Longest Board Game You Ever Played

[Philotomy Jurament]

Probably The Longest Day (Avalon Hill). We played a game that took all summer, played off and on. It rendered the dining room table at my friend's house unusable, to his mom's consternation (I don't think they used the dining room much, anyway, though). Fortunately, his father was a player in (and the owner of) the game, so that wasn't a big problem.

[Note that Board Game Geek lists the playing time as 5,400 minutes, or 90 hours. I think our game probably took longer than that, but I don't know for certain.]

 

[Mythtify]

A 6 player game of Titan.

 

[MerricB]

The longest I can remember was this game of World of Warcraft: the Boardgame which went for six hours. Short by old standards, but pretty long for me.

Cheers!

 

[AJCarrington]

Longest game I ever played wasThe Third World War by GDW. The core game on its own was good for 4-6 hours of play, but when you tacked on all the other modules, particularly Persian Guild: Battle for the Middle East which had a complete "political" sub-game, it took forever. Last memory was the game dieing in Turn 1 after ~10 hours of set-up and play...

AJC

 

[Verdande]

Short by some of your standards, we played a game of Descent: Journeys into the Dark that outlasted its fun. I was the Overlord, and they were absolutely impossible to kill. I could only slow them down, and eventually I just let them get to the final boss and kill him so we could stop playing the damn game.

It was only four or so hours, but after the two hour mark, I was tired of the whole damn thing. It's a great game, but it's no fun when one side or the other is going to win easily.

 

[Kobold Boots]

Twilight Imperium 3rd ed.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Twilight Imperium 3rd ed.

How did that one go? I actually own the thing but have never played. Did it hold up as entertaining for the entire length? What was the playtime in total?

 

[Holy Bovine]

Short by some of your standards, we played a game of Descent: Journeys into the Dark that outlasted its fun. I was the Overlord, and they were absolutely impossible to kill. I could only slow them down, and eventually I just let them get to the final boss and kill him so we could stop playing the damn game.

It was only four or so hours, but after the two hour mark, I was tired of the whole damn thing. It's a great game, but it's no fun when one side or the other is going to win easily.

I'll only play Descent now with the Road to Legend expansion. Shorter dungeons, full campaign rules and an inability for either side to totally dominate like you are describing (and I have seen several times in the past). Oh I suppose it's technically possible for one side or the other to get such an insurmountable lead in the early going as to be unbeatable but in the 3 full campaigns I have played in or ran it never happened (we did get to gold level in all three - 2 wins for the Overlord, 1 for the Heroes).

 

[Agamon]

My 8 hour session of Twilight Imperium was recently beat out by a 9+ hour session of 1856. Fun game, I enjoy the 18xx series, but yeah, they be long games.

 

[Pickles JG]

I played about 45 turns of Europa Universalis at 2 hours a turns. We played 3-5 turns once a month for a year or so. It's 60 turns long but I burned out. The other 5 plus a replacement played another game that went 54 turns but they could never get
together for the final session.

I used to play Totaller Krieg quite a bit which is 24 hours for 3 players.

Nowadays I get impatient at about 4 hours if not sooner.