The Silver River plays great at 2 player:

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The Silver River is a rich, full-featured 4X game that takes place in our own galaxy, The Milky Way, known in many Eastern cultures as The Silver River. The playable races included are those that many believe actually exist in our galaxy, each one with different strengths, weaknesses, and abilities. The game plays 1-4 players (5 with the expansion) in 90 to 160 minutes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/478379924/the-silver-river

Stone Age for me its just a boring and dull game.

It's also worth noting that there are also many games with crossover between different categories.

For example, Dice Forge has elements of both Dice Manipulation (what you roll largely determines what your options are on any given turn) and Deck Building (you actually remove faces from your dice and replace them with other faces that give different resources or special bonuses).

Many games are a combination of multiple mechanics/genres instead of exclusively one or another.

Thanks for the details on Rising Tide. Zee's review of it put it on the back burner for me, but I'll stay on the look out for a chance to at least give it a try.

I agree that Forbidden Desert and Island are really closely related. Have you had a chance to try the new installment, Forbidden Sky? I have not yet, but have heard it is a next step forward in complexity from Island to Desert to Sky.

Also, you mentioned the Reign of Cthulu is more related to the Forbidden series, so I assume that means it a more simplified Pandemic system?

Thanks for the details on Rising Tide. Zee's review of it put it on the back burner for me, but I'll stay on the look out for a chance to at least give it a try.

I agree that Forbidden Desert and Island are really closely related. Have you had a chance to try the new installment, Forbidden Sky? I have not yet, but have heard it is a next step forward in complexity from Island to Desert to Sky.

Also, you mentioned the Reign of Cthulu is more related to the Forbidden series, so I assume that means it a more simplified Pandemic system?

Have a look at Viticulture, Eclipse* and Keyflower.

I've played about 2800 games of Netrunner and I would have played twice that number if the game hadn't been cancelled. I hope L5R gives me a similar number of plays.

At a glance and from my collection I can imagine putting a lot of plays on the following games:

- Cosmic Encounter

- Dune

- Steam (I'm 71 plays in and could play this one every single day of the week)

- Chicago Express and its variants.

- Keyforge

Forbidden Island though there are no dice. It's a relatively light fun coop