Non traditional board games

Managed to pick up Waterdeep, which was a bargain for £15 imo.

Missed small world though, was out at a friends, used the app on my phone, watched the countdown and by the time it had refreshed they were all gone apparently :eek:
 
Update to my list:

Pretty good for just over a year

7 Wonders + ALL EXPANSIONS including Babel
Terra Mystica
Among the stars
Love letters
Race for the Galaxy
Lost Cities
Pandemic
Forbidden Desert
Fluxx
Carcassonne
Progress: Evolution of technology
Nations
Robinson Crusoe
Caverna
Sherlock Homes: Consulting Detective
Cards against Humanity
Android: Netrunner
The Resistance: Avalon
Russian Railroads
Splendor
 
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Lords of waterdeep is a quality game.

Easy to pick up and the wife liked it despite it saying dungeons and dragons on it.
 
They should have called it Lords of Planescape, because all those fighters, thieves, wizards and clerics you're hiring must be Modrons. :D

Seriously, the theme in LoW is pasted on with not much paste. It's very easy to ignore.
 
Just finished playing Ticket to Ride Europe with the wife and my parents, easy to pick up and 'twas good fun. We all enjoyed it, which made me happy.
We left out some of the advanced rules (tunnels amd stations) because it was our first play through.
 
Been eyeing up a few board games recently, I bought The Walking dead and World of Warcraft Monopoly at the weekend (Much to my gfs annoyance) but they looked so cool so had to have them.

I have been looking at the following and not sure if they are any good or not

Munchkin
Pandemic
Epic Spell Wars
Walk the Plank
Game of Thrones
King of Tokyo
King of New York
Small World
 
Woogie said:
Been eyeing up a few board games recently, I bought The Walking dead and World of Warcraft Monopoly at the weekend (Much to my gfs annoyance) but they looked so cool so had to have them.

I have been looking at the following and not sure if they are any good or not

Munchkin - avoid
Pandemic - good
Epic Spell Wars - not played
Walk the Plank - not played
Game of Thrones - supposed to be very long
King of Tokyo - supposed to be decent
King of New York - as above
Small World - people rave about it but i can't see what the fuss is about
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Munchkin - Fine for casual game players, who normally get on well with the artwork and humour of the game. It's a gateway game, but you'll soon get very tired of it.

Pandemic - A modern classic. Essential if you like co-op games.

Epic Spell Wars - Lots of fun. Relatively casual with a great art style and plenty of wacky humour and violence.

Walk the Plank - Haven't played it.

Game of Thrones - Haven't played it.

King of Tokyo - Pretty good! You'll want to make sure that you have a regular gaming group of 4+ in order to make it play as well as it can.

King of New York - Haven't played it, but have heard good things.

Small World - Very good. Lots of fun. It's quite like "Risk", but the different factions and perks give it something a little extra. Light strategy layer is good for beginners.
 
lordhughes said:
When you say munchkin is a gateway game, what type of game are you referring to?
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Light, casual games that are beyond the basic stature of Monopoly, Scrabble etc.

It introduces RPG elements and general geekery to people who likely don't have any experience in that, in an accessible manner. So if they have fun with it, they'll be more open to moving towards 'heavier' stuff.

That's not to say that someone would jump straight from Munchkin to Twilight Struggle, but it acts as a good intro to the world of board games outside of Hasbro.
 
Munchkin gets a lot of, imo undeserved, flack, yeah it's no classic and they milk it for all it's worth, but it's a fun and relatively short game.

Game of Thrones is long, and by all accounts the non-6-player variants/setups are all bad, but it is a good solid game that I particularly like because dice hate me and it doesn't have any :p

Pandemic is massively overrated, imo, but worth a play and if you like co-op games it is one of the best, and certainly most accessible (Arkham Horror is better imo, but uber-long)
 
SKILL said:
Munchkin gets a lot of, imo undeserved, flack, yeah it's no classic and they milk it for all it's worth, but it's a fun and relatively short game.
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Except it's not short. It's not unknown for Munchkin games to drag on for a couple of hours.

If you like Arkham Horror but think it goes on too long, try Eldritch Horror instead. It's in the same territory, but much streamlined and with a fixed maximum game length.
 
Woogie said:
Been eyeing up a few board games recently, I bought The Walking dead and World of Warcraft Monopoly at the weekend (Much to my gfs annoyance) but they looked so cool so had to have them.

I have been looking at the following and not sure if they are any good or not
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Munchkin
It's a good bit of fun, nothing deep and not that much longevity

Pandemic
It should really be in your collection

Game of Thrones
Great game, but requires more than two players to play, so it might limit you

King of Tokyo
King of New York
If you want to roll dice and compete against people then worth it

Small World
I haven't actually played this, but I hear lots of good things..
It is definitely a light game, so think of it as a gateway game
 
JeditOjanen said:
Except it's not short. It's not unknown for Munchkin games to drag on for a couple of hours.

If you like Arkham Horror but think it goes on too long, try Eldritch Horror instead. It's in the same territory, but much streamlined and with a fixed maximum game length.
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I guess, but I've found most games are over in around 45 minutes or less, kinda like Fluxx in that the time can vary substantially.

I did consider Eldritch Horror (Arkham Horror is a friends but he's unlikely to buy Eldritch) but isn't it still a 2.5-3 hour game, which is a bit long for the Tuesdays group I play with where it might be used, and if it's a weekend then we can just crack out Arkham which we've already got...

If Eldritch was more like a 1.5-2 hour game I probably would have it but it doesn't seem to shave a huge amount of time off, from looking at bgg at least

Plus I'm not the worlds biggest co-op game fan, how am I supposed to 'kill' my mates in a co-op game? :D
 
Woogie said:
Been eyeing up a few board games recently, I bought The Walking dead and World of Warcraft Monopoly at the weekend (Much to my gfs annoyance) but they looked so cool so had to have them.

I have been looking at the following and not sure if they are any good or not
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Munchkin
Munchkin is like Carling - people get very sniffy about it, but it does a job, it's not expensive and with the right crowd you'll have a brilliant time - you just wouldn't want to do it all the time.

It needs (and works fine with) 3 players, but gets better with more. It's a game to play with mates who will embrace the silliness and stab each other in the back - Just ignore the rule about passing cards on that take you over your hand limit and discard instead

Pandemic
Brilliant game - elegant design, simple rules but complex gameplay - it's a co-op, so all the players vs the game. No 2 games are the same, but you will lose. A lot.

Plays fine from 2 players upwards

Epic Spell Wars
See Munchkin :D

It's great fun, the artwork is worth the price alone - it has the sense of humour of a nine-year old who plays Mortal Kombat, so if people don't like toilet humour mixed with extreme violence, they won't like it.

I love it :D

Game of Thrones
I haven't played it, but a friend of mine adores this. He does say it's very heavy, takes a long time, involves a lot of rule checkups and you can be losing for a loooooong time. If you have a serious bunch of gamers, this would probably work well

King of Tokyo
You get to play Godzilla and it has the best dice ever.

It's a fun, silly, random game that works best when people are pretending to be their monster. It doesn't really work with 2, 3+ is fine

King of New York
I haven't played it, but from the many videos I've watched, it's a more "gamey" version of King of Tokyo - looks like fun, definitely on my list.

Small World
Very much like Risk but with all the tedium taken out. The game characters are based on combining 2 cards, so you have enough variation to keep it interesting. It works very hard to keep people in the game right to the end - even if it's all gone horribly wrong you can switch races and start again.

Claims to work from 2-5 players (and has the maps to prove it) - I've only played with 3 and it works great - it does feel like 4 would be the sweet spot.
 
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