· 8 years ago · Feb 05, 2018, 02:38 AM
1Potenital game list:
2Qualifications: Short (sub 90 minutes), Easy (new player can be expected to play within 15 minutes), Cheap (still exists), not already in my collection to bring
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4Some good new games I'll bring: Gloomhaven, Onitama, Escape Room THe Game, Machi Koro, Enchanters
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6*Tak
7Abstract game. Good sister game to Onitama, and has the benefit of people being able to go home and play it with crap around their house. Make a line of your pieces from your side of the board to the other, but in moving your pieces you can create towers, including atop another players piece, and cause some real strategy out of an extremely simple game.
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9Sanitori
10Semi-abstract game.
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12Rhino Hero
13One of the top dexterity games at the moment. Build a tower of cards, and place the rhino atop the tower. Towers can get very high, and whatever card you put as the 'roof' atop the tower shows the 'pattern' the next player must place their cards in. Think of it as reverse jenga but taller.
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15*Disk Duelers
16Note: This would've been Catacombs, but Disk Duelers is anime as fuck
17Requires some tablespace, but this game has your flicking your characters to fight other characters, with random tat on the table as obstacles. Characters have different abilities, like the ability to life and move shit, doing double damage if they're a rebound shot, etc.
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19Battlecon
20Note: Biased. This is my favorite board game. Also crazy anime.
21Fighting games distilled into a psudo-card game where you know the cards in your opponents hands at all times. Combine one of your characters unique 'style' cards with one of the standard 'base' cards to form your attack with it's own range, damage, priority, and effects. "Chained Blast" to bring your opponent closer, to "Vicious Blast" to move them back, and out of the range of your attack. Several characters (60+ in all sets) with characters taking the various gimmick fighter types from real fighting games, like the rushdown bitch that stunlocks you the whole game, the stupid motherfucker that jumps around the map constantly, and that one tryhard fighting character that has the multiple characters on screen at once and different inputs attack with different characters. ~5 minutes to teach. Would run tournament if I bothered to purchase all of them
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24Wits & Wagers
25Note: I don't know this game at all, but it's the #1 award winner. If we don't have fibbage, this will do.
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27Hive
28Super simple semi-abstract game where the goal is to surround the enemy queen bee with your units. Units all have different movements that make what pieces you put into place really come alive, such as the spider that always moved 3 spaces, the grasshopper that jumps over everyone in one direction, or the worker ant that can move infinite spaces but must stay on the outermost layer of the game.
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30Small World
31Note: I don't like this game but it's popular
32Babys first 4x game, but without 2 of the x's. It's a territory control and expand game on a fixed map size, but with the interesting gimmick of each race having it's own power, plus one extra random power. To win you also need to go into 'decline', deactivating your units (but still scoring them until someone defeats them) and picking a new race.
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35Joking Hazard:
36Note: I hate this game but it's popular
37Cards against humanity, except with two random cards and you pick the third one, and all the cards are a single Cynaide and Happiness panel. Shows how unoriginal C&H has to be to get what we'll tenatively call a 'laugh'
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39Spyfall
40Excellent party game. Everyone has a secret location, except the spy who needs to figure out where everyone is. Everyone takes turns asking innocuous questions about the location they're in, and then giving vague answers that show they're not the spy, but not tipping off the spy. "Did you bring any sunscreen?" "How far is it to the nearest super market?" "How's the food here?"
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42Burgle Bros:
43Note: Avaibility might be low. Hardest game on list.
44Mother. Fucking. Burgle bros.
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46Paperback
47Scrabble as a deckbuilder! Get 5 cards at the beginning of every turn, with a different letter on it. Each letter/card has it's own ability (E might be 'score two points', but V might be 'draw 2 extra cards next turn). Buy letter cards to add to your deck for future turns, but balance between having powerful cards and needing to spell a word with the letters V-V-V-M-Qu-R-S
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49*Spaceteam
50Spaceteam is great! Second only to Magic Maze, which if we didn't recently buy would be near the top of this list. It plays much like the phone game, where everyone needs to, in real time, solve a series of tasks except you never have the tools to do your own task and need to shout to someone else to take care of it for you
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52One of the dumb fucking rick and morty games
53Fucking helllllllllllllll. I believe Total Rickall is the one that's good? Maybe?
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55Bloodborne the game
56Oh! We're back to anime games on the list now. Animeish. Bloodborne the game is a cool deckbuilder where you need to cooperate enough to defeat the monsters and get through the final boss, but backstab JUST enough to have the most points.
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59Millions of Dollars / Nothing Personal
60Since we already have Cash and Guns, these are somewhat redundant.
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62Betrayal at Baulders Gate / Betrayal at House on the Hill
63Note: I hate this game