Top 10 Games for 5 Players
Tom, Zee, and Sam share their ten games that they would pull out in a 5-player situation!!
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Patriots and Redcoats is just a reskinned version of Secret Hitler
Watching this today (October 2020) with Tom kind of sick :), joking about Lysol, telling people he’s fine 😀 Who would’ve thought 2020 would happen
I don’t agree on opinions all the time, but the casual chatter between you three is nice to listen in on.
Loving the "top" videos.
Would be nice if you maybe made a top 30 and have it in 3 parts, each part showcasing 10 of each of your "top" games of whatever topic it is. there are a lot of games, and I know all 3 of you have played a fair few. I’ve noticed on a number of occasions someone saying it was in their top 20, or such.
to think it was just 2 years ago that you could go to work while having cough without freaking people out.
Edit: 12:10 – those jokes didnt age well 😀
Cyclades. Cyclades is best with 5.
This episode somehow foreshadows the current pandemic haha
We want to see the games
I love Puerto Rico with 5. Idk what Sam and Zee are whining about 😛
I know Sam gets flak for putting a particular game in every Top Ten…but I actually think his entire list is in every Top Ten, but sorted differently based on the list category.
Yep not enough games go to 5 players!
Power Grid.
They forseen the pandemic here one year before
Jeezes, you guys have very diverse taste compared to me. I could never play most of these games.
The Others for the win!
“I’m not here.” Broski just high as fuck off the cough syrup.
Pandemic foreshadowing
Cylon sympathizer is trash. You do less than a cylon when you change sides (IF you change sides at all), and if you get the card halfway on the journey and one stat is in the red (which happens most of the games played) you immediately go into the Brig without changing sides at all.
Cylon sympathizer is in a 4 player game. 5 players and 6 players has 2 cylons. Played it last night.
No expansions as they all add garbage to the core game.
3- player next, please
Millennium Blades!
Kanal 5-loggan 😆
Live streamed just before COVID….lots of talk about CDC, plastic tents, patient zero and pandemic. Me thinks, with The Dice Tower, there is more than meets the eye…
1 should be Pillars of the Earth
"Spyfall…and it crumbles..we will stand tall face it all together..at Spyfall!"
I’m sorry, but I really need to ask: Did you guys just steal the Swedish Kanal 5 logo for your thumbnail?
https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanal_5
I don’t see the added value of playing Time Line with more players – 5 seems like you’re just sitting around longer without, again, any added play benefit for having more players.
Pretty much any hidden traitor game. Any more or less and it starts favoring one side over the other, or it just gets too unwieldy.
Zee really sold Sub Terra to me because of his description of the ending!
I think I actually love Blood Rage best at 5. I’ve done it twice and it was amazing both times.
Our group, aged 72 to 13 in age love to play downforce,small world,camel up ,now into version 2, if we have 5 or 6 playing.
Just staying up late night watching old top tens and every damn one reminds me that Sam’s opinions are always WRONG.
Yuss! I play Games with my Sister, Girlfriend and her two sisters, I’m always struggling to find good 5 player games.
Ethnos, 7 Wonders, Dixit, Cosmic Encounter, Lords of Waterdeep with expansion would make my list. As well as Blood Rage with the expansion.
Not sure why they hate on Blood Rage with 5 so much. It works quite well and its tied with 4 players for me.
In Specter Ops with 3 players each hunter player controls a SINGLE hunter. Either Tom plays it wrong or misremembered. Only at 2 players does the hunter control 2 figures.
Caylus and Istanbul are good options, too.
“You put me in a corner I’mma scratch you, meooow”
– Zee Garcia
Really wish the volume was higher on these videos
Need 3 player list
Root?
Foolish fellow
It should be top games that allow at least 5 players, ranked for how good the individual games are with 5 players !!
Why spyfall 2 over spyfall 1? I thought they were exactly the same game.?
Some other 5 player games my family has enjoyed are: Sagrada (with expansion), Tokaido, Meeple Circus, Camel Up, Sleeping Queens, Survive: Escape from Atlantis (with all expansions), Sushi Go!, Ticket to Ride. I think Bang the Dice and Jamaica are great @ 5 too.
10) Western Legends
9) Mistborn: House War
8) Cthulhu Wars
7) Ethnos
6) Fire and Axe
5) Vindication
4) Evil High Priest
3) Godfather
2) Mare Nostrum
1) Battle for Rokugan
Special mentions
Age of war
Patriots and Redcoats
Heimlich and Co
High Society
3 player games are nice and generally the staple for many 4 player limit games – many get bogged down with too many players, and sometimes the games also become too restricted in possibilities.
Examples:
Settlers of Catan (4P) – it becomes stupid difficult to move around the board with 3 competitors blocking you off every possible way. 2P feels too empty.
The 7th Continent (4P) – each player is super restricted in their inventory and cards they can hold that some cards cripple players if they chose to hold onto them.
1 player is fine I guess, but 3 gives you the optimal card in hand and inventory.
Gloom (4) – takes too long to get back to your turn, and you have 6 actions of which can be turned against you (3 other players). 2 is too much back and forth.
Some games require maximum number of players for balance.
Examples:
Shadowrun: Crossfire (4P) – you get shafted easily if you are missing any one class.
Chaos In The Old World (4P) – for balance placement / play styles.
Folklore: the Affliction (4P) – game balance.
Kingdom: Death Monster (4P) – any less and you make it even more harder on yourself.
Some games are better with more players,
Examples:
Dead of Winter: The Long Night (5P) – we only play this co-op as the additional win/loss conditions really don’t add to the game for us except frustration.
Battlestar Galactica (core game only 6P) – the Cylon Supporter loyalty card is utter rubbish. 2 Cylons makes the game a real challenge for the human team.
Pathfinder: the Adventure Card Game (any 6P) – the more diverse the group the more each card will be of use to someone.
Rick and Morty: Total Rickall Card Game (5P) – where players can be a parasite or real, the uncertainty is nice.
Mansions of Madness (5P) – more players can split up to cover more ground providing better exploration during the limited time.
Pax Pamir, Sidereal Confluence, Concordia, Flamme Rouge, Medici, Yedo, Acquire.
I disagree with Tom here on catacombs. It has player elimination and it happened to us where 1 player was eliminated early and sat around watching for the next hour or so. I think 3 players is best where each non overlord has 2 characters.
I like The Others as much as Zee, so it’s funny how much that game made Tom/Sam squirm whenever he put it on a list
So Tom started covid, nice job Tom.
King of Tokyo and Dixit are good at 5
I dont understand el grande and rising sun why have both when you can play the one you like more