Tag: Deckbuilders
Posted on October 9, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s another Friday night, so time for some stream of consciousness writing about a boardgame topic that makes me happy. What better thing to do on a Friday night? Tonight, with a little bit of whiskey added to the mix, I’d like to talk… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games That Grabbed You on First Look”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Bohemians, Capstone Games, Card Games, Class of '89, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Lunch Time Games, Paverson Games, Portal Games, Resafa, Track Movement, Up or Down, Worker Placement Games
Posted on October 7, 2026
by whovian223
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We’ve hit the 5000 mark in our examination of the Boardgame Geek game rankings, one century of games a week, and it feels quite cool, actually. I’ve really enjoyed doing this series, and it has kept me consistently writing as well, which is another… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4901 – 5000”
Category: Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Ascension: Skulls & Sails, Asmadi Games, Battle Above the Clouds, Blitz Bowl - Season 2, Bombay, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Contracts, Deckbuilders, Flashpoint South China Sea, Games Workshop, GMT Games, HUCH Games, LudiCreations, Lunch Time Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Penny Press, Pick Up & Deliver, Pilgrims, Pink Troubador, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Set Collection Games, Silver Bayonet, So, You've Been Eaten, Solo Games, Stoneblade, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games
Posted on October 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’ve all played those games before. The games where just sitting there playing the game, using the mechanisms (card drafting, worker placement, whatever) and you just think “this isn’t really that different than (fill in the blank) and it’s kind of boring.” But then… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Games Where the “Extras” Make the Game Better”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, OpinionTags: Alderac, Bohemians, Card Drafting, Deckbuilders, Devir, Jackie Fox, Let's Go to Japan, Portal Games, Rock Hard 1977, Story-driven Games, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on September 29, 2026
by whovian223
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Even closer to 5000 on the Boardgame Geek ranking system, the pickings of played games are getting slim! Not so slim that it would keep me from doing another in this series of posts, because it’s so goddamned fun to talk about games, both… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4801 – 4900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Advanced Third Reich, America - Trivia Game, Area Control, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Blitz Bowl - Ultimate Edition, Blue Panther Games, City of Gears, Compass Games, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Family Games, Fireside Games, Games Workshop, Grey Fox Games, Grid Movement, Horizons, Land and Freedom, Legends of the Void, Lunch Time Games, My First Castle Panic, Party Games, Semi-cooperative Games, The Lamps are Going Out, Twoid Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 23, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re getting close to the 5000 mark on this look at centuries of Boardgame Geek game rankings, and one thing is becoming clear: I haven’t played a lot of these as we get deeper! Last week was a bit of a return to form… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4701 – 4800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Area Control, Bezier Games, Bohemians, Card-Driven Game, Colossal Cat in the Box, Compass Games, Crusader Kings, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Europe in Turmoil, First Giants, Free League Publishing, GMT Games, Junk Orbit, Leaping Lemmings, Lock & Load Publishing, Pick Up & Deliver, Portal Games, PSC Games, Quartermaster General: Victory or Death, Renegade Games Studios, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Trick-taking games, Wargames, World at War '85: Storming the Gap
Posted on September 14, 2026
by whovian223
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Double post day today, but I didn’t remember that the Garphill Games announcement Youtube was going live today. There was some really exciting news in this one, especially the new East Empire game! There are some other announcements, like a couple of card games,… Continue Reading “Garphill Games News – New East Empire Game! And Paladins Stuff”
Posted on September 8, 2026
by whovian223
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After last month where I said that my “new to me games” list was slacking off a bit in 2026, August managed to bring six new games to the table! That still only puts me at 46 new games where last year was 84.… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Area Majority, Blue Orange Games, Dark Pact, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dimitri Perrier, Explor8, Federation, Got Five!, Hanami, Into the Machine, Kasper Lapp, Keymaster Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Matthieu Verdier, Racing Game, Reiner Knizia, The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick or Treat Studios, Trick-taking games, Yoann Levet
Posted on August 26, 2026
by whovian223
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Welcome to another look at a century of Boardgame Geek game rankings! These posts have been really cool for me because of the conversations they’ve started with friends and colleagues, but they’ve usually had at least a few games that I’ve played and can… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4301 – 4400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 12 Rivers, 2-Player Games, Area Majority, Ascension, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Board & Dice, Canasta, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Donning the Purple, Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcom, First Fish Games, Founders of Teotihuacan, Gift of the Elements, Good Games Publishing, Hanami, IV Studio, Keymaster Games, Liberation Game Design, Lunch Time Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Realm of Reckoning, Roll and Move, Stoneblade, Storm Over Stalingrad, Subdivision, Talisman 5th Edition, The Korean War, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Town Builder: Coevorden, Victory Games, Wargames
Posted on August 19, 2026
by whovian223
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The last century of the BGG Top Games list was actually not too bad. Lots of nostalgic wargames for me, plus having played a few of the really cool games on the list. Still, the number of games played wasn’t the largest. Will this… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4201 – 4300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 11 Nimmt!, Amigo Spiel, Area Majority, Auction Games, Bitewing Games, Card Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, DOG, Drafting Games, EGO, Garphill Games, GMT Games, I Napoleon, Legendary: Big Trouble in Little China, Lunch Time Games, Minerva, Multi-Man Publishing, Pandasaurus Games, Push Your Luck Games, Schmidt Spiele, Shifting Sands, Shipwrights of the North Sea, Siege of Valeria, Smash Up: That 70s Expansion, Solo Games, Team Games, Tower Defense, Upper Deck, Wargames, Welcome to Centerville
Posted on July 22, 2026
by whovian223
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As we go deeper into the Boardgame Geek game rankings, it’s almost like going deep, deep underwater. Sometimes there’s something truly beautiful down here, like some full-coloured coral in bloom that is just an amazing sight. And sometimes you get a few rocks. Last… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3801 – 3900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Axis & Allies: D-Day, Calliope Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Charioteer, CMYK, COIN Games, Cooperative Games, Creativity Hub, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Duos, Fellowship of Simulations, Flatout Games, GMT Games, Great War Commander, Grey Fox Games, Hexasim, Lunch Time Games, Martian Dice, Mayfair Games, Memory Games, Nocturne, Oink Games, Order Overload: Cafe, Party Games, Racing Game, Red Dust Rebellion, Rory's Story Cubes, Set Collection Games, Star Trek: Five Year Mission, Team Games, Team Play, Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno, War of the Worlds: the New Wave, Wargames