r/boardgames

I love interactive games and bidding/auction is my favorite mechanism. My favorite games include power grid, rising sun and most Knizia classics like samurai, through the desert and RA.

I'm usually pretty good at researching and finding games I'd enjoy. However there were a few games I thought would be right up my alley but fell completely flat. What's that game for you?

Here are mine:

Tigris and Euphrates - doesn't feel as elegant as Knizia's other tile layers. Everyone says you just need to play more to understand the game but one thing that makes Knizia great is simple rulesets and excellent first play experience even for casual gamers. T&E almost feels like something against his design philosophy.

Hansa Teutonica - the interaction is there but I don't understand what makes this kicking other people off their spots and profiting from being kicked interaction fun.

Keyflower - I think the main issue is the iconography and overall artistic design. And maybe a lack of direction? Never felt engaged with the game.

I am more into board games than any of my friends. I don't get to play that often which means I generally have to play games that are easy to teach with simple mechanics that anyone can grasp the first time they play.

Unfortunately most of these board games I find boring and have limited replay value.

I would love to find more games that have tons of ways to use simple mechanics to build really complex strategies that keep the game engaging play over play.

I think one great example of this is 7 Wonders.

What are your favorites?

Edit: other personal preferences are that it can be played with up to 4 players, and is still good with 2, also is less than 90 minutes long. I also always play to win but not everyone in my group does. So bonus points if you can play to maximize fun (still enjoy the game even if playing poorly)

I frequently have 6 players at the table as my regular group is 6 or we have 3 sets of couples. Most of the greats max out at 4 or 5 forcing us often to go into the party games which can be fun but a shallow experience. I want to know your best 6 player games for these categories:

Co-op
Easy to play competitive
Crunchy competitive

So I have a small collection (~35 games), but I really love most of the biggest IPs out there (SW, Dune, LOTR, Wheel of Time, and so forth). What I am trying to do is pick at least one board game that is incredibly faithful to its source material (or as much as it can be) to represent each one. Dune I know has a lot of great euro games, and LOTR I've played and enjoyed the LCG, although it didn't hook me as much as I'd hoped. What suggestions do you guys have? It can be games from other famous IPs that you love that I didn't mention above (Witcher: Old World, for example). I think I'd like both Imperial Assault and Journeys in Middle-earth, but they seem too similar to each other.

Thanks for the help!

Looking for recommendations for story driven- or RPG-adjacent boardgames that can be run on a VTT or tabletop simulator.

Me and my friends live in different countries. We finished a long running DnD campaign a while back and we're looking for something similar, but where we dont need one of us to DM.

We're currently playing Earthborne Rangers, and I've tried Arkham Horror solo. Does anyone have any other suggestions they think might fit?

I know it might seem like we should just play Baulders Gate or some other computer game. But I really prefer boardgames. :)

I could go for a VTT option like Foundry, but again it would ideally be without the need for a GM.

Appreciate any help you can give!

My wife and I are fairly new to the board game hobby and recently moved to a new area. As introverts, I wonder how to go about creating and/or finding our game group. It feels like the constraints are pretty sizable, when you consider location, experience levels, game preferences, play styles, etc. I'm curious to know how YOU found your game group (to give me some ideas on how to go about finding my own.)

Have you ever played a board game where everyone else seemed to get it immediately and you were just sitting there thinking “what am I supposed to be doing?”

I had that experience recently and it made me wonder if other people have games that took several plays before everything finally clicked. Sometimes the complicated ones end up being the most rewarding once they finally make sense.

Are they just making the Old World with more story and legacy systems? It feels like it is not worth it if you already have the Old World? Or is it just Old World 2.0 fixing issues from the original?

Hi. I am looking for some chill game to play with exploration. I do not like optimization puzzle games. I am more into emergent stories, dice chucking, dungeon crawlers. My favourite games are Elder Scrolls BotSE, Too Many Bones, Slay the Spire, SETI, Nemesis, This War of Mine, Deep Rock Galactic, Massive Darkness 2. I don't like games like Mage Knight and Spirit Island. I have tried games like ISS Vanguard and Sleeping Gods Distant Skies, but they didn't work for me. ISS was too much fiddling for the reward and exploration phase was slog. Regarding Sleeping Gods I didn't like the combat (optimalization puzzle). I was looking into Earthborne Rangers and I am a bit scared it looks little like another optimalization puzzle game? And Vantage looks like a game without purpose? But that is just my first impression. Anyone with experience who can elaborate about those 2 games?

King of Tokyo Godzilla got released at the perfect time--I've never played a KoT game before and my kids recently turned 7 and 6 and love Godzilla, so I think they're in a good spot for KoT Godzilla. I already ordered the game, and I first came across the King Kong/King of New York expansion for the base KoT game, and then came across King of Monsters. I'm definitely interested in adding King Kong to our monsters list, and I really like cooperative games, so a King of Monsters variant using the Godzilla Universe monsters would be really nice.

I guess one option would be to buy KoT Monster Island, and I guess the Godzilla monsters are already compatible with it, but if iello already plans a KoT Godzilla Monster Island, maybe with monsters like Destoroyah or maybe Space Godzilla or maybe Gigan, that might be preferable, and I'm patient to wait given that we haven't even started playing KoT Godzilla yet!