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really struggling to find something new to play this year. there will be 8 of us, which obviously limits as to what we can play as most games aren't designed for that many.

we've played all the usual party style one, and as fun as they are, they just are getting old having played them for the last many years.

hoping for any suggestions. ideally something easier than a game like gloomhaven as we're just looking to do this over the xmas period

a rough list of games we own
  • articulate
  • picturemania
  • exploding kittens
  • all sorts of card games (though open to interesting new ones)
  • sentinals of the multiverse
  • catan
  • codenames
  • chamleon
  • uno
i'd say the only thing we're generally not a fan of is trivia style games.
 
Thanks for the suggestions so far.

I should add we are all adults 30 to 50 age range, so the not looking anything too child friendly...

Welcome to Dino World
Welcome to... Your perfect home
Black it out
Decrypto
Just One
Blockbuster
Skyjo
Sushi Go Party
Citadels
The Resistance: Avalon
Space Cadets - Dice Duel
Tsuro
Saboteur
Bang! The Dice Game
7 Wonders with the Cities expansion plays 8 iirc.
Incan Gold
Carcassonne (with some expansions plays 8)
Formula D
Viva Java
Ca$h & Guns

These all look good. If you could only have 4 which would you suggest.
 
Not played those specifically but it's a deduction game I guess similar to Amongst Us. Where you're acting as a group to find and kill the warewolves whilst one or more in the group are secretly working against the party.

Another good one is Sheriff of Nottingham
ok it looks very similiar to fox and chicken game (can't remember the exact name of that one) and resistance so will give that a skip as we play those already.

The resistance is one of my favourite to play, i just don't see the need to kind of duplicate what we have. seems there's a lot of similiar ones in this genre, same as with exploding kittens there seems to be a lot of games of this style now.
 
The big advantage of ONUW is that games take at most 15 minutes. That alone was enough for it to completely replace The Resistance in our group. Even the person who normally hates lying enjoys it, although she's since discovered Cockroach Poker and enjoys that more
Thanks for that. Does sound very fun, however this actually turns me off. I want it to last a good hour or more :p
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I had heard of that game and decided to make my own version that plays out throughout the day and can be tailored to who's coming. I didn't realise the official don't get got also has missions to do throughout the day.

That was the plan anyway until Xmas got cancelled :p

If we manage to reschedule will be giving my home made version a try and maybe buy the game for another time.
 
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