@@boardstupiduk Yup, and technically games like Carcassone are also polyomino games, they are monominoes, since they are a single square. Although calling Carcassone a polyomino game sounds like a good way to start a fight in the game group. But you skirt the issue since clearly the shape is not the important part.
Hive was probably on Matt's longer shortlist, so I'll mention it as it's a true tile laying game and I don't have many of those compared to polyomino games. Neuroshima Hex is similar to Hive. You got most of mine though between the lists and the honourable mentions. Project L is a cool polyomino game that I really like as a gateway game. New York Zoo is a good one, although there are many good ones. I've been meaning to try Feast for Odin since it came out but I've never had anyone to play it against, in theory I should like it as I like heavier games and like polyomino games. The other one I've been meaning to try out is Super Snipers, which uses polyominos as a way to aim, which sounds like a clever idea.
Hive is fun, but it's honestly one I'm not that keen to go back to given how many other great two player games I own now. Neuroshima Hex is one I've managed to miss despite being pretty interested in for years. You are the second person to mention New York Zoo! Not one I've played. Feast for Odin is one of those games that scares me a bit, mostly due to the fact it looks like an absolute bear to setup and tear down.
There is a very cool game called Great Planes, which is area control game similar to a game called Fjords. And on my shelf of shame is Ginghopolis which is very highly rated. Anyone else played this?
Mate, you've name dropped some gems that I have never played, some of which I've never heard of, and that is going to send me down a research hole dangit
I am always on the lookout for games that are cheap (under £20), small box, quick-ish to play and have cool fun mechanisms that make you admire them and want to play it over and over again.
Steve, on that note we're going to be doing a series on our favourite games at different price points, hopefully you enjoy that! Idea being to give the best bang for your buck at different prices.
So many great games!! I'll throw Isle of Skye into the mix. Fairly old now (by modern standards) but has a very interesting mechanic of pricing and selling tiles. Be interested to know your order of preference for the Azul games? Our group generally sits with Summer Pavilion as our favorite with Sintra last. Queens garden is possibly leaning too rulesy for an Azul game, although it defo needs more table time.
Isle of Skye is one I missed out on and I remember at the time there was quite a lot of buzz around it, around 10 years old now but still excellent I'm sure. I'll be honest I've not played ANY of the other Azul games! I'd very much like to play them as by all accounts they are all good in their own way and have the skeleton of Azul in there. If a game is available I'd happily sit down and try them, but I'm unlikely to seek them out and buy them at this point.
Adding some to my wishlist! (Planet unknown and art society). Patchwork and Kingdomino are classics and I also love(d) Cascadia. Only problem seems that if your focus is on the bigger landscapes you have an advantage and win. Placing the animals and score them almost never seems the problem. Whats your opinion? (I don't have the expansion Landmarks). I also played New York Zoo but was not fond of it (combo of Barenpark and patchwork). Middleages (not in this vid) sounds fun as well. And going to check some of your suggestions @Steve. Looking forward to other top 5/10s!
Middle Ages is absolutely fantastic, big fan of that and Marc Andre in general, it was a great surprise for us last year, if I played it more it might have ended up in our top games of the year. RE Cascadia I'll let Matt comment as he's played it and the expansion tons more than me, but I do enjoy trying to create vast landscapes and tend to do quite well. Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you enjoy our other lists! We have some older ones that we're going to redo and have a bunch coming up this year :)
Having perused these wonderful small box tile placement games, we could look at the big daddies! 18XX - start with 18CZ, then develop into 1862 (East Anglia), and once you know what your doing try 1830, this is a railroad operation and stock market cut throat economic tile placement shark pool.
Steve, LOVE to see it. 18xx is a series I've been too scared to get in to but at the same time I'm dying to try. I need to find someone to ease me in gently. Also, as much as I love the idea, I'm not sure Matt would want to play them, big heavy dry economic euro will see him running for the hills lol.
Carcassonne has been supplanted I'm afraid. Would much rather play any of the games we mentioned. Not played heaven and ale, and Santa Maria has been reimplemented by Saltfjord, and looks much better in that guise
@@boardstupiduk ok, we now discuss in realms of subjective opinion, but Carcassone did it best, just like Dominion does in deck building. Santa Maria is also better than Salfjord, because it's a cleaner design. Salfjord is more forgiving, least to say. Heaven and Ale is a gem of a tile placement + rondel action picking. Crazy tight if you want to max points.
Yeah that's in the realm of taste, I don't think Dominion is the best deck building game either and would rather play others - it's still fine though, and I think holds up slightly better than Carcassonne holds up in it's respective genre. I'll check out Heaven and Ale if someone can show me it sometime!
Great list! And I agree, Maps of Misterra is such a hidden gem.
Thank you mate, we really appreciate it, and finally someone else who appreciates Maps of Misterra!
Well that was lucky - I was going to leave a comment on your last video asking about Barenpark! Lol
Haha! Well there we go, one step ahead of the curve!
Land vs Sea is popular in my house, and Habitats went over well at game night.
I've not played Land vs Sea no Habitats! Love to see it, great stuff - more games to research and check out :D
I had to double check but a tetromino is a specific type of polyomino made of four squares. Domino = two squares, pentomino = 5 squares etc
Got it, so a polyomino is the generic term for all these pieces?
@@boardstupiduk yeah, polyomino is any number of squares linked orthogonally so would be the generic term and include pieces of varying size
@@boardstupiduk Yup, and technically games like Carcassone are also polyomino games, they are monominoes, since they are a single square. Although calling Carcassone a polyomino game sounds like a good way to start a fight in the game group. But you skirt the issue since clearly the shape is not the important part.
Amazing stuff, thank you Krahnjp! Appreciate the clarification and education.
OK, so you missed my favourite tile placement game - Paris Cite de La Lumiere. So pretty, so warming, so elegant, and very mean.
It's sounds so classy Steve. Probably too classy for us peasants, but I'm now super intrigued to check it out
@@boardstupiduk You guys are Royalty!
Ahhhh man, too kind x
Paris is so good, I played it for the first time few days ago, I think it's a bit under the radar
@@ClaudiaRodriguez-yq1qx definitely, have you played the expansion?
Hive was probably on Matt's longer shortlist, so I'll mention it as it's a true tile laying game and I don't have many of those compared to polyomino games. Neuroshima Hex is similar to Hive.
You got most of mine though between the lists and the honourable mentions. Project L is a cool polyomino game that I really like as a gateway game. New York Zoo is a good one, although there are many good ones.
I've been meaning to try Feast for Odin since it came out but I've never had anyone to play it against, in theory I should like it as I like heavier games and like polyomino games. The other one I've been meaning to try out is Super Snipers, which uses polyominos as a way to aim, which sounds like a clever idea.
Hive is fun, but it's honestly one I'm not that keen to go back to given how many other great two player games I own now. Neuroshima Hex is one I've managed to miss despite being pretty interested in for years. You are the second person to mention New York Zoo! Not one I've played. Feast for Odin is one of those games that scares me a bit, mostly due to the fact it looks like an absolute bear to setup and tear down.
You know me well mate 😂😂😂
There is a very cool game called Great Planes, which is area control game similar to a game called Fjords. And on my shelf of shame is Ginghopolis which is very highly rated. Anyone else played this?
Mate, you've name dropped some gems that I have never played, some of which I've never heard of, and that is going to send me down a research hole dangit
@@boardstupiduk Half the fun of board gaming is research, discovery, and then cost / benefit analysis. Why does benefit always win?
I am always on the lookout for games that are cheap (under £20), small box, quick-ish to play and have cool fun mechanisms that make you admire them and want to play it over and over again.
Steve, on that note we're going to be doing a series on our favourite games at different price points, hopefully you enjoy that! Idea being to give the best bang for your buck at different prices.
Hahahahaha! The benefit wins, my bank account loses.
So many great games!! I'll throw Isle of Skye into the mix. Fairly old now (by modern standards) but has a very interesting mechanic of pricing and selling tiles. Be interested to know your order of preference for the Azul games? Our group generally sits with Summer Pavilion as our favorite with Sintra last. Queens garden is possibly leaning too rulesy for an Azul game, although it defo needs more table time.
Isle of Skye is one I missed out on and I remember at the time there was quite a lot of buzz around it, around 10 years old now but still excellent I'm sure. I'll be honest I've not played ANY of the other Azul games! I'd very much like to play them as by all accounts they are all good in their own way and have the skeleton of Azul in there. If a game is available I'd happily sit down and try them, but I'm unlikely to seek them out and buy them at this point.
Adding some to my wishlist! (Planet unknown and art society).
Patchwork and Kingdomino are classics and I also love(d) Cascadia. Only problem seems that if your focus is on the bigger landscapes you have an advantage and win. Placing the animals and score them almost never seems the problem. Whats your opinion? (I don't have the expansion Landmarks).
I also played New York Zoo but was not fond of it (combo of Barenpark and patchwork).
Middleages (not in this vid) sounds fun as well. And going to check some of your suggestions @Steve.
Looking forward to other top 5/10s!
Middle Ages is absolutely fantastic, big fan of that and Marc Andre in general, it was a great surprise for us last year, if I played it more it might have ended up in our top games of the year. RE Cascadia I'll let Matt comment as he's played it and the expansion tons more than me, but I do enjoy trying to create vast landscapes and tend to do quite well.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you enjoy our other lists! We have some older ones that we're going to redo and have a bunch coming up this year :)
@@sanderverwoerd6607 Let me know what you end up considering and if you want any info on how the games play just @me
Does a game that plays as tile placement but uses cards count? Of course it does, Cafe - love it!
Sure! That's why it's AWESOME it's such a flexible mechanism
Having perused these wonderful small box tile placement games, we could look at the big daddies! 18XX - start with 18CZ, then develop into 1862 (East Anglia), and once you know what your doing try 1830, this is a railroad operation and stock market cut throat economic tile placement shark pool.
Steve, LOVE to see it. 18xx is a series I've been too scared to get in to but at the same time I'm dying to try. I need to find someone to ease me in gently. Also, as much as I love the idea, I'm not sure Matt would want to play them, big heavy dry economic euro will see him running for the hills lol.
@@boardstupiduk lol, yeah, OK. Well we could arrange for me to teach you guys Zhanghou.
I'm down for it chap
samurai? carcassone? heaven and ale, santa maria...
Carcassonne has been supplanted I'm afraid. Would much rather play any of the games we mentioned. Not played heaven and ale, and Santa Maria has been reimplemented by Saltfjord, and looks much better in that guise
@@boardstupiduk ok, we now discuss in realms of subjective opinion, but Carcassone did it best, just like Dominion does in deck building.
Santa Maria is also better than Salfjord, because it's a cleaner design. Salfjord is more forgiving, least to say.
Heaven and Ale is a gem of a tile placement + rondel action picking. Crazy tight if you want to max points.
Yeah that's in the realm of taste, I don't think Dominion is the best deck building game either and would rather play others - it's still fine though, and I think holds up slightly better than Carcassonne holds up in it's respective genre. I'll check out Heaven and Ale if someone can show me it sometime!