By price
Board Games Over $50
Premium games worth the investment - complex systems, high production value.
Medium
Catan
The trade-and-build classic. Five expansions deep if anyone catches the bug.
Medium
Endeavor: Deep Sea
Dive crews, sonar pushes, and a gorgeous ocean board: a Kennerspiel winner that packs real strategy into a friendly hour.
Medium
Wingspan
Birds, engine-building, exquisite art. Plays light enough for casual nights, deep enough for repeat play.
Heavy
Root
Asymmetric forest war game. Each faction plays completely differently. Deep.
medium
Viticulture Essential Edition
Run your own vineyard by planting vines and harvesting grapes.
Medium
7 Wonders
Seven players, three ages, thirty minutes: the card drafter that made big group strategy actually work.
Medium
Dune: Imperium - Uprising
Deck-building meets worker placement on Arrakis, now with spies, sandworms, and a real six-player team mode.
Medium
Betrayal at House on the Hill (3rd Edition)
Explore a haunted house until one of you turns traitor: 50 scenarios of gloriously chaotic B-movie horror.
Light
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
Memoir '44's engine on Hoth: command cards, custom dice, 74 minis, and a full battle in about thirty minutes.
Heavy
Ark Nova
Build the world's best zoo one clever card slot at a time: the heaviest game people happily play until 1am.
Heavy
Terraforming Mars
Engine-building Mars colonization. Hundreds of cards, a million strategies.
heavy
Unsettled
Cooperative survival experience across unknown planets with deep exploration.
heavy
Brass: Birmingham
Build industries and trading networks in an intense economic strategy.
Heavy
SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Launch probes, aim telescopes, chase faint signals: a science euro where hunting for aliens actually feels like science.
Heavy
Spirit Island
Reverse-colonialism cooperative. The thinky version of Pandemic. Endless replayability.
Light
Klask
Magnetic two-player tabletop game. Reflex-based, no rules to read, addictive.
Medium
Obsession
Run a Victorian estate. Hire staff, host events. Underrated and beautiful.
Medium
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
Leacock's richest Pandemic System design: shepherd Frodo past the Nazgul while shadow armies press every haven at once.
Heavy
Scythe
Mechs, farms, and quiet menace across an alternate 1920s Europe. An engine builder wearing a war game's armor.
Medium
Vantage
A crashed ship, a planet of 800 locations, and every player seeing a different world. Nothing else on your shelf plays like this.
Heavy
Star Wars: Rebellion
The whole Galactic Civil War for two: the Empire hunts, the Rebels hide, and every turn tightens the noose.
Heavy
Galactic Cruise
A luxury space cruise euro where workers never block, they bump. Heavy, generous, and one of 2025's best big boxes.
Heavy
Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition
The all-day space opera: politics, war, and betrayal for a table that cleared its calendar.
heavy
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Embark on cooperative fantasy adventures with app-assisted scenarios.