This western mafia game with RPG-like elements, and a clever system of distance will keep you playing over and over again. You gain a different role and character each game getting you to constantly rethink your strategy. The game has several fun expansions, both official and unofficial. BANG! is also pretty easy to mod. There are many house roles and alternate gameplays (search for BANG! Tactics or Infinite BANG! for instance) to consider. Adding character cards is easy, as well as adding new playing cards. Ideal for 5 players, it is still fun with 4 and as many as 8.

If you like BANG!, check out the upcoming Robber's Roost and Death Mesa unofficial expansions. Orange cards are introduced: cards that can never be played on your turn, but rather at or during specific events on other players' turns. The orange cards are meant to improve teamwork, speed up the game, and allow you to do things while waiting for your turn. Learn more at The BANG! Blog: http://bangcardgame.blogspot.com/p/robbers-roost-expansion.html

Less of a comprehensive expansion than Robber's Roost, Death Mesa provides a fun way of keeping dead players in the game. While they lose their character abilities and no longer draw from the normal deck, they still participate by drawing and playing cards from the Dead Men's Deck. Check out the unofficial Death Mesa expansion at The BANG! Blog: http://bangcardgame.blogspot.com/p/death-mesa-expansion.html

I have played this game twice with 5 people total. First group were very experienced gamers and the second group were casual gamers. Neither groups much fun. I am used to what the card can do explained on the card. These cards only have symbols and you have to reference cheat cards. Even the cheat cards are vague so then you have to reference the rules. So game flow gets choppy because of that. A simple concept was taken and complicated to death. I am also not a fan of games that eliminate people in the flow of play. Then you have people bored watching the constant bang/miss exchange over and over. I will most likely never break this game out for all night game sessions again.