Top 5 Offbeat Board Games to Play with Family

Summary

Video games are fun, right? That’s probably the reason why everyone from kids to seniors is so fond of playing games on their mobile phones, PCs and consoles. However, board games are often overlooked, but they can be even more fun! Let's take a look at some offbeat games which you can take on this weekend with your loved ones around:

• Arkham Horror: The Card Game: 
  Arkham Horror is a fun board game that many people love to play. The core game is set for two players but you can add two more with another core set. It takes a mutual tact that sees multiple players as investigators each running their own decks to combat some eldritch horror from beyond our world. There’s a sense of role-playing as you take actions that little to do with the cards you’re holding.

• Mage Knight & Star Trek: Frontiers: 
  Wiz Kids has got you covered with two variants on the same game system - Mage Knight & Star Trek Frontiers both give you a crafted experience. Game is all about exploring a dynamic game map, trying to find treasures while overcome challenges/enemies in your path. This is a superb game, tightly designed and cleverly implemented, which give the feel of being an explorer in an unknown world.

• XCOM: The Board Game: 
  XCOM: The Board Game is the tabletop version of XCOM models. The Board Game incorporates a free digital companion app into the core of its game play. XCOM campaign distributes tasks across four discrete roles - Commander, Chief Scientist, Central Officer and Squad Leader. In this game, department heads must find some means to turn back an escalating alien invasion and must succeed where the world’s militaries have failed.

• 878: Vikings—Invasions of England: 
  “878: Vikings – Invasions of England”: A fantastic & relatively simple war game. In this board game players control the invading Vikings who are trying to withstand the invasion. One team takes on the role of the divided Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, starting the game by controlling the entirety of England. While the other team controls successive waves of invading Vikings. Team with the most cities controlled at the end wins the game.

• Coimbra: 
  This is a fairly classic European-style game, introduces an innovative new dice mechanism and collecting power cards in order to fulfill a variety of conditions and score points on tracks. With every roll of the dice, players should always choose power cards to optimize their opportunity paths to victory.