What are your favorite tabletop games?
Discussion
Katan
Les loups garou
The Resistance and The Resistance: Avalon
The three last ones are on the pictures.
Do you know any of those?
I’ve never played any of them. Only heard of Katan previously. I’m far from a board game connoisseur.
I will tell you about them.
Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux was translated to Werewolves of Miller's Hollow for English-speaking audience.
The mechanics is each player receives a random card identifying him or her with a character from a village. Some of those players are leaders or personalities with special powers. Others are werewolves. During the turn cycles we play out as days and nights in-game. The werewolves choose a player to die in the nighttime and the others must find out and vote for killing a suspect in day time.
If the werewolves survive, they win.
For resistance the mechanics are similar. You must find out who is the person sabotaging the resistances plans in a dystopian society. Who is the traitor?
Sounds interesting. How long does it normally take to play the game? What’s the ideal number of players?
Average 30 minutes and 8 to 18 players. I would say the werewolves game is suited for any party you attend and a certain group of people feel like being distracted for a short time. So, 12 people would seem like a good number. The minimum and maximum numbers are good.
For the resistance game, I would say it might be fun at parties, but probably in a simplified version, rather than the by the book.