I would be curious about your favorite coop games. I often find them a big lacking, often being a bit unbalanced. An example is Battle for Hogwarts, where one game can be a walk in the park and another absolutely impossible and rarely is there a balanced match.
I like Ghost Stories, quite imbalanced but fun to play (/lose)
- Arkham Horror
- Legends of Andor
- Escape Room games
I love Arkham Horror, sadly my gf is not that much into the whole story telling part. I am still holding onto my copy even though we have not touched the game in 2 years.
I have not tried Escape Room games, but I am not that much enticed by Escape Rooms in general. Most feel more like a money grab at this point.
Spirit Island is really good as you can adjust the difficulty and it’s always different Stars of Akarios if you want a Gloomhaven Light Experience with some 7th Continent sprinkled in.
Hanabi and The Crew, both card games — and both limited-information games. Hanabi is basically Klondike Solitaire distributed over a team of players who can’t see their own cards (and have a limited number of pieces of information they can tell each other); The Crew is a trick-taking game with variable goals and scalable difficulty.
My partner and I really enjoy mini rogue.
It can be brutal at times but often you can track your downfall back to a risky decision earlier.
It’s a one or two player dungeon crawl. Some light rpg mechanics, dice based combat and events, some traders and items to find.
To me it captures games like deep dungeons of doom and legends of grimrock very nicely.
Single player rules also feature a campaign mode, the old gods expansion adds a couple cool events and new bosses.
Sounds interesting, I kinda like dungeon crawlers. Its probably a remnant of playing diablo2 when I was younger. I will have to check it out. Do you prefer 1 player or 2?
I basically only play it with my SO so can’t comment on single player.
From scanning the rules, the campaign sets certain events and “layouts” for certain levels and consecutive runs. It also adds a little bit of meta progression to give your character’s two abilities a bit of variety.
Ah another thing: it’s very portable!
portable mashes well with our lifestyle, we are very much on the move. At most places we have already stashed some games but often bring 1/2 with us as well
