[ngcc_hk]

Board game need a lot of investment. Simple one like GO (which needs hours to play decades to perfect etc) is “easier” as at least you have clib, course, apps … etc.

But complex rule one - who can play with you for hours. And what happen if you do not like it later.

Or the game no more. Midway is a board game about the battle. Heard of it? How about Battiestar Galactic of just the reimagining fame.

End up with catan and in fact still not open the seafarers. But at least when played you can.

Wonder about the other 2 now. Pandemic seem catchy.

[cableshaft]

Just FYI, there's a now out of print Battlestar Galactica game which is very complex and very long but also excellent and very beloved by the hobbyist board game community. I used to meet up with friends once every other month for a six hour event to play it (the actual game took about 4 hours, but then set up, gathering, food, breaks took it to 6 hours).

The publisher no longer has the BSG license so they rethemed the game to Cthulhu instead, and just a month ago re-released the game under the name "Unfathomable". It's no longer set in space but now in an ocean on a Titanic-like ship.