How We Research
BestGamesFor.com is owned by Big Potato Games. We recommend games from other publishers alongside our own, we verify that every game is sold in both the US and the UK before recommending it, and we never publish a review score on a game we made.
Who we are
BestGamesFor.com is owned by Big Potato Games, a board and party game publisher based in London and New York. That matters for how you read the recommendations, so we say it here and we label every Big Potato title inside the articles themselves.
We recommend plenty of games we don’t make. Codenames, Ticket to Ride, Exploding Kittens, Telestrations and Sushi Go all appear on these lists, and several of them beat our own games for specific situations. Where that’s true, we say so.
How a game gets on a list
Every game has to be genuinely buyable in both the US and the UK before it can be recommended. We check each one in both marketplaces, and we’ve cut well-known games at this stage. Monikers came off a list because Amazon UK sells only the expansion and not the base game, which makes it useless advice for half our readers.
Where a game ships under a different publisher or a different edition in each country, we link the right one for each market and say so on the entry rather than quietly redirecting you.
Where the numbers come from
Player counts, age ratings and play times are taken from each game’s current retail listing or its rulebook, not from memory and not from other people’s articles. If we can’t source an age rating, we leave it off rather than guess.
We describe how a game actually plays. That sounds obvious, but it’s the thing most recommendation articles get wrong, and it’s the fastest way to tell whether the writer has opened the box.
What we don’t do
We don’t publish star ratings on our own games. This site is owned by a publisher, so a self-awarded score would be worthless to you and would breach Google’s guidance on self-serving reviews. You’ll find no review scores anywhere on this site, for our games or anyone else’s.
We don’t print prices. They change weekly and stale prices are worse than no prices. The buy links go to the live listing so you see the real one.
We don’t take payment for placement. No publisher has ever paid to appear here, and no ranking on this site is for sale.
Affiliate links
The buy buttons are Amazon Associates links, so we may earn a small commission if you buy something after clicking one. It costs you nothing and it doesn’t affect what we recommend or the order things appear in. The commission is the same whether you buy a Big Potato game or somebody else’s.
Keeping it current
Each article carries the date it was last updated. We revisit them when a game goes out of print, when a player count or age rating changes, or when something better comes along. If you spot something wrong, we’d rather hear about it than leave it up.
