Dwarpheus

Most of these are two-player games. They asked for games to play with a group.

We’re still playing Boonanza, after many years. Just doesn’t get old.

Uwe Rosenberg. His worker placement games are just so well designed and scratch an itch not many other games scratch.

A level 1-10 adventure with a ‘bump to lvl 17’? What does that mean? Instantly levelling from 10 to 17, skipping an entire tier? That just sounds silly.

Terraforming Mars is probably also my no. 1 pick.

But Frosthaven is a close second. It just has it all: puzzly gameplay, tight mechanics, unlockable content, entertaining story elements, crafting and building, character progression. The thing is, I feel like for a game to fill the “perfect game” criteria for me, I have to be able to always play it with any group. Frosthaven just isn’t that kind of game, because it’s a campaign.

Terraforming Mars on the other hand, as long as your group is 5 people or smaller, you can always play it.

Well, it’s refined to my taste, but yeah. And it’s not that I started building my collection 30 years ago XD The ‘one game a year’ thing is going on for 5 years or so. There was a period I bought and was given many games a year.

I’ll do a first time ever collection post on social media per your request when I get home. Should be fun :D

I’m a specialist. I played a decent amount of different games, enough to know what I like. My collection is small, around 30 games, ranging from Boonanza to Frosthaven. I have a game for every occasion and I really like them ALL. I buy a new game every year or so and every couple of years I do a ‘clean up’ and sell a few game that I’ve lost interest in.

I must admit: I keep a few games that I should part with, but I just can’t do it (Catan, Monopoly).