Gaming

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

Carcassonne and Rummikub.

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.

Hi! This is my first post here so I hope I don't make some mistakes. If you like Heroquest you could look at other dungeon crawlers, like the dungeons and dragons boardgames (my favourite is "waterdeep: the dungeon of the mad mage"), or my beloved Star wars: imperial assault or Lord of the rings: Journeys in the Middle earth. If you want to expand to other genres, since you like AH you could try Arkham horror: living card game. Absolute masterpiece.

The latest addiction to my game library is Earthborne rangers and is quite a refreshing take.

I hope that some of these resonate with you!

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 :/

Magic Maze is a collaborative game that’s always fun. Everything is done in “silence” because you’re unable to consult with each other to escape the maze. Warning is that it could get quite chaotic

For several years we regularly played my roommates Battlestar Galactica Game. Sadly now I don't have the group for board games anymore.

Lately our group has been playing a lot of Betrayal at House on the Hill, wish I would have got a copy of Betrayal Legacy when it was in print. Other ones in the current rotation are Root (which I adore), and Call to Adventure. I really want to give Twilight Imperium a go, but I haven't convinced enough friends yet haha.

Secret Hitler if that counts as a board game. Otherwise it’s an obscure game called Ankh-Morpork. Really good asymmetrical game whether you are a Discworld fan or not.

My best friend and I used to play SubTerra when we hung out every weekend. Company that originally made it is sketchy for a number of reasons, but they're also gone now and another company owns the games. It's a tile based game where you are trying to escape a cave system with monsters in it and you create the board as you play. Each character has abilities to help this and there's a turn limit you have to escape in. It can be really addicting.

I also really enjoy Campy Creatures and Space Park - they're pretty simple games (same creators) that a great for a group of 3-5. Campy Creatures is a little bit like War, where each player gets a hand of monsters and the highest number wins. There are "people" cards laid out and winning lets you pick who you take, with the people having point values assigned (which is what ultimately determines the winner). Hopefully I explained it okay. Space Park is very different - the goal is to get 20 victory points, which are mostly earned by completing tasks. There are 6 "locations" you travel to which give you various resources to help you complete the tasks.

I also love playing Quiddler - it's a fun word game, nothing super complex about it unless you play with people who make up words (we have a rule that half the table has to agree that it's a word).

These come out a lot at my game nights, hopefully I did them justice with my descriptions.

I really like Lords of Waterdeep and Xenoshyft:Onslaught.

Me and my SO plays Caracassone alot 😄 and me and my brother plays War of the ring when we manage to find time.

Both are really fun in diffrent ways

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

My favorite, and most played game is absolutely Arboretum.

It plays quick, it's small enough to stash in a bag, it's easy to teach, and it feels like it has endless play and variation. The game also lets me do one of my favorite things in a board game, which is let me go for high risk high reward "shoot the moon" strategies. Absolutely lovely bit of tension and backstabbing fun, but concentrated all into the reveals right at the end so it doesn't drag the entire experience. Great at every player count, especially at 2 players which is important given that most of my board gaming is just with my wife.

Plus you get to look at lovely art of trees while you playing (with the original edition at least, the newer one has worse art IMHO).

A game which has been unexpectedly evergreen for my friends and I is called Infiltration. It's a cyberpunk heist game set in the same universe as Netrunner. It's cooperative and competitive, you enter a complex where the room order is random (determined by the placements of room cards which start face down) and you move through stealing data. You have to escape before the alarm dial goes off, only those who get out are eligible to win and the winner is the one with the highest value of data stolen. So do you press your luck and delve deeper, or make for the exit before your allies do?

I love it because it's a good length (about an hour), has enough randomness to feel different every time but enough tools for strategic lootin and shootin.

We love Villainous. Azul is awesome, I quite enjoy Quacks of Quedlinburg myself.

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.

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.

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!

Is there any love for solo? I like games with quick and easy set up: Agropolis, Cartographers, Voyages, Aquamarine. Sometimes Spirit Island (still learning how to play). When I have time and I am in the mood, I play solo RPG, but that's a different subject.

I have a huge shelf of shamepportunity (see what I did there? Now no one can correct me! 🤣) what I like vs what I get to play with my friends/SO vary greatly.

Some of my favorites

• Undaunted Normandy
• Trails (my SO and I play this one a lot at bars)
• Tak, a lovely abstract strategy game
• Spire's End and Spire's End Hildegard
• March of the Ants
• Cosmic Frog

For a game that's not on your list, Unfathomable is one I've been playing a lot lately. It's a hidden identity game where you're on a ship and the ship's crew and passengers are combating Lovecraftian horrors that keep climbing aboard from the depths while trying not to run out of food and fuel and sanity before you escape. You or one of your companions may turn out to be a cultist who is summoning the dark ones and attempting to sabotage the escape efforts.

I love the Betrayal games: Betrayal at House on the Hill (horror), Betrayal at Baldur's Gate (fantasy), and Betrayal Legacy (legacy horror) for a campaign style version that is linked over multiple sessions.

For anyone who isn't familiar with them, the players build out a map by exploring a building or city one tile at a time, collecting items and buffs along the way and triggering events. After a certain point a trigger is reached when the "haunt" stage begins. At that point, one player typically becomes a traitor with unique abilities or monsters to control and gets the traitor's tome - a book explaining their abilities and win condition. The rest of the group gets a different book explaining what the group must do to survive and what interactions they can do to foil the traitor's plan. There are a bunch of different haunt scenarios in the books and they are chosen based on the last tile revealed and card drawn, so you never know quite what you'll be facing in the end.

I bought Gloomhaven right at the beginning of the pandemic, and my roommates and I spent basically that whole summer playing together. We still keep in touch by playing the digital version as our schedule allows. So that one has a special place in my heart.

My favorites in no particular order:

Dune (either the original AH edition or the 2019 GF9 edition)
Battletech
Descent (first edition)
Mage Wars Arena
Battlestar Galactica
Food Chain Magnate
Scythe
Blood Bowl
Twilight Imperium (fourth edition)
War of the Ring (second edition)
Millenium Blades
Exceed
BattleCON
Cosmic Encounter
Sidereal Confluence
Sekigahara
Triumph & Tragedy
Iron Ships & Wooden Men
Cloudspire
Forbidden Stars
Go

Villainous

Camp Grizzly

Tales of the Arabian Nights (It's long but so fun)

Everyone is John (not really a board game)

Gloom

Dixit

Mysterium

Dread (role playing game with Jenga tiles)

Talisman

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game (Easier to play the digital version on Steam because it is murder to set up but it's very fun)

Tokaido

Wingspan