I love board games that are adaptable to many situations.
Specifically, this means they play very well at many player counts, but there are other aspects of versatility too. Some games have tried to be versatile in options in style of play, such as playing cooperatively or competitively, or both solo and multiplayer.
From my experience, there are very few games have done this well.
Tell me which games in your experience have become the best versatile games, either by playing well at many different player counts, or by other measures of versatility?
Two games I’ll use as examples:
**Challengers!** This game plays superbly at all player counts, IMO. It has an excellent solo mode that allows you to titrate the difficulty levels, and the robot can also be used for odd player counts. Plays well at 1-8 players. Thats rare!
**Star Realms: Frontiers** This game has solo, cooperative, and competitive modes to play, that all play pretty well, IMO. If you combine it with the base game, or another expansion, it can play up to 6P. There’s a flaw in competitive multiplayer modes, where players gang up on the leader/player with the best deck, but it mentions in the instructions there’s other styles of play, like “hunter” mode, which offsets this flaw and makes you attack the player to the left. Very impressive on how versatile this game can be.