What are your favorite board games? Me and my friends love playing board games, but I get the feeling their tired of playing the same things. What do you guys usually play? My favorite board game of all time is HeroQuest. I never get tired of playing it. Also love Catan, Arkham Horror, Betrayal House on the Hill, Spyfall (great at parties)
I run a board game store so my list will be rather lengthy.
But short answer is Gaia Project… Until Age of Innovation drops
deleted by creator
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
It’s a card game rather than a board game (but still within the tabletop sphere so I think it still fits): I absolutely love Sentinels of the Multiverse. It’s by the same people who made Spirit Island, which I believe is more well-known. It’s a cooperative game where you play as superheroes working together to take down a villain. Aside from the game itself being a lot of fun, there’s a bunch of hidden story and lore within the card art, and the creators even have a podcast where they create stories and characters within the game’s world.
I love Sentinels of the Multiverse. Every player picks a different superhero with its own unique deck and powers, the villain is a separate deck, and there is an environment that adds a bit of chaos and having so many individual components you can swap out makes for a very high replayability. I love cooperative games, too, and this being cooperative is nice if you want to include someone who is less experienced in games because nobody is going to be out to exploit them. I’ve never been much of a superheroes fan, but the game plays so well. That’s one that has gotten played over and over in my house for many years at this point. It’s also available on Steam if you want to play with someone remotely, but I do prefer playing the physical version when possible.
Not so much a traditional “board” game, but I’ve been a lifelong enjoyer of Munchkin! It’s a whimsical dnd-esque card game with (almost literally) hundreds of different themed versions, from Space to the Wild West to Cthulhu even.
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 :/
Frosthaven! We’ve also really loved playing Quacks of Quedlinberg - it’s a great one for friends who are less into board games
I’ve fallen in love with Arkham Horror The Card Game. It’s difficult and can be played solo if I really feel the need.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/arkham-horror-the-card-game/
Alien Frontiers is always a popular one at my table.
My partner and I love playing Wingspan. A game about bird may not sound great but it’s full of strategy without being too hard to pick up. It’s competitive, but just total points at the end, you can’t screw each other up during play.
You can definitely screw people over via “hate drafting.” My group usually plays casually but sometimes we’ll agree beforehand to tryhard and then this happens somewhat often.
Wingspan is my favorite! I want to try the Asia expansion sometime soon, I really liked the Oceania one.
I came here to say Wingspan. I have gotten my friends and family to play it, and everyone likes it.
My second favorite game might be Scythe, another one of their games. They just make good stuff.
Ooh, we picked up the digital version of Scythe because it was a few dollars during a Steam sale, we’ve only played one game so far, but it almost immediately jumped onto our list of games we’re planning on buying.
Nice! It’s super good in real life. It feels like there’s so many things at the start since there are so many ways to win. But I really think the game is pretty smooth after a couple of turns. Every time I play it I have a good time — even if I lose.
I ended up buying the expansion that tells a story as you go. But unfortunately my friends and I haven’t had a good time to really play through it.
I really like BattleCon, a fighting game-inspired card/board game that did a really good job translating the mindgames and oki into a turn-based format. They had an online version of it but sadly halted development because they couldn’t figure out how to monetize it.
I also love me some good ol’ Riichi Mahjong. There’s a group that brings tiles to fighting game tournaments since these are becoming cons in disguise, I got some nice hands at Combo Breaker this year.
I really like Lords of Waterdeep and Xenoshyft:Onslaught.
I’m not sure what my favorite is. My family and friends and I love Pandemic, Catan, Ticket to Ride, Throw Throw Burrito, and the first Walking Dead board game, the name of which is escaping me currently.
Cosmic encounter was always my favorite in college. Not popular enough that I can find local people to play now though.
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.
