My Board Game Collection + Games I am Looking to Try

Below is my current board game collection:

For the games I own, I have included the BGG community player counts, link to my content on here if any, link to BGG entry, link to Dice Tower/Shut Up and Sit Down/etc. Youtube review [many of these Youtube reviews are over a decade old and not as good of quality as their current content]

If you see anything you would like to try and are anywhere near the Minneapolis area, I would love if you reached out and we could set up a time to play at a Friendly Local Game Store or similar. Always thrilled to meet and play games with other board gamers.

Games I own that…

I’ve played multiple times, enjoy, and actively want to play

• 7th Sea: City of Five Sails 2 player card game with pirates, musketeers, dueling, 3 locations to fight over, alternating actions, and card costs paid for by discarding other cards[2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Alchemists App-assisted deduction worker placement [2-4, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower][~2 hours]
• Baseball Highlights: 2045 [1, 2, 4, best 2]
• Beyond the Sun Tech Tree based game [2-4, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower] Only played once so far, but it was quite fun
• Crokinole Satisfying dexterity game about flicking disks into good positions and knocking off your opponents‘ disks [2, 4] [SUSD]
• Dixit Party game with large, full-art cards, try to get at least one person but not all people to guess your card by coming up with a clever clue (multiple expansions) [4-6, best 5-6] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower] [~30min?]
• Dominion Original Deck Building game (Core Set, Dark Ages, Hinterlands, Intrigue) I actively want to play Dark Ages expansion [2-4, best 3] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Dune Imperium Deck Building + Worker Placement game with majority based conflicts(+ Rise of Ix expansion) [1-4, best 3-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower][~1-2 hours]
• Dvonn Abstract strategy game [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Earth Tableau building game where a player picks an action and everyone else also gets a minor effect while all players trigger all relevant cards [1-5] [BGG] [Dice Tower] [~45-90min]
• Eldritch Horror Sprawling thematic cooperative lovecraftian game [1-6, best 4 – I want to try with 8] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Galaxy Trucker Ridiculous real-time space ship building followed by watching everyone’s ships blow up [2-4, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower][~1 hour]
• Game of Thrones The Board Game Card based combat war game with a lot of political intrigue to work together against the game and your opponents/allies [4-6, best 6] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Hanamikoji Mind-bendingly elegant area control card game with only 4 actions involving picking, discarding, and creating piles of cards for your opponent to choose between [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Jaipur Incredible, elegant 2-player trading game [2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Just One Party game where you try to get someone to guess a word, everyone writes down a clue secretly, if 2 people wrote the same clue, discard that clue [4-7, best 6-7] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Kahuna Card based with elegant, interesting rules for controlling islands with bridges [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Lost Ruins of Arnak Exploration, deck building, resource management, more tactical than strategic [1-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower][30 min – 2 hours]
• Mandala 2 Player Area Majority interesting scoring [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Mindbug Elegant card game where you play simple creatures to attack your opponent, but you each have 2 Mindbugs that can steal an opponent’s creature when played (+expansions) [2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Push Fight Elegant Jiu-Jitsu inspiried abstract game [2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [PennyArcade]
• Race for the Galaxy Engine building card game where you pay the cost of cards by discarding other cards (Base, 1st expansion) [2-4] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower][~30-60 min]
• Radlands Beautifully neon 2 player card game where you try to destroy your opponent’s bases with interesting/efficient combos [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Skull Super simple, exhilirating bluffing game [3-6, best 5-6] [BGG] [SuSD]
• So Clover Word association cooperative party game [2-6, best 3-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower] [~30 min]
• Specter Ops Hidden movement game with character and one-time use abilities [2-5, best 2 or 3] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Tzaar 2-player abstract strategy game [2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Widget Ridge Steampunk deckbuilding game with incredible flavor [2+, best 2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower: paid preview]

I’ve played very little if at all that I am excited about and actively want to play (don’t yet know how much I like them)

• Air, Land, & Sea 2 player win 2 of 3 locations with small identical card pool [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Arcs Trick taking-esque-driven 4x-ish game. Also has a 3-game campaign expansion which looks incredibly thematic [2-4, best 3] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Beer and Bread 2 Player drafting resource management [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Caper: Europe 2-player area majority set collection [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Concordia [2-5, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Deus Engine building game [2-4, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• (The) Duke Chess-like where the units have a variety of movement options and you can randomly pull extra units into play [2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Evolution Evolution based survival of the fittest; Use traits to make your species thrive in the shared environment of traited species [2-6, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• (The) Fox in the Forest 2-player trick taking game [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Frosthaven Massive campaign game with elegant card based combat [1-4, best 3 – I want to try 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Fury of Dracula Hidden movement game trying to hunt down and kill Dracula before he kills you[2-5, best 3 or 5] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Gosu X Combo-based card game where you try to win 2 of 3 rounds by having more power in play than your opponent[2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal Card-driven racing game [1-6, best 5-6] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Incan Gold [3-8, best 6-8]
• Oceans Sea based Evolution game with tons of unique “Deep” traits [2-4, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Onitama Abstract strategy game where there are 5 move options on cards that rotate between the 2 players as they are used[2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Puerto Rico Classic [2?-5, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Ready Set Bet Realtime Horse betting game that introduces asymetric bonuses [3-9, best 6-8] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Res Arcana Engine building game [2-4, best 2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Seasons Dice Drafting tableau building game (decent number of intro games, but not enough full drafting starts) [2-3, best 2] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Shogun Cube based war game? [3-5, best 4-5] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Spy x Family: Mission for Peanuts Spy Family themed Love Letter-esque game [3-5] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Suburbia Suburb (Tableau) building game with tile market [1-4, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Wavelength Party game about giving a clue on a spectrum to guess where it lands [4-12, best 6, 8]

I have loved, but I have grown a bit tired of, whose spark could be reignited

• Arkham Horror LCG Campaign based co-op lovecraftian card game where you build your deck and upgrade it after each scenario [1-4] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Epic Card Game (everything) My forger card game obsession, dueling card game where every card cost 1-gold or 0-gold. Timing is everything, the strategic depth is deep, and great 2-player limited formats [2] [TomSEpicGaming, most of this blog] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Heroscape (couple core sets + a bit more) Miniature and dice based asymetrical combat game with multi-dimensional terrain [2-4, best 2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]

I’ve played multiple times and would happily play if someone wanted to

• 52-card deck games (Cribbage, Euchre, Hearts, etc.)
• Agricola Punishing Classic worker placement game[1-5, best 3-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Axis and Allies Sprawling war game with about 13 different units split between ground, air, and sea. Country specific objectives to increase income, dice based combat (1940 Europe, 1940 Pacific, WWI 1914) [2-5, best not 3] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Geek&Sundry sponsored 1941 edition]
• Century: Golem Edition [2-5, best 3-4]
• Dilbert: the Board Game Silly Dilbert themed board game that implements short term restrictions on specific talking patterns or other goofy things [4-6, best 4] [BGG] [mostly a nostalgia game for me, couldn’t find a review]
• Firefly: The Game Pick up and deliver game with a strong Firefly feel (Base, Kalidasa, Blue Sun) [1-4, best 3] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Great Western Trail: Second Edition Deck building, hand management, game where you can build locations to give you access to better actions [1-4, best 3] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Hero Realms Heads up deck building game with fantasy theme and optional asymmetrical starting decks (character packs and initial co-op campaign) [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Kemet Card based combat game with large amounts of upgrades to choose from that reward attacking [3-5, best 4-5] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition App-assisted cooperative lovecraftian game[1-5, best 3-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Risk 2210 A.D. Nostalgic upgrade on risk that includes moon and underwater territories and purchasable action cards specific to purchasable commanders [3-5, best 4-5] [BGG] [older game with no reviews from creators I watch]
• Solforge Fusion Lane-based 2 player battling card games where your cards upgrade when you play them, play 2 cards per turn and redraw to 5 at end of turn [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Star Wars Rebellion Star Wars in a box. Large Rebels vs Empire where the rebels try to gain enough influence in the galaxy before their base is found and eliminated [2] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Under Falling Skies Puzzley Dice-based alien invaders solo game [1] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Wingspan Engine building game with fantastic theme [1-5, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Zombies!!! I don’t really remember, but I had a lot of fun playing, unlike the other 3 players [2-5, best 4] [BGG] [Another nostalgia game with no reviews from creators I watch]

I’ve played very little if at all, that I want to play to see if I enjoy them, but that I am not “excited” about

• Android Don’t remember [2-4, best 3] [BGG] [don’t remember anything about the game, no review from a creator I watch]
• Asgard’s Chosen Don’t know [1-4, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Cockroach Poker Royal Bluffing game [3-6, best 4-5] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Favor of the Pharaoh Yahtzee-esque game where you purchase upgrades that let you manipulate your dice[2-4, best 2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Heroes of Terrinoth Dungeon crawler maybe? [1-4, best 4] [BGG] [OneStopCoOpShop didn’t watch this fully]
• Isle of Skye Tile-placement game where all players get random tiles to put up for sale for the others to buy. Any they don’t you pay that price to take them yourself [2-5, best 3-4] [TomSEpicGaming] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Jab Realtime Boxing Realtime card game with a boxing theme [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Lords of Xidit Programmed movement area majority game? [4-5] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Niagara [3-5, best 4-5] [BGG] [cool looking game, but not thought to be very good, didn’t watch creators I don’t watch to see the review]
• Nostra City Don’t know [3-5, best 4] [BGG] [don’t know anything about this game, no review]
• Panzer General Allied Assault/Russian Assault Some kind of war game [1-2, best 2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Rise of the Runelord Card based rpg style game where your deck levels up [1-4+, best 3-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Samurai Spirit Cooperative game [1-7, best 1 or 5] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• World of Tanks Rush Don’t know [2-5, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Zooloretto Zoo-buildign game where you assemble busses worth of animals to take into your zoo, or something like that [3-5, 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]

I am neutral to, the company is much more important than the game itself

• 5 Minute Marvel
• Black Fleet
• Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes 2-player tug of war game with multiple tracks and rewards to balance [2] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Boomo
• (The) Downfall of Pompeii
• Look Who’s Purging Now
• Lovecraft Letter
• Mission Red Planet
• No Thanks
• Pirates of the Spanish Main
• Quacks of Quedlinburg
• Smash Up (Multiple Expansions)
• Star Wars Imperial Assault

I’ve played multiple times, enjoyed, but am a bit tired of, would play, but not “actively excited” to

• Android Netrunner LCG
• Biblios
• Friday
• Magic: The Gathering (Got a couple Chronozoa decks, and I do love Cube Draft)
• Munchkin Fu/Munchkin Adventure Time
• Rise of Augustus (good gateway game though)
• Star Wars Xwing (a few scum/villainy ships)
• Targi
• Unmatched (Cobble and Fog, Jurassic Park, Bruce Lee)
• Warhammer 40k (some Astra Militarum [Imperial Guard] and a Tyranid Codex)

I wouldn’t play unless someone else really wanted to

• Adventure Time Card Wars Finn vs Jake
• Escape the Dark Castle
• Finance (more of a collectors item)
• Flux the Board Game
• Game of Thrones LCG Core Set
• Get Lucky
• Hanabi
• Legend of the Five Rings LCG Core Set
• Princess Jing
• Resident Evil Deck Building Game
• Star Wars LCG Core Set

Games I don’t Physically Have with me that I’ve played and

Enjoy/actively want to play again

• Abyss [2-4, best 4]
• Clank! In! Space! [2-4, best 3]
• Gloomhaven [1-4, best 3]
• Mechs vs Minions [2-4, best 4]
• Merchants & Marauders [2-4, best 4]
• Mystic Vale (Love the concept of building cards, but the execution felt lacking) [2-4, best 2]
• Power Grid Economic game of bidding on power plants to expand your grid of cities to make money to recur the above [3-6, best 4-5] [BGG] [SUSD ‘funny quote I don’t want to spoil’]
• Ra [2-5, best 3-4]
• Shobu [2]
• Twilight Imperium 4th Edition Massive 4X Space game with asymetrical player factions, ship combat, action selection, negotiation, etc [3-6, best 6] [BGG] [SUSD]

Enjoy and would happily play again

• 7 Wonders: Architects [2-7, best 4]
• Camel Up {2nd edition} [3-8, best 5-6]
• Cartographers Flip and write game of creating a map with shared random shapes to achieve rotating objectives [1-100, Best 3-4?] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Caverna [1-5 best 4]
• (The) Crew [3-5, best 4]
• Elysium [2-4, best 3]
• Feast for Odin [1-4, best 3]
• Khora: Rise of an Empire [2-4, best 4]
• Paperback [2-4, best 2]
• Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age [1-4, best 2?]
• Samurai [2-4, best 3]
• Star Realms [2]

Enjoyed but am tired of

• Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game [4-6, best 5]
• Coup [3-6, best 5]
• Medieval Academy [3-5, best 4-5]
• Ninjato [2-4, best 4]
• Risk Legacy [4-5, best 5]
• Root [3-4, best 4]

am Neutral towards

• Bark Avenue [1-5, best 3]
• Cathedral [2]
• Dinner in Paris [2-4, best 2]
• Everdell [1-4, best 3]
• Fort [2-4, best 3]
• Meadow [1-3, best 2]
• Pandemic [1-4, best 4]
• Star Wars: Outer Rim [1-4, best 3]

Did not particularly enjoy the first time but am curious to try again

• 7 Wonders
• Architects of the West Kingdom [1-5, best 4]
• Dominant Species (willing to play at least once more)

Actively don’t want to play again

• Most (primarily) Social Deduction Games
• Cosmic Encounter
• Keyforge
• Machi Koro
• One Night Ultimate Werewolf : I game where the entire point is trying to figure out who all is lying to your face (for the sake of the game), especially when you might not even know which side you are on, is incredibly stressful to me.
• Rising Sun : Very bad first experience
• Roll for the Galaxy : Dramatically prefer Race for the Galaxy
• Spirit Island [1-4, best 2] I found it to be too complicated/stressful for a cooperative game. I agonized over optimizing my plays so as to not let my teammates down while having way too much to consider, for my own actions and how they interacted with my allies.

Games I’ve Never Played that…

If you have any of these games and enjoy/love them, I would love to play them with you. Or if you want to meet up at a Friendly Local Game Store with one of these in their open play library.

I actively want to try

• 51st State [1-4, best 2]
• Aeon’s End Legacy [1-4, best]
• Among the Stars [2-4, best 4]
• Aquatica [2-4, best 3]
• Ark Nova [1-3, best 2]
• Ascension: Deckbuilding Game [2-4, best 2]
• AuZtralia [1-4, best 3]
• (The) Bloody Inn [1-4, best 4]
• Blue Moon Legends [2]
• Brass: Birmingham [2-4, best 3-4]
• Broken and Beautiful [2-4, best 2] [BGG]
• Broom Service [2-5, best 4]
• Captain Sonar Real-time 4v4 submarine combat, fairly simple rules [6-8, best 8] [BGG] [SUSD]
• Clank! Catacombs [1-4, best 3]
• Cubitos [2-4, best 4] [BGG]
• Dead Reckoning [1-4, best 3] [BGG]
• Dinosaur Island [1-4, best 3]
• Distilled [1-4, best 3]
• Draftosaurus [2-5, best 4]
• Dune/Rex: Final Days of an Empire [5-6, best 6]
• Eminent Domain [2-4, best 3]
• Ethnos [2-6, best 4]
• Evacuation [1-4, best 2-3] [BGG]
• Fairy Tale [2-5, best 4]
• Federation [2-4, best 4] [BGG]
• Food Chain Magnate [2-5, best 3-4] [BGG]
• Furnace [2-4, best 3-4]
• GIPF [2]
• Golem [1-4, best 2-3]
• Guildhall [2-4, best 2]
• Hadrian’s Wall [1-6 game, 1-3 BGG community, best 1?]
• Hegemony [2-4, best 4] [BGG]
• Hive [2]
• Innovation [2-3, best 2]
• Istanbul [2-5, best 4]
• Jambo [2]
• Jump Drive [1-4, best 3]
• La Havre [1-4, best 3]
• Maglev Metro [2-4, best 3]
• Manhattan Project [2-5, best 4]
• Merchant of Venus [2-4, best 3]
• Mind MGMT [1-5, best 2-3]
• Mosaic: A Story of Civilization [2-6, best 4] [BGG]
• Near and Far (etc) [2-4, best 3]
• Nova Luna [1-4, best 2]
• One Deck Dungeon [1-2, best 1]
• Paleo [1-4, best 2-3]
• Paperback Adventures [1-2, best 1]
• Path of Civilization [1-5, best 3-4] [BGG]
• (The) Quest for El Dorado [2-4, best 2, 4]
• Roll Player [1-4, best 3]
• Rune Stones [2-4, best 3] [BGG]
• Sleeping Gods [1-3, best 2]
• Smartphone Inc. [3-5, best 5]
• Space Station Phoenix [2-4 best 3]
• Steampunk Rally (Fusion) Engine Building (literally) racing game [1-8, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Stella: Dixit Universe [3-6, best 5-6]
• Stone Age [2-4, best 4]
• Terraforming Mars [1-4, best 3]
• Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition [1-4, best 3]
• Through the Ages [2-4, best 3]
• Tigris & Euphrates [2-4, best 4]
• Twilight Struggle [2]
• Tzolk’in [2-4, best 4]
• Undaunted [2]
• Vagrantsong [1-3, best 2]
• Vindication [2-5, best 4] [BGG]
• War of the Ring: Second Edition [2]
• Warp’s Edge [1]
• Welcome To… [1-100, best 3-4]
• XCom: The Board Game [2-4, best4]
• Yamatai [2-4, best 2]
• Yinsh [2]
• Zertz [2]

I would happily try

• Asante [2]
• Ankh: Gods of Egypt [Dice Tower] [I’d be most interested in trying it at 2]
• Bad Company [1-6, best 3-4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Barrage [2-4, best 4]
• Blood Rage [3-4, best 4]
• Bruges [2-4, best 3]
• Castles of Burgundy [2-4, best 2]
• Chocolate Factory [1-4, best 3]
• Conspiracy: Abyss Universe [2-4, best 2-3]
• Cryptid [3-5, best 4]
• Dog Park [1-4, best 3-4]
• Dune [5-6, best 6] [BGG]
• El Grande [3-5, best 5]
• Fields of Arle [1-2, best 2]
• Fire Tower [2-4, best 4]
• Five Tribes [2-4, best 2]
• Gaia Project [1-4, best 3-4]
• Garden Dice [2-4, best 2, 4]
• Gizmos [2-4, best 3]
• Imperial Settlers (Empires of the North) [1-4, best 2]
• Inis [2-4, best 4]
• It’s a Wonderful World Drafting engine building game [1-5, best 4] {1-7, best 3-5 with expansion} [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Keyflower [2-6, best 4]
• Lacuna [2]
• Last Aurora [2-4, best 4]
• Last Light [2-4. best 4] [BGG] (Supports 8?)
• Letter Jam [2-6, best 6]
• (The) Loop [1-4, best 2]
• Lords of Waterdeep [2-5, best 3-4]
• Mage Knight [1-3, best 1-2]
• Oath [3-5, best 4]
• Obsession [1-4, best 2]
• Oh My Goods [2-4, best 2]
• Orleans [2-4, best 4]
• Paladins of the West Kingdom [1-3, best 2]
• Pax Pamir [3-5, best 4]
• Port Royal [2-5, best 3-4]
• Raccoon Tycoon [3-5, best 4]
• Raiders of the North Sea [2-4, best 3]
• Raising Robots [1-6, best 3-5] [BGG]
• Red Rising [1-4, best 3]
• Reef [2-4, best 2]
• Revive [1-4, best 3] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Roll Player Adventures [1-4, best 1-2]
• Royal Visit [2]
• Scoville Pepper planting/breeding game [2-5?, best 4] [BGG] [Dice Tower]
• Search for Planet X [1-4, best 2-3]
• Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game [2]
• Summer Camp [2-4, best 3]
• Tenpenny Parks [1-4, best 3]
• Terra Mystica [2-5, best 4]
• Tokaido [2-5, best 4]
• Troyes [2-4, best 3]
• Tumblin Dice [2-6+, best 4, 6+] [BGG]
• Viticulture [2-5, best 3-4]
• Whistle Mountain [2-4, best 3]
• World Wonders [1-5, best 3] [BGG]
• Xia: Legends of a Drift System [2-4, best 3]
• Yellow & Yangtze [2-4, best 4] [BGG]

I’m Interested but Very Wary

• John Company [1, 3-6, best 4-5] [BGG] [SUSD] A bitingly satirical game about the East India Company with negotiation. Would require a conversation with a group of known players to consider.

Call to Action

I absolutely love tabletop games, and I actively want to play much more often with a greater number of players. These are the games I own and/or am happy to play. In addition, I am always up for trying a game I have never played before (except primarily Social Deduction games). So I am 100% serious when I say I will happily meet up with anyone at a public place to play board games with you. Any player count.