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Popular Themes in r/boardgames
#1
Advice Requests
: "Now that most of boardgames from 2024 are available for purchase in major board game stores, what were some games that you really enjoyed?"
10 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Do you know any Online boardgame that can be played by 5-12 people?"
5 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Experience trying to buy a game table"
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "The Cost of Entertainment and Board Game Value"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Crowdfunded Games Launching This Week [Mar 24th, 2025]"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Pardon the dust! We are working towards our first developed and printed prototype of our WIP game, Alamore; a Co-Op tactical skirmish campaign with a dark-fantasy RPG theme using modular tiles and physical skill trees. Here are some shots from our most recent test session!"
1 post
#7
News
: "Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: March 30, 2025 | 42 ending soon ("Scales of Fate", "ARTISTRY") & 18 new ("The Red Dragon Inn Allies: Jin vs Greppa", "Lobotomy 2: Dimensions of Madness", "G.I. JOE: Operation Cobra")"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/boardgames
#1
Board Games
: "Average Board Games hiding behind great presentation and quality components. Share your examples, here are mine."
119 posts
#2
Game
42 posts
#3
Board
34 posts
#4
Boardgames
: "Now that most of Boardgames from 2024 are available for purchase in major board game stores, what were some games that you really enjoyed?"
18 posts
#5
Worst
16 posts
#6
App
: "Mobile device where I can upload PDF cards and have it shuffle and draw my custom deck?"
13 posts
#7
Expansions
: "Irked with Expansions coming out for brand new games and Kickstarted games."
13 posts
#8
Crowdfunding
: "Crowdfunded Games Launching This Week [Apr 1st, 2025]"
9 posts
#9
Card Games
: "Is there any great board games or Card Games with similar-ish art style to old cartoons/Cuphead?"
8 posts
#10
Family Games
7 posts
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