swap_horiz Sea Salt & Paper Alternatives

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Revival

Revival is a cooperative legacy game where players embody spirits tasked with guiding a town through a series of histori...

Narrative Character Driven Cooperative Legacy Game

9.0 Excellent

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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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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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Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative Living Card Game (LCG) where players investigate cosmic horrors based on H...

RPG Story Driven Narrative Horror

9.4 Excellent

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The Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series

The Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series is a cooperative board game where players work together to solve intrica...

Narrative Cooperative Deduction Victorian Era

9.0 Excellent

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Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is a narrative exploration game where players navigate a mysterious archipelago, uncovering...

Adventure Cooperative Storytelling Game Narrative Exploration

8.7 Very Good

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Pachikinda

Pachikinda is a cooperative game where players work together to stack bananas on a monkey's back. Players must carefully...

Cooperative Stacking Family Game Banana

8.4 Very Good

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The Search for Planet X

The Search for Planet X is a cooperative deduction game where players work together to locate a lost planet using astron...

Logic Cooperative Deduction Family Game

8.3 Very Good

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a sprawling, narrative-driven board game set in a dark fantasy version of Arthurian...

Exploration Resource Management Dungeon Crawling Narrative

8.3 Very Good

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Tumbling Dice

Tumbling Dice is a cooperative game where players work together to build a tower using dice and wooden blocks. The dice...

Puzzle Cooperative Stacking Dice

8.2 Very Good

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Tales of the Arabian Nights

Tales of the Arabian Nights is a storytelling game where players embark on adventures inspired by the classic Arabian Ni...

Theme Adventure Role Playing Storytelling

7.8 Good

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This War of Mine: The Board Game

This War of Mine: The Board Game is a grim and emotionally challenging cooperative experience based on the video game of...

Resource Management Narrative Survival Cooperative

7.8 Good

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Wickham Market

Wickham Market is a cooperative worker placement game where players work together to manage a bustling marketplace. The...

Cooperative Worker Placement Farming Family Game

7.7 Good

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Escape: The Curse of the Temple

Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative dice-rolling game where players navigate a cursed temple, rolling dice...

Adventure Cooperative Dice Rolling Push Your Luck

7.4 Good

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Reinigers

Reinigers is a cooperative dungeon crawler set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world. Players control scavengers, exploring...

Sci Fi Exploration Dungeon Crawling Narrative

7.4 Good

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Hoot Owl Hoot!

Hoot Owl Hoot! is a cooperative game designed for young children. Players work together to move owl tokens to their nest...

Cooperative Children Dexterity Family Game

7.3 Good

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The Last of Us Part II

The Last of Us Part II is a narrative-driven action-adventure game set in a ravaged United States. Its core gameplay rev...

Story Driven Post Apocalyptic Narrative Narrative Driven

10.0 Brilliant

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The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchmans masterpiece remains the definitive account of the outbreak of World War I. It meticulously details the...

Classic Narrative World War I Military History

9.9 Brilliant

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Hardcore History

Dan Carlins Hardcore History is the gold standard for long-form historical storytelling. Carlin combines a unique, inten...

Educational Immersive Narrative History

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