Game Night Suggestions 2025

Peruse these games before game night and make your suggestions to the group. Everyone's vote counts equally, unless it's chez Hoctor's house, then my vote is the only one that counts, jk, lol. They all link to Board Game Geek for a detailed description.

3+ Players:

  1. Dungeons & Dragons (Fantasy role-playing where players collaboratively tell stories and overcome challenges)
  2. Return to Dark Tower (App-driven fantasy cooperative questing against a menacing tower)
  3. XIA (Open-ended space sandbox where you trade, explore, fight, and chart your own path)
  4. LotR: Fate of the Fellowship (Cooperative, narrative strategy where you defend Middle-earth)
  5. Eclipse: Second Dawn (A streamlined 4X space strategy game of exploration, development, and conquest)
  6. The Others (Tense one-versus-many horror battle with thematic control of the 7 Deadly Sins)
  7. Blood Rage (Viking thematic area control with drafting, quests, and dramatic endgame)
  8. Battlestar Galactica / Unfathomable (Hidden-loyalty social deduction in crisis; humans vs traitor(s) aboard ship or fleet)
  9. Massive Darkness 2 (Fully cooperative dungeon crawl with heroes battling darkness in varied scenarios)
  10. Terraforming Mars (Strategic engine building as players compete to transform Mars into a habitable world)
  11. Giant Killer Robots (Fast mech combat meets area control and tagging in a futuristic showdown)
  12. Adrenaline (First-person shooter on the gaming table. Grab some ammo, grab a gun, and start shooting)

2 Players:

  1. Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn (Head-to-head customizable card & dice duel between powerful Phoenixborn)
  2. Godtear (Tactical hex-based miniature skirmish combat with champion warbands)
  3. Hecatomb (Sacrifice and combo building in a fast, deadly card engine)
  4. Unmatched (Asymmetric miniature card-based dueling with iconic characters and maps)
  5. Dice Throne (Dice + card battling: “Yahtzee meets Magic” style hero duels)
  6. Marvel Champions (Cooperative living card game of superheroes vs. villains)
  7. Sniper Elite (One of the best hidden-movement tactical shooter games)
  8. Mansions of Madness 2nd ed. (Narrative co-op horror adventure with app-driven mysteries)
  9. Chronicles of Crime (Crime scene investigation with app, QR codes, and storytelling)
  10. Magic: The Gathering (Classic strategic collectible card game of resource, combat & control)