Gaming

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.

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

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

The Red Dragon Inn is fun, especially when you drink real alcohol when you "drink" in game

I really like Lords of Waterdeep and Xenoshyft:Onslaught.

My city is an astoundingly good game. My wife and I are playing it basically every weekend at the moment. Super easy to learn, tactically rich, the art is lovely and you make your own city story to some extent. It's just wonderful.

It might be Marrakech now that I think about it. It's not too time taking and friendly to casual players yet not completely luck based. Also placing the rugs just feel so good. Are there other board games that comes with neat little items like Marrakech?

I've been absolutely loving a couple of the Button Shy games at the moment! They're really nice because I can just slip them into my work bag and play them at lunch. In particular, I've been playing a fair bit of Sprawlopolis and Food Chain Island, both of which are really great solo games.

With other people, I've been playing a whole lot of Spirit Island, which is probably one of my all-time favorites. The amount of diversity in how each of the spirits play is mind-boggling and makes every game feel very different. My regular play-group is also getting pretty excited for the new expansion that's coming out in the next couple of months.

• I love pretty much everything by the "Italian Masters": Newton, Lorenzo Il Magnifico, Grand Austria Hotel, Tzolk'in, Teotihuacan.
• Ascension is my favorite deckbuilder but like Clank, Tyrants of the Underdark, Dominion and Star Realms a lot too
• War Chest is my favorite "abstract". It has randomness from the bag-building elemnt so not a true abstract but it fills that hole for me.
• Bunny Kingdom and It's a Wonderful World for drafting.
• A Feast for Odin, Fields of Arle and Nova Luna are my favorite Uwes
• Mottainai is my favorite small deck card game. Or Sea Salt & Paper if in the mood for something lighter but still very cutthroat

I am bad at making lists so probably forgetting some of my very favorites.

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.

For consistent fun: Codenames, The Resistance, Secret Hitler

Recent board game which I really enjoyed: Takenoko. I loved the change in game phases.

Most chaotic fun I had years ago: Captain Sonar!

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.

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 :/

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

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!

Frosthaven! We’ve also really loved playing Quacks of Quedlinberg - it’s a great one for friends who are less into board games

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.

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.

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.

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/

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'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.