- Eldritch Horror
- Fury of Dracula
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Nemesis
- Spirit Island
- Pandemic
And for the not-so-complex list
- Hanabi (more of a card game)
This one's essentially Arkham Horror if it hadn't sacrificed so much of its mechanics to its flavor that it became, more or less, a bad game. Plays much faster and cleaner. Does lose some of the atmosphere in the bargain, but playing Arkham Horror was such a slog that I doubt anyone at the table will want it back after playing this.
> - Betrayal at House on the Hill
The Legacy version of this is excellent. IMO adding those elements effectively completed this game, which never felt like it was living up to its potential, before.
Pandemic is another game vastly improved by the Legacy mechanics.
Yeah, I mean the old one. It made it to our table a few times on the strength of the fluff, but it seemed like every time everyone was kinda unhappy that we'd played it, by the time it was over. Like we just kept forgetting how not-fun it had been, and remembering how fun we wished it was.
(D&D and similar require one player to DM, but that player also gets to be subjective and improvisational and do storytelling and pull in player ideas, which is much more fun than being the mechanical interpreter of the rules.)
(I do think the new Arkham Horror still has some issues, notably an excessive opacity of mechanics sometimes that leads to "you just lose out of the blue for unforeseeable reasons". But it's still usually fun.)
I totally missed that a new AH was released in 2018. On BGG it's a 7.7 over 7.0 for the original, AND the expansions are ranked really well (obviously players who buy an expansion already liked the base game, so there is some bias). Fixing the randomness sounds really REALLY good.
Great. Due to this thread, I now have another ~200 Euros on my board game wish list. Thanks! :P