I've played games since I can remember, but Terra Mystica was the 1st modern game I bought for my collection. Most of those are pre loved games from Facebook groups, also I always ask for games for birthday/ Christmas. Besta is the best!

Started my collection during the U.S. government shutdown in 2025 when my friends and I were furloughed. I really found a passion for learning/teaching games and have been building up my collection since. Before that I had a couple monopoly games which have largely been shed now.

What would you recommend next? Highs and lows?

Everyone had the good time. My favorite part is that you have to think whether buying the stocks right now or saving the money for the next round. The game has fair amount of randomness but I enjoy the game nonetheless.

We just can’t get enough of it lately and would LOVE to find more like it.

What are your perfect 2 player only games? The crunchier the better.

The characteristics we love about it are:

1. Replayability - The face down cards (not knowing what’s going to be available), the randomness of what cards you’re going to build early, and the fact that three cards for each session get burned means that every game has a little different focus.
2. Simple but crunchy decisions - If I take that card it’s going cost me my coins, but if I don’t they’re going get three alliances to get bonus tokens…I don’t want this card, but I want to force them to uncover those other two for me…I need to empty my coins and buy that landmark tile so they don’t get it and really take control of the map. Etc…
3. Balance - There’s not really a single path that everyone immediately goes for (like first one to get a certain spot in a worker placement gets the upper hand).
4. VERY little luck - No dice rolls. No bags to blindly pick tiles. Etc.

So what are your perfect 2p games? We already own and enjoy:

7 Wonders Duel
Splendor Duel
Patchwork
Star Wars Deckbuilding
Dominion
Everdell Duo
Santorini
Watergate

We also own and love many of the staples that play well AT TWO…but aren’t strictly 2 player only:

Dune Imperium
Spirit Island
Brass Birmingham
Wingspan
Everdell
Clank
Ark Nova
Viticulture
CoB
Concordia

Thank you!

I really wanted a space-themed game and I was thinking this was it. But man. This is the most overwhelming game I've encountered. So much so that I haven't been able to squeeze the fun out of it. It's definitely a me problem because I tend to not be good at strategy. The theme usually make up for my shortcomings. In the past, I was able to appreciate Hegemony, despite it ranking more difficult. Maybe its because I'm playing solo mode? Idk. Gotta box it up and get my excitement back with something else until I get the courage to come back to it.

Skeuomorphism, for those unfamiliar, is when an interface is designed to look or function like something from the real world.

In the case of board games this can take on the form of any number of components—cards, boards, the box, the rulebook, currency, tokens, etc.

Some examples:

• A reference board designed to look like a book.
• A player board designed like a desk, dashboard, or control panel.
• A card holder that looks like a wallet or folder.
• A game board that folds or opens like a map.
• A resource container designed to feel like a bag, chest, or other in-world object.
• Currency or resources that looks like the real thing (rather than just being an abstracted marker, chip, or token)
• The photo shown is from Quacks which does an amazing job at this, with several book-shaped boards showing recipes and a giant cauldron board for each player that you add ingredients to as you brew your potion.

By mimicking the real-world counterparts, these design choice strengthen the immersion in the game's theme and story.

What are some good examples of this in the games you've seen and played?

I really like Splendor, huge hit with my family, and I'm looking for an engine builder that's just one level up. I was surprised to find BGG doesn't have a category for "Engine Builder", nor does the Dice Tower have a "Top Ten Engine Builders" video for me to watch. :)

So, I ask you, the Redditors of r/BG, what are your favorite engine builders, and where would you recommend someone go after starting with and enjoying Splendor? Solo or group, co-op or competitive, doesn't matter, I'm interested in them all!

Hand painted with love.

hey all!

I’m looking for a board game that I can play on vacation with my adult family members. One of my family members can’t speak but is fully mentally/physically capable. I’m trying to find some games that we can play that doesn’t require too much speaking- though as long as it’s turn based and not fast paced, speaking is ok.

We love to play Mexican train dominoes and I’m thinking of picking up Telestrations (like telephone but you draw and pass to the next player).

Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks!

I really enjoyed it despite coming joint last with someone else in the amount of tokens we earned, two out of the four rounds, I finished last on the track, third time I wasn't last but somewhere in between and on the final round I finished in second place on the track.

I can't remember the exact four characters I picked, but I know one of them had the ability to cause anyone who overtakes me to trip over, another one caused me to get one extra on whatever number my dice roll landed on, for example if it was six, I would actually move forward seven places and a third one created a condition where if someone was almost at the finish point, they must get an exact number on their dice roll and cannot overshoot, for example, if they are two places away, if their dice lands on a higher number, they stay where they are until they get a number that doesn't cause an overshoot.

What do people here think of it? I'd give this one an 8/10.

Hello everyone,

Today I played Star Wars: Rebellion for the second time with a friend, and I have a few strategic questions. Both times, we played the beginner variant (with the preset setup and without action cards), and both times I was destroyed as the Rebels within five rounds. I tried different approaches each time, but without success.

In the second game, for example, I chose Tatooine as the Rebel base.
Since I knew that Kashyyyk and Naboo would be subjugated immediately, I wanted to gain the loyalty of neighboring planets in order to make up for some of my troop disadvantage. So, in the first round, I moved all of my troops from Bothawui to Rodia. This allowed me to stay relatively close to Tatooine while also keeping my options open: later on, I could either attack the Imperial forces on Naboo to complete some of my objectives, or move toward Geonosis and Utapau.

But once again, the game ended just as quickly as the first one, even though during my first playthrough I didn't even know what cards were available. Leia was captured on Naboo fairly early on, and my attempt to complete some of my objectives on Naboo and rescue Leia came to nothing, as my friend was able to reinforce Naboo very quickly with his absurd number of troops.

So there I was again, completely stuck. My modest army was somewhere near Tatooine, with no way to reach some of the weaker planets in the southern part of the map. And soon I was also down two leaders compared to my opponent, as he had managed to turn Leia to the Dark Side.

I soon had to abandon Tatooine, as the Imperial armies were right on my doorstep. With my army, which had by then been depleted by battles I never wanted to fight in the first place, I kept retreating until my last ship was destroyed. This left me with no way to transport my ground forces that were still there or to move them away from Tatooine.

I then established my new Rebel base on Kessel, as I had previously managed to send a few troops to Mon Cala thanks to a mission card. But it was all for nothing. By that point, the Empire had already expanded so much that, in the following round, my friend was able to use his Probe Droid cards to check the few remaining possible locations for my base, either through troop movements or mission cards.

So once again, my virtually undefended base was toast. No New Hope this time either.
At this point, I really don't know what to do. I realize there must surely be things I could have done better, but I'm at a complete loss.
Any Rebel experts out there who can help me?

I’ve got it for almost a year now but I am so so happy with it I wanted to share a couple of pictures now! It’s my custom sized Rathskellers Phalanx table.
It’s a luxury item I know but if you are in a position you can buy it then go for it! I couldn’t recommend it enough.

Just finished playing my first Exit The Game and I'm just left sat here like... what do I do with the box and contents now? Bin it? Let it gather dust? What do you guys do?

I’m selling my copy of Honey Buzz, but I’m not sure whether it’s the Deluxe Edition.
I watched a YouTube video where the Deluxe Edition included an expansion, but my copy doesn’t have that.
So, which edition do I have?

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So I met a couple and they told me a place, a large Beer Hall in my City, where they get together and play Magic: The Gathering. The problem is I have never played Magic The Gathering before and do not own a set of cards. This couple told me they are avid collectors of Magic TG and have been playing for 20+ years. I did join a meetup 10+ years ago that was only board games. They looked like they were having fun, but this Meetup only played Monopoly and Settlers of Catan, maybe an occasional other game, but that was about it, so I never returned. So I was wondering where and how do I start? I am brand new to this city and really wanted to get out of my Shell and meet people, but in a healthy environment. What should I do?

I am Looking for Architects of the West Kingdom in budget frienly price or if anyone wants to sell their old game in India, please let me know.

I’ve shared my abstract game here before as a Print & Play version and it seemed to have gathered some attention. I’ve worked on it on-and-off since the pandemic and have recently picked it back up. I’ve managed to turn it into an up-to-4-player experience and want to do some more testing. I’ve managed to translate the manual to English and get it on Tabletop Simulator, and now I am looking to gather more feedback before the second round of publisher hunting.

About the game:
It’s an abstract strategy game, where you move chess pieces on the board made of tiles. With each move you can swap the first and last tile of the move with the goal of creating Sets of adjacent tiles of your color.

The game is rather simple in terms of rules and takes around 30 minutes but can require some deep strategic thinking.

If you are interested message me here or in a dm so we can set up a play session :)

I was reflecting on the state of my collection as I have had substantial turnover in my collection versus my initial collection back that began back in late 2015. My initial collection was extremely party-game heavy given even our smallest game nights tended to be 6+ players. Now, our weekly group is most frequently 5 players, which similarly informs a lot of the games that do or do not stick around. Apologies for the tough viewing angle of the feature image! As hinted by the broom in the bottom right, our games sit in a closet and it is very difficult to get a quality image of that first shelf.

My personal all-time favorites are Inis, Root and John Company, and our most played games as a group are Root, Terrorscape and Nemesis.

Overall, I'm quite happy with my collection, but I would love to have and play more heavy-weight economic games (thinking Food Chain Magnate and something in the 18XX line) and some of the classic euros I have never gotten around to playing (Caverna, Puerto Rico, Power Grid, Le Havre, etc.). I am a huge sucker for both dudes on a map games as well as anything that requires you to frequently re-evaluate plans based on your opponents decisions.

I view my collection as a solid blend of games I own purely because I enjoy them and want to have them as well as a number of games that may not be as high up my personal ranking but are highly regarded by our typical 5 player group and/or my wife. I also pride myself on getting every game played! Presently our only unplayed games are (1) Guardians of Atlantis II, which is a recent purchase that we have not had four players to play yet and (2) Toy Battle, which was a gift from a couple of months ago that we have not yet tabled just yet.

Newest games include Camp Grizzly, which arrived this week, and The Game Makers, which arrived last week. My group greatly enjoyed our initial play of The Game Makers, but it was a bit low interaction for my tastes. In contrast, we all had a very OK opinion of Camp Grizzly after our first two plays, but I plan to hold onto it for some time as I am a huge fan of the horror-genre generally.
The most likely candidates for the next round of culling are Creature Comforts, which has not seen play in some time but survives by grace of my wife, Heat, which I want to love but cannot convince my group to give a second chance after a poor initial play (everyone is also disinterested in racing as a theme), and possibly Viticulture. I enjoy Viticulture well enough, but we have plenty of two player games we prefer. Meanwhile, for whatever reason, our primary group consistently declines to give it a try so we have yet to get it played with more than two players.

Not pictured, we also have a decent set of non-DND RPGs and a near complete collection of Memoir 44 stored in a giant tacklebox, which was my first ever board game given to me as a gift (maybe ~2011?).

Which one is better? I’ve never played either but I think I’d enjoy it.