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@onlyonepinman How many variants of Risk and Monopoly have we had ?
Ok … those are a bit lazy and obvious, but Pandemic, Zombicide and Settlers of Catan have had sequels and re-themed variants of the core games. The various ‘legacy’ games kind of re-use the same sort of mechanics as well.

One could argue that AoS and 40k 8th edition share a lot of their core mechanics.

I think re-using the basic framework is a lot more common than you might think at first.
It’s usually not sold as a concept to consumers, but it certainly is an efficient use of development resources if you can spend time tweaking rules sets as opposed to re-inventing the wheel.