The market of modern board games has been growing exponentially over the past five years. In Brazil, companies and consumers in this segment exploit several opportunities that arise with the offer of more than four hundred new titles per year, new places to play and new forms of information, access and acquisition of these games. In this context, the consumption meanings of modern board games change and are often shown to be strong and present in the lives of players, influencing the identities of consumers in the most diverse ways. Studies about modern board games in the consumption area are very scarce, mainly in Brazil, and limited to a few areas. Thus, this research aims to explore the meanings of consumption of board games and their possible identity implications, through interviews with twenty-five consumers highly involved with this object, and using french semiotics as a theoretical-methodological and analytical line. The research results point to the socialization mediated by modern board games as one of the main consumption meaning of the studied object, as well as one of the main identity implications for consumers. Also highlighted are the consumer narratives about the sensitive relationship between the players and the game-object and its collections. The study of the consumption meanings and identity issues revealed that nerdy culture is very present in this universe, although it is not a market restricted to this consumer subculture.