Your favorite lightweight game at the moment
Your favorite game of medium weight at the moment!
Your favorite heavyweight game at the moment!
Your most played game of all time!
Your favorite game of all time!
========== Here‘s my list:
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King of Tokyo: Awesome art, great table presence, easy to learn, different winning conditions, always fun!
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Tidal Blades: I love asymmetric RPGs with character customization! But I only got it to the table once. Time will tell if it holds up.
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Arkham Horror LCG: My heaviest game atm, since I don’t find enough time for longer games. The most immersive game I played so far! I‘m impressed how this game is designed and I love my depressing roguelike experience with Lovecraft theme here!
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Most played: Dominion.
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World of Warcraft - The Board Game has to be my all time favorite: It reminds me of times, when we had opportunities almost monthly to get together and play these long games. Again, customizable asymmetric characters, thrilling item management and fighting mechanic, skill trees (expansion), everything I loved about the PC game was so well captured here.
Light: Azul
Medium: Heat
Heavy: Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition
Most played: Netrunner if that counts
Favorite: Terraforming Mars
Big TM fan, just love the gameplay loop of making and spending cubes
Was about to say that Terra Mystica is also one of my favorite games of all time
Big TM fan, just love the gameplay loop of making and spending cubes
Light: Skull King Medium: Keyflower Heavy: The Gallerist Most Played: Gloomhaven. My wife and I have put in countless hours (this includes JotL).
Favorite: Railways of the World. I don’t get as many reps in on this one, but I love it. Close runner up to Steam and Age of Steam. Small collection, but I make room for all three.
I’m a big fan of Age of Steam myself. I plan on heading to Age of Steam Con come September.
Light: Sea Salt & Paper
Medium: Mottainai
Heavy: A Feast for Odin (not sure if that’s considered heavy)
Most played: Kingdom Builder (if we count online)
All time favorite: that’s too hard… some that are in the running: Mottainai, Newton, Tzolk’in, Teotihuacan, Ascension, Kingdom Builder, War Chest, Space Base, Res Arcana, A Feast for Odin
I have a hard time with picking favorites so these are a bit random. I will probably come up with a different list if you ask me next week.
Do you think Mottainai is worth getting/playing if I already have Innovation?
Absolutely, they are very different games! But that also means that liking one doesn’t necessarily mean that you will like the other.
As for the worth, for me Mottainai might just be the best bang for the buck (and shelf space) out there… with one fairly big caveat: There seems to be an invisible mental barrier around it, people often have a hard time wrapping their brains around it at first.
The rules are quite simple once it clicks, it might just require some perseverance to get there. Or maybe you will get it right away! What has helped me the most was playing online on Yucata and taking it slow, making sure that I understood everything that happened each turn.
- Light: Scout
- Medium: Terraforming Mars and Mystic Vale
- Heavy: Spirit Island
- GOAT: Spirit Island with TFM and Mystic Vale as close seconds
- Most played: probably Monopoly Deal
Light: Ticket to ride - Europe - not the biggest player of light games but this one is always fun with the family
Medium: Everdell - fun to play, beautiful to look at and very satisfying to complete the city
Heavy: Ark Nova - its similar to terraforming Mars which I also love but at the moment its super fun to build your little zoo
Goty: Castles of Burgundy- a timeless classic
Most played : Dominion - this is where it all started for me
