I specialize in small games. The Crew is fantastic, Oink Games has a bunch of hits with Startups, Deep Sea Adventure, the bizarre hand shedding game Maskmen (which is unlike any card game I've ever played). It also has Dungeon of Mandom VIII (which is a smaller version of Welcome to Dungeon) and beautiful tiny Modern Art (though something on the bottom of the easel and some paste-ups from German or French are required). Arboretum is very good. Button Shy has some good stuff of which Sprawlopolis and Agropolis are the stand outs. I've heard great things about Air, Land and Sea, but haven't played it yet. Mint Works is a neat tiny game in a tin. No Thanks is a brilliant game for a pub. My favourite is still the super tiny For Sale, which has the most decisions per minute of any game out there. It's so small and only a few minutes, but the decisions are consistently great.
It's really simple but I love Stax. It's literally just a small bag of different coloured dice that you try to stack into miniature towers of matching numbers, with those numbers representing the points that the tower is worth. There's a few more rules but it's fast, fun and easy to teach.
As I've seen pointed out many times... most game boxes are 90% empty space anyways. There's a long list that could be redesigned to have a box 1/2 or 1/4 the size and still hold the entire game!
Hive is a perfect game and perfectly portable too. Very fun, easy to learn, hard to master with endless possibilities, short match length, high replayability and very sturdy/durable. It is a masterpiece. The only con is a 2 player game. For 3 or more Love Letter is great and very portable.
Bananagrams is nice and small to put in your bag. Admittedly it can take up a lot of table space, so one for when you get to your destination rather than on the plane/train, but definitely a good choice!
I'm very excited for Tiny Epic Pirates to come out - Galaxies is my favourite of its genre, and I'm a big fan of age of sail/piracy stuff, so it should be a complete win for me!
Interesting. I learned about WIll Bill's soda at GenCon, because of their food truck. So it is interesting to see it advertised on a game channel (for synergy) and a British one (since it seemed like a very American company). Also, want to suggest Roll For It as a good, portable game.
Since we usually rent a house with about 10 people I'm not quite sure what to bring along next time. I'm considering Bang!, Root, Everdell, Splendor, Set a Watch, Lifeboat, Wingspan, Coup, Mysterium and Villagers and Kubb...I think Scythe and Gloomhaven are too big
Thankyou for using my favourite word - plethora.
That means a lot...
* applause *
My go-to is Love Letter, with just 16 cards. One of my all-time games too.
I LOVE Love Letter.
I came to the comments to make sure this was in the conversation. Wife and I do Batman Love Letter; same great game, but funner theme
I specialize in small games. The Crew is fantastic, Oink Games has a bunch of hits with Startups, Deep Sea Adventure, the bizarre hand shedding game Maskmen (which is unlike any card game I've ever played). It also has Dungeon of Mandom VIII (which is a smaller version of Welcome to Dungeon) and beautiful tiny Modern Art (though something on the bottom of the easel and some paste-ups from German or French are required). Arboretum is very good. Button Shy has some good stuff of which Sprawlopolis and Agropolis are the stand outs. I've heard great things about Air, Land and Sea, but haven't played it yet. Mint Works is a neat tiny game in a tin. No Thanks is a brilliant game for a pub.
My favourite is still the super tiny For Sale, which has the most decisions per minute of any game out there. It's so small and only a few minutes, but the decisions are consistently great.
I love small games.not only for holidays, but to keep them in my backpack whenever I visit friends just in case someone wants to play
For our holidays it’s The Crew or Deep Sea Adventure
First time I've heard of Similo. Thanks!
We getting teenii tiny! Love your play throughs of these games on the channel and would be delighted to see y’all play other ones at some point
It's really simple but I love Stax. It's literally just a small bag of different coloured dice that you try to stack into miniature towers of matching numbers, with those numbers representing the points that the tower is worth. There's a few more rules but it's fast, fun and easy to teach.
Great recommendations. Tiny Epic Zombies being upside down has my brain in a kerfuffle though
As I've seen pointed out many times... most game boxes are 90% empty space anyways. There's a long list that could be redesigned to have a box 1/2 or 1/4 the size and still hold the entire game!
Those last few games bring back memories of some rather chaotic early videos : )
tiny epic galaxies is fun, it left me wanting just a bit more, like it was missing the cherry on top
Hive is a perfect game and perfectly portable too. Very fun, easy to learn, hard to master with endless possibilities, short match length, high replayability and very sturdy/durable. It is a masterpiece. The only con is a 2 player game. For 3 or more Love Letter is great and very portable.
Bananagrams is nice and small to put in your bag. Admittedly it can take up a lot of table space, so one for when you get to your destination rather than on the plane/train, but definitely a good choice!
This is the kind of content I really enjoy. Great video!
So…. Not gloomhaven?
SACRIFICE YOUR FRIENDS IN THE DUNGEON!!!
Awesome list! Thanks, Wheels!
Thanks for this list!
Dungeon Mayhem is another good travel choice.
I'm very excited for Tiny Epic Pirates to come out - Galaxies is my favourite of its genre, and I'm a big fan of age of sail/piracy stuff, so it should be a complete win for me!
Interesting. I learned about WIll Bill's soda at GenCon, because of their food truck. So it is interesting to see it advertised on a game channel (for synergy) and a British one (since it seemed like a very American company).
Also, want to suggest Roll For It as a good, portable game.
we have "Who did it" with us this year, it's a fantastic little game for the family
Since we usually rent a house with about 10 people I'm not quite sure what to bring along next time. I'm considering Bang!, Root, Everdell, Splendor, Set a Watch, Lifeboat, Wingspan, Coup, Mysterium and Villagers and Kubb...I think Scythe and Gloomhaven are too big
It depends on your luggage. But yeah, the flight attendants gave us odd looks when we broke out Gloomhaven on the plane.
@@nickdejager8873 I've flight phobia so I'm not approchable during flights. Dispite I'm 6 foot 8 so there is not much space either.
Three Dragon Ante for me (and my casual-player friends and family)
Please have a play of one to two tiny epic games.
A good list to celebrate the world slowly getting back to normal.
Surprised you missed coup but I recommend Boss Monster and Flux
It's in our beginner games list!
Small travel have video, didn't mention Button Shy wallet games... Hrm.
HIVE
Oink games?