10 Most Uncomfortable Board Games Ever Made
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- YIKES. Join us as we run down the 10 most socially awkward, cringeworthy board games that would put even hardcore gamers off the hobby.
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Number 10 really hits different after Adam and Sully's erotically charged House Rules game of Twister
came here to say this
inb4 they attempt to make #1 tolerable
I purchased and played Dog eat Dog once. It has never left my shelf since. It's a phenomenal game. Absolutely incredible design. I will never touch it again.
How do you think it would work as a worldbuilding tool? Not to trivialize the game itself, but I genuinely think it could be good to bring some dark realism to the themes I always like to inject in my fantasy worlds, mainly those of the corrupt nature of those who hold power and the insidious reasoning behind oppression. But it could also not be particularly useful for that, so I wanted to ask someone who's played it.
@@MisterNym Can’t really recommend it for that. The actual narrative is fairly abstract. It’s more an exploration in the mechanical relationship between the players.
My recommendation for if you want to worldbuild a colonial power is to identify a virtue of the native race that the colonial power considers a vice that they use as a justification for their oppression.
Do NOT do the BioWare thing of “isn’t it terrible that they’re oppressed, but also they’re really really dangerous” a la the mages from Dragon Age. Colonial justification is inherently a fallacy. If you give an ACTUAL reason to oppress a race then your morals go loopy.
@@jessie-buns839 That's good advice, thank you! What's your opinion on a group that used to be oppressors becoming oppressed themselves? I don't think there's a real world version of the concept, but I've been using it in my homebrew D&D game with High Elves.
@@MisterNym As you said, there’s not really a real world parallel to draw on there, so this is more speculative on my part. Also be prepared for your players to never actually learn most of this stuff. The joys of worldbuilding!
I’m going to assume that the “other race” in this example is humanity. Just for ease of writing.
The kind of power exchange that leads to your situation could only come about via an external force. Either a third party or natural disaster, something that spared humanity but doomed the elves. If you want it to be caused by the hubris of the elves, perhaps their treatment of the humans was what unleashed said calamity. Be careful if you do this to not justify the “my abuse made you strong” trope.
You’ll need a reason for humanity to oppress the elves from now on. Sheer bitterness over their previous enslavement is fairly flimsy, especially once the first few generations of either side have died. A more interesting dynamic I feel, especially given the elves longer lifespans, would be to have the elves self recriminate themselves into being a servile race as a form of atonement for their treatment of humanity, and for unleashing said calamity, with the younger elves chafing under this policy, having not witnessed the barbarity of their ancestors firsthand. At worst, they could advocate for the old ways of oppression, at best they’d be “I think it’s great that the lesser races are governing themselves now!”
Oppression is usually so endemically written into the fabric of a society that even with sweeping changes to the status quo, the psychology of the establishment rarely changes. (For a good video on this check out Abigail Thornes latest video).
I might be rambling now. This is all for a game of pretend with wizards and dragons. Feel free to ignore this lol
@@jessie-buns839 This is all honestly super helpful! I'll need to rewatch that new video now. Some of this stuff is established in-universe (There are some nuances but most of them are rooted in the fantastical) but a lot of this stuff helps me establish how the oppressor society chose to lash back and how some people can follow the villainous leader who kept himself living since the darkest days of the empire.
For a little context, a group of elves basically ran a Rome style empire, and at their largest, a few events caused a change in leadership that was essentially if Augustus gave way to Nero. The result was a very low population of High Elves, many of who were actually unrelated to the empire itself. One nation in particular found profit in capturing High Elves and using them as slave labor. This nation has very loose laws on people as chattel, and they've exploited those to essentially allow for the kind of oppression they've inflicted.
For the most part, I doubt it'll come up that much, but I wanna make sure they know it and don't just think all of them have supremacist leanings (like the villain who used to actually be part of the oppressive empire)
Yeah, True Colors can be awkward. I recently played it with colleagues...
Turns out I am the person who they would least want to have as their boss, while simultaneously being unanimously voted for as the officer who in a SHTF situation behind enemy lines gets everyone safely back home.
Still can't decide how that makes me feel.
Idk that sounds great. They see you as a true equal who they respect. They wouldn't want you to be their boss cause that's not the dynamic you have. I would much rather be trusted as an equal than the boss thing
"I already don't like me I don't need a 2nd opinion."
Same Adam, same. Hugs here if you want them (without touching hands of course)
I played spin the bottle before because they refused to play seven minutes in heaven. took a lot of alcohol to get them to agree to that, worst family reunion ever.
A little surprised Cards Against Humanity wasn't at least name-checked. I mean, you definitely have to be playing with the right people for that game. Even then, personal situations can make it awkward - my father died of a brain tumour, which was one of the things used in the base game. Oh, and guess what card my mother drew?
yeah, cards against humanity is very player specific. the friend group i usually play it with makes it a blast to play, we actually had neighbors that ringed at the door because the laughing was that loud. with family on the other hand, especially an uptight one... pro tip: only play it with people who you are sure have basically no lines comedy is not allowed to cross.
Ouch
@@falsnamae3511 on one hand, I get it. On the other hand, game is ruined
Played a game called Endangered. Pretty cool concept - co-op action allocation game about saving an endangered species from going extinct.
Every turn when one of the little animal meeples gets taken off the board, presumably because of dying, a piece of my heart was ripped away. Design-wise, it was fine, but emotionally, I never want to play it again.
Some people have the same issue with Freedom: The Underground Railroad, it's just way too tough for them to think about the cubes as slaves
@@ishoottheyscore8970 then there is This War of Mine.
So, anyone else think we need to see a series of NRB odd couples playing Fog Of Love? Laurie & Sully, Rosie & Blair, Dom & Sully, Adam & Blair...
YES!
Don’t forget sullutom
@@markcattigan4237 I'd like to see Tom or Jon with Rosie, so you get that mix of reserved/dry vs outright lunacy, but I think you can pair any two. The most normal RomCom one for me would be Luke & Rosie or Tom & Blair
Year old comment but still, after watching Adam and Sully play battleshots together, I reckon having them couple up would be superior. You want people who have great chemistry in real life to play together because it would drive them apart easier when they have to be selfish.
My most awkward board game experience has to be when I played Truth Bombs. (for those who don't know you have to fill in prompts about other people based of chosen cards) I had to fill in the prompt: What would you guess this person's name is if you didn't know them.
The person I was writing for is nonbinary, so I thought I'd be clever and pick a unisex name.
Which resulted in me accidentally picking their deadname.
They sound fragile. Maybe good to not play games with them.
Yikes, that's real unlucky..
if they couldn't just laugh that off, it's probably mento illness luv
@@ramaya007 Not a single word was written about the person's reaction. They could've just laughed it off for all you know.
@@Oscar----- The fact that "deadname" is in there meant they were told that term and the person made something of it.
Wow the box art for Spin the Bottle is insane. Who thought that was a good idea??
The French? No wait, the Swedes again?
The most uncomfortable I've been playing a board game was during a session of Secret Hitler. Let's just say a couple of them got far too excited about being Hitler and used it as an excuse to rattle off a lot of "jokes" that made the rest of us reconsider the life choices that lead us to be in that situation.
yikes...
I absolutely love secret Hitler.
Although when you are Hitler for half the night people do tend to draw some awkward connections.
One woman I played with sabotaged her own team because she didn't want to be a fascist. Hitler was not the least popular person that day.
I've never heard of this one, so I had to look it up on Amazon, and it's got Wil Wheaton doing the commercial, it will be a hard pass for me, as I don't want anything to do with that wacko!!
@@CommodoreFan64 while I don't blame you for that thought, assuming the commercial was made around the time the game was released that would have meant it was made while he was also making his fairly popular youtube series 'table top' (a show where he would showcase various games by playing them with a rotating cast of internet celebs) and so i think it was mainly a "hey this minor celeb has a big audience that is interested in board games, lets have him promote our board game" instead of any support for any of his views on anything outside of board games.
if you like the party game mafia (aka werewolf) or games like among us then you will most likely enjoy secret hitler and you should still give it a try. if you don't like those types of games though then you saved yourself some money.
So basically Dog Eat Dog is Stanford Prison Experiment: The Board Game.
I would love to see a list on chess variations. Personal favorites of mine include Really Bad Chess by Zach Gage, in which all pieces except the king are random, four-player chess, chessboxing, and of course, 5D chess
Do you mean 5D chess with multiverse time travel (which is an actual game on Steam)?
Also have you tried anti-chess?
This is my favourite ever list Adam has done and thats saying something
@Brandon Uddstrom explains why WhatCulture went down the toilet
Somebody animate "now that is f**king saying something" where's Sam
"True Colors" was going great - even through the "who is the stinkiest" type questions - until we got to "Who is mostly likely to lead a cult?"
Chuckling, like a bunch of moronic lemmings, we unanimously picked one person.
An actual dark cloud formed in the room as said person lost her emotional shit in a quickly escalating tempest of vitriol, condemnation and tears that sucked every player in until we were gasping for poison kool-aid just to make it all stop.
Do not play that game - I guarantee the people in your group are strung tighter than you think they are.
oh my god, i would not have been able to stop laughing at anyone who took offense to that question!
@@headphonic8 Yeah that's what I thought until it happened lol
What makes it worse, in retrospect, was she made us pack up the game and do something else - just like the leader of a cult would. 🤣
"Except maybe Swedes - the perverts". I, a Swede, spit out my coffee laughing at this. It is true, we are depraved - and proud of it!
It is time to go to Sweden.
This raises the question: if I visit Sweden, what percentage of the time must I wear pants? Asking for a me.
@@IceMetalPunk Hardly even outdoors!
@@IceMetalPunk your "asking for a me" caused me to choke on my drink, which considering the original comment is oddly fitting XD
So fog of love ft. Adam and Blair please.. Anyone
I vote for Adam v Sully.
Most adults-only party games. For some reason (maybe because I got into the novelty of CAH for about a year, thinking it was hilarious until it got super old and expansions had cards in them that I literally shredded) people hear that I like board games and so they buy me THESE awful things and force me to play them. I am at an age now where I no longer give in to peer pressure and can just say "no, thanks". I mean I can swear like a sailor and have been known to flirt inappropriately, but being forced to with people who I would never do that around is super skeevy.
I know Adam loves games that are essentially big toys, I would love to see a list of the top 10 games that are just big toys!
has he done one about games where moving board parts are central to the game mechanic (e.g. mousetrap, haunted house,... both fairly crappy games, but interesting for other reasons). Titanic fits this category.
My wife and I played Fog of Love and she turned on me almost immediately to win the game. It was fine, we both found it hilarious but didn't really find another reason to play it again and that was an expensive-ass game. So yeah, I wouldn't recommend it, but not for reasons of discomfort.
Heheh. Aw man.
The prices of some of these board games are out of control. There are some that even look really simply made but the makers ask for $45 - 80.
5:28 That is my face making a cameo!
Loving the content!
Fun fact (or not): Barbarossa is one of the most successful kickstarter campaigns in the sites history, reaching and surpassing its own funding goals in record time.
A gaming store owner I knew said it best: "there are cancer charities whose goals were never met this fast."
... that is bleak yet hilarious
Loli anime and alt-right style nazis.... someone understands Venn diagrams.
I played twister exclusively as a bisexual teenager with other teenagers; I though it was great.
"Do I have to? I already don't like myself, I don't need a second opinion."
Relatable
This channel is the reason I have several board games I haven’t even touched yet. Nice to look at though. F*ck house plants I have cardboard
I wouldn't suggest either, to be honest... Trust me. I know. I'm still banned for Kew Gardens and that's not a paper cut you are gonna easily forget
This has to be the funniest, goofiest & seriousest (?) video I've ever seen! Another great job by the entire crew
Twister is bad enough, but I once found a game called Body Boggle in a thrift store. Don't remember how it worked, but it was basically Twister with the mat replaced with a Boggle grid.
......yeah....
Anyone else notice how many of the "criminals being released back onto the streets" in Capital Punishment are uncomfortably-depicted black men? Yeah....
@@Reggie2000 So look at everything else about the game. Are you really inclined to give the creators of that game the benefit of the doubt when it comes to that depiction, never mind the way they're actually drawn straight out of a Ku Klux Klan publication?
I came here to say this
@@Reggie2000 reggie, look at HOW they're depicted not simply the amount of them. Surely you can see why this might be an issue
@@Reggie2000 My parents had the Public Assistance game. I wish they still had it. I played it when I was younger and only barely remember it.
To see more of that you should check Police Precint, where the tokens of criminals show a picture of black and latino men... yeah. And the policemen? Yeah, you can flip the character card to play ether male or female characters, but with 95% of them being white and one of the few black characters basically pulled out of Die Hard.
Watching Adam talk about a game where the player is blindfolded after the video where Adam and Sully play connect 4 blindfolded
My friends and I have no love for colonialism, but I feel like we're still big enough bastards that Dog Eat Dog would just be enjoyable instead of uncomfortable for us.
Exactly my thought. I've played my share of evil aligned characters in tabletop RPGs, bring it on. Let's get this tyranny rolling!
Adam could do a list on the top 10 worst VDs to catch and I’d still watch it.
These kinds of videos aren’t my favorite but man this was hilarious😂
It blows my mind that somethings get through so many layers of employees to be published to be so cringe.
I never thought i was this interested in board games...but adam sure as hell knows how to make anything sound interesting 👍
Thanks for the list I am now interested in a few new games :P
Number 3 caused my weekly utterance of "Goddamnit, Japan."
For a game that makes you uncomfortable, try a horror themed game called ''Nightmare'' also known as ''Atmosfear'' .
This isn't a yikes. It's a mega yikes.
Here are time codes.
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - 10. Twister
01:27 - 9. The Vanilla Ice Electronic Rap Game
02:09 - 8. Strip Checkers
03:00 - 7. Nyctophobia
03:56 - 6. Capital Punishment
04:42 - 5. Fog of Love
05:30 - 4. True Colors
06:18 - 3. Barba*Rossa
06:57 - 2. Dog Eat Dog
08:09 - 1. Spin the Bottle
You can thank me later Adam.
Playing cards against humanity with my family and my mum playing the most inappropriate cards. (Also, funniest list yet, keep it up you guys)
Part of me wanted CAH and its many knock-offs to be on the list (or at least, an honourable mention)
But then I figured that the game has Edgelordism is the be-all and end-all of the game (deliberately so), ergo it’s not really uncomfortable unless you’ve never played the game before and don’t like jokes about pederasty
@@MultiClassGeek like in the video, the participants can be what can cause uncomfortable situations rather than the game itself. If it's your friends who you get wasted/high with (not assuming anything about your lfiestyle) that you are playing with, CAH can be a great time.
...and I'm straight off to Ebay to pick me up a Vanilla Ice Electronic Rap Game!
Honestly same
This was definitely my favourite episode so far ✌️✌️😊❤️
Shit. Never actually *seen* Kya in so long I forgot how much she looked like Katara.
Why was this so good?
Sometimes you know how good a video is going to be from its title alone! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I want to see you guys play all of these. Maybe not spin the bottle.
Can we please get an “I’m a bellend” shirt available in the shop?
Most uncomfortable about this video: Vanillerice.
He mentions Sweden! I like it! As a swede i approve of this video!
I played twister with my cousins as a kid .. it was fun but a bit awkward XD
Since Dog eat Dog is on there, with its explicit goal of making one oncomfortable about colonailsim, i want to mention the following:
This war of mine: a game set in the Yugoslav Wars with the objeciotve to simply survive, wich is very hard.
Train: A game about the Holocasut, where you ship meeples to a KZ....
This game was never commercially released as far as I know, and is an explicit peice of art.
I was a touch surprised that Tammany Hall didn't make the list, given it's mechanics of race baiting (basically)
I don't know if enough people ever played Lap Dance for it to be considered, but I was glad to see Barbarossa get roasted. There is apparently a version of that game which uses WW2 photographs which does a really good of identifying just how tacky and tacked on the anime girls are
Is "this war of mine" a board game as well, didn't know that! Played a game on pc by that name, can confirm it was absolutely soul-crushing.
@@brennag7962 yeah they made a board game adaption a couple of years back, friend of mine has a copy.
The thing about Train is that you're not told what the train that you're trying
to efficiently get from point A to point B is carrying - until it gets there. It's
not a game in which the rules tell you to ship people to their doom.
5:30 Basically... a more awkward version of "Among Us".
8:51 'burn the internet down!' XD XD XD XD
I hated my only play of That is the question: 1st my friend tried to figure out something about me and then they judged me for my responses.
And they are friends, not persons I didn't know the day before.
I appreciate that you have expertise in prostrate massage
The blind one I played with my games group down the pub. It's awful. You sit there for ages in the dark whilst the games master plays with each player and you just sit there and wait. 6 players? Guess you're waiting and not even watching for 5 turns....it's so boring.
I do understand why some of these games are so dumb and uncomfortable to be played, but I do have some personal opinions about two of those games (not talking about Dog Eat Dog which is a great idea, but nope, not gonna play that even in a million years).
Nyctophobia is a fantastic experience, but sadly that is all, an experience, an experiment, something that was created to give that blind experience, which was what it was invented for, something for people that are blind so they can also be part of the experience, but as a game, this is a game you play once and then give the game to somebody else because it has almost no shelf life.
And for Fog of Love, it is not a romantic game for adults that will be steamy or whatever, it is a couple simulation, one that has to be played as two people creating fictitious characters and manipulating their lives; it should never be played by real life couples because it can very easily cross into some very awkward situations and can turn real so easily. But for people that just want to create a soap opera or a silly rom-com? This game is a fantastic tool to create real people that will have real problems. If you have a friend who is also interested in just creating a couple and act like gossip girls, it is awesome, you can also invite other people to watch, because it is one of the few games where you can have people spectate the game and you will all start chatting and telling each other, yeah, they should just break up now, as if it were a movie that you are directing.
Most uncomfortable board game experience I have had... was watching this video lolbvs
I wouldn't mind seeing a top 20 in this category.
This just made me want the vanilla ice rap game
If you want another one, try the card game Consentacle
#1 has me dead. you killed me, Adam
"The man plays with the womans checkers", they would have been so proud of that entendre
Adam needs to book the perfect board game
I think i will get myself a copy of barbarossa thank you very much adam
"Okish loser" you need to learn a lesson from Holly who is the most chill at losing ever
Figured Puerto Rico would appear on here but yeah, fair enough, #2 kinda covers that base
“And that’s our list. ...sorry”
i kind of want to play that nyctophobia board game
Even watching this list made me uncomfortable 😅😂🤣
Just watched this video, my guy and girl seperate neighbors played drunkopoly. We should have stopped after one go around on the board, but did a second time around. The game says take a shot with the player on the right and left of you, and that was everyone, everytime. Needless to say we were all in our underwear at the end of the game, and my dude neighbor fell down twice on his way home. Uncomfortably Numb.
Adam Got Them Bars 🤣🤣
Drunk Quest should be on the list. It’s driving gameplay is forcing others to drink or they lose. This can be so toxic.
When is Board Game Club doing any/all of these games? I want to see Adam squirm.
No mention of the game Speak Out? That one really disturbs me
Adam play true colours with everyone else on no rolls barred muwhahahahaha
loved the references
I really want a NRB Dog Eat Dog.
I want a NRB of true colors, I bet that would be so funny
Oh shit, son. Plumpy got bars.
Playing naked Twister is a family tradition at Christmas...nobody else plays?
Honorable mention: Watch Ya Mouth
I'm pretty sure "nyctophobia" is actually Latin for "sagrada."
Fuck I love this channel.
It's funny cos I consider 'proper' board games to be non-hobby/collector games (y'know, Cluedo, Candy Land etc) becasue I'm not part of the hobby. Now it dawns on me that of course boardgamers consider those games aimed at hobbiest/collectors/adults/people who don't have a PlayStation as 'proper' games and Cluedo etc 'not proper' and lord knows what they consider KerPlunk, Hungry Hungry Hippos or Battle Tops to be - blasphemous?
I’m actually shocked The Ungame wasn’t on this list.
Ah babarosa grate game, just if u take artwork out then the fun is kinda lost lol.
I'm surprised diplomacy didn't make the list
I don't even care about board games. I subscribed because of Adam. But these lists are fuckin amazing. Leave it to Adam to make entertaining a thing i couldn't care less about
SPANC! I've played it.
... ... hey! speaking of changing the subject ...
this is ur best game list thus far
Spin the bottle: West Virginia edition
Twister! The hot spot!
These games make me very glad I am a recluse.
I was suggested Fog of love for Valentines day... Don’t do this...
#10 & #1 Family Game Night in Alabama
Hey, where's the Amazon Affiliate list for this video? 🙃 (I kid)
They could have done it for the recommended games like Fog Of Love and Nyctophobia at least, and maybe with pithy insults for people thinking of buying the others
@@ishoottheyscore8970 The link to the Vanilla Ice game just leads to the music video for Weird Al's White and Nerdy.
3:10 Go Bills!
As a swede. Thank you.
Wrestle Talk brought me
Quite a collection starter...
Is this starter pack?
No mention for cards against humanity?