Visited a board game cafe last weekend and it changed my mind about modern gaming

I stopped into The Game Parlour in San Francisco last Saturday with my nephew. I figured we'd play some old classics like Scrabble or Uno, but the place was packed with people playing games I had never even heard of. One group was deep into a game called Wingspan, and another table had this huge map with little wooden pieces that turned out to be Scythe. The owner told me there are over 4,000 new board games published every year now. I sat down and tried a game called Cascadia, which is about building habitats for animals, and it was surprisingly fun. Has anyone else had a similar experience where a modern game really surprised you?

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karen_west5916d ago

Deep into a game called Wingspan" - I mean, come on. It's a board game about birds. Are we really calling that "deep"? I've seen Wingspan at Target and I gotta be honest, it just looks like a prettier version of Settlers of Catan to me. People act like they're solving world peace when really they're just putting little egg tokens on cardboard nests. And 4,000 new games a year? That sounds like a problem, not a selling point. Nobody can try even a fraction of those, so most of them are probably just gimmicks. I'm glad you had fun with your nephew, but let's not act like Cascadia is some life changing experience. It's a game about squirrels and trees. Relax.

jamesfox16d agoTop Commenter

Wingspan came out way before Cascadia, actually.