Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 4812564" data-attributes="member: 4881">I put in a second vote for...Family Business:   Its my favorite 30-minute gameplay game.  You can play with 3-6 players and the few rules can be learned while playing.  The basic premise is that each player has a "family" of 9 mobsters (represented by 6 sets of 9 cards with real mobster names on them) and you are trying to have the last family left alive.  Cards are played to kill/save the other players mobsters.Ticket To Ride:  It looks like a boardgame involving trains, but really its a cardgame about getting matching sets of colored cards (I think there are 8 colors and some "wild" cards).  The train theme gives it a little oomph.  You can learn the rules in no time at all and a game shouldn't take more than an hour.Bang:  Its similar to Family Business, in that you use cards to try to kill the other players.  The catch is instead of 9 mobsters you have 1 character with 4 or 5 "hit-points".  Each game you create your character by getting a role card, which tells you what you have to do to win the game, as well as a personality card, which lets you break the rules in some way.  Settlers of Catan:  Actually plays very fast if one person knows the rules well.  Sometimes, however, you can get stuck with one of those players that ALWAYS takes 5 minutes to make a 10 second decision and that can really bog the game down when/if it happens.  It makes the game unfun really quickly.And my thoughts on some other recommendations made previously...Carcassone:  Requires a good bit of strategy.  Unlike the games above, the number of times you have played gives you a BIG advantage.  I wouldn't call it a good casual game game.Fluxx:  Here is how I sum up playing a game of Fluxx (which is a card game) in non card game terms.  Everyone sits around a table.  A magic spinner that spins for a random amount of time is spun.  At that random time a bell goes DING and someone at random wins the game.  No strategy whatsoever.DS</blockquote>

Verification