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!
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Some of my favourites right now:
-Wingspan: 1-5 player game about birds from all over the world (with the European, Oceania and Asia expansions). Build up your board of birds and make future actions you take have more effects. There's a solo mode and Asia expansion introduces a special 2 player and 6-7 player mode. As a birder myself, can't recommend this game enough.
-Parks: Small but in depth 1-5 player game about exploring US national parks. You buy gear and set your hikers off on a trail that changes every round, to collect tokens and visit national parks. Games last up to an hour that feels like it flies by. Box design is the best I've seen, everything just fits together perfectly in a tiny box, making it much easier for travel.
-Terraforming Mars: Most complex game I own, for 1-5 players. Games can take 2-4 hours sometimes. You play as a corporation and compete with others to terraform mars the fastest. You raise the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen level and water) and increase your terraforming rating, all while managing your resources by playing various project cards. Has a challenging 1 player mode where you're racing against the generation counter to terraform mars in under 14 generations. Expansions are a bit expensive but I can recommend Prelude and Hellas & Elysium, for extra cards that can be played at the start of game to kickstart your resource generation, and a double sided map you can use as a replacement for the base game board.
Other notable mentions are 7 Wonders, Tokaido, Mystic Vale and Ticket to Ride
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.
I have spent more than I care to admit on several different versions of Zombicide. Admittedly, I also enjoy painting the mini figures, but the game itself is a nice experience, where you get to roll a lot of dice and kill some zombies!
7 Wonders Duel, Mage Knight, Aeons End, Pandemic, Batman Animated Series and DC Deck Building Game are some of my favorites
My favorites shift far too often, but Twilight Imperium and Merchants & Marauders are aleays ones I get to the table when given the chance.
Is there any love for solo? I like games with quick and easy set up: Agropolis, Cartographers, Voyages, Aquamarine. Sometimes Spirit Island (still learning how to play). When I have time and I am in the mood, I play solo RPG, but that's a different subject.
Spirit Island is great, both solo and co-op.
I am still learning the basics. And it's time to make it a bit more difficult!
If you have Tabletop Simulator, there's an excellent Spirit Island mod. I believe people organize games there on the Discord (linked from the subreddit...) but I've never played with strangers.
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My favorites in no particular order:
Dune (either the original AH edition or the 2019 GF9 edition)
Battletech
Descent (first edition)
Mage Wars Arena
Battlestar Galactica
Food Chain Magnate
Scythe
Blood Bowl
Twilight Imperium (fourth edition)
War of the Ring (second edition)
Millenium Blades
Exceed
BattleCON
Cosmic Encounter
Sidereal Confluence
Sekigahara
Triumph & Tragedy
Iron Ships & Wooden Men
Cloudspire
Forbidden Stars
Go
Twilight Imperium, really? I only played it once and it was the longest, most boring experience. Each turn just takes an enormous time, almost as long as a Warhammer 40k turn and I played with 5 other players. When you were done with your turn you could go for a really long walk and when you came back you wondered how the hell they just finished 2 turns...
I really really enjoy boardgames, but not ones that take a weekend to play...
(this isn't meant to insult you, I am just seriously wondering if my experience with it is a lot different than yours or if you like boardgames that you play an entire weekend)
My group can get a game of 4th edition finished in four to five hours. We are seasoned players, though. Twilight Imperium is both a strategically and tactically rich 4X game, which is why it's one of my favorites.
That said, I am not opposed to long games. I recently played Fire in the Sky, which took me and my opponent 4 four-hour sessions to complete.
I look at it as no different than a campaign game such as Gloomhaven. Gloomhaven took my group two years to finish.
Well with gloomhaven its multiple clearly seperated missions though.
My limit is at about 4-5h with a game that I've never played before. If I played the game before the limit is at about 3h I'd say 🤔
I bought Gloomhaven right at the beginning of the pandemic, and my roommates and I spent basically that whole summer playing together. We still keep in touch by playing the digital version as our schedule allows. So that one has a special place in my heart.
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
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.
Villainous
Camp Grizzly
Tales of the Arabian Nights (It's long but so fun)
Everyone is John (not really a board game)
Gloom
Dixit
Mysterium
Dread (role playing game with Jenga tiles)
Talisman
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game (Easier to play the digital version on Steam because it is murder to set up but it's very fun)
Tokaido
Wingspan
Unfortunately I don't play as much as I use too, there are only 2 of us now, so mostly we play card games now. When the kids were still living at home - I think the Classic Clue board game was probably what we played the most. Risk, and Monopoly were also in the mix quite a bit.
We love Villainous. Azul is awesome, I quite enjoy Quacks of Quedlinburg myself.