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There are plenty of traditional gifts for fathers day, like a tie, some cologne or some sort of thing with a favorite sports team logo. It’s easy to forget that many dads these days grew up loving Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. Geeky dads love Father’s Day too and many of them love playing games with their kids.

This article includes a selection of board games that nerdy dads will love. Most of these are games dads can play with their friends though if their kids are 10 or over they might be able to play too. They are available online, through Friendly Local Game Stores and might even show up on the shelf at your local Target.

Every Star Wars fan has imagined a life on the darker side of the galaxy as a swaggering captain like Han Solo or smooth talking gambler like Lando Calrissian. Star Wars: Outer Rim lets fans take on this dangerous lifestyle by putting them in command of a stock light freighter to take on jobs and cargo while avoiding the simmering conflict between the Empire and the Rebellion. Players can choose to run missions for well-known names like Princess Leia or Jabba the Hut, risking their livelihood for the all important reputation that will win the game.

The recently released expansion, Unfinished Business, expands everything in the original game like new captains, new ships and new missions. Favor tokens also let players negotiate even more complex deals between each other and goal cards that personalize victory conditions. There’s even an enhanced Bounter Hunter AI deck that can chase a solo player throughout the galaxy.

Cooperative card games have come on stong in the gaming space over the past ten years. Games like Sentinels of the Multiverse and Marvel Champions let players put on the mask of their favorite superheroes and work together to take down a big bad guy. The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game recently released a new edition to update its gameplay based on years of expansions and feedback.

Each player takes a deck (or builds their own) representing one of the heroes of Middle-Earth. The players work together playing against a deck full of monsters, plot twists and more. But beware, because each heroes deck has a card that reflects their fatal flaw and can come up at the most in opportune of times.

A lot of dads love beer related Father’s Day gifts. Brew offers a little something different. Instead of worrying about hops or ABV, it offers a chance for players to save a forest by using the different seasons of the year to brew enchanted potions. They’ve got to mix mystical ingredients and tame woodland creatures to save the day.

This game pulls together a lot of board game elements like worker placement, area control and dice manipulation under lovely art direction that feels like a lost Miyazaki film. It’s also the most family friendly out of these entries. Fans of the art can also order enamel pins featuring their favorite characters.

A lot of dads, myself included, love mob movies. The Godfather is one of thos films that I will catch unexpectedly on cable and sit down to watch the whole thing on accident. Wise Guys puts players at the head of their own family during the golden era of organized crime: the Roaring 20’s.

Wise Guys is a reinterpretation of a game based on a license that a lot of folks would have probably never pegged for a board game: Sons of Anarchy Men of Mayhem. The rules are easy to learn and it’s very hard not to want to hunch your shoulders and talk about cement overshoes a few turns into the game.

One of the best properties to come out of the weird 80’s nostalgia space is Tales From The Loop featuring an alternate 80s full of wonderous machines and weird science seen through the eyes of kids who live near a facility that builds these machines. This world started out as an art book by Simon Stålenhag and has gone on to become a series of books, an award winning pair of role-playing games, an Amazon Studios TV show and now a board game from Free League Publishing.

The board game shares a structure with the RPG where kids have to balance their time investigating mysteries at The Loop with the pressures of their normal every day lives. There are different scenarios with different levels of difficulty as well as expansions that make the game even weirder. A perfect choice for the dad who says they don’t need to watch Stranger Things: they lived it.