That said, every now and then someone gets sick, and I still have a stack of great two-player games. I don’t do a ton of two-player games – having two young’uns at an age where my wife gives me looks if I play too many game nights a week means I tend to focus my gaming opportunities on bigger three- or four-person affairs.
“Outwit your rival by selecting where to place nomad workers on a dynamic desert grid.”
Which is good because writing these intro blurbs is annoying AF. Hell, you’re probably not even reading this. This part of this list is the slog, but it’s also surprisingly pressure free. No one’s going to get angry because Ra is at 59 instead of 57. At the low end, you have ‘are you kidding me? You put THAT marginal game on your list?” At the high end, there’s “I can’t believe you put this stupid game at #2!” But no one has strong opinions about the midsection of the list. The cool thing about this part of the list is that we’re now well in the part of the list where no one cares.
