The best gaming gifts for dads this Father's Day

If you’re looking for a tabletop game you can play with your dad (and a couple others), you can’t go wrong with Dominion. Board game veterans will be familiar with it by now, but this is one of the forefathers of the genre known as the deck-builder. If you know video games like Slay the Spire or the recent hit Balatro, you have a sense of how it works. Two to four players start with the same small set of cards. With each turn, each player draws from their deck, then uses the resulting hand to buy new action, money and other modifier cards from a common market. The goal is to create an optimized deck, one that makes it easier to acquire more “victory” cards before a certain supply runs out. There are what feels like a million different strategies you can take, a feeling aided by the many expansions that have been released since the game went on sale. As things progress, the choices you’ve made in previous rounds build on themselves, and your plans morph accordingly. It all makes for a ... Read full article.