My Game Library

My Game Library

notes:

* I have a 'virtual tabletop' device called a TapTop - looks like https://imgur.com/dbpboNN - which has a dozen or so games on it, most of which I've never tried. Availability of those games may be limited by me not wanting to cart it places lightly - it's 20 pounds so I'm not going to bring it somewhere just for a quick game. Games which are on the virtual table are noted.

* Some games I have expansions; I've marked them with a '+' and have details at the bottom

Can Teach Well:
7 Wonders+	-- drafting game, tableau building
7 Wonders Duel -- back and forth tableau building for two players
City of the Great Machine+: one vs. many steampunk AI takeover game
Codenames	-- team word game
Crokinole	-- dexterity game, very highly rated despite anti-simplicity bias
Crystallo	-- solo/coop Set-like, creating sets of crystals around gems to unlock them and free prisoners from a dragon
Deck Building: The Deck Building Game -- about wooden decks. Silly, simple.
Dune: Imperium+	-- combination worker placement/deck-building game with a strong theme.
Girl Genius: The Works (old printing)	-- tableau-based collection game, silly art
Hive	-- two player, abstract strategy
King of Tokyo+/King of New York+	-- Yahtzee but with Kaiju, fast and light
Megagem 	-- 3-5 player quant trading game, by Jane Street and Richard Garfield
Mindbug 	-- two player, MtG-like but limited by stealing the other player's move instead of mana
Nut Hunt	-- chaotic route-building game where a fox can scatter your path of squirrels at any moment
Power Grid (deluxe) 	-- network-building economic game, math-heavy
Root+	-- highly asymmetric cutthroat game, loosely area control and combat
Set 	-- classic pattern recognition
Splendor -- engine-building game about gems
Suspend 	-- dexterity game, place hanging bars and don't collapse
The Godfather	-- worker placement with tricky money/score dynamics and some aggression
Through the Ages+	-- card-based Civilization-builder, like a simplified Civ 4/5
Tsuro	-- many-player tile placement make paths around the board, light
Tsuro: Phoenix Rising	-- tile placement, make prettier paths, somewhat heavier
Twilight Imperium 4e+	-- extremely heavy and long, science fiction cold war simulator, not going to inflict this on the unprepared
Zoo Vadis	-- political negotiation game of repeated small elections, *very* fast and simple
Standard playing cards
    -- Mao? -- the first rule of Mao is that you may not talk about the rules of Mao


Can Teach, Less Well:
Betrayal: Legacy	-- horror game where your exploration of a haunted house turns into a betrayal, with a 'legacy' campaign
Button Men -- two-player small quick dice-but-not-totally-random game
Coal Baron	-- auction-esque worker placement about mining
Churchill: The Big Three Struggle For Peace 	-- heavy three-player political maneuvering
Dune (2019) -- six-player very-thematic asymmetric strategy game
Forbidden Island	-- light coop, exploration
Four Humors	-- deception/deduction game where you compete for control of scenes
Mini Metro	-- coop(/solo) network game, build a subway
Princes of Florence	-- bidding game with geometric placement constraints, classic Euro
Risk: Legacy	-- the classic Risk game plus cards and permanent changes to the board that last between games
Scythe	-- big economy/war meld, heavy, not terribly forgiving
Shadow Throne	-- drafting game mixed with War, manipulate factions in a civil war
Tokaido 	-- very pretty game of best travelogue along a famous route in feudal Japan
Tigris & Euphrates
Tyrants of the Underdark -- deck building and area control
Vivarium -- game of interspecies competition for resources, space, and achievements


Have, But Unprepared to Teach:
A Fistful of Dinero
Age of Mythology -- the name 'Ameritrash' was practically invented for this game
Burgle Bros 	-- coop heist simulator (on virtual tabletop)
Catan (on virtual tabletop)(plz no)
Liberté 	-- worker placement, manipulate factions in the French Revolution
Machi Koro	-- light, dice-based tableau building, build a city (on virtual tabletop)
Mage Knight
My Little Scythe (on virtual tabletop)
Shinobi Clans
Swords & Bagpipes
Viceroy

I Probably Have These But I Don't Remember Anything About Them (mostly on virtual tabletop)
12 Orbits
Bam Fu
Clue - D&D Edition
Hardback
Monopoly - D&D Edition
Nika
Space Base
Splodey
Texcoco
War Chest


Expansions I have:
King of Tokyo/New York: Power Up! (both versions, Tokyo/NYC)
7 Wonders: Cities, Armada
Root: Underworld(Underground Duchy(Moles) and Corvid Conspiracy(Crows), variant boards), Riverfolk(River Company(Beavers/Otters), Lizard Cult(Lizards), NPC Cats faction for low-player games), Vagabond Pack
Twilight Imperium: 4E Prophecy of Kings, technically I also have 3E with both its expansions.
Through the Ages: Leaders and Wonders Pack (rebalanced cards already incorporated into base deck)
Dune: Imperium: Immortality - second set of card-buying currency and deck, cards that graft together, nuke the purchase row
Dune: Imperium: Rise of Ix - technology deck, extra nobles, replacements for the boring spice trade/politics spaces

Expansions I don't have (yet, growth mindset):
Power Grid: most expansions are incompatible with the Deluxe version, but they can be merged with BGG's Power Grid Deluxe Compatibility Kit and 'Power Grid Recharged: The New Power Plant Cards Set 1'
7 Wonders: Leaders, Babel, Wonder Pack
Root: Marauders(Lord of the Hundreds(Mice), Keepers in Iron(Badgers)), Hireling Packs, Landmarks Pack, Exiles and Partisans Deck, maybe the Clockwork Expansions but I'm not sure I'd use them
Scythe: Invaders from Afar, Wind Gambit, Encounters Deck
City of the Great Machine: Escalation expansion, Stand-In heroes, Confrontation expansion
Dune: Imperium: various promo cards, standalone sister-game Dune: Imperium - Uprising
Tyrants of the Underdark: Expansion Decks – Aberrations & Undead