Board Game Arena

The trend in the board gaming hobby is moving away from traditional competitive sit down games to multi-session legacy and campaign setup style games. In addition to all the legacy versions of Risk, Panedmic, and Ticket to Ride, there is also a class of more role-playing campaign style games such as ISS Vanguard, The Isofarian Guard and Arydia.

Given that we can make "friends" on BGA and see when they are online it seems like a good fit. Completed games are stored in a database so it should be easy to restore the state of a board for future games.

There are many games of this style that I would like to try out, but I am not in a position to find an in-person play group. Many players of these games want to have a committed play group to sit down and play through them and will play solely with those players. I tried suggesting Arydia for a board game get together but the owner of the game didn't want to play with me because I don't visit his house enough to start a campaign.

Perhaps BGA could be a better option for players looking to try these games. With 24/7 availability it should be much easier to get campaigns going.

My city is a legacy game and it works well on bga. Now getting more legacy games on here is a different matter, up to the publishing and programming gods

Dead Cells and The Crew (both versions), if I remember correctly, have also saved "campaign" status.

Jellby wrote: ↑29 July 2025, 17:00 Dead Cells and The Crew (both versions), if I remember correctly, have also saved "campaign" status.

There is a campaign tag, but I am not sure it is set correctly for all games: https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?mechanismTag=231. The Crew (both versions) and My City definitely are. Another cooperative campaign game is Dedale.

Gilmok wrote: ↑29 July 2025, 12:08 The trend in the board gaming hobby is moving away from traditional competitive sit down games to multi-session legacy and campaign setup style games.

No it isn't. BGA could in principle support such things but its not well structured for doing so. It would require a lot of work from a developer, and the site is probably unwilling to invest a lot of effort building infrastructure to support a niche part of the hobby, so unlikely you will see a lot in the future.