This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. Players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu.
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The underwater theme is essentially pasted on, as was its predecessor’s space theme-short paragraphs before each game introduce a vaguely related element-but feel free to make “blub blub” noises as you play to make it feel more immersive. “It’s strategy, it’s cooperative, it’s family friendly,” Kleist says. But the twist is that in this game, instead of trying to take the most tricks, all players are cooperating to try to ensure that certain tricks are won by certain players-and table talk is forbidden. The highest card in the suit wins the trick, unless it’s been trumped. Players play cards from their hand onto the table, one at a time. If you’ve played Hearts, Spades or euchre, the basic mechanics of The Crew should feel familiar, says Margaret Kleist, who runs the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Blue Bridge Games with her husband. The new version, which stands alone (no need to buy the original game to play) and is set underwater, “is better than the original.” “The first one is really good,” Mik says. The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, a cooperative trick-taking game set in outer space, was one of the breakout hits of 2019. Kind of like: Euchre, if it were upside down Good for: Fans of traditional trick-taking card games who want something new
With easy-to-learn rules, you’ll gather resources, go birding, and earn wilderness badges. Take a hike with TRAILS and explore iconic sites and national parks across the US. Trails, a Family and Strategy Game About Hiking and Outdoors Even though it’s smaller and simpler to understand, it’s still “a beautiful, great, strategic game.” “It’s like the boiled down version of a really great game,” says Mik Fitch, who along with his wife, Starla, runs the YouTube channel Our Family Plays Games. Its lower cost and small size means it can travel easily. But where Parks can take up to an hour to play, Trails is a shorter jaunt. The smaller, lighter successor to Parks (which earned a spot on our 2019 Best Board Games list), Trails follows a similar formula: Players visit national parks, take photos, look for wildlife and collect souvenirs. Good for: Your family member who owns a National Parks passport If you want to gift one of these games for an upcoming holiday, don’t wait to buy!) Trails
(And just a note: The supply-chain issues you’ve read about-caused in part by labor and shipping container shortages-are real. We hope their picks get you as excited about cardboard and plastic as they did us.
As usual, to create this year’s list, we spoke with board game sellers and board game fans from around the country. Board game lovers who had turned to virtual versions can now beat the video-chat fatigue with in-person competitions. Unlike 2020, however, the availability of vaccines-now even for many children-has made it possible to gather with friends and loved ones in real life. In year two of the pandemic, who would have guessed that Covid-19 variants and a politicized resistance to vaccines would keep many of us sheltering for another winter? It’s safe to say that this year did not go as many of us expected. This year's picks include Trails, Cascadia and the Initiative.
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