edeholland wrote:With gf and one other friend I am playing Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective which is one of the best real-life things I have done past month. It's basically deducing a murder mystery by reading well-written content about London in the late 1800s. Connecting clues, making notes, working out crazy theories and checking the solution in the end. I can highly recommend it for those that like those sort of puzzles.
I completely forgot how much fun offline games like card or boardgames can be til lockdown came around.
I am currently obsessing with this badass of a card game
It's one of these easy to learn hard to master kind of things.
So which games keep u happy during lockdown or even before already? Share ur tips!
Catan card game (old version with some house rules for improved balance)
Mach Koro (expansions are a must, the basegame is stale as fuck)
Machiavelli
Dominion
7 wonders duel
Twilight Imperium 4th edition
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Secret Hitler
Saboteur with expansions
Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy
Carcassonne
@RefluxSemantic Can you tell me what you like about Machiavelli? Played it a couple of times now but it doesn't really seem fun, so far. The RNG factor is huge and the game takes a little too long for something so reliant on RNG. Also, there is hardly any interaction with other players, 80% of the total time you spend waiting for your turn, because what an opponent does isn't really that interesting.
Oh, I play all of these 1v1. Maybe that makes a big difference here. In 1v1 you have really good intel on what your opponent is going for and there's a lot of strategy emerging from that.
Im excited for that game too. Once it comes out that is. I love the entire assassins creed series. Playing through the origins installment at the moment
Im excited for that game too. Once it comes out that is. I love the entire assassins creed series. Playing through the origins installment at the moment
Yea the trailer looks bad ass. I really like the setting just not sure how this whole viking thing gona work with the assassin setting but I'm sure it's gona be awesome anyways
I'm playing a lot of Go, but I already was before the lockdown.
My favorite non-Go boardgame so far is Agricola. Highly recommend.
Dominion takes third because it doesn't take as long and doesn't take your full attention all the time.
On my wishlist: Spirit island.
But we actually don't really get to play multiplayer board games because of the lock down
Maybe it was good for its time, but there's just no excuse for picking it as your family game of choice in 2020, except wanting to save money and still having a 50 year old copy of the game laying around passed down to you by your parents.
I always feel like most board games go super hard on the RNG to create interesting gameplay. RNG can piss me off so hard, I always try to go for the games where there is a high skill ceiling.
So I said my favorite is the Catan card game. That's partially because there's this mechanic where instead of drawing random cards, you can look through one of five stacks and choose a card. The biggest skill aspect is that you can actually memorize where what cards are at. I really appreciate this part of skill, probably because I'm pretty good at it. I used to love using this in hearthstone, where if I really tried I could exactly remember all of the 60 cards in one game (decktrackers really ruin this aspect of card games).
Iirc the Catan card game has a pretty big RNG factor. As does Hearthstone. If you don't like RNG (an opinion I wholeheartedly share), there are actually a lot of great choices on the market with negligible RNG factors. Agricola is a good example. I'd also recommend Terra Mystica.
Goodspeed wrote:Iirc the Catan card game has a pretty big RNG factor. As does Hearthstone. If you don't like RNG (an opinion I wholeheartedly share), there are actually a lot of great choices on the market with negligible RNG factors. Agricola is a good example. I'd also recommend Terra Mystica.
Also Go.
Actually the Catan card game doesn't have much RNG, at least not with the card games I play. Yes there is some RNG and that's inherent to many of this board games, but it also has a very high skill ceiling actually. I have like a 95% winrate against my girlfriend.
The board game “Stone Age” is pretty good, especially if you enjoy Catan / Agricola.
Also pandemic is good, but the anxiety I get from that is too much lol. Plus, with the lockdown and stuff I take losing Pandemic much more personally now XD
Goodspeed wrote:Iirc the Catan card game has a pretty big RNG factor. As does Hearthstone. If you don't like RNG (an opinion I wholeheartedly share), there are actually a lot of great choices on the market with negligible RNG factors. Agricola is a good example. I'd also recommend Terra Mystica.
Also Go.
Actually the Catan card game doesn't have much RNG, at least not with the card games I play. Yes there is some RNG and that's inherent to many of this board games, but it also has a very high skill ceiling actually. I have like a 95% winrate against my girlfriend.
Games with big RNG factors can and often do still have high skill ceilings. You say it doesn't have much RNG, but what does that mean? It's relative, in the end. I tend to play games with low to no RNG factors so I guess my perspective is jaded. You say RNG is inherent to many of these board games and that's generally true, but there are actually a lot of really good board games with very low RNG factors. You should look into it. Seriously, try Agricola.
