Do you have recommendations for 2-player board games?
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Here are some great 2-player games by category.
Shortform :
Longform :
Cooperative :
Here are some additional recommendations for different types of games:
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Shortform :
- Patchwork
- Splendor
- Magic: The Gathering
- Android: Netrunner
- 7 Wonders Duel
- The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
- Wingspan
- Splendor Duel
- Earth
- Cascadia
- Jaipur
- Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game
- Hive
- Hanamikoji
- Sea Salt and Paper
- Harvest
- Evokers
- All Time Wrestling
- Summoner Wars 2nd Edition
- Undaunted Normandy
- Skytear
- Solforge Fusion
- Re;ACT The Arts of War
- Blitz Bowl
- Ashes: Reborn
- Dominion (2nd Edition)
- Monolith Arena
- Parks
- Takenoko
Longform :
- Brass Birmingham
- Twilight Struggle
- War of the Ring
- Caverna: The Cave Farmers
- Dune: War for Arrakis
- War of the Ring: The Card Game
- Dune: Imperium Uprising
- Lost Ruins of Arnak
- Gaia Project
- Quartermaster General: WW2
Cooperative :
- Arkham Horror LCG
- Eldritch Horror
- Sky-Team
- Lost Cities
- Spirit Island
- Mansions of Madness
- Codenames Duet
- Primal
- ISS Vanguard
- Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin
- Skytear Horde (solo/co-op)
- Pilfering Pandas
- This War of Mine
- Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
- Suburbia
Here are some additional recommendations for different types of games:
- Star Wars Rebellion: for a cat-and-mouse experience
- Gloomhaven/Frosthaven: for co-op dungeon crawling
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: a good mystery for 2 people to go through
There is a couple that I follow online, called Games for Two
, and they've actually been featured on several games in Target and Walmart now, based on their social media channel, but they post a ton of 2-player games because it's a husband and wife duo. Anytime I'm looking for a duo game, I go and look up what they've done, and they do a great job with that.
One of the games my wife and I play that she always beats me in is called Blockus . It's a Tetris board game style game where you have to get all the pieces to fit. Card games are huge - there are so many games you can play with a deck of cards, and a lot of times, families already have that in their house. We play a couple of games, Sevens and Spoons . Any dice games are also great.
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One of the games my wife and I play that she always beats me in is called Blockus . It's a Tetris board game style game where you have to get all the pieces to fit. Card games are huge - there are so many games you can play with a deck of cards, and a lot of times, families already have that in their house. We play a couple of games, Sevens and Spoons . Any dice games are also great.
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