Best 2-player post-napoleonic board games

Brass Lancashire (2007)

2–4 players · 60–120 min · ★ 8.2

Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2014)

1–4 players · 90 min · ★ 7.5

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1982)

1–8 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.7

Pax Pamir Second Edition (2019)

1–5 players · 45–120 min · ★ 8.4

Pandemic Iberia (2016)

2–5 players · 45 min · ★ 7.9

Letters from Whitechapel (2011)

2–6 players · 90 min · ★ 7.4

Trickerion Legends of Illusion (2015)

2–4 players · 60–180 min · ★ 7.9

Thurn and Taxis (2006)

2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.1

Diplomacy (1959)

2–7 players · 360 min · ★ 7.0

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures (2016)

1–8 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.7

Wabash Cannonball (2007)

2–6 players · 60 min · ★ 7.2

Obsession (2018)

1–4 players · 30–90 min · ★ 8.3

Mr. Jack Pocket (2010)

2 players · 15 min · ★ 6.9

Pax Porfiriana (2012)

1–6 players · 120 min · ★ 7.7

Hallertau (2020)

1–4 players · 50–140 min · ★ 8.2

The Bloody Inn (2015)

1–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 7.0

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2018)

2–7 players · 45–60 min · ★ 7.3

Whitehall Mystery (2017)

2–4 players · 45–60 min · ★ 7.6

World's Fair 1893 (2016)

2–4 players · 35–45 min · ★ 7.2

For the People (1998)

2 players · 360 min · ★ 7.7

The Civil War 1861-1865 (1983)

2 players · 120–1200 min · ★ 7.7

Navajo Wars (2013)

1–2 players · 120 min · ★ 8.0

A House Divided War Between the States 1861-65 (1981)

2 players · 240 min · ★ 7.1

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Carlton House & Queen's Park (2017)

1–8 players · 90 min · ★ 8.0

Paris (2020)

2–4 players · 90 min · ★ 7.4

Nanty Narking (2019)

2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.6

The U.S. Civil War (2015)

2 players · 150–360 min · ★ 8.3

Beyond Baker Street (2016)

2–4 players · 20 min · ★ 6.9

The Guns of Gettysburg (2013)

2–4 players · 180 min · ★ 7.8

Duel of Ages Set 1 Worldspanner (2003)

2–16 players · 120 min · ★ 6.6

The Palace of Mad King Ludwig (2017)

2–4 players · 75 min · ★ 6.9

Old Masters (2019)

2–4 players · 40–60 min · ★ 7.1

On the Origin of Species (2019)

2–4 players · 45–80 min · ★ 7.1

Bison Thunder on the Prairie (2006)

2–4 players · 90 min · ★ 6.3

1841 Railways in Northern Italy (1994)

2–8 players · 300 min · ★ 8.0

Stonewall Jackson's Way (1992)

1–2 players · 180 min · ★ 7.6

Grant Takes Command (2001)

2 players · 120 min · ★ 8.0

Terrible Swift Sword The Three Days of Gettysburg (1976)

2–6 players · 420–4200 min · ★ 7.5

At Any Cost Metz 1870 (2018)

1–2 players · 120–480 min · ★ 8.2

Fort Sumter The Secession Crisis (2018)

2 players · 20–40 min · ★ 6.6

Across 5 Aprils (1992)

2 players · 180 min · ★ 7.0

Furnace (2021)

2–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 7.5

Viktory II (2006)

2–8 players · 60 min · ★ 6.9

Source of the Nile (1978)

1–6 players · 180 min · ★ 6.5

The Ironclads A Tactical Level Game of Naval Combat in the American Civil War 1861-1865 (1979)

1–8 players · 120 min · ★ 7.3

Colonialism (2013)

2–4 players · 90 min · ★ 6.8

Dystopian Wars (2010)

2–4 players · 120–240 min · ★ 7.2

Colonial Diplomacy (1994)

2–7 players · 360 min · ★ 6.6