Best boardgames on Reddit
170 reviews from r/boardgames, r/birding, r/BoardgameDesign and 9 more subreddits
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#1
Stonemaier Games
4.8
(31)
"Such a great game!! Beautiful art and fun gameplay as well."
"I LOVE this game."
"This is my favourite game!"
"I looove Wingspan."
"Love It!!"
"It's so wonderful!"
"I love wingspan so much."
"It's a gem in my collection."
"I freaking love this game!"
"The Asia one is tougher! So fun."
#2
Wingspan
4.8
(5)
"Ten min in I was hooked. Excellent game."
"One of the best boardgames I've played."
"Great game! This was the gateway drug for my wife and I getting into boardgames."
"Wingspan got me into birding."
"There is also Wingspan and a bunch others."
#3
Settlers of Catan
5.0
(4)
"Early Euro that everyone should try as a very simple resource management and world building game"
#4
Days of Wonder
5.0
(4)
"Ticket to Ride is one of the better map placement games out there."
"Of course Ticket to Ride lately."
"I think anything by Days of Wonder (five tribes, small world) for how well their rulebooks are laid out."
"I think anything by Days of Wonder (five tribes, small world) for how well their rulebooks are laid out."
#5
Leaving Earth
4.5
(4)
"Leaving Earth is exactly this."
"[Leaving Earth] is basically Kerbal Space Program as a board game."
"**Leaving Earth** is fantastic and weighty and about building a space program"
"Leaving Earth - good luck getting it"
#6
Greater Than Games
5.0
(3)
"I have to join the Spirit Island Crowd."
"Spirit island is great and gives a lot of content for the money."
"Spirit island is a great solo game."
#7
Ticket to Ride
5.0
(3)
"Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico, all great games."
"Teaches drafting and set collection"
#8
Scrabble
4.7
(3)
"Is a good one in our house."
"Has been our consistent favorite this year."
"Scrabble. Settlers of Catan. Cards against humanity."
#9
Kingdomino
4.3
(3)
"**Kingdomino**"
"Kingdomino, Blokus, For Sale, Onitama"
"Kingdomino, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, ...etc"
#10
Rio Grande Games
5.0
(2)
"Dominion is the Big Daddy of deck building games."
"Dominion is a deck building game, where you buy cards from a fixed set to add to your deck."
#11
Guess Who?
5.0
(2)
"Also, Guess Who? might be fun for that age..."
"And saving the best for last: **Guess Who?**"
#12
Stellar Horizons
5.0
(2)
"You should check out **Stellar Horizons**."
"Oh man. You should check out **Stellar Horizons**."
#13
Splendor
5.0
(2)
"Splendor is my go to for people who don’t speak the same language."
"**Splendour**"
#14
Hungry Hungry Hippos
5.0
(2)
"Hungry Hungry Hippos"
"Hungry Hungry Hippos is a classic..."
#15
Catan
5.0
(2)
"Settlers of Catan teaches about how commodities change and supply/demand."
"Settlers of CATAN (I see all the Catan comments. You’ve got good taste)."
#16
King of Tokyo
5.0
(2)
"Teaches resource management (health, energy, VP)"
"...with the other kids we get King of Tokyo, Labyrinth, and Forbidden Island to the table."
#17
Dominion
5.0
(2)
#18
Spirit Island
5.0
(2)
"Would also endorse Spirit Island for solo."
"Spirit Island is probably the best bang for the buck solo game."
#19
Pandemic
4.5
(2)
"Pandemic."
"Pandemic or other simple co-ops since there isn't as much mental burden"
#20
Firefly
4.5
(2)
"The firefly board game is way better than a licensed property ought to be."
"Just gotta mention Firefly and start trek fleet captains!"
#21
Forbidden Island
4.5
(2)
"...with the other kids we get King of Tokyo, Labyrinth, and Forbidden Island to the table."
"Forbidden Island! As long as you can print up multi-language rules in advance you should be good to go."
#22
Haba
4.5
(2)
"Haba makes a lot of good games for younger kids."
"Stuff, I dunno really."
#23
Carcassonne
4.5
(2)
"Carcassone is a good one. I started playing it with my granddaughter when she was about five."
"Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride are great."
#24
Terra Mystica
4.5
(2)
"Terra Mystica is full of mechanics that it balances pretty well."
"Terra Mystica is pretty good."
#25
Tokaido
4.0
(2)
"Tokaido, Istanbul, Manila, Castles of Burgundy, Kingdomino, Splendor, Azul, Century: (any)..."
"I like Tokaido because it's basically all pictures and numbers."
#26
Cards Against Humanity
4.0
(2)
"Cards against humanity and super fight"
#27
Clue
4.0
(2)
"Is fun too."
#28
High Frontier 4 All
4.0
(2)
"You are describing High Frontier 4 All exactly."
"High Frontier 4 All sounds exactly what you're looking for."
#29
SETI
4.0
(2)
"SETI somewhat fits the bill?"
"Kind of surprised no one mentioned S.E.T.I yet."
#30
Hasbro
4.0
(2)
"Connect 4 is good."
"Jenga is super ubiquitous here and fun for most ages."
#31
Button Shy
5.0
(1)
"Button Shy games"
#32
Pax
5.0
(1)
"Brass Birmingham + Lancashire, Pax Pamir (2nd edition), Great Western Trail (2nd edition)..."
#33
Brass
5.0
(1)
"Brass Birmingham + Lancashire, Pax Pamir (2nd edition), Great Western Trail (2nd edition)..."
#34
Great Western Trail
5.0
(1)
"Brass Birmingham + Lancashire, Pax Pamir (2nd edition), Great Western Trail (2nd edition)..."
#35
Scythe
5.0
(1)
"And Scythe for it's board/art design that helps you remember the rules with it's very layout."
#36
Twilight Imperium
5.0
(1)
"Twilight Imperium (each edition - beautiful windows into evolutionary design)..."
#37
Lost Ruins of Arnak
5.0
(1)
"Lost Ruins of Arnak (tight conversion design that is making competitive waves)..."
#38
Puerto Rico
5.0
(1)
"Puerto Rico has some solid mechanics."
#39
Small World
5.0
(1)
"Small World has some cool use of fairly simple mechanics."
#40
Candy Land
5.0
(1)
"...but I remember Candy Land being recommended as a great 'first board game' for young kids..."
#41
Ghost Fighting Treasure Hunters
5.0
(1)
"My 5 yr old likes Ghost Fighting Treasure Hunters, Dobble, Onitama..."
#42
Labyrinth
5.0
(1)
"...with the other kids we get King of Tokyo, Labyrinth, and Forbidden Island to the table."
#43
Beasty Bar
5.0
(1)
"...my 5 year old loves (and can understand) beasty bar, qwirkle, catan."
#44
Mysterium
5.0
(1)
"Mysterium could work pretty well."
#45
Perudo
5.0
(1)
"**Perudo** ?"
#46
Castles of Burgundy
5.0
(1)
"Castles of Burgundy is a language-independent classic."
#47
Shipwreck Arcana
5.0
(1)
"The shipwreck Arcana is one of the best deduction games I've ever played."
#48
Mint Italy
5.0
(1)
"Both excellent soloable tin sized games with loads of replayability."
#49
Spearmint Valley
5.0
(1)
"Both excellent soloable tin sized games with loads of replayability."
#50
Dream Crush
5.0
(1)
"I love them both."
#51
Innovation
5.0
(1)
"I love them both."
#52
ISS Vanguard
5.0
(1)
"ISS Vanguard for locations, different biomes, discoverable alien things."
#53
Patchwork
5.0
(1)
"I can't stop recommending Patchwork enough."
#54
No Mercy
5.0
(1)
"No Mercy is a certified banger of a game."
#55
Ito
5.0
(1)
"Fun party game from Japan. Highly recommend if you can get it."
#56
Concordia
5.0
(1)
"Buy Concordia. I own a whole shit ton of games and this one is a masterpiece."
#57
5-Minute Dungeon
5.0
(1)
"**5-Minute Dungeon**"
#58
Dungeon Time
5.0
(1)
"**Dungeon Time**"
#59
Acquire
5.0
(1)
"**Acquire**"
#60
Century: Spice Road
5.0
(1)
"**Century: Spice Road**"
#61
Chinatown
5.0
(1)
"**Chinatown**"
#62
Galaxy Trucker
5.0
(1)
"**Galaxy Trucker**"
#63
Loot
5.0
(1)
"**Loot**"
#64
Arboretum
5.0
(1)
"**Arboretum**"
#65
Biblios
5.0
(1)
"**Biblios**"
#66
Railroad Ink
5.0
(1)
"**Railroad Ink**"
#67
Stone Age
5.0
(1)
"**Stone Age**"
#68
Bridge
5.0
(1)
"**Bridge**"
#69
Tichu
5.0
(1)
"**Tichu**"
#70
Dixit
5.0
(1)
"**Dixit**"
#71
For Sale
5.0
(1)
"**For Sale**"
#72
Avalon
5.0
(1)
"**Avalon**"
#73
Tsuro
5.0
(1)
"Tsuro, definitely. Entirely language independent, and surprisingly engaging for new players."
#74
Magic Maze
5.0
(1)
"**Magic Maze** (and a lot of other real-time games)"
#75
Libellud
5.0
(1)
"Not a board game per-say, but great for breaking language barriers, very easy to to play also: Dixit."
#76
Ravensburger
5.0
(1)
"I highly recommend games from Ravensburger and Haba for young kids just getting into board games."
#77
Beyond the Sun
5.0
(1)
"Beyond the Sun is nearly perfect."
#78
Crash Octopus
4.0
(1)
"Crash Octopus is a fun dexterity game."
#79
Masters of the Universe
4.0
(1)
"Masters of the Universe: Fields of Eternia"
#80
Pitchcar
4.0
(1)
"Pitchcar. Sadly, afaik direct orders from the publisher is not available to North America."
#81
Looney Labs
4.0
(1)
"If you like card games take a look at Looney Labs. Their games, like Fluxx are considerably cheaper in the US."
#82
Sagrada
4.0
(1)
"Sagrada, One Night Ultimate Werewolf and similar bluffing/deduction games."
#83
Spire's End
4.0
(1)
"I enjoyed spire's end hildegard as a solo game."
#84
d100 Space
4.0
(1)
"Check out d100 Space and/or d100 Space Mapping Game."
#85
City of the Big Shoulder
4.0
(1)
"City of the Big Shoulder has a pretty interesting stock market + supply chain simulation."
#86
West Kingdom
4.0
(1)
"Also all the West Kingdom games have all the rules completely encoded in symbols..."
#87
BlueOrange
4.0
(1)
"A lot of games by **BlueOrange** have completely visual pieces."
#88
Lumenaris
4.0
(1)
"This looks good, maybe hard to find outside the US however"
#89
Firefly Board Game
4.0
(1)
"The firefly board game might scratch that itch."
#90
SpaceCorp
4.0
(1)
"SpaceCorp is a good one for this"
#91
Rocketmen
4.0
(1)
"Rocketmen"
#92
One Small Step
4.0
(1)
"Academy Games "One Small Step""
#93
Twilight Struggle
4.0
(1)
"Twilight Struggle’s space race track"
#94
Interstellar
4.0
(1)
"Sounds like you are looking for [Interstellar]"
#95
Monopoly
1.5
(2)
"Monopoly"
"The prime example of *What Not To Do*"
#96
Andromeda's Edge
3.0
(1)
"Andromedas Edge"
#97
Battleship
2.0
(1)
"Battleship"
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