- BGG rank
- BGG #22,077
- BGG rating
- 6.5
Nightmare Forest: Alien Invasion
1–6 players20–60 min2017
Complexity 1.7/5
Best board games for 2 players
Find standalone games recommended for 2 players, with rules assistance and available scenario narration. Selection follows the BoardGameGeek community player-count poll; order follows overall BoardGameGeek rank.
19,345 games
Ranked games appear first, followed by games without a BGG rank.
Games
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,079
- BGG rating
- 6.6
A Bold Stroke: The Soviet Liberation of Kiev, 1943
2 players180 min1996
Complexity 3.5/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,081
- BGG rating
- 6.6
Lemming
2–4 players60 min1990
Complexity 1.7/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,082
- BGG rating
- 6.3
Grunt: Tactical Combat in Vietnam, 1965
1–2 players120 min1971
Complexity 2.3/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,088
- BGG rating
- 6.0
Nile
2–4 players60 min1967
Complexity 1.8/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,089
- BGG rating
- 6.6
Escape Room in a Box: Time Drifters – Isabel's Story
1–4 players75 min2021
Complexity 2.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,092
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Salvo!
2 players45 min1992
Complexity 2.1/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,094
- BGG rating
- 6.1
Rip Off
2–6 players15 min2020
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,096
- BGG rating
- 6.1
Double Double Dominoes
2–4 players45 min2012
Complexity 1.6/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,102
- BGG rating
- 5.7
Black Stories: Real Crime Edition
2–99 players20 min2009
Complexity 1.3/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,106
- BGG rating
- 6.1
Cat Burglars
2–5 players20 min2025
Complexity 1.5/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,108
- BGG rating
- 6.1
BattleTech Science Fiction Combat Book Game: SHD-2H Shadow Hawk
2 players10 min1987
Complexity 1.9/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,111
- BGG rating
- 6.8
Outrider
2–8 players60 min2010
Complexity 2.1/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,112
- BGG rating
- 6.6
Mini Plakks
2–4 players5–15 min2023
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,113
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Russian Bank
2 players30 min
Complexity 1.3/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,114
- BGG rating
- 6.0
1876: Trinidad
2–7 players120 min1994
Complexity 3.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,116
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Outpost 18
2 players10–15 min2019
Complexity 2.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,120
- BGG rating
- 6.4
Pajarracos Party
2–8 players5–10 min2022
Complexity 1.5/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,121
- BGG rating
- 5.8
Draco Mundis
2–4 players60 min2006
Complexity 2.2/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,126
- BGG rating
- 6.6
Dice Poker
2–4 players10–30 min
Complexity 1.2/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,128
- BGG rating
- 6.0
Case Green
2 players120–480 min1992
Complexity 2.4/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,129
- BGG rating
- 6.1
Lucca the City of Games
2–5 players20–30 min2013
Complexity 1.8/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,130
- BGG rating
- 6.4
Sau Mau Mau
2–5 players20–40 min2018
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #22,131
- BGG rating
- 8.4
Factions of Sol
1–4 players90–120 min2024
Complexity 3.0/5
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