Hello Beehaw!
As someone that enjoy playing with my spouse a lot I wonder which games are your favorites for playing with or against someone else. Our current favorites are:
- Dominion
- Res Arcana
- Wingspan (still need to try Asia expansion)
- Terraforming Mars
Unfortunately these listed games are competitive ones so I’m also looking to increase the list of cooperative games! We did play Aeon’s End Legacy but need to play the expansions.
edit: typo
Lots of great suggestions in this thread! I will add a few of my favorites.
Mansions of Madness Fun spooky co op that has a lot of stories to play through. Your typically an investing team trying to solve spooky mysteries. I saw someone suggest Arkham horror if you like that suggestion then you will also like Mansions of madness.
Sleeping Gods Story telling co op adventure. The game takes you though this new world and you have to figure out how to get home. Very thematic with a bunch of different crossroads. Combat is very punishing but still fun. I also believe they are coming out with a second one. I love Red Raven games so I would also suggest Above and Below as well as Near and Far but both of those are competitive.
- Nemesis It is basically Alien the movie the board game. It is semi co op. You have a general objective to get the ship safely to earth but as aliens start popping out your goal changes to what you find most important. Every time I play this game I feel like I could have watched the movie I just played. Your goals could be aligned or they could not be. But why I like to play it with my wife is because even if our goals are not aligned we cannot fight each other you can old do some what harmful things haha.
The Gloomhaven suggestion
Best of luck and happy gaming.
Thank you! I played Mansions of Madness once but didn’t know the other two. We definitely know gloomhaven, we’ve been wanting to give Frosthaven a try as well.
Frosthaven looks so interesting! My buddy got a copy but we haven’t sat down and tried it out. I’m real eager to see how it feels compared to Jaws and the OG. I also think they are doing a “fair festival” on backerkit. So if your thinking of getting a copy from them it might be cheaper right now but I haven’t looked too closely at prices.
I am awaiting Sleeping Gods! I bought it with the recent Kickstarter and nearly went all in. But I’m really into thematic story telling and I thjnk the campaign nature will be good for me and my gf to come back to over time.
It is so much fun! I played above and below first and loved the story telling it had in that game and sleeping gods is that but more haha. I played with one of my buddies and I think we completed one story line in about 7 sessions. It’s great I’m excited for you and your gf to run thought it!