TOP TEN TOPIC: CARD GAMES

Rummy!
Blackjack!
Other casino games!

1. Mao
2. Blackjack
3. Poker (any kind)
4. War
5. Egyptian Rat Screw
6. Magic: The Gathering
7. Go Fish
8. Yu-Gi-Oh (sue me; I loved it as a kid. don't play it anymore unless I'm babysitting)
9. Solitaire
10. Uno (never really understood how to play; in before "ITS EASY")

Other than everything already mentioned...

SUPER MUNCHKIN.

Sounds childish, but is fun and addictive. RPG elements too! (leveling up and finding phat lewts.)

10. Solitaire
9. Domination
8. Blackjack
7. Texas Hold 'em
6. Deuces
5. Uno
4. Speed
3. Spoons
2. Spades
1. Hearts

I'm going to make a top 10 card games that have come out since this list was made.

Possibly making it easier.

Or probably not.

10. Resident Evil the Deckbuilding Game
This is a game we played a lot with my sister it was done during the full on deckbuilding craze and I don't really know if it's better or worse than the majority but we had a lot of fun with it and deckbuilding is always fun.

9. Warhammer 40,000: Conquest
This was a living card game that died out when Fantasy Flight lost the 40k license. Probably a good thing for me since I bought most of the card packs and hardly ever played the game itself. Except for the base game. Which is very good and some day I'll go deep into all those extra card packs I got and actually deckbuild and play around with this game.

8. Port Royal
A seemingly simple push-your-luck card game, that still ends up being insanely good. I've heard it's even better with an expansion that I have not tried. That basically the base game is trash compared to it. But the base game is already so good!

7. Blood Bowl: Team Manager
This is a game I haven't played as much as maybe I'd like. It has some deckbuilding elements but mostly it's about playing matchup with the players you have. It does share some similarities to Conquest, but it is probably slightly easier to grok, with fewer moving parts.

6. Star Realms
A game that I got from a Humble Bundle of all things. It's a fun light deckbuilding (again) game where it has that thing where just as you're getting an engine going the game is over and you want to play again. It has loads of expansions but I have none of them.

5. Resistance: Avalon
A game where the cards... Well. They just say who you are and then it's all social deduction after that. This one has almost been overplayed over the years (though not so much the last year or so). But it's always an exciting Werewolf-style game without player elimination.

4. Libertalia
This wonderful pirate-themed game of bluffing and doublebluffing. As everyone sits with the same cards on their hand and it's all about outsmarting the opponent as to when one plays them.

3. Splendor
I mean the best part of the game is the hefty poker chips and not the cards at all. But it's still basically a card game. Simple casual fun that is just about playable at almost any time.

2. 7 Wonders
An often played game that when everyone knows the rules basically runs like clockwork and a session can be done in twenty minutes. Though sometimes the scoring takes up most of the playing time. Still just the sheer amount of strategies available and then the second-guessing strategies one the initial ones don't work out.
And that's without all the expansions. I've played with some of them a couple of times, but even the base game still delivers.

1. Love Letter
This is quite the microgame. Only a handful of cards but almost infinite replayability and it's also so short that anyone can jump in and jump out at any time. The only limiter is the four-player maximum player count, but it's not such a big deal for a game that I've played an insane amount of times with many different people. Since teaching the rules basically takes a minute.



There are probably some other awesome card games from recent years I've played too. But I might mostly not remember them because they've only been played once. Or maybe I'm not comfortable rating them because I've only played them once. All of the ones on the list have at least been played multiple, multiple times.