Board (and Card) Games!

WARNING: READING AHEAD

What follows is a list of card/board games I think most everyone should know about. Why should you care? Because while Monopoly and other... mainstream? games are OK games (I'm biased against Monopoly because our group does not handle trading games well), there is so much more to the world of board games, and I'm convinced that there is a game for EVERYONE out there.

That being said, a good gaming group will have two things:
1) A player who is willing to read through the rules and then explain it to everyone else. This is generally the enthusiast of the group, who enjoys understanding the small details that make a game really come together. For example: When two cards have conflicting abilities, which one occurs first?
2) Patience. The first play through of any game typically should not be taken seriously. Hell, some games listed here are so intricate that the 5th play through is not enough to really understand the meta game

I will try to keep my descriptions accurate and straight to the point. If it is not enough, I highly suggest looking the game up on boardgamegeek.com
There are a LOT of good reviews there, and it even can point you to the right place to buy the game. While Amazon often has a good price, there are many other places to look.

On a similar note, many cities have cafes devoted specifically to board games. The pricing differs from location to location, but it's a good way to try a game before you buy it.

I also apologize for any inaccuracies in the following mini reviews, most of the time the exact rules of a game elude me unless I have the game board set up in front of me.

Smash Up: (2-4 players)

Easily my favorite game. Easily my most played game. Each player picks 2 factions, and shuffles their decks together. The players then fight over bases by placing minions to raise their power on the base. When the net power between all players on a base exceeds the base's breaking point, the base breaks and players score based on how much power they have on it (I.e: First may get 5 points, second gets 3, third gets 2, dependent on base).

The amazingness of this game comes from how every faction is completely unique in their play style. Alderac Games does a fantastic job making sure that Ninjas feel like sneaking in kills, and Pirates can sail around the bases, Dinosaurs are a huge powerhouse deck, etc. On top of that, the way the decks interact with eachother normally allows for some extremely deep strategy. I have seen plays that took 3 turns of set up that broke every single base on the board in one turn in favor of that player. There are just so many possibilities in term of faction combinations.

I have every single expansion. The box in the picture technically was an expansion itself (It was built to hold all of the other expansions and base game in one box, and came with a faction) I can't say there is a single expansion that I did not get at least 3 factions that I love. The developers also have a fairly strong sense of humor (the latest expansion came with Sharks as a faction, and they included a faction o "Shark Deployment Devices", the Tornado faction)

If I HAD to come up with a downside of this game, it would be the frustration of having a faction combination not work the way you hoped it would, and having to go through an entire game with two decks that do not synergize at ALL, or synergize in the wrong way (Wizard/Time Travelers) But that is part of the learning experience in my opinion.

Smash Up's base game runs only $20, each expansion will be about $10-$15.

Arcadia Quest (2-4 players)

This game is actually at a friend's house at the moment, so I just used an image from the internet here.

Arcadia Quest is a co-op pvp game (no that wasn't a typo). Every player builds a team of 3 heroes, and fights each other while working towards pve objectives. Throughout the game players gain coins, and can spend them to buy equipment and spells between missions. There is a progression among the missions, and certain enemies gain strength as you progress. The final mission is a pure co-op mission against a common enemy.

This is hands down the most requested game to play. I have an entire notebook for writing down saves for the game so we can pick up where we were later. A normal quest takes about 60-90 minutes, and there are about 7ish quests per playthrough.

Arcadia's base game is a bit pricey at $60, but you get what you pay for.

Small World (2-5 players)

This is comparable to a much more stylized game of Risk. Every player controls a faction, and attempts to get as much as they can out of a map that was intentionally made a bit too small for the amount of players playing. A lot of the game play often is focused on spreading out as much as possible, while minimizing how much your opponents can spread out. When a race is beginning to become less efficient, you can put them in decline, be unable to control them (but still gain points from them), and pick a new faction (from a pool of factions drawn from the deck) to start anew with.

This is a very fun game, and has a much deeper level of strategy than I see in most games. Each faction you pick is also randomly matched with an attribute that modifies their playstyle, so a lot of the game feels like picking the best tool for the current situation, and finding a way to make the most out of it.

That being said, the set up for this game is so godawful annoying when you have many expansions. The only real solution is the purposefully exclude races/attributes from the decks to avoid having to get them out of their boxes.

Small World's base game runs about $35
Small World is also available on the google play store

Machi Koro (2-4, up to 6 with expansion)

Machi Koro is an interesting mix of a deckbuilder and Sim City. You are not building a deck per se, but you are purchasing cards from a pool, just like a deck builder. At the beginning of each player's turn they roll a die (or two dice later in the game). Each card that has the number rolled listed on it then activates and gains coins (among some other interesting effects). They then use said coins to buy more buildings. The first player to purchase the 4 "Landmark" cards (which are significantly more expensive) wins.

This is probably my favorite "casual" game. It's very easy to get new players into it, and it's strategy is straightforward enough to keep the turns moving quickly, but diverse enough that you won't get bored across multiple playthroughs.

Machi Koro's base game costs $25
Side Note: Machi Koro is on "Tabletop Simulator" on Steam

Evolution (2-6 players)

Evolution is a very unique game about managing an ecosystem of species. Each player starts with one species (but can purchase more as time goes on), and must play trait cards to help their species adapt to the current needs of the environment.

The meta of Evolution is fairly huge, from intentionally drying up the food source to starve out other less prepared species, to doing a quick switch to carnivore to eat up some overly eager under defended species.

The best part of this game is how it actually feels like an ecosystem, the cards actually play and feel like they would in a real life ecosystem. The quality of everything in the game is also very high, it includes 6 very soft food bags, a wooden "little foot" to indicate the current first player, and a couple laminated "cheat sheets" that help players not have to read every card played on the table their first couple times playing.

There seems to be a new base game called "Evolution: Climate" that appears to add some diversity to the environment. I learned about this literally 10 minutes ago and am off to amazon once I finish this post.

The flight expansion is highly recommended once you have played the base game a bit. It really mixes up the meta of the game with flying species that can't be attacked by ground species, a new food source, and a bunch of neat new traits.

North Star Games (which is oddly enough located about 2 miles away from me) offers a way that you can pay only 10$ and download the game to print out yourself from their website as well.

Evolution's base game runs about $38

Twilight Struggle (2 players ONLY)

Oh my god, Twilight Struggle. This is the polar opposite of casual gaming.

The premise is that one of you plays USA, and the other pays USSR, and you play out the Cold War. I am no history fanatic. I hate history. I don't know 90% of the events listed in the game (although it does include info about them in the back of the huge rule book). But I love this game.

Twilight Struggle has probably the strongest Meta game I have seen in any game ever (Board, Card, or Video). The game gives you a lot of tools to succeed, and it is your job to really sift through the and find the most opportune. On top of that, there are many types of way to win (Reaching 20 points or winning the space race for example) that make it so you often have to fight your opponent on multiple fronts.

My one recommendation for this game is to not use the massive rule book (I think it's about as long as all the manuals for every other game I own combined), but rather to search online for someone else who can sum up the rules more effectively.

Twilight Struggle is sometimes hard to find for a reasonable price. At the moment it is up on Amazon for $50

Pandemic (2-4 player co-op)

Pandemic is a fairly popular, purely co-op game where everyone plays specialists in an attempt to keep the world from being overrun by some nasty hyper contagious syphilis. Players pick (or choose randomly) from a deck of specialists, and each uses their abilities to clean up infected areas. The game's infection spreading is controlled by a deck of location cards. If an epidemic card gets pulled, the game has an extra pop of infections.

This game gets out of hand VERY fast. Unlike many co-op games I have played, the players have a severe disadvantage. On top of that, the players get to choose a difficulty, we tend to avoid going outside of the normal (3 or 4 epidemic cards) area. I have never feared a card flipping in a game more than in Pandemic. On top of the difficulty, every player has a very unique ability that needs to be used in synergy with other players, leading to some very thorough discussions on how to approach an outbreak (there was one game we actually had a calculator out doing some risk analysis).

Pandemic has many expansions, which are all very high on my to-buy list. Every expansion either adds an extra level of difficulty to the game (as if it needed it), and some interesting alternative playstyles. For instance, Contagion (the expansion I own) adds a play mode where one of the players plays as a Bio Terrorist against the other players, and the players (on top of trying to contain the spread) attempt to pinpoint where the bio terrorist is.

Pandemic's base game costs about $30

Sentinels of the Multiverse (1-infinite players, kinda. Cooperative)

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a card game that has players pick heroes and fight villains. Each person picks a hero (I think base came comes with about 8 or 10ish), then a villain and environment are chosen (5ish villais, 4 environments in base game)
The villain is automatically played by the cards in it's deck, as is the environment.

I'm going to start off by saying this is easily in our top 5 played games. With expansions, there are near infinite possible options for game setup. I want to say we have at least 30 heroes, probably about the same amount of villains. Maybe 15 or so environments.
You can also choose to play more or fewer heroes (we sometimes give each player 2 heroes). It makes certain abilities on the villain and environment do more damage. AND, each villain has a hard mode.

That being said, this is one of those games where if you pick a horrible team comp for a villain, you will have no chance to win. Half the game is determining what heroes you all should play. On top of that, there are many heroes who are obviously much more useful than others (Legacy, for instance). So game balance is slightly off.

So long story short, this game requires quite a bit of patience and with learning the strengths and weaknesses of everyone, but once you get it down (and even while learning) it is a fantastic game.

Sentinals' base game runs about $25, expansions range from $5 to $20
This game is also available on the Amazon App store.

Zombicide (1-6 players, cooperative)

A Zombie killing game from Cool Mini or Not. Players pick a hero and work together to fulfill one of the prebuilt quests. Quests vary from a "Kill a crap ton of zombies" to "gather these objectives, then escape". Along the way, the heroes can level up and gain special abilities, but leveling up also increases how many zombies are spawned (based on highest level hero, to keep everyone from power leveling one person).

This game has a very long play time. Our first time playing took probably 3 hours between set up and slowing down to verify rules. I think we also failed that mission because we leveled too fast.

If you have a group that works well together and can cautiously strategize, the difficulty of the base game will be fairly low for you. That's why I showed a picture of Black Plague above. It's a new standalone game they just made (I got the kick starter package a week ago). Black Plague adds magic that makes the game more diverse in play style, the game maps are overall smaller (it is hard to fit the base game maps onto a normal table), and the missions are quite a bit more difficult. On top of that, I received the Wulfsburg expansion, among several other expansions (NPC, Zombie Bosses, and all of the Guest Designer Hero expansions) that all add either a nice amount of variety, or a decent level of difficulty (For example, Zombie Bosses has an Abomination that can break down walls trying to get to the players).

Zombicide costs about $60
I think it's also up on the Tabletop Simulator on Steam

Takenoko (2-4 players)

A fairly casual game about feeding a panda. And not feeding it sometimes.

You and the other players control a gardener and a panda, growing bamboo shoots and eating them to gain points. You can also build waterways to help the bamboo grow, and expand the land to give more space for the bamboo. This is a great game for playing with kids, although I know many adults who enjoy it. Kinda a "good for all ages" game.

Takenoko runs about $38

King of Tokyo (2-6 players)

Each player picks a monster and strives to maintain control of the center of the board (Tokyo). The entire thing has the atmosphere of a competitive Rampage. Players roll dice, and based on the results either regain health, do damage, gaining points, or gain energy to spend on improving their monster. The game allows for some re rolling of dice (of your choice) to let players decide what they want to focus on. The monster in the middle gains extra points every turn, and deals damage to ALL other monsters. The monsters on the outside can heal, and deal damage ONLY to the monster in the center.The game is won whenever all other monsters are destroyed, or when a player reaches a score limit (20, i think).

Others in my group have always enjoyed this more than I do. My only qualm with it is that while it is fairly strategy heavy, a good strategy can get really screwed over by bad rolls, and a weak strategy can win in 2 turns with good rolls. That being said, I have never not enjoyed playing it.

There are several expansions for King of Tokyo, I have the Power Up! expansion, that adds Monster Specific upgrade cards. These upgrades pretty much break every monster on many levels, but it adds to the fun (think Super Smash Brothers Minus)

King of Tokyo costs approximately $25

Cthulu Wars (2-4 players, 6 with expansion)

In Cthulu Wars each player picks an Elder God and plays as their faction in an attempt to wipe out the other players.

This game is huge. Literally huge. I put the Samus Amiibo there for scale because I had no bananas available. The models are big and very well detailed. The rules are obviously very well developed and each faction is 100% unique of the other factions and plays completely different. Because of this, there is a rather large learning curve to the game and you likely will have no idea what you are doing the first time you are playing a faction.

The only part of Cthulu Wars that is not epic, is the price point. It runs about $230, although if you look hard you can find it down to $180.

Munchkin (3-6 players)

Shown is Adventure Time Munchkin. The secret to Munchkin is really finding the version that you want the most. There. Are. A. LOT. http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/cardgame/
Munchkin is a game that you lose friends in. You remember that time in Mario Party when you stole a star from your friend during the last turn to get the win, and he didn't talk to you for 2 months? Yeah, that's this.
The game is about fighting monsters, leveling up, gaining equipment, losing the equipment, sicking monsters on your friends, deleveling them, changing your class, changing your gender, changing your friend's gender, etc.
There is a deceptively large amount of depth to the rules the first few times you play, but it'll start coming more naturally the more you play.
I personally have never been a huge fan of this game. It is one of those games where you will have a solid strategy going for you, then will lose all your weapons and levels literally moments before you win. Which I find frustrating. However, it is great for groups that play casually and don't get butthurt over stupid crap.

That being said, I know MANY, MANY people who love it. This is one of the few games I will say to disregard my thoughts on it, and to try it out yourself.

Munchkin games tend to hover around the $20-$25 area

Tokaido (2-5 players)

This game is literally a nice change of pace. In fact that's the entire point of the game, pacing. You and the other players move along a path to Tokaido, and gain points for visiting locations along the way. The moral of the game seems to be "stop and sniff the roses", and it is a huge balance of slowing down to accomplish as much as possible, and trying not to fall too behind the other players.

Tokaido sits at about $30

Bang! (4-7 Players)

Bang! is a game that is all about reading the other players, and figuring out who is playing what without letting others know what you are playing.
One person is the Hero, they are the only person that reveals who they are. The Hero wins if they are the last person alive other than the support.
There is then the support, who wins if the hero wins.
The villains win if the Hero dies
The traitor wins if they are the only player left

This is a game of mind games. Having a support attack the hero to maybe make one of the villains think they are the other villain, the traitor may want to pretend to be the support, or pretend to be a villain. But they have to kill the villains before they kill the hero.

Bang! has many versions. They are pretty much identical in all ways between them, except for card art. The one shown is Heroes of the Storm, just because I'm a Blizzard Fanatic. Mrlglrlglrlglr.

Bang! games normally range from $15-$20

Frag (2-6 players)

This game is a pretty straight forward (yet unique) competitive game where players control a character in a Deathmatch style shooter. It includes a decent variety of weapons, and even has Hacks that the characters can use to guarantee hits/misses, do extra damage, or even walk through walls.
I've played this game off and on for about 7 years. My favorite thing about it is the uniqueness in that it's really the only FPS board game I've found. The only downside it has is that it really requires 6 players to enjoy to it's fullest. When only 2 or 3 players are available, we will use a team Deathmatch setup where each player controls 2 or 3 characters as their team.

Frag costs a fairly modest $25ish

Sushi Go! (2-4 players)

Sushi Go! is a very good introduction to drafting games. Everyone gets a hand of 6 cards, plays 1, and passes their hand to the left. Rinse, repeat. Once everyone is out of cards, they get dealt 6 more cards and go through the process, until there is no cards left in the deck.
There are different categories of cards scoring wise, some give a flat "3 points", while others may give an exponential amount of points based on how many of the same card you have, and several other different styles of card.

This is an ultra casual game, very fast setup, fast clean up, quick to learn. It's very good to introduce new players to card/board games. If you find Sushi Go! is fun but you want more strategy, go look at 7 Wonders.

Sushi Go sits at about $10

7 Wonders (2-7 players)

7 Wonders is a card drafting game (Everyone has a hand. Play a card, pass your hand to the left. Rinse, repeat). Much like Machi Koro, you build up a city/kingdom to maximize resource gain and set yourself up for future success.

I enjoy this game quite a bit, although I haven't found many other people that it has clicked with (that I know personally at least. The internet is full of people singing this game's praise).

7 Wonders costs about $30

Ticket to Ride (2-5 players)

You are presented with a map of America, and given one or two cards with two locations on each. Your job is to build a train to connect the locations. You gain points for having longer trains, connection more locations, and owning longer stretches of track.

This is a great family game, it's fairly straightforward, you draw cards and use the colors on those cards to purchase same colored tracks. When you own all the track connecting the two locations listed on the score cards you drew, you get those points. If, by the end of the game, you have not finished that score card, you lose the points on the card as opposed to gaining them.

Ticket to Ride costs about $40

Sheriff (3-5 players)

This is a mind games game. It's kind of like the card game "BS". Every round someone plays the sheriff, and all players put cards into their bag and declares their products (with a bit of restriction on how/what they declare), then the sheriff determines who he wants to inspect (if anyone). If he decides to inspect someone and they were telling the truth, he has to pay a fine and the player keeps the cards they declared. If they were not, the players pay a fine. If the sheriff decides not to inspect them, the player keeps whatever was in their bag.

This game is fairly popular in our group. I've never been a big proponent for mind games, but they work fairly well in Sheriff.

Sheriff sits around $25

Dominion (2-6 players)

Dominion is the grand daddy of all deck builders. To explain deckbuilders: You are given some base cards that you can play to gain currency. At the end of your turn your entire and and any cards you played get discarded, so it is advantageous to always play every card you draw. But wait? Where's the strategy then?
It's in the cards that you buy. You purchase cards from a set pool of cards, then put them into your deck (well, discard then deck). You will then draw them later on and get to benefit from their ability. Hence the game is not about playing the right cards, but about buying the right cards.
Dominion was the very first of it's kind, and honestly in my opinion is one of the best. It has a rather large diversity in it's card pools, and because of it's very simplistic renaissance environment it is easier to maintain an appropriate atmosphere.

Dominion will run you about $30, but it depends on if you just get the original game or the bundle pack (shown in picture)

Legendary (1-5 players, competitive co-op)

Go to my description of Dominion to see the rules of deckbuilders.
This game is competitive Deck Builder that tries to disguise itself as a co-op game. DO NOT PLAY IT LIKE A CO-OP GAME.
There is a main villain, and an army of henchmen (picked or randomly chosen) that are trying to kidnap civilians and destroy the city. There are several hero decks placed in the center, the players (in traditional deck builder style) purchase these to build their deck.

I don't remember how the point system works completely, but I think it's based on destroying villains for the most part.

This game is a very wonderful twist on the overdone genre of deckbuilders, and the only issue I've ever had with it is when we first played it we treated it as a co-op game, and spent the entire game fighting over who gets what card from the cards on the table. When you treat the game as a purely competitive game, it plays much smoother.

Legendary will run you about $45

Penny Arcade (2-4 players)

It's a Deckbuilder. But with Penny Arcade characters! There isn't actually too much to this game outside of standard deckbuilding rules (see Dominion), but I feel it's "good vs evil" system (evil gets more points, good allows for more setup) adds some interesting diversity and atmosphere.

Penny Arcade costs about $30

DC Deckbuilder (2-6 players)

There isn't much to say about this game. It's a deckbuilder. That use DC characters. It doesn't have any mechanics that distinguishes itself from other games, but if you like the DC universe it can be a better starting point than Dominion.

DC Deckbuilder runs about $30

Castle Panic (1-6 players cooperative)

Castle panic is a coop game where players play cards to kill encroaching monsters. There is a castle at the center of the board protected by walls, and monsters move forward and attack said walls. If every area adjacent to the castle (behind the walls) contains a monster then the players lose.

This is a very good introduction to co op games for younger players. It is a good way to test to see if a team will co op in something like Pandemic or Zombicide. The biggest issue with Castle Panic, and it's a huge issue, is that there is always a 100% right way to play, and that 100% right way to play is always very apparent. Which leads to the game devolving to one person telling everyone else what to do.

It's a cute game, I've seen some expansions that looked like they fixed that issue but they are fairly low on my priority list to look into.

Castle Panic costs about $20

Arkham Horror/Eldritch Horror (1-6 players cooperative)

I haven't played Arkham Horror for a while, but fom what I remember it is essentially a co-op rpg about trying to keep an Elder God from awakening. There is a lot of entering rifts, closing them, managing equipment, gather clues, etc. Arkham Horror had a very complex set of rules, and sometimes was a bit hard to follow.

I included Eldritch Horror in this because it essentially is Arkham Horror with the rules simplified and fixed. It's setup and playthrough is much more streamlined. If you are not a fan of reading/remembering a manual of rules, Eldritch Horror is a better place to start.

Arkham Horror costs about $40, while Eldritch Horror sits at $50

Love Letter (2-4 players)

Love Letter is a card game that has only 16 cards.
Players have a hand of one card, and alternate drawing a card, then playing one of their two cards. These cards are varied in their interactions (For instance, discarding the princess makes you automatically lose, discarding the kings makes you trade your hand to the other person, playing a guard makes you win if you can guess the card in the other player's hand).
The round continues until someone wins. Once someone has won 7 times (5 for 3 players, 4 for 4 players) they have won the entire game.

For how small this game is, it is very entertaining. It is a great game to play in a bar or on a plane, where you have little space and limited setup time.

Love Letter costs vary from version to version, but normally they are only about $8

Party Games!!!!!!!! (Varied)

These are games that I normally call "drinking games". Typically they are less strategy involved, and more oriented towards just having fun. I'm bunching them all up into one because I have less to say about each game.

Cards Against Humanity:
I'm fairly sure you have heard about this. But for the one person who hasn't: Someone draws a black card (I.E: "I drink to forget ______"), all players play one of their white cards (I.E: "Drinking alone"). The person who played the black card determines who won (based on however they want to determine that). There are a LOT of alternative rules that mix the game up quite a bit (like placing a random white card into the play pile, and if it wins then everyone feels bad about themselves)

Superfight:
Also fairly popular, this game addresses things like "who wins in a fight, Madoka or Sailor Moon?". The base game comes with a bunch of cards that have the names of characters or people on it, and some modifiers (armed with a shrink ray, for example). You essentially play a character and a modifier, then determine who's hero would win in a fight.
There are many expansions, I believe that the Yellow Deck is a MUST. The yellow deck makes it so that it's not always a fight to the death (which was a problem for things like Goku vs Batman, where neither would have intentions of killing the other). Several others add some nice twists or have extra characters (the Pink Deck is the Anime deck, for instance)

Exploding Kittens:
I have received 8 different copies of this game as gifts over the last year. That's NOT including the 2 copies I got for myself. I missed the Kickstarter unfortunately. This game is fairly straightforward, players draw cards, if there is an exploding kitten, you lose! There are many ways keep yourself from drawing one, and a defuse card that stops the kitten from blowing up. It's fairly fun, and quick to set up.
There also is the NSFW edition, which is the exact same game with different card art and names. I'd call it the "16+" edition, not really NSFW.

Fluxx:
Just like Munchkin and Love Letter, this game is all about finding the version of the game you want. Shown is the Cartoon Network version. They are all roughly the same game, which some differences. In flux you play cards against people, making them do silly/stupid things, whoever breaks one of the rules first loses. (There are also ongoing cards that keep you from being able to use pronouns, make you speak with an accent, etc.)

We Didn't Playtest This is roughly the same exact thing as Flux.

Deck Builder the Deckbuilder:
I actually haven't played this. I just thought it was amusing. It's a deckbuilder about building decks. From wood. and Screws.

Kickstarter is really a great place to get games for Future You. Even beyond the idea that it is helping bring another game into existence, you will get more bang for your buck. A lot of companies/individuals that use Kickstarter will offer extra incentives to back it now, rather then buy it when it gets released. They sometimes offer the ability to buy expansions at reduced prices ahead of time as well.

Massive Darkness is a good example, from the makers of Zombicide and Arcadia Quest (among many others). They do a good job on kickstarter, but sometimes have some communication issues once the actual pledge is over.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/massive-darkness

Double cat tax to cover the walls of text! Armani and Cali (the Calico)
TLDR: Buy Smash Up. It's cheap, and amazing. Trust me.

Usersub edit: OMG! I can't believe I made it this far! Thanks everyone!

Still-In-Usersub edit: Please keep the game suggestions coming. Also I am so happy to receive such a positive feedback!

Not-Usersub Edit: God damn there are quite a few game enthusiasts on here. A friend in the comments (AttentionDeficitOohShiny) posted two noteworthy links: www.imgur.com/8FKRD4S and www.imgur.com/V8ijJO2

So far (this is also for my benefit to help remember):
Acquire
Ad Astra
Agricola
Alhambra
Ascension
Avalon
Battleship (I guess XD)
Battlestar Galactica
Betrayer at the House on the Hill
Blood Bowl: Team Manager
Blood Rage
Bohnanza
Boss Monster
Carcassonne
Caverna
Caylus
Champions of Midgard
Cones of Dunshire
The Contender
Cosmic Encounter
Coup
Cranium
Cyclades
Dead of Winter
Descent
Diplomacy
Discworld: Ankh-Morpork
Dixit
Dungeon Petz
Eclipse
Elder Sign
Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards
Fairy Tail
Firefly
Fun Employed
Galaxy Truckers
Game of Things
Geniusz
Give Me the Brain!
Gloom
The Grizzled
Hero Quest
Hive
Ilea Aecta Est
Imperial Settlers
Jaipur
Jungle Speed
Kill Doctor Lucky
Kingdom Builders
Kingsberg
Le Havre
Liars Dice
Lords of Waterdeep
Lost Cities
Merchants and Marauders
Mice and Mystics
Mysterium
Once Upon a Time
Patchwork
Power Grid
Puerto Rico
Quadropolis
Red Dragon Inn
Red November
Resistance
Road Kill Rampage
Robo Rally
Seasons
Settlers of Catan
Shadows Over Camelot
Shadows of Brimstone
Star Realms
Stone Age
Strife
Suburbia
Super Dungeon Explore
T'zolkin
T.I.M.E Stories
Talisman
Terra Mystica
Tichu
Twilight Imperium
Two Rooms and a Boom
Village
Wise and Otherwise

Games I forgot to mention myself:
Dark Souls (they are still taking late backers)
Massive Darkness (kickstarter is still open)
Legendary Showdown (kickstarter still open, for CTRL-ALT-DEL fans)
Tanto Cuore (great anime deck builder, decent expansions)
Tentacle Bento (good for shock value, probably a bit NSFW)
Starcraft: The Board Game (a bit hard to find, but fun)
Mistborne (kickstarter still open!)