Best 2 Player Competitive Board Games I 1 vs 1 Board Games

0:00 one versus one fight okay in this video we're gonna rank the best of the best one versus One games games where somebody wins and somebody loses somebody cries and somebody laughs we both individually Rank and then we Mash those results together and now we will have top 10 best games that we can think of that we have played small disclaimer we haven't played all the games and not all the games we have played like so if there is any game that you think should be on this list put them into the comments and we will try to try them out the next time when we do this video rearrange things if we feel like we should you don't need to explain yourself you will explain yourself once we start putting those games in that ranking list which will we get to now which will we get to now is that a sentence 10th best competitive game of all time in the opinion of board game hangover that is the only opinion that should matter is Seven Wonders Jewel that was the longest intro I've ever done for a ranking spot some Mother's Duo is a one versus one game where one player controls a nation another player controls the nation and by unique drafting mechanism you're getting cards and trying to defeat the other player by winning the military fight advancing in science or the third thing if the timer candy runs out we check who has the most victory points most unique part of this game and advice on the list is the drafting mechanism of this pyramid some cards cover other cards and you can only draft cards that are not covered by other cards did I

1:30 cover that okay you covered it pretty good and there are cards you want but there are cards the other player wants but if you'd let him have it he might win and you don't want to do that in these games so hit drafting here is through the roof exactly key force is steal your games key Forge is a unique deck game from the designer of Magic the Gathering so this deck there is no other like this deck in the world this deck has been generated by an algorithm where the combination of cards is very unique the back of the card is unique and the name of the deck is unique all you need is this deck and you're fighting each other and you're trying to forge three keys the first player to forge three keys wins you can use creatures to get Amber that is the resource you need for forging the keys you could try to steal Amber from the other players kill other players creature so he cannot get them but you play oh you could do stun of stuff tons of stuff you voted on this game stop it eighth game mind bug in mind bug you have to kill the other player by taking away his three life points or making sure he kind of runs out of cards all you do is on your turn you either play a monster or use a monster that you already have played previously that's all we recently did a playthrough of this game so you want to see it in action check it out it's super quick it's super simple but why is this game on our list because very uniquely if for example you play a card I could use a mind bug and steal that card now it turns out I just played that card I

3:01 just have two mind bucks for the whole game so I need to be careful how I use this resource that's really fun and it's always this thrilling feeling of should I play this card because he could take it but I want to play it I need to play it you're not just playing cards you're also trying to play the other players as well number seven Hive here's 10 gold coins this uh bring me my horse seems that everything's in order so right away this is for you chess lovers out there yeah chess lovers who don't have tons of time or are traveling around so in Hive each player sorry I will no you can yeah thank you each player controls bugs on your turn you either place a bug or move a bug and your goal is you have to make sure that the opponent's B can't move anywhere you can do that by playing your pieces and moving your pieces each piece moves in a certain different way some of the pieces can climb over other pieces some of the pieces can move more than one space some move only three spaces some jump over other pieces because this game does not have a board you kind of create the board as you play there isn't zero luck in this game and it's fantastic and it's so quick that even if you lost you feel like let's do another one I'll get you next time number six best game of all time War of the Rings oh you could also almost feel like slash Star Wars rebellion completely different but similar ideas and two different genres so both of them work yeah and the winner

4:32 is whoever accomplishes their objective which from both sides the shadow side and the three people saw side is quite different the shadow player needs to get a hold of a stronghold and yeah the three people need to get the ring to the Mount Doom this is massive this is game that you will play for four hours so this is essentially lowered the Rings in a box play event with the things that happened in the books if you're a big fan of that if you want massive game and there's no questions I haven't played Star Wars rebellion unfortunately it's his fault why it's not gonna be on the list yeah Star Wars I had a sorry next pick okay is undaunted some more games undaunted is a series of deck building war games where two players fight each other on different battlefields where each player plays soldiers tanks and all kinds of ground things and then there's the undaunted battle for Britain where you play with airplanes in World War II rough forces are against the luftwaffe and they're fighting in different scenarios and trying to complete missions fly around and shoot each other a deck building is the main mechanism that kind of drives the game you draw cards and then you have to play them and then there are some that move your plane some that get give you more cards into your deck some that remove bad cards from your deck if you play deck building game you know what's it all about if compared to the older undaunting games

6:04 then I feel like Battle of Britain is better really gives you the feeling of you are in Planes because you can never stop you always have to move gameplay is brilliant especially if you're a history nerd which I am which you totally are Star Wars deck building number four and you said Star Wars sucks so Star Wars doesn't suck it does no no it doesn't in Star Wars deck building game one player plays The Light Side the other player plays the dark side and the only way to win this game is by destroying four bases of the opponent this is a deck building game as the title will say get new cards build your deck and attack the opponent you have Galaxy row basically the market and attack it so you can either buy cars that you want or kill off guys that the other player might want and then also attack the other player and there are quite a bit of choices in this little card game yet it takes around 20 minutes to play so this game is on the list because it's Star Wars right that's like number one really well shows off the characters and they have like really powerful powers and it's still really cool to play the Darth Vader even if I'm not the biggest Star Wars nerd I still really enjoy the theme and the way it works here it's really great this joke backfired because I thought you were gonna say no it's not and then yeah it just comes through it was a joke number two is the quick based gameplay and number three is how aggressive it can be and there's so many things you can do to influence the other

7:35 player so top three any guesses Watergate is number three toilet struggle ah I love it love it love it Twilight's struggle is on this list because it's one of my favorite games of all time time it's about Cold War and two sides are fighting I I think you can guess which sides are those right it's USSR and USA fighting for control of well basically the whole world pretty much so it's a card driven game you get a hand of cards and you can play those cards either for the event or for the points and use those points as actions playing this game feels like you're controlling the faith of the world really because you have these events that you can play okay I'll take control of this part of this part and you just feel like a mastermind it might be overwhelming for somebody who just started in this hobby for sure a fantastic intro into like history games number two now I know which is going to be it's going to be Watergate da I'm off by one tug of war yeah were you trying to get the most influence in the Watergate scandal one player plays the Nixon Administration and the other players play the journalist trying to expose the whole Scandal and you're trying to get informants either to vouch and talk to you or you're trying to silence these informants so they don't say anything this also uses the card during system where you play a card to either for the event or for the points what you do on your turns is play one card and then the other person plays one card and you play one card then the other place the person

9:05 who plays one card you probably run out of the cards at that point there's also this board presence here where you try to get these informants as you said on your side and you want to connect them with Nixon you just place your proof on the board but Nixon Administration can block your way and these events that just feel so powerful for both sides really cool even if you don't care about history a really nice two-player game that you should definitely check out the best game of all time for two people that get together and want to punch each other's faces with cards we do that quite often Summoner Wars summon Awards is an amazing two-player tactical battle game where there's a board and each player controls a race and your goal is to kill the other players somewhere simple also play cards and use them in different ways build structures you can play different characters you can move these characters and you can attack with these characters just a few phases to go through but essentially play cards move cards attacked with cards I'm gonna attack you roll dice simple each player will get a specific deck they have completely different like gameplay gameplay flow range melee summoning by the creatures being super strong big but slow and supporting yeah it is challenging yet it's nice and simple and flowing and it's just 30 to 60 minutes per game unless you play with the chess player then I guess it could be it could be a fantastic that versus that game I bet there are some games we didn't put here that you thought must

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