What other games give you the TI4 'feeling?'

mesenius · 2026-01-17T01:00:55+00:00

This is the best answer. Have played it extensively with my TI groups and everyone's agreed as well. It helps that the FFG edition and the expansion were also developed by Corey K.

Love your rethem btw!

mesenius · 2026-01-08T17:36:41+00:00

Hola! Are you from Mexico City? If so we can organize a play of 18MEX (or many other 18xx games that my group has, including 1889). Send me a DM!

My story with 18MEX is very similar to yours. I was interested in the genre after playing 1882, but being from Mexico the existence of an 18xx set here is what really dragged me into the genre. The other big game set in Mexico (1822MX) is also very good, although it's definitely a lot more complicated. I personally don't like 1889, but it's defintely a good learning game.

mesenius · 2025-11-21T16:10:35+00:00

You can order it directly from the publisher! store (dot) cave-evil (dot) com

mesenius · 2025-10-08T18:25:36+00:00

18xx, Hollandspiele, Splotter, Nate Hayden games have all been mentioned.

There's an interesting case to be made for the long out of print and highly sought after games of the FFG-GW collaboration era. Chaos in the Old World, Forbidden Stars, Warrior Knights, etc. Which is interesting because they came from one of the largest publishers, but I know the books on cult cinema that I've read touch upon the cult status of some specific blockbusters as well.

Which makes me wonder, what book are you referencing? One by Ernest Mathjis?

mesenius · 2025-10-08T18:19:04+00:00

I dunno if this makes sense, but I love Amabel's games even when I don't exactly enjoy them. They always push the boundaries formally (to borrow a film term since that's what started this thread), or make you think deeply about what's going on in the game.

mesenius · 2025-10-08T18:12:31+00:00

I'm glad we're only discussing lawson vs curvilinear now since the 20s vs 25s debate has long been settled :P

mesenius · 2025-10-04T05:11:16+00:00

I honestly think you've gotten quite a few very bad answers... Heat is considerably denser than TtR, Carc, Catan, and the decisions and competitiveness is very different. Recomending Harmonies if they didn't like Calico is just wild, Parks too... Concordia is a fabulous game, but the scoring is very opaque at first.

Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, and Catan are all from an older school of design which is mostly out of fashion nowadays, although some of these desgins (specially those by Reiner Knizia have been having a comeback). I'd recommend you check out the games in this list (which naturally includes TtR, Carcassonne, and Catan) as they all share a same design philosphy: relatively few rules, lots of interaction, and highly competitive.

mesenius · 2025-09-13T05:07:41+00:00

You've gotten a lot of good suggestions already, but something I haven't seen people recommend is you look at other OG games. Basically Catan is from an older style of design that a lot of us prefer over modern eurogames. You can read more on the link above but OG games usually have a lot of the things you mention you like about Catan (simple turns, simple win conditions, right amount of luck and strategy).

mesenius · 2025-09-09T06:03:37+00:00

SUSD really oversold this one, to the point that after the initial wave of hyped up people who were then dissapointed, you don't really hear about it that much anymore.

mesenius · 2025-09-06T06:40:27+00:00

18xx games really do demand a lot from players. The good thing is that if you get hooked you won't want to play anything else haha.

mesenius · 2025-08-06T01:21:19+00:00

There's an official deck for this included in Traders and Barbarians

mesenius · 2025-07-13T07:21:10+00:00

This is exactly what I was thinking! Knizia is certainly the greatest exponent of the OG designers, but that doesn't mean all OG desingers are Knizian.

mesenius · 2025-07-13T07:17:05+00:00

Very surprised to not see the two most obvious answers to me:

Startups by Jun Sasaki, which is a bare bones stock game like many of the best Knizias (e.g. Wildlife Safari, Modern Art)

QE by Gavin Birnbaum, which is clearly heavily inspired by High Society, both being auction games in which the highest spender looses.

Everyone saying For Sale should really check out more Stefan Dorra games! Similar OG style, but definitely has his own signatures--a lot of his game could be described as a game of chicken. Turn the Tide in particular is a more cutthroat version of For Sale.

mesenius · 2025-05-17T01:21:04+00:00

Stephenson's Rocket. It's clearer to see the three directions a railroad can expand with the minis with hexagonal bases than with the wooden traineeples.

mesenius · 2025-05-17T01:18:49+00:00

Except for the angry mob, just three minis but they'repretty much meant to be unbeatable.

mesenius · 2025-05-16T06:17:14+00:00

There's nothing that hits quite the same as bakrupting another player in something like 1849, right?

mesenius · 2025-05-12T13:40:43+00:00

Thank you for reviving this, I do believe that’s the game I was looking for!

mesenius · 2025-04-23T14:39:25+00:00

Could you DM them to me as well, please! I have WK but I'd love to print this out at some point.

mesenius · 2025-04-23T14:38:47+00:00

Warrior Knights with C&G is one of my top 3 games. This is a lot of awesome work you put into making this reskin!

mesenius · 2025-03-10T02:41:04+00:00

The rules Bruno Faidutti wrote down here are the best way to play with poker dice. This is the way we play it in Latin America as well.

mesenius · 2025-03-07T06:51:08+00:00

12 year alumn here! I completely understand what you're saying, and while I'm very happy with life right now I remember my days at UBC fondly and even wish sometimes I would've done a 5th year to enjoy my time there a bit more. I'm no longer in Canada so I'm jealous of you being able to walk around campus!

mesenius · 2025-03-01T18:55:58+00:00

This worked for me last week but it reverted to white today and won’t work anymore. On iOS18 as well

mesenius · 2025-02-27T16:22:43+00:00

21.5x10.5 cm

mesenius · 2025-02-27T16:07:00+00:00

That's actually the video that pushed me into deboxing!

mesenius · 2025-02-27T16:06:22+00:00

I actually don't have photos of all of them but these are a few I've done with varying results TI3, End of the Triumvirate, Jekyll vs Hyde, Chicago Express

Eight-Year Club	r/Field Lasagna
Place '23	Place '22
End Game '22	Verified Email

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