Hello Beehaw!
As someone that enjoy playing with my spouse a lot I wonder which games are your favorites for playing with or against someone else. Our current favorites are:
- Dominion
- Res Arcana
- Wingspan (still need to try Asia expansion)
- Terraforming Mars
Unfortunately these listed games are competitive ones so I’m also looking to increase the list of cooperative games! We did play Aeon’s End Legacy but need play the expansions.
edit: typo
One Deck Dungeon - you work together to fight the monster on each card using your dice. You have to plan the move together so that you will win. It’s a lot of fun.
Blue Moon. We have the Legends version with a million or so cards. It’s definitely a competitive one. You build a deck, increasing your firepower (hopefully) as you go, and battle your opponent’s deck each turn.
It took us a while to figure it out but man is it fun to play once you get the mechanics of it. Even teenage boys who had been rolling their eyes at the game for weeks tried it one day out of boredom and became obsessed as soon as they figured out how to start backstabbing each other.
7 Wonders Duel is specifically a 2-player version of 7 Wonders, and it’s very well done. Familiar enough to anyone who has played the original while being entirely unique mechanically. I really enjoy it.
Also, you mentioned it, but the Asia expansion for Wingspan is great as a standalone 2-player game.
A few more that often hit the table with just the two of us:
- Azul (any of them)
- Sagrada
- Parks
- Cottage Garden
- Patchwork (specifically for 2 players)
Our top 3 are:
- Fungi, because my s.o really loves mushrooms
- Shards of Infinity (w/ one expansion), because it’s a fun game to relax, not to easy and not too complex
- Jaipur, because it’s quick and it’s fun trying to screw each other over
Hive! Or Hive pocket. It’s kind of a boardless chess like game with bugs. The only thing I don’t like is that sometimes if you’re not really careful the hexagonal pieces get a little crooked and it throws off more than it should. That’s the pocket version anyway, maybe the full size is better
My wife and I play Castles of Burgandy together sometimes. It’s nice because there is some luck involved with die rolls but still a good amount of strategy. It isn’t cooperative though.
We’ve played the solo version of Agricola together cooperatively and it was pretty fun.