I love bga, I should really be more active on there instead of doom scrolling.

But playing against strangers is scary 😄

Btw my username on bga is Marcel80

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.

My friend and I like playing Carcassonne and turning on every single expansion pack.

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.

Seems fun but ran like crap on my phone just trying to browse games.

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 but I don't see any dungeon crawlers.

It's great, I have an asynchrone terraforming mars game running with some friends

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.