boardgamegeek.com

BoardGameGeek is a community and online resource that seeks to be the authoritative source for board game and card game material. The site's vast and continually increasing user base — more than two million registered users! — updates it in real-time, making the Geek the largest and most up-to-date source of gaming knowledge! You can join BGG for free, however, we appreciate your contributions to the site in the form of ratings, reviews, and comments on games to the existing database!

BGG offers live discussion boards along with reviews, ratings, photos, play-aids, translations, and session reports from board game nerds all around the world. Additionally, daily trades of almost 100 video games and Geek Market transactions take place between registered users.

You'll find a wide variety of board games here, including dozens you've probably never seen in a store! The website includes dice games, card games, tile-laying games, and dexterity games in addition to board games. It includes abstracts, economic games, dungeon crawls, city building, diplomacy and negotiation, trading, puzzle games, strategy games, party games, war games, and many more activities. Carcassonne is light and whimsical, while Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition is serious and substantial empire-building. Well-known games such as Monopoly are also included in the database, but practically all users prefer current games that have improved in gameplay and component quality since Monopoly was first published.