What level of complexity are you aiming for? I play a lot of board games, but my personal favorites are ones I wouldn’t necessarily recommend to someone who wasn’t similarly obsessed, and I also try to keep around a lot of easier games to lure people in make the hobby more accessible to new entrants.
How many players do you have? Some very good games are 2-player and cannot take more—some require 4+ players and can’t be run with only 2.
Do you have a preference between euro-games/non-euro-games? If you don’t know what this means, put ‘no’.
A few things I might recommend on the lower-complexity end:
Fairy Tale
Summoner Wars
7 Wonders
Kingsburg
And on the higher-effort end:
Mage Knight
Gloomhaven
Twilight Struggle
War of the Ring
Eclipse
In general, I’d also recommend boardgamegeek’s ratings (you can find a list of games here, and can sort by rating). I don’t 100% agree with their ratings (Pandemic is not my cup of tea, and Star Wars Rebellion being as high as it is is a travesty), but they’re generally a very good starting point for ‘is this game good’.
A couple things that would be good to know:
What level of complexity are you aiming for? I play a lot of board games, but my personal favorites are ones I wouldn’t necessarily recommend to someone who wasn’t similarly obsessed, and I also try to keep around a lot of easier games to
lure people inmake the hobby more accessible to new entrants.How many players do you have? Some very good games are 2-player and cannot take more—some require 4+ players and can’t be run with only 2.
Do you have a preference between euro-games/non-euro-games? If you don’t know what this means, put ‘no’.
A few things I might recommend on the lower-complexity end:
Fairy Tale
Summoner Wars
7 Wonders
Kingsburg
And on the higher-effort end:
Mage Knight
Gloomhaven
Twilight Struggle
War of the Ring
Eclipse
In general, I’d also recommend boardgamegeek’s ratings (you can find a list of games here, and can sort by rating). I don’t 100% agree with their ratings (Pandemic is not my cup of tea, and Star Wars Rebellion being as high as it is is a travesty), but they’re generally a very good starting point for ‘is this game good’.