![]() The bottom line is that these games are perfect for sitting around and having a good time at the table. Even Massive Darkness with the fantasy focused approach is close enough to fit the bill. There are several iterations of the formula – from the original release and its many expansions, to this medieval spin on it. Honestly, when it comes to Zombicide, pick your poison. As a relatively short two-player skirmish game, though, it’s much easier than you’d think to rope family members or roommates into playing with you. The game is not purely solo, but there is a fan expansion that allows you to play through a series of campaign elements alone. ![]() Easy to pick up, infinitely expandable, and an absolute wonder for Star Wars fans, X-Wing Miniatures has the kind of replayability every miniatures game wishes it could, without the rules overhead. Star Wars: X-Wing Miniaturesīased on the ubiquitous Flight Path system first introduced for tabletop war games, X-Wing Miniatures is the highest quality, most polished presentation of the formula. There are few experiences as satisfying as curling up with one of these mysteries on the couch at the end of a long day, attempting to outsmart the world-famous detective. Today, you can get the original box, plus two separate releases – Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures plus Carlton House & Queen’s Park.Įven if you’ve played these before, the new cases and high-quality production of the faux newspapers and case books are something to behold. It was actually decently hard to find before it was collected once again and reprinted in 2017 by Asmodee. The original Sherlock Holmes Consultant Detective was released in 1981 as a series of mysteries that were eventually packaged together as The Thames Murders and Other Cases. Combined with more than two dozen promos released by Portal Games since 2012 and you have a whole lot of game, brutally difficult at times, and highly replayable at all player counts. The expansion doubles the content (and you can go even further if you’re able to find the long out-of-print 2013 expansion for the original edition of the game). The base game alone comes with half a dozen scenarios and different difficulty settings to keep you busy for weeks. Ignacy Trzewiczek’s modern classic cooperative game, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, puts players in the shoes of castaways stuck on a desert island attempting to survive – sometimes against the weather, other times against mythical creatures in the woods. Each player count brings out new content, and it plays as smoothly at 1 or 2 as it does at the full player count of four (though some would disagree, so I recommend you do your own research on that front). It can take up to 4-5 hours to solve a single storyline, longer if you really explore it, or worse happen to lose and need to start over. What makes it a perfect “stuck in the house” game, though, is its ability to capture the imagination of its players for hours at a time. It had the misfortune of launching up against the juggernaut that was Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 and got lost in the shuffle somewhat, but five years later, it is ranked in the top 100 on BoardGameGeek and has eight expansions with new storylines, and has inspired more than two dozen fan expansions. T.I.M.E Stories upended how we think of storytelling in board games when it released in the fall of 2015. Want a different theme? This one was recently rereleased as Last Bastion, a medieval take on the formula. ![]() Antoine Bauza’s love letter to classic Chinese Ghost Stories, with captivating artwork from Piero is well worth tracking down if you want a brutal co-op game that doesn’t remind you of what’s going on outside. It is notorious as one of the hardest cooperative board games on the market, which means countless hours can be spent just trying to beat it.Īnd when you do? There are expansions. Ghost Stories is a 2008 cooperative board game in which players take on the roles of Taoist monks fighting off evil ghosts and minions from Hell in a Chinese Village. Welcome my friends, to a list of 10 games that will keep you busy for weeks – some of them singlehandedly. This is for the hardcore gamers out there who are stuck, may not get nearly as much gaming in as they once did, and are relatively new to the idea of solo or campaign gaming. We’ve talked at length about two-player board games before and games to play with your family, but this list is a little different. There are quite literally dozens of board games for every possible situation, including this one. We live in the golden age of board games. So board gaming doesn’t translate perfectly to weeks on end of isolation. You laugh, you swear, you touch a LOT of the same stuff. Unlike their couch-co-op cousins, video games, board games are inherently social. If you’re a board gamer, the answer is pretty simple – you play more board games, right? Not so fast.
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