The fact that you know the reasons why you are bad at them and know some solutions shows that you are not really bad, but that you are there for the fun or just want to try thing regardless if it wil make win. 😊
This is an insightful, entertaining, thought-provoking video! Your self-reflection and vulnerability here--so valuable. If there's one underlying theme to why I suck at particular games, it is because I cannot help but make intuitive, *thematic*, or "clever" moves. That means I might not tabulate the most optimal play, or shoot from the hip when I should be more deeply programmatic, or invest too deeply trying to pull off some convoluted sequence of events. 😄
Love this content - I am horrible at Cartographers but love playing it. I not sure if I get in my own head too much with it or just like collecting coins too much ;)
Cartographers is the one that came to mind immediately. I'm ok with tile laying games like Patchwork, but for some reason here by the end of the round I can't fit anything properly on the map anymore. I can't really figure out why. And yeah, as for 7 Wonders Duel: I play myself trying to figure out what my opponent will do, then building around that, then assuming he'll go around that himself, etc, then the simplest option happens and I'm stumped.
Basically I’m not good at any board games BUT if I started beating them all the time, I’d probably not play them. So I just enjoy the challenge. My biggest one atm is ark nova, but that’s mainly due to make wanting to make a nice zoo with my favourite animals in (Ooh I love that eagle and need three rounds to get to play it) rather than developing a strategy for the most points! One day these two things might coincide and I get well over 100pts!
It’s very hard to come by these days (OOP with POD expansions) but Space Hulk: Death Angel has a D6 that is far more brutal than War’s D10. My win rate is abysmally low but I love it so.
Oh Shaggi, you crack me up! "It's actually a good thing that I'm bad at it" 😂, but I completely understand your logic here. I so appreciate your glass half full approach. I am really bad at playing push your luck games or dice rolling games lol. I don't know when to stop. It could be obvious and I'd just keep going.
I played 7 wonders duel a bunch of times on BGA and lost horribly every time. Then at a small board game convention I signed up for a tournament just to help fill up the last spot, expecting to loose my first game, and ended up winning the whole thing instead! Something just clicked at that point.
I suck at Lacerda games. His were the first games I bought getting into the hobby less than a year ago. Talk about throwing yourself into the deep end before you can swim. I've had to go back a bit. Lol. Medium and light weight games are important too; not only to help learn mechanics, but to better prepare and help get over the intimidation hurdle that heavy weights throw at you. Suck big time at Voidfall too. Same reason as Lacerda. But I love this game so much. Set up and game time don't bother me at all. it's all part of the fun really.
This is a great topic! And I feel your pain. I love Gizmos. But I am terrible at it. People who have never played it will beat me. I am so focused on trying to do the biggest move each turn that I don’t build my engine well! And I love engine building games. Mosiac is another one. I get caught up doing the cool tech and forget to do the important part of scoring the points with the area control part. The tech is just so dang tempting.
I am totally with you. Engine building games where you need to pivot to making points are hard because I just want to build a cool engine. Who cares about scoring points! I have that problem in Through the Ages a bunch. Oh yeah, I need culture. Right, right. :)
@TotallyTabled OMG! This is totally my problem. I love engine building games, but I love building my engine so much I forget to win the game. Sometime halfway or more through the game I realize my son is playing to accumulate victory conditions and I have completely forgotten about that part of the exercise. This is especially a problem for me in Terraforming Mars and even Splendor Duel. 😢😅😂
God that image spoke to me. Friday was the first solo game I got and I absolutely SUCKKKKED at it. Never won in about 8-10 plays then traded it away. Just so glad it didn’t put me off solo games full stop! Perhaps with a bit more experience at it I should revisit it to see if I get better results hmmm
I feel like I'm not great at 7 wonders duel either, and it's probably for the same reasons as you. Too many things catch my attention and I don't stick to a strategy. I've never been great at word games either. Great idea for a video, now maybe do a video on games you expect to be awful at, but actually you do quite well!
Azul and 7 Wonders. I am too willing to take Azul tiles that are okay for me and okay for my opponent instead of playing cutthroat and making them take bad tiles. I don’t a have particular reason for losing 7 Wonders, but I’m usually toward the bottom in scoring. Bizarro topic: there’s only one game Im too good at - Utter Nonsense. Mimicry and accents are some of my gifts. I win about 50% of the rounds when playing with friends. It’s more fun for the group if I let others shine.
Barrage is a great one for this list. It is so mean and requires so much attention to what the other players are doing, I find it easy to get caught up playing my own Euro game and get blindsided by something I should have seen coming. Great game but not one I always have the stomach for, to be honest. Thanks so much for checking out the list!
I cannot for the life of me beat my husband at either Oh My Goods! or Patchwork, and I adore both those games. The second is I'm sure due to his superior spatial skills -- I'm not the person who you want packing the car trunk to ensure everything fits. With Oh My Goods!, it's probably a combination of factors including money management and the fact that I'm not the person who's really going to sit there and math out all my options to chose an optimal long-term strategy.
Patchwork is a great one. I think a lot of people struggle with spatial puzzles and have a hard time visualizing all the options. That can be a problem for so many games, especially all these polyomino ones. I really resonate with not mathing out things. More and more I'm realizing that my strategic decision-making in games has more to do with trying to accomplish fun short-term goals, not necessarily long-term goals for scoring points. And a lot of my play is guided by instinct rather than math. Thanks so much for checking out the video, Sara!
Love this video! I have this with two games. My girlfriend always wins Quacks of Quedlinberg for some reason, which is mind boggling because it's supposed to be mostly luck, but it apparently really isn't! And my brother always beats me at Neuroshima Hex, which is so tactical that I must simply suck at it. Still absolutely love playing both games though!
I suck at hidden movement games as I just can't follow a mental path like this. Probably why I am completely reliant on Sat Nav too as I never remember how to get to places.
I found One Deck Dungeon initially frustrating. I took it to the iPad app, because the luck mitigation is where the fun is, and you play faster and progress in the campaign faster on the app and get more skills n stuff. Too Many Bones was tough for me to pick up. I like the mechanics so much I keep coming back for more! I actually wasn’t that good at Earthborne Rangers , but I fell so deeply in love with it I couldn’t stop playing. 😊 I guess I kind of think I always suck the first few times and tabletop games take a while to set up and play. So some are just not ones I keep wanting to set up. Another thing I’d be interested in hearing you talk about is rules intimidation! I find that keeps games in boxes more than their difficulty. Big fan. Keep up the great work!
I don't suck at any game, and either do you.... loosing doesn't mean you stink at the game, it just means you are playing the game to enjoy it and not to win...many games I just play to play and not to win, and there isn't anything wrong with that... enjoy your time and don't worry about win/loss records...
Oh, for sure. This is just for fun and I try to explain throughout that not mastering a game can actually make it more fun to play. There's nothing worse (IMHO) than understanding a game inside and out. The decision become boring for me. So these are games I love to play and love my time with them. Losing never affects my enjoyment of a game and I don't care about win/loss at all. I think it is okay to recognize when a game doesn't fit your brain. Thanks for watching!
@@TotallyTabledYeah, the reason I stopped enjoying Azul is because I got way too good at it and couldn't lose, but what that meant is I was employing roughly the same strategy every time and it was boring.
Yeah, when that happens I like to try strategies I've never tried before. I kinda do that anyway, because I find that fun. But it helps to keep things more fair for the players who are less experienced than I am, which is often the case since I'm usually teaching. For solo games as well, when I win, I will retire that strategy and try something new. I think it is a good way to keep games fresh. Thanks for watching!
My most recent discovery in regard to absolutely sucking at, while really liking the game, is the freshly delivered Weirdwood Manor. I think it is a really great and fun game but oh boy do I suck. The puzzle elements of the time managment and it's pressure, combined with the parallel requirement to build my charachter/s all while also handling the boss is really overwhelming in a bizarrely simple way. I don't think it is because the game just arrived and I haven't figured it out yet, it's more like I am an onlookers, always a couple steps behind with comprehending what is going on. It's like watching hockey on small black & white TV. 😁 But I really like the game. My all-time favorite being bad at game is Core Worlds Empires. It's like doing a Chinese plate on a stick juggling while riding a broken unicycle on the edge of a volcano, all while solving math riddles. But also here, I love the game, the weird analysis paralysis it creates, the unforgivingness and the utter chaos it can spiral into. And finally, The Edge Dawnfall 1.5. I love this game so much and it is so much fun playing it, but the solo is just brutal and absolutely unforgiving. There isn't really a "meta" that usually exists in such games, so every match is kind of a fresh experiment and the Darkness (solo automa) can go really whacked out at times.
LOL! I saw the title and just had to come and see. I fail constantly, so I commiserate with your concessions. The time element is also my weakness. I really go in "feeling," a game, and if I sense time is of the essence, I stress out, make all kinds of mistakes, and my blood pressure goes up! So I avoid those, and the "You must feed your people or they will die," games, [thanks Uwe...] 😂
Glad to hear I'm not alone! :) The time pressure thing is why I play so few video games. I mostly just stick to digital board games when I do. The feeding your people thing is a good one. That's also in Stone Age. Thank so much for watching!
The first one that came to my mind was Nemesis Lockdown. I've played this... probably 7 or 8 times now, and I've won one time. And it was pure luck. For me, the noise die in it always brutal and just seems to hate my existence. And some of the event deck that just causes fire or malfunctions everywhere is just not something you can ever prepare for and feels like it comes at the worst possible time every time.
Any push your luck game, I just can not help myself going for the one in a million shot. Glass Road by Rosenburg, love the game, but just not able to figure out how to optimise that puzzle. Also Tiny Towns, again way to ambitious with the buildings I go for.
Haha fun list idea and enjoyable watch! I want to add GAH to my collection so badly but only if I can get the Let's Waltz expansion to play it solo. I watched your solo playthrough and you did get crushed. :) Honestly, I would enjoy a video of yours highlighting ten games you think you're pretty good at and explaining what about them just works for you and clicks with your brain. Just a thought. As for me, games that I am pretty poor at but still enjoy: 5. Planet Unknown - I think I just don't plan well enough to tetris out my planet and I often forget the shared objectives that I'm (supposed to be) competing towards 4. Amritsar: The Golden Temple - I've only played this solo and lost my first six games. I've since won three out of my last four, which is why it isn't as high. But it's a really challenging solo opponent. 3. Endeavor: Age of Sail - Even though this is a top ten game for me, I think I may only have won once ever. My last three plays were against my girlfriend turned fiance turned wife (who is not a gamer but is very intelligent and clever) and I've lost all three. 2. For Northwood! - maybe I'm just not great with trick-takers...? I think I also go for the more valuable alliances too early (feeling overly optimistic about my chances/skill) and that often sinks me when I don't have the right allies to help mitigate poor card draws. 1. Anachrony - I think I jumped into this one too early before I was familiar with euros of this weight. My first game was downright embarrassing as I had the fewest points but the most water at game end. My friends still jokingly refer to this game as "Water." I tried the solo and was continually crushed. But that was a few years ago and I've since mastered some of Turczi's other designs (Weather Machine, Darwin's Journey, Nucleum, Voidfall) as well as the most complex Garphill Games (WotST, SotST, E&N). So, it may be time for another go at Anachrony.
I enjoyed reading this. Thank you, Laurence! Endeavor is a good one. I distinctly remember getting crushed at that game once. Great game. I will probably make a Top 10 games I'm good at list at some point, but that will be difficult to put together. Maybe it will need to be a Top 10 Games I'm OK at. :) Thanks for checking out the list!
I agree, it is all about the story and the experience of the struggle -- that is why I like survival games so much. Thanks so much for checking out the video!
Great video Shaggi. Robinson Crusoe and this war of mine are two games I’ve never been able to beat. I finally beat Friday a couple of months ago and haven’t played it again since. It must be tricky when you’re designing a board game to make it that good balance of difficult but not so difficult that you deter people from wanting to play, and not so easy that people get bored with it…. Hey that could be a good next list for you? Best balanced games?
Yeah, finding that right balance has to be tough, especially when you need to accommodate new players and experienced players. I think Spirit Island is a shining example of how to do it right. I think the Book of Adventures does a great job for Robinson Crusoe. I really liked the balance in Gloomhaven. Each scenario I'd either barely win the first time, or win the second time. That felt good. An interesting list to think about. Thanks Emma!
I just started Resist! And can't imagine getting the highest score. It feels very Friday-impossible to beat. I do think it comes to the luck of the shuffle and card drawing order.
Yeah, I can't tell if I'm just bad at Resist or if the game is simply impossible. I think average to good decisions don't necessarily result in fantastic results. But the brutality is part of the story it is telling, and I think the way it ends and the scoring that gives you partial victory is part of that. Thanks for watching!
@@TotallyTabled 🤯 holy crap! I hadn't thought of how the hard gameplay actually reflects on the story it is based on. You just gave the little Maquis cards a whole new dimension for me.
For sure. It is a game about sacrifice. That can be a tough thing to gamify, because we want to be in constant control and win every time. But sometimes we need to adjust what winning looks like and feels like, especially for certain stories. And I think Resist! does a great job of playing with those ideas.
Fun video, thank you :D - I do feel a bit like minded so it was hilarious for me to watch :D - Stone Age is our to -go-to comfort game. It is always great fun despite sucking at it (recommend the trader expansion which we always include). A newer game that falls into this category is Forest Shuffle. Yesterday I had 40 points unplayed in my hand when the third Winter was drawn. Pushed it too far and the winter came really early :P ... Quacks of Quedlinburg also always makes me go bust by drawing the untimely 3 or 2 white token even if I have 20 others in the bag :P Still really love the game. I do have the most-evil-die experience in plenty of games :D Have not played This War of Mine for the theme but there are so many other games that have this issue for me ( particularly every dice driven Dungeon Crawl/Boss Battle or RPG :P) For real time games I ak´lso quite liked Galaxy Trucker. My favourite in the genre is Escape from Queen Games :D Paperback is a very recent addition to our game pool and we all seem to suck at it, which is why we occasionally try to figure out words together not caring if this will make another person win :P There is also a co-op mode :D Would really love to get my hands on Paperback Adventures ... Wish you happy gaming! :D
I remember your cursed playthrough of This War of Mine. It makes me wonder how you'd fare in Machina Arcana as that d10 is also notoriously cursed. Especially the last time I played. 😂 I'm pretty cursed in Escape the Dark Castle and tend to die pretty regularly thanks to the dice in that one, but it's one of my favorite games anyway.
I'm not sure I could handle another game with a d10. But I've been wanting to try Escape the Dark Castle. That looks fun. I imagine every gamer has at least one die archnemesis. :) Thanks for checking out the video, Morga!
Terra Mystica. I was so excited when it was announced for boardgamearena but man did I suck playing it...... After 30 games, not only losing but being last or pre-last i quit. And every game felt like it worked for everyone else but me. Got age of innovation at my solo wishlist but I am a bit scared to take the step 😂 Friday on the other hand I beat it in a day in hardest mode without checking any video or reddit. Have lost quite a few since then but I m pretty confident playing it.
Terra Mystica is a great one for this list. Personally, I've improved a bit with many plays, but it feels like a game where you need to know what you're supposed to do with your faction in order to do well. I don't enjoy the game enough to devote that kind of study into it. I find Gaia Project is a bit less on rails, or at least feels that way to me. Thanks for watching!
I completely suck at Mage Knight and just generally in games with deck building. I'm never thinking about any synergies between my cards, I don't plan anything, I just go with whatever I want at the moment from pool and it never works long term. :P Yeah, I suck at games where I have to plan pretty far ahead, I prefer to react to what is happening at the moment. Thats why Final Girl became initially one of my favorites but now I don't really have any desire to play it, idk why... 😢 I absolutely love Arkham Horror lcg and I completely suck as well, never finished any campaign and I'm not that good with planning my decks for them, that's similar to deckbuilding games because I buy cards that look just fun or interesting and they don't necessarily work the way I imagined or I don't see them at all as usually in a scenario you don't go through whole deck.
Games I love, but am terrible at: Mage Knight and Dawn of the Zeds come to mind right away. Maybe it's due to turning off my real life crisis management skills to play a game? It could also be due to the infrequent plays and always needing to relearn the game and solo rules or I'm just not smart enough to be good at them. I freely admit that's a possibility and it would definitely explain my affinity for dice-chucking dungeon crawls over most everything else! HA! This video made me smile, thank you. Edited for spelling :)
There is definitely something comforting about being able to blame the dice. Sometimes you just want to ride the luck and not have everything be your fault. I think that is a big part of the appeal of games with a lot of randomness or push your luck. The stakes are lower and that can bring up the fun factor. And Mage Knight could have made the list for me as well. I think I might not be aware of just how bad I am at it. :) Thanks for watching and I'm glad the video made you smile. Have a great day!
While the point of any game is not winning or losing, but having fun... I am NOT good at the Ghost position in Mysterium. I don't draw great cards and am TERRIBLE at giving hints.
I’m bad at Gaia Project and other TM games, but it’s not my fault. My opponents simply have secret sources of victory points that I have yet to uncover.
I totally feel this. It is the nature of those games, I think, that they are more on rails than they appear and I'm one for trying new things and wild strategies. It is a bit like how in Chess there are only like 3 opening moves that make strategic sense. In Terra Mystica I think there are things you need to do for each faction to have a chance, and I can't be bothered with that sort of thing. I could also just be bad at it and be totally mistaken. Thanks for watching!
E-Mission and Spirit Island are my nemeses, very likely all catastrophe managemant games except Pandemic. I've never won either without a very generous interpretation of the rules...
I generally am not good at any games but I still loving playing them because they feel very fun and thematic… But! I have to say I really suck at chess like two players games. Those where you need to read a few moves ahead to win and when you play against people who are better than you you can lose 100/100 games. Which felt embarrassing and defeated. Example of these games are santorini and Onitama. I still love them I like the abilities of different gods in santorini and Onitama also felt very fun watching what kung fu the other player has. But sadly I am never good at them
Those are great ones. 2 player abstracts can really suffer from this. Even dueling card games have this problem. I don't play many of these types of games, but I bet they would dominate a lot of players lists of games they're bad at. Thanks for watching!
Yes! Generally head to head games give me a sour feeling at times. Including the 7 wonders duel you mentioned…. I rather play a 4 player wingspan and lose there
That's a great point. Always losing a 2-player game feels worse and can make it harder to enjoy a game. Dueling games are the worst, because you didn't just lose but the other player beat you. In less confrontational games, you can play well but the other player just played a bit better, which feels more satisfying.
I play a lot of games with my boyfriend and there’s a type of game I always win and the other type he does. Im really not good at optimizing a game, I want to play as I feel and not calculate everything. So Im good at euro games when everything is worth something, but he is particularly good at game with objectives you need to optimize to win! 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
I suck at Gin Rummy. I'd play against my grandmother and she'd whip my backside every time! I taught it to my sons and I love playing against them but still get my backside kicked 😂 I guess I taught them too well.
City Building games. Suburbia, and Quadropolis come to mind first. And I generally lose, because I'm more focused on making the city pretty, than I am making it high scoring. After the game, the consensus is usually that mine is the town where everyone would want to actually live.
I love that. It's so true. Sometime when a game is too thematic, you can get caught up in making thematic decisions that aren't the best strategically. Canvas is a great example of that. That even comes into play in This War of Mine, I think. City builders are totally like that too. Thanks for the comment!
Ha! :) I've definitely seen that sort of thing before. I bet a lot of people feel the same way. Any kind of lying or bluffing in games can really foil a lot of people. I actually think this is one of the things I'm best at. Not sure what that says about me... :) Thanks for watching!
Splendor.:.: greatest game EVER.. but I completely suck at it. My flaw is that I love building engines. I get addicted to building my engine and completely lose track of the game. If splendor went to 200 points I would be galaxy champion.
Not only have I played but I have a full solo playthrough on the channel. I'm okay at it, but I wouldn't say I win often. I need to play more, but I think my knowledge of Robinson Crusoe really helped me to understand how do to fairly well in Frostpunk. Thanks for watching!
Ah, this is a great one! This could have made my list, but I've cooled a lot on Blood Rage. I'm the same way -- give me the big monster! And then it gets killed immediately by some card. Uh. Thanks for watching!
Hardback is a much better game than Paperback and it is available as an app. I play it all the time on my iPad. Another great app version of a solo game is Maquis.
i needed over 10plus plays of friday to get to the third level, when finallly i clicked into one or two ideas 😅 I still had fun... frustrating fun 😂 another bunch of plays for my first win🎉 I won't spoil if my strats win most of the time. ........ .. ... (they don't...i spoiled)
I totally suck at my newest purchase: Spectacular the solo mode 😮 How on earth are you supposed to gain 200 points, let alone 280 ??? But I totally enjoy and love this game 🎉 The difference: games I suck at and don ´t enjoy: Area control games. Woodcraft 😮 I am not able to build a functioning engine, so mostly in Round 8 or 9 I am without any resources 😮I don ´t enjoy this game anymore, but I still have it - maybe I ´ll give it another try. Agricola - my worst nightmare 😮 Feeding your family… the horror. This tight game and the feeding-mechanic was so bad for me (I sold it, because I hated it), so that if I hear now that in a game you have to feed something or someone - I skip immediately 😮 Evolution for example - that game caught my interest, but as soon as I heard that you have to feed your animals: no thank you. And Agricola destroyed my interest for more Uwe Rosenberg games, because in most of them: you are short on resources and have to feed your family 😮
Check out my playthrough of At the Gates of Loyang, Oranienburger Kanal, and Black Forest. No feeding necessary and not at all stressful like Agricola. More relaxing and puzzly. I also don't think A Feast for Odin feels very stressful or punishing, even though you do have to feed. Again, check out my playthrough to see what I mean. I'd hate for you completely abandon Uwe Rosenberg -- his games are so fantastic! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@ Thank you for encouraging me to try an other Uwe Rosenberg game. I did watch your playthrough of At the Gates of Loyang and I have to admit: it looks quite relaxing! And it is the kind of puzzly game I like…. But: this game is being sold totally overpriced here in Germany, it is unbelievable! At the moment there is a game at an auction, maybe I am lucky and can get it for a reasonable price, otherwise I ´ll have to wait. Oranienburger Kanal is not available here in Germany…. Unbelievable too. A Feast for Odin is too heavy for me: too many options to choose from, it would feel like work for me Black Forest… nah - I don t´ know. Thanks again! Have a nice week 🎉
@@TotallyTabled thank you for encouraging me to try another Uwe Rosenberg Game. I purchased At the Gates of Loyang for a reasonable price and I really really like it 🎉 it is puzzely, it is thinky, but also quite relaxing -love it ❤️ Also I purchased Coffee roaster for a reasonable price and learning this game is next 😃 Thank you for your wonderful playthroughs - happy holidays 🎄🎅
I believe there is a pretty strong strategy that results in victory the vast majority of the time on the highest difficulty level, making this an "easy" game once you know it. Not technically 'solved" but essentially solved. For me, this is an extremely difficult game that I rarely win on the easiest levels. So, quite the gap. Thanks for watching!
I never won a pandemic. I think its because we dont card count. But i aweful at captain is dead. That game is impossible. I dont know how you can win. The hand limit and trying to go through the deck and get the cards you need plus try to stop everything from advancing. Nope. Its unwinable unless you are cheating.
Obsession is a great one. I've definitely improved with more plays but I often throw in a stinker in there. It's weird -- you can kind of get off rhythm in that game and nothing seems to work, or you find the groove and everything keeps falling into place. At least that has been my experience. Great game! Thanks for checking out the list!
You might be good at Frostpunk and still not win. :) I think I'm okay, but the wins are rare. I'd love to see someone play who has mastered the game, just to see what that looks like. Thanks for watching!
The fact that you know the reasons why you are bad at them and know some solutions shows that you are not really bad, but that you are there for the fun or just want to try thing regardless if it wil make win. 😊
This is an insightful, entertaining, thought-provoking video! Your self-reflection and vulnerability here--so valuable. If there's one underlying theme to why I suck at particular games, it is because I cannot help but make intuitive, *thematic*, or "clever" moves. That means I might not tabulate the most optimal play, or shoot from the hip when I should be more deeply programmatic, or invest too deeply trying to pull off some convoluted sequence of events. 😄
Love this content - I am horrible at Cartographers but love playing it. I not sure if I get in my own head too much with it or just like collecting coins too much ;)
Cartographers is the one that came to mind immediately. I'm ok with tile laying games like Patchwork, but for some reason here by the end of the round I can't fit anything properly on the map anymore. I can't really figure out why.
And yeah, as for 7 Wonders Duel: I play myself trying to figure out what my opponent will do, then building around that, then assuming he'll go around that himself, etc, then the simplest option happens and I'm stumped.
Thanks for the great video! I totally suck at The Lost Expedition. I cannot make it past Day 2 usually but will remain hopeful and always try again.
Basically I’m not good at any board games BUT if I started beating them all the time, I’d probably not play them. So I just enjoy the challenge.
My biggest one atm is ark nova, but that’s mainly due to make wanting to make a nice zoo with my favourite animals in (Ooh I love that eagle and need three rounds to get to play it) rather than developing a strategy for the most points! One day these two things might coincide and I get well over 100pts!
Grizzled, only beat it once playing solo. Friday is a favourite as well.
It’s very hard to come by these days (OOP with POD expansions) but Space Hulk: Death Angel has a D6 that is far more brutal than War’s D10. My win rate is abysmally low but I love it so.
Oh Shaggi, you crack me up! "It's actually a good thing that I'm bad at it" 😂, but I completely understand your logic here. I so appreciate your glass half full approach.
I am really bad at playing push your luck games or dice rolling games lol. I don't know when to stop. It could be obvious and I'd just keep going.
I played 7 wonders duel a bunch of times on BGA and lost horribly every time.
Then at a small board game convention I signed up for a tournament just to help fill up the last spot, expecting to loose my first game, and ended up winning the whole thing instead! Something just clicked at that point.
I suck at Lacerda games. His were the first games I bought getting into the hobby less than a year ago. Talk about throwing yourself into the deep end before you can swim. I've had to go back a bit. Lol. Medium and light weight games are important too; not only to help learn mechanics, but to better prepare and help get over the intimidation hurdle that heavy weights throw at you.
Suck big time at Voidfall too. Same reason as Lacerda. But I love this game so much. Set up and game time don't bother me at all. it's all part of the fun really.
This is a great topic! And I feel your pain. I love Gizmos. But I am terrible at it. People who have never played it will beat me. I am so focused on trying to do the biggest move each turn that I don’t build my engine well! And I love engine building games. Mosiac is another one. I get caught up doing the cool tech and forget to do the important part of scoring the points with the area control part. The tech is just so dang tempting.
I am totally with you. Engine building games where you need to pivot to making points are hard because I just want to build a cool engine. Who cares about scoring points! I have that problem in Through the Ages a bunch. Oh yeah, I need culture. Right, right. :)
@TotallyTabled OMG! This is totally my problem. I love engine building games, but I love building my engine so much I forget to win the game. Sometime halfway or more through the game I realize my son is playing to accumulate victory conditions and I have completely forgotten about that part of the exercise. This is especially a problem for me in Terraforming Mars and even Splendor Duel. 😢😅😂
Troyes, Nippon, Food Chain Magnate are definitely on my top. But quite a few from your list (Madeira, Galaxy Tracker etc) are very high up as well.
God that image spoke to me. Friday was the first solo game I got and I absolutely SUCKKKKED at it. Never won in about 8-10 plays then traded it away. Just so glad it didn’t put me off solo games full stop! Perhaps with a bit more experience at it I should revisit it to see if I get better results hmmm
I feel like I'm not great at 7 wonders duel either, and it's probably for the same reasons as you. Too many things catch my attention and I don't stick to a strategy. I've never been great at word games either. Great idea for a video, now maybe do a video on games you expect to be awful at, but actually you do quite well!
Azul and 7 Wonders. I am too willing to take Azul tiles that are okay for me and okay for my opponent instead of playing cutthroat and making them take bad tiles. I don’t a have particular reason for losing 7 Wonders, but I’m usually toward the bottom in scoring.
Bizarro topic: there’s only one game Im too good at - Utter Nonsense. Mimicry and accents are some of my gifts. I win about 50% of the rounds when playing with friends. It’s more fun for the group if I let others shine.
Great video. Barrage is my absolute number 1 game I love but suck at. I just love building those damn dams.
Barrage is a great one for this list. It is so mean and requires so much attention to what the other players are doing, I find it easy to get caught up playing my own Euro game and get blindsided by something I should have seen coming. Great game but not one I always have the stomach for, to be honest. Thanks so much for checking out the list!
I cannot for the life of me beat my husband at either Oh My Goods! or Patchwork, and I adore both those games. The second is I'm sure due to his superior spatial skills -- I'm not the person who you want packing the car trunk to ensure everything fits. With Oh My Goods!, it's probably a combination of factors including money management and the fact that I'm not the person who's really going to sit there and math out all my options to chose an optimal long-term strategy.
Patchwork is a great one. I think a lot of people struggle with spatial puzzles and have a hard time visualizing all the options. That can be a problem for so many games, especially all these polyomino ones. I really resonate with not mathing out things. More and more I'm realizing that my strategic decision-making in games has more to do with trying to accomplish fun short-term goals, not necessarily long-term goals for scoring points. And a lot of my play is guided by instinct rather than math. Thanks so much for checking out the video, Sara!
Love this video! I have this with two games. My girlfriend always wins Quacks of Quedlinberg for some reason, which is mind boggling because it's supposed to be mostly luck, but it apparently really isn't! And my brother always beats me at Neuroshima Hex, which is so tactical that I must simply suck at it. Still absolutely love playing both games though!
I suck at hidden movement games as I just can't follow a mental path like this. Probably why I am completely reliant on Sat Nav too as I never remember how to get to places.
I found One Deck Dungeon initially frustrating. I took it to the iPad app, because the luck mitigation is where the fun is, and you play faster and progress in the campaign faster on the app and get more skills n stuff.
Too Many Bones was tough for me to pick up. I like the mechanics so much I keep coming back for more!
I actually wasn’t that good at Earthborne Rangers , but I fell so deeply in love with it I couldn’t stop playing. 😊
I guess I kind of think I always suck the first few times and tabletop games take a while to set up and play. So some are just not ones I keep wanting to set up.
Another thing I’d be interested in hearing you talk about is rules intimidation! I find that keeps games in boxes more than their difficulty.
Big fan. Keep up the great work!
Dune Imperium... Thankfully I was gifted Uprising for Father's Day so I'll get some practice in before I meet up to play with friends again
I don't suck at any game, and either do you.... loosing doesn't mean you stink at the game, it just means you are playing the game to enjoy it and not to win...many games I just play to play and not to win, and there isn't anything wrong with that... enjoy your time and don't worry about win/loss records...
Oh, for sure. This is just for fun and I try to explain throughout that not mastering a game can actually make it more fun to play. There's nothing worse (IMHO) than understanding a game inside and out. The decision become boring for me. So these are games I love to play and love my time with them. Losing never affects my enjoyment of a game and I don't care about win/loss at all. I think it is okay to recognize when a game doesn't fit your brain. Thanks for watching!
@@TotallyTabledYeah, the reason I stopped enjoying Azul is because I got way too good at it and couldn't lose, but what that meant is I was employing roughly the same strategy every time and it was boring.
Yeah, when that happens I like to try strategies I've never tried before. I kinda do that anyway, because I find that fun. But it helps to keep things more fair for the players who are less experienced than I am, which is often the case since I'm usually teaching. For solo games as well, when I win, I will retire that strategy and try something new. I think it is a good way to keep games fresh. Thanks for watching!
It's just a video title bro lol
Wrong. You can totally suck at a game.
My most recent discovery in regard to absolutely sucking at, while really liking the game, is the freshly delivered Weirdwood Manor. I think it is a really great and fun game but oh boy do I suck. The puzzle elements of the time managment and it's pressure, combined with the parallel requirement to build my charachter/s all while also handling the boss is really overwhelming in a bizarrely simple way. I don't think it is because the game just arrived and I haven't figured it out yet, it's more like I am an onlookers, always a couple steps behind with comprehending what is going on. It's like watching hockey on small black & white TV. 😁 But I really like the game.
My all-time favorite being bad at game is Core Worlds Empires. It's like doing a Chinese plate on a stick juggling while riding a broken unicycle on the edge of a volcano, all while solving math riddles. But also here, I love the game, the weird analysis paralysis it creates, the unforgivingness and the utter chaos it can spiral into.
And finally, The Edge Dawnfall 1.5. I love this game so much and it is so much fun playing it, but the solo is just brutal and absolutely unforgiving. There isn't really a "meta" that usually exists in such games, so every match is kind of a fresh experiment and the Darkness (solo automa) can go really whacked out at times.
After the Virus (except the first 4/5 missions), Maquis (the level 2 missions), Resist!, Eldritch Horror, Paleo, Trailblazers.
How could I forget, the lost expedition!
LOL! I saw the title and just had to come and see. I fail constantly, so I commiserate with your concessions. The time element is also my weakness. I really go in "feeling," a game, and if I sense time is of the essence, I stress out, make all kinds of mistakes, and my blood pressure goes up! So I avoid those, and the "You must feed your people or they will die," games, [thanks Uwe...] 😂
Glad to hear I'm not alone! :) The time pressure thing is why I play so few video games. I mostly just stick to digital board games when I do. The feeding your people thing is a good one. That's also in Stone Age. Thank so much for watching!
The first one that came to my mind was Nemesis Lockdown. I've played this... probably 7 or 8 times now, and I've won one time. And it was pure luck. For me, the noise die in it always brutal and just seems to hate my existence. And some of the event deck that just causes fire or malfunctions everywhere is just not something you can ever prepare for and feels like it comes at the worst possible time every time.
Any push your luck game, I just can not help myself going for the one in a million shot. Glass Road by Rosenburg, love the game, but just not able to figure out how to optimise that puzzle. Also Tiny Towns, again way to ambitious with the buildings I go for.
Area control games. All area control games! Even the cute ones. 😂
Haha fun list idea and enjoyable watch! I want to add GAH to my collection so badly but only if I can get the Let's Waltz expansion to play it solo. I watched your solo playthrough and you did get crushed. :) Honestly, I would enjoy a video of yours highlighting ten games you think you're pretty good at and explaining what about them just works for you and clicks with your brain. Just a thought.
As for me, games that I am pretty poor at but still enjoy:
5. Planet Unknown - I think I just don't plan well enough to tetris out my planet and I often forget the shared objectives that I'm (supposed to be) competing towards
4. Amritsar: The Golden Temple - I've only played this solo and lost my first six games. I've since won three out of my last four, which is why it isn't as high. But it's a really challenging solo opponent.
3. Endeavor: Age of Sail - Even though this is a top ten game for me, I think I may only have won once ever. My last three plays were against my girlfriend turned fiance turned wife (who is not a gamer but is very intelligent and clever) and I've lost all three.
2. For Northwood! - maybe I'm just not great with trick-takers...? I think I also go for the more valuable alliances too early (feeling overly optimistic about my chances/skill) and that often sinks me when I don't have the right allies to help mitigate poor card draws.
1. Anachrony - I think I jumped into this one too early before I was familiar with euros of this weight. My first game was downright embarrassing as I had the fewest points but the most water at game end. My friends still jokingly refer to this game as "Water." I tried the solo and was continually crushed. But that was a few years ago and I've since mastered some of Turczi's other designs (Weather Machine, Darwin's Journey, Nucleum, Voidfall) as well as the most complex Garphill Games (WotST, SotST, E&N). So, it may be time for another go at Anachrony.
I enjoyed reading this. Thank you, Laurence! Endeavor is a good one. I distinctly remember getting crushed at that game once. Great game. I will probably make a Top 10 games I'm good at list at some point, but that will be difficult to put together. Maybe it will need to be a Top 10 Games I'm OK at. :) Thanks for checking out the list!
Ah great topic! Definitely This War of Mine. I love this game so much but can’t win. Which is ok, it’s the experience!
I agree, it is all about the story and the experience of the struggle -- that is why I like survival games so much. Thanks so much for checking out the video!
Crown of Emara is the game that immediately springs to mind for me. I very much enjoy playing it, but cannot win for anything, lol.
Great video Shaggi. Robinson Crusoe and this war of mine are two games I’ve never been able to beat. I finally beat Friday a couple of months ago and haven’t played it again since. It must be tricky when you’re designing a board game to make it that good balance of difficult but not so difficult that you deter people from wanting to play, and not so easy that people get bored with it…. Hey that could be a good next list for you? Best balanced games?
Yeah, finding that right balance has to be tough, especially when you need to accommodate new players and experienced players. I think Spirit Island is a shining example of how to do it right. I think the Book of Adventures does a great job for Robinson Crusoe. I really liked the balance in Gloomhaven. Each scenario I'd either barely win the first time, or win the second time. That felt good. An interesting list to think about. Thanks Emma!
Yeah Friday definitely has tiers of skill level. I got to where I could beat it pretty regularly on normal difficulty. The mobile app is excellent.
I just started Resist! And can't imagine getting the highest score. It feels very Friday-impossible to beat. I do think it comes to the luck of the shuffle and card drawing order.
I am with you. Great comp as well. I traded away both games because I just never felt good at either.
Yeah, I can't tell if I'm just bad at Resist or if the game is simply impossible. I think average to good decisions don't necessarily result in fantastic results. But the brutality is part of the story it is telling, and I think the way it ends and the scoring that gives you partial victory is part of that. Thanks for watching!
@@TotallyTabled 🤯 holy crap! I hadn't thought of how the hard gameplay actually reflects on the story it is based on. You just gave the little Maquis cards a whole new dimension for me.
For sure. It is a game about sacrifice. That can be a tough thing to gamify, because we want to be in constant control and win every time. But sometimes we need to adjust what winning looks like and feels like, especially for certain stories. And I think Resist! does a great job of playing with those ideas.
@TotallyTabled well put sir! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Fun video, thank you :D - I do feel a bit like minded so it was hilarious for me to watch :D - Stone Age is our to -go-to comfort game. It is always great fun despite sucking at it (recommend the trader expansion which we always include). A newer game that falls into this category is Forest Shuffle. Yesterday I had 40 points unplayed in my hand when the third Winter was drawn. Pushed it too far and the winter came really early :P ... Quacks of Quedlinburg also always makes me go bust by drawing the untimely 3 or 2 white token even if I have 20 others in the bag :P Still really love the game.
I do have the most-evil-die experience in plenty of games :D Have not played This War of Mine for the theme but there are so many other games that have this issue for me ( particularly every dice driven Dungeon Crawl/Boss Battle or RPG :P) For real time games I ak´lso quite liked Galaxy Trucker. My favourite in the genre is Escape from Queen Games :D
Paperback is a very recent addition to our game pool and we all seem to suck at it, which is why we occasionally try to figure out words together not caring if this will make another person win :P There is also a co-op mode :D Would really love to get my hands on Paperback Adventures ...
Wish you happy gaming! :D
YOu and me both on GAH. One of my favorites, and I'm horrible. Somehow I always end up with no money and the guests don't help me....just stuck.
I remember your cursed playthrough of This War of Mine. It makes me wonder how you'd fare in Machina Arcana as that d10 is also notoriously cursed. Especially the last time I played. 😂 I'm pretty cursed in Escape the Dark Castle and tend to die pretty regularly thanks to the dice in that one, but it's one of my favorite games anyway.
I'm not sure I could handle another game with a d10. But I've been wanting to try Escape the Dark Castle. That looks fun. I imagine every gamer has at least one die archnemesis. :) Thanks for checking out the video, Morga!
I’m terrible Oink Games' Maskmen, but I will always suggest it if we’ve got time at the end of game night.
Terra Mystica. I was so excited when it was announced for boardgamearena but man did I suck playing it...... After 30 games, not only losing but being last or pre-last i quit. And every game felt like it worked for everyone else but me. Got age of innovation at my solo wishlist but I am a bit scared to take the step 😂
Friday on the other hand I beat it in a day in hardest mode without checking any video or reddit. Have lost quite a few since then but I m pretty confident playing it.
Terra Mystica is a great one for this list. Personally, I've improved a bit with many plays, but it feels like a game where you need to know what you're supposed to do with your faction in order to do well. I don't enjoy the game enough to devote that kind of study into it. I find Gaia Project is a bit less on rails, or at least feels that way to me. Thanks for watching!
I completely suck at Mage Knight and just generally in games with deck building. I'm never thinking about any synergies between my cards, I don't plan anything, I just go with whatever I want at the moment from pool and it never works long term. :P Yeah, I suck at games where I have to plan pretty far ahead, I prefer to react to what is happening at the moment. Thats why Final Girl became initially one of my favorites but now I don't really have any desire to play it, idk why... 😢
I absolutely love Arkham Horror lcg and I completely suck as well, never finished any campaign and I'm not that good with planning my decks for them, that's similar to deckbuilding games because I buy cards that look just fun or interesting and they don't necessarily work the way I imagined or I don't see them at all as usually in a scenario you don't go through whole deck.
Games I love, but am terrible at: Mage Knight and Dawn of the Zeds come to mind right away. Maybe it's due to turning off my real life crisis management skills to play a game?
It could also be due to the infrequent plays and always needing to relearn the game and solo rules or I'm just not smart enough to be good at them. I freely admit that's a possibility and it would definitely explain my affinity for dice-chucking dungeon crawls over most everything else! HA!
This video made me smile, thank you.
Edited for spelling :)
There is definitely something comforting about being able to blame the dice. Sometimes you just want to ride the luck and not have everything be your fault. I think that is a big part of the appeal of games with a lot of randomness or push your luck. The stakes are lower and that can bring up the fun factor. And Mage Knight could have made the list for me as well. I think I might not be aware of just how bad I am at it. :) Thanks for watching and I'm glad the video made you smile. Have a great day!
I suck at wingspan even though i feel like im doing well. As far as a solo game Id say spirit island was a disaster for me. And friday is a tough sob.
Love the topic, I might have to “borrow” this one:)
Absolutely! I'd like to hear your thoughts! Thanks for watching.
While the point of any game is not winning or losing, but having fun... I am NOT good at the Ghost position in Mysterium. I don't draw great cards and am TERRIBLE at giving hints.
I suck at strategy games, like Risk and Small World. And while I don’t like Risk, I do like Small World.
I’m bad at Gaia Project and other TM games, but it’s not my fault. My opponents simply have secret sources of victory points that I have yet to uncover.
I totally feel this. It is the nature of those games, I think, that they are more on rails than they appear and I'm one for trying new things and wild strategies. It is a bit like how in Chess there are only like 3 opening moves that make strategic sense. In Terra Mystica I think there are things you need to do for each faction to have a chance, and I can't be bothered with that sort of thing. I could also just be bad at it and be totally mistaken. Thanks for watching!
E-Mission and Spirit Island are my nemeses, very likely all catastrophe managemant games except Pandemic. I've never won either without a very generous interpretation of the rules...
I generally am not good at any games but I still loving playing them because they feel very fun and thematic…
But! I have to say I really suck at chess like two players games. Those where you need to read a few moves ahead to win and when you play against people who are better than you you can lose 100/100 games. Which felt embarrassing and defeated.
Example of these games are santorini and Onitama. I still love them I like the abilities of different gods in santorini and Onitama also felt very fun watching what kung fu the other player has. But sadly I am never good at them
Those are great ones. 2 player abstracts can really suffer from this. Even dueling card games have this problem. I don't play many of these types of games, but I bet they would dominate a lot of players lists of games they're bad at. Thanks for watching!
Yes! Generally head to head games give me a sour feeling at times. Including the 7 wonders duel you mentioned….
I rather play a 4 player wingspan and lose there
That's a great point. Always losing a 2-player game feels worse and can make it harder to enjoy a game. Dueling games are the worst, because you didn't just lose but the other player beat you. In less confrontational games, you can play well but the other player just played a bit better, which feels more satisfying.
I play a lot of games with my boyfriend and there’s a type of game I always win and the other type he does. Im really not good at optimizing a game, I want to play as I feel and not calculate everything. So Im good at euro games when everything is worth something, but he is particularly good at game with objectives you need to optimize to win! 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
I suck at Gin Rummy. I'd play against my grandmother and she'd whip my backside every time! I taught it to my sons and I love playing against them but still get my backside kicked 😂 I guess I taught them too well.
I'm easily distracted, so engine building... OH LOOK SQUIRREL
Le Havre and Terra Mystica. Love them both but can never win.
City Building games. Suburbia, and Quadropolis come to mind first. And I generally lose, because I'm more focused on making the city pretty, than I am making it high scoring. After the game, the consensus is usually that mine is the town where everyone would want to actually live.
I love that. It's so true. Sometime when a game is too thematic, you can get caught up in making thematic decisions that aren't the best strategically. Canvas is a great example of that. That even comes into play in This War of Mine, I think. City builders are totally like that too. Thanks for the comment!
I suck at hidden traitor games. the last time I played unfathomable my mannerism changed. I would say "us" vs "them" without knowing
Ha! :) I've definitely seen that sort of thing before. I bet a lot of people feel the same way. Any kind of lying or bluffing in games can really foil a lot of people. I actually think this is one of the things I'm best at. Not sure what that says about me... :) Thanks for watching!
#1: Robinson Crusoe! Ok, prediction is submitted 😂
That's the one game I'm good at! 😃
Splendor.:.: greatest game EVER.. but I completely suck at it. My flaw is that I love building engines. I get addicted to building my engine and completely lose track of the game. If splendor went to 200 points I would be galaxy champion.
How do you do at Frostpunk? (If you have played....)
Not only have I played but I have a full solo playthrough on the channel. I'm okay at it, but I wouldn't say I win often. I need to play more, but I think my knowledge of Robinson Crusoe really helped me to understand how do to fairly well in Frostpunk. Thanks for watching!
I love Robinson Crusoe but only ever won it one time (of 20 games) 😅
One win might make you good at RC. :) Thanks for checking out the video!
Blood Rage! I am terrible because I just want big miniatures in my army and I don’t prioritize strategy! 😂
Ah, this is a great one! This could have made my list, but I've cooled a lot on Blood Rage. I'm the same way -- give me the big monster! And then it gets killed immediately by some card. Uh. Thanks for watching!
The game of Love
Hardback is a much better game than Paperback and it is available as an app. I play it all the time on my iPad. Another great app version of a solo game is Maquis.
i needed over 10plus plays of friday to get to the third level, when finallly i clicked into one or two ideas 😅 I still had fun... frustrating fun 😂 another bunch of plays for my first win🎉 I won't spoil if my strats win most of the time. ........ .. ... (they don't...i spoiled)
That is WAY better than I've ever done with Friday. Nice job! Thanks for checking out the video!
I totally suck at my newest purchase: Spectacular the solo mode 😮 How on earth are you supposed to gain 200 points, let alone 280 ??? But I totally enjoy and love this game 🎉
The difference: games I suck at and don ´t enjoy:
Area control games.
Woodcraft 😮 I am not able to build a functioning engine, so mostly in Round 8 or 9 I am without any resources 😮I don ´t enjoy this game anymore, but I still have it - maybe I ´ll give it another try.
Agricola - my worst nightmare 😮 Feeding your family… the horror. This tight game and the feeding-mechanic was so bad for me (I sold it, because I hated it), so that if I hear now that in a game you have to feed something or someone - I skip immediately 😮 Evolution for example - that game caught my interest, but as soon as I heard that you have to feed your animals: no thank you. And Agricola destroyed my interest for more Uwe Rosenberg games, because in most of them: you are short on resources and have to feed your family 😮
Check out my playthrough of At the Gates of Loyang, Oranienburger Kanal, and Black Forest. No feeding necessary and not at all stressful like Agricola. More relaxing and puzzly. I also don't think A Feast for Odin feels very stressful or punishing, even though you do have to feed. Again, check out my playthrough to see what I mean. I'd hate for you completely abandon Uwe Rosenberg -- his games are so fantastic! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@ Thank you for encouraging me to try an other Uwe Rosenberg game. I did watch your playthrough of At the Gates of Loyang and I have to admit: it looks quite relaxing! And it is the kind of puzzly game I like…. But: this game is being sold totally overpriced here in Germany, it is unbelievable! At the moment there is a game at an auction, maybe I am lucky and can get it for a reasonable price, otherwise I ´ll have to wait.
Oranienburger Kanal is not available here in Germany…. Unbelievable too.
A Feast for Odin is too heavy for me: too many options to choose from, it would feel like work for me
Black Forest… nah - I don t´ know.
Thanks again! Have a nice week 🎉
@@TotallyTabled thank you for encouraging me to try another Uwe Rosenberg Game. I purchased At the Gates of Loyang for a reasonable price and I really really like it 🎉 it is puzzely, it is thinky, but also quite relaxing -love it ❤️
Also I purchased Coffee roaster for a reasonable price and learning this game is next 😃
Thank you for your wonderful playthroughs - happy holidays 🎄🎅
@@b.2194 Nice! Both amazing games to add to the collection. They have been staples of my gaming for years now.
Friday has NOT been solved. There are some really good strategy tips over on BGG in the forums, but in no way does that "solve" this game.
I believe there is a pretty strong strategy that results in victory the vast majority of the time on the highest difficulty level, making this an "easy" game once you know it. Not technically 'solved" but essentially solved. For me, this is an extremely difficult game that I rarely win on the easiest levels. So, quite the gap. Thanks for watching!
@@TotallyTabledI have tried this strategy and it helps but I still lose a lot. A lot. Brutal game. Love it
I never won a pandemic. I think its because we dont card count.
But i aweful at captain is dead. That game is impossible. I dont know how you can win. The hand limit and trying to go through the deck and get the cards you need plus try to stop everything from advancing. Nope. Its unwinable unless you are cheating.
lol this list looks exactly like ADHD symptoms 😂😂
Grand Austria Hotel and Obsession are my top two games I suck at and games my wife wants to play.
Obsession is a great one. I've definitely improved with more plays but I often throw in a stinker in there. It's weird -- you can kind of get off rhythm in that game and nothing seems to work, or you find the groove and everything keeps falling into place. At least that has been my experience. Great game! Thanks for checking out the list!
Frostpunk! Love that game. impossible to win
You might be good at Frostpunk and still not win. :) I think I'm okay, but the wins are rare. I'd love to see someone play who has mastered the game, just to see what that looks like. Thanks for watching!
I love Robinson Crusoe but only ever won it one time (of 20 games) 😅