Star Realms is a solid little 2 player deck builder game! The base game is just a deck of cards and you dont need much room to play, so it’s a great portable game.
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Yeah nice choice, I like to take this with me as well.
Took me too long to find this. In addition, the base game is plenty good, and it's not expensive. I feel like getting a second set as a stand alone "sacrificial set", just to bring around, unsleeved.
Our family usually packs Sushi Go and No Thanks when traveling
Hive Pocket goes on every vacation with me; its portable, indestructible, and can be played anywhere. Will also usually bring: Love Letter, Tides, SpaceShipped, and a deck of cards for Regicide/Scoundrel/Loot-The-Loop/etc. Will sometimes try to bring Bang! The Dice Game, Anomia, or Happy Salmon if there's a potential for party games being played.
One of my favorite pictures I've taken, playing Hive Pocket on a stream bed:
Love Letter
I recently travelled with the following small games and can recommend them.
Sprawlopolis - Lovely co-op city builder with 18 cards, much more replayable than you'd think.
Fugitive - A great cat and mouse/hidden movement game with numbered cards. Either flee as the fugitive or hunt as the marshal.
Air land and Sea - A tactical game with the added wrinkle of choosing when/if to withdraw.
Monopoly Deal - A classic, fast, fun, ruthless. Monopoly as it should be.
Hive Pocket - Chess like, strategic, tactile and can be played pretty much anywhere.
Stew - A simple bluffing card game of creating a stew together and working out when the best time is to eat the stew, if at all.
Hope this helps!
Machi Koro is super simple to travel with. Just rubber band the cards and throw the dice and money tokens in a bag and there you go.
Jaipur is similar that way.
Anything by Oink Games.
Splendor. I 3d-printed a small case for it so that it will easily fit in a bag or backpack. It's one of our favorites.
Oh cool! Is this for the full game or the duel? Do you have any pics of the case?
This is for the full game. I've considered printing something similar for the Cities expansion.
I found the STL here
I don't have a pic handy with the contents shown, but these old pics show the scale
Nice. I've spent a bunch of time trying to fit both Splendor and Splendor Duel into the Splendor Duel box. Almost, but not quite. I settled for the other way around with both games in that huge Splendor box.
I haven't seen "Wizard" mentioned yet. It's a staple among german outdoor tourists.
Also "Witches" which is somewhat similar. Both are great games!
Sprawlopolis is very light weight and offers a lot of replayability.
We have laminated (I believe that is the english word) clever, qwixx, knaster and knister so that we can bring 1 set of dice and play those all.
We really like regicide, which is just 1 pack of cards.
Lastly you have some (card)games with a small footprint, such as The Crew, or Cahoots, or Pickomino.
Hive is a great travel game! It's small (so therefore easy to transport) and just requires any flat surface to play on. It's a turn based game where your objective is to place tiles (which have different bugs on them) to surround your opponents Queen whilst also defending your own Queen from being surrounded. It has a surprisingly deep level of strategy involved for such a simple game.
Elfer raus! / Domino (the card game) is pretty fun and easy to learn. It’s usually sold in a small-form box; i.e. about the size of a Schmidt tin-game.
This is somewhat hypothetical because I don't travel that often so I haven't actually traveled with all of these. But this is what I'd pack:
- Next Station: London: great roll & write with a nice compact flap box. Works for solo.
- Sea Salt & Paper: one of our current favorites, small box, easy to teach
- Scout: ditto
- Orchard: My small comfort solo
- Some Buttonshy games. Maybe some Pack O Game ones too.
Easy to teach can be an important consideration in case you find some new people to play with.
7 wonders duel.
Star Fluxx
Deep Sea Adventure
The city (London, NY, Sf etc) based ticket to ride games are great. You can play in about 20 mins. I've played it in airports, poolside at the air bnb, and hotel rooms. I'm actually traveling with it this weekend lol
The city (London, NY, Sf etc) based ticket to ride games are great. You can play in about 20 mins. I've played it in airports and poolside at the air bnb. I'm actually traveling with it this weekend lol
Handsome (button shy) and Arboretum tend to be family travel faves.
(edit: Scout is a new addition to the travel games)
@dpunked I really like Mijnlieff - abstract with small footprint that plays quickly. Friend of mine came up with a perfect travel game that fits in a wallet - Mesozoic Mayhem.
Just brought:
- Silver & Gold
- Village Pillage
- Mint Works
- Star Realms
- Bananagram
Mint works has been on my wishlist for a long time. I do have Mint Delivery and also Mint Imperium but I do like worker placement games :)
Bananagrams! It's good for any age, I like it especially at things like family reunions
Hidden Leaders has a fairly large box, but there's not all that much to bring. The cards and 2 tokens fit into a medium sized ziplock bag.
The board is slightly more difficult, but there's a copy of it printed into the bank of 5 explanatory cards, although I believe those were part of the Kickstarter exclusives.
Railroad Ink is a roll-and-write game in a tiny box (or multiple tiny boxes of different colors) and scales well from just one to six players.
Fluxx and Saboteur (with expansion), some friends take BANG! but it gets bulky with expansions pretty fast.
Might sound old fashioned but when we travel we usually just take travel Scrabble and a magnetic chess board!
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