Top 10 Red Raven Games - with Tom Vasel
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- In this Publisher Showcase, Tom Vasel takes a look at his top 10 games from Red Raven Games!
0:00 Intro
1:03 #10
1:38 #9
2:17 #8
2:40 #7
3:17 #6
4:02 #5
4:45 #4
5:38 #3
6:24 #2
7:15 #1
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Great list! Love all of Laukat’s games. I slightly disagree with the Near & Far: Amber Mines expansion being simply okay. You have fun and improved ways to pump up your characters, plus coop/solo mode. It’s like a 2nd edition for N&F. Fantastic!
Roam is fantastic, easily in my top 3 among lightweight/simple games.
Dingos dreams is even simpler than roam is. However it’s incredibly rare. I lucked out when I bought it a couple years ago.
Likewise!
Love roam!
agreed, great with my young kids!
Definitely should play Roam when you get a chance. I consider it a rare gem in my collection.
Talking about rare gems. Did you get gem maps expansion for roam? Both that an the animal pack are both being sold on the red raven store.
Megaland is very underrated. Really fun light push your luck game with some engine building. The more it hits the table as a filler the more we like it. Everyone we introduce it to enjoys it.
Oh yeah Megaland is a huge hit in my gaming group. In fact deep vents, Megaland and dingos dreams have more plays than any other red raven game in my gaming group. My majority of my gaming group has barely scratched the surface on red raven games. Roam and above and below is about the gist they have played. And then I have one friend who has played the ancient world, city of iron and now Islebound.
Right now for me my top 10 are…
1. Above and below
2. Deep vents
3. Empires of the void 2
4. Megaland
5. Dingos dreams
6. City of iron
7. Islebound
8. The ancient world
9. Roam
10. Klondike rush
I just bought near and far yesterday so my list is subject to change, and I will probably do another favorite red raven game list video this year. Because the last time I did the video I didn’t have city of iron either.
In my 300+ game collection… I do not have a single Laukat game. Nor do any of my friends. They look amazing, I don’t know how I’ve evidently passed every one; I need to grab one of these.
For a longer more in depth game go with Near and Far. For a shorter less table space check out Roam. To be honest in my opinion all of Red Raven games I've played I've enjoyed.
@@GamesOffTheShelf yeah same here. But that’s because I do research first. After spending the last year doing research on near and far and city of iron I finally decided to buy them. However I just got near and far yesterday so haven’t played it yet. After doing research on haven, and sleeping gods I’ve decided I just don’t like those games. As for now or never I’m undecided about it thus far. And considering I like and own 13 of the about 19 games, that goes to show you that red raven games had a really good track record of popular games. Sure I may hate sleeping gods while many love it. But I love deep vents while many hate it. So there’s a good chance you’ll like some of his games. Adam palesch. And everyone has there own favorites and dislikes. There’s a couple comments saying they love roam. Someone said Klondike rush was there favorite. Someone else artifact inc. was there favorite. And while near and far and above and below tend to be very popular, there were couple of comments saying they didn’t like those 2 games but liked empires of the void and the ancient world instead. Tom vasel said Islebound doesn’t get enough love. And yet I wasn’t the only one that said that I liked Islebound. So the point is you can’t go wrong with red raven games! So join the club.
Was anyone else waiting for “Roam” to show up? That’s my favorite game of Ryan’s.
Yeah frankly I’m surprised tom hasn’t played it yet. Roam is good it’s in my top 10.
Yayyyy.
1 of the 2 most anticipated 'best of publishers' I wanted to hear the updated version since last time it was done.
CMON is the second one.
Artifacts Inc made the top ten! Sweet! It's one of my favourite filler+ games
Great list! Red Raven games are my favorite by far. Thanks for sharing.
My top 10
10. Mega Land
09. Haven
08. City of Iron: Second Edition
07. Artifacts Inc.
06. The Ancient World
05. Eight Minute Empire Legends
04. Roam
03. Islebound
02. Above and Below
01. Near and Far
Have but haven't played Empires of the Void: second edition. Other great games not on the list. Dingos Dreams, Klondike Rush. I don't own Sleeping Gods, Now or Never, Deep Vents.
@@GamesOffTheShelf we love Klondike Rush!
@@GamesOffTheShelf deep vents is awesome, you should try it, it just takes a couple games to understand all the iconography. It’s a very efficient game and not as nasty as many say. If you want to get to know it more I have several videos about deep vents. My channel is Spencer Breustedt
@@Animal_board_gamer awesome good to know. I will definitely check out the video on your channel. At some point I would like to try and get my hands on a copy of the game to add to the collection.
@@GamesOffTheShelf well if that’s the case right now deep vents is on sale for 20$ on the red raven game store. Original price is 35$. I’m not sure how long the sale will last, but the sale is still going on today.
I've been waiting for this list! Red Raven is far and away my favorite publisher. Whenever I make a list of my favorite games, I can't help but put Empires of the Void 2 at #1. Artifacts, Inc. was my first game of his that I bought and it's still one of my favorites. And Haven is my go-to short 2 player game. The only RR game that I didn't LOVE was City of Iron 2. I liked it, but it was a little too long for what it was and I wasn't sure the factions were totally balanced. So basically, my least favorite game by RR was a 7 out of 10. Not bad.
This and Garphill Games are pretty much the only publishers who's new games are always a must-buy.
I'd like to see one of these for Treefrog games, bit of an old school throwback so I doubt it would happen, but I'd love to see it
As always thanks for making the video. We also loved Artifacts Inc. Looking for a used copy of Near and far.
Roam isn't a 2 player game (I mean, you can play it at two...but you can also play it at 3 or 4)
Honestly I think I prefer roam, at 3 players myself.
Islebound is my favorite Red Raven Games and probably top 10 games for me. So much adventure and piracy in one box! great list.
Yeah Islebound is good, I finally played it with friend today.
I somehow expected Sleeping Gods and Near and Far to go in another order 😊
Ryan is a multi-domain talent, and I love the fact that he has revisited several initial designs with their respective second editions (and consistently improved upon the game content with the benefit of experience). I do agree with the #1 and #2 picks, as I felt combat in Sleeping Gods was meant to offer lots of choice and player agency in the form of a dynamic puzzle that was reduced to a rinse & repeat mechanism once solved (usually by advancing 2 or 3 key characters and finding a decent combat-oriented totem). I hope this limitation is addressed in Distant Skies.
I really enjoyed near and far, great story element combined with a full euro! 😀
Thanks tom I was hoping you would do red raven games soon. It’s my favorite publisher. Now I’m just waiting on, AEG and capstone games. My second and third favorite publishers.
Empire of the Void II and Roam are sooooo underrated.
Totally agree that Islebound is underrated! Probably my favorite pick up and deliver game
Just got done solo-ing sleeping gods.... Wow! Fantastic.
Klondike Rush is sitting on my shelf for a while
Does anyone have a link to the ryan laukat documentary?
Been digging into "Crystal Miners" lately. I need some more plays before I decide how I feel about it though.
Yeah I didn’t back crafting arzium on Kickstarter, so I missed out on crystal miners.
My top 3 games I’ve played are sleeping gods, empires of the void II, and the ancient world
Above and Below is a classic. It's one of my go-tos for new players because its easy to comprehend the decision space, its pretty, and the flavor text makes it a little more interesting. I like Near and Far as well but I feel like the RPG elements and the overarching story could have been stronger. It would have suited my tastes more if you kept your items map-to-map and there was intro and exit storytelling on each map. I think its an amazing platform to get more expansions, but it looks like Lauket has moved on to other more ambitious projects.
My mistake with near and far was to add the expansion in my first plays 🥴.
Islebound gets not love because it hasn’t been in print for years. Nearly impossible to find.
After playing 10 games of theirs:
1 Sleeping Gods
2 Empires of the Void
3 Roam
4 Deep Vents
5 Islebound
6 City of Iron 2nd ed
7 Ancient World
8 Near and Far
9 Eight-Minute Empire Legends
10 Empires of the Void II
Empires of the Void II is the best game from Laukat, I feel. It's a bit underrated. Granted, I have yet to play Sleeping Gods and Near & Far, so maybe I will change my tune when I do. lol :-) They look great! I do think Laukat's science fiction art is better than his fantasy art, though... and his fantasy art is great! ...so that is a compliment. ;-)
I'm not sure how I would rank mine, as I've only played Above and Below, Near and Far, Islebound, Sleeping Gods, and Now Or Never, but Now or Never is easily in my top 3.
Tom says Islebound doesn’t get enough love and here’s someone else who has played it. Deep vents that’s the only red raven game that doesn’t get enough love besides maybe the out of print dingos dreams.
Where was the sequel to Sleeping God's announcement ? Anyone got a link
Sleeping God's distant skys. Look it up brother man.
Deep Vents!
Sleeping Gods is certainly his best game. I also really enjoyed Empires of the Void 2 and The Ancient World. I found intrigue for both Above and Below and Near and Far to disappear after 3 or 4 plays. I'm no longer interested in playing either of these again.
I really want to play Sleeping Gods.
Im interested in sleeping gods.i dont own a single ryan game but i want to try his best game
You haven’t tried any of the other games and yet you want to try sleeping gods first? Okay if you really want to learn how to swim in an ocean with sharks circling, when you should learn to swim in a pool first, that’s your prerogative. Just promise me if you don’t end up liking sleeping gods, then you will still try something else. Because saying sleeping gods his best game is relative. Honestly Arzium is Ryan laukats best work. Games that take place in arzium should be the ones considered for his best work, because arzium is solely unique. And sleeping gods does not take place in arzium. Here’s the games in arzium as far as I know.
1. Above and below
2. Near and far
3. City of iron
4. Roam
5. Islebound
6. Now or never
Love ancient worlds. Just got today the red one (now or never?). Sold roam. Good but not thematic. You are missing stonemaier
I'm not doing this right, all I have from Red Raven is Now or Never
Ah... I sense a big Void there you should fill, Near into the future. Seriously, you are missing out! ;-)
All I have is Above and Below.....but honestly all the others except maybe Sleeping Gods sound meh. I will try them but as described none really grab me.
You think you’re not doing it right? All I have is artifacts inc lol
Ugh, my Now or Never is still sitting in shrink wrap thinking of selling because of Tom's review.
Well remember he was the one who gave it the lowest rating. Mike really liked it. Sure tom vasel has been on the block the longest and perhaps the biggest fan of red raven games, tell ya what. (Assuming you have a computer) try it out on Tabletopia first, before you decide to sell it. That’s what I was going to do but I don’t have a computer. So I’m still deciding wether I’ll buy it or not. I may wait year before I decide. One way or another you should try it for yourself, especially if you already bought it.
Honestly, I’ve only played it once, but I think I like Now or Never better than Above and Below or Near and Far (both of which I’ve played several games of). I really got into the mix of light adventure with some breezy city building. For me it was just the right combination of each to scratch that itch. It just really depends on what genre types you’re into.
This always blows my mind cause Near and Far is one of my least favorite and most disappointing games of all time. On the other hand, I still think Above and Below is amazing and the vastly superior game.
Well hey, that's why there's a game for everyone!
I don’t know any of these games
Would you like to get to know these games? I have lots of videos on most of these games. While I’m usually really thorough on my how to play videos. I talked in depth in 3 separate videos on deep vents (not including the how to play video or gameplay video) I also did a review of empires of the void 2. And have how to play videos on 11 of the 13 red raven games I own.