Do yo♕u love anticipation and hold your breath when you roll a die, pleading for a particular outcome? If so, you need to tr🌃y bag building games.

Bag building is all about throwing items in a bag, pulling them out, and determining your play. Many players get caught up in the anticipation of blindly retrieving something that could either help them or hurt them. Push-Your-Luck often coincides with the bag building mechanism in some games, but not all. Since bag building is not a well-known term, many people don't know what games may have this mechanism. Here's a few of the best bag building games in 2024.

Add a couple of toadstools, some garden spiders, and a hint of ghost's breath together, and you get one of the best bag building games made in the last decade. This game is family-friendly but is also a huge hit among seasoned board gamers. This board game has a great push-your-luck feel as players are drawing ingredients from their bag to fill their pot.

But one too many cherry bombs makes their potion explode, making them unable to reap the benefits of successfully completing a potion. A successful potion allows players to buy more ingredients, earn victory points and collect rubies. Pro tip: Load up on African death's head hawkmoths!

Fan of dungeon-crawlers? Grab this game and slap it on the table! This game is a variation of Clank! The biggest difference between Clank! Catacombs and base version of Clank! is that players build the dungeon as they go by laying tiles. This game is a nail-biter because when 🍸the dragon attacks, a player pulls the number of cubes listed on the rage track from the dragon🐬 bag.

If a player's color is pulled, that player takes damage. The more times a dragon attacks, the more likely one of your cubes is to be pulled from the bag. Players have to decide how far into the dungeon they want to venture before the dragon knocks them out.

This game is gorgeous and looks great on the table. Besides its presence, Life of the Amazonia is great, as players work to build their jungle by purchasing resources, which get put into their ♍own bag. At the start of their turn, players remove five resources from their personal bag that they will use on that turn♐. The resources can be used to move along the waterfall track, purchase resource tokens, buy tiles and buy animals. This game is so satisfying as you are building a jungle and is a more relaxed experience without the push your luck element.

Let's face it, Orleans is not the best looking game. But, despite featuring very beige art, the gameplay makes up for it. Orleans is all about collecting followers, adding them to your bag, then drawing a certain number from your bag. The number of followers drawn depends on how far the player is on the knight track.

Play๊ers then assign the followers to carry out different tasks at locations on their playerboards. Unlike Quacks of Quedlinburg, there is no pushing your luck in the game, and it can be easy to pivot to one of the many options if you do not draw the follower you want.

While this is a solo-only game, it's incredibly satisfying. Coffee Roaster begins with the player choosing a type of coffee they want to brew. The player adds the starting tokens specific to that type to their bag. The game is pretty straight-forward, but there are quite a few decisions. A player has to decide if they want to use tokens for one-time use actions or save them for their test cup of coffee.

Push-your-luck is involved in Coffee Roaster because wi💯th each round, the thermostat marker is increased and at two thresholds, smoke tokens get added to your bag, which could ruin your coffee. Once you think you can make the perfect coffee, you place your tokens on the cup and score points. Each type of coffee gives a range of points that you want to shoot for.

While Aliplano was a successor of sorts to Orleans, the two games have differences. Altiplano has fewer tracks that players are vying to move up on. It's important in Altiplano to build an "engine" by collecting resources, meaning buying add-ons or collecting the right things that can trigger other actions for you to do which will ultimately bring in more victory points.

When players discard resources in Altiplano while buying another, the resources go into a cart. The resources🍬 in the cart only return to your bag once your bag is empty.

FAQ

Can bag building board games be played with two players?

🦂A lot of ✤the boxes say they can be played with two players, and a lot are good with only two players.

What other types of "building" games are there?

There are also deck building games, which are very popular, engine building games and pool b♛uilding games. Many designers incorporate these mechanisms with others in their games.