Posted on September 2, 2026
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We’re halfway through the 4000s in our weekly look at games on the Boardgame Geek top games list, and things are looking up again. Slightly. Last week, I had only played two of the games in that century and I was beginning to despair… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4401 – 4500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Andreas Odendahl, Area Control, Arkham Horror: Final Hour, Battalion Combat Series, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Carlo A Rossi, Christopher Wray, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter Duel, Dean Essig, Dice Drafting, El Burro, Fantasy Flight Games, Francisco Gradaille, Frank Brooks, Game Makers, GMT Games, Greg Olotka, Ignacy Trzewiczek, La Granja, Lane Battler, Last Blitzkrieg, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Multi-Man Publishing, Neuroshima Convoy, Oops You Did It Again, Paul Peterson, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Pollen, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Smash Up, Spielworxx, Stonemaier Games, Todd Michlitsch, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on August 26, 2026
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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 21, 2026
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Those of you who follow this blog (hi, Doug!) know that I’m a huge Final Girl fanboy. See that page for all of my individual feature film reviews! I have everything, except maybe some promos and stuff. I have the Season 3 Ultimate Box… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Game Systems”
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 January 12, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re starting to get down into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. Not dregs in that these are bad games, because considering there are thousands of games in the BGG database, the top 2000 are still fairly highly rated. But just… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1701 Through 1800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2, Alderac, Bang!, Bot Factory, Card Games, Devir, Dice City, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Hasbro, Hit Z Road, Ierusalem: Anno Domini, Lookout Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Pearl Games, Resource Management, Rio Grande Games, Robo Rally, Rondel Games, Salton Sea, Space Cowboys, Space Station Phoenix, Staufer Dynasty, Tournay, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on October 10, 2022
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Last week, Renegade Game Studios sent out a press release about its licensing agreement with Hasbro, stating the following: “Renegade Game Studios is excited to announce that they are in negotiations to expand their licensing relationship with Hasbro, a global branded entertainment company, to… Continue Reading “Renegade Game Studios Expands Licensing Agreement with Hasbro – Squad Leader Coming?”
Posted on December 9, 2020
by whovian223
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After three weeks or so, it’s time for another entry in the BGG Top 200! We’re almost done, which you would think would mean that I could actually get these done in a timely manner. But, you know, COVID and everything. Yeah, I do… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #130-121”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, A Game of Thrones: the Board Game (2nd Edition), Action Selection, Andreas Steiger, Area Movement, Auction Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Brian Lewis, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Christian T. Petersen, Chronicles of Crime, Cooperative Games, David Cicurel, Deduction, Deep Water Games, Dinosaur Island, Don Eskridge, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Jonathan Gilmour, Kosmos, Lucky Duck Games, Manuel Rozoy, Martin Wallace, Mindclash Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Negotiation Games, Pandasaurus Games, Peggy Chassenet, Railways of the World, Richard Amann, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Storytelling Games, T.I.M.E. Stories, Targi, Ted Alspach, The Resistance: Avalon, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Trickerion, Viktor Peter, Welcome To..., Worker Placement Games