Most Overrated Board and Card Games
You know the games that sell countless copies, but no one seems to actually play and enjoy? This list is for them. Feel free to add card games as well.
It's pretty unbalanced, bland and boring. While some of the boredom can be alleviated by following the official rules and ditching house rules like "Free Parking Jackpot", this game is nowhere near deserving of its ubiquity and hundreds(! ) of special editions.
Guess square. Get told whether you hit or missed. Have your opponent guess a square. Tell them whether they hit or missed. Rinse and repeat.
The gameplay is 100% luck. At least the board looks cute.
Again, 100% luck. Yawn. This one also suffers from bland boards.
It's just an abstract strategy game that happens to be popular because it's been spread, analysed and overanalysed for centuries. It's nothing special. If it were introduced today, it'd be quickly forgotten (or at best a cult classic ignored by the mainstream).
You can play this with a pen and paper. Also, it's been solved. The first player can force a win.
I have PTSD from this game. If you like this game, that's great if you're able to enjoy it. In my opinion however, this is one stinks as bad as human snot.
What made it bad in my opinion:
When I used to play it (haven't played it since 2022 December) at a social group, a lot of the answers were really disturbing, but the most disturbing one was "Climate Change" which scared me the more I thought about it. Discovering that card was a thing you could place down made me never play this game again as it's how I got PTSD from this game in the first place. Its tagline is literally "A party game for horrible people" which makes sense because this game is too nasty for me, even the family edition.
Not gonna lie, this is certainly one of the darker ways something has gained a negative opinion from me.
