We have a thread on some of the worst board games, So I figure we should have a thread on some of the best ones.
Some of my favorites:
Concordia: One of my favorite euros. I like that it has more player interaction than most euros without being conflict-driven and that it has no hidden information.
Suburbia: A drafting city-building game. You buy tiles from a central pool and add them to your city. There are various combinations of tiles which earn (or cost) you money or population.
Fidelitas: A card game. Everyone plays cards from their hand to a central tableau. The cards let you move the cards around in the tableau. Everyone has secret goals of certain combinations they want to set up in the tableau.
Gizmos: A nice engine building game. You collect marbles and then spend them to buy cards, which represent machines. As your machines get more complicated, you can collect more marbles and build bigger machines.
Kingdom Builder: Area control. You are placing little houses out on the board. When one player has all the houses out, the game ends. But there are variable ways to score points, which change every game and the person who builds the last house doesn’t necessarily win. There are also variable board set-ups, which give players different possible bonus powers.
Architects of the West Kingdom: A recent favorite. A worker placement game. I like the fact that there are very few artificial limits on the placement of your workers. The limit develops from the way that you make yourself a more vulnerable target the more you concentrate your pieces in one location.
Some other favorites: Actionworks, CV, Dice City, Fabled Fruit, Fields of Green, Gugong, Iki, Kemet, Millions of Dollars, Oh My Goods, Orleans, Panamax, Path of Light and Shadow, Rise of Tribes, Sagrada, Space Base, Stockpile, Yokohama, Zombicide