Game Exceptions to Genres We Usually Don't Seek

This is one of three videos in which I discuss exceptions to the types of games that Stonemaier ambassadors don't typically seek; this specific video is about game genres. I'll focus on a few specific games (in bold) to discuss what they do to break the mold for this type of game.

App-Driven: Mansions of Madness, Journeys in Middle-earth, Chronicles of Crime, One-Night Ultimate Werewolf

Area Control: Wonderland's War, Ethnos

Cooperative: Ghost Stories, Pandemic Legacy, Sleeping Gods, Vantage, Daybreak, Sky Team, The Mind, Cthulhu Death May Die, Journeys in Middle-earth, Viticulture World, Hanabi, The Crew, Mysterium Park, The Gang

Campaign: My Island, Fellowship Trick Taking

Crime/Detective: Chronicles of Crime

Deduction: Bang Dice

Dudes on a Map: Rising Sun, Blood Rage, Risk, Rumble Nation

Duel/2-player only: Radlands, Naishi, Unmatched, Duel for Middle-earth

Dungeon crawler: Gloomhaven, Slay the Spire

Heavy Euro: Carnegie, Great Western Trail, Barrage, Bitoku, Ark Nova

Hidden Traitor & Social Deduction: Shadows Over Camelot, Dinner Dinner Party, Battlestar Galactica, Blood on the Clocktower, Chameleon, Werewords

LCG: Lord of the Rings, Rolling Realms

Negotiation/Trading: Bohnanza

Online/Digital: 7 Wonders

Party: Smug Owls, Flip 7, Saboteur, Challengers, That's Not a Hat, One Night Ultimate Werewolf, The Great Dalmuti, Costume Party Assassins, Smart A$$, Unstable Unicorns, Ito, Wavelength, Poetry for Neanderthals, Blob Party

Real time: X-Com, Exit, Unlock, Space Alert, Pendulum

Roll & Write: Rolling Realms, Voyages, The Fox Experiment, Mille Fiori

Solo: Vantage, Journeys in Middle-earth, Final Girl, Nemo's War

Take That: Doomlings, Guillotine, Mantis, Cosmic Encounter, Arboretum

Video game adaptations: Gwent

Word/Letter: Just One, Paperback Adventure, Codenames, So Clover

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Intro animation by Jeff Payne https://vimeo.com/jaaronpayne