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These are the games that we feel are the best options in this category, and that we have in our own collections to fill this niche.

Summary: Construct decks to guide your fellowship as it embarks on unique adventures in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

You Might Like If… you enjoy the deck construction of collectible card games, enjoy the Lord of the Rings theme, and want a strategic cooperative or solo experience with plenty of opportunity for expansion with new heroes, quests, campaigns, and deck-building options.

While these games missed the cut for our top recommendations in this category, we still think they would be great options for a lot of people.

Summary: Construct Marvel hero decks to battle villains across a variety of unique scenarios and campaigns.

You Might Like If… you enjoy the deck construction of collectible card games, enjoy the Marvel theme, and want a strategic cooperative or solo experience with plenty of opportunity for expansion with new heroes, scenarios, campaigns, and deck-building options.

Summary: Construct decks to investigate the horrors of Arkham and broader cosmic doom across various scenario-based campaigns.

You Might Like If… you enjoy the deck construction of collectible card games, enjoy the Lovecraftian theme, and want a strategic cooperative or solo experience with an emphasis on scenarios linked together into a narrative campaign.

Summary: Strategically take actions with your agents to optimize your card effects, build your own custom deck, and position yourself in battles in the Dune universe.

You Might Like If… you enjoy worker placement and deck-building and want a game that combines them in a novel way that leads to constant interesting decisions and player interaction within a thematic sandbox with tons of flavor from the Dune books/movies.

These are games that we have not had the chance to try ourselves, but that we believe could be a good fit based on our research.

Summary: Strategically fill out your sheets and seek combos as you compete as Roman generals in charge of a milecastle along Hadrian’s Wall.

You Might Like If… you enjoy roll/flip-and-write games where you work on your own puzzle and want one that amps up the complexity to have more strategic options and satisfying combos as you decide how to apply your resources to take actions across your sheet each turn.