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What an original topic. Just subbed!

Very good list. I would add Tiny Epic Dungeons for Miniatures and Sea, Salt & Paper for card drafting

You made some excellent points here. I’ve never bothered with kickstarter, and where I live in the Canary Islands, many retailers will not ship here, plus it’s quite expensive if you do, so virtually all my games have been bought in local shops. This has meant many games are not available, as they don’t make it here, so the wishlist want is reduced. Nevertheless, I’m at the stage where I have enough games (a few unplayed) but the point you made about not purchasing similar playing-style games is something I ask myself constantly now, and this has stopped me buying games just because they are new. Also, the space the games are taking up is now reaching capacity, more than a single Kallax. As I only play the board games with my wife, I’ve tried to purchase more two-player specific games, as it reduces the cost a lot, I’m not having to pay for cardboard I’m never going to use! As all my games are in Spanish, my choice is limited if the game is heavily language dependent. However, there are so many games. Again, thanks for the advice and good luck with your channel. Cheers Glenn

Love the list, In my opinion Heat is hand management not deck building though

The one game that is above all others on the frustration scale is Hostage Negotiator. Ugh, what a drag.

Great video! One of the best out here ! Keep this up! Pretty cool that you respond to comments :) Love from Lithuania.

I understand Inis for 2-players is a joke. So I never looked into the game.

Great video and fellow Australian content. Subscribed 😀 disagree though with 2 of your choices. Scythe - Stonemarier even notes in green in rulebook that the Rusviet may seem broken but under normal circumstances their repeat action can't be chosen (or not the best). You can't say a game is ruined in this sense because you could just not play with it (why play Scythe at 5). Your play of it may have been ruined by it cause the other player seems Op but you are too. It's actually not the factions that are broken..it's actually your chances of winning playing optimally with their faction + player boards. Some combinations are worse than others. Bgg has some posts. It's essentially solved. Still a great game though. Skull - Yeh it was ruined by you. It's not the game so abit unfair to be on the list cause you didn't mention it's not the game's fault. If it was a list of funny circumstances that ruin a play. Sure. Maybe buy a cheap 2nd hand 😂 just dont buy the pink version cause some tiles are miscentred (so yeh producrion fault). Anyways keep it up!

I likec Oceans for a little while, but i gave it away to a friend for them to play with his kids. Overall a nice list and will enjoy seeing your top 10.

Spirit Island by far, I mean, a game that is designed so that you loose 80% of the time regardless of hiw high your IQ may be !? no thanks

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Greetings from Mexico, I’m just getting into board games. Great video, you should put images of the games you are mentioning so it can be easy to find later, also having a b-roll of the games setup would help us newbies to understand them more and see if it spark our interest. Cheers!

Star Wars the deckbuilding game and champions are Midgard are both fun - check them out.

I hated the Time Stories games, because of the mechanism where the punishment for running out of time is to go back to the beginning again and redo all the stuff you already did, only more efficiently. It's an interesting idea to use the time-loop trope of a character who gets their day optimised because they've been through it so many times already, but it's not actually an enjoyable experience to have.

Nemesis is a horror game. In horrors people die. What do you want from designers? To hand over participation trophies? :)

I like this list

It is an interesting concept, poorly executed. I haven’t been on the recieving end, but i totally understand that the player in last place can feel as though they have been eliminated. They lose all of their progress and are left with nothing to keep them invested in the game. Even if they don't walk away from the table, they can lose interest. In a way, expecting someone to keep playing after they have lost investment is even worse than player elimination. The rest of the game is great though. I hear good things about it as a 2 player game.

In Nemesis, I rarely see someone die early. It usually happens very near the end of the game. If it happens early, let them come back in with a new character. I don't find Smash Up all that difficult to keep track of. I didn't find paperback all that slow.

Good tips!

Great discussion. Apologies for the late post, but I'm going to say Root has been ruined by bad teaching every time for me - even though I've watched all sorts of teaches and playthroughs prior.

Go west and Alexandros by colovini: scoring was visible and shouldn't have been. When you score, you score for everyone in that area, so you can see it will help your opponent more than you, but by how much more? Is it worth it? Oh, yes, I can see it will not be worth it, and we'll give the lead to them. So, why would I score the area? You can clearly see who is in the lead at all times, even before you try to score. Scoring only for you, sure, or to take it out of the picture for the opponent to score, but nope, they score it as well. Scoring, knowing you will not gain on your opponent needs to be hidden scores, and the incentive to not let them score that area needs to be more along the lines, player who initiates the scoring gets double points, so if you let them score, they gain much more; but if you score it, you take away points from them in a way.

Skull is in my top 10, but... Yes I agree, i can play it 6 player really cause of the same component issue. I need to buy second copy....

Great video, just found you never stop this great content. All the the best to you

Enjoyable content, but i had to set speed to 1.5 :D

Completely agree with what you said about Scythe, Dwellings of Eldervale, Paperback, and Cosmic Encounter (I haven’t played the others). I also dislike player elimination and dice combat. I like Scythe more than the others in your list, but I’ve noticed that faction imbalance is a common thread in Stegmeier’s games (Tapestry, e.g.). Here are some of mine: BREW. You wouldn’t expect a game with this many Euro mechanisms and pretty art to be this mean. BROOM SERVICE, REVOLUTION, etc. Almost as bad as the “random dice luck determines everything” is the “players make choices in secret, reveal, then cancel each other out if they match” kind of luck. SEPTIMA does this too, but that’s not the only thing I disliked about that game (I also didn’t like how the action loop was too predictable). CINQUE TERRE: Why do unfulfilled contracts take negative points? Their ability to be fulfilled is determined by a dice roll at the beginning of the game. You start with a contract, and if the dice are unfavourable it’s not worth as many negative points, but it’s not worth as many positive points either, and as soon as you complete a contract you get another one. HUES AND CUES. The hues on the cards don’t match the hues on the board due to bad component quality, so you have to look it up on the board, surrounded by other colours. Huge fail! KLUSTER: This game is beautifully elegant in its simplicity. But I’m easily startled, and don’t enjoy being startled, so this game is just torturous. (Similarly, I also don’t like READY SET BET because of all the sudden yelling.) MERCHANTS OF THE DARK ROAD: Why are there extra hardships for the person who starts a quest when anyone can follow a quest and get almost as much benefits and no risk (they just miss out on the track placement)? For us it turned quickly into a game of chicken because no one wanted to start their own quest. OCEANS: Those predators can get so swingy. You can literally get ones that are so strong that you are passively killing all your neighbours’ species and they have no way to catch up. PULSAR 2849: I’m not convinced that structures are ever worth going for. They require so much of an investment and you have to dig so deep into the pile to get decent ones that if you’re the only one going for structures you’ll definitely lose. That’s all I can think of at the moment!

Nice loop, btw! 😀

I really like this game... It is often compared with 7 Wonders, but I only lightly see that. I like this game better!

Wow. Fun list! Just subscribed. We have a lot of overlap. I know this wasn’t a favorite games list, but I love marvel champions (have everything), dune imperium (all expansions), dune uprising, wingspan, Hive, Splendor. A few others you may enjoy are Heat, Root and Thunder road! Cheers from 🇺🇸

Sad to see you unload Marvel Champions!

Magic the Gathering, its not a game. Its a CANCER.

Have you heard of Commander cube?

Excellent idea for a list & episode. Most interesting. Love a good deck build. myself, too.

Excellent idea for a list & episode. Most interesting.

9:02 Splendor is probably one of my most played games, too!

PNP?

Nice work mate. Greetings from Perth.

I have a few but I'll mention one: Ready Set Bet. I love Ready Set Bet but the calculation of points after each round, slows the pacing down to a crawl. A ton of calculations and the distributing money to all the players was just way too slow with 6+ players

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Table top con was great!

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Great content, keep it up!

Thanks for the shoutout!!

Got the name perfect! Thanks for the feature :D

Good list man ! I like you explain the plays

Cosmic Encounter shines with the right players. We had a game a month or two back where one guy could have one with others, but decided to sabotage them at the last minute so he could taste victory alone... which then led to another guy almost winning, and me being slingshot from last place to winning the game due to a combination of my powers and others seeing my position as no threat. It's a great game with selfish people.

Hostage Negotiator is really good, but yeah if you ignore the mitigation and live on RNG dice rolls then sure it'd be frustrating.

I think having one overpowered faction in a game like this is a good thing. It can be given to a new player to even things out. It can be an AI player to compete alongside other players. Or it can just not be used for a group that is experienced. Having varied strengths in a game serves as a handicapping system. The better players get the weakest factions the newer weaker players get the stronger factions.

My play group are in the middle of a gloomhaven campaign and we just did a scenario in which there are a lot of monsters and allies. Much of the game was spent going through the motions of the automated monster turns and it absolutely killed the experience for us. Each round was taking 45+mins and everyone was completely switched off by the time it came to their turn. Hasn't quite ruined it for us but definitely playing some shorter games at our next game night!

I often think about what ruins traditional board games and quite often it is down to one mechanism. For instance, Cluedo (or Clue for anyone in the US) is actually a great game at its core but the roll and move mechanism just ruined it for me as a child. The very fact that you could miss a turn to start a rumour just because you rolled poorly is such poor design. I know a lot of people house-ruled it out but it really shouldn't have been there to begin with. Don't know whether it has changed in subsequent printings but my fix was that you don't use dice at all but could just move to adjacent rooms or use secret passageways.