Top 5 Board Games With Great Player Interaction

Board Game Hot Takes

Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 236

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Episode description

In Episode 238 we each talk about 5 board games that have the types and level of player interaction that we really like.

We also discuss a poll on whether complexity and price should have a correlation.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:44 Poll Time: Do you correlate complexity with price?

14:02 Player Interaction

19:52 Parks (Agricola)

25:35 Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Carnegie)

30:31 Clans of Caledonia (Gaia Project)

34:35 My Little Scythe (Wolves, Gaia Project, Sol: Last Days of a Star)

40:01 Stockpile (Pan Am, Lancaster, Modern Art)

45:24 Nidavellir (Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest)

48:54 Great Wall (Lancaster)

53:10 Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory

56:44 Troyes

1:01:00 Carcassonne (Barrage, Terraforming Mars)

1:07:44 Baseball Highlights 2045 (Blood Rage, Magic: The Gathering)

1:12:31 Rebirth (Tigris and Euphrates, Samurai, Blue Lagoon)

1:17:17 Fractal (Rising Sun, Blood Rage, Dune, Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, Battle for Rokugan)

1:25:34 Bruxelles 1893 (Lancaster, Barrage)

1:30:33 Final Thoughts

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