What makes Food Chain Magnate so enjoyable is the sheer scope of it: you can hire dozens of different kinds of employees, sell dozens of different kinds of food and use half a dozen types of ads, all with unique effects on your franchise, the customers in the city and your opponents.
This fun game is an investment, especially if you get the expansions, but it's one of the most enjoyable and unique takes on the strategy board game format in years. Star Wars: Imperial Assault largely avoids the role-playing elements of dungeon crawlers like Gloomhaven, opting instead for solid combat mechanics that pit the imperial player against the rebel players.
While different missions have different setups -- the modular board keeps things fresh -- players will get better as they understand the bonuses of certain groups, the ways they can play off their allies and the decisions of when to find cover and when to charge into battle. While the above games are my picks for the best games for their type, your favorites for game night will often come down to your particular taste.
I've played dozens of other great games in these categories, and if you're looking for something a little different, there are options. Some of the games above, like Gaia Project and Rising Sun, represent iterations on previous classics from the same developers -- Terra Mystica and Blood Rage , respectively. Terra Mystica is fantasy themed, rather than sci-fi themed, and has a slightly less demanding learning curve, too.
While I prefer Gaia Project because of how its increased mechanics add depth to the game, Terra Mystica might be a slightly more accessible first Eurogame. Rising Sun is a little further removed from its predecessor, the excellent Viking-themed Blood Rage. Rising Sun has slightly more chaotic conflict, between betrayals and a bluff-heavy combat system. If you prefer less direct conflict, and fewer social elements, Blood Rage might be the better game for you.
If you're looking for a two-player strategy game with a little less heft to it, 7 Wonders: Duel is a great alternative to Twilight Struggle. The gameplay integrates more creative gameplay mechanisms, so the learning curve is slightly steeper for newcomers, but once you're familiar, it's a perfect, short strategy game for two.
For good introductions into modern strategy games, I would be remiss not to mention Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne. While most people who catch the board game bug quickly move past these more basic economy and tile-laying games, they are great ways for people to be introduced to the genre. Finally, one of the most interesting board game mechanics in modern games is "worker placement. All of them are great options, if their themes speak more to you: Viticulture focuses players on cultivating a vineyard and making wine; Caverna positions you as a Dwarven cave farmer; A Feast for Odin turns you into a Viking leader, exploring, whaling, pillaging and more on their way to preparing a feast for the god Odin.
CNET editors pick the products and services we write about. When you buy through our links, we may get a commission. David Priest. Gaia Project Best Eurogame. Jump to details. See at Amazon. Rising Sun Best complex conquest game. Small World Best simple conquest game. Twilight Struggle Best 2-player strategy game.
Agricola Best farming game. The Castles of Burgundy Best simple strategy game. Food Chain Magnate Best complex strategy game. Star Wars: Imperial Assault Best dungeon-crawler. If you like a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi theme and find the usual tile-laying experience a little pedestrian, how would you like to frantically build a space ship out of tiles in real time — complete with guns, engines, crew and storage space? And then fly it through alien infested asteroid fields and watch as half and often more of it is smashed to bits or vaporised on the way to your destination?
Then Galaxy Trucker is the game for you. And while the flying bit takes longer than the tile-laying, ship-building bit the ship building is definitely where the real game is.
Alhambra players, 60 minutes. While most definitely a tile-laying game, Alhambra is the closest game on the list to being disqualified for having too much else going on. The game has many expansions, so if you start to tire of the base game there are loads of ways to add little complications to the mix. This is a bit of an indulgence, as it is both hard to find in the UK and the best rules are an amalgamation of the original and later edition Exploring New Horizons — but it is one of my favourite tile laying games.
When your move is over usually when you run out of money, hit land, or decide to stop you can place settlers on the final tile if it has land on it — and if it completes an island, players with the biggest colonies on it will claim points. Special tiles some good, some bad add a little extra exploration chaos and accepting a few rough edges Entdecker is simply good fun. Carcassonne players, minutes.
One of the famous gateway game trifecta alongside Ticket to Ride and Catan, the Carcassonne base game is a simple, elegant and lovely looking game for families, kids and gamers alike. The key is not to run out of meeple by getting them stuck in unfinishable areas, while trying to muscle in on large areas your opponents may be building — while also placing some meeple as farmers, who will score large open areas but only at the end of the game.
My preference is Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers — a stone age version that takes a few of the best expansion ideas and adds them to the base game. Benar-benar menggambarkan bagaimana kerasnya merintis kehidupan di Jakarta.
Kapan harus kerja, kapan harus ikut training, kapan waktunya nongkrong, semua harus seimbang agar kita bisa menggapai karier cemerlang dan impian-impian kita.
Dan ini satu-satunya game di mana bahkan tukang odong-odong pun bisa ngimpi buat nyapres. As long as you work hard, nothing is impossible. Marcel Leonardo. Salah satu game terbaik saat ini. Ilustrasi menarik dan lucu. Tema yang sangat masuk ke non gamer. Ada beberapa kartu yang terlihat sangat kuat dan sudah di nerf dengan tambahab faq. Ricky A.
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