Top 100 Games of All Time - 10-1

[Music] Tom vassell's top 100 games of all time [Music] [Music] voice of the people [Music] thank you hey we're on welcome everybody uh to the dice tower I'm Tom vassell I'm Mike delicio I'm Z Garcia it's the top 10 of all time all time of all games the top ten there are none better nope I'm wearing the wrong glasses well these don't match why didn't no one tell me they didn't match something seems off anyway right it's I'm not I don't I don't get it there's just something is it your birthday no it's not my birthday did you have breakfast I never have breakfast not a coffee I don't know it's it's good to me I'm fine is he wearing shoes I am wearing shoes today yeah yep I don't know I can't shake it I don't know I'm supposed to be in the middle and you're saying oh I'm over there oh shoot I knew it there was something wrong screaming in the chat my apologies we can easily fix this here we go hey okay why all right that's better yeah I feel a little bit more like myself now yeah yeah that was weird those are strange energy that you uh you leave in that chair you just seep into that seat this this seat is just immersed with Juju I feel better once again I don't have a pen or a pencil Todd this is every every time how did I disappear every time you're eating pencils and pans but it works once my step does not work all day are you not holding a pen time just take it yes he just okay hey folks welcome to the top 10 of all time again um we want to uh say thank you to our sponsor of this episode The World Series of board gaming fantastic sponsor where we're gonna be at the world series of board gaming this year so we talked about this for the last week it happened I don't want to go to Ad nauseam here um but I do want to say it's gonna be a fantastic time if you're considering going definitely think about that you definitely want to enter a contest which is emailing us at contest dice tower.com in the subject line putting the word Vegas and you can win a 450 discount on the ticket which gets you five nights there um entry into four different tournaments you can win lots of you could win no one's won four tournaments yet no well look there's a first time for everything Tom that would be interesting and I would also be very scared of that person two people last year but neither one of them won the whole thing oh okay okay in fact the world championship for this currently is being held by someone from China it is truly the world series of board game wow so but it's your chance to go you can play but even if that's doesn't sometimes people play in these tournaments not necessarily trying to they're trying to win I guess but they they're not caring about winning they go just because they want to play with people who are really good at the game sure and that's hard to find competence people that's correct Gamers but no I meant people don't don't don't help me okay get my hand back sorry it didn't work anyway thank you to World Series board game we hope to 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are at the top 10 games of all time they're not you know we'll do some things in the future where we'll talk about games that maybe have fallen off the list and you know stuff but where does your job about our favorite 10 games I got a couple big changes in my top ten let's see and so do the people I have uh some interesting stuff in my top ten yes I've got a couple of of things in my top ten that are that are new for me for sure for this for this section of the list I'll say that much let me see there's a new game in my top ten and like new to the list new okay and there's some games that have never been in my top 10 that have kept on climbing I have a couple that are new to the top ten but I I will say well I don't want to say too much but I don't have any brand new games in my top ten that's disgusting oh you said that that's because uh I am someone that takes their job seriously unlike others who will just randomly Willy put games into their top 10. okay we all get along so and thank you to Christopher and thank you to Jacob and thank you to ludacia from Uruguay Hawaii and then revolver put chili here we go let's jump to Mike's number 10. let's do it all right my number 10 is a game that has been in uh another list on another list I believe the People's Choice list but I don't think it's going to be showing up in either of your lists although you Z I love it I do love it uz now have much more exposure to my number 10 than you did a few months ago my number 10 is the Fantastic asymmetric game route uh you oh okay I can say I'm now uh rude adjacent you are because you've been playing the app which is not sitting here I call myself a Roto-Rooter yes root is a fantastic as I said asymmetric game where you play as a particular faction in this Forest land and this is really I've never considered myself a war gamer I still don't but this is really a war game that does not look like one and um can we already have this conversation yeah I wasn't starting to People's Choice People's Choice so yeah that's all I'll say about that but no no I'm just yeah yeah I was very very strong Deja Vu no that's true I did mention that but I'm talking that francaise because yeah baby I would say this is probably wouldn't you say the most popular mainstream war game birds man it's not a war game you can be a war game you can and have Birds it's a war game no war game does not necessarily mean historical I agree I disagree but I also think you're trying to troll people maybe a little stop it it's a fantastic game uh eat whatever faction you're playing is going to determine the type of game you're playing it has a number of expansions that have added new maps and new factions terrific game an absolutely stunning achievement and my number 10 is root I need to play root on the tablet is one of the best games of all time that unfortunately got a little bit of a bad rap because the delivery system doesn't fit the the contents okay talking we've talked about this already what are we talking Mike and I have discussed this yes I know what your number 10 is when it showed up on the people's list it was on your list as well of course Magic Gathering no magic the Gathering is not it uh Abyss yes what's wrong with the delivery system the delivery system is is large I can't even look at it it's a big box people thought it was something it looks like a big board game it's really a card game now to be fair you do need a box this large to hold that blistering artwork you do okay anything smaller than this would literally burst your retinas open spontaneous combustion of your rods and cones Rod's gone this game looks amazing it's a fun interactive card game with a really nice push and pull of what you do the more you do for yourself the more you are leaving for other players other players get your leavings sometimes your leavings are better than your takings this is also true what I'm saying yes have you played Abyss not anymore try the leavings Edition it's great I love it very much my number 10 abyss and if you come to a dice tower convention there's a pretty good chance I'll teach this to you yeah that really is um okay so um first of all we got enough people to like the video so we will have a contest contest to win a box email as a contest at Dice tower.com and in the subject line put the word box maybe that will show up on the screen sometime we'll see but it's box it's a subject line contest at divetower.com okay and then you too can win a box of boxes box subject hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey I grabbed okay Tom get ready for your email but just say the word box a whole lot you're gonna be seeing a lot of box here soon all right uh so a bunch of shout outs here Kai from Hawaii thank you Cody from Rohan this is nice I feel as I lie David a super super chat also Spencer Rob is super super Canadian chat Owen from West Virginia Steve from Calgary Ryan from New Jersey and Jay Spang okay did you say Alistair no I did not all right has broken back into the top ten it used to be in the top ten yeah we should tell people what we put in the email by the way oh in the body of the email address tell us uh your address yes your name probably also your name too yeah it's not North America only it's worldwide okay okay so last year this game was 21 so it's bash its way back in wow and not only that and it's just the way it worked out and I did compare it a lot because my number 11 yeah was LA hav and this game I like it now just the tiniest bit more than as well you should it's a better game I agree it improved the previous game by quite a bit this game did come out after a little hop same designer though yep whereas laharvary didn't have a version one you know what I mean no I look I and I get these are right next to each other I could easily pick either one I played I taught my kids Kevin this year and I was like man such a good gamer so many fun choices here yeah caverna's good I do like covering up the best I think from all his big games but as you can see they're in my top three Uh Kevin was 10 lahave is 11 and then those are my three big that's what we call them triumvirent right there that's a lot of uve people's choice hmm there's no simple one here this has been on the list for you ready uh six years the clue is Isaac he was first yeah but I said haven't you did which is the correct pronouncement for Mike so this was six last year and four the year before that but it's still in the top ten was it one at any point for the humans no the highest was was four in two 2020 and 2021 it was four both times okay part of that is because again it's it's their methodology of voting for The People's Choice right it's not ratings only it also has to be mentioned period to make a list so some people are never going to touch this right the people who do like home Haven really like it and most people who play gloomhaven are predisposed to like it I think at this point that's probably now with the follow-ups like frost Haven nobody goes near Frost Haven unless they know they like Loom Haven correct I would assume that that I mean not no one but it's a 99.9 of the people who play Frost Haven are likely to enjoy it yeah because they come in knowing knowing kind of what they're getting there yeah yeah that is your choice for number 10. Gloom hey guys [Music] oh I can see clearly now the light is off hey I don't have to go into a big long-winded introduction to my games thank goodness why because it just got mentioned hey the picture was up there oh no one saw apparently I could be a little verbose game that is not is not into my list by any means but this is is new to my top 10. this is a game that has just steadily risen over the years for me I've always kind of liked it from the very beginning I like the unique theme where you are basically playing as a cloud and you are moving your cloud and dropping rain onto these tiles that represent different different crops but this is a game that looks beautiful and Serene it's very interactive wait what's that lightning from that must be one of the expansions no no it's you that's been in the game but this is the the deluxe you know the collector's edition we're showing a picture of here the regular one had cardboard we have this in the library Tom um so obviously played our library copy zero I this is the game I'm likely to teach at a dice I just want to say you've been throwing out a lot of shade my way and I'm just asking questions well we're playing petrichor you need shade you know it rains um it's a game that is very very as I said interactive it could be mean depending upon which kind of tiles you put out because you can put out different tiles yeah that is also nice because the game can be tailored to the style of the people playing it you could play it so that they're less fighty fighty or more fighty fighty but it's a dual area control or area majority type of a game very very smart one that like Abyss has a different experience to what you see maybe in the table on the table or in the Box very good game like again I I just and with the the new deluxe edition here even better components all kinds of expansions if you want to add them or just the base game itself is terrific petrichor is a game that I think has and maybe a few other games on my list are not as well known definitely my type of game love love love some petrichor petrichor will not be in the box of games but there will be man that's a shame because it's a great game oh yeah but there will be some neat some neat games in there some new stuff too all right hmm [Applause] so you went from spazzing on your first one to now you're going to be super calm I'm very calm I'm always very calm bye my number nine was just on the people's list this last 10. whoa okay yeah but he matched twice so you cannot even come close nice try I'm okay with that I don't need to surpass Mike the Lisa in fact I think why go for you man could well I'm glad someone said it you know many farm animals my number nine yes one of my absolute favorite two-player games of all time this is Seven Wonders duel baby this is fantabulous so interesting interactive a wonderful mix of different end game conditions all fighting for relevancy as you try to get the most victory points but hey wait hold on you might not need victory points if you blow your opponent away with a military Victory or hey my component's getting close to a military Victory but I might not care what whatsoever if I can get the right science symbols and melt them into a puddle of goo or something I don't know exactly how that translates to what's going on in the game so there's three ways in which the game can end and they're all fighting you're always trying to figure out which way things are gonna go the drafting is so great where you take a card which might reveal one or two more to your opponent so first shot goes to them on those especially in that last third age yeah if they're going for that science win or the military win right you really don't want to reveal the wrong card at the wrong time yeah that's big and it is just tens it's uh would you call a ratchet system TM it is not the ratchet it's a new the tension ratchets up on the back of the box this is a ratchet game the attention ratcheting up quotient that one I'm not going to try to make it okay okay I love it very much the expansions are great as well Seven Wonders duel do you have the metal oh military tokens yes I do not allowed to do that anymore okay stop with us I have coins metal coins oh my goodness and then the metal um Shield cross Shields and the no it's a shield and cross swords right and then the metal Medusa or whoever whatever the Temple of someone right that's metal so your version of Seven Wonders duel has a retail value of seventeen thousand dollars approximately wow that's impressive if you're gonna go all in go all in let me get through these super chats real quick Bruce from Indy you know Bruce I know Bruce from North Virginia which is apparently different than the rest of Virginia correct Rabbit Hole from India it's two from Indy Sean from Washington humble meatball Hans from Taiwan Brad and Stefan and Martin from Slovakia Martin all right my number nine was number nine last year and it was number nine also in 2020. in 2021 for celebration was number two but man do I love this game very good on the uh quick Snappy turns right oh okay yeah we're bringing this back teeth sqts but also it's rolling dice this game look um this game is one that I know you guys love bad company and Bad Company okay but space base is like 10 times better I disagree I know you disagree but man you're so wrong space is so awesome because the whole game is exciting Bad Company it's it gets more interesting it goes by but space space I'm like rolling dice trying to get that 12 but you win card oh so good you make a meal out of space I didn't know where to stop the evening got that one okay I may have eaten too much space today okay but I really love this game it's so much fun I love teaching it I think it's a great introductory game with the exception of a few cards I did rip up one card in the diced our libraries copy yeah from which I removed how many cards in Bad Company have you ripped up and thrown out let me think about that real quick none because it's perfect I don't care I don't consider it ain't perfect I consider this game to be amazing despite that that's insane none of my games on the top 10 need a card ripped up well I apologize that my games are that much better no they can't by the way the card I ripped up was the one that makes everyone else lose four points I think that's a dumb card oh that's one of the best cards in the game you know you know what I'm talking about it makes other people lose four points that's all I need to know yeah okay I don't care if I win I care if everybody else dies fine my number nine space People's Choice number nine better be murdering this this game has been on the list for like 11 years straight came on in 2012. okay the clue is Brown Castle's a burgundy yes good call good that's hilarious I didn't know if you could get it from that I'll give you that one that was good that was good Casa burgundy which of course later on this year you'll see the gorgeous new production from waking Realms so many Minis so weird things I never thought I would say Minis a Deluxe miniature filled version of castles of burgundy look though it's interesting Feld has fans and people who don't like his games right but this game like when you say what is what is feld's best game it's not even close yeah people will always argue over with Feld this is the one that everybody talks well about yes some people like trajan some people like you know I like what's one you just had uh but cast of the burgundy is his power grid I like how this discussion of capital burgundy immediately leads to Zia yawning um yeah yeah yeah it is a quick night it is it is an odd turn of events right it's almost you know it's not quite as odd as my copy of go with the minis but I you know I I understand the 40K version of right exactly yeah that's the only way to play it yeah yeah all right so anyway your number nine passes the burgundy [Music] number eight you say Roy hey number eight yeah my number eight two years ago for me was number one gentlemen and it's a game that is related to probably the biggest board game news in the last week my number eight is Scythe um is it because of expeditions no no no this list was made long before that the fact that expedition is coming out to you would you like to redo your list would you like what Expeditions as your number eight I haven't played Expeditions I'm not one of the lucky fewer you're a huge poser does it matter I've even played science I have the metal mix inside there's five facts about sides right now so Scythe is a game that I still obviously have a huge amount of affection for it's still in my top ten it's a game that does so many things that I like it does efficiency it's it's a game that looks like this super aggressive troops on a map Style game and it really is not it's a game where you're almost disincentivized to uh have combat you have to be very careful about when or even if you do uh choose to have combat it's a game that uses a very clever scoring system I really like where your your reputation is going to determine the kind of multiplier for all of the other ways that you're going to score there's a very strong race element to it it looks absolutely stunning and even the retail Edition the base retail edition of Scythe looks absolutely stunning and gorgeous on the table so this game does so many things well um it's just I've played it a whole lot and and even with the the Fantastic rise of Fenris expansion I played through all that kind of a a campaign legacy-ish type thing still love it I just don't play it as much as I used to now I'm very excited about checking out what Expedition will will add to it later on this year but it's its own things absolutely no it's a standalone but but it does make me excited about delving back into this world again so my number eight is Scythe still a a one of the games that really cemented my love for this Hobby and so it's always going to have a special spot in my heart for that reason oh by the way we passed 3 000 people watching hello nice all right you want the the giant box of games you can get to it yep my number eight is not technically a brand new game but it technically is a brand new game okay it's also new in my top 10 because the the precursor to this game was 15. it was on my list last year actually I see here but it climbed up all the way into you know from 15 to 8. okay what did I say about my last game my favorite two player games okay what you already lied it took you all of what 10 minutes that's a new record dead that's right because the new champ oh I know what this is okay oh this is Caper Europe okay all right paper Europe is fantastic this if it's funny people want this might have all gone all the way up to your number one I I thought it you could yeah it might it might you know you never know the video's not over yet we'll see Roy is that switching done this might show up again on the list is what I'm saying um I just realized that I put them back to back because this originally when I first played the original Spanish version of it it very much reminded me of Seven Wonders not do one necessarily but seven wonders in which you are sort of drafting cards you know this back and forth passing your hand and it it managed to do that in a two-player game incredibly well yeah this push and pull it has the tug of war Style game that I like in a lot of two-player games with drafting which I like a lot and then putting out these characters on your side of three locations and giving them gear to try to again win to try to pull everything towards your side this game is so incredibly well balanced the yard work the entire production is stunning absolutely stunning gorgeous game I love the gameplay in this how simple and straightforward it is for for how much fun and rewarding it becomes I absolutely adore Caper Europe if you're a fan of two-player games and you're still sleeping on this somehow wake up because I think you're really gonna have a good time with this one Caper Europe is lovely and for me straight up replaces the previous Edition paper just because it's that much cleaner and loses nothing I think in that transition there you go also lovely is Michelle from Illinois that's right Frank from New Orleans Boris from Serbia Ali from the UAE Fabiano purees Pires Sebastian Luke who's coming on the cruise shipmatic mark from Thailand DV Damien who says Cuba then Miami's I think they're the same thing to him Lucia from Slovakia Daniel Pedro and Nathan from the great country of Minnesota all right my number eight was number seven last year it's been on my list for um 13 years now it has been as high as number two and of all the games on my list it is my most recently played game that's wild sauce it is Summoner Wars wow yeah wow just played it yesterday actually seven or were second edition well I think at this point what's available it's it's what's available there comes a point where it's not always easy to say summer I mean there's no point yeah or in differentiating really because this is the only one that you should be able to buy at this point and also if you bought seven rewards first edition it would still be on my list I mean it's I still like it this one is better cleaner because it's seven or second edition that's on your list right right yes it's the same thing but Summoner Wars second edition folks anyhow you got got good games and in fact Roy and I played another tactical game yesterday that was a that was just we're like ah it's just another two-player tactical game there's a lot of those right Summoner Wars feel so fresh and different and it's still like what 12 years old I really love the fact that you're if a small deck of cards which is pre-built you can deck build a little bit but you don't need to at all a pre-built deck that's that's what you use to get your units out the combat's very simple very quick there's actual strategy the factions are very balanced and also very very different um so that is my number nine eight eight Summoner Wars I have yet to play Summoner Wars second edition vassal you've refused to teach me this I've begged and begged you keep denying me number eight eventually here's your clue for number eight okay number eight for the people was number eight last year 248 the year before that yeah what is it here's your clue do an Imperium it's lost ruins of art oh my goodness that's that's not fair that's not fair that's a lousy clue did you not get it I didn't get it I was doing already on the list I think so it was not already oh it will be later then you don't know that oh stop trying to guess I know that how about this if doing Imperium is later on the list Tom's giving away a box of games how about that another one no no no not another one calm down not another one it's just the one we were talking about before okay anywho if you're wondering about that you had to scroll back and find where that contest is in this episode if he does show it up you're missing out anyway arnak this one is very very popular still getting played it's one of my most blinged out games I have some really cool upgrades and things I put into this one it is deck building mixed with going out and exploring mixed with moving up tracks yeah as a matter of fact I don't think there is a single original component in our copy of lost I think he replaced the cards I did not replace it with uh with a super thin slate they're actually made of rock can you imagine slate cards I can yeah when I was a kid I went to a they took us in a field trip to where they a slate mine type thing and I was so impressed by it I don't know why I brought that story yet he 3D printed a box I did not the dice that don't exist or made a vet from Etsy what do we got here hey Dan Thompson oh well across that name off the list there you go Thompson rocks will get Oscar from Estonia and say hi to him Edgardo and Greg from Portland the great country of Portland okay anyway the People's Choice Is Lost ruins of Burnett there you go [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] well Tom look what you had wrought look what you hath wrought you've wrought a whole lot of live chat all right my number seven is a game that uh let's see wow it has settler two years ago this game was number 53 on my list it's all the way up two years ago two years ago was it a good good well you know what it was probably released two years ago because Mike stuff comes in hot um maybe it did it's within the last few years it may have been two or three years old but it Rose from it's risen terrifically and part of it is they've released uh yes they've released new content and and I just Cthulhu death may die is such a good game you know what like I did not the first time I remember the first play of this it was in the old Studio you and I were both like it's so crowded on the floor we we were getting caught up we were in you know look that kind of crazy no no we were in that critical reviewer mode right where we were like okay that's a great picture yeah that is a great picture um oh my gosh I was we were caught up in the minutia and I think that it didn't allow me to just get in the in the this is a joyride this is a popcorn movie type of a game and it is so much smart like the best popcorn movies you know like like uh Tremors or something like that it's so much smarter than it first appears yes this game is you're saying Tremors is a smarter movie it is they hit first then it first appears 100 it is all right there's a lot of there's a lot of movies like that and this game is like that it is a game that is run up and punch Cthulhu in the mouth that's right it's ridiculous but it also is laser honed and streamlined I can't think of what they could take out of this game you take a great old one you take an episode you mash those components together you get out a few tiles and you just go to town and it has such a great Arc to it where you start off and and you're just figuring okay what can I do and as you get more damage and have the you know the the uh the tentacles come up it makes you stronger and so at the end you're rolling a whole handful of dice and the great old ones are rolling big handfuls of dice and it always seems to come down to whether you win or lose or more often lose um this just epic moment and I just am and continually impressed with this game it's a game I've played a lot and I have not tired of it at all I I I'm still excited to play it Cthulhu death may die a really fantastic Cooperative game all right this is a crossover with your number seven no it's not I'm trying to see what my number seven what number it was but it's certainly come up I'm trying to see if I can spot it here uh oh no it was in my top ten last year but it continues to rise my number seven is again one of those games like Mike just said that I do not Tire of and yes certainly the extra content has helped but it is very easy to throw it on the table and get going this is Marvel United you like it's more than me I like this more than you okay you like this more than uh okay now it's not like it's more than me I like this and it's like my game's more than you like your game correct I'm actually not much of a gamer this is true we'll be cutting that and using that later out of the Desk position I'll give you a cleaner cut gaming sucks my number seven Marvel United is fantastic I do love the Simplicity I I might I say that in quotation marks because I actually don't think this game is that simple yeah this is one of those systems that okay what appears to be sort of straightforward rules sort of belies the depth that is hidden there under the surface they're doing Maximum Carnage maximum Cartage is really where it's at you know it's a terrible series when I play Maximum Carnage it my rating will go up you can count on that can only go up a little yeah but it will um yeah again pick a few Heroes pick a baddie set up your board you're ready to go and all the shades within that is really what makes the game I have always a blast with this solo two three player I'm down I enjoy this very very much all right more than talking shout out to Jonathan from Montreal Michael from Indy Richard from Kansas City thank you Central um North America to casuto from Israel to chimeric to leave from Menorah I'm not sure what that means Menara that's where you stag tired Joshua from yeah choid wait what am I even writing what are you doing not right Colin from Minnesota you're running with your off hand I think what is why did I write y-a-w y'all he's from the YMCA thank you Joshua all right my number seven is brand new to the list what that's because actually I feel the exact way about this game as you feel about Cthulhu death may die okay sometimes I just want to just have fun oh I know what this is put the door down this is my easily my favorite Dungeon Crawl and that is massive darkness two which I'm really irritated of its name massive Darkness too no hellscape it just so happy that you've discovered another Dungeon Crawl kind of game that you are having this much fun with I am right I mean I don't normally feel happiness for you right that's true yeah well what I do for this for this I do I really do I'm I'm content for you well so descent Third Edition was a big disappointment for me because I felt like they there's some interesting ideas and there's some cool stuff but it was it was overwrought yeah and there's a lot of these games that these dungeon crawls I like Chronicles of Toronto Gore and there's a lot like but they're always overwrought massive darkness is like hey do you just want to roll dice and have fun I do and they made all the different um they made all the different factions I mean not factions different classes really different yeah you want your own little mini game and it's just so much fun and to Plug and Play yeah it's like Merchants code but good finally yeah okay I'll remember I agree with the but good part oh it has different all the players have their own thing they do it's like a mini game you play but fun okay challenge accepted um so let's go with the People's Choice here's your here's your clue for telling you what it's not going to be Merchant's Cove number seven yeah for the people is it Caper Europe no no give me a break give me a break come on performance straight out I'll give you five thousand dollars right now if this is if this is K for Europe all right help me save me the numbers ah come on yes I am definitely losing track of everything going on okay what is it Tom cute blamecraft we're down yes boom you're wrecking me I know right I had a little bit of fear about that five grand that's what God that's what it was yeah five it was five last year 60 year before that so basically in the same spot this is a this just knocks the door down it keeps keeps uh what's this company startling games in business that's for sure I really love by the booth and they're like we have ever now a few other games but alsoever down you really like Evernote I really like every now the people really like every now so this game is I like it I just don't I'm not in love with it okay we had a good date once and that was enough everything you should have put a ring on it when you had a chance Avondale is an evergreen for uh in the hobby right now this is a bit of an evergreen it is yes at this point I just apologize there's no way we're gonna be able to say all the super chats because I can't keep up with them but we have one from Jedi Milan koala from BC that's a British Columbia and tabletop shop you play Sue stop at tabletop shop here we I like to stop at the tabletop shop I like to stop at the tabletop shop Roy help me highlight the stop at the table oh my gosh I just keep painting myself in the corners no you do you know you need people people to keep rescuing that's what it is all right my number six is a game that has a my favorite theme in gaming it's still not overdone I don't think this is a post-apocalyptic theme um and it is a game that if you've ever played a fallout shelter that that that little video game I think it's an app video game this even more so than the official game follow shelter best in embodies that feel my number six is outlive this is a really good yeah yeah this is a fantastic worker placement game that has heavy heavy interaction because your workers have particular strengths on them and you are kind of vying for these spots there's not a whole lot of work replacement spots on that main board and if you have a stronger worker than somebody else who's already there you basically take some of their stuff because look this is you know every person for themselves in the post-apocalypse and you're you're going out and you're scrap Scavenging for for metals and water which is a very precious resource and you do doing all these things and you're building rooms in your fallout shelter and trying to attract the most survivors and that's going to be the winner of the game is the is the player who has built the most successful fallout shelter essentially that has allowed people to to kind of go there and you have to deal with these events every round that can can really cause all kinds of problems fantastic theme um again a very very super tight worker placement element that I like so much and a very kind of unique way of having to care like the upkeep which I usually hate in Euro style games is a huge Plus in this game kind of like dealing with okay how am I going to utilize these resources you know what I mean a lot of times it's something that I don't like in outlive I absolutely love kind of that upkeep aspect of the game this is another one that since I've talked about it so much over the years I've taught this game a lot to people at conventions and and I think I've turned a lot of people on to it as well so you know part of I have found that part of my enjoyment um thanks for teaching it we'll play it always part of the fun that I have in games is being able to turn other people onto games you know what I mean and their enjoyment helps I like the force people to have fun correct correct if likes to increase my enjoyment the people that are extracted that table felt real thing we'll know what I'm talking about yeah you want to feel your heart sit down and play this game all I'm going to say is you have no place in my shelter my number six oh they could come in the shelter it's all right my number six is outlive I've played this game I think once maybe twice and it's weird because I forget that you like you like it so much but maybe I should try it again because I don't remember making that big of an impact I remember impression I should say I remember you thinking that you were surprised you liked it more than you thought you would yeah really yeah maybe I should just try it again it might make my top 100. you never know it's a French Euro with a theme you like I don't know why I don't know why either because I've never thought like I don't think of it is what I'm saying yeah yeah you know what purge it a little bit now in retrospect I for some reason in my head I uh confused don't really confuse it I guess I group it with that Paris Eden game oh gosh that sucked yeah no it's nothing like that there's nothing like it like each other but they're both French you're the only person okay the designer it's rated a 1.2 now parasite is it's fine I like it that's a nice one right I don't know I've already forgotten it yeah I don't remember what as soon as I say the name I forget it here we go my number six um has been on Mike's list I'm pretty sure probably the people's I don't know it's a fantastic game it is my favorite game from yes my favorite designer five tribes Cinco tribes did not crack the top five of zika Garcia story all five spots taken by force played the games with Mike that'd be fantastic we're back in the 30s I don't know what's going on um five tribes Mike already talked about it a good amount a couple videos ago solid mankala Style game I love the different sort of interactions and and places you can gather points from I really do like that and you do a little bit of a few different things you know but I do like that you're bidding for place for for you know when you get to take a turn turn order your your coins are points so don't bid too aggressively or you're giving up points oh one thing actually drops it the slightest bit oh my gosh really I love that that I I I struggle with that as well you've got a lot of people over bid in this game that's part of the problem yes okay but I really do like that sometimes I want to make sure I'm first so I'm willing to throw a few points at that to make sure I'm first it's much more important later in the game yeah I agree on that when there's less stuff out there yeah so that I had to go first and then miss an obvious move yeah yeah yeah so I like that I like the characters all sort of behaving in their own way giving you points from different things I like the interaction in this game because it's not too nasty but there are a lot of things that you can affect other players by doing there's a little bit of nastiness one of the character types these are assassins yeah so you can definitely you know you can kill someone a little character in front of somebody else but that's a move that's rarely done honestly normally you do that to try to control the board there's just a lot of emerging strategies in this game and I really do enjoy that emergent gameplay that comes from a fun randomized setup in five tribes it's just Euro game wow my number six all right thank you to John Neeve to Ray from the Netherlands to Rafael from Tulsa from am from this great country of New Jersey Lee Hughes Corey Brown and Mike Chaplin all right so many so many folks my number six was number eight last year it went up it did go up this is an amazing game it is my most secular Chase my second most taught game this year um I teach this everywhere it goes especially and I have five players it's an amazing five player game and everyone in the world except for Z likes it and that is knit of leer I love it wow nice I love this my goodness that's funny is there's two expansions and I think the expansions are fine I don't care if I play them or not I think the base game is that good I really like it uh this game is just amazing uh the the man I played it so many times and I'm not sick of it yet yeah it's not even that you know there's a big discussion now about like um how much differentials you know the how many different ways a game can be set up and all but I think this one has all those different leaders I'm like I'll take this leader this turn yep such a great game I love knit overlayer my number six you're number six you ready for the clue yeah this is the second year it's been on the list okay Mike are you ready because Z's been kicking you he has been I'm ready I'm ready okay our neck dude Imperium yeah baby there's a Dreadnought all up in your grill so Dune impairment was 11 last year and 178 the year before that it's so yeah two years or three years ago they had both just come out and lost Runes of arneck so they were 248 178 but they both shot up doing it very amazing that both of these are in the top ten wow yeah and I mean it's pretty strong too this is yeah I mean we saw this game being played consistently on the cruise it's every convention I go to there's people playing this game and they like it and I think we're going to see Resurgence this year when the second half of the movie comes out probably yeah although I get the strong impression that most people are not playing this because of the IP no I agree on that the game is that good you don't have to surprise the the license it really has which is nice it is you can enjoy it if you like the movie and the license but yeah you don't have to it's themes so that's the People's Choice number six Dune Imperium [Music] I haven't we'll have that discussion later because that's that's so wrong I saw that in the chat Camilla said that she likes our neck better than doing Imperium um even Mike isn't that wrong even Z even Z I had a quick say bro even you even you oh I know where Royston Roy hates our neck all right I don't think that's true my number five is a game that is uh that has been mentioned by Tom I believe for sure probably the people as well I don't I mentioned it it was my uh no I don't think my 80s if you look at everyone's list I feel like there's some shady regards it was my 86 Mike dang it my number five is Raiders of the North Sea a fantastic worker placement game that does a nice little unique uh Twist on it where you place a worker and do the action at that location and then you pick up a different worker and do the action of its location in addition to that you've got different types of workers that are colored uh differently and certain spots will only allow you to go there if you have that particular type of worker it also has kind of this nice thematic uh integration in that the beginning of the game at least the first third if not closer to the first half you are building up you're building your crew you're Gathering your resources to go out on these raids and so that thematically is very nice the base game in and of itself would not be at number five it would still be in my top 100 but if you add in both of the expansions it's firmly in entrenched in my time because I feel that way both about Raiders and champions of midgard yeah that's true really comparable games you go out and raids and stuff right but they both are so much better with expansion of their time they are indeed Champions needs death and Raiders needs me it needs meat a meat yep gotta have that mean you gotta have those yards are not the same thing they are not but Raiders of the North Sea is a game that that just does everything well it plays in a perfect amount of time it's easy to teach it's it has a night it's good across all player counts I absolutely adore Raiders of the north C just a spectacular design I don't see this leaving my top 100 wow for a long long time if ever Mike how many Garfield games are in your top 100 so Raiders this is of course the the highest uh architecture I'm actually surprised at this I did not think this would be your highest yeah I really thought it was Architects Raiders Architects paladins um Viscount still was in there and the new one Wayfair and Wayfarer so five I predict next year Wayfarers will be the second highest I it's gonna have to fight with paladins yeah it's gonna be good on feet patterns we'll see a Wayfarer always beats a pound this isn't a d d book I saw it and Noah was asking if this is easy to learn from the app it's one of the best board game apps out there I also agree and yes it's very easy to like it's right about everything right now thank you maybe I should play this app oh have you not played in on what's happening it's terrific it's a really good one maybe I will yeah all right let's see my number five is the app I'll be playing on WhatsApp no it's not I wish there was enough I wish there was an app for this one this is a game of uh champions for a long time it was it's a big game it's a big Kickstarter all that but it does not do as well and did not do as well they have a watch tell me to stand oh oh okay that's all right if I knew if I knew that we were uh you know beholden what our watch tells me this would be a whole different type of stream I can tell you that what's your watch tell you you the devil you got that Android watch okay yeah he's telling me to do something to Tom right now I'm not gonna do it I'm not gonna do it I'm gonna exercise restraint also I don't have that type of weapon what I don't know what's happening okay this might seem like uh someone who is giving in to his sins it seems that way oh that's right I have the same that high of Envy of Envy this is your so he has dead my diet Master darkness and you have the others the others yeah that's right the others is my number five again not not the one that got a lot of love from sea monster it runs a lot of games and a lot of them get you know great amounts of love some do not this is not a popular theme I think that's what it is but they do a lot of these dark they do things something just called like greed and gluttony hey no you're right you're right it gets less love though that's true it does it does yeah uh this one is I think a a wonderful design it's a game that is really a little smaller than it looks like it is it's a much like some of the other games from the same designer that came out much later like Ankh this isn't quite to that level we're on you look at it you go big epic monster is fighting for raw and you're like oh wait you play that game and you go it's like a Euro game right area control Euro game this isn't quite to that level of deception I'll call it but it's on the way it really is a lot more tactical a lot more of a plan and calculate and figure out how you're going to pull off a win than big dumb stupid me roll dice kind of game you know and I like that combination I like a game that managed to give me actually both of those I don't feel like I'm just doing whatever I can but I still can just be like I'm walking I didn't even punching your guy in the face you know love that this game is just incredibly fun the best all versus one game ever made number five my favorite aspect of this game I've mentioned this before maybe the last time we did this list is just the feeling you have on either end if you are playing as the the uh the the faith is the faith side yeah whatever the name of the institution yeah the idea that every time you take an action that sin player can take to do a reaction yeah just that feeling of of uh I I want to do this but what are they going to do and then as the sin player being able to give people that feeling that they know you're just looking every time that they're getting ready to do something you're just looking at your cards that's a great thing yes I agree all right thank you to Nishant to Roman solar to Jason in Ontario to stuato to Omar Hernandez to Olay or Ali from the Nordic countries I guess all of them okay and to Christopher uh and so Nathan from Quebec City Canada okay quick thing going on here um since we have almost 4 000 people watching I should mention that in just over a week the registration online registration for dice tower West will close oh boy we're going to be there in a month it's going to be fantastic but if you want to come you could here's the thing you don't have to buy an online ticket you can come at the door there's gonna be plenty of tickets at the door because uh 20 or 30 dollars more so it makes more sense to register online sure because you can use that 20 or 30 to buy like I don't know a meal or a game or something like a game okay eating is optional dice hour West we're all gonna be there there's uh over well over 2 000 other people can be there a gigantic Library hot games room and more daystarwest.com you have less than a week if you're gonna do it online yes okay my number six five was five last year also this was once briefly my number one but I still love this game and this has been a great top ten if you own the company cmon that's a good project Elite wow man this game is super fun every time I play it I have a blast because we're just sitting there it's a Cooperative game it's time but it's timed in short bursts and then just piles and piles of aliens pour through the door and you fight them all off um I used to be the only person dice had to like this but no Camila's here so I still just haven't played it well I know y'all like it but we both love it all right we love it all right I love that cover though I don't know why that covers that man for me but man the aliens are coming you're rolling dice you're taking models Miniatures and literally throwing them off the board that was a big giant monster came in and helped us I like the help Deus Ex monster chucka lots and lots of fun I I this never gets boring because I played the same scenario many many times and if you want you can just change another scenario there's white it can be very hard it can also be okay it's very easy to change the the level you like that so projectally amazing game my number five People's Choice number five Crossover with me no yeah I don't you think this game is okay all right it's been on the People's Choice list for four years and the clue here is upgrade Beyonce what can't be that upgrade scythe upgrades it's necessary oh quacks that's right oh geez you gotta upgrade it right yeah you have to upgrade it you don't have to it's unplayable out of them that's correct that's not quite true but it definitely is um uh one that people like to play so this game is blows my mind how popular it is we had three copies in the dice hour library for a while and they the pieces were worn out and those were the upgraded pieces yeah uh this game and in all honesty there's not a lot of choices in the game I love it too so I know yeah but you you buy a chip each turn or maybe two and throw them in the bag that's your choices and then your choice is pull work don't pull one to stop you know that's it or whatever yeah push your look it's very very clean push your luck yeah it's fantastic I have a little bit of a catch-up mechanism to you know the the little Micey e last year oh right five the year before that so it went back up to number five it debuted at 23. so one of those games that to me that I'm like why like what about it's fun yeah I'm not saying it's not a fun game I personally though I'm not sure I see how this climbs up to be the fifth most popular game ever I'm a bit surprised too Pusher luck is very popular it's hard to not like that you know what I mean and I guess that being married to a little bit more of a game maybe is what does it can't be the theme right the theme doesn't come through it's not the art the art is fine but it's not anything you're right none of that it's the gameplay yeah oh yeah Wolfgang Wars just knows how to get that thing that people come in like I'm not a big fan of this my delivery system yes full circle it just comes around yes all righty let's keep going [Music] [Music] all right my number four was new to my list last year and it is up 31 spots to be and my number four game of all time this is a game that is so good that it made me change my opinion of an entire genre of board games that I used to think that I was so so at best on and now I have to say can you tell us a genre I could tell you the genre is hidden movement cheese Mike this game is Stellar my number four is mind manager oh I almost said Sniper Elite but mine that's what I thought I forgot mind management yeah this game absolutely knocks me out it continues to knock me out it's a game that I love playing as both sides either as the Mind management agent who is you know trying to hide along the the you know throughout the city of Zanzibar or as the Rogue agents that are trying to find them both of those roles are super fantastic I love the aesthetic of the game which is going to be very divisive I get that but I love it um I love the shift system that has been implemented in this game which is essentially if you are playing with the same group of people you don't ever have to use it but if you're playing with the same group of people and you find that one side or the other is winning consistently you add in a shift module and it makes it a little bit more tilted to the other side a super smart way to handle a game like this where if you've got you know four on one and those four collectively are just crushing on the one you can do very easily ways to kind of tilt that to make it a little bit more balanced like that yeah this game introduced me to an entire kind of side of graphic novels I wasn't aware of either and I've become a huge fan of the author and artist Matt Kent of Matt of Mind management and that's actually the best thing of the game for me too is reading through that graphic now it's a really interesting series a fantastic series I think they're making it into a Netflix show or something actually eventually at least that's what they were talking about wouldn't that be great that's gonna be brutal I know but yeah no this this game has just really rocketed up my my esteem list it's it's by far my favorite of these hidden movement games I've played a fair number of them now especially um and also oddly enough they put out an app where you can play this solo so if you're a solo player there's not very many you play Both Sides where am I no you you you play at the Rogue ages you're trying to find but there's not many of these types of games you can play solo and it's done very well they've even implemented the the shift system so mind management is just a terrific achievement a fantastic game based off of a fan fantastic graphic novel if you have any interest in in comics or graphic novels I'd also recommend that as well my number four mind management okay so mind management has an app and Raiders hasn't happened yep I need to check those out there you go now you're gonna need you'll need the physical game for the app uh what you'll need we have it in the library but you it runs the it basically runs the the uh the agent for you well that's not what I do you know what I mean yeah what is this track what's happening Mike yeah geez I don't I don't like physical games my number four the bad guys are the good guys what's that it runs it runs well who's the bad guy Tom that's an interesting question okay let's try to drag my number thing you thought you knew you don't okay my number four was my 49 last year it's a big jump that means you're liking this one a lot more was it new last year you think no I did no okay so so I'm saying it's not a newish game that's just Rising yeah you have a Resurgence and like for this game let's call it that sure yeah I mean you're liking it the first time I played this game I didn't even like it is this the same as his no it's going to be there though oh boy no yeah I will no um shut up here's the funny thing this is my number four I'm not the person who likes it the most in this office what came to community you guys will never guess okay Spirit Alive and an obsession no not interested in either of those no it does that does and so I'm taking Camilla Chris Chris what is Chris Chris there's something Chris loves that Mike that he also loves I don't think so or Roy even oh I know what this is this is Marvel champions well yes because there's no one who likes the game wow you cannot if it was your number one yeah that took me a minute but yeah once it clicked Roy Alexis came more than Caleb Grace he does that's true fun fact Roy is Caleb Grace uh it's a pseudonym anyway um yes Marlo Chambers is my number four this is now my top living card game I really really like it I've been playing it a lot more it's a lot easier to bring this to the table than Arkham Horror it's really kind of yeah not really what it is it's partly what it is it's a lot easier I can just Shuffle up the Baddie throw a you know a modifying deck in there like something that modifies that deck shuffle that up grab my character which I can deck build or not just crack One open bam it's ready to go and play against them it's fantastic at one player great at two it also works at three [Music] I don't really want to play with more than two but add two it is wonderful and even so like I said it really is a tremendous game this is not one like in Marvel United which I mentioned and I can definitely run more than one character and in fact I often do run three characters in Marvel United right I believe it's Cooperative so I can do that sure you do whatever you want Marvel champions I have played a two-handed game if I just want because it is really a little bit better at two players or two two characters but that's how much trickier proposition yeah there's a lot going on in this game this is two Marvel games in his top time 100 now that is 20 learn your math here's the thing this is not my last Marvel game in my top ten comic Hunters baby you just hang on my number four Marvel Champions no way all right thank you to richwire from Wyoming Corey LoveSac from Montana and also as a special shout out it is soon like today or tomorrow or next day I have no idea Christina Wallace's birthday all right happy birthday to you happy birthday to you yeah happy birthday People's Choice my number oh your I'm gonna skip yours my number four well everyone else is on my list because I played this game more than almost any other game in existence oh oh I know what this is and it is ready set bet I love it is the first time it's on those because it's new right yeah it is new yes yes before I love this game look this is not a game though that people be like do you really like it that much I feel like I've proven that no not only that no and I'm not again I'm not asking this as a guy yet you've never played this as the better I have played this multiple times you have yes I have were you also running the game as the better no no no no no no no have you ever played this game I like it both ways I don't I definitely like being the guy running the horses better yeah but I like it both ways I don't care it is so much fun and even if I only did like it as the better I still think that would be legit because it's like saying D is my favorite thing and I'm always running you know as the the DM can I ask you a follow-up question Tom you I'm really worried but yes have you ever been to a horse track before I have but it was because there was a board game it was in Korea and there was a board game outdoor little convention right next to the track okay so I walked up you were actually able to like stand by the fence and see the horses and buy board games did you pull that did you I did not bet on horses Ready Set bed back then oh my goodness what a perfect day that could have been you could be a different man today if you had had Ready Set bed this game folks is just is just a fun fast furious party style everyone's betting you don't need someone to call out the horse numbers there's a great app for it come to Dice Tower West we're running a Ready Set bet Mega tournament there with real well is that legal no it's no with horses you're in Vegas I mean I'm pretty sure I need to dress up like a horse oh my gosh we've we've tried something like that once and imagine yeah and we should never do that again no no it really plus it was not a flattering outfit on me let's be fair it's no Royal Turf but it's all right all right but anyway my number four the People's Choice number four has been on the list for one two three four five six seven years yeah three years in a row it was number one oh my God it's been relegated to number four piece of trash actually I wonder if it will move up one next year for the same reason that Mike has had a renewed interest in this game uh one more clue Max save the Boom skiffy I think we're tied now Z all right so Scythe yes again very popular game the most popular game from uh stonemeyer games I mean Vinnie culture very popular ring spam one of the most popular games from from second most popular game from stonemeyer you know what it's just people like there's a lot of stinking stole my games in the top 100 too you better believe you had a lot of Garfield games yep the people I will say this though a lot of his games are popular yeah yeah but the ones that are not don't even come close um the the one with the timers that I've already literally forgotten the name those don't even come close and in fact they've got like Mega hits or like immediately forgettable games between two castles even the one that I thought would do better the reworking of um libertalia yeah nothing it might have sold well though we don't know where these days anywhere right and it's not on these lists I saw Liberty I think played once in their careers maybe I don't really yeah I almost wish I'd kept the older version now but the new versions that's a whole different discussion anyway yes Mega hit terrific game forgotten you know what though I could live running a company like that you're not kidding you're an actor I'll take a few games that don't do well for Mega hits especially since those ones that we say don't do well are probably would be top sellers for other Publishers that's also considering that he does pre-order so you don't know if it's a mega head or one of the others that's true until you've pre-ordered it well you know if there's a second or third printing of it but yes I guess that's true yes okay so there you go side The People's Choice number four [Music] thank you [Music] thank you for the generous generous super chats everybody and specifically Tim Evans Tony from NM New Mexico New Mexico and land of enchantment did you know that Philadelphia I love I love that statement 4 100 viewers yes oh we're almost there y'all what's 900 viewers come on we can make this happen Mike just keep talking until we get it what I need all of you to do you can't leave because we need you to stay here but like lean out the window and get one of those things those signs that you spin that tell people to come in you know spin the sign out the window Dice Tower top 100 top ten it doesn't get us in our view of like then can I come join you watching that's the true view they need to get on their own yeah don't allow that in fact if anybody's sitting with you right now watching make it get on their own make them leave and get their own internet subscribe that's correct okay just get your own iPad get you on a different IP I'm sure catch you on the flip side all right my number three is a game that was unfairly some might say rudely maligned by one Mr Z Garcia and I would never he's absolutely incorrect because my number three hey fantastic asymmetric game that you can actually teach my number three is Merchants Cove uh I I Adore this game this is this is a game that is basically mini games and I love making this crap yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I can't believe this is your number three you're done Skippy this is number three I love this game and I love playing with other people I love playing it solo I love teaching it to people it's just a smart smart way to utilize different game mechanisms all in one so if you like the little potion explosion uh marble manipulation potion explosion no no there's a there's a character for you if you like dice manipulation and dice placement there's a character for you if you like doing a spinner and having push your luck there's a character for you of course they do the captain is super popular look you can you can be like them you can disparage if you may disparage if you must I will go play your boring games and we'll have a nice raucous game of merchants Cove where we're all you're calling this raw because I've never thought about writing is that bet ready set BET's not even a game man Ready Set bed is somebody standing there rolling Dice and shouting numbers 17 5 12. throw your chip on the board number three all right if you want to play an actual game come on over to my table I'll teach you some Merchants code no joke this is easily I think the most I differ from you like I didn't hate Merchants go like like a five or six I think a five but but I can't yeah I can't imagine oh I I Adore wow like have you played all the different factions not only have I played all the factions I had a sneak peek at the new factions and I played them too and they're also fantastic yes how much are they paying you to put this in your top 100 yeah see my number three Merchants Cove all right my number three is a uh so mean like me I got to go weep over there I didn't say I just said we have difference and opinions oh okay no you were crapping on his yeah you were saying the merchants Cove is not a game right you were saying is there's a bunch of dumb minions yeah what I'm saying is Well yeah and you sent that okay my number three is a crossover with Mike Delicia oh I can't come I'm just gonna keep shouting Cthulhu death may die so it's true it's Cthulhu death on I'm a precognition baby you're a pre-cog yes yes um this one Mike already went into quite a bit again it's been I can't think of another game except for maybe um well I'm not gonna mention the game because I think it might be coming up on Tom's list okay there's only one other game I can think of which is even close to the the rise that I have experienced with this game oh okay yeah my appreciation and sort of enjoyment of it you know I did not dislike it the first time I played it I think I rated at a seven out the gate I want to say so I think that's about right and I had some issues with it which to be fair I still do the board didn't get bigger right the Miniatures didn't get smaller no it's too crowded yep those tiles should be bigger do you want a meeple version no I would love a meeple version wear my acrylic standees I can see Cthulhu is this really tall thing when you turn it sideways you can't see it yeah well keto Cthulhu that's how it happens okay but I have I guess I allowed myself just to enjoy what is there more yes giving into the sort of over the top we're going crazy and we're loving it ah stab cthulh in the neck I'm to that I guess and now I'm just having a really good time with it yeah the extra content yes it does not hurt there's been a lot there we got to play a little bit of the upcoming stuff yeah and that was really fun that's great so you know it's no secret Merchants Cove stuff you all got to see it too but it's still good number three Cthulhu death may die just love it and still not Marvel though oh you're keeping track of this aren't you thank you Jorge Pedro from Mexico City Jorge Pedro Mr Mill Stream Malibu from so many countries I'm not gonna even repeat that Sebastian from Poland no he was like I'm a Brazilian married to someone in this in another country is a lot of stuff so he's a Brazilian okay um my number three is the final game in my top 100 that has been on there since the very beginning was number one for seven straight years this is the other game they had a meteoric rise for me Cosmic Encounter this is the one I think I almost think causing him like I think it's still coming up on Tom's list I may not even mention it this is the old other game that the first time I played it I'm like well this was disappointing I don't get it I thought a few people tell me that but I think this is a bit group dependent um yeah it is really group dependent and you could say that about a lot of games oh you got to play with the right group of people but you can have a bad experience in Cosmic Encounter it's a little similar to Robo rally in that way where you know if you just say hey let's just pull some random powers out and play with some random special rules and you know it needs a good teacher there's a lot of things but man when this game sings it's great it was one of my top 10 experiences last year I played a version I played a this ad several times at Dice Tower East and man with all the new powers and I I was like there's enough content and then they came out with more content and I was like all right fine I'll take it yeah and now there's enough content maybe maybe this one is a bit you probably a little group dependent don't you think we just said that it was a joke okay well you're making yourself look young that's all right um thank you big well for the super chat um anyhow I really love cosmicatter fantastic game number three for the people has been number two for four years straight before now it's slipping it just dropped down to three okay now you'll see why in a bit I think but the number two is the clue we're doing on three not two number three is yeah that's what I'm saying number three the clue is bonacor terraforming Mars boom he's ahead now see Garcia you give it up you're rolling over I feel bad for how much you dunked on him I'm allowing this I didn't dunk on him my goodness I feel like he won that battle what battle Mike Mike is awesome you suck you're not just being um fake mean you're right no not fake mean see me after the show sharp edges of threats earlier I want to make it clear I did not my watch did are you wearing a transformer in your arm it's a Samsung the exploding kind okay watch out what's that need your face bars people still really love this game um there's it's one of those ones that when it first came out got a little bit of Buzz and then just suddenly shot through the roof many many expansions although I I imagine that I've noticed most people still play kind of just the base game and plus Prelude obviously but a great who does seem to be like the one that's like required right I mean yeah well it's one of the few expansions in history where they could have put minus 15 minutes on the box which still blows my mind yeah it makes the game shorter it does because it starts you out with more resources and you don't have to like scrap your way through the first five turns so it's amazing that's pretty cool what do we think the terraforming Mars uh dice game is going to do do we think it's going to have any of the impact that even Aries Expedition has I don't think so I think it will get there I think I think it will be liked okay but I don't think it will even make the People's Choice top 100 no I don't think so either again third in the series is unlikely to make a splash okay you know okay all right wow wow just okay fine uh no I'm just curious I have no idea you're acting like I like to act like I know something that you don't my number three is so secret I played I can't even mention it but it's my number three watch back next year that's one thing I really hate oh I like that all right let's go word two more foreign how many more people do we need because that's what we're going to test what it's going to take all right [Laughter] sorry my number two is there we go my number two is my favorite five player game if I buy a large margin it's also terrific at four and I used to actually it's come up this game has come up a little bit because they they released a an expansion that makes it viable across all player counts my number two is smartphone Inc whoa this is a game that my phone that's right my phone was like thank you this is a game that I've mentioned the story many times before so I won't go into a lot of detail but I had to be talked into this I did it I played it as a favor to a friend that heard it was best at five and said look Mike I know this doesn't look like your type of game I got a glimpse at one of the player screens which was literally multiplication tables and was trying to go to the other end of the room and he said look would you please just sit and play this game because it I've heard it's best with live I want to try it at five I sat down by the end of like the second round I was looking up how to buy this game which at that point was it was before it was picked up by Hurricane wonders and I went through a ridiculous process to get a copy of it I absolutely adore this game and it does so many things that I don't usually love it is a euro economic game it is economics first it's got area control it's got multiplication tables none of these things appeal to me this game is so smooth it is one of the easiest games of this weight to teach I almost never have to look at a rule book for this game and that is so unheard of especially for me I you know I everything is right there the whole round structure is right there on the board it is such a great game especially again at four and five there's if anyone is has any interest in this game this is always going to be the thing I recommend at that player account especially five which is a tricky a tricky player yeah it is um smartphone ink is great mobile markets is also terrific but I do prefer smartphone it actually plays quicker than mobile markets um my goodness I love this game and it was just so out of my realm of comfort that I'm really glad Andrew this for you I'm glad you talked me into this Andrew well then Andrew but the guy is in the chat oh no he's not in the chat no I don't think he even knows who the dice tower is I'm kidding he knows who the dice tower is but he's not he ain't watching he's not watching he's not watching he's got a job okay we'll message him he's got a job that doesn't let him go out you just told him yeah they're like what is it 4 573 people all of these people have jobs that allow them to look on the internet don't get more people to watch and you won't do it yourself Andrew get online we need everybody we could get all hands on deck Andrew oh my goodness I don't know I don't know my number two smartphone Inc my number two I know you like that I didn't realize it was nice yeah yeah better than the merchants Cove what's going on but that was the best game ever Tom disagrees but he's wrong I'm thinking about your number two and number one I don't know what they my number two is my highest rated Cooperative game yeah okay is it oh my gosh Andrew's here hey Andrew I didn't think he'd be watching all right how do you feel now how do you feel you're supposed to aren't you supposed aren't you supposed to be working ridiculous look you're either supposed to be working or on Discord no you can't be doing books all right no one cares about your number two let's go back that's all right number two for me is a Cooperative game instead of one more than one game you said well like it's probably a series one game yeah it's part of a series but I got a big one was this you're number one for many many many years don't tell me what I did okay don't don't discuss with me pandemic needs to be a thing okay you can make it a thing see it's Marvel power krakowa that could be a thing right yeah I can see that actually Marvel Liberia is actually oh there you go oh boy yeah it could work yeah pandemic and I pick Iberia because well it's my favorite Standalone I'm not like Tom did for his not doing the Legacy ones those are fantastic they're not really repeatable I mean they can buy another one and play again but you're going to get a lesser experience because some surprise version you've never played this one I have not oh man tell you what why don't we make it like a special day we play this and Merchants Cove yes let's do it and maybe you can play Ready Set bed finally for real how about that let's do that are you trying to bring people together here no no I'm trying to seed Discord pandemic Iberia is a wonderful pandemic version in which you are well trying to do the same things you're doing in the other pandemics or the earlier pandemics find and research these four diseases in this one you don't really cure them that did not have the cures you can treat them more effectively after you study them and I really like this idea of the movement in this being more limiting because you can't jump on a plane and fly across the peninsula here you need to rely on railroading and boats to go around the outside of the map the railroading infrastructure you need to spend time building up it's amazing to me you have a train game at your number two I do I never thought of you as an a3sx type of person but yeah Billy I'm a puffing Bill he's puffing Billy all right I'm puffing okay um pandemic Iberia is a wonderful Cooperative game I really do enjoy very much it's a stunning production and I don't know if you know this but it's also a limited collector's edition of which apparently they've printed a hundred thousand because this is everywhere it's limited by the number of people okay I want to say thank you to Todd although your Super Chat makes me sad but thank you because he said he lost his job but he got to watch her top 100. okay thank you Brett thank you Antoine from France to Anton Bosa set Runner 14 to Jeremiah to razz 137 and wants us to do our top 100 co-op games and Stuart all right that's a lot of folks lots of folks my number two was 25 last year it's been on my uh list since 2009 um but man this game has really burst through and almost made number one I hope I play this a lot mostly with Chris and that is Dominion yeah it was 25 last year that's not wow that's not like because you played a bunch yeah it did right but man I you know what I am so sick of hearing people kind of like well deck building has come so far since Dominion yeah but Dominion's still also amazing people like oh Dominion is just you put out the 10 Dukes of chords and find the one thing yes that's really fun and each expansion these the expansions just keep making it better I love Dominion I am so glad to play this um I put five copies in a Dice Tower Library they're all different you know they're different different sets of cards yeah I can do what I want no I know I actually did that what was your number two my number two was pandemic Iberia I put five copies of that I have like 10 gods of pandemic so yeah that's true actually you're right so I can do this okay you're right yeah I just I love Dominion it's there's so many deck builders that I've kind of Gone In and Out on so I mentioned Marvel legendary I like it but I mentioned that Marvel legendaries better than Dominion that's what they mentioned sure well no but people say it but the setup kind of wears me down on Marvel legendary I like other games like doing Imperium in Los Angeles but the deck building is a lesser part I like just the deck building it's fantastic Dominion my number two so I I didn't realize I I kind of feel bad that so these were our top 100 game mechanisms that we should have been doing right so this is just you just putting game mechanisms now as your as your choices I would be very cautious about how you speak to me your Merchant's coat is just a pile of game mechanisms yeah but there's like five of them yeah [Applause] killer bunnies and uh Weston wait Wes and Weston that's interesting yeah guys Weston has okay the People's Choice number two all right here we go brand new to the list whoa that's the clue you get it's the only game for the past 50 yes bursting in at number two Arc Nova what'd I say yeah let's wait and see let's give it a minute yeah give it a minute we'll hear what you have to say yeah just shut up about it we'll talk about this briefly but yes again this is you know when last year at uh board game geekcon when I was playing all the hot games when that was two years ago that's wild time is and just looking at them in Boone Lake and stuff sometimes a game rises above the rest this is this is the terraforming Mars and in fact this is going to beat terrifying Mars down for a while I think it already has right by one position yeah but I think the first year slowly go down anarch Nova will stay up and then it will slowly get down because the new game will come out and take its place but for now terraforming zoos two games from the studio brought you Arc Nova and the director of terraforming Mars in a world anyway let's go to the number ones here we go [Music] all right well give me one second sure sure because I I don't know what his number one was although you haven't did you mention no you did mention that I know what these number one is I think I don't know what your number one is either but I mean I probably do and I'm just you do you're not you're not thinking about it but you you know what's your favorite they just wrote it up there yeah but they've been guessing our top top ones for a long time I mean okay well just tell me I don't know so look my my number one is a game that I said when it first when I first reviewed it that sometimes I feel like games are made you know like a game is made for me my number one is dwellings of Elder Veil absolutely yeah it was number one last year and it's still number one this year and I've got this weird thing I've had so many people ask me because they know that this is a game that I love and and now they know it's still my number one game um have you played andromeda's Edge have you played andromeda's Edge just landed on game found like a week ago absolutely but but he's had it at multiple conventions of our conventions you know over the early versions and I have not I have not played it and there's a part of me that is almost I mean I'm going to play it and I'm excited about it but I'm almost like I don't know that I want anything to take the shine away from from my favorite game you know what I mean because it's a game that is based upon this and I you know space is fine sorry Roy but it's not like my favorite theme in the world I I like this theme where I just jumped over the table no I know but look this is a game that that I I just adore I I I love the um the way that the worker placement Works how you have different workers I love the the slight asymmetric play I don't know what I missed there it's only unemployed people watch it there you go there you go my goodness anywho I love me some dwellings of Elder Vale I'm looking forward to the to the The andromeda's Edge too but I'm happy with this I mean this is a game that that just scratches so many inches for me um I'm glad you like this too but you know you may have to work on putting a lighter game as our number one you're right because everyone wants me to teach them dwellings out about someone's like do you know where Mike is yeah does he have the hour to teach this and that's the thing it's a long team it's a long teach and it's a long game and the problem is you know usually what ends up happening is I have to say look I'll teach you the game but I can't sit in it because it's going to you know be an extra couple of hours you know but but I'll take 30 minutes to teach it you know and and um because I want I want you know I'm excited that people are excited to try it out and learn it because it's a big game it's for a while it was very hard to get I think now it's a little bit easier to get but um you're right Tom it it's it's a it's a investment it's a Time investment it's a table investment it's a table hog it's got you know a whole bunch of components with game trays and the whole nine and um but this is suggesting that my number one is going to be uh not that is going to be light it might be oh I'm sorry did I not include you in the the heavy Gamers group this is my experience games number one I see how it is although Chris does get tension second time this is your number one yes yes two years in a row all right my number one do you guys know what it is I do he thinks he does I have no idea he's the same as it was last year it has to be it's not off the list you haven't talked about this yet right right it was what what did I say about Marvel yeah but I don't know what I'm I'm I'm confused it's not a Marvel game I lied about that wait a minute oh so you've already had 51st state on your list it's not a Marvel game that's what I'm saying I thought this was 51st state it is 51st state is my number one everybody's 51st state right I was trying to figure out what it is my number one game still it is a wonderful game as opposed to apocalyptic game it's a cards with powers game that I love you get to embody a faction of marauders or crazy scientists in the future where the world has been spoiled and you want to get together and build up a thing and go out and claim new territory or rebuild perhaps or maybe you know invest in technology and play cards and you know build up your your Tableau Tableau is the word of the day here I really enjoy this game this is a wonderful wonderful game I still adore it it has a just I love it I love it well after that disgusting number one okay well I think it's great no no I I think it's wonderful I've not played the new version of this new version is not quite out no this this version you've never played no you taught me the old old version you don't have never played 54 State like refreshed or whatever so how have you now no I haven't I only played that I'm asking your question have you not played I know where your eyes are first okay sorry my eyes are up here I just noticed my number one how did I not notice that uh you should there's a lot of glare all right my number one same has ever won last year is Arc Nova but yeah I thought was a flash Roy still playing with the sensor bar over there we don't even know I really like Arc Nova it is I don't there's a lot of ameritrash stuff in my top ten there's a lot of ameritrage stuff I like that but there's no sense of borrowing the screen is little that's true so I really I really like the um oh I've I've lost my train of thought here but I like big heavy Euros sometimes and I like ones like this if this has a hodgepodge mechanisms but I like them all I think they're all fine when they were explaining it I remember the first time going I like that I like that each each thing just gets better and I like teaching it the same way like oh you can also upgrade your cars and then people get excited it's a great great game Arc Nova yeah but you're right there's another one that you if you have to teach it it's going to take you even though you've gotten the teach down pretty well I do but it still is not a short teach and I always after I teach it I don't feel like I'd be like and I'll see what I'm out you have to sit around at least around this is the second time our number one yes and so second time for you with dwellings second time for you with Arc no and this is my third time well then you're winning with 50 First Aid no no that's not what I'm saying I'm wondering if there's some shake-ups coming I wonder next time we do this I wonder I wonder too I mean I'm thinking there might be I think there might be as well our Nova won twice and then before that Laha Was Won twice and then before that project delete and gloomhaven both had it for a year and then it was seven years of Cosmic Encounter and before that my number one's disappeared it must have been dual of Ages at that point um all right anyhow people's number one you said already yeah thank you for Super Chat Elsa swensible and Renee from Mexico a lot of Mexico folks today thank you awesome People's Choice number one this is they're also their third year in a row okay this debuted at three yeah and Arc Nova at the top animals rain Supreme yeah thank you Brett Spielman piano um for the super chat but waiting span again this is turning into over the last couple years a game that it's really even now that we mentioned is yeah someone in chats can be like I don't this game is over right now yes well maybe maybe less so now that I said it right now no no that's not how that works but it's it's almost kind of cool to be like ah wingspan's not that cool this is a four-way crossover I think right we all three of us had a list and the people's choices you all like it the most right but it's pretty strong at the top I don't know if art Nova will pass it next year or if a new game will come along the side Expedition you never know right but yeah this has sold Millions at this point so that is your number one before we jump off here folks we will announce the winner of the contest on our Facebook group we did it get to 5000 but got the 4 500 so I'll make it a slightly larger box slightly larger box there you go is there any games that your surprise weren't on anyone's lists now's your chance asking this chat that's zooming by at 100 miles an hour um but there was a few games that fell off my list pretty you know just not there was nothing that was really high that fell off I don't think I think I don't even have my list in front of me that's oh wait nope that's People's Choice um there'll never be a hundred to zero on anything I don't know what that means any was Obsession my list no I'm not I like Obsession but just wasn't Nemesis I think Nemesis was on my list Obsession was definitely on my list did drop out the top yeah um I haven't played it this year I think and um it's really fun it's a small game it's it's a game that makes it a great first impression I'm like wow this is all in this little game and I still very much enjoy it but after like you do that same wow it's a great big game in a little box that wears off a lot of people asking about dead reckoning I liked it fine but there's a lot of problems with dead reckoning that kept me from loving it I like her I liked it Reckoning a lot even I do like declare a lot in two of his games are my top 10. on my top one 1537. I miss the super John I'm sorry um where was war of the ring uh wait for Roy to do his top 100. paper Tails was on my list heroescape has fallen off my list um wildlands uh there's a little story was on mine wildlands was a mistake folks it should have been on my list oh I was like today was 101. it well I will but it was a mistake it needed to be it's also 101. it was a mistake Mike's one-on-one wildlands wildlands will be back on the list where it belongs next year it was a mistake thank you Mr Twila for the uh the Super Chat and everyone who did Super chats thank you and I know some people um have stuck with us all 10 episodes here yeah stuck with us now even though you want to go and enjoy your weekend but you know what from our end we also would also like to go enjoy our weekend so thank you all for watching we'll still have we're back to normal schedule next week lots of live shows and different things also we have reviews going up this weekend different things for you to watch so we'll be around there's more bigger and cooler stuff coming in the year 2020 three thank you for sticking with us thanks for entering the contest we'll see you all later well thanks Roy for running all these thank you Roy running all these and Chris put together all the uh the Powerpoints everything outros and such yeah so until next time I'm Tom vassal I'm Mike delicio I'm Z Garcia oh [Music] thank you [Music] I put the song wiped I'm wiped out I mean two weekends off foreign

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