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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 takes the classic cooperative game of disease control and adds a permanent, evolving narrative...

Strategy Story Driven Narrative Legacy

9.9 Brilliant

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Gloomhaven

Gloomhaven is a massive, tactical combat game set in a persistent fantasy world. Players take on the roles of mercenarie...

Strategy Fantasy Adventure Story Driven

9.9 Brilliant

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Outfoxed!

Outfoxed! is a brilliant cooperative whodunit game where players work together to identify which fox stole a pot pie. Us...

Logic Mystery Cooperative Whodunit

9.8 Brilliant

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Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game

Legendary is a cooperative deck-building game where players take on the roles of Marvel superheroes, working together to...

Cooperative Superhero Thematic Tabletop

9.7 Brilliant

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Roll Player

Roll Player is a unique dice-rolling game where players create and develop their fantasy characters. Instead of moving a...

Fantasy Narrative Driven Character Creation Engine Building

9.6 Brilliant

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Agricola

Agricola is a seminal worker placement game where players manage a farmstead, feeding their family and expanding their h...

Strategy Card Drafting Worker Placement Farming

9.6 Brilliant

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Sky Team

Sky Team is a brilliant cooperative game where players take on the roles of a pilot and co-pilot landing a commercial ai...

Cooperative Intense Thematic 2 Player Only

9.6 Brilliant

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Spirit Island

Spirit Island is a complex, cooperative game where players take on the roles of powerful spirits defending their island...

Strategy Complex Challenging Cooperative

9.5 Brilliant

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Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood is a sprawling, narrative-driven legacy game where players take on the roles of Oathsworn,...

Fantasy Adventure Combat Storytelling

9.5 Brilliant

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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar is a tabletop miniature wargame set in the Mortal Realms. It features a vast array of factions,...

Fantasy Battle Miniature Wargame Narrative Campaign Detailed Terrain

9.5 Brilliant

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Twilight Struggle

Twilight Struggle is a heavy, thematic wargame that simulates the decades-long Cold War between the USA and the USSR. It...

Strategy Cold War Heavy Historical

9.4 Excellent

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Splendor Duel

Splendor Duel takes the core engine-building mechanics of the original Splendor and refines them into a sharper, more ag...

Modern Classic Competitive Card Drafting Engine Building

9.4 Excellent

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Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization

Through the Ages is a civilization-building board game where players lead their people from ancient times to the future....

Strategy Civilization Building Long Term Play

9.3 Excellent

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Settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan is a classic two-player board game that involves resource management and strategic placement. Players...

Strategy Resource Management Family Friendly Economy

9.3 Excellent

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Descent: Legends of the Dark

Descent: Legends of the Dark is a cooperative dungeon-crawler that utilizes an app to manage the campaign, enemies, and...

Fantasy Story Driven Campaign Cooperative

9.3 Excellent

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Trivial Pursuit: 1981 Edition

The original Trivial Pursuit revolutionized the trivia board game genre. This 1981 edition features questions covering s...

Pop Culture 1980S Family Game Classic Trivia

9.3 Excellent

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Klack!

Klack! is a competitive dexterity game where players secretly place wooden blocks and attempt to clack them together. Th...

Competitive Bluffing Clacking Hidden Information

9.3 Excellent

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Jenga

Jenga remains a classic for a reason. Players take turns removing blocks from a tower and placing them on top, increasin...

Classic Party Game Tension Stacking

9.3 Excellent

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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

D&D 5e remains the dominant force in tabletop RPGs, offering a balance of accessibility and depth. Its d20 system is fam...

Fantasy Dnd Tabletop Fantasy Setting

9.3 Excellent

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Railroad Ink

Railroad Ink is a clever roll-and-write where players build railroad networks and roads on their personal boards. Dice r...

Route Building Spatial Puzzle Network Design Dice Driven

9.2 Excellent