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Like the title! For someone getting into board games, what would you recommend? Bonus points if it is or can be played cooperatively, with 2 players, and double bonus points if it has a sci-fi theme (like, grand sci-fi), though the previous points are more important.

What do you like to play? Arcs and Earthborne Rangers both look cool to me, but wanted to ask here too! Anyone have experience with those two?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a lot of fun. Coop haunted house exploration, until part way through, the haunt happens and maybe your friends a vampire now! Maybe there's a ghost stalking these halls! Maybe there's a zombie dog that you can distract by throwing meat at it!

Pandemic is also a lot of fun and coop, but I was gifted it mid-2019 and my friends quickly found it too "topical". Also lmao, it acts like the whole world would unite in the face of a horrible pandemic and now we know that that's a wild fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

oh big +1 on Betrayal, probably my favorite game too. The exploration component is so much fun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

There's a Star Wars Clone Wars version of pandemic that looks pretty cool