Heavy board games for 4 players

Four-player heavy games include some of the most ambitious designs in the hobby. The complexity is not a barrier — it is the point. These games create the kind of deeply strategic evenings that generate stories worth retelling, and the depth sustains interest across months of regular play.

The list uses BGG poll data to find heavy games specifically rated well at four, keeping out designs that prefer different player counts.

Here are the highest-scoring heavy games for four players, ranked by BGG community rating.