2021 BGG Holiday Gift Guide: Top Two-Player Games

Let's follow up my video overviews of the top family games and top party games in BGG's 2021 Holiday Gift Guide with a quick take on our six suggested games for couples, which range widely in complexity and style of play.

I mean the games, not the couples, although the same probably applies to them, too.

Anyway, here's the overview, which features footage of some of the games in question:


Next year we'll have to start this series earlier so that I have time to get my hands on all of the featured games — or perhaps we'll do something else entirely. We'll see!

To check out the other 100+ titles on BGG's Holiday Gift Guide, head here, with this link taking you to whatever is the most recent such Gift Guide. (We do this annually, after all, so we set up a link that redirects to the most recent such thing.)

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