The best thing if you have a friend or two and live in a city is to go to a board game cafe and try out a bunch of stuff. My wife and I have collected many gam

The best thing if you have a friend or two and live in a city is to go to a board game cafe and try out a bunch of stuff. My wife and I have collected many games at this point, the usual rotation of games we have that works pretty well with 2 players: - Everdell - Mandala - Terraforming Mars - Jaipur - Babel (the one by Uwe) - Century (the first one) I would anti-recommend 7 Wonders Duel unless you are a person who you know already likes games. It's _a bit_ heavy for an entry level game I think. Jaipur is a very good quintisential 2 player game. The build quality is _amazing_. You can try out some of these games on Board Game Arena, tho the tactile nature of games really changes things up so much. The kinds of games available for 2 players also depends on how competitive you are (lots of games recently are kind of "multiplayer solitaire", where there's limited ways for you to mess up other people's games, so it's more just trying to max out your own points).