This is a thread to discuss, share, and recommend your favourite board games. Apparently we don’t have one of those.
An offshoot from my chess set thread inspired by this reply:
Christmas is approaching, and for me the one element of it that I actually look forward to (when it happens) are the games, especially the late night board ones. I always try to find a new one to play each year on Christmas night.
This year I’ve bought the one @j06 posted about in the chess thread: Veiled Fate
To start the discourse I’ll also share a few of my own favourites (besides the classics like Monopoly and Cluedo).
Disney Villainous is probably my own personal favourite, with the concept similarities being why I bought Veiled Fate. You play as a Disney Villain and your goal is achieve your villain objective before the other villains whilst simultaneously working to stop them from achieving theirs. I own several of the expansions at this point too (which can also be played on their own without the base board game). There’s also Marvel and Star Wars spin off variants if you’re more into those. I suspect they play the same or similarly but I’ve never tried them.
Last year’s Christmas board game I got was Sea of Thieves: Voyage of Legends. Sea of Thieves is one of my all time favourite video games, and is responsible for some of my very best gaming memories. So a board game adaptation that stays very faithful to the gameplay from the video game was an instant appeal for me. It’s not perfect though. It takes quite a while to set up a game, and the rules are not so much complex as they are ambiguous. But the gameplay sure is a ton of fun and is just as fulfilling of the pirate fantasy as the video game.
So, Monzo Community, what are your favourite board games? What’s your most recent board game purchase? What do you recommend folks play?
That one sounds like fun! It’s my kind of board game but it sucks you need a minimum of 5 to play it. If board games can’t scale down to two, or at least 3 people, they lose a lot of their appeal for me.
I have a question for you - where in the UK are you?
I’m not saying we should get an Unofficial Monzo Meetup in the new year, but I’d definitely say I’d be up for some boardgames if there’s somewhere central
I played Catan for the first time the other week - a simple game, but so much fun! Really enjoyed it. Can fully understand why it has such a following, I need to get a couple of expansions for it, so that more people can play!
Catan is actually a goated game. I need to convince my Mum and Dad to play with me at some point.
Another board game that I rather enjoy is Monopoly. I know some people don’t get along with it, but I find it really fun.
My brother also recently got us a game called Dorf Romantik. It’s a board game based on a video game I believe. It has fairly good progression and you unlock more stuff as you continue to play.
ed? Greatest of all time-ed? What’s that supposed to mean?
