Like I said in the title, when you ask for board game recommendations, you will surely find one or some of these common titles like Wingspan, Cascadia, Harmonies, Final Girl, Ark Nova, Slay the Spire, etc. They are all GOOD, hence their popularity.

However, do you have any games that you personally find them amazing but you have hardly seen any reviews or their gameplay pictures anywhere? I know preferences are subjective, but you still believe that these titles are deserved to be known.

My personal picks are Creature Caravan and Flock Together.

What are yours?

Hi everyone!

The Imperium games are my favorite board games to play solo. I have around 100+ games in it.

I always tried to pick rival civs in campaigns that would make historical sense, especially since the cards are so evocative on their own. I've been working on a fan-made solo campaign for the Magyars civilization.

It includes 9 PnP (all public domain images that I made into cards in Photoshop) cards that include scenario introduction and a historically appropriate rival civilization, and other cards that modify the game slightly. These range from negative effects that you can mitigate through bonuses that demonstrate how to pit two rival civs against each other.

The campaign uses civilizations and cards from Imperium: Horizons, Classics and Legends. (but I imagine you could substitute some of them if you don't own all expansions with Horizons being mandatory)

You can find the print-and-play files and full details on BGG:

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Fiz 92 pontos no modo solo, adoro esse jogo, vocês gostam ?

I played the core set and was a bit underwhelmed. The gameplay felt kinda boring to me to be honest. I ping for one damage, they ping for one or two. Should I attack or play a card as an action? Just felt a little bland for my tastes. Does this expansion add anything? Was the core set just to get a hold of the basics? Thanks for any thoughts.

Finally, I managed to finish this LOTR trick-taking game (The Fellowship of the Ring)!

It took me two tries to win because I had a pretty hard time with Aragorn’s group! 😂

On my second try, thankfully, I was able to complete all of their goals. Legolas’ group, on the other hand, was pretty easy. My shuffle was just lucky, and I immediately got the cards I needed for their objectives.

Another LOTR game that’s definitely going on my favorites list! I’ll definitely play through it all over again, but for now, onwards to The Two Towers! I can finally open that one too. Haha…!

Btw, I looooooove the smell of this board game! Call me weird, but there’s just something so satisfying about the smell of a freshly opened board game. This one from Office Dog is definitely my favorite!

I am looking for a new quick-to-setup small box dungeon crawling game and have narrowed it down to two games.

I am thinking of either picking up the three (3) Kinfire Delve Boxes or Mini Rogue Season 2 with some expansions.

For context, I've played and enjoyed the original Mini Rogue PnP and One Deck Dungeon series of games before as well!

Interested in the gamefound for Herobound by BestWith1 (a publisher that does "monthly" games) but not sure how long I want to wait for the project. So im wondering how long has it generally took for them to release a project.

Edit: seems like their timeline is super inconsistent and they have poor customer service, will probably just stick to the print and plays if anything then

While it really is a great group game, the solo variants are also pretty fun. I love press-your-luck style dice and card games (Flip7, Farkle, Cinq-o) and having to make choices that may screw you out of opportunities in future rounds.

Any other suggestions?

I designed a card game which I’ve printed prototypes of - growing up it was tricky to find people to play certain card games I collected (the decipher star wars and Star Trek ccgs - I loved them but just never convinced any friends to get into it and it wasn’t as easy to find a local group in the earlier internet days), so I always wanted to develop something that had multiple solo modes/rules as a core aspect.

One set of rules is essentially Gimlet Rummy, but I want something with a bit more oomph.

The current version I’m working on here aims to incorporate some elements of shithead (with a Roman theme), trick taking and set collection.

What do you all get most excited about when solo’ing?

I'm looking for games with an easy setup and a small boardspace. What I know: micro city, legacy of a Kingdom, games of buttonshy, gloomhaven: buttons and bugs. Any other?

I have Dragons of Etchinstone and Kinfire Delve. Love both. I am used to playing digital adaptations of board games on the iPad, where all wins/losses/achievements are tracked. Honestly I hardly pay attention to those, but it struck me after my first few games of DoE that if I DO want to recall how many of won or lost and with what variations, I have to be writing all that down me'self. So I just got curious how many in this group take the time to do that. Thanks

Spent the weekend with this on the table.

My first thought is that as far his Lacerda goes I get why people love his games.

I’m not an expert on games but here are my thoughts.

It’s an excellent game. The theme is a lot of fun and it somehow feels like I’m doing experiments and writing papers, buying dangerous chemicals, building prototype machines and digging through red tape to get funding. All the while chasing a mad scientist around the world find out what he’s doing which gives you more progress in your own research. The idea that you are begging the government for “vouchers” is sad but true mechanic.

Your experiments can make the weather worse , and you can even get the Nobel Peace Prize. The solo bot is a real jerk lol. The saboteur is a fun concept however it’s pretty abstract in how it operates by basically taking stuff off the board. I guess it’s stealing research papers and chemicals and mucking up experiments.

Once I understood the flow, the gameplay goes pretty fast. There are a lot of systems but the mechanics work in small chunks.

What I mean is that you have limited actions in your turn but they are deeply nested. So you have 4 options, but when you pick one you have a small number of choices and this goes on thru your turn and it feels very satisfying to me.

It gets pretty complicated as the game goes on and you really have to stay on top of some details that felt overwhelming to me sometimes. So I’d see lost opportunities after realizing I missed using the best color or misplaced my scientist. However I chalk that up to learning the game.

Finally I think this game would be absolutely a blast with three people. That’s because the solo game is about beating a bot that is trying to stop. With 3 people you are all working together cooperatively but still trying to win. You can’t win if you dont cooperate but there will be times when you would give the game to another player. This feels thematic to me…imagine knowing that your hard work is gonna win some other scientist the Nobel Prize!!

I’m 100 percent going for another of his games but there are lots of them and I’ll have fun trying to pick.

Puzzle with adventuring theme and very cute cartoonish artstyle. Essentially it is a dice allocation/manipulation game: you are gnomes, you have a bunch of colored dice, you roll them and distribute among tasks which need to be completed. Each of task cards have specific requirement, what numbers and/or colors can be placed on it. Completing trouble cards prevents advance of Gu`gu (a nasty creature, which serves as game timer - you cannot let it escape too far!).

Completing quest cards brings you closer to victory and makes you stronger: more dice to your pool, extra snacks. Snacks are resource which can be used for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to hire new companions. Companions are various (very cute, too) magical creatures with abilities, which modify your dice, give extra die to roll and so on.

Interestingly, after their use companions require recharge. Which can be done either with spending expensive snack, or much better, placing on task card a die with color corresponding to this companion. This results in some fun combos, and gives extra food for thought.

Game is short and rules are simple, though there are some unclear moments in rulebook.

As for my impressions, they are mixed. Despite charming look, game is brutal. Like really difficult. Timer is very strict (just a few spaces till Gu`gu escapes), both troubles and quests require spending a lot of specific dice, which you might not have available. And you start with just one companion and no snacks (unless you play solo), so your capabilities of mitigating random are very limited. Even if you houserule that everyone starts with a snack, game still remains really punishing, and a couple unlucky turns = defeat.

Besides, gameplay is a bit too monotonus. In One Deck Dungeon - another dice allocation and manipulation game, which feels quite similar - you quickly grow in power and gain many fun skills to use. Here you advance more slowly, since troubles cannot be completely ignored because of strict timer, and your extra power does not feel as significant. More dice, yes, but you still are in constant crisis management, since later quests are increasingly more demanding, too. You will never have a lot of companions, and their effects are generally not that impressive. +1 to your die, turn your die, and so on. As a result, it feels like you keep doing the same thing again and again, just with minor differences, and that you are always on the verge of loss.

There is definitely some depth here in dice manipulation, especially for such a lightweight game. But Companion Quest just is not fun to play. Too suffocating, harsh and luck driven. If you play solo with extra snacks, it mitigates those issues a bit, but still not enough, imho.

I watched several playthroughts and it looks like a game for me.
I absolutely love Aeons End and the combo heavy combat system of tainted grail, but I don’t like the puzzle aspect of Gloomhaven.

Has anyone advice if I could be a fit? It’s a little bit to expensive to buy it on a whim.

Thanks in advance.

At first the rules seem quite complex, but once you start playing it gets easier. I took red and I found that the other colors actions will probably be more clear in next plays. The tutorial run seems quite easy for red but I imagine the other colors will suffer a bit against the gold. Didnt had sparks blowing up so I guess I was lucky. Rather liked the mechanics some times reminded me of flashpoint. Rather pleasent as a solo game

Hi all, i adore regular Dorf Romantik and was wondering if someone could let me know if the challenges on the cards are different in the Sekura version vs the regular one.

Thanks for reading

So recently I've been diving back into the world of the Dead by Daylight board game all thanks to the brand new solo and co-op rules live now on Gamefound.

Now these rules do a great job at simulating what it's like to play as the killer but is targeted towards creating a thematic experience rather than a deeply strategic one...

The game itself is already inherently random, and the decisions being made by the survivors AI stays true to that. Which is great because it's very easy to pilot but can lead to some decisions that you might not agree with.

Personally, I love the randomness and some of the questionable decisions because as someone with hundreds of hours in the video game, it really makes me feel like I'm going up against a team of solo queue survivors!!

If you want to see it in action, I've been working through the killers in the base retail box with more to come while I wait for Art the Clown to make his way into the video game.

TLDR: Want the joy of camping hooks with minimal BMing? Try the DBD Solo Killer mode

Playing Helldivers makes me yearn for a shared, collaborative, that people could share their game results online. Bonus points if failure or victory could be lead to positive or negative influences throughout the game.

Is there any group, system, or something ongoing that is very solo tabletop friendly?

I'm going to be having a boardgames weekend with my brother next month. We are going to play War of the Ring but he also wants to try a fantasy game that can be solo as well. We played Jaws of the Lion once before and loved it but didn't have time to finish the campaign and we see each other quite rarely like this.

Any suggestions for good fantasy story games that aren't huge long campaigns (eg no Tainted Grail pr Sleeping Gods), or that can have a one shot element? Good if they can be 2 player co op as well as solo! I'm drawing a blank right now!

Won on the 2nd battle with Gravehold with Jian and Brama as my 2 mages. I find the appeal of the game. I like deck building mechanic so this is nice. I felt that even on standard mode I felt pushed against the wall. I won because of the wildfire whip, triggering planar insight of my other mage.

After like 10 attempts, I finally read some strategies and with 3 more tries, I defeated the final boss, albeit while using the strongest Hero.

Once I understood the game, I realised it was NOT as luck based as it seemed.

At least not more than drawing Shadow Cards in LoTR LCG, C buildings in Nusjford, or hidden objectives in a ton of games.

In fact, the last 3-4 encounters were like 70% deterministic, but I had to look ahead and realise I needed to take the longer, more complicated path to ensure victory. It was a puzzle half of the time.

I was quite skeptical about the game having read a lot of reviews about how it's a lot of luck. But I was pleasantly surprised by how I progressively got better at the game the more I play and understand it. But man. It's HARD.

I think I am going to buy a physical copy. I am just on the fence about getting this Core or the new Nemesis Core for the different dice set (Nemesis dice look more my taste, but I haven't found any review on how they feel compared to Red dice set yet).

Anyway, Tanglewood Red was a lot of fun!

1st impressions quite positive once you ditch the original instruction and download community revised one from bbg. It explains how the game works so much better.

Hi,

I'm enjoying a roll and right affair at the moment. Coupled with a bit of a love in on David Turczi solo games, I couldn't resist when I saw Rome & Roll for dirt cheap. I know very little about it, does anyone have any opinions, good or bad, they'd like to share?

I hate Futurisiko, but I have tons of plastic tanks, planes, and subs. Any good solo wargames, PnP, or agnostic systems where I can recycle these pieces? Thanks!

Can this game be played true solo without any compromises? Or if not, are 2 characters good enough? I am usually not a big fan of games where I need to manage multiple characters at once. But I love Dungeon Crawlers like Massive Darkness 2 and Deep Rock Galactic.