I love bga, I should really be more active on there instead of doom scrolling.
But playing against strangers is scary ๐
Btw my username on bga is Marcel80
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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I'm a HUGE fan of BGA!
I always keep it open in the background at work just in case my turn pops up.
Feel free to send me a friend request or game invite! Same username as here.
I want to use this, but I don't want to play without my wife and you need to pay to play with someone who has the same IP address as you. No way I'm paying them just to try it out. I get why they do it, but it's complete and utter BS from my perspective since I want to play these games to try them out before buying.
Maybe one of you could use a VPN or something
Alternatively, play off of mobile data, or the hotspot feature drawing off of mobile data.
Yeah, we'd have to. I just don't really care enough to get one just for this because I prefer to play board games IRL. I literally would only use this to try out games with my wife to decide whether to buy them, but they want cash up front for that.
A home VPN, to be clear. Basically to connect to your home network from away.
My friend and I like playing Carcassonne and turning on every single expansion pack.
How's the catapult in BGA?
I tried caverna and learned caverna there before buying it. It's a fantastic platform, wish it had more solo and games where tou can play against ai though.
I prefer physical games, but I like using BGA to test a game before I buy it. It's awesome.
Fucking. Love. BGA.
Super cheap and gives access to SO many games.
i usually only play on tabletop sim because it's so easy to make your own games, but maybe bga would be good for more "serious" games.
idk, for me board games are an inherently social activity and the ability to fuck around with the pieces really helps tts feel social.
Interesting but I don't see any dungeon crawlers.
Hm, yeah I can't think of any from the top of my head. I guess the site's format works best for euros and the audience seems to be geared towards that too.
Seems fun but ran like crap on my phone just trying to browse games.
It's definitely a better experience on desktop.
It's great, I have an asynchrone terraforming mars game running with some friends
Make sure to check out Yucata.de too. They have about 200 games with some overlaps with BGA. The site UI takes some getting used to and matchmaking is not as well featured as BGA's but the in-game UI is actually very nice once you grok it and it has an excellent undo/replay/log system.
Some of my Yucata favorites:
- Bonfire
- Carpe Diem
- Cartographers (also on BGA)
- Fields of Arle
- Grand Austria Hotel
- Lorenzo Il Magnifico
- Mottainai
- Mountain Goats (also on BGA)
- Mystic Vale
- Newton
- Rajas of the Ganges
- Rajas Dice
- Red Cathedral
- Renature
- Taverns of Tiefenthal
And I am currently practicing Skymines.
Interesting, never heard of this website before! Thanks for sharing!
Love the concept; are they open source? Would love to get gaming further away from the big companies. If it's "free" now, how are users paying for it, with data? Ads? We've seen a well documented history of enshittification so before I dump time into a platform that's my 1a question.
In general, no the site is not open source. There are however some games whose implementation is public under various licenses. A few examples:
https://github.com/AntonioSoler/bga-santorini https://github.com/micahstairs/bga-innovation https://github.com/bga-devs/bga-heat https://github.com/quietmint/bga-hardback https://github.com/bga-devs/bga-memoir https://github.com/Syarwin/bga-kingdombuilder
There's a bunch of games that are premium, and require at least 1 player in the game with premium membership to be able to start playing. There's also various other benefits for premium members, like allowing multiple players from the same IP