Tag: Capstone Games
Posted on February 4, 2026
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Now we’ve gone and done it. We’ve now reached the Top 10 games of all time, played by me at least. It’s been an incredible 5 weeks (ok, 6, but last week’s Friday post was important) of new games, oldies dropping in the rankings,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Christian Leonard, Civolution, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Jason Matthews, Lisboa, Lookout Games, Mathias Wigge, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Virginio Gigli, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 2, 2026
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Hard to believe that we’re already a month into 2026! My, how time flies. I wasn’t sure what to expect from January, especially because we had some really small Sundays and long games played. Which is good! But also means that not a lot… Continue Reading “January 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Arboretum, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Capstone Games, Card Games, Claim, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Rebel Princess, Renegade Games Studios, River Valley Glassworks, Sanctuary, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, White Goblin Games
Posted on January 23, 2026
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It’s time once again for another decade in my Top 50 games played of all time. It’s been a thrilling ride for me, because I really enjoy sharing the games I love and seeing if anybody agrees with me, or if I’m out on… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, AJ Porfirio, Alexander Pfister, Asymmetric Games, Capstone Games, Clank in Space, CMYK, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Dennis Northcott, Devir, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Evan Derrick, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Koltin Thompson, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Paul Dennen, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Renegade Games Studios, Resafa, Richard Garfield, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, SETI, Solo Games, T.K. King, Takashi Ishida, Tomáš Holek, Underwater Cities, Van Ryder Games, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 19, 2026
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Last week, I mentioned that we were starting to get into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. This week, that is just reinforced! Though there is enough decent (ok, maybe “interesting” is the better word) stuff to talk about that it… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1801 Through 1900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, 3237, Alderac, Alley Cat Games, Avalon Hill, Bitewing Games, Burgle Bros 2, Burning Banners, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Cascadero, Chocolate Factory, CMYK, Compass Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants Collection, Deckbuilders, Factory Fun, Fowers Games, Fruit Fight, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Kolossal Games, Kremlin, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lucky Loop, Lunch Time Games, No Mercy, Omen: A Reign of War, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Ride the Rails, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Snowdale Design, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 7, 2026
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Another break in the weekly schedule, but that’s because of New Years, a new month, some end of the year stuff, and all of that. I hope your new 2026 year has been treating you well so far! We’re back with another century of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1601 Through 1700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1541, 1588, 1621, 1685, 2-Player Games, Alderac, Area Control, Asymmetric Games, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Capstone Games, Card Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eerie Idol Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Granna Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, Nagaraja, NEOM, Pick Up & Deliver, Sanctuary, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game - Clone Wars Edition, Tableau-building, Terracotta Army, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Titan, Trains: Rising Sun, Villages of Valeria, Walking in Burano, Warsaw: City of Ruins
Posted on December 26, 2025
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There are a lot of two-player lane battler games out there, some with twists and some…without. The best ones have cards with different abilities that are squaring off against your opponent in an attempt to have the most strength in a lane. Riftforce meets… Continue Reading “Riding the Rift – Riftforce Review”
Posted on December 10, 2025
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I knew that November was going to be huge for New to Me games, but I didn’t realize just how huge! Between a convention (which, surprisingly enough, I didn’t play many new to me games at until the day Abi showed up) and multiple… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, AllPlay, Area Control, Assyria 2nd Edition, Auto-battler, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card Shedding, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Courtisans, Dan Schumacher, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eerie Idol Games, Emanuele Ornella, Fromage, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jamey Stegmaier, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Masato Uesugi, Mathias Wigge, Oddland, Origin Story, Pablo Clark, Pete Wissinger, Reiner Knizia, Richard Garfield, Road to Infamy Games, Roll and Move, Sanctuary, Scorpion Masqué, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stonemaier Games, Tag Team, Takashi Ishida, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda
Posted on December 5, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s Friday! Time for another look at 100 games on the Boardgame Geek top rankings. Ok, last week’s was Wednesday, and the week before was Thursday. It hasn’t taken its Metamucil yet. Just go with it, ok? It’s going to be weekly, but not… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1201 Through 1300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1254, 1268, 1285, 1288, Action Selection, Adventure Games, Arcane Wonders, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bezier Games, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Comic Hunters, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Empire's End, Fallout, Fantasy Flight Games, Flick of Faith, Galileo Galilei, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Pandasaurus Games, Pretty Pretty Smash Up, Prodigals Club, Rebel Princess, Resist!, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Smash Up, Solo Games, Space Base, Star Wars: Battle of Hoth, The Game, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Witchcraft!, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 3, 2025
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It’s time for another “first impressions” post about a game that I’ve just played for the first time but which I may not play enough to eventually review. Or maybe it’s just new enough that I want to get my impressions out there and… Continue Reading “First Impressions – Sanctuary”
Posted on November 20, 2025
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Recently the “This Game is Broken” podcast did a “Higher or Lower” game based on games in the Boardgame Geek rankings from 1000 to 2000. (You should really check them out, by the way. Hilarious boardgame podcast) During the Covid lockdowns, in order to… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1000 Through 1100 – Thoughts”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Adrenaline, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, boardgamegeek, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, Coffee Traders, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Economic Games, Friedrich, GMT Games, Hidden Movement, Histogame, One vs Many, Point to Point Movement, Rebellion Unplugged, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Tile-Laying Games, Washington's War, Worker Placement Games, Yedo, Yedo: Deluxe Master Set
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