/bgg/ board game general>Previous thread: >>97060702>Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8>Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rq>TQs:>What's your most played game of 2025?>Which game do you wish you would have played more?>What's your most awaited 2026 release?>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?
>>97088337>What's your most played game of 2025?Tag team, followed by the Great Zimbabwe>>Which game do you wish you would have played more?Arcs, especially the blighted reach campaign.>>What's your most awaited 2026 release?Uh, I know it already released at gen con or essen in limited quantities this year, but I guess Compile 2 so my orders of Compile 1 + 2 plus the Aux packs will finally fulfill. >>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?You would ask me to give up Twilight Struggle? Summoner Wars? Sakura Arms? Innovation by Candlelight with my wife?Franchement anon, ta question est ridicule! Le Grand, c'est meilleur à cinq en tout cas!
>>97088337>>What's your most played game of 2025?DUNC Imperium (on Steam)>>Which game do you wish you would have played more?I still have time...>>What's your most awaited 2026 release?Voidfall's Expansion>>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?No more 4-player easily, since I'm not able to set any up myself
>>97088331At last our brother sees the light and the love.
>TQs:>What's your most played game of 2025?Space Base with expansions. It got VERY stupid with exploding rerolls.>Which game do you wish you would have played more?51st state maybe I haven't been able to get it to the table.>What's your most awaited 2026 release?They still make games?>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessionsOh I'd drop 2p in a heartbeat. 2p is a struggle at best.
I bought catacombs and both expansions. I already own clank! and clank! in space both with expansions. How stupid am I?
>>97088337Any black friday/cyber monday deals worth flexing? Seems very mid this year.
>>97088665You've made the right choice.
>>97088668I found arctic scavengers for 16$.And a bunch of snapships tactics at a third off.It was ok.
Magyars vs Celts was a fun matchup, although piss poor plays made it a bit of a grind.Being able to cancel their raids, and my first unlocked card being a free play, draw 1, + forcing region recall, and packaged with the Magyar innate power handing out unrest, kept the Celts from cycling their deck and making much use of glory. Which, when it finally popped off, not only nabbed them supreme for 11 points, but then next turn the fame card converted all their resources tokens and netted 14 vp, which was terrifying. An output that should have been much higher, had I not been nullifying their raid triggers every other turn.I can see how the Celt can keep you pinned down while rushing their own deck and having huge point payouts and murdering the market deck. I am both curious to see how much harder they are at higher difficulty and/or matched against a more vulnerable civ.I think I'll redo the matchup and crank up difficulty one or two levels. While being better at unrest management and way more selective when acquiring/breaking through. The Hungarian deli bloat was unreal.
>>97088337>What's your most awaited 2026 release?Waiting for upcoming games is for rubes. I only buy games that have been vetted by /bgg/.
>>97088806Which ones worked out for you and which ones were duds?
What, you need more?
>>97088337>>What's your most played game of 2025?By plays, So Clover. By the actually useful metric of total playtime, Civolution>>Which game do you wish you would have played more?A lot. Churchill. La famiglia. Wish I had gotten in more plays of GoAII after our very disappointing first game.>>What's your most awaited 2026 release?Railways of the lost atlas. One of the precious few times I actually crowdfunded something>>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?No more 2p. Which is extremely bitter because there's so many great 2p games, but I play 3-4p way way more often.
>>97088859>Railways of the lost atlas.2024.
>What's your most played game of 2025?DI Uprising >Which game do you wish you would have played more?Dune/Game of Thrones/Twilight Imperium, but its getting harder and harder to gather 5 other people. >What's your most awaited 2026 release?Dune War for Arrakis: Desert War. got this thing preordered but CMON is doing CMON fucking thing. last game i will back.>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?No more 2-player sessions: while i like 2 player games, there are way more 4 player games that I enjoy.TI4 best game ever.
>>97088857You want elegant games?I've got plenty.But who cares?No big dealI want more. I wanna be where the con-goers are.I wanna see, see their pledging and hyping.What is a splotter and why does it, what's the word? Buuuuuuuuuurn a hole in my clutch
>>97088876I know that, but since it's more or less unobtainable now I thought it was the next best thing. All other releases are somewhat speculation on my part. That one seems to reliably be pretty great
>>97088857Yes. Variety is the spice of life. Just because some (maybe a lot of) people overdo it, doesn't mean novelty is inherently bad. System mastery has its place of course, but it isn't everything.
>>97088337>>What's your most played game of 2025?For me, it's Terraforming Mars.>>Which game do you wish you would have played more?Root. Teaching it would probably need a whole weekend.>>What's your most awaited 2026 release?No clue, want to avoid hype. Arcs didn't really click with me or my friends and that was the last hype purchase.>>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?No more 4-player. I can live with 3 or 5-player games, but not being able to pull a 1v1 against my wife would be sad.
>>97088888>Dune War for Arrakis: Desert War. got this thing preordered but CMON is doing CMON fucking thingPretty sure cmon is all but officially bankrupt and only exists as a shell to syphon the rest of the money to management. If the ip doesn't get sold, I don't think they can deliver on it. Although I confess I have no idea how far into the production process they are
I found the new Heroquest game for about $40 during the black friday sale. I haven't played it before, I did play the 1989 version when I was a kid. I remember it being very fun. Is this new version any good?
>>97089026There are new expansions for sale but the base game is a straight remake.
>>97088850I'll try to keep this specifically to games I heard about on /bgg/ first or that I wouldn't have considered without /bgg/'s endorsement. To be clear, not necessarily talking about consensus, but somebody shilled them here well enough for me to consider them. Great successes:>Dune>Evolution: Climate>M&M>Spirit Island>WotR>Hegemony>Sidereal Confluence>EclipseModest successes:>The King is Dead>Hansa Teutonica>GWT>Churchill>878: VikingsDuds due to preference despite being good designs:>Kemet>BohnanzaDuds due to shit taste on the part of /bgg/:>Cosmic Frog>Root
>>97088665game is too Light for me to enjoy
>>97088490
What are the best "spacial puzzle" games? Games where you need to decipher the board state - that is the essence of the game.Something like Dominant Species for example.
>>97089026If it's a nostalgia purchase and its 40 dollars, I think the value of the game is what you make of it. I own Descent 1st edition with 0 intent of ever needing to play it because it's nostalgic to me when I was a kid.However, is HeroQuest a good game? Not really. It's just very dated in a genre that has had Gloomhaven and that just mogged the entire dungeon crawler genre. Even if you don't like Gloomhaven, there is a pre gloomhaven and a post gloomhaven era in the genre.
>>97088699artic scavengers is a good deckbuilder. I put a junk card in the special deck and a special in the junk deck just to randomize things a bit more.
Black Friday hauls?My lgs's are insane with some of their sales, got all for 100$
>>97089284>spacial puzzle" gamesTGZ, Brass, Pipeline? Games where you have to see the connections on the map? Probably applies to the other big splotters. >>97089461this is great deal. The biggest deal here is like 5% off.
>>97088857
>>97088857I would prefer to play Uno or Catan instead of this crap
>>97089284>What are the best "spacial puzzle" games?The best one puts you under pressure.
>>97089284Most if not all Splotters.
>>97089284Seconding splotter, TGZ especially.
>Coloretto and Web of Power are both by the same guyThis is as surprising as when I learned Acquire and Can't Stop were by the same guy,
>>97089284kemet? the board control ebbs and flows very fast until the end state
>>97088337>What's your most played game of 2025?Arkham Horror LCG or Hunt for Blackbeard>Which game do you wish you would have played more?Cthulhu Wars or La Famiglia>What's your most awaited 2026 release?World Order>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?No more 2-player sessions. I'd rather play solo or with 3+. I've played too much 2 player stuff in the last couple years.
>>97089701>Catanplease be bait
Catan is a good game and whoever demonizes it is too far up their own ass to understand that.
>>97089284probably five tribes?>>97089717>>97089728> TGZIs the game about seeing connections? I know what its about but never played it.
>>97089761>La FamigliaThis game gets shilled here every-time recently. What is it about? I know its 2v2 team play dudes on a map / area control game. What game would it be compared to?
>>97089825baby's first troll
>>97089827>Is the game about seeing connections?Somewhat. It's about logistics networks in a closed economy. Travel distances between components are a big part of the game but an even bigger part of the game is planning around the future money and opportunities players give to each other by taking actions.
>>97089843How's them farts smelling?
Is Kemet rise of the gods a good expansion?Most of the discussion seems to be around the stupidly large boxI have book of the dead, but it doesn't feel like a great addition, so not interested in repeating that
>>97089284>spacialspatial
>>97089977>>spacial>spatialspecial
>>97089825And so is Risk and Monopoly. Truly excellent games.
>>97089921I haven’t played it but I really don’t know what could be added to Kemet at this point that would objectively improve it. Feels like all that development was already done and then polished with Blood and Sand.
so...horses are OP, right?
Me after I lose to horses
I was playing solo...
Im looking for something cooperative and challenging. I've seen people talking about out Frostpunk and Robinson Crusoe. Are these good games? Would you recommend something else?
>>97090333Never played Frostpunk. Crusoe is good and definitely challeging.Definitely one of those co-ops which some people even prefer to solo, though.
>>97090333>Im looking for something cooperative and challenging.Assault on DoomrockDeliciously brutal and yet stumbling into a killer combo is oh so satisfying.
>>97090333hanabi is comfy if you play the base game, then gets challenging when you add the expansions
THE NORWEGIANS ARE LEAVINGTHE NORWEGIANS ARE LEAVING
>>97089761>World OrderMan I hope it’s good
Man I did not realize meant about the wingspan games until I tried them. It was wyrmspan, but I'm assuming its adjacent are similar. What a boring exercise in futility. The downtime is actually insane, there is NOTHING to do on an opponent's turn. Zero, and I mean ZERO player interaction. This is a literal women's game
>>97090570What? You dont like pretending to bird watch?
>>97090570>Man I did not realize meant about the wingspan games until I tried them.This sentence is missing two words at minimum and possibly more.
>>97090570I haven't played Wingspan in 2 years but I have a vague memoey of some of the birds of prey with effects that mess with other players' hands.
>>97090729He knew what he meant, I know what he meant, and you're just being facieious.
They should retheme wingspan to be a game about basketball americans
>>97090570>there is NOTHING to do on an opponent's turn.>wingspan with its in between turns payout birds, giving or taking resources to other players, group participation powers you have to carefully manageWingchads, stay winning
>>97090872Feels like we went through 70% of dragon cards and cave cards. The only ones that really effected players on other turns were the "pay up to 3 eggs to get any 2 resources for each egg. Each opponent may pay 1 egg for any 2 resources."And whenever that came up, everybody was like, "sure"There was one(1) moment where someone bought a dragon someone else needed.
>>97088490By chance I played it on saturday as well, but to my great dismay I must admit that it's one of the few games that work equally well on bga. AffO is a great game, but it is largely a form of enjoyable autism; playing by yourself. Sure, you get 5-6 more strongly contested spaces, and the more experienced you are the bigger the impact of a blocking is...but most of the time our main interaction when playing it physically is banter. I'd care way less about this if the game wasn't such a tablehog and took fucking forever to set up. I'm kind of thankful the danes will be a standalone, 2 xboxhueg boxes are enough
>>97089026It is basically the same thing and you can download new adventures off their site, they also reprinted the old expansions and made new expansions. That being said the other anon was right when he said it has aged badly.
>>97089825I played Catan for the first time at the weekend. As a classic I didn't realise it would be just random luck of the rolls. I don't know what I had in my head, but it wasn't that.
>>97090570>>97090587>>97090729>>97090730>>97090739>>97090866>>97090872
>>97091198I know someone who likes birds. Can I get this for them for Christmas without having to play it with them in the future?
>>97091198Except my game would be about basketball americansIt works betterThe players have wingspansReplace the eggs with basketballsReplace the birdhouse dice tower with a hoop
>>97091191>As a classicit was the first wave to break away from monopoly and any (total lack of) balance is made up for by "but you can trade!" now play ticket to ride
>>97091217>laughs in decades older Acquire
>>97091217>it was the first wave to break away from monopolyThat was Acquire. Which is also quite random.>now play ticket to rideI would sooner play Catan than Ticket to Ride.It ends much faster and the first half of the game is enjoyable.
>>97091213it's not as awful as people make it seem. it's like photosynthesis bad not like Risk bad.>>97091215but I don't have any basketball americans memes
>>97091217>now play ticket to rideOh anon I play wargames and autism games. Catan is just something I only ever heard in the abstract as a "classic" and never actually ever played until now.
>>97091217>now play ticket to rideWhy would you ever recommend this.
>>97091233>>97091234Acquire is still good and was not a breakaway game as it was VERY fucking niche at the time and nowhere near as popular (it was largely unknown) as Monopoly or Catan.Also Acquire is in no way random like monopoly or Catan and is a good game even though I don't believe that was through design but accident.
>>97091264because everyone must suffer!
>>97091278>Also Acquire is in no way random like monopoly or Catanhttps://youtu.be/tPPNr3VWuig?t=164
>>97088337>What's your most played game of 2025?Toy Battle or Ark Nova I'm not sure I don't count hours played>Which game do you wish you would have played more?None I'm not a gaymer>What's your most awaited 2026 release?DfME Expansion>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?No more 4 player
What's wrong with ticket to ride?Good production, simple rules, actual tension on other people's turns, risk takingBut you do have to know how to play itI played TTR with a family member and his wife, both of them being pretty passionate TTR players (at least as far as casual players go, since they owned a few different versions)I proceeded to just collect cards in the early game, never take any tickets, claim the longest routes, and absolutely wreck themthink my total score was close to their combined scoresThey got very silent during the scoring phase and then look as bewildered as two people can be
>>97091326>What's wrong with ticket to ride?Exactly this:>I proceeded to just collect cards in the early game, never take any tickets, claim the longest routes, and absolutely wreck themWith the additional sore point that if everyone at the table knows to hoard cards the game stagnates once the deck runs low on cards and it takes hours to finish the game.
What is the best "classic" game that still holds up when you get deeper into board games?
>>97091356I mean, there is a better strategy, where you combine claiming the longest routes with making your aims ambiguous. If all players do that, the end game is very tense and the player who combines offense and defense the best is likely to win
>>97091433>the end game is very tense?>and the player who combines offense and defense the best is likely to winMore like the player who got the luckiest draw on their tickets during setup.
>>97091372Through the desertBusAgricolaEl grandeTargiRaFor salehigh societySantoriniHive
>>97088337>What's your most played game of 2025?Civolution, then Innovation Ultimate>Which game do you wish you would have played more?Guards of Atlantis>What's your most awaited 2026 release?Eternal Decks or the Oath expansion>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?2 player I guess. Genuinely saddening hypothetical though
I got this game called Lexio. It has been released a few times (went by Lectio at one point) and always received praised when released but flopped hard each time, changed publishers, then flopped again.It's fun as hell. Basically uses numbered tiles (mahjong style tiles) and you are playing poker hands. The lead player lays down a poker hand and the other players have to play the same kind of hand but stronger (either a higher value or a stronger suit) or pass with the last person who played a hand leading the next play.The scoring is easy enough and a full game is over after four rounds. The scoring can even be done with an actual cash pool making it a legit gambling game. Yet it always failed.Any other examples of a game that is well received just failing constantly?
>>97091372These >>97091447Plus:>Modern Art>Hansa Teutonica>Chinatown>Carcassonne
>>97091372C H E S S
>>97091754>Eternal Decksdidnt this already come out? Ive been playing it a bit here and there this past year.
>>970914471998 ok1999 ok2007 pushing it1995 ok2012 ???1999 ok1997 ok1995 ok"2004" you didn't play this before 20162001 probably ok>>970917811992 ok2009 no1999 ok2000 ok
>>97091799it did, but I can't find it, so i'm waiting for the PGC editionwhat do you think so far? i'm a big fan of TRICKTAKERs
>>97091831my group liked it, but we only played the initial scenario a few times.would certainly like to go back and up the difficulty with the whackier rules and different creature decks
(((Carcassonne)))
>>97091821NAYART but Targi is a modern day classic and if you cannot see that you might as well hang up your gaming coat and not let the door hit you on your way out.
>>97091855Between this and the mormon version of catan, why do christian groups need to retheme existing greatest hits?I get that the more novel games designers come up with that explore the religions early days and growth are all duds, but surely they can steal something lesser known, right?
>>97091198It insists upon itself
>>97091856I thought Targi was older than that, but definitely one of the best and most timeless 2p games out there
>>97090360I love this game but my wife hates difficult co-ops. In a sense the game is very RNG heavy. Did you draw good level up spells? Did you get good location events to make silver? Did you get decent rerolls in the first round of combat? Are your items actually useful that you found? She's a big fan of Too Many Bones and finds that the mitigation is a bit better in that game. Still love getting this to the table a few times a year.
>>97091372>still holds upIt comes down to availability. A lot of these games benefit from a modern reprint. Not that the games aren't good but the lack of people playing it and gets the game forgotten. Look at the new Knizia reprints/rethemes for example. T&E and Samurai (?) will get a lot more traction in these threads when the reprint comes out.
>>97089825I agree. Played it a week ago and it went fast and snappy with an interesting board state. No one was bitching about down turns. 3 players
>>97091191There is also gaslighting the table and rewarding you for being the most insufferable whining bitch imaginable
>>97092259You what?
>>97091326I only played it once and immediately gave it away to the local school. Hated it because it's an almost entirely tactical game where you're pulled around by the card draws and other people taking shit from under your nose.>got 3 white trains>need 4 to complete a route>nothing on the public market>draw from the face down cards>green>draw again>red>white card appears on the market>another player snatches it before I get my turnIt might be fit for playing with little children or boomers, but I see no reason whatsoever to get into it as a hobbyist. I'll take a game where I can at least somewhat plan my turns.It's been almost 10 years now so if you wanna tell me I'm forgetting something, I am.
>>97092259don't you do that when you're not playing Catan though, anon?
>>97088337Why won’t people consider actual traditional games anymore? Is it too hard to learn rules? Is it that everyone has been successfully programmed to consume plastic and cardboard? Has the marijuana dried your brains and left you with no imagination?
>>97092563>le imaginationThe reason card games were ubiquitous until somewhere in the 90s is because of limitations in mass production and design tools. Nobody was imagining heckin epic wars while playing a trick taking game, it was just an abstract game to play and win against someone else.If you gave someone a better produced anti-game like Monopoly or Risk to someone 100 years ago, they would jump at it. Oh wait, that's pretty much what happened.
>>97092563I really like some classic card games but looking up the rules usually gives me AIDS and I can't remember them when at most I get to play them once a year.
>>97092469If a route hinges on a card that isn't there, you work on another route instead. You might not get a route that matches your cards, but you might fuck over someone else's route that would let them score big.
>>97092563A shockingly high number of card games are just different variations of getting runs and/or straights or trick taking games. Shit gets old pretty fast once you realize that.
>>97092652Yeah, that's what I meant by saying the game is entirely tactical. It's either getting lucky and getting what you need, or cutting losses and taking a shit route in order not to stall completely. All based entirely on random card draws.>you might fuck over someone else's routeMostly accidentally. Because I'm not picking orange cards just because someone else picked one while I have none.
Call for monthly reportsbeginning with mineI'd say I'm pretty satisfied with this last month, not because of the numbers but because only half of the plays are on tts, and only a couple are multi-hand plays, which means I've played more often irl and with more peopleMezo was a nice discovery, I can see why some call it the best DoaMAlso managed to get a play of a few acres of snow with an actual opponent instead of Myself 2
>>97092704>Mezo was a nice discovery, I can see why some call it the best DoaMDo they? What's so great about it?
>>97092704Red November K, reporting in.
>>97092737Well I'll begin by clarifying that DoaM isn't usually my preferred genre, but I've seen many comparing it with Ankh: gods of egypt and saying that it's a better version of it (even though Mezo came out in 2020 and in 2021). I've played both and I enjoy Mezo alot more (no, these two aren't the only DoaMs i've ever played but this is the comparison i've seen talked about)It's mostly a tactical game, not a strategy one, because it's harder to make long term plans due to its unpredictabilityThe player "factions" have a power that activate when you move your god and also 5 action cards that give different 2 different options on what you can do plus a third option that is the same across all 5 cards as sort of a back-up plan, but you will only have 3 cards at a time and will only get to use each once per eraThe only thing I'm a bit iffy on is that the order in which the conflicts occur is random as opposed to public information that can be switched around with a specific action like in Ankh, but I guess it also adds tension to the gameIt also helps that it's a shorter game than Ankh
>>97092758Sell me on Blood on the Clocktower. I have a social event coming up in a couple of weeks and am considering getting it, but it costs a fuckton. The basic premise reads something like Werewolf, but supposedly they managed to squeeze something better out of the formula? How does it play?
>>97092778not the anon you're replying to, but I don't think whatever BotC adds is worth the premium, I've played it a couple times at an event and it's just a standard fare traitor gameMaybe you could check out 23 Knives?
>>97089329>GloomhavenGH is a shit game that only appeals to retards who think dice are a completely unacceptable resolution mechanic.90% of the scenarios are "kill everything before time runs out". Time runs out when you completely deck out of cards and that's usually around 10 turns in. Classes are wildly unbalanced too. Since the meat of the game is to kill everyone anybody who has a class that isn't geared around killing shit or making other characters kill shit faster, you got a shit class that also hurts the group because you aren't maximizing killing shit every game round.Then you got a bunch of fiddly bullshit that doesn't add shit except by being fiddly bullshit (element board is a huge example).Growth is painfully slow, speed in killing shit makes gaining loot a real bitch because you frequently have to sacrifice a turn just to pick shit up. Just having your character move through loot to grab it would alleviate this problem, but now you just made the thief class even more useless.I tried on five different occasions to give that game a fair shake in physical form and twice in digital form. The end result, every time was that I would much rather be playing Descent 2e over it and out of the box that thing is also a race against time but it isn't as much of a cumbersome whore as GH is, accomplished the same goal with less, sets up and tears down faster, and plays smoother.
>>97092797here anon, the self-portrait you ordered
>>97092704Slow month.
>>97092493It's not required to win
>>97092787What does it add though? To be perfectly honest, I wasted god knows how much on the Werewolf kicksharter that was a while back and only ever played with mostly basic cards, so if I get a game that is fundamentally better in some sense I'm not beyond spending the dough.>23 KnivesNot available in my country unfortunately.
>>97092854>Slow month>Still 2 games of HegemonyStill enviousNovember wasn't too bad for me. Also I prefer to sort by time played instead of plays
Fields of fire arrived but between work and gym I don't know if I'll be able to try it before Thursday. Growing up is suffering
>>97092955If work and gym are your main timesinks, I'm afraid it gets much, much worse.
>>97092977Between commuting and domestic chore I simply don't have free time
>>97092563Hi tourist
>>97092954>Also I prefer to sort by time played instead of playsWould if I had the deeper statistics moduleWithout it, you don't get time played stats and I don't want to waste more money on some app>>97092901>What does it add though?no idea but when I played it, the guy who brought it let me look at it and it doesn't like it adds anything special, just scenarios, more wacky roles and whatnot, but I don't think it's worth the price it asks
>>97093061>it doesn't like it adds anythingThanks, anon. I guess I'll check out the rules if nobody else pipes up. I thought I read some positive things on /bgg/ but I may be getting demented.
>>97091372can't stopcrokinoletake 6saboteurbohnanza
>>97092954Hegemony sucks. Its just Root with a dry theme.
>>97093520Unlike Root, hegemony has properly interwoven factions, things to actually negotiate over, and no idiotic race to VP condition.
>>97092704what site/app do you use for that? is it free?
>>97093520bait used to be at least remotely believabler**t has literally nothing to do with hegemony except for the fact that the players are asymmetricI don't like either game btw
>>97093599BG stats, and it's a one time payment of like 5$ or soI got it 2 years ago and only because I had a voucher so only had to pay like 1$I think there are free alternatives out there but I never tried them
>>97092778What it adds is insane levels of modularity and control that the Storyteller (an important person who is not actually playing) can have over the game. Any time there's fuzzy information, the ST can choose to what to say, like telling the Washerwoman that one of two players is a town role can mean the other player is also a town role, or the other player is evil, and the player will have no idea who even is that role of the two people. The Demon, main antagonist, sees three roles not in play, chosen by the Storyteller, so he has something to lie about playing as, and here the ST can fudge it big time too, either giving him roles that get game start info that he will have to make up and possibly be wrong about, or more active roles that people will be able to track where he goes and that he lies about protecting Alice because he went to Bob's house and Bob fucking died. Then there's also Outsiders, who win with the town, but offer no help or actively hinder them instead, like the Drunk, who isn't told they're drunk, they get a normal role but it does absolutely nothing, but the ST pretends like its doing something.But the coolest feature imho, and one you can just incorporate into your normal games of Mafia, is the "final dying wish" vote, after being killed you can still vote in the day phase but only once per game, so you should make it count when good is evenly numbered with evil roles, or when players get indecisive. The voting ritual being styled after a clock is also a cool addition.
>>97092704slow month, but still a fun one
>>97092901>what does it add though?it adds enough mechanics to produce a compelling deduction puzzle for the good team, and enough tools for evil to manipulate to create dynamic team play for them. lying is important, yet the game doesn't center around cold reading each other. the three scripts it gives you are endlessly replayable and super well balanced. mechanics like madness (you might get executed if you don't hard claim to be a certain role) are really fun. you can also get into custom scripts and basically make botc support any style of gameplay you wishthere's also a lot of usability that the production and development brings for the storyteller, which is itself a fun and rewarding role
>>97092704Pretty good month, second most games played in all year, and managed to play most of my favorites, even if only once or twice.
>>97092704>>97093764due to a ton of travel and life shit I think I legitimately only played like 2 board games this monthHoping December is a huge month instead.
Crawlerfags what's your opinion on pic related? Is it challenging or is it a cakewalk?
>>97092990I know that feel bro, half an hour one way is bullcrap + cooking/cleaning is a gigantic pitaSome of the guys in my office have a full hour commute one way, I don't know how they do it.
>>97093764Thoughts on feya's swamp?
>>97094186I enjoyed it but not more than Gaia Project (I haven't played Terra Mystica). Racing to build enclosures by physically moving your boats and making it harder to traverse as you play was really fun, and the pseudo draft forcing you to swap leader cards for abilities and turn order added a bit of spice to the straight forward worker placement efficiency engine.It's a tight economy on both worker spaces and resources you need to make things and upgrade your tableau, not sure if it's more lenient than Gaia Project's, but is more straightforward than GP that's for sure. Played it at the start of the month and haven't really heard much about it again in my circles, maybe it has to do with the theme and overall weight, but I'd be happy to play it again to explore new venues and different leader cards, there are only a couple used per game.
>heavy worker placementPick 3.
>>97094460Barrage, Galactic Cruise and La Senpai
>>97094503Shill me on Barrage.
Man, I just got into solo-playing Marvel Champions after getting the starter box at my LGS. But now I'm finding out they stopped printing some of the best expansions this year. Kind of a letdown.
>>97093676>>97093735Cheers, I'll look into it further.>the game doesn't center around cold reading each otherThis is the worst part about Werewolf style games, for the most part it's just accusing people randomly and seeing if they will flinch. People shit on Secret Hitler for some reason, but one thing that game does is it gives you straight up two people who put down the fascist policy. They could have been forced to do it by the draw, or one of them could be a fascist, but they did something that initiates the discussion.
It arrived early, maybe I'll manage to try it after gym. So far I'm impressed with the sheer quantity of manuals, it also feels really premium
>>97090333You need to play corps of discovery. That game is just awesome for coop
>>97094513Tight, heavily interactive Euro in a shared map with huge variability, what's not to love?
Friends played Clank for the first time, they liked it. :3
>>97094780Bitches love Clank
>>97094804It's a simple but fun game, nothing like buying out the dungeon market before escaping and watching your opponents struggle.
>>97093520Pretty weak attempt tbqh
>>97094460Dune imperiumShackleton BaseLorenzoI've gotten fed up with barrage after 15 playsStill haven't had the chance to try La famiglia>>97094780good
>>97094756best player counts? Sounds interesting
Hegemony is unironically shit. First game took 6 hours. Clunky mechanics. Ironically as much as we shit on Wehrle his games succeed much better in players creating the balance. Don't @ me unless you are Northwestern European
All these USELESS LANGUAGES NO ONE CARES ABOUT CLUTTERING UP BGG FILES!!!!!! BEGONE!!! I CASE UBLOCK!>boardgamegeek.com##li.summary-item:not(:has-text(/English|Japanese/i))
>>97088337>What's your most played game of 2025?Volto! My gf loves it and we've been playing a lot of it I wish she was into real abstracts but I'll take anything I can get>Which game do you wish you would have played more?Probably BSG. We didn't even play it once this year>What's your most awaited 2026 release?I don't follow board game news so I have no clue. I'm curious about the oath expansion but I'm not getting it unless it's from a discount bin>No more 2-player sessions or no more 4-player sessions, which would you choose if you had to?That's a tough one. I think no more 2p. I love a good head to head duel but there's simply way too many 4p games I enjoy.
>>97094926The fuck's a Northwestern European.
>>970949254 is optimal. If you want to play with 2 or 3, then it's better to use the fanmade 2p/3p map or the official Duel Map, otherwise the map becomes looser.
I will try to get the japanese edition of ra at tokio next week, any recommendations of were to get it? Anyone has it? I just love smaller cheaper versions of overpriced games.
Thoughts on Nexus Ops?Is it worth it for a fun, chaotic dudes on a map (also love the idea of 2v2 play)? Or are there better games that do the same?
>>97094926>Ironically as much as we shit on Wehrle his games succeed much better in players creating the balanceAbsolutely deranged opinion tbqh
>>97094460I love DS. I haven't played most of these. Just don't seem that unique or interesting. Want to try Barrage and La famiglia.
>>970949262/10Apply yourself
>>97095423
Did anyone here ever play Adventures of Conan (the one with lots of dice, not the miniatures one)?
>>97094926I dont like hegemony either but your opinion is still utter dogshitRoot is a glorified party game, not saying it's a bad thing but that it's not meant to be taken seriously, no point talking about balance
What are your 3 favorite 2-player games?
>>97094926so, how did it go? give us a full battle report so we could laugh at whatever retard(s) mispalyed
>>97095449it's fine in it's weight class and category, but it might be a miss anyway because it does have it's faults. I liked it, some of my playgroup didn't.other games to consider:Kemet doesn't do the same thing (no dicerolls) but is better as a DoaM war style game, and is still chaotic thanks to the power tiles and combat cards, doesnt have a 2v2 though last i checked.La Famiglia does kinda the same thing but with bluffing instead of dicerolls, and is only 2v2 (but i think expansions will fix that maybe).Star Trek Ascendacy does mostly the same thing but way bigger (its a proper 4X that takes a few hours to play, and you win by conquering home systems, or having the big economy and surviving all opponents trying to conquer you) and the 2v2 mode is hidden in the Dominion expansion, but they're doing a reprint of all the expansions plus some fanmade ones(?) printed as official, so you'll probably be able to snatch a copy from everyone who doesnt have enough friends but has too much money
>>97089025I know. they said "we're already close to shipping guys!" then on September they send out address confirmation emails and few weeks ago they made another "were already so close to shipping out guys! trust us!" I went all in, and this pisses me off. I fear its getting similar to Mythic Games/Darkest Dungeon. shit like this makes me discourages me from ever backing another game from KS/Gamefound.inb4>you're retard for backing games on KS/GamefoundI know, Anon, I know...
>>97095724Twilight Struggle, Summoner Wars, sakura armsCan go above two, but played exclusively 1v1?Pax Renaissance 2nd ed, Innovation, Mottainai
>>97094658It had to be done. The single biggest flaw with the game was how difficult it was to learn so they made it idiot proof
>>97094926Someone post Mark Herman telling people to not play his games if they’re gonna suck at them and call them bad.
>>97095724War of the Ring Paths of GlorySakura Arms
>>97096316The duality of man
should I take the risk? it's nowhere else to be found but the publisher's website
>>97096344I don’t think it’s rare for someone to be interested in Tolkien, history, and anime girls.That probably makes up a huge portion of this website
>>97094926Fuck Northwestern Europeans.
i'm having fun
Your thoughts on these games? >SETI>Darwin's Journey>Galactic Cruise>Civolution>Voidfall>March of the Ants
>>97096463Top to bottom slop
>>97096463>SETIOne of the most sleek, streamlined games out there. I found the multitude of unique cards to be too formulaic and the game too uninteractive to really keep my interest despite loving the theme, but I wouldn't say if someone asked me to play it again.>Darwin's JourneyBeen up and down on this one, trending down. Made me realize I started disliking these tight euros with few actions that get ever more combotastic. place dude, get two movement on the island, place a tent, trigger 2 stamps, no more stamps in that row so I get 1 ship movement, this triggers (...). I also don't like that one of the main actions (ship movement) is extremely unrewarding and bland compared to the others. Played it like 6 times and don't really want to do so again.>Galactic CruiseHaven't played it>CivolutionProbably the best game that came out last year. I might like it so much because it very much suprised me; I was sure a Feld Civ builder can only fail. Yet it does everything it sets out to do really well, has very high variance, is also suprisingly skill-based for how volatile it initially seems AND plays in like 2h with 4p. Brilliant design. Biggest negative is that the map play is less interactive than I'd like.>Voidfall>March of the AntsHaven't played these two. MotA seemed pretty neat but always oop for me and I am hesitant to play a Turczi game despite his recent (supposed) surge in quality
>>97096463>SETIif someone asked me an example of a game that's too smooth and polished, that would be SETII played it twice and it was kind of ok but also unexciting>Darwin's Journeyboring set collection worker placement game with alot of stuff to look at>the othersidk never played them but I was told Civolution is castles of burgundy but even better
>>97096293I bet it's confusing, I felt like I needed a guide to properly divide all the tokens
>>97096445>TTSWhat's the point
>>97096922Fun! I have a good time with my friends every Monday (Sunday is IRL day).
>>97095612There are some gameplay difference.
>>97095724I'm just going to take-as-said all of the obvious and bggcore titles and cut to underdogs and honorable mentions;klaskstar wars deckbuilder (this kicked 7w duel out of my collection)aerodome - this did not enjoy commercial success as far as I know but it is a pretty fucking great design in the wings of glory->x-wing style.
>>97088857>hit 2d US>turns out that I needed to start memorizing joseki dictionaries at the age of three to progress
It's crazy that "old" FFG now has the same reputation as "old" Avalon Hill because Asmodee fucked them over so hard.
You are sleeping on Cyber Monday deals.Monopoly Deal Harry Potter is $0.93 off.Azul is buy 2 get 1 free.Pandemic is list price.
>>97096463>SETII like it, only played once at 4p. Basically replaces Terraforming Mars but also do we really need another Euro that's 300+ cards of mechanically unique things going on?It's good and you can find it cheap. I think it's worth a play>Voidfalla FANTASTIC euro with 4x mechanics/themes. It is, however, a game that actually should've used dice for combat though. I think combat is not that enjoyable as is because its so deterministic you know whats going to happen before it starts.Also teaching the game is aids. It's not hard, but there's 0 reminder text anywhere in favor of icons for FUCKING EVERYTHING. it does have great icnonography tough, you rarely don't know what an icon says, but it is a huge learning curve.
>>97097972Old FFG just had solid ameritrash and a good ecosystem (sleeves, expansions etc). Everyone left after the buy out.
