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50. Dream Crush

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/315059/dream-crush

Category: Player vs player
Key mechanics: Guessing, narrative
Rules complexity (0 to 7): 1
Game length: 30 minutes
First played: 2021
Experience: 1 play with 6 players

Dream Crush is one of the silliest games on this list, and it very very barely qualifies as a game. It's more of a reading exercise. There are three images of reality-TV-looking people displayed. Each round, all of the characters will be "put into" a situation, giving you information about their characters/how they react to those situations (i.e., they're meeting your family, and they swear in front of your niece). You are supposed to evaluate their characters based off the sum of the way they react in these situations, and choose who you would want to date based off that. At the same time, you predict other people's dream crushes.

First, for the reason this isn't a real hobby game: Games like this, which reward you for guessing other people's answers correctly, obviously depend on people answering "honestly" about whom they'd date. (Similarly, "games" like Cards Against Humanity also depend on people genuinely picking a card for a real reason or whatever.) You should play to win while guessing other people's choices, but absolutely not when you're making your own. Can your friend overcome their distaste for the wannabe Instagram influencer if they find out the influencer also shares their same taste in movies and loves the same pets?

The fun from the "game" really comes from just discussing your answers after the fact. It's an icebreaker novelty type of game where you justify your ridiculous answers or complain about how you know your friend would never date someone who slurped their soup loudly. It's not much of a game, but it was a good (one-off!) experience.