Arkham Horror
Betrayal at house on the hill
Kill Dr Lucky
( boardish card games)
Spite and Malice
Guillatine
I don't know if it has any thing to do with my type at all but I can tell you exactly why I like these types of games: I like that they are full of action, something is always happening and you nee to think on your feet I like to win by fighting monsters. I love that they are different every time. I also love any game that can always get worse. For some reason, I find it hilarious to see just how poorly things can get. If in the end we all die horribly I'll be the one to die of laughter. And, I can't lie; I love any game where I can turn on the other players.
What I think may be more telling about my "type" would be that I
despise games like "Trains" ( Ticket to ride? I think it's called.) You just collect colored cards (train routes/cars? some stupid shit like that) and the person with the longest route wins. I would sincerely rather play a game of Russian Roulette; if I lost it'd at least be over quickly. My super-lame friends played it every Friday...repeatedly.. They would get SO fucking into it and I kind of wanted to kill them all -for their own good- because seriously, if your life is THAT uninteresting that you would not only
choose to waste time on something like that but actually find it exciting and invigorating engaging then your life is meaningless and you should just end it.
( I'm speaking in hyperbole of course. I am truly gobsmacked at how insanely boring these specific people are but I am sure there are people out there who know how to make it fun...at least for one round I would still never play it.)
Hm. I think this more telling of my Enneagram than MBTI.
The Fleet Series board game. It's a theater-level modern naval war-game developed through consultation with a military think tank to be true to reality. I also like RISK.
Wargamers by MBTI type:
^ Wargamers are disproportionately INTJs. I wonder if INTJs tend to like military simulations in particular, or the simulation genre as a whole.
I find that INTJ's love anything with a mind-numbingly complex system of rules. That way they can spend the game arguing, nit-picking and paying far more attention to the rulebook than the game itself. I swear if you made a board game where the point was to argue the nuances and loop holes of the rules they'd never play anything else.
I personally like games somewhere in between. I hate overly simple collection games: First person to happen to draw all of x cards wins" put me to sleep because they are just too simple while strategy games do the same because I've lost interest before anyone even understands how to play.
I love..tactical games. Like DW/Sw warriors tactics. You make decisions and tell your various units what to do during battle but it is not like the war sims where you have to spend years building up to the war itself.
And, as my friends have accurately stated: I'm a brilliant tactician, and a terrible strategist.
Cards Against Humanity, Exploding Kittens, Red Dragon Inn: appeal to my sense of humor
Ticket To Ride, Deck building games like Ascension, Citadels, Risk, Canasta, Shadow Hunters: appeal to me because strategy
Party games like Telestrations or Pictionary: appeal to my creative side
Simple games like Flux, Seven Dragons, Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, Zombie Dice, Spotify: appeal to my sense of fun
Bananagrams, Boggle: appeal to my Ti
Interestingly, although I like cooperative games like Pandemic and Betrayal at House on the Hill, my favorite games tend to allow the competitive side of me to come out in an acceptable way, though I find I would rather play for fun than to win.
Ah yes Pandemic: that was the other game that I hated almost as much as Ticket to ride. I sincerely did not understand the point. You just pick up cards and moved around the board. I did not understand why my friends brought that game into my house, other than the fact that they are very selfish, knew damned well I would not like it, and just didn't give a shit because THEY wanted to play it.
Then they left the rest of played Betryal and I murdered everyone. Really saved the evening.
