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It was just until some time ago that I thought about board and card games in a very classic way; When the idea came to my mind, it came with examples like Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit or Scattergories. It’s actually weird considering how much I like playing and mastering pen & paper RPGs (the ones most based on interpetation, of course) since more than 10 years ago, and because of that, me being so close to other board and card games. I could say Magic: The Gathering was a short time exception.

Things changed when I played Arkham Horror. Since I always enjoyed a lot horror, investigation and occultism games like “Call of Cthulhu“, it came as no surprise how much I do enjoy this game. Given it’s complexity, options, elements and everything, it seemed like a perfect match. As positive as the experience was, it wasn’t still time for those games to become another hobby. It was difficult enough to find time and people to role-play, it seemed impossible to also get running some sessions of those fun boxes.

Some time later I could play “Fairy Tales“, “Once upon a time” and the excellent “Citadels“, all of them Atrus’ games. I liked a lot the first and second, and really loved the third because of how easy but deep and engaging it was. A lot more people I know started to be interested in those games too! Another thing we understood was that board games required more interested players and quite some time, paying back with deep gaming. Generally speaking, card games were the opposite.

I recently decided to buy Arkham Horror and two expansion kits and Bang! The Bullet and Atrus bought Doom and it’s expansion kit. Everything has proved to be quite a good buy by now, especially Arkham Horror and Doom.

Those board and card games have been a great discovery. Try them, you won’t regret it

Some links:

www.boardgamegeek.com/
www.planetongames.com/

Tags: arkham horror, bang, ciudadelas, juegos de mesa