Gaming

I mainly play abstracts nowadays for their quick setup/cleanup time - Yinsh, Hive, Blokus Duo are some of my favorites.

I recently got the Stardew Valley Board Game for my birthday and it's a blast. I was never really in to board games, but I always wanted to play one that is cooperative rather than competitive. Stardew Valley still manages to be a thrilling experience and quite a challenge (at least for a novice like myself).

Really enjoying Glass Road at the moment, want to check out more Rosenberg, but they're all out of stock and the big boxes seem extortionate on UK eBay. Have pre-ordered Nusfjord, reprint hopefully arriving in September :/

We play all the dune games at work. The new remake of 1978, done betrayal and dune imperium. And sometimes twilight imperium.

With friends we have bought spirit island, which is fun but really difficult. We also play dead of winter and some DND spinniof games. My mate works at a Games Store so he has lots of games i haven't played yet. Oh and I've joined a poker home game.

My favourite is twilight imperium if we can ever find enough people who can spend their whole day playing a game.

I mostly play solo right now, usually digital ported one. I occasionally enjoy Small World 2, Imperial Settlers Roll & Write, and Star Realms.

But my favorite for all time is social deduction of Blood on the Clocktower. It fixes Werewolf/Mafia problem by having Storyteller controlling the game + all roles have powers or altering the game significantly + roles in game limited to several possible ones thanks to script. And it also has layers from official script; the most beginner friendly script Trouble Brewing has so much depth, I think I still learning new things after 1 year of playing. Try it out for social deduction, online playable. This is as great as discovering Two Rooms and A Boom.

Machi Koro without a doubt! It’s like monopoly but it card game form.

For a newer board game I like Ticket To Ride, especially the Rails and Sails edition but I'm most partial to the old Avalon Hill games like Titan and Merchant of Venus.

Related question, but are there board games Lemmy servers, or topics on more general Lemmy servers? (Not sure what they're called. Probably not sublemmies.)

Never been much for boardgames, but the one I've always loved is Atmosfear. We had the old DVD version when I was a kid and it was just great.

It never takes too long due to the timer. No playtrough is the same due to the randomisation. And the way you need to work together against the evil guy on the DVD or everyone looses, while having work against each other to win over other players is just so well done. It's also complex enough to stay interesting, but not too complex to make it hard to play for non-die hard boardgame players.

Unfortunately I don't play as much as I use too, there are only 2 of us now, so mostly we play card games now. When the kids were still living at home - I think the Classic Clue board game was probably what we played the most. Risk, and Monopoly were also in the mix quite a bit.

Some of our favorites are Catan, power grid, ticket to ride, azul, and bananagrams.

I mostly play big campaign games with my partner, for example currently we're playing Frosthaven and Oathsworn (and have Aeon Trespass lined up). Other favourites are Aeon's End, Spirit Island, Terraforming Mars. Me and my friends have a strong preference for cooperative games!

Some more low key games that we tend to bring out with friends who don't game a lot are Isle of Cats, Thunderbirds, Namiji, and The Crew.

My favorite long game (as in over a couple of hours) is Merchant of Venus. For shorter games I like Azul, Splendor, 7 Wonders Duel, That's Pretty Clever, Lost Cities R&W, Star Realms, and more.

My group isn't really into board games, so we like 5 Minute Dungeon. The 5 minutes is a limit using a timer, and it's co-op so it's everyone against the clock.

Wiz-war!!!

Maze runner, spell slinging, death match, capture the flag game... Summon stuff, blast people, and capture treasure. Seriously so fun.

It was printed in the 90s, 2013, and is getting a less favorable reprint pretty soon.

I like the ones that platform socialisation and banter - things like hidden role games, party games, etc. Less focus on the game's strategy and more on the people you're playing with.

Codenames (and Codenames Duel) is slower-paced but an engaging word-based game.

Just One is a simple word game that even drunk people can play (and likely have more fun in).

Detective Club is a bluffing hidden role game, where all of you are using weird art cards to match a prompt, but one of you didn't have the prompt and is spinning bullshit - guess who!

Concept is Pictionary for people who can't draw.

And my all time favourite:

Telestrations, a blend of 'the telephone game' and illustrations. If you're familiar with Gartic Phone, you already understand the gist. Every event that I've brought it out, it has been a good time.

I'm mostly into deck builders and I haven't seen these mentioned before so I'll drop two of my favourites Dune: Imperium and (TBOI:) Four Souls! Also an honorable mention to Dominion but I haven't played that in a while.

Carcassonne and Rummikub.

I have very little experience with board games so I'm using this thread for ideas to try out. But I did play Betrayal and liked it so I'll say that one is my favorite.

Not sure if this counts as boardgame, but I've been enjoying Farkle a lot (a dice game) thanks to Kingdom Come Deliverance xD

I never really like this kind of stuff but Farkle is quite simple and fun!

Some of my favourites right now:

-Wingspan: 1-5 player game about birds from all over the world (with the European, Oceania and Asia expansions). Build up your board of birds and make future actions you take have more effects. There's a solo mode and Asia expansion introduces a special 2 player and 6-7 player mode. As a birder myself, can't recommend this game enough.

-Parks: Small but in depth 1-5 player game about exploring US national parks. You buy gear and set your hikers off on a trail that changes every round, to collect tokens and visit national parks. Games last up to an hour that feels like it flies by. Box design is the best I've seen, everything just fits together perfectly in a tiny box, making it much easier for travel.

-Terraforming Mars: Most complex game I own, for 1-5 players. Games can take 2-4 hours sometimes. You play as a corporation and compete with others to terraform mars the fastest. You raise the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen level and water) and increase your terraforming rating, all while managing your resources by playing various project cards. Has a challenging 1 player mode where you're racing against the generation counter to terraform mars in under 14 generations. Expansions are a bit expensive but I can recommend Prelude and Hellas & Elysium, for extra cards that can be played at the start of game to kickstart your resource generation, and a double sided map you can use as a replacement for the base game board.

Other notable mentions are 7 Wonders, Tokaido, Mystic Vale and Ticket to Ride

Dune imperium is really fun - worker placement with some deckbuilding and bumping tracks (as the brothers murph says).

If you like campaign games you might enjoy something like Kingdom Death Monster - dark, boss battler/settlement builder. Definitely mature game though.

Marvel champions is a ton of fun but it can be very expensive if you want to keep buying more and more packs. Baiscally a deck bilding game similar to arkham horror LCG but for marvel and not a campaign unless you buy the campaign expansions.

My SO is much more into boards games than I do, but I really like Kingsdomino. It's quick, requires a little bit of strategy, but not too much as I don't like thinking when playing, so that suits me. I also love Unlock, but that's the same genre :p

I have spent more than I care to admit on several different versions of Zombicide. Admittedly, I also enjoy painting the mini figures, but the game itself is a nice experience, where you get to roll a lot of dice and kill some zombies!