What are the best card games for adults?
The rise of adult-friendly video games has given us more options for entertaining our guests than we could ever have hoped for, but they’re not always intuitive to new players. Card games often have easy-to-learn rules that make the games fun for new and seasoned players alike.
Card games for adults can involve co-op, intense strategy, or even hot topics that aren’t suitable for kids. If you are looking for a great card game to play with your friends, it can be helpful to compare the different types of card games available and get a feel for how their rules work.
The best card games
Best card games for two people
In “Codenames Duet”, you and another player attempt to contact 15 different agents while avoiding a gang of enemy assassins. Cards have words on one side and an agent or assassin on the other. Give your partner some clues to help them find the right agents in this fun two-player co-op game.
“7 Wonders ”is a highly strategic game that two players can play in less than 35 minutes. You and another player command rival kingdoms and compete to advance your kingdom’s army, science, economy, and resources. The optional Agora extension even adds unique Senate-based features and new ways to earn. This exciting game has three different ways of winning (or four if you get the Agora expansion) and countless strategies you can use to do so, making it ideal if you are looking for a game that you can play multiple times over. benefiting.
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This fun game can be played with as few as two people or up to eight. In “Unstable Unicorns”, you compete against another player to build up an army of unicorns before you can build theirs. The concept may sound simple, but the game is full of various upgrade cards that you can use to give your team a bonus, as well as demotion cards that put your opponent at a disadvantage. “Unstable Unicorns” is a family card game, although a NSFW version is available.
Best card games for families
In this unique card game, players assemble monsters using two or more cards. Use your monsters to battle armies of wacky, battle-ready babies like the baby spider and the baby tank. “Bears vs. Babies’ features easy-to-understand mechanics, but still manages to look like a highly strategic card game, and it’s presented in a fun furry case.
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Dutch Blitz (with Expansion Deck)
This exciting card game lets you play with as few as two players or up to eight. “Dutch Blitz” is a race to empty your hand of cards before other players. This game can be played in as little as 15 minutes which makes it easy to play over and over again.
“Boss Monster” flips the script back to the usual dungeon-crawler style gameplay by letting you play as the antagonist. The object of the game is to use your cards to build a dungeon that is both seductive and deadly for the heroes. Use traps, monsters and more to defeat the heroes. The first player to defeat ten heroes wins the game. You can even get extensions to the base game which features new bosses, traps and more.
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The best humorous card games
“Exploding Kittens” merges humor, strategy and easy to understand gameplay into a unique card game that can be fun for all ages. The game contains two to three “explosive kitten” cards that effectively eliminate a player from the game. A player wins by being the only one not to blow himself up. The standard edition of the game is suitable for families, but there is a NSFW version also.
Take turns shooting through the game and using cards that let you do things like see the first three cards in the deck, skip your draw, force another player an extra turn, or defuse the exploding kitten.
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Choose your poison (NSFW Edition)
This risky card game is based on the ‘you prefer’ format with new rules and a scoring system. The game is filled with various “poison” cards that present painful, embarrassing, or otherwise unpleasant scenarios.
The players take turns being the “judge” and roll each turn by playing two poison cards from their hand, forming a scenario you prefer. The other players then anonymously choose the scenario they prefer to endure. The round ends by revealing who decided what and awarding points accordingly. “Pick Your Poison” is a great game for a night out with your friends but is not recommended for those who are easily disgusted or offended.
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“Joking Hazard” is another option that you should only consider if you are looking for a more meaningful title. This game is created by the creators of the offensive but popular web comic “Cyanide and Happiness”. In “Joking Hazard” players fight to create the funniest comic about cyanide and happiness. The game offers 360 cards, and you can add even more with their outrageous deck upgrade packs.
Much like “Pick Your Poison”, each round begins with a new player as “judge”. The judge begins by turning over a card from the top of the deck – this serves as the first panel of the comic book. The judge then plays a card from his hand as the second panel in the comic, and the other players each anonymously play the third panel. The round ends when the judge chooses his preferred third panel option and awards a point accordingly.
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