As someone that enjoy playing with my spouse a lot I wonder which games are your favorites for playing with or against someone else. Our current favorites are:

Dominion
Res Arcana
Wingspan (still need to try Asia expansion)
Terraforming Mars

Unfortunately these listed games are competitive ones so I'm also looking to increase the list of cooperative games! We did play Aeon's End Legacy but need play the expansions.

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[–] Tin@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

7 Wonders Duel is specifically a 2-player version of 7 Wonders, and it's very well done. Familiar enough to anyone who has played the original while being entirely unique mechanically. I really enjoy it.

Also, you mentioned it, but the Asia expansion for Wingspan is great as a standalone 2-player game.

A few more that often hit the table with just the two of us:

Azul (any of them)
Sagrada
Parks
Cottage Garden
Patchwork (specifically for 2 players)

[–] ZenGrammy@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One Deck Dungeon - you work together to fight the monster on each card using your dice. You have to plan the move together so that you will win. It's a lot of fun.

Blue Moon. We have the Legends version with a million or so cards. It's definitely a competitive one. You build a deck, increasing your firepower (hopefully) as you go, and battle your opponent's deck each turn.

It took us a while to figure it out but man is it fun to play once you get the mechanics of it. Even teenage boys who had been rolling their eyes at the game for weeks tried it one day out of boredom and became obsessed as soon as they figured out how to start backstabbing each other.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 2 years ago

Shogi. It's competitive, but it has an excellent handicapping system. So it can be fun for two people at any skill level

[–] gromnar@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Our favourite: Arkham Horror LCG, Hero realms, Lord of the rings Journey in the Middle Earth, seven Wonders duel. We are currently playing Earthborne rangers. I also often propose war of the rings/twilight struggle/ other war games but they are tougher to sell :-)

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you!! We really like seven wonders so we're definitely looking into getting the duel version

[–] gromnar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I hope you will enjoy it :-)