It's Critter Time!

Didn’t see any threads specifically about board games so thought i’d make one to gush about them.

Last year i essentially stopped played video games entirely in favor of physical board games and spent a significant amount of time building a small community to play em locally, took **forever** but was absolutely worth it. Having a game take up physical space and be mine, not some license that can be taken, is such a nice feeling.

And the fact that i gotta interact with the pieces to do anything also helps a lot, especially given that i tend to disassociate a lot. Has definitely helped with that and let me communicate better with ppl.

Am very glad i started diving deeper into board games, theres a LOT of interesting ones.

Atm im gearing up for nemesis retaliation and playing thru kinfire. Am extremely excited to keep playing em :3

I'm not the biggest ever on playing board games but if you asked me to sit down and play a game of carcassone I would almost always say yes. Oceans is also very fun. I also really really like fantasy realms but I always get very grumpy after losing super hard which I usually do.

Love love love board gaming, I'm not too well versed on all the new games that are coming out but it's really cool to see tons of stuff being made by the minute. As such, we're really easy going when it comes to trying new stuff that people recommend. - Finn (fae/she)

Inject Terraforming Mars in to my veins.

Ticket to Ride is my cardboard poison of choice. Just a game I never get tired of in basically any of its variations

Did you know that Bejeweled had a board game once upon a time?
Instead of earning points, this game's objective was to earn colored chips. You'd get 1 chip for matching 3 gems, 2 chips for matching 4, 3 chips for matching 5, and an extra chip if any of those gems were Power Gems (with glitter embedded in them). The goal was to get three chips in each of three different colors.

It's actually not terrible, tbh

DarkOverord wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 7:17 pm Inject Terraforming Mars in to my veins.

This one is funny because my partner and had an overnight at a friend's house and I got a terrible headache and sat out when they played it for the first time, and now that game has become my excuse to sit out and work on other things while I'm there so I'll probably never play this perfectly good board game.

Last few board games we played there included:

Great Western Trail - A game about selling cows across the country. You upgrade railways to ship farther and also construct buildings on empty plots that let you perform different actions on them like hiring workers, going to the cow market, or just setting up a toll for others to pay when they pass. I'm terrible at it!!! It's also got some alternate versions set in Argentina and I think New Zealand (where it's sheep).

Quacks (of Quedlinburg) - This one apparently got a rebranding as just Quacks now and a not quite as appealing new art style, but afaik the game remains the same. Each player has a bag of ingredients they pull from to brew a "potion". Some of the ingredients will cause an explosion if you get to many and ruin your batch. A very quick to learn and play game about pressing your luck.

Tales of the Arthurian Knights - For awhile we played the older Tales of the Arabian Nights, while this new game has been in development hell for years and only recently finally came out. It's an odd game in that you're playing more to just weave a weird story for your character revolving around the Arthurian Legend than actually something you can really try to actively win. Travel around Brittania getting into little storybook encounters and deciding which skills you'll use to try and accomplish a goal. Sometimes you'll get in drinking contests with elves, or help a giantess rescue her child, or help Sir Mordred execute the queen of england. Just a lot of fun to see what happens, with enough rare events that there's always something new.

The older Arabian Nights is wildly swingy but feels like it has a lot more things that can happen. The slower pace though makes it tough to go back to. There's supposed to be a remake of it styled after Arthurian, though I wonder how well it'll work or if it will just mean cutting out a lot of events

Innovation - We just picked this one up this month. It's like the Civilization games' tech tree itself became the game mechanic. You play cards with various innovations throughout history ("Clothes", "Canals", "Steam Engine", "The Internet") which all have symbols on them and an action you can perform with them while you try to achieve points or unique achievements to win by having the best society. The card abilities get wilder and wilder as things progress. The actions you take are shared by other players that have access to the same resources (same or more of the actions symbol) as well as demands where you force players that have fewer of that symbol on their board to take.

Played it twice with just my partner which has been a lot of fun. Played it 4 player for the first time yesterday and it has some neat rules once you hit 4 players that allow people to pay a cost to opt out of things. Very chaotic!!

if we are talking about boardgames especially on a furry forum has anyone here played root?!?! its a deliciously complicated asymetric stradegy game where you play as different cute animal factions! basically everyone is winning the same game by their own different rules its very unique and cool for a wargame. it was my gateway drug into a lot of deeper board games. im always itching to play more root.

Sugar Meowth wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:36 pm

DarkOverord wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 7:17 pm Inject Terraforming Mars in to my veins.

Quacks (of Quedlinburg) - This one apparently got a rebranding as just Quacks now and a not quite as appealing new art style, but afaik the game remains the same. Each player has a bag of ingredients they pull from to brew a "potion". Some of the ingredients will cause an explosion if you get to many and ruin your batch. A very quick to learn and play game about pressing your luck.

quacks and innovation are both major vouches from me. I have a lot of good memories of both. quacks in particular is a great game that you can really get any type of board gamer experience or not into!