years, board games have been part of our lives. Not just something we occasionally played, but the reason to gather around a table, stay up far too late, meet new people, argue over strategies, discover new games and create the kind of stories that somehow get retold years later.

There was only one recurring problem: finding somewhere to play. A table at home wasn't always available. Cafés weren't designed for a game that might stay on the table for three hours. Bars were noisy. Tables were too small. Closing time came halfway through a game.

We kept wishing there was simply a proper place for it. Eventually we asked: why don't we build it?

That's how Rulebook began — not as an idea invented around a business plan, but as a place we genuinely wanted to exist ourselves.