About boredgame.lol
You know that feeling when you want to play something but can't decide what? We built this to fix that.
The Problem
There are over 1,000,000 board games, video games, word games, and party games out there. Finding the right one for your group, your mood, and your time budget shouldn't require scrolling through endless lists or reading dozens of reviews. You should be able to say "I want a 30-minute strategy game for 4 people" and get an answer in seconds.
That's exactly what boredgame.lol does. Tell us what you're in the mood for, and our recommendation engine matches you with games you'll actually enjoy, not just whatever's trending. And it gets smarter every time you use it.
How Recommendations Work
Under the hood, a 6-layer recommendation engine analyzes 80,000+ games to find your perfect match.
Natural Language Understanding
Describe what you want in plain English. Our AI extracts genres, mechanics, player count, time limits, and even designer preferences from your request, then expands your query with creative search terms.
Relevance-First Candidate Search
Instead of showing popular games by default, we search for games that actually match your request. Semantic vector search (pgvector), tag matching, mechanic search, text search, and designer lookups all run in parallel to find relevant candidates.
Multi-Dimensional Scoring
Every candidate is scored across 10 dimensions: genre match, free-text relevance, player count fit, time fit, complexity fit, type match, mood alignment, quality, popularity, and recency. Weights adapt based on what you emphasized.
Semantic Similarity
Games and your preferences are encoded as vectors using semantic embeddings. This captures meaning that tags miss. "Anime themed" finds Japanese-style games even when the tags just say "Fantasy" or "Card Game".
AI Re-Ranking
An AI judge reviews the top candidates and re-orders them using common sense. It catches things the algorithm misses, like knowing an expansion pack should rank below its base game.
Learning From You
Thumbs up and thumbs down teach the engine your taste. Collaborative filtering discovers patterns across users, and your feedback profile gets sharper over time.
Where the Data Comes From
We aggregate game data from the best sources on the internet so you don't have to check multiple sites.
BoardGameGeek
65,000+
The gold standard for board game data. Community ratings, complexity scores, mechanics, player counts, and designer info.
IGDB
11,000+
Rich video game metadata via Twitch. Genres, platforms, release dates, and community ratings.
RAWG + Curated
3,800+
Additional video games from RAWG plus hand-picked word games and party games you can play with no equipment.