What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

My favourite board game without a doubt is diplomacy but those games go for like 6+ hours and requires 7 people. Also everybody will be yelling at everybody at some point, so yeah probably not a good pick lol

Yeah. Diplomacy is fantastic...and we can strongly recommend that OP avoid it, anyway. Lol.

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

tldr; punish the poor fuckers getting out of jail. yay capitalism!

Wow. I never caught this. Considering the game's origin as an anti-capitalist teaching aid, I wonder if it's intentional.

[evilbit@lemmy.world]

If you like Horrified, you should try and track down the Ravensburger Wonder Woman game. Similar style but has an awesome mechanic to prevent coop quarterbacking.

Players strategize using a set of face up cards, but receive some face down cards afterward and have to program 3 actions using the whole set without communicating, adapting plans based on the newly revealed cards. Then each action plays out simultaneously for all players. It makes sense in action and is really quite elegant. I’m a big fan.

[cannedtuna@lemmy.world]

Downside is Catan is fucking boring. It’s one of those games where most of the time you’re stuck waiting for your next turn. 5-6 player add on just makes the game infinitely worse. Out of the expansions, Seafarers is nice since it gives you more to do, tho the standalone Starfarers is my go to pick if I gotta play Catan since it sorta has the best parts of all expansions plus random encounters and a more even start. I also like that in the 5-6 player mode 2 players take their turns simultaneously. Tho Catan still isn’t my go-to of board games.

[cyanideshotinjection@lemmy.world]

Ouhhh that's interesting. I love Horrified, it is one of my favourite game, but unfortunately I often end uo quaterbacking while I would prefer people sharing their thoughts. Will check this one out for sure, thanks for the suggestions !

[petroskoi@sopuli.xyz]

We've really enjoyed playing Slay The Spire on Tabletop Simulator. It's really fun to try and combine your abilites for the best results. And the roguelite makes it fun to play over and over again, just like the pc game. I would have already bought the physical game if it wasn't around 150€ here

[icastfist@programming.dev]

Battlestar Galactica boardgame. It's mostly cooperative, with the chance of having one or two players being traitors, but even without them, it's very unlikely the humans win in the end. It's expensive and needs a lot of table space to play, tho.

Captain Sonar can be an interesting choice, since it can be played turn-by-turn or in real time, with two teams of 1-4 each. If you working with your team doesn't create a sense of connection, I don't know what will.

[jtskywalker@lemm.ee]

I recently got Moonrakers, and it is 10/10 in my opinion. It can be competitive, and the rules certainly support backstabbing and sabotage, but it can be played very cooperatively. There is a winner, but you could even modify the rules to "try to get everyone to 10 prestige in x number of rounds" instead of first to 10 wins.

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

Arkham Horror 3rd Edition — NOT the LCG.

[evilbit@lemmy.world]

Ping me back with your thoughts if you find yourself a copy!

[toomanypancakes@lemmy.world]

Nemesis and Dead Cells are the board games doing that for me right now. Nemesis is semi cooperative, but there are full co-op objectives if you don't wanna play versus. Dead Cells is completely co-op. Both have resulted in good stories and experiences that stay with you after the game is done in my friend group.