What is BoardGameGeek?
BoardGameGeek (BGG) is one of the largest online tabletop gaming communities and databases. It contains detailed information on tens of thousands of different tabletop games including board games, role playing games, and card games. There is a comprehensive database of board game details such as publisher, designers, artwork, user submitted images, videos, files, forums and reviews.
Some key features of BoardGameGeek include:
- Game database with detailed information on rules, publisher, designers, player counts and more for thousands of tabletop games
- User game collections showing which games different users own in their collections
- Reviews, images, videos and file uploads from users
- Discussion forums for each game
- Variety of ranking/hot lists categorizing games based on different criteria like family games, strategy games, party games, etc.
- Game play statistics showing plays, owning users and trading information
- GeekMarket allowing users to buy/sell used games
- Extensive database of designers, publishers, artists and conventions related to board gaming
Overall, BoardGameGeek aims to be a central hub and definitive source for the tabletop gaming community to learn about, discuss and track new and old tabletop games. With its huge, active user base it has become an essential site for hobby board gamers.