Posted on November 12, 2020
by whovian223
18 Comments
Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 9, 2020
by whovian223
2 Comments
One of my favourite Youtube boardgame personalities is 3 Minute Board Games, a channel that consists of quick and concise boardgame reviews (Editor – So, a channel that you couldn’t be part of, right?). Yes, everything you need to know in 3 minutes! I… Continue Reading “One of My Faves Makes a Game! Red Dust Rebellion from GMT Games”
Posted on November 5, 2020
by whovian223
14 Comments
And we’re back from the long hiatus that I seem to periodically take, like, every month or so. I really need to have a chat with these demons that seem to get inside my head all of the time and keep me from feeling… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #150-141”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Awaken Realms, Captain Sonar, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Civilization Building, Cody Miller, Combat Commander: Europe, Eggertspiele, Einar Rosén, Far Off Games, GMT Games, Gord!, Inka Brand, Jakub Wiśniewski, Lautapelit.fi, Lunch Time Games, Markus Brand, Matagot, Michał Oracz, Nations, Near and Far, Nina Håkansson, Paths of Glory, Red Raven Games, Res Arcana, Robert Rosén, Roberto Fraga, Roxley Games, Rustan Håkansson, Ryan Laukat, Sand Castle Games, Santorini, Space Games, Tableau-building, Team Games, Ted Raicer, This War of Mine, Tom Lehmann, Village, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Yohan Lemonnier
Posted on October 22, 2020
by whovian223
2 Comments
Two news posts in one day? That’s what happens when two of your favourite app companies come out with news on the same day (yesterday, of course). Playdek announced yesterday that Labyrinth: the War on Terror will be leaving Steam’s Early Access and also… Continue Reading “Labyrinth: the War on Terror Coming out of Steam Early Access November 12”
Posted on October 9, 2020
by whovian223
19 Comments
Another week, another “wow, I haven’t played many games” post. It’s almost like I’m failing as a “gamer”. Is that possible? Should I really feel bad that I haven’t played a bunch of games? Maybe, if I’m actually writing about them. Am I not… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #160-151”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adrian Adamescu, Aeon's End: War Eternal, Alan R Moon, Andreas "Ode" Odendahl, Arcadia Quest, Area Control, Block Wargames, Card Drafting, Card Games, CMON, Codenames: Duet, Collectible Card Game, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Daryl Andrews, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Eric Lang, FloodGate Games, Fred Perret, GMT Games, Guilherme Goulart, Indie Boards & Cards, Kevin Riley, La Granja, Lunch Time Games, Magic: the Gathering, Matt Calkins, Michael Keller, Miniatures, Richard Garfield, Rio Grande Games, Sagrada, Scot Eaton, Sekigahara: the Unification of Japan, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Splendor, Thiago Aranha, Tichu, Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler, Vlaada Chvátil, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on August 12, 2020
by whovian223
15 Comments
After finally getting the last post for the BGG Top 100 games done last week, I was a bit at a loss. What to do for a follow-up? I’m still not getting many games played and while I am behind on a review or… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #200-191”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Age of Empires III - Age of Discovery, Asger Granerud, Bora Bora, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Czech Games Edition, Dice Drafting, Dixit: Odyssey, Dungeon Petz, Flamme Rouge, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial, Imperial Settlers, Jason Matthews, Jean-Louis Roubira, Keith Matejka, Libellud, Mac Gerdts, Maciej Obszański, Portal Games, Ravensburger, Régis Bonnessée, Rio Grande Games, Roll Player, Seasons, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Thunderworks Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 3, 2020
by whovian223
26 Comments
It’s been almost 4 weeks since the last post in this series looking at the Top 100 Games ranked on Boardgame Geek. I was riding high, feeling all the love the series was creating and posting something almost every week day. And then I… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Play or Played – #10-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Ananda Gupta, Brass: Birmingham, Campaign Games, Card-Driven Game, Cephalofair Games, Christian T. Petersen, Civilization Building, Corey Konieczka, Czech Games Edition, Dane Beltrami, Deckbuilders, Economic Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Gaia Project, Gavan Brown, Gloomhaven, GMT Games, Great Western Trail, Helge Ostertag, Isaac Childress, Jacob Fryxelius, Jason Matthews, Jens Drogemuller, Martin Wallace, Matt Leacock, Matt Tolman, Pandemic: Legacy Season 1, Rob Daviau, Roxley Games, Star Wars: Rebellion, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Twilight Struggle, Vlaada Chvátil, Zman Games
Posted on June 29, 2020
by whovian223
1 Comment
During these plague-filled times of dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic and all of the life changes that it has involved, I’ve been lucky. And I know it. My wife and I both still have our jobs and while I’ve been working from home since… Continue Reading “GMT Gives Free Games for COVID Job Loss”
Posted on June 10, 2020
by whovian223
16 Comments
With this post we’re half-way through the BGG Top 100 and I have to say that this has been a fun project for me. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. One thing going through this list does for me is… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 100 – Played or Play? 60-51”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Area Control, Auction Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Caylus, Chad Jensen, Clank, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fields of Arle, Five Tribes, GMT Games, Huch & Friends, Keyflower, Lords of Waterdeep, Mancala games, Paul Dennen, Peter Lee, Race for the Galaxy, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Breese, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Sebastian Bleasdale, Tableau-building, The Gallerist, Tom Lehmann, Underwater Cities, Uwe Rosenberg, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, William Attia, Wizards of the Coast, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games, Zman Games
Posted on April 3, 2020
by whovian223
7 Comments
With all of us hopefully staying indoors for a large part of our day for the foreseeable future, digital boardgaming apps (as well as online gaming, but that’s not what this post is about) are becoming more and more important in our lives. This… Continue Reading “Labyrinth: the War on Terror – Early Access on Steam – First Look”
Dude! Take Your Turn! 