Definitely play the Resistance! It has nothing to do with Star wars. Its social deduction game where you play in two teams against each other with hidden roles. So you need to lie your way through it and work together with your other teammates. It's great :)
@@jacobd1984 Magic is nice, but totally different than DnD. They are not really comparable. Both great. I especially like Magic, because I have friend that have plenty of cards. We select series of cards and make "baggages" from those that contain similar amounts of rare cards etc. than baggages sold. Great fun to make fresh decks and then test playing with each other. ^_^
“What is this?!” Big potato game called ‘ok play’. Basically connect 5 (rather than 4) where you place the tiles next to each other to try to get 5 in a row
My recommendations : - *LOVE LETTERS* (16 cards, 3-4 players, 2 minutes game) - brave rats (2 players, 2 minutes games) - 7 wonders (strategy - build a city and one of the 7 wonders and get rich, up to 7 players except if you get the extentions) - *7 WONDERS DUEL* (same concept, 2 players) - smallworld (strategy - the world is too small, kill populations and invade territories, up to 5 players) - *SKULL* (bluff and bets, breaks friendships and trust. Genius. Up to 6 players)
Drunk stoned or stupid is great fun! There are two different ways of playing, normal rules you don't want the card, and 'I just met you' rules you do want the card, there's basically a debate section where you have to argue your case for who deserves the card, but yes it is much more fun with people you know really well😄 Also red flags and exploding kittens are so much fun! They're both card games, and cluedo is one of my all time favourite games!
Secret Hitler is amazing highly recommend. I've played with all the levels of equipment from writing out and making everything myself, to the really nice box you can get for it with wooden plaques. So as nice as the box is you get the same experience printing out all the parts, only thing to watch out for is cutting out the secret roles can lead to visible differences but envelopes or little bags can help against this. a few other recommendations ticket to ride Europe - super well known game not played all the maps but Europe's defiantly the best I've seen (good screwing over potential) mysterium - sort of combo between dixit and cluedo, one person is a ghost that gives others picture clues to solve there murder only one of which is correct. mostly cooperative with voting to add some competitiveness and make it a bit of a race. Splendor - a more standard board game with four players where you collect gems to buy cards that act as more gems to get points (also really fun to screw people over) cockroach poker - very simple game lying game, good with medium groups and quick note on deduction games ones like secret Hitler and werewolf are more focused on the interaction between players hence why you don't need much equipment for them, there are also games like coup/mascaraed that are more structured (and have very nice art) and about swapping roles and calling people out. All have deduction lying elements but are a very different feel. (i would put resistance in a weird place in the middle) coup plays less people than mascaraed but both have expansion that can increase player numbers. you can also gets apps for playing games like werewolf/one night werewolf i'm quite a big board game nerd so i could go on but i will stop there before this gets even longer! (i spent way to long writing this) happy holidays!
I looooved pass the pigs when I was a kid omg!! My family is really into board/card games, our fave is Time's Up! Basically it gives you a bunch of cards with names and you play multiple rounds trying to guess the names. The rounds get harder each time but it becomes really fun because you start developing inside jokes about the cards to get people to guess them as the game goes on
Pandemic is so much fun! When I first played we thought you had to find a cure and eradicate all diseases-not the right way to play. It was so hard! Then we realized you only need to find cures for the diseases. After trying to do the previous tasks, it was so much easier, but still stressful. Its a great collaborative and strategy game. Betrayal at House on the Hill is an AMAZING collaborative game. It is never the same game! You need quite a large table or floor space since you make the 'board game' by exploring a house. I've played it tons of times and literally have never had a repeat. And there are a couple of expansions too which make it even more fun! That was is great to play with a group of people. I highly recommend that one! I just recently played Catan for the fist time. I really enjoyed it! Still haven't won a game yet, but I keep playing lol
For two players I would recommend the board game '7 Wonders Duel' which also have a cool 'Gods' expansion. Me and my girlfriend Noa (which is a fan of your channel) play it for an year already and still love it. Also 'Patchwork' and 'Odin's ravens' are fun games designed for two people. There are too many good board games for more than two players, I will recommend my favorite: 'Terraforming mars'. The game got several playing mechanics and the theme is cool.
A game i would recommend is Clank! (with the ! at the end) You sneak into the underground realm of a dragon to steal stuff. You try not to die when you're still underground. It's different from other similar concepts in the fact that you all will die 100%. The first player to exit the castle starts the 3 turns countdown, at the end of which everyone gets killed by the dragon. People underground will be buried with the stolen treasures, the others will give the treasures to their heirs.
Also, I love that you are planning on doing a board game clear out already. My partner and I have about 100 board games. 😳 We have a 5x5 kallax shelf and the rule is, all the games (sans like 2) have to fit on the shelf. And we have had to do multiple clearouts to make room for new ones we wanted.
I recommend Betrayal At The House On The Hill! it's a team(ish) game, where you all explore and build a haunted house and then when a certain thing happens you begin the 'haunt' (of which there are like 50 or something crazy, depending on various factors) and one player has to turn against all the rest so it's like one person against everyone else as a team while the team try and escape the house and you all have secret motives and special items you can collect etc. It's complicated but super fun, and if you play it you 100% have to have spooky music on in the background!
Love Settlers of Catan and Munchkin too! Recently, I've been playing a lot of Scrabble with my flatmates, which has been great fun. We all speak different languages, so it's a great learning experience all around and lots of fun!
jackbox games is really cool. it’s actually an electronic game thing and you buy it off steam then cast it to your tv. it’s got like five games included and everyone can join by going to jackbox.tv on their phones and putting in a code, kind of like kahoot. i have jackbox party pack six im pretty sure and it is hilarious. my favourite is “quiplash” where you’re given a funny question you have to answer and everyone votes for their favourite. there’s also a game called “trivia murder party” where you have to answer questions correctly or you die. it’s so much fun and would 100% recommend to anyone
This video is so cool! I really love board games and have been wanting to play more, it’s something that my family and I used to play when I was a kid and have fond memories of it. I feel like as I got older I stopped playing board games but been wanting to get back into it, they’re always loads of fun.
I have been looooving Some Lovely Board Games over on Sammy’s channel, and this video from you yesterday made me think I wanted to grow my board game collection, so when I saw The Chameleon at the bookshop today I totally splurged and got it (+2 others) 😅❤️.
I have a bunch of boardgames! and no friends to play them with! 😂 I just moved to Valencia, Spain so I don't know anyone here to play with. All my friends (I do have a few) are all around the world♥️
“[the tree] doesn’t have sex toys on it like it did last year” This is probably the least surprising statement from this whole the entire video **cough channel cough**
Yes more boardgame video's! So much fun! Dungeons and dragons is a commitment, but very fun and it makes sure that you and your friends have regular d&d and boardgame nights - so big bonus! If you like cards against humanity, de harry potter version is fun (muggles against humanity) and joking hazard.
Recommendations: Colt Express - you're all train robbers and it's played on a 3D train! It's very cool. Battle on Skullfyre Mountain - silly fun card game where you cast spells at each other and it's great Space Alert - so it's a kinda stressful communication coop game but SO fun. I would say it's a bit like Overcooked in style. Time's Up - good charadey quizzy game
Recommendations: Betrayal at House on the Hill (i think this might be the haunted house one you were thinking of?) or as my friends call it, "Spooky House". you have to play it a *lot* to get a game that's even remotely similar to a previous time, since there are different "haunts" that can happen depending on which card is pulled in which room to trigger it, and even if you get the same haunt, the layout of the mansion is going to be different. Red Dragon Inn: premise is like you're a dnd party post-adventure hanging out in a tavern trying to fuck each other over. if you run out of money you get kicked out of the tavern (aka lose), and if your drunkenness level surpasses your stamina/health/something like that level then you're too drunk and you also get kicked out of the tavern. each player picks a character and each character has their own deck of cards that say what they can do (ie the thief has plenty of cards that let them cheat during gambling rounds, but the priestess has cards that let her "heal" herself aka sober up a bit). so you can get any of the editions (other than the single-character ones) and start playing, or you can mix multiple editions to get more players and characters. my friend has had the second one for a while and my mom just got me the 4th one for christmas which has a pirate lady on the front so i'm very excited
I always play “War” (the board game) with my friends, and though it has created many a heated argument it is always tons of fun! Highly recommend. I also really enjoy “Codenames” and “Dixit”. Love this vid Hannah!
So, ironically, you already sort of have Secret Hitler, in that you have The Resistance, which does not actually deal with Star Wars but is a hidden role social deduction game very similar to Secret Hitler (and Werewolf, and Mafia, and and and... they're all kind of the same game with tweaks?), so if you're looking for that sort of experience give The Resistance a go and see if you like it. 😉 Betrayal at House on the Hill is probably the cooperative game you were discussing, it's a classic haunted house adventure where one player may turn out to be a traitor by the end and it's pretty great. If you feel like it'd be your thing there's also "Betrayal: Legacy", which is the same game but you play it over 13 pre-set story instances during which you permanently change the board, tear up cards, write on things - basically you modify your copy of the game through playing it until it's not quite like anybody else's copy. Neat stuff. Oooo, also look for "Ghost Stories", which is purely cooperative (no traitor) and also a ton of spooky fun about up to 4 movie-trope martial arts monks trying to defend a village from ghosts. Fun stuff! Thanks for taking us through the collection. 🙂
My dad is OBSESSED with board games, so prepare for an explosion of great suggestions coming your way; - Skull - Codenames (v similar to chameleon) - Wingspan - Ticket to Ride - Barrenpark - Flamme rouge
Few things: 1. I now desperately want you to play dnd and make some videos about your character/campaign and stuff 2. Munchkin in its basic format is essentialy a parody of dnd, and it has lots of expansions with different themes, if you like it I highly suggest getting either basic expansion (that add more cards and sometimes mechanics) or some themed packs 3. I absolutely adore pandemic, me and my beastie play it a lot together, I would totally recommend getting it
Current favorite games: Betrayal at House on the Hill (I think that's the one you mentioned with the haunted house, because I dunno what else it could be), Endeavor, and Dice Throne! I got Betrayal Legacy last year for Christmas from my fiancé and it is BRILLIANT. Dice Throne is insanely well balanced and plays a bunch of different ways depending on the character combo and number of players, and Endeavor is very well made and super fun to conquer the world! Also, D&D is awesome and you should TOTALLY try it!
For Christmas we bought the family a game called 221b Baker Street, which we thought was Sherlock-themed Cluedo but is actually so much more complex than that. It takes a bit more time to learn but it’s so worth it. Essentially you travel around London collecting clues but the cases are individually written full narratives and the clues relate to the location you pick
If you don't want to dive into Dungeons and Dragons but still want to play something with a D&D atmosphere, I recommend Red Dragon Inn, a game where your D&D party has finished a day's adventuring and retired to the Inn to drink and gamble away the spoils. It's tons of fun, and there are an absurd number of character expansions which all play very differently.
We are obsessed with board games! Recommendations are; Ticket to Ride (a classic) Forbidden Island (fun co-op), Forbidden Desert (next in series co op), Love Letters (quick card game), Takenoko (cute pandas!), Carcassonne (classic) and Kodak's (adorable tree spirirs). Enjoy!
Ahh we love boardgames, we could play them all day haha! This was such a lovely video! You mentioned a lot that we've never played before, we'll have to try some of them out! Two that we HAVE to recommend to you if you haven't heard of them are The Great Dalmuti and Codenames! The Great Dalmuti is a card game for 4-8 players and basically each player has a role that's part of a hierarchy and how well you do on one round dictates what role you'll have for the next round. The players at the top get to control the players at the bottom and it's a great time! Codenames is a boardgame that involves 2 teams of players who have a grid of words in front of them and they have to guess which words are theirs based off of hints that the respective team's spy master gives them. It requires a bit of creative thinking and it's really competitive! Happy Hanukkah, Hannah!
I want to recommend Dixit which is a super fun game with BEAUTIFUL art! It is a bit like some of the jackbox games or almost apples to apples. I also love Codenames, which is big fun with a large group!
@@morehannah be sure to find a version with cards you like or get an extension though. Some of the versions of dixit are really ugly and not inspiring ^^
One caution I'd have with Dixit is that because it is a game where part of it is trying to have some people get what you're saying and some not, if your group has a person or people who often feel left out because others are communicating in in-jokes or personal shorthand, this can encourage that if people take the easy route and always go for making the references that they aren't going to get in order to win points. We played this game in an intergenerational group and it was not fun for at least one person because of the way that it highlighted otherness. This is not to say that it can't be played with in-group/out-group players, but people can't be playing optimising just for points, and the game doesn't encourage that.
Betrayal at House on the Hill might be the haunted one you were talking about! It's amazing and one of my favorite games to play with friends. It's collaborative, but then at the end someone becomes a traitor during the "haunt" and needs to plot against everyone with different goals depending on what scenario it ends up being!
I also highly recommend codenames and codename pictures, which are games where a clue master attempts to give a one word clue along with a number to denote the number of cards that are related to that clue- but there is a kill card where if your teammate selects it, you lose automatically. Can either be super easy or super difficult depending on the board and who you're teamed up with. Love it!
That haunted house one you mentioned at the end is Betrayal at the House on the Hill! I was going to suggest it before you said that, it's one of my favorites. It's a good like, entry level of more complex board games for new people. Also I recently discovered there's a Betrayal Legacy and I need it.
so many recommendations! Pandemic is super fun, especially the legacy version, but you'd want to try the regular version first. Mysterium, Dead of Winter, Sushi Go Party, On Tour, Raiders, and Planet are some of my current faves that come to mind that aren't Kickstarter exclusive. Secret Hitler is very fun but very similar to The Resistance (it is different enough, I have both). Codenames is another fun one and they do have a Harry Potter version you may enjoy. Sending you lots of love!!
The starter set for dnd is very fun, I highly reccomend it, ideally you'd need either a few full days fairly close to each other or create a regular slot every week/two weeks with a few hours to play through the whole campaign. Zombiecide is excellent, fair warning its massive when you start getting expansion packs, my friend has a few and its hellish trying to find space in a student house. Also you have to paint all the models, which is fun but takes a long time. Secret Hitler can be played with normal playing cards! We've used it as a drinking game before.
Would definitely recommend you play The Resistance! It's not to do with Star Wars at all :) Pass the Pigs is great! We recently bought the inflatable one to play outdoors in the summer. I'd say my top picks, out of games that weren't in your video (unless I missed them!) would be; - Qwirkle ~ I play this a lot with family who aren't so into boardgames, as it's pretty simple to explain... it's about grouping colours and symbols on tiles together - probably best with 2-5 people - Tsuro of the Seas ~ like the original Tsuro (pathbuilding based) but has an additional element to it - dragons! Also gets bonus points for me for having such beautiful artwork! - probably best with 3-4 people - Coup ~ one of my absolute favourites! Involves a lot of bluffing, bribing etc - probably best with 5-6 people. Would recommend getting the Reformation expansion pack too, as the additional element makes it more interesting - Codenames ~ such a good party game! You work in teams and give one word clues to try and find all your agents before the other team does. Works best with 6-8 people, with an even number being the most fair - Dixit ~ again, gets bonus points for having amazing artwork. One of my favourite games to play with creative people. A mix of storytelling, voting and a hint of deception. Probably best with 5-6 people - Gloom ~ card-based game. Each player has a family, and you go through the game playing events to make the members of your family as unhappy as possible, before killing them, whilst also playing cards to make other people's characters happier! It sounds pretty morbid, but it's a great one to play with people who love getting into the storytelling aspect! I'd say it's best with 3-4 people
Highly recommend boss monster for a fun and fast game. It's card based, and based on old style 8-bit video games. You are a boss monster and have to build a dungeon using cards to attract adventurers. You build the dungeon in such a way as to beat the adventurers and collect there souls. The first to 10 souls wins.
I'd recommend 'mapominoes' (you basically redesign the map of Europe/Africa/Asia - depending on which version you have - by playing cards of each country) and 'backpacker' which is another card game where you travel around the world and various things happen that you have to deal with and then get home at the end!
We call the Scrawl concept Paper Telephone! It’s SO fun, but you really do need a group. 💛 My favorite tabletop games are Dixit and Anomia. With Dixit, you have a set of cards with surreal art on them. The active player gives a clue to their card (a keyword or sentence, sing a song, interpretive dance...) and then every other player selects a card from their hand that they think goes with the clue. Then everyone has to guess which is the right card. You get points based on how many guessed correctly. Anomia is a word game where you get paired with another player by random draw and the first one to call out an item from the category on the other person’s card gets the point. Everyone I’ve ever played this with swears they’re never playing it with me again 😂
My favorite boardgames are: Quarriors, Bang!, Munchkin, Exploding kittens and Snake Oil. To top of a board game night we usually play jackbox party pack games. They're great! :)
You and Dan must try Dominion and the expansion pack that can go with it is Prosperity. There's lots of other expansion packs, but I think that Prosperity is the most fun. It's basically a deck building game and if Dan likes to screw other players, then he will like it cause there's ways to do that. Anyway, would recommend! We are also forever wanting to do DandD and yet it does seem like such a big commitment that I don't know when/if we will. Cheers, Hannah!
There are ways to do one shots with d&d (one afternoon or so), but you might need to find a friend that know how to do the dungeon master. Your love for this game will probably depend on him/her. Would recommend though ! It really nice once you get to it :)
The resistance is so good. It is about deception and deduction. I like the hipster expansion of Munchkin. Also recommendations: The bloody inn (murdering guests from your inn) Wingspan (hosting pretty birds) Five tribes (lots of meeples) Azul (making tiles) Pandemic (try to prevent 4 deceases from spreading) Photosynthesis (abstract game of growing trees) Sushi Go (just sushi) Machi koro (be a property mogul) Stone Age (develop your own town) Whitechapel (murder mystery chase scene) Dead of winter (the walking dead in a game) Burgle bros (basically oceans 11) Also also: D&D is amazing for goofing around with friends.
My friends and I played what's basically Scrawl before! I call it Telephone Pictionary because it's like a combination of those two games. We did it so it was a stack of paper that got passed around (write a sentence on the top sheet, pass it, put the top sheet to the back, draw, etc) so at the end we had these strings of paper with ridiculous phrases and drawings and the good ones have been our dining room decor for a few years now
That haunted house game you mentioned at the end is possibly Mysterium which I highly recommend. Pandemic is another good cooperative game. As for good party games, my go games are Codenames and Telestrations.
The haunted house game might be Betrayal at the house on the hill. It has loads of different stories and monsters within the game and the board changes so it plays differently every time. Great game for Halloween
I think you would like "stap op", it's only in Dutch but it is derived from "tours". You have to make tours but of course you can puncture the holes in the tires of another player, you can run out of gas and of course you can make other people get in a collision. It's perfect for building up some steam, shouting or whatever you and Dan do while playing games. It's so much fun ruining someone's game by just playing an out of gasoline card just after they threw away all their gasoline cards.
"Dobble" is so much fun! :D I can also recommed "Legends Of Andor" and "Pandamic Legacy" for cooperative games and "Werewords" as semi-cooperative game. :)
give d&d a try! it doesn't have to be a campaign with a capital CAMPAIGN; it can be a one-shot (there are a loads of examples of liveplay one-shots--i'd recommend critical role as likely the easiest to find?) or, y'all could try something like lasers & feelings first to see if the idea of rpgs are even something that gets y'all excited (it's free: www.onesevendesign.com/laserfeelings/. and, it's inspired by a double-clicks song) tempting fate on saving throw show (youtube & twitch) is an entire liveplay series that's just different skins of lasers and feelings part of the joy of d&d--really, all rpgs--is that it can be as much or as little as you want it to be
On the subject of other tabletop roleplaying games and Critical Role, in a bunch of Critical Roll's one-shots, they are playing other games, some of which have much lower time investment to learn rules (Honey Heist has literally one page of rules IIRC) but still have a lot of scope for role-playing and fun if you're interested in role-playing with something other than D&D.
1. you look super cute! 2. I love this community- the fact that you can post a video titled ALL MY BOARDGAMES and we're all like HECK YEAH 3. I bought headhackers for Christmas and we enjoyed it but me and my sister were not as good at it as we thought we would be 😂 4. We also got one called Awkward Storyteller, and one called Labyrinth and they were both very different but really good fun!
Betrayal of House on the Hill is the MOST amazing board game. Can be collaborative, but is HOURS of fun and almost always different each time you play. Such a brilliant party game.
One of my boyfriend and I’s games that we’ve found that we loved (and pretty much every friend we’ve played it with has gone out and bought it for themselves) is Boss Monster. It’s really really fun, feels a bit complicated at first but once you get the hang of it it’s not that bad, and the expansions have all been really great additions to it!
Some of these have been mentioned already, but hell, going around demoing games is literally what I do, so I gotta chime in :) Betrayal at House on the Hill that you mentioned (if not by name) is great. There was another comment about it, I wrote some stuff there but forgot to change my username so it doesn't actually say my name. While one of the depictions of the playable characters borders on problematic (like any depiction of anything even close to Romani people in American fiction, since they seem to think that the G-slur refers to a mythical creature and is not a slur directed at real people. Sorry, save rant for another day), the representation is great. The figurines for the characters are dark-skinned, and there's as many women as men among the characters, quite the rarity, I assure you. Dead of Winter. Cooperative zombie survival. It's brilliant, especially the stand-alone expansion The Long Night. It asks the players to make difficult decisions like all good zombie fiction should, it's about prioritising killing zombies, gathering food, medicine, working together with people who have potentially incompatible goals (each player leads one of the sub-factions of the survivor camp, with their own hidden objectives in addition to the public goal of the colony). Lots of mature themes, horror, suspense, negotiation, potentially bluffing and betrayal. And the game has good representation, with women making up more than half the cast (I think the numbers break down to 14 men, 15 women, and 1 escaped chimp or something), at least in the expansion. In the original the women are fewer and they are depicted in rather dainty poses (and I think they managed to cram one of those stereotypical Romani fortunetellers into this one as well), but racial diversity is pretty decent :) Dixit, mentioned below, is an incredibly beautiful game full of evocative artwork that's based on storytelling, bluffing, improvising and figuring out what hints, clues, and references work on the people you're playing with. Nothing more to say, really. It's brilliant. (Player characters are rabbits, artwork features humans on about half the cards, a vast majority of them masculine, but in a much less problematic sense than in most games. Can only speak for the original though) Codenames, also mentioned below. Very minimalistic design, but evocative nonetheless, can be scaled almost infinitely upwards in terms of number of players. Lots of guessing, frustration, tense moments and trying to logic things out. Even better if you make an event out of it, with the spymasters dressed up a little. (Every character card is doublesided with a face coded masculine on one side and feminine on the other, except for one card that is left ambiguous due to being cloaked in shadows, thumbs up) People really like Ticket to Ride. I'm not extremely fond of it myself, but what do I know, I don't even like Catan. Everyone competes to build a train network (just ignore the story in the included booklet, no one reads it, and it's much worse than everyone's headcanon) with hidden destinations (you might need to create a line between Chicago and New York, or London and Stockholm (depending on version)) and backstabbing (if someone figures out you're trying to connect two cities, they might steal the only station leading there). Timeline seems like it would fit you given your penchant for history. A very simple, portable and minimalistic card game. Start with one card on the board depicting a historical event, with the year printed below. Take a card from your hand (with just events) and place it before or after. If you're correct, leave it on the board, leaving the next person to have to place before, after or in between the two events there now. Lots of variants (the Star Wars one is sadly a very cheap cashgrab, where you just place frames from the first movies) with different themes like music, inventions, British history, and if you ever find yourself with some extra time on your hands, you could probably make a version yourself with history of sex to play with friends :) Dobble you should definitely pick up, great to just have lying in your bag as an icebreaker. Takes five seconds to teach people how to play, and even people who identify as non-gamers and are intimidated by even something like Fluxx will be cheering and hollering in no time :) Last, I have to make two heavier suggestions. I'm almost contractually obligated to try to get you to play Magic the Gathering. It's got a lot of reputation as impossibly complicated and expensive and that's even a point of pride among some players, but it's only as expensive and complicated as players want it to be. There are several products that function pretty much like board games, out of the box, no collecting required. And the Legendary series. It's cooperative (mostly) story-heavy games, based on lots of different franchises. Marvel heroes? Check. Marvel villains? Check. Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Firefly? Alien? Predator? Big trouble in Little China? Check, check, check, check and check. They function almost identically, and are even compatible with each other (yes, you can have Ellen Ripley team up with Black Widow and take on vampires). Among all games I've played, this series is the best at making the players feel like part of a story, of ratcheting up tension and raising the stakes as the game goes on. A little more complicated, a little more setup, and more moving pieces, but very rewarding to sit down a full group, pick a favourite Aliens movie, try to make it out alive, and pray that no one on the team is secretly working for Weyland-Yutani. This is already WAY too long, but like I said, this is what I do, I travel around to schools, hospitals, conventions, and teach and demo games, so I just had to share :)
The Haunted House game is probably Betrayal at House on the Hill, which is an amazing semi-collaborative board game, with the possibility of teammate betrayal and so many possibilities for endings. I recommend Burglar Bros. and Pandemic for collaborative games. I love the Catan Expansion Cities & Knights, it adds a layer of complexity to the original that I love
I havent finished the video so maybe you have it - but an AMAZING game is Betrayal at House on the Hill !! You explore a haunted house and then someone is the traitor and you get a different haunting each time you play!
Yes, Dixit is great. But you need at least 3, better 4 and more players. One good thing about it is you can play it at a party because people can join and leave the game each round if they want to.
Yees ! And if you like Dixit, you might also like Mysterium. It's a collaborative game where one of the players is "the ghost" and the others have to find how they have been murdered. To do that, the ghost gives the players cards (dixit type cards) and they have to guess what he means. Kind of a mix between cluedo and dixit
Dungeons and Dragons is very good but if you're starting off without having played before maybe get one of the modules for it (pre-done story) or a DM(dungeon master) who has played before :)
That's what I'd say too. Also try to do a one shot for the first time toi see how you like it and to be able to build a character knowing how to play the second time ^^
Oh yes Munchkin is one of my favorites and as a child I loved Boggle so Clickbait sounds great. My recommendations (I think they come in an english version) I absolutely love Catan the Duell, it´s just for two and a bit more strategic than the standard Catan board game (maybe more fun for Dan, because you can mess around with the other person more if you want to. My favorite game of all times is Carcassonne (the basic version is very simple) but there are many many additions for it it to expand and change it up, so it becomes this huge game with endless varieties and you can play for hours.
Highly recommend playing the resistance! Am not aware of a Star Wars element, but I could just be missing it. Definitely sounds like one Dan will love as its all about messing with the other players by trying to make people suspect them and not you or your teammates. Results in lots of fun arguments!
I got the 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Detective Game for Christmas! And you can play it competitively with a bigger group, or co-operatively with 2 of you. And it's great fun!! You have to solve mysteries by finding clues etc :) xx
My partner and i are obsessed with the game unspeakable words, it was on an episode of tabletop on the geek and sundry channel... holy cow it’s so fun, we’ve played it like 15 times since we got it for Christmas, highly recommended!
My family and I played Colour Brain for the entirety of Christmas and Boxing Day. Every time the game finished, one of us would yell ‘ONE MORE GAME’. It’s brilliant.
I love board games so much!! Co-op games are super fun, there is a series of co-op board games that start with the word forbidden that I like a lot. The three are Forbidden Island, Forbidden Desert and Forbidden Skies. Each one is harder and a little more complicated than the one before it but they are all super fun. I find myself playing Forbidden Desert the most.
Also another super fun co-op game is called Sentinels of the Multiverse. In SOTM you play as a team of super heroes and are fighting a super villain in a given environment. Each player selects a hero to play out of a number of premise decks each of which is thematically different and play very differently too, then you select a villain which also all play differently and can even change the goal of the game slightly, and then an environment which doesn’t fight for either side but messes with what’s happening. The environment and the villain play by themselves just through the mechanics of the game so it’s completely co-op and one of my favorite games ever.
My best friend made his own strategic boardgame and it's so much fun to play! We're larpers and the game takes place in the same universe as our larps. Only down side is that it's HUGE! It can't fit on anyone's kitchen table so we have to rent a venue every time we play it.
If you like Catan, you will probably enjoy games such as Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne or Machiavelli. I also enjoy the games Bonanza and 'You're bluffing' (Kuhhandel).
Betrayal At House On The Hill could be the collaborative game with ghosts. The Yogscast have played it on Sherlock Hulmes' channel. There's also a Geek and Sundry video, too.
You would probably really like Codename. It’s a team game, and it’s super fun
Yes I love it! There’s also a picture version and an adults only naughty version!!!
HIGHLY recommend Codenames!! Truly delightful and always different depending on who's playing
Definitely play the Resistance! It has nothing to do with Star wars. Its social deduction game where you play in two teams against each other with hidden roles. So you need to lie your way through it and work together with your other teammates. It's great :)
Ooooh so like a proper games night game! Kind of like mafia/werewolves?
@@morehannah yes, very much like werewolves/mafia! It's usually a lot of fun :D
Resistance is one of my favorite games. I highly recommend it!
More Hannah yes absolutely!!! My friends and I are massive fans of werewolf, secret hitler and especially the resistance!! It’s an amazing game :)
Resistance might be my favorite game ever. It’s SO much fun (I prefer it to werewolf/vampire/mafia tbh, but it’s the same idea).
Hannah: "It [DnD] seem like a big commitment."
Me, at the same time literally going throught like over 100 pages of DM notes: Play it! Play it!
Agreed!
Just play Magic instead. It’s very time efficient, and the only commitment is all your money.
You should find Dungeon master, who have already played the game and can lead the game, so that it will go well.
@@jacobd1984 Magic is nice, but totally different than DnD. They are not really comparable. Both great. I especially like Magic, because I have friend that have plenty of cards. We select series of cards and make "baggages" from those that contain similar amounts of rare cards etc. than baggages sold. Great fun to make fresh decks and then test playing with each other. ^_^
“What is this?!”
Big potato game called ‘ok play’. Basically connect 5 (rather than 4) where you place the tiles next to each other to try to get 5 in a row
It's so good! I love ok play. Which they actually rebranded to a different equally dumb name called Cinco Linko.
My recommendations :
- *LOVE LETTERS* (16 cards, 3-4 players, 2 minutes game)
- brave rats (2 players, 2 minutes games)
- 7 wonders (strategy - build a city and one of the 7 wonders and get rich, up to 7 players except if you get the extentions)
- *7 WONDERS DUEL* (same concept, 2 players)
- smallworld (strategy - the world is too small, kill populations and invade territories, up to 5 players)
- *SKULL* (bluff and bets, breaks friendships and trust. Genius. Up to 6 players)
Oohhh and Evolution ! You basically are animal species and you need to evolve and survive. Really funny !
Love Letter is great! :D
I used to think it was “bored games” because you play them when you’re bored it wasn’t until like 2/3 years ago i realised it was BOARD
Drunk stoned or stupid is great fun! There are two different ways of playing, normal rules you don't want the card, and 'I just met you' rules you do want the card, there's basically a debate section where you have to argue your case for who deserves the card, but yes it is much more fun with people you know really well😄
Also red flags and exploding kittens are so much fun! They're both card games, and cluedo is one of my all time favourite games!
Secret Hitler is amazing highly recommend. I've played with all the levels of equipment from writing out and making everything myself, to the really nice box you can get for it with wooden plaques. So as nice as the box is you get the same experience printing out all the parts, only thing to watch out for is cutting out the secret roles can lead to visible differences but envelopes or little bags can help against this.
a few other recommendations
ticket to ride Europe - super well known game not played all the maps but Europe's defiantly the best I've seen (good screwing over potential)
mysterium - sort of combo between dixit and cluedo, one person is a ghost that gives others picture clues to solve there murder only one of which is correct. mostly cooperative with voting to add some competitiveness and make it a bit of a race.
Splendor - a more standard board game with four players where you collect gems to buy cards that act as more gems to get points (also really fun to screw people over)
cockroach poker - very simple game lying game, good with medium groups
and quick note on deduction games ones like secret Hitler and werewolf are more focused on the interaction between players hence why you don't need much equipment for them, there are also games like coup/mascaraed that are more structured (and have very nice art) and about swapping roles and calling people out. All have deduction lying elements but are a very different feel. (i would put resistance in a weird place in the middle) coup plays less people than mascaraed but both have expansion that can increase player numbers.
you can also gets apps for playing games like werewolf/one night werewolf
i'm quite a big board game nerd so i could go on but i will stop there before this gets even longer!
(i spent way to long writing this)
happy holidays!
Thank you for your recommendations 😄
I looooove secret hitler! I played it round a friends and it was so good 😂 and ticket to ride!
I love this Mary Kate and Ashley kid detective look
I don’t know who Big Potato is but I’m just imagining Lily’s Dad from How I Met Your Mother.
I looooved pass the pigs when I was a kid omg!!
My family is really into board/card games, our fave is Time's Up! Basically it gives you a bunch of cards with names and you play multiple rounds trying to guess the names. The rounds get harder each time but it becomes really fun because you start developing inside jokes about the cards to get people to guess them as the game goes on
Pandemic is so much fun! When I first played we thought you had to find a cure and eradicate all diseases-not the right way to play. It was so hard! Then we realized you only need to find cures for the diseases. After trying to do the previous tasks, it was so much easier, but still stressful. Its a great collaborative and strategy game.
Betrayal at House on the Hill is an AMAZING collaborative game. It is never the same game! You need quite a large table or floor space since you make the 'board game' by exploring a house. I've played it tons of times and literally have never had a repeat. And there are a couple of expansions too which make it even more fun! That was is great to play with a group of people. I highly recommend that one!
I just recently played Catan for the fist time. I really enjoyed it! Still haven't won a game yet, but I keep playing lol
For two players I would recommend the board game '7 Wonders Duel' which also have a cool 'Gods' expansion. Me and my girlfriend Noa (which is a fan of your channel) play it for an year already and still love it. Also 'Patchwork' and 'Odin's ravens' are fun games designed for two people.
There are too many good board games for more than two players, I will recommend my favorite: 'Terraforming mars'. The game got several playing mechanics and the theme is cool.
A game i would recommend is Clank! (with the ! at the end)
You sneak into the underground realm of a dragon to steal stuff. You try not to die when you're still underground.
It's different from other similar concepts in the fact that you all will die 100%. The first player to exit the castle starts the 3 turns countdown, at the end of which everyone gets killed by the dragon. People underground will be buried with the stolen treasures, the others will give the treasures to their heirs.
Also, I love that you are planning on doing a board game clear out already. My partner and I have about 100 board games. 😳 We have a 5x5 kallax shelf and the rule is, all the games (sans like 2) have to fit on the shelf. And we have had to do multiple clearouts to make room for new ones we wanted.
I recommend Betrayal At The House On The Hill! it's a team(ish) game, where you all explore and build a haunted house and then when a certain thing happens you begin the 'haunt' (of which there are like 50 or something crazy, depending on various factors) and one player has to turn against all the rest so it's like one person against everyone else as a team while the team try and escape the house and you all have secret motives and special items you can collect etc. It's complicated but super fun, and if you play it you 100% have to have spooky music on in the background!
Love Settlers of Catan and Munchkin too! Recently, I've been playing a lot of Scrabble with my flatmates, which has been great fun. We all speak different languages, so it's a great learning experience all around and lots of fun!
jackbox games is really cool. it’s actually an electronic game thing and you buy it off steam then cast it to your tv. it’s got like five games included and everyone can join by going to jackbox.tv on their phones and putting in a code, kind of like kahoot. i have jackbox party pack six im pretty sure and it is hilarious. my favourite is “quiplash” where you’re given a funny question you have to answer and everyone votes for their favourite. there’s also a game called “trivia murder party” where you have to answer questions correctly or you die. it’s so much fun and would 100% recommend to anyone
spring water for your refreshment yes I love this game!
This video is so cool! I really love board games and have been wanting to play more, it’s something that my family and I used to play when I was a kid and have fond memories of it. I feel like as I got older I stopped playing board games but been wanting to get back into it, they’re always loads of fun.
I have been looooving Some Lovely Board Games over on Sammy’s channel, and this video from you yesterday made me think I wanted to grow my board game collection, so when I saw The Chameleon at the bookshop today I totally splurged and got it (+2 others) 😅❤️.
I have a bunch of boardgames! and no friends to play them with! 😂
I just moved to Valencia, Spain so I don't know anyone here to play with. All my friends (I do have a few) are all around the world♥️
“[the tree] doesn’t have sex toys on it like it did last year”
This is probably the least surprising statement from this whole the entire video **cough channel cough**
Yes more boardgame video's! So much fun! Dungeons and dragons is a commitment, but very fun and it makes sure that you and your friends have regular d&d and boardgame nights - so big bonus! If you like cards against humanity, de harry potter version is fun (muggles against humanity) and joking hazard.
Recommendations:
Colt Express - you're all train robbers and it's played on a 3D train! It's very cool.
Battle on Skullfyre Mountain - silly fun card game where you cast spells at each other and it's great
Space Alert - so it's a kinda stressful communication coop game but SO fun. I would say it's a bit like Overcooked in style.
Time's Up - good charadey quizzy game
Recommendations: Betrayal at House on the Hill (i think this might be the haunted house one you were thinking of?) or as my friends call it, "Spooky House". you have to play it a *lot* to get a game that's even remotely similar to a previous time, since there are different "haunts" that can happen depending on which card is pulled in which room to trigger it, and even if you get the same haunt, the layout of the mansion is going to be different.
Red Dragon Inn: premise is like you're a dnd party post-adventure hanging out in a tavern trying to fuck each other over. if you run out of money you get kicked out of the tavern (aka lose), and if your drunkenness level surpasses your stamina/health/something like that level then you're too drunk and you also get kicked out of the tavern. each player picks a character and each character has their own deck of cards that say what they can do (ie the thief has plenty of cards that let them cheat during gambling rounds, but the priestess has cards that let her "heal" herself aka sober up a bit). so you can get any of the editions (other than the single-character ones) and start playing, or you can mix multiple editions to get more players and characters. my friend has had the second one for a while and my mom just got me the 4th one for christmas which has a pirate lady on the front so i'm very excited
Well of course, why would anyone ever get rid of a crowbar. An essential tool
Exactly
I always play “War” (the board game) with my friends, and though it has created many a heated argument it is always tons of fun! Highly recommend.
I also really enjoy “Codenames” and “Dixit”.
Love this vid Hannah!
So, ironically, you already sort of have Secret Hitler, in that you have The Resistance, which does not actually deal with Star Wars but is a hidden role social deduction game very similar to Secret Hitler (and Werewolf, and Mafia, and and and... they're all kind of the same game with tweaks?), so if you're looking for that sort of experience give The Resistance a go and see if you like it. 😉
Betrayal at House on the Hill is probably the cooperative game you were discussing, it's a classic haunted house adventure where one player may turn out to be a traitor by the end and it's pretty great. If you feel like it'd be your thing there's also "Betrayal: Legacy", which is the same game but you play it over 13 pre-set story instances during which you permanently change the board, tear up cards, write on things - basically you modify your copy of the game through playing it until it's not quite like anybody else's copy. Neat stuff.
Oooo, also look for "Ghost Stories", which is purely cooperative (no traitor) and also a ton of spooky fun about up to 4 movie-trope martial arts monks trying to defend a village from ghosts.
Fun stuff! Thanks for taking us through the collection. 🙂
My dad is OBSESSED with board games, so prepare for an explosion of great suggestions coming your way;
- Skull
- Codenames (v similar to chameleon)
- Wingspan
- Ticket to Ride
- Barrenpark
- Flamme rouge
Could you describe to me Wingspan, barrenpark and flamme rouge ? Just like the type of game and the concept in few words ? Thanks !!
Few things:
1. I now desperately want you to play dnd and make some videos about your character/campaign and stuff
2. Munchkin in its basic format is essentialy a parody of dnd, and it has lots of expansions with different themes, if you like it I highly suggest getting either basic expansion (that add more cards and sometimes mechanics) or some themed packs
3. I absolutely adore pandemic, me and my beastie play it a lot together, I would totally recommend getting it
Current favorite games: Betrayal at House on the Hill (I think that's the one you mentioned with the haunted house, because I dunno what else it could be), Endeavor, and Dice Throne! I got Betrayal Legacy last year for Christmas from my fiancé and it is BRILLIANT. Dice Throne is insanely well balanced and plays a bunch of different ways depending on the character combo and number of players, and Endeavor is very well made and super fun to conquer the world! Also, D&D is awesome and you should TOTALLY try it!
For Christmas we bought the family a game called 221b Baker Street, which we thought was Sherlock-themed Cluedo but is actually so much more complex than that. It takes a bit more time to learn but it’s so worth it. Essentially you travel around London collecting clues but the cases are individually written full narratives and the clues relate to the location you pick
If you don't want to dive into Dungeons and Dragons but still want to play something with a D&D atmosphere, I recommend Red Dragon Inn, a game where your D&D party has finished a day's adventuring and retired to the Inn to drink and gamble away the spoils. It's tons of fun, and there are an absurd number of character expansions which all play very differently.
We are obsessed with board games! Recommendations are; Ticket to Ride (a classic) Forbidden Island (fun co-op), Forbidden Desert (next in series co op), Love Letters (quick card game), Takenoko (cute pandas!), Carcassonne (classic) and Kodak's (adorable tree spirirs). Enjoy!
Omg I’ve only just started the video and I’m buzzing. My kind of content!
Woooo!!
Ticket to ride - start with Europe, if you like that, Germany and also Rails and Sails 😉
Ahh we love boardgames, we could play them all day haha! This was such a lovely video! You mentioned a lot that we've never played before, we'll have to try some of them out! Two that we HAVE to recommend to you if you haven't heard of them are The Great Dalmuti and Codenames!
The Great Dalmuti is a card game for 4-8 players and basically each player has a role that's part of a hierarchy and how well you do on one round dictates what role you'll have for the next round. The players at the top get to control the players at the bottom and it's a great time!
Codenames is a boardgame that involves 2 teams of players who have a grid of words in front of them and they have to guess which words are theirs based off of hints that the respective team's spy master gives them. It requires a bit of creative thinking and it's really competitive!
Happy Hanukkah, Hannah!
I want to recommend Dixit which is a super fun game with BEAUTIFUL art! It is a bit like some of the jackbox games or almost apples to apples. I also love Codenames, which is big fun with a large group!
This is come up a lot! I looked up some videos of it on TH-cam - looks gorgeous!
@@morehannah be sure to find a version with cards you like or get an extension though. Some of the versions of dixit are really ugly and not inspiring ^^
One caution I'd have with Dixit is that because it is a game where part of it is trying to have some people get what you're saying and some not, if your group has a person or people who often feel left out because others are communicating in in-jokes or personal shorthand, this can encourage that if people take the easy route and always go for making the references that they aren't going to get in order to win points. We played this game in an intergenerational group and it was not fun for at least one person because of the way that it highlighted otherness. This is not to say that it can't be played with in-group/out-group players, but people can't be playing optimising just for points, and the game doesn't encourage that.
Betrayal at House on the Hill might be the haunted one you were talking about! It's amazing and one of my favorite games to play with friends. It's collaborative, but then at the end someone becomes a traitor during the "haunt" and needs to plot against everyone with different goals depending on what scenario it ends up being!
I also highly recommend codenames and codename pictures, which are games where a clue master attempts to give a one word clue along with a number to denote the number of cards that are related to that clue- but there is a kill card where if your teammate selects it, you lose automatically. Can either be super easy or super difficult depending on the board and who you're teamed up with. Love it!
That haunted house one you mentioned at the end is Betrayal at the House on the Hill! I was going to suggest it before you said that, it's one of my favorites. It's a good like, entry level of more complex board games for new people. Also I recently discovered there's a Betrayal Legacy and I need it.
Hannah! This was awesome!!!
Dobble is fab!! The Harry Potter one is particularly fun!
Pass the pigs is a buried memory I didn't know I had
Me too! Thanks.
so many recommendations! Pandemic is super fun, especially the legacy version, but you'd want to try the regular version first. Mysterium, Dead of Winter, Sushi Go Party, On Tour, Raiders, and Planet are some of my current faves that come to mind that aren't Kickstarter exclusive. Secret Hitler is very fun but very similar to The Resistance (it is different enough, I have both). Codenames is another fun one and they do have a Harry Potter version you may enjoy. Sending you lots of love!!
Betrayal is the cooperative haunted house game and it is AMAZING. So good.
I used to love pass the pigs. I played that when I was little!
The starter set for dnd is very fun, I highly reccomend it, ideally you'd need either a few full days fairly close to each other or create a regular slot every week/two weeks with a few hours to play through the whole campaign. Zombiecide is excellent, fair warning its massive when you start getting expansion packs, my friend has a few and its hellish trying to find space in a student house. Also you have to paint all the models, which is fun but takes a long time. Secret Hitler can be played with normal playing cards! We've used it as a drinking game before.
Would definitely recommend you play The Resistance! It's not to do with Star Wars at all :) Pass the Pigs is great! We recently bought the inflatable one to play outdoors in the summer.
I'd say my top picks, out of games that weren't in your video (unless I missed them!) would be;
- Qwirkle ~ I play this a lot with family who aren't so into boardgames, as it's pretty simple to explain... it's about grouping colours and symbols on tiles together - probably best with 2-5 people
- Tsuro of the Seas ~ like the original Tsuro (pathbuilding based) but has an additional element to it - dragons! Also gets bonus points for me for having such beautiful artwork! - probably best with 3-4 people
- Coup ~ one of my absolute favourites! Involves a lot of bluffing, bribing etc - probably best with 5-6 people. Would recommend getting the Reformation expansion pack too, as the additional element makes it more interesting
- Codenames ~ such a good party game! You work in teams and give one word clues to try and find all your agents before the other team does. Works best with 6-8 people, with an even number being the most fair
- Dixit ~ again, gets bonus points for having amazing artwork. One of my favourite games to play with creative people. A mix of storytelling, voting and a hint of deception. Probably best with 5-6 people
- Gloom ~ card-based game. Each player has a family, and you go through the game playing events to make the members of your family as unhappy as possible, before killing them, whilst also playing cards to make other people's characters happier! It sounds pretty morbid, but it's a great one to play with people who love getting into the storytelling aspect! I'd say it's best with 3-4 people
Highly recommend boss monster for a fun and fast game. It's card based, and based on old style 8-bit video games. You are a boss monster and have to build a dungeon using cards to attract adventurers. You build the dungeon in such a way as to beat the adventurers and collect there souls. The first to 10 souls wins.
Seeing your videos always brightens my day, I hope you had an amazing Christmas!! 🥰❤️
Watching in 2021, anyone else? Watching this during the pandemic is so different. Like you even mentioned you wanted to play pandemic haha
I'd recommend 'mapominoes' (you basically redesign the map of Europe/Africa/Asia - depending on which version you have - by playing cards of each country) and 'backpacker' which is another card game where you travel around the world and various things happen that you have to deal with and then get home at the end!
Truth bombs is actually really good!! It's more than just a game made by youtubers, you can tell they put lots of work into it and it's hilarious
I love Sequence! Dan would like Exploding Kittens and Unstable Unicorns. Also Yahtzee is still amazing as always
We call the Scrawl concept Paper Telephone! It’s SO fun, but you really do need a group. 💛
My favorite tabletop games are Dixit and Anomia.
With Dixit, you have a set of cards with surreal art on them. The active player gives a clue to their card (a keyword or sentence, sing a song, interpretive dance...) and then every other player selects a card from their hand that they think goes with the clue. Then everyone has to guess which is the right card. You get points based on how many guessed correctly.
Anomia is a word game where you get paired with another player by random draw and the first one to call out an item from the category on the other person’s card gets the point. Everyone I’ve ever played this with swears they’re never playing it with me again 😂
My favorite boardgames are: Quarriors, Bang!, Munchkin, Exploding kittens and Snake Oil.
To top of a board game night we usually play jackbox party pack games. They're great! :)
You and Dan must try Dominion and the expansion pack that can go with it is Prosperity. There's lots of other expansion packs, but I think that Prosperity is the most fun. It's basically a deck building game and if Dan likes to screw other players, then he will like it cause there's ways to do that. Anyway, would recommend! We are also forever wanting to do DandD and yet it does seem like such a big commitment that I don't know when/if we will. Cheers, Hannah!
There are ways to do one shots with d&d (one afternoon or so), but you might need to find a friend that know how to do the dungeon master. Your love for this game will probably depend on him/her.
Would recommend though ! It really nice once you get to it :)
Dominion is amazing I have the Alchemy pack
Dominion is amazing, my boyfriend introduced me to it last year!
The resistance is so good. It is about deception and deduction. I like the hipster expansion of Munchkin.
Also recommendations:
The bloody inn (murdering guests from your inn)
Wingspan (hosting pretty birds)
Five tribes (lots of meeples)
Azul (making tiles)
Pandemic (try to prevent 4 deceases from spreading)
Photosynthesis (abstract game of growing trees)
Sushi Go (just sushi)
Machi koro (be a property mogul)
Stone Age (develop your own town)
Whitechapel (murder mystery chase scene)
Dead of winter (the walking dead in a game)
Burgle bros (basically oceans 11)
Also also: D&D is amazing for goofing around with friends.
My friends and I played what's basically Scrawl before! I call it Telephone Pictionary because it's like a combination of those two games. We did it so it was a stack of paper that got passed around (write a sentence on the top sheet, pass it, put the top sheet to the back, draw, etc) so at the end we had these strings of paper with ridiculous phrases and drawings and the good ones have been our dining room decor for a few years now
That haunted house game you mentioned at the end is possibly Mysterium which I highly recommend. Pandemic is another good cooperative game. As for good party games, my go games are Codenames and Telestrations.
Linkee is the best !! Great to play with people of all ages as the questions are so varied
Don't Get Got is a blast! Me and my partner do a two player game of it anytime we're doing chores around the house
The haunted house game might be Betrayal at the house on the hill. It has loads of different stories and monsters within the game and the board changes so it plays differently every time. Great game for Halloween
Highly recommend Dobble! I have the Harry Potter version and it's the cutest!
I loveCatan, Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary and Taboo, all faves with my family.
I think you would like "stap op", it's only in Dutch but it is derived from "tours".
You have to make tours but of course you can puncture the holes in the tires of another player, you can run out of gas and of course you can make other people get in a collision.
It's perfect for building up some steam, shouting or whatever you and Dan do while playing games.
It's so much fun ruining someone's game by just playing an out of gasoline card just after they threw away all their gasoline cards.
"Dobble" is so much fun! :D I can also recommed "Legends Of Andor" and "Pandamic Legacy" for cooperative games and "Werewords" as semi-cooperative game. :)
give d&d a try! it doesn't have to be a campaign with a capital CAMPAIGN; it can be a one-shot (there are a loads of examples of liveplay one-shots--i'd recommend critical role as likely the easiest to find?)
or, y'all could try something like lasers & feelings first to see if the idea of rpgs are even something that gets y'all excited (it's free: www.onesevendesign.com/laserfeelings/. and, it's inspired by a double-clicks song)
tempting fate on saving throw show (youtube & twitch) is an entire liveplay series that's just different skins of lasers and feelings
part of the joy of d&d--really, all rpgs--is that it can be as much or as little as you want it to be
Omg yeees. I totally agree
On the subject of other tabletop roleplaying games and Critical Role, in a bunch of Critical Roll's one-shots, they are playing other games, some of which have much lower time investment to learn rules (Honey Heist has literally one page of rules IIRC) but still have a lot of scope for role-playing and fun if you're interested in role-playing with something other than D&D.
I feel like Hannah would love DnD
1. you look super cute!
2. I love this community- the fact that you can post a video titled ALL MY BOARDGAMES and we're all like HECK YEAH
3. I bought headhackers for Christmas and we enjoyed it but me and my sister were not as good at it as we thought we would be 😂
4. We also got one called Awkward Storyteller, and one called Labyrinth and they were both very different but really good fun!
Betrayal of House on the Hill is the MOST amazing board game. Can be collaborative, but is HOURS of fun and almost always different each time you play. Such a brilliant party game.
One of my boyfriend and I’s games that we’ve found that we loved (and pretty much every friend we’ve played it with has gone out and bought it for themselves) is Boss Monster. It’s really really fun, feels a bit complicated at first but once you get the hang of it it’s not that bad, and the expansions have all been really great additions to it!
Some of these have been mentioned already, but hell, going around demoing games is literally what I do, so I gotta chime in :)
Betrayal at House on the Hill that you mentioned (if not by name) is great. There was another comment about it, I wrote some stuff there but forgot to change my username so it doesn't actually say my name. While one of the depictions of the playable characters borders on problematic (like any depiction of anything even close to Romani people in American fiction, since they seem to think that the G-slur refers to a mythical creature and is not a slur directed at real people. Sorry, save rant for another day), the representation is great. The figurines for the characters are dark-skinned, and there's as many women as men among the characters, quite the rarity, I assure you.
Dead of Winter. Cooperative zombie survival. It's brilliant, especially the stand-alone expansion The Long Night. It asks the players to make difficult decisions like all good zombie fiction should, it's about prioritising killing zombies, gathering food, medicine, working together with people who have potentially incompatible goals (each player leads one of the sub-factions of the survivor camp, with their own hidden objectives in addition to the public goal of the colony). Lots of mature themes, horror, suspense, negotiation, potentially bluffing and betrayal. And the game has good representation, with women making up more than half the cast (I think the numbers break down to 14 men, 15 women, and 1 escaped chimp or something), at least in the expansion. In the original the women are fewer and they are depicted in rather dainty poses (and I think they managed to cram one of those stereotypical Romani fortunetellers into this one as well), but racial diversity is pretty decent :)
Dixit, mentioned below, is an incredibly beautiful game full of evocative artwork that's based on storytelling, bluffing, improvising and figuring out what hints, clues, and references work on the people you're playing with. Nothing more to say, really. It's brilliant. (Player characters are rabbits, artwork features humans on about half the cards, a vast majority of them masculine, but in a much less problematic sense than in most games. Can only speak for the original though)
Codenames, also mentioned below. Very minimalistic design, but evocative nonetheless, can be scaled almost infinitely upwards in terms of number of players. Lots of guessing, frustration, tense moments and trying to logic things out. Even better if you make an event out of it, with the spymasters dressed up a little. (Every character card is doublesided with a face coded masculine on one side and feminine on the other, except for one card that is left ambiguous due to being cloaked in shadows, thumbs up)
People really like Ticket to Ride. I'm not extremely fond of it myself, but what do I know, I don't even like Catan. Everyone competes to build a train network (just ignore the story in the included booklet, no one reads it, and it's much worse than everyone's headcanon) with hidden destinations (you might need to create a line between Chicago and New York, or London and Stockholm (depending on version)) and backstabbing (if someone figures out you're trying to connect two cities, they might steal the only station leading there).
Timeline seems like it would fit you given your penchant for history. A very simple, portable and minimalistic card game. Start with one card on the board depicting a historical event, with the year printed below. Take a card from your hand (with just events) and place it before or after. If you're correct, leave it on the board, leaving the next person to have to place before, after or in between the two events there now. Lots of variants (the Star Wars one is sadly a very cheap cashgrab, where you just place frames from the first movies) with different themes like music, inventions, British history, and if you ever find yourself with some extra time on your hands, you could probably make a version yourself with history of sex to play with friends :)
Dobble you should definitely pick up, great to just have lying in your bag as an icebreaker. Takes five seconds to teach people how to play, and even people who identify as non-gamers and are intimidated by even something like Fluxx will be cheering and hollering in no time :)
Last, I have to make two heavier suggestions. I'm almost contractually obligated to try to get you to play Magic the Gathering. It's got a lot of reputation as impossibly complicated and expensive and that's even a point of pride among some players, but it's only as expensive and complicated as players want it to be. There are several products that function pretty much like board games, out of the box, no collecting required.
And the Legendary series. It's cooperative (mostly) story-heavy games, based on lots of different franchises. Marvel heroes? Check. Marvel villains? Check. Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Firefly? Alien? Predator? Big trouble in Little China? Check, check, check, check and check. They function almost identically, and are even compatible with each other (yes, you can have Ellen Ripley team up with Black Widow and take on vampires). Among all games I've played, this series is the best at making the players feel like part of a story, of ratcheting up tension and raising the stakes as the game goes on. A little more complicated, a little more setup, and more moving pieces, but very rewarding to sit down a full group, pick a favourite Aliens movie, try to make it out alive, and pray that no one on the team is secretly working for Weyland-Yutani.
This is already WAY too long, but like I said, this is what I do, I travel around to schools, hospitals, conventions, and teach and demo games, so I just had to share :)
Silver Almerlöv thank you so much for your recommendations 😄
The Haunted House game is probably Betrayal at House on the Hill, which is an amazing semi-collaborative board game, with the possibility of teammate betrayal and so many possibilities for endings. I recommend Burglar Bros. and Pandemic for collaborative games. I love the Catan Expansion Cities & Knights, it adds a layer of complexity to the original that I love
I havent finished the video so maybe you have it - but an AMAZING game is Betrayal at House on the Hill !! You explore a haunted house and then someone is the traitor and you get a different haunting each time you play!
You need to try: Dixit! It’s such a great game!
Oooh will check it out!
I love Dixit! I was about to recommend it as well!
Yes, Dixit is great. But you need at least 3, better 4 and more players. One good thing about it is you can play it at a party because people can join and leave the game each round if they want to.
Yees ! And if you like Dixit, you might also like Mysterium. It's a collaborative game where one of the players is "the ghost" and the others have to find how they have been murdered. To do that, the ghost gives the players cards (dixit type cards) and they have to guess what he means.
Kind of a mix between cluedo and dixit
Alyssia thank you :)
The sock game and telestrations are our Christmas family favourites
Dungeons and Dragons is very good but if you're starting off without having played before maybe get one of the modules for it (pre-done story) or a DM(dungeon master) who has played before :)
That's what I'd say too. Also try to do a one shot for the first time toi see how you like it and to be able to build a character knowing how to play the second time ^^
Oh yes Munchkin is one of my favorites and as a child I loved Boggle so Clickbait sounds great. My recommendations (I think they come in an english version) I absolutely love Catan the Duell, it´s just for two and a bit more strategic than the standard Catan board game (maybe more fun for Dan, because you can mess around with the other person more if you want to. My favorite game of all times is Carcassonne (the basic version is very simple) but there are many many additions for it it to expand and change it up, so it becomes this huge game with endless varieties and you can play for hours.
Highly recommend playing the resistance! Am not aware of a Star Wars element, but I could just be missing it. Definitely sounds like one Dan will love as its all about messing with the other players by trying to make people suspect them and not you or your teammates. Results in lots of fun arguments!
I got the 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Detective Game for Christmas! And you can play it competitively with a bigger group, or co-operatively with 2 of you. And it's great fun!! You have to solve mysteries by finding clues etc :) xx
Terriaforming Mars is probably one of my favorite games! Also Clank, I highly recommend both!
Colour brain is good one! Especially for people who aren't like IN to board games, it's quite easy to play
I love the game "The Game", you play together against the game, the rules are simple but it's really fun.
I second Dungeons and Dragons! But if you want a quick RPG to do as a one shot, then I'd recommend either 10 candles or Night Witches!
I really like Dobble, I have great memories involving this boardgame. Also, Dixit is a fantastic boardgame !
Yes! I also played Pass the Pigs as a child!!
My partner and i are obsessed with the game unspeakable words, it was on an episode of tabletop on the geek and sundry channel... holy cow it’s so fun, we’ve played it like 15 times since we got it for Christmas, highly recommended!
that 'haunted house' game could be Mysterium and it's GREAT
Been looking for good game recommendations that aren’t the obvious so this is perfect!
My family and I played Colour Brain for the entirety of Christmas and Boxing Day. Every time the game finished, one of us would yell ‘ONE MORE GAME’. It’s brilliant.
I got linkee for Christmas and we've been playing it so much, it's great!! Would recommend
I love board games so much!! Co-op games are super fun, there is a series of co-op board games that start with the word forbidden that I like a lot. The three are Forbidden Island, Forbidden Desert and Forbidden Skies. Each one is harder and a little more complicated than the one before it but they are all super fun. I find myself playing Forbidden Desert the most.
Also another super fun co-op game is called Sentinels of the Multiverse. In SOTM you play as a team of super heroes and are fighting a super villain in a given environment. Each player selects a hero to play out of a number of premise decks each of which is thematically different and play very differently too, then you select a villain which also all play differently and can even change the goal of the game slightly, and then an environment which doesn’t fight for either side but messes with what’s happening. The environment and the villain play by themselves just through the mechanics of the game so it’s completely co-op and one of my favorite games ever.
colour brain is so good! i’ve played the disney version with my family so much over christmas
Dungeons and dragons is a commitment BUT also a great opportunity to get together with friends week after week and have some AMAZING fun. Recommend!
You're wearing the up cycled (not) t-shirt. It looks amaziiiiiiiing!!!
DnD is the best! I love playing it with the guys, it’s how I met my husband haha.
I think the game you are referring to at the end is Betrayal at the House on the Hill it is super creepy and fun! Have a great day Hannah!
My best friend made his own strategic boardgame and it's so much fun to play! We're larpers and the game takes place in the same universe as our larps. Only down side is that it's HUGE! It can't fit on anyone's kitchen table so we have to rent a venue every time we play it.
If you like Catan, you will probably enjoy games such as Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne or Machiavelli.
I also enjoy the games Bonanza and 'You're bluffing' (Kuhhandel).
Betrayal At House On The Hill could be the collaborative game with ghosts. The Yogscast have played it on Sherlock Hulmes' channel. There's also a Geek and Sundry video, too.