What Board Games Are Leaving?

This time the games were in a number of different categories that are leaving. Some of them I was very excited for but as time has gone on my excitement has waned on them. Others are just classic games that I don’t play anymore. And I think that’s one thing I’m noticing about having bought a lot of games over the years. Stuff that I don’t get to quickly, that is more likely to fall out of my current taste in games.

Sentinels of the Multiverse

This is one that I didn’t buy too long ago. I mainly bought it because it was on a great sale. I think I got the base game and something like 16 or 17 expansions for about $80. My plan is to try and sell it for about the same amount. I thought I’d give it a whirl because it looked cool, but when it comes down to superhero themed games, I’m going to pick Marvel Champions over it.

Dice Throne Adventures

This one is only kind of out the door at this point. Again, it’s another one that I’d really like to get played. But with middling reviews for this Dice Throne expansion, that makes it into a cooperative game. I’m not that excited to try it anymore. Add in the fact that I love Dice Throne as a two player head to head battle or king of the hill fighting, it’s hard to want to try a new way to play it that’s so different.

Merchant’s Cove

Merchant’s Cove, a game in my Top 100 games, and could still easily be there this upcoming year or longer, also leaving. The reason for that is it’s a very big game, a very light game, and there’s a learning curve, but not a bad one, each time you pull out and play a new character. I love the level of production on the game, but it makes it harder to table.

Uno

Uno is not a fun game, it’s a classic game. And when I started my collection, I wanted to own a number of the classics. Now, there are other very simple games that I have that I’d play over Uno. Add in that Uno can take no time or forever to play, it’s just not worth it.

Phase 10

Phase 10 is another classic game, one that I don’t hate, but also one that I am not that likely to play again. If I do play it, it’ll be with my parents who have a copy. Phase 10 is a fine game that takes too long because it doesn’t progress. I want to replace mine with 5 Crowns. A game that does a similar thing with getting sets and runs, but with a more limited game length.

Chess

Chess is yet another classic, and one that I feel like I should have. But the game is not one that I play, so do I keep the tin around and let it take up space on a game shelf? Or do I let it go to someone who is excited to get a decent looking all wooden chess set? I think it’s smarter to let it go to someone else enjoy it and if or when I want to get a new chess set, I can always do that later.

8-Bit Box

Another game I picked up with store credit, and one that I really wanted to play when I got it. But then my interested in it waned over time because it’s learning basically a new game for each one that I’d pull out of the box. The whole 8-Bit arcade game thing, that’s pretty cool, but if it creates a barrier to entry, well, then it ends up leaving my collection.

Karuba: The Card Game

Grabbed this one from a local Goodwill, I wasn’t thinking about it, thought it was the board game. Should have been obvious that it was different. I wouldn’t mind giving it a whirl, it’s more that I’m trying to find that thrift store gem, and this wasn’t it.

Cat Cafe

Added to the pile last night from a section I’d already gone through. Cat Cafe is a fun enough roll and write game. And it has some cool things that I don’t mind with drafting dice and then a shared die that’s left. But the game feels like it should do more. And I don’t like the end game trigger. You get more points for completing towers and the first person who completes three ends the game.

The Drink

Islay Storm again for me. Finished off the bottle of this Scotch from Trader Joe’s. It’s a really good Scotch for the price it’s at, and a very peat forward Scotch. I really enjoy peat in my Scotch, so this is always a good one when I make it to Trader Joes.

Upcoming Streams

So what comes after this. Well, it’s going to be some smaller games being streamed up through the end of the month. Start of May, I want to kick off another campaign game. And I might be playing through some Perdition’s Mouth, or I have a few others that I’m considering as well.

But I do want to maybe play through more Paper Dungeons, I had fun playing two games last time. But I have a few other games, Village Green, Dinosaur Island Rawr ‘n Write, Welcome To Dino World, and others that I can play solo as well. And two of those are ones that I want to try out to see if they’ll stick in my collection.

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So let’s start with the numbers and get those out of the way, it’s probably going to be one of the shorter sections, though I might combine a few numbers, like P and Q together because I’m guessing I don’t have a ton of Q’s.

7 Wonders Duel (And Pantheon)

This is the two player version, the way it should be done of 7 Wonders, in fact, 7 Wonders no longer lists itself as a 2-7 player game, but a 3-7 player game, because the 2 player game in the original 7 Wonders wasn’t that good. In this one you are still drafting cards, but you are doing so from a layout of cards on the table, as you draft cards, you unlock other cards to be drafted which you can then put in and will help you build your wonders and score points. The differences aren’t a ton, besides the layout of cards to draft from versus a hand of cards, but there are two main ones. If someone gets every different type of science card, they win the game. If someone gets enough military power, they win the game. Otherwise, it comes down to points at the end of the game. I like how that little twist is pretty clever because it means that you can’t ignore military completely and you can’t ignore science completely, which is a bad plan anyways.

Status: To Be Played

The 7th Continent

This is a massive adventure, exploration game where you wake up on the 7th Continent and you are cursed. You need to go around and deal with the story elements that you find on the land in order to break the curse. This game takes up a lot of table space and has an okay written rule book. It, like the one above, is one that I need to play. I have messed around with it a little bit, but I haven’t dove into the game play fully. It has an interesting mechanic where you are pushing your way through what could be considered a health deck trying to get successes to complete challenges, but if you hit a curse, it resets it, and you hit it a second time you are dead. So you need to balance that push your luck and hope to find everything you need. But to solve the curses you are always exploring the same continent. From what I’ve heard, the first curse should be played or attempted a couple of times, and it’s very long, because it tries to get you around the whole continent. And even if you don’t beat that first one, then move onto the shorter ones.

Status: To Be Played

8-Bit Box

This is another too be played, I’m so bad at this right now. I picked this one up because the concept is such an interesting idea. This game basically gives you four different games. They are all kind of based off of 8-bit video games that you’d find on a Sega System or NES or SNES. The game components are used across all of them, with just some specific components for each game. It’s a clever idea that seems like it’ll bring some nostalgia when you play it, but it’s also clever because of how it manages to reuse so many of the pieces. There is an expansion for it as well, but I want to play what’s in the main box before I get the expansion and get more games for the system.

Status: To Be Played

Which one should I get to the table first, I’m thinking 7th Continent, but I could probably get 7 Wonders Duel easily to the table as well? What is your favorite of the games on the list?

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