My Board Game List!
If you're coming over for a board game night, just looking for new games to play, or thinking of gifting me a game you might find this list useful. For each game, I list the:
- complexity rating, taken from BoardGameGeek
- favorite player count (followed by all player counts I enjoy)
I love games that are highly interactive/social, and games that focus on flexibility + adaptation over long-term planning.
Lighter Games
Onitama
1.65 2
Capture the King
Modular Setup
7 Wonders: Duel
2.23 2
Drafting
Engine Building
Historical
Azul
1.76 2 (2-4)
Drafting
Pattern Building
Abstract
Dominion
2.41 3 (2-4)
Engine Building
Deck Building
Modular Setup
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
2.65 4 (2-4)
Price Setting
Tile Placement
Hilarious Architecture
Betrayal at House on the Hill
2.33 5 (4-6)
One v Many
Storytelling
Spooky
7 Wonders
2.32 5 (4-6)
Drafting
Engine Building
Historical
Colt Express
1.83 5 (4-6)
Take That!
Action Queuing
Train Robbing
Heavier Games
Spirit Island
4.06 2 (2-4)
Cooperative
Asymmetric
Anti-Colonization
Arcs
3.39 3 (3-4)
Wargame
Trick-Taking
Take That!
Space Opera
Molly House
3.66 4 (2-5)
Push-Your-Luck
Bluffing
Semi-Cooperative
Historical
Root
3.80 4 (3-5)
Wargame
Asymmetric
Alliances
So Cute
Pax Pamir
3.85 4 (3-5)
Direct Conflict
Alliances
Historical
Oath
4.12 4 (3-5)
Narrative-Driven
Alliances
Legacy
Fantasy
John Company
4.44 5 (4-5)
Push-Your-Luck
Negotiations
Semi-Cooperative
Historical
Blood on the Clocktower
3.01
10-13 (8-16)
Social Deduction
Modular Setup
Party Games
Decrypto
1.81 6 (4-8)
Clue Master
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
1.39 7 (5-10)
Social Deduction
Lightning Rounds
Good Cop Bad Cop
1.25 8 (6-8)
Hidden Teams
Take That!
Two Rooms and a Boom
1.46 14 (10+)
Social Deduction
Lightning Rounds