I may as well jump on the bandwagon.
A friend already has this: Tigris & Euphrates, Wibbell++, Roll for the Galaxy (and Race is better), Death Angel, QE, Galaxy Trucker, No Thanks, Great Western Trail
I dislike (modern) wargames: Undaunted, Pax Pamir 2e, Memoir '44, A Distant Plain
I dislike campaign/legacy games: Oath, That Time You Killed Me (though I do kinda want this one), Sleeping Gods
I dislike roll ‘n’ writes: Fleet the Dice Game, Rustling Leaves, Super-Skill Pinball
I have plenty of party games/I don’t think these would go down well: Don’t Get Got (I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been to the kind of party where this would work), Just One, MonsDRAWsity, Wavelength, Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
I (or a friend) already have something similar (or that fills the same niche): Ride the Rails, Iberian Gauge, A Feast For Odin, Schummel Hummel, Assel Schlomossel, Kakerlaken Suppe, Nusfjord, Glass Road, Hansa Teutonica, Babylonia, Dealt, Radlands, Renature, The Quest for El Dorado, Cascadia, Modern Art, Blue Lagoon
I would own if they weren’t too expensive to justify: Button Shy (various), Food Chain Magnate, Cosmic Encounter, Root, Bus, Terra Mystica
I just have zero interest in these: Burgle Bros 2 (played the original and it was meh), North Berkeley, Beyond the Sun, Cubitos, For Science (I fell asleep during NPI’s video about it), Now Boarding, Herbaceous, Maskmen, Schotten Totten, A Game of Thrones The Board Game, Hundreds of Horses, Curious Cargo, Night of the Ninja, Innovation, The Crew, Corrosion, Bitoku, Imperial Steam, Pipeline, Catacombs, Dune
Special cases:
- Brass Birmingham - Rejected on principle due to excluding Leicester
- Twilight Imperium - I’d love to know someone who owns it, so I could play it some time. But I could never justify owning it myself.
- Sidereal Confluence - Similar to TI. I just don’t think I could get it played enough (or at all) to justify owning it.
- Fantasy Realms - I’d love a retheme with new art.