I'm a fan of this one, too. My brother went treasure hunting and got attacked by bandits and then a monster. I punched an annoying barber in the face and wound up rich.

My brother has a large collection of board games and I've picked up copies for myself of the games that I've quite liked. He's working on designing some himself in his spare time.

My collection so far includes:

Pictionary (gotta have some classics around)
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Fury of Dracula (reprint)
Talisman (reprint)
Lord of the Rings (multi-board co-op game)
Citadels + expansion (probably my favourite)
Battleship
Settlers of Catan
Puerto Rico
Tsuro
Zombies!!

My wishlist right now is Arkham Horror.

Not sure if they count as board games really, but I also picked up Cthullu Gloom and Aye, Dark Overlord to try out one day. Annoyingly, most games need either three people or take several hours to play (or both). Often, more people are up for a game of Cranium over Descent.

I've played a pile more than these but not what I've seen in the thread so far, except for Pandemic. I'd probably own more games, too, if they weren't quite so pricey.

Catan is a classic! It gets stale after some turns though without cities and knights expansion. Let us know if he ever makes a kickstarter for it or needs play testers!!

I myself have thought about creating a board game just for my friends and then further down the line have it kickstarted if I find its received well by them.

Has anyone played a game called Super Dungeon Explore?

The games he makes are more family efforts right now, but the ultimate plan, I think, is something open source even. That might be some ways down the road though.

Sometimes I like the simplified versions of games more, as things get longer the more complicated they get, like with Carcassone and all it's add-ins.

Starfarers of Catan is quite the thing, but also on the longer side for a game.

Yeah, I hear you. My friend has an old ww2 board game that the games last a month to complete. 😅