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I play board games with my friends regularly and I'm looking for more games, preferably between 4-10 people. Length of the game doesn't really matter since we always go way past the estimate. Bonus points if you can grief the other players just for shits n' giggles lol.

Some games that we like and are usually played are Wingspan, Blood on the Clocktower, and Lizard Wizard.

There's an anime convention where they have a tabletop gaming room where there's a bunch of games to borrow so I figured now would be a good time to look for additions. We tried this game there called Love Battle! High School which at first glance looked absolutely idiotic, but was actually pretty fun lol.

I own over a hundred, Azul, Ticket to Ride, Here to Slay, Catan and Scythe are among my favorite. Most have multiple options and add ons if you like them.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I own over a hundred, Azul, Ticket to Ride, Here to Slay, Catan and Scythe are among my favorite. Most have multiple options and add ons if you like them.

I don't own that many, but I own a fair number of serious games. You're going to need to be a bit more specific about the kind of thing you and your friends want to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8sl2uC46A

We tried to get into legacy games like Kingdom Death and Risk Legacy, but we tend to not really follow through, so those kinds of games can be weeded out.

I suppose the way we have fun with games is that we can just let our stupidity loose. Games that aren't too complicated or take much brainpower are ideal, because while many of my friends are smart, we choose to just do the stupidest stuff just for laughs. Like in one game of Machi Koro, one of my friends was using one of cards to actually hurt his cause by giving away his own buildings lol.

We don't really play many DnD-esque games, because they tend to take way too long.

CandyLand is pretty solid.

Risk
Monopoly
Axis and allies

https://www.ravensburger.us/products/games/award-winning-games/rivers-roads-rails-22053/index.html

So Board Games are a big passion of mine.

A simple, silly, but not serious one where you can fuck over friends is one called Survive: Escape from Atlantis. It has you moving players to lifeboats trying to escape an island, but you also control Sharks, Whales, and Krakens trying to destroy your friends boats.

https://www.amazon.com/Stronghold-Games-Survive-Atlantis-Anniversary/dp/B0084M8UE4

Another easy one thats similar is called Blue Lagoon. Very easy, kinda similar to Survive. You're just literally placing down tokens on a board to try to score points in certain ways, but you end up battling it out with other players in different ways.

https://www.amazon.com/ORANGE-Games-Blue-Lagoon-Strategy/dp/B07F4F8MBD

Those are both 4 player max games.

For up to 6 you could try Colt Express which is like an interactive train robbery game where you play as bandits trying to steal loot from a train. There's a lot of screwing over other players in this.

https://www.amazon.com/Asmodee-COLT01-Colt-Express/dp/B00OZTUQWE

And for up to 8 you could try Camel Up or Long Shot: Dice Game. They're both similar but different. It's basically just a home version of horse betting around a track, but players control certain elements and decisions. (Long Shot is newer and seems to be one of the better versions of this kind of game)

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/long-shot-the-dice-game-perplext/1140835855

(Camel Up seems to be available second hand through Ebay and Sites like that)

^^ I'm gonna check into a few of these, thanks.

There's a racing one I enjoy named Rallyman GT. 1-6 players. You build a track from tiles, set your drive line using dice, and try to progress without crashing. You can block your opponents in a few ways and even change the weather so that everyone's car performs worse.

More a card game but imo the best experience you can have playing games with other people is Lord of the Rings LCG. They've come out with a revised core so that 4 people could play so that's what you should get.

https://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Gaming-Betrayal-Cooperative-Scenarios/dp/B09H23M384

it is 3 - 6 players a damn good time.

Big_Nabendu posted...

Risk
Monopoly
Axis and allies

Risk and Monopoly are the Burger King and McDonald's of board games

Call to Adventure is max 4 players but one of my favorite board games. The game is really short and you can easily finish it in an hour.

For things like 10 players I don't really have a lot of suggestions. One that could work is Smash Up where the box says 4 players but in theory you can have as many players as you have decks. Each player needs 2 decks so you'll need to buy a few expansions. Fair warning though I've played this game with a lot of people and it starts taking a very long time to finish a game.

Clank has a 6 player expansions that you can buy and it's probably my second favorite deck building game.

Talisman has no theoretical limit to the number of players but once again game starts talking a very long time. There's house rules suggestions to speed up the game though like trophies using 4 instead of 7.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm gonna look for these today to see if the game room has them to try out :3