Medium-heavy board games for 5 players

Five-player medium-heavy games tend to involve robust player interaction — area control, negotiation, or competition for scarce resources that stays interesting regardless of group size. The complexity gives five engaged players something to sink into rather than through.

These are filtered using BGG community poll data for games specifically rated well at five, not designs that technically support the count but slow to a crawl or become unwieldy.

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