My family wants to start getting in to board games. What do you all think about Return to Dark Tower? Easy enough to learn how to play for beginners? We would play that game with another couple.

At $200 I’m just wanting to make sure it’s okay as my first modern board game and won’t be so complicated we can’t pick it up with other novice players.

Friends are also total novices…all four of us nothing more than 80’s games before but want to learn modern board games. What are some good beginner games for us to also buy?

Will these games help prepare us for the more complex games like Return to Dark Tower?

We are two middle aged married couples, all four of us are total board games novices. The most colllex game I ever really got in to was Axis and Allies. The other three of our little group were your stand monopoly clue fair. All four of us are eager though.

Theme wise: knights and dragons or future sci-fi space stuff would be great. One or the other would do equally as well. We are pretty flexible though. I saw that Alice in Wonderland kickstarter game, that would be perfect for us but looks even more complicated than Dark Tower.

Playing with each other cooperatively would likely be preferable to being opponents…but we would not say no entirely to a more adverse game (but co-op to start). The key is a game that is relatively easy to learn…all four of us pick up on things pretty quickly but we are worried about being overwhelmed.

We do have access to Jodester and he is a very advanced board game player and friends with all four of us. We could probably talk him into helping us learn something one evening to launch this project. I’ve linked him to the thread and asked him to opine as well.

By the way, I really appreciate all of the advice. Thank you all.

This commentary and these suggestions have been incredibly helpful. We did order a Return to Dark a Tower (we wanted to get one while they were available) but are going to start with one or two of these other games. I’m going to get with Jodester and see what he would recommend and then visit with our other couple friends and then order something. I will be reporting back our progress back to this thread as we start this new side hobby.

I hopped in on the kickstarter for The Zone. It’s delivery is a way out still. I bought mostly for the artwork as I couldn’t really tell what the rules were going to be like at all. It was cheap.

Anyway, I have linked the other couple we are going to play these games with to this thread and we are going to discuss it and the suggestions in here this weekend and make some decisions. Interestingly, they just bought their second pinball machine (a GOTG pro). I haven’t visited with Jodester yet but I’m sure he is going to have a lot of input as well.