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They are fairly solvable but Patchwork, Nova Luna, and Santorini are my top 1v1 games.
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I just played Ravine the other night and that was really cool. Cooperative or with the expansion of complicated semi betrayal game. Very simple. I also like were doomed it's a party game that scales to 10 but is okay with smaller groups Both are very light and include some strategy and some weird wackiness King of Tokyo and Race for the Galaxy are also simplr simple. Race looks intimidating but once you get used to the visual shorthand and you'll be fine and the explainer cards do a good job.
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I'm going to make a small effort post about Ravine because we had a lot of fun and I'd never heard of it before. Ravine is group survival with a simple cycle of trading health to forage for new cards, using those cards to heal up and craft and get ready for the night, the night comes and it usually something bad happens to your group unless you have the tools in place to protect yourselves. Then in the morning anyone with only one HP takes a madness card that ofen include some silly rules like singing what you say. The expansion adds spirit characters who want to kill a random number of you. It's a fixed number between none and all of you that the spirits roll when the game starts. Spirits get extra cards of all the kinds you use in the regular game and during their turn each Spirit can put a card where one of the survival players might draw it.
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Lords of Water deep is a great lower complexity worker placement
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That's like half the board games though
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I don't know about the miniatures games but the blood-borne card game is very nice and I recommend it for a group of three to five.
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Are more people playing Dominion on the website or on steam? I got kind of annoyed when they slowed the website game down and after I lost due to a hidden chess timer on an undo request. My regular group tried two new games last night they were both pretty okay for what they were. Raids is a light viking game where you sail around competing for the best spots to stop and get points. It uses a catch-up turn order like patchwork. Whoever is most behind goes next but also all the spots between them and the next player get cleared out so they can't just slow roll and visit every one. 4/5 Arena of the Gods is an Ameritrash dice off combat game. You start by bidding life for equipment and you try to come up with a build that can do good stuff with each of the four things you might roll. Enjoyable for what I think is generally one of the worst kinds of game. The goal is to have the most life when the first player dies so it doesn't actually drag on that badly either. Has anyone tried That Time You Killed Me? My first glance it looks awesome but I was scared to peek at chapters inside Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Boop is my favorite new bga game. So simple!
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The family mode for Isle of Cats is good as a simple tile laying game too. I really liked the "draw and explore" version. A very nice randomizer mechanism for scoring.
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played something new recently all my friends enjoyed and have not seen mentioned. Reincardnated is a good game! it's themed on progressing towards being human from a plant. Scoring cards are drawn randomly and hidden unless you use a power to look. So you might have a card that favors a certain type of being or a card that favors all your stuff dying. Some cards even look at your opponents stuff for powerful bonus points. Each turn you can play one or two "karma" utility cards or instead of one of the karma cards your last action can be to incarnate as a new "being", plant, aquatic, amphibious, insect, mammal, and bird. Each incarnation adds a being to your lifeline and when you do so you can trigger that being particular ability. many being abilities are to peek at the scoring card of a single player. There's a lot of scoring cards with a variety of effects. Only certain beings, and under certain conditions, can incarnate to man, ending the game at the end of the current round of player turns and giving the player to do so a bonus. + It's not my favorite but most of the people I played with in two separate groups ended up liking and buying it.
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Are you open to... cooperation?
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Terraforming of Mars is an interesting blends of elements. The parts I like about it are similar to what I like about AffO. But where the occupation deck has limited ability to swing a game relative to everything else, the way the deck works in TM lends it to feeling like ive tacked a complicated math problem onto Candy Land. I also hate Ascension for how it uses the same mechanic that I don't mind at all in village village or bloodborne or Jaipur
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Explore and draw is really fun.
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Tiered like, some cards get shuffled in later in the game so you are more likely to have functional starts for everyone? Or is it something else
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Yeah and even that Agency is incredibly limited and sucks and emphasizes how much luck is ruling. Race for the Galaxy is a better comparison but Candy Land is funnier. Either way, it's a ton of work to play the more boring, non random part well to get a few point differential, and most of the point result is what cards you even get to look at. So it gets unfun because you end up knowing you only won or lost because you got handed combo pieces or not. Lots of games have this, but don't also make you play the side game that only impacts outcomes rarely. Spent a lot of time thinking about this because tfm was my favorite game for a while. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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We had a lot of "oh, I did that wrong so everyone else can do it wrong once too" when I was teaching Tiny Epic Galaxies but I don't think my group would tolerate that with anything heavier. TEG owns.
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I think this genre peaked with Tzoklin
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I'm just finish ip my first game of Ark Nova on BGA. I went in 1v1 and totally blind. Focused on African animals and generally just getting the sense of how it all fits together while refusing to read a single rule. It's pretty fun! Seems very complex. Is this an mwe or a heavy?
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I just ordered all the second edition updates and compiled Dominion into a single box again. the old box exploded in 10 years ago and of course the game is completely unusable in original storage. I'm very loving excited for my 25 lb game. I also got isle of cats explore and draw which might be the greatest light game I've ever played.  Never used Boardlandia before but good deals
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Heat is really cool but if I can't cause a pileup what is even the point
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Tiny Epic Pirates is real good
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At 5 players I'm all about Diplomacy and Resistance variants like Avalon or Secret Hitler. The Bloodborne card game is great semi cooperative Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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I truly love Hugo's Amazing Tape for all sorts of cards. It's plastic that only sticks to itself.
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I played my first game of Root and I was the
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Explore and Draw Resistance, Secret Hitler, etc.
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panko posted:with 5 players, and meatier than high society? A bit! Also, Bloodborne card game. It's probably my favorite for 5 right now Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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It's all very small individually. Perfect for knocking a beer over trying to make it fit. Too many bits I concede, were always worried to lose one
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Looney Lab Pyramids.
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Sorted by raw love Dominion aFfO Space Alert The Resistance Toc Toc Woodman (I'm counting it even only barely) RftG Explore and Draw We're Doomed Jaipur I want to include patchwork but it's pretty easy to solve
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Have come into possession of a copy of Shogun. All of the parts are awesome until I get to the actual rules. I've never really played any of these old tactical games.
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It came with the rules I just mean they are silly and overly complicated for a dice game. It is the Milton Bradley one and I am very excited to play it with friends.
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Yeah it really sucks people don't let you win because the rules say they don't have to
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With Race especially new players I think benefit most from playing a bunch of games in a row just to see as many cards as possible and get a general sense of what the hell is going on before you slow down and start thinking about it. but you can then be good and think faster
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Eclipse is great but you have to make sure take to food breaks
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As much as I hated the Steam implementation of Terraforming Mars (animations take the whole drat game even on fastest) and kind of hate TM, I'm excited to see it on BGA.
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Oh yeah I still won't play it in real time. I'm one of those people that rolls 30 to 40 turn-based games at a time so terraforming Mars will slot right in I want to change my name but it's hard to stop queueing new games
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Memnaelar posted:
This is also how I feel about Baren park. It's got some good elements but the last like a third of the game is completely unnecessary
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It's not King making if you're trying to not be dead
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I know this isn't the Magic thread but suddenly it seems really important to ask if resignation goes on The Stack
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I got the impression from the four-player version they were talking about that the other three would continue. Which is why the timing suddenly becomes critical
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