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Concordia

Concordia is a masterpiece of modern board game design. It replaces the dice-rolling luck of Catan with a elegant card-d...

Strategy Resource Management Roman Empire Eurogame

9.8 Brilliant

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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

9.8 Brilliant

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Dominion

Dominion is widely considered the originator of the modern deck-building genre. Players begin with a small deck of coppe...

Strategy Classic Competitive Card Game

9.8 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 Worker Placement Farming Engine Building

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

9.6 Brilliant

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Obabako

Obabako is a cooperative stacking game where players must collaboratively build a tower of wooden shapes within a define...

Minimalist Cooperative Abstract Spatial Reasoning

9.6 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

9.6 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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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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Brass: Birmingham

Widely considered one of the greatest strategy games ever designed, Brass: Birmingham challenges players to build indust...

Strategy Heavy Industrial Economic

9.5 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

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.5 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

9.5 Brilliant

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Wingspan

Wingspan is a beautiful, accessible engine-building game about bird watching. Players act as researchers, bird enthusias...

Educational Nature Strategy Family Friendly

9.4 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

9.4 Excellent

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Sleeping Queens

Sleeping Queens is a charming card game created by a six-year-old, and it shows in its whimsical design and accessible r...

Fantasy Fast Paced Card Game Math

9.4 Excellent

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Cartographers

Cartographers is a beautiful and engaging roll-and-write where players act as royal cartographers tasked with mapping a...

Relaxing Scoring Tile Laying Fantasy Theme

9.4 Excellent

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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

9.3 Excellent

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Betrayal at Baldur's Gate

A cooperative board game that offers a surprise twist with its hidden betrayal element. Players explore the Baldurs Gate...

Cooperative Dungeon Crawler Surprise Ending

9.3 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