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Personally my favorite game right now is Automobiles, but that's mostly because I've won every game I've played and am a total sucker for a deck building game. Otherwise I'm down for just about anything from the Resistance: Avalon to Twilight Imperium to Pandemic.

For something quick and fun with a bunch of friends, I like Red Dragon Inn.

For something a little longer, Betrayal at House on the Hill generally becomes my choice.

If it's a regular thing and my friends wish to suffer, Kingdom Death Monster.

Arkham horror... Even if I rarely play it

Recently got into Istanbul and I haven't been disappointed at all. 10/10 Would recommend

Mansions of Madness is my favorite one so far, but we have a board game night and its introduced me to so many new ones. Mansions of Madness, either version you are good with as long as your okay with partially having a DM to run you through the Version 1 of it or a phone to run the item app in Version 2, you are good.

Other Recommendations:
Rising Sun, very fun but you might need to run through it once or twice to get the rules down. Also I hope you like minis

Scythe (With the Air Gambit expansion), if your like strategy and waging war on all sides

Terraforming Mars, if you like strategy and don't care about combat

Ascension, if your wanting a quick card game with no collecting to it

Infection at Outpost 31, if you like John Carpenters The Thing

Through The Ages, which is the best Civilization game that is not on a computer

Dice Throne, for quick and easy and class based competitive games.

Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire, Necromunda, and Blood Bowl, if your into collecting and making a hobby out of your board games, its all Games Workshop stuff so its fantastic quality but very much hobby enthusiast sorta game (s).

Dungeons and Dragon Adventures: Ravenloft, sooooo much fun even though I haven't played it in 2 years as its a certain group I do the DnD Adventure games with, but this is last on the list as its a oldie but a really good one.

Every now and again I dive into the Tales of the Arabian Nights board game and it’s a load of fun - even with just one other player. It’s very narrative-driven and there’s not much strategy involved but it’s great to see your story unfold and take all sorts of weird twists and turns. Play your cards right and you could be the next Sultan. Don’t, and all sorts of nasty things will happen to you - jailed, transformed, sex-changed, you name it! I also imagine playing with five other people at once must be deliciously chaotic. <3

Settlers of Catan, of course. I don't play often, but it's the one I play.

Shadow Hunters is my favorite general board game. Lots of replay value, works well with experienced and new players alike, and games are quick to teach and play.

Terra Mystica is another fave of mine, but it's exactly the opposite as far as time spent and teaching. If you're with a group that can digest a largely 0-RNG, complex strategy game, it gets really really rewarding.

Haven't seen it mentioned, so.... Argent: The Consortium is prolly my favourite game right now. Worker placement with victory points, but the goal is to win the most of twelve random majorities (which you can check during the game).

Ones that have been mentioned that I also recommend:
Gloomhaven, Terra Mystica, Scythe, Istanbul, Mansions of Madness (1st ed preferred, but both are good), Through the Ages.

My standby is Notre Dame (a Stefan Feld 'point salad' game).

Also a big fan of Zendo (which was finally reprinted!), Race for the Galaxy (technically a card game), Puerto Rico, Goa, and The Castles of Burgundy.

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