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  • RPG-like games
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Last updated 5 years ago

Random lists that I make of games that I come across. I assembled the majority of these lists while watching almost all videos, and then added to them while watching other YouTubers and reading forums.

Casual games good for 2 players

  • Tokaido (2-4p, peaceful, Japan)

  • Tides of Time (2p, cards, micro game, drafting, 15min)

  • Tides of Madness (same as pervious, with cthulu)

  • Hanamikoji (2p, cards, geisha theme, 15min)

  • InBetween (Stranger Things story, cards, 2p)

  • Onitama (2p, abstract, 20min)

  • Rum & Bones: Second Tide (2p, strategy)

  • Kahuna (2p, bridges, islands, cards/hand)

  • Lost Cities (2p, casual, exploration/cards)

  • The Bloody Inn (card, goofy horror)

  • Carcassonne: The City (tile laying, city building, 3D pieces)

Co-op and strategy games best with 2 players

  • Spirit Island (area control, hand management, modular board, 1-4p)

  • Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire (2p, strategy, wargame, Sam's No1)

  • Five Tribes (2p, strategy)

  • Deadline (cards, detective, coop)

  • Tyrants of the Underdark (area control, deck building, fantasy, nice)

  • Quantum (scifi, dice)

  • Race for the Galaxy (best with 2, strategy, cards, scifi)

  • Neuroshima Hex (scifi)

  • Dominion (cards, deck building)

  • Covert (good with 2, secret agent, cold war, dice/cards/board)

  • Claustrophobia (dungeon crawler)

  • Twilight Struggle (2p only, politics, long)

  • Rising 5 (scifi, coop, dice, adveture)

  • Thunder & Lightning (2p, cards, strategy)

  • Ghost Stories (fighting, coop, hard)

Worth trying with 2 players

  • Forbidden Stars (wh40k, space war, good with 2, tactical)

  • Abyss (card drafting, good with 2, nice art)

  • Marvel Dice Masters

  • Holmes: Sherlock & Mycroft (2p, investigation, drafting, worker placement)

  • Mr. Jack (2p, puzzly, murder, deduction)

  • Dracula (2p, card/memory, Van Helsing vs Dracula)

  • Ethnos (fantasy, strategy, area control, card drafting)

  • Dead Man Tells No Tales (pirate, coop, thematic)

  • Via Nebula (good with 2, strategy, nice art, route building, pickup & deliver)

  • Starfighter (2p, take that, scifi, nice cover)

  • Battlelore (2p, wargame, miniatures)

  • Viticultire (making wine, worker placement, good with 2)

  • The Manhattan Project (war strategy, can go with 2, worker placement)

  • Shakespeare (theater theme, strategy)

  • Lords of Hellas (greek mythology + technology, miniatures, asymmetric)

Check if good with 2 players

This is a todo list for myself: I'd like to play these with 2 players, but they need double checking if 2 players are good enough. Otherwise these are also great games that I want to try at some point.

  • Ra (auction, push your luck)

  • Castles of Mad King Ludwig (tile laying, extravagant castle build)

  • World of Yo-Ho (pirates, phone as ship)

  • Sword & Sorcery (RPG board game, dungeon crawler)

  • Karuba (2-4p, tiles, puzzle)

  • Alhambra

  • Yamatai (abstract, strategy)

  • Specter Ops (scifi, hidden movement)

  • Suburbia (Tom's top city building)

  • Mice & Mystics (adventure, family)

  • Tales of Arabian Nights (story, adventure)

  • Deadwood (western, worker placement, city building)

  • Defenders of the Last Stand (scifi, post-apocalyptic)

  • Burgle Bros (Ocean's 11, heist, coop)

  • Big Book of Madness (deck building, coop)

  • Snow Tails (racing, dogs, family)

  • Among the Stars (scifi, space, ~7 Wonders, space station building)

  • Xenoshyft (coop, hard, alien invasion fight)

  • Blue Moon City (city building, fantasy, area control, strategy)

  • Near and Far (storytelling, adventure, cards, dice, route building)

  • V-Commandos (1-4p, WW2, spy, coop)

  • Rising Atlantis

Games for 1 player or good as solo

  • Roll Player (dice, 1-4p)

  • The 7th Continent (1000min, choose your own adventure)

  • Mage Knight

  • Gloomhaven

For children

  • Terror in Meeple City

  • Space Cadets

  • Untold Adventures Avait

Dexterity games

  • Pitchcar

  • Flick 'em Up!

For 6+ players

  • The Resistance

  • Wits & Wagers

  • Telestrations

  • A Fake Artist Goes to New York

  • Insider

  • Spyfall

  • Cash and Guns

  • Sheriff of Notthingam

  • Formula D

  • Jamaica

  • Shadows Over Camelot

  • Compatibility

  • Timeline

  • Valley of the Kings

  • Bang Dice Game

  • Citadels

  • Dread Curse

  • Ultimate Warriorz

  • Star Trek: 5-Year Mission

  • King of Tokyo

  • Zombicide

  • Coup

  • Strain

  • Unusual Suspects

  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong

  • Time's Up

  • Boulderdash

  • Shadow Hunters

  • 7 Wonders

  • I'm the Boss!

  • Betrayal at the House on the Hill

RPG-like games

Board games that are most like playing a tabletop RPG.

  • Legacy of Dragonholt (choose your own adventure ++, RPG without a DM)

  • Pathfinder ACG (best adventure RPG in a box)

  • Decent (best fighting RPG in a box)

  • Mice and Mystics (family Descent)

  • Sword & Sorcery (dungeon crawler RPG)

  • Massive Darkness

  • Tainted Grail

  • Folklore

Party games

  • Obscurio

  • Only One

  • Tags

  • Werewolf

Interesting games

Random list of some further games that I find interesting for some reason.

  • Vast: The Crystal Caverns (very different player powers, explore, adventure, 3-4p)

  • Hit Z Road (road trip + zombies, good theme, 3-4p)

  • Pillars of the Earth (worker placement, big nice board)

  • Star Wars Rebellion (SW in a box, 2p, strategy, long)

  • Atlantis Rising (strategy, coop)

  • The Others (dark, horror, sins)

  • Fury of Dracula (horror, designer game)

  • Descent 2 (story, adventure, dungeon crawler)

  • Level 7 [Omega Protocol] (cinematic, horror)

  • Betrayal at the House on the Hill (best horror movie tropes theme, 3+p)

  • Twilight Imperium 3 (Sam's favorite scifi, epic, war)

  • Democrazy (party, fun, voting)

  • Starfarers of Catan

  • Scythe (scifi)

  • Project Elite (scifi, fighting, real time)

  • Kingdom Death: Monster (RPG, 100+h)

  • Gloomheaven (RPG, 100+h)

  • Fantasy Realms (3-6p, cards, filler, quick-easy)

  • Superfight

  • Statecraft

  • Pick Your Poison

  • Mindjob

Personal lists

Want to buy

I do my best not to buy everything that I want right away to have a sane grasp over the budget I spend on games, and also to take more time with the games I currently have. But sooner or later I want to own these.

  • 7 Wonders

  • Mission Red Planet

  • Clank

  • Blood Rage

  • The Others

  • Abyss

Must try

One part all-time classics that I haven't played so far, and other part games that I find very interesting and want to experience first hand. This is actually true for almost all of the games listed above, but this is my list of things with higher priority that I find personally most interesting for some reason.

  • Catan

  • Ticket to Ride

  • Shadows Over Camelot

  • Deception: Murder in Hong Kong

  • Hanamikoji

  • Obscurio

  • Atlantis Rising

  • Downforce

  • Five Tribes

  • Stone Age

  • Aeon's End

  • Fury of Dracula

Owned child games

I regularly gift children's games to my nephes and niece and keep track of what they already own that I might forget.

  • Labirynth Junior

  • Catan Junior

  • Rolit Junior

  • Star Wars: Rule the Galaxy

  • Twister

  • Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters

  • Rhino Hero Super Battle

  • Dixit

  • Codenames: Pictures

  • Outfoxed

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