Medium-heavy board games for 6 players

Six-player medium-heavy games tend to feature political mechanics, negotiation, or asymmetric factions that generate their best dynamics when every seat is filled. The complexity gives six players enough to argue about — which is often what makes a long evening memorable rather than exhausting.

These are filtered using BGG poll data for games the community specifically rates well at six, keeping out designs that merely permit the count.

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