10 Best Board Games for Adults in the Philippines 2023 | Pandemic Legacy, Ticket to Ride, and More

The pandemic board game has made a name for itself as one of the best tabletop games in terms of its concept and game mechanics. If you and your group are interested in stepping up your game nights and want to dip your toes deeper into the Pandemic world, have a go at this legacy game.

Your group will play as disease-fighting experts whose job is to cure the world of the raging diseases plaguing the world before it gets out of hand—just like the original Pandemic games. However, in this game, you play it through multiple sessions. Each of the choices and encounters made in one session can alter the outcome of the story.

As the game progresses, the mechanics of the game also change, and the player damages and stays permanent. Hence, extreme precautionary measures and high foresight planning are necessary to progress from one session to another—that's already a clue if you wish to score this game!

This game is surely going to be a group favorite once you try it! In this game, as you fight for the future of your civilization, your group of warriors is tasked to fulfill missions. However, there are evil minions acting as spies, and their aim is to sabotage those missions. 

These evil spies are hidden from all players except for oneーMerlin. The player to take on this role knows who the evil minions are, and he must carefully choose his words so as to not reveal his identity. In this crazy game of bluffing and convincing, your goal is to identify the members of the evil forces lurking in the shadows to successfully complete the missions. 

For this game, the more players you include, the more out of control and insanely fun the game is going to be. Brush up on your detective skills and your poker faces as you outsmart each other's team.

Get ready for Halloween with this classic cooperative horror game. This game involves a unique modular game board that expands as you "explore" the different parts of the house. This results in a different-looking board each time you play the game! 

Before the Haunt starts, players must gather weapons and other resources. As the players explore the house, they can encounter spirits and scary omens that foretell their fate, quickly building excitement and suspense.

When the Haunt part of the game starts, one player will turn into a traitor, and the rest of the group needs to defeat the traitor before it's too late. Truly a game filled with unpredictable twists and turns, not for the faint-hearted!

We acknowledge the fact that not all people are interested in playing themed strategy games that require a lot of thinking. Our answer to that is Ticket to Ride! This is, by far, one of the easiest games to learn and teach.

In this game, each player will get train pieces of their own color, as well as route cards. You have to connect those two places with your trains to get the points indicated in the cards. Simple enough, right?

It is simple, yet it still requires strategy, since you can block other players, or you can go the longer route since the player with the longest train route also gets bonus points. This game is complex enough to play with your friends and easy enough to play with the whole family—a great staple game for all ages!

If you are looking for a board game that won't consume too much time, Monopoly Speed is the best find for you! It can be played in under 10 minutes, making it ideal for a quick ice breaker for any social gathering.

In this game, players don't have to wait for their turns because they can roll and buy at the same time. The jail-free pass allows players to get out of jail free every time helps reduce the playing time.

Another factor that separates this version from the original is the timer that counts down each buying and trading stage, allowing for continuous play without breaks in-between stages. For a quick, fun game that you can enjoy with friends and family, Monopoly Speed is a must-have!

If your group is ready to play a heavily thematic game, then this one is a must-try! Dead of winter puts 2 to 5 players in a world full of flesh-eating zombies and a dwindling number of survivors. This game involves different scenarios that build up and develop the story as you go on with the game.

Surviving the harsh winter, with the limited resources available, is hard enough. You and the other players must work together to resolve crises, fight off outside threats, and keep the colony's morale up in order to survive. In some scenarios, there is a traitor hidden among you, so trust no one!

This game's mechanics is very simple—place tiles to make certain patterns, then score points. The rules are straightforward, the setup takes little time, the gameplay is fast-paced, and the wonderfully tactile and beautiful game pieces make this game one of the best strategy games out there! 

This colorful board game makes for a light and chill game that can break the ice within new groups, allowing for interactive conversations and even playful banters. This is a good addition to any board game collection and is one that you will grab no matter the group's personality and age.

This turn-based and card-driven board game will unleash your competitive spirit in a bid for survival. Players will gather resources and craft items that they can use to eliminate opponents. 

The ultimate goal is to survive, and to do that, you have to collaborate with other players, manage your resources, and betray your friends if necessary. If a player runs out of resources, they are automatically eliminated.

You can be the victor by being the last man standing on the island or being the first person to collect 10 escape points from the social dynamics of the board game. With the game's deceiving gameplay, beware, as it can be a friendship breaker!

Catan is one of the board games that has been around for quite some time. You and other players are settlers, seeking to explore Catan's harbors and regions. It includes a modular game board that changes every time you play the game. You can be sure that you will never get bored of this game!

Catan is a resource management type of strategy game, so you will have to combine resources like grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber to build roads, settlements, and cities. Not only will you have to think of strategies to garner victory points, but you will also have to think of ways you can outsmart your opponents. 

Even for beginners or experienced players, with a gameplay time of 60 to 120 minutes and the game mechanics that would require you to interact and negotiate with all the other players, this game will surely make any game night memorable! 

For more experienced players who want to try a more complex strategy game, Root is the one for you! It is a war-type board game that has a playtime of 60 to 90 minutes. That may seem like a lot of time, but reviews mention that it is quite a fast-paced game, despite the longer playtime.

The components of the game include wooden meeples of cute forest animals. Do not let these cute and colorful pieces sway your decisions in this game! As this is a war game, you need to attack each other's factions in order to take control of the forest.