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Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game

Open
Games using
30
Median complexity
2.34
0–5
Median rating
6.58
bayes
Tabletop fit
0.826
weight-controlled

Definition

From BoardGameGeek

A game system that can be applied to a variety of different maps, starting resources and positions, and even different win and loss conditions. These variable conditions can be assembled into a broader narrative or campaign, or they can be entirely disconnected from one another.

Top games using this mechanism

By BGG bayes rating, top 50.

GameYearRatingWtTime
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1#320158.352.860m
Gloomhaven#420178.303.9120m
Arkham Horror: The Card Game#3220167.893.6120m
Too Many Bones#3720177.853.9120m
Mage Knight Board Game#3920117.844.4240m
Cthulhu: Death May Die#5420197.762.5120m
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2#7020177.693.260m
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition#7520167.682.7180m
Endeavor: Deep Sea#8320247.652.9120m
Star Wars: Imperial Assault#8420147.653.3120m
Kingdom Death: Monster#9320157.624.3180m
Bomb Busters#9920247.592.030m
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island#11920127.553.8120m
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon#13620197.503.4120m
Age of Steam#13920027.493.9120m
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth#14320197.482.7120m
The 7th Continent#16320177.422.91000m
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game#18520117.383.260m
This War of Mine: The Board Game#21320177.343.3120m
Vantage#21720257.342.3180m
Memoir '44#22020047.332.345m
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era#22320257.334.1240m
Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition)#22720127.323.2120m
Commands & Colors: Ancients#25020067.282.760m
Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game#25120147.273.0120m
Aeon's End: Legacy#25320197.272.990m
Near and Far#27820177.232.9120m
Zombicide: Black Plague#28720157.222.5180m
Aeon's End: The New Age#30520197.202.960m
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game#33820187.162.7180m
Chronicles of Crime#34220187.152.190m
Arcadia Quest#36320147.132.560m
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle#44220167.052.160m
Here I Stand#53920066.974.2360m
Mythic Battles: Pantheon#54020176.963.190m
Space Hulk (Third Edition)#54720096.962.860m
Mice and Mystics#55720126.952.790m
Claustrophobia#56920096.942.545m
Advanced Squad Leader#57619856.944.7480m
Thunderstone Quest#57820186.942.990m
Middara: Unintentional Malum – Act 1#58920196.934.160m
Stuffed Fables#60320186.912.590m
Betrayal Legacy#61420186.912.990m
Mansions of Madness#61520116.913.2180m
Charterstone#63120176.892.975m
Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?#64520106.883.7180m
RoboRally#65019946.872.4120m
Legends of Andor#67520126.862.890m
Project: ELITE#68920206.852.560m
HeroQuest#70419896.842.190m

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