Love is in the air! Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and it’s time to start planning for that special night. We select some cooperative, romantic, and fun Valentine’s Day board games for your date night.
Fog of Love
Fog of Love is a game that could make or break your valentine’s date, depending on choices you make. This game is a narrative role-playing game for 2 players that allows you to make choices as you engage in a fictional relationship. As you play, your decisions affect your character’s personality. These choices could have you becoming closer to or less interested in your significant other. It’s worth mentioning that this game is inclusive and well written for all genders and relationship types. Fog of love is a unique board game and one that may be best played by couples or people interested in exploring relationship themes.
Codenames Duet
Give one-word clues to help your partner identify the agents on the table. Codenames Duet maintains the basic elements of Codenames but streamlines the mechanics to make them better for two. As a collaborative puzzle you need to reveal all fifteen agents before time runs out. If you can do that without revealing an assassin, you win. Unlike Codenames (the original), players can keep guessing as long as they keep identifying an agent each time which is useful for going back to previous clues and finding ones they missed earlier.
Love Letter
Love Letter is a minimalistic card game makes the list for romantic theme and quick play. Get your love letter into the Princess’s hands and keep the other suitors from getting near her. This is a fast game of deduction and risk that usually plays best with 3-4 players. But a rule change of “put 3 cards face up at the start of the game” makes it a fun quick play for two. A nice theme for Valentine’s gaming.
Micro Macro Crime City / Full House
This cooperative game with require a magnifying glass and some cozying up as you lean to solve mysteries on a giant poster-sized map (29.5 x 43 inches) of drawings. Micro Macro Crime City and Full House are two titles from Johannes Sich that utilize small drawings on a giant canvas to create mysteries that you solve. You get clues to uncover mysteries on the map which lead to other mysteries. Make sure you have great lighting for Micro Macro which is one of our favorite Valentine’s Day games.
Viticulture
Got a nice bottle of wine to share for Valentine’s Day? Viticulture could be your perfect pairing. In this popular worker placement game from Stonemaier Games you run a Tuscany vineyard and compete to make the greatest wine. Using workers and visitors, players expand their vineyards by building structures, planting grapes, and filling orders to run the most successful winery. With different tasks in each season of the year, Viticulture moves like a real vineyard. While this title may be a bit competitive for two player game night, it’s also deeply thematic and lovely to play with a nice bottle of wine. A thematic choice for our list of Valentine’s Day games.
For The Family: Parents are Human
Parents are Human isn’t as much a game as a deck of prompts to start deeper conversations with family. The clever part about this product is that it’s available in a variety of language combinations so that people of different language within the same family can connect with one another. This struck a chord for our family where I’m always looking for ways to connect with my in-laws.
