10 Best Eurogames (For New Gamers) | Collection Starter
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- If you're new to board games, or just prefer games on the lighter end of the scale, here's a whole bunch of Euros you're going to love!
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00:00 #Intro
00:51 #10. Kingdomino
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2:03 #9. Takenoko
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3:00 #8. Carcassonne
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4:14 #7. Splendor
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5:11 #6. Stone Age
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6:18 #5. Istanbul
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7:25 #4. Point Salad
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8:19 #3. 7 Wonders
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9:35 #2. Lords Of Vegas
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10:55 #1. Ticket To Ride
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10. Kingdomino US - amzn.to/3ksC4US // UK - amzn.to/3sudzJJ
9. Takenoko: US - amzn.to/3stYNT7 // UK - amzn.to/2ZWusQW
8. Carcassonne: US - amzn.to/3dOOGnX // UK - amzn.to/3pX7cNw
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5. Istanbul: US - amzn.to/3bGNyzZ // UK - amzn.to/3r399cs
4. Point Salad: US - amzn.to/3ux6jyy // UK - bit.ly/2O1SdEz
3. 7 Wonders: US - amzn.to/2MsidZk // UK - amzn.to/2NFW1LO
2. Lords Of Vegas: US - bit.ly/3pVl3DJ // UK - bit.ly/2O7YcHO
1. Ticket To Ride US: amzn.to/3dOf4OG // UK: amzn.to/2O8FS1C
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Bought ticket to ride. And about 20 other games since this channel started
3:52 That's actually an illegal move. You can't place a meeple in a city if it already has a meeple in it, not even if it's your own meeple. I would know, I used to drive my friends crazy by connecting my little city (with a large meeple in it) to their cities.
Carcassonne: Pretty sure that move you made putting the third meeple in the city was illegal. Just saying.
ADAM: Dammit, you're absolutely right. In order to put another of your meeples down, it has to be a 'new, otherwise unconnected structure'. If you end up connecting multiple previously unconnected cities into one big one, then you can still outnumber someone else's meeples and bully them off points, but I gave a bad example and I'm SUPER CROSS WITH MYSELF
I actually saw that too. Nice pointing that out. Good on ya mate.
I was gonna say...
Came to the comments just to see if someone mentioned this
literally started shaking and crying when i saw it
Every board game nrb describes is filled with such passion and imagination that it turned me into such an enthusiast that no other CZcams channel has done
Ticket to Ride Europe is one of my first board games and the one that made me fall in love with board games. Since then I have got a collection of 50 games or so of different sizes and genres.
I do agree with ticket to ride me and my buddies have been slowly expanding into different board games and ticket was a good change of pace that wasn't overly complex.
Starting to seriously worry about Adam's relationship with his grandad, Europeans, and pandas
I really enjoy watching these top ten board game videos! It's enough of a selection in each game category to find a few games you'd be interested in as well a game type your more drawn too. It's also a perfect length of an explanation for each game. As for a bonus, Adam is SO funny and very entertaining! 🤣🤣 I love listening to his commentation so much! I almost always end up purchasing at least one or two games he's recommended after watching each of his top ten videos and they've all been great!
Don't play boardgames but I do enjoy living through this channel
My french grandparents gave me a french copy of carcassone a couple years back and since my french isn't fluent I had a lot more fun playing with my half understood version of the rules where I made up the rule of what happens when 2 player's territory collides because once we found out the actual ruling my dad would spend most of the time trying to join other player's towns and leech off of their effort it was so demoralising I grew to despise the game even though he'd keep making me play it. This is why I love ticket to ride so much more because there's still ways to mess with your opponents but it doesnt feel like all your work is going to nothing because the guy who's beating you also profits from it, instead it forces you to adapt, see if you can find an alternate route to go where you need to go, or cut your losses and build a station to bridge the gap someone just forcibly made in your train line. And the mind games of trying to see where someone has placed trains to try to figure out which journey cards they have and where they are trying to go, so you can guess which lines you may be competing over is so much fun.
That's why I have a love-hate relationship with Carcassonne as well.
I have a friend whose main objective is to steal from others and never build anything on their own.
Playing with such players is hell sometimes
I love the tone and pacing of this video. Great for people curious about the hobby. Well done.
Adam: Step up your editing.
Terry: [cracks knuckles]
Solid and fun list as always. Love the focus on new gamers and there are always a few games that I want to try out.
May I request a solo games part 2?
I'm going to be humming that Euro gaming song all day. Thanks Adam.
Great list!
Why do your meeples cry for help Adam? What are you doing to them? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE MEEPLES!!
Lots of great games here! Love Point Salad, Stone Age, and Kingdomino. I have to try Takenoko soon!!
I LOVE 7 Wonders. Got all the expansions too! Such a fun game.
I think Pan Am would work here. Great introduction to worker placement, with a lovely vintage aesthetic
Nice to see. Can't wait for the 'heavy' list. I know you said it but I can't help but say it again. Lords of Vegas is more than a stretch for a Euro game. Nice strategic decisions but It has more luck in it than virtually any other board game I know. Fantastic game though and a real Monopoly killer imo.
I love Takenoko, Carcassonne, Ticket To Ride, etc. But seeing them on this channel has made me love them more.
A fine list! I'd also like to recommend Concordia as a great starter euro game. A relatively simple game of making trading posts, gathering goods, and making profit while outwitting your opponents and winning them over at the same time. It teaches a lot about hand management, there's a deck-building element, the mechanics are frictionless - i.e. nobody's ever completely screwed out of whatever it is they want to do, it might just get more expensive - and like a couple of the games on the list? MUCH better than Catan.
I LOVE Concorida. I might even call it my favorite boardgame. But I don't think it's a good starter euro, and I definitely wouldn't call it "simple".
I've actually had two different friends try it, find it too complicated, and write off euros entirely as a result.
That said -- if you're planning to move up from "introductory" euros, like those in this video, I would agree that Concordia is a good first step upwards.
@@Sci_Karate It's true that some of the nuances of the game can take some getting used to. That being said, teaching Concordia to new players has been one of the most smooth and enjoyable 'teaches' I've ever experienced, due to all of the actions being limited to cards in hand, and being able to describe each in turn and how they're related helped new players come to grips with the systems. That means I may have some confirmation bias when it comes to how simple it seems, and I'm glad you shared your experience!
I love that I've owned and played at least 7 of these. Love Euro games.
I would add "Bohnanza" - each player has 2 or 3 fields (dependent on number of players) and has to plant as many beans of one type in each field (more beans = more points).The catch is that you cannot change the order of cards in your hand and cannot discard cards, so you have to dispose of that stray Runner Bean in the middle of your sequence of 10 Broad Beans by trading with your opponents or harvest at a serious disadvantage. It's simple but can get pretty cut-throat.
Love "Lords of Vegas" great pick... I would add Century Spice Road (Golem edition for looks). It is the best entry Euro entry I've seen. And if you add 1 or two of its sequels, you get games that actually combine and expand your other game- teaching more and more Euro mechanics that merge into new Euro-y games.
Lords of Waterdeep is an important omission from this list. It's fantastic and very newbie friendly and the best thing about it, which is also true for many of the games on this list, is that you'll want to play it long after you've stopped being a newbie.
I've had exceptionally good luck getting people into eurogames with lords of waterdeep.
Waterdeep and Stone Age are my two favorite games. The third of my top three being Champions of Midgard.
@@phballer99 That's like saying "My favourite foods are ham sandwiches, ham and cheese sandwiches, and ham and pickle sandwiches"
These listicle videos are....addictive
My partner's fav game ever is Ticket to Ride. It was the first game we played when we moved to our new house.
Dude, you're so funny! lol
Made me literally lol between the pandas and googling Carcassonne.
Great list! Expected Ticket to Ride to be king, even if I consider several of the later versions such as Europe or Märklin to be far superior to the base USA version (no differentiating of long and short routes in the USA version can make for a really uneven game from the start.)
A game I was hoping to see on this list but remained absent was Alhambra. A very Eurogame where you gather resources to buy buildings to construct your Alhambra, but there are different currencies that determine from which slot you can buy a building, so like Splendor you're competing with other players both to be the first to gather resources and to buy the score-generating thing you need.
Additionally, each building has a set of walls, and you can only place a building in your Alhambra if the walls fit together.
I don't think having dice mechanics is some automatic disqualifier from a game being a Eurogame considering the grandaddy of all Eurogames, Settlers of Catan, is very dependent on dice rolls for resources. The number of games I've had where a 6 never comes up should just not be possible...
I disagree with number 1. I would replace it with Ticket to ride Europe, the stations make it less cruel, and it has a minor risk/reward element with the tunnels.
Nice list and I own them all😎.
I have gone full circle and have found Catan my favourite gateway that I actually love to play as well as introduce is Catan. It has been accused their is too much luck. Yes luck is involved but the better player wins 8 out of 10 games. If you are all as good as each other then it is a the most fortunate who wins. The trading is fun and the dice are fun but I admit can be frustrating. Saying that I dont feel Catan is more luck based than any on this list. I found going back to can a refreshing change from the majority of euro style games that are being released lately. Too many euros doing the ame mechanisms.
I hope they cover Ameritrash next. Super fun stuff
I'm such a beginner - I only played 6, 7, 9 and 10! But I loved them!
I was always put off of euro games cause I don't like Catan at all. But Vegas looks really good, and I've only ever played ticket to ride once at a friends place and it was awesome. Maybe I need to give the genre another fair shake
Haven't played Stone Age, Istanbul, Point Salad or Lords of Vegas but that list seems pretty dang good! I love me some Kingdomino, Carcassonne, Splendor, Ticket to Ride and Takenoko! I'm fairly new to board gaming but have those under my belt. Honorable mention 7 Wonders Dual, Patchwork, Odin's Ravens and Tiny Towns. Does Odin's Ravens count as a Euro game? Love that game!!
The best part of Lords of Vegas is cascading rolls for Casino control. It almost makes random fun. The worst part is having your best casino's cards all after the final strip card. Making random a buzzkill again.
I love splendour but have to say Marvel Splendour does add some more depth to the game and personally I think makes it a better version. Agree with number 1 the one game I have that even my parents love!
they might be giants wordplay you rock
Lords of Vegas is an amazing game and great intro game. However, i highly recommend getting all the expansions and teach it as one set. Both are fairly easy to add and learn as they don't add a ton of rules but add a great amount of easy depth
Agreed. I have almost 300 board games and lords of Vegas is best of all worlds. It's got lots of interaction, lots of crazy swings, great theme, lots of strategy. It's great.
@@grog3514 and its so easy to get newbies to play, especially if they liked monopoly
@@nathanmichael167 Yeah plus you can ditch the money for poker chips and they blend perfectly. Great game for a group of guys to play. Lots of scheming, side deals, gambling, casino takeovers. Outside of BSG, its the most fun you can have with a non party game.
@@grog3514 OH yeah, I long sense ditched money for chips a decade ago (i have chips for gambling games , and stuff from brokentoken at etsy for fantasy and scifi games) . just adds a btter feel to the game.
I highly recommend real clay chips too
I love ticket to ride! I prefer Europe but America is great too.
Was confused for a second during the Carcassonne segment because it sounded like he said meatballs instead of meeples
Is there a reason why Catan didn't feature at all? My mates go crazy for it, especially as an early Euro game
He said in a previous vid that NRB always tries to push players outside the realm of what’s already popular
Yeah, but it's not like Ticket to Ride fits that mould (I love Ticket To Ride after purchasing following the Christmas video)
@@martayharmay fair enough :/
@@carterkennington7972 I'm still really new, so have never played the board version, only an app, which is a tad lackluster, but I imagine it's awesome with people. Adam is usually good at explaining flaws so I would like to know what he thinks. Or even better, Luke does an Actually Good video on Catan!
@@martayharmay For me, I've had too many games ruined by the robber - it gets really frustrating, really fast if you spend a few rounds picking up no resources. A problem that Catan also has, in common with most games with trading, is that there an attitude among players who grew up with Monopoly where you have to 'win' a trade. You don't get many players looking for a fair deal in some groups and that harms trading as a mechanism for players trying to catch up.
I replaced Catan with Compounded - I like the theme better, and players get resources every round, but the trading mentality thing hurts that game too
3:27 help
Thank God I wasn’t eating, I would have choked lmao
What I don't like about Splendor is that you usually lose if your engine looks like this: 4:53
1:16 Illegal move! Only 5 squares wide allowed but puts it at 6. The "yellow" terrain joke makes up for it though.
"Constantinople"
Cries in 1453 while fleeing to Venice
#1 way to get your game on one of Adam's lists: Put a little Panda in it.
"grandad stuffs himself with enough lettuce to sink a cruise liner". Must have been iceberg lettuce.
So i got ticket to ride on my ipad before getting it in real life but I played it enough to almost have memorized routes and won a lot. Then i left my ipad at home whilenI went to college and now my mother is a ticket to ride god who is almost unbeatable, our #1 game for the family by far
I loved Puerto Rico when I first played it and assumed it was from the 70s or something, was shocked that it came out in 2002. I know things changed a lot in terms of attitudes to colonialism in the last 20 years, but 2002 still feels too recent for this theming to have been sensible.
I've not played Splendor since Spice Road. I should break it out
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Alhambra?! It’s just as good as Carcassonne, Catan, and TTR!
Can you do 10 heavy games for hardcore board gamers please
ADAM: See you next Saturday :)
@@NoRollsBarred If Campaigns of North Africa isn't number 1 I won't know what to say
You didn't mention the most important component of Stone Age: the absolutely foul-smelling leather cup.
I'm french and I do not know what is the difference between european boardgames and american games? All the game you showed seems prettty "classic" for me...
No Lords of Waterdeep?
im sorry do people not try and draft screw every player in 7 wonders? or is that just how we play it on my neck of the woods?
Ok this has been driving me mad, was The Tribe reference in there because someone knows what The Tribe is? And is that person Adam? Because if Adam is also a Tribe fan i will have to marry him weather he likes it or not.
haha i love it, you hate dice mech! you’ll never play talisman. at least review and destroy it?? cheers
I swear i used to have ticket to ride. Went to find it and it’s gone. I don’t want to pay £40 on Amazon for the European one - any suggestions where I can find it (without missing pieces in a charity shop tho)
Don't. It gets old really fast and is only ever good for introducing new players to the hobby.
@@maxp.4987 oh, I quite like it as a family game! I agree it’s good as an introduction but I do think as a staple family game it beats monopoly or uno. God, I’ve played enough Uno to last 500 lifetimes!
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I didn’t know Adam was for sale! 😳🤯🍻
Ironic he didn't mention Ticket to Ride: Europe even though it's an Expansion
"Carcassonne" is the perfectly normal way to spell it if you've studied just a little bit of French:)
Time to get my wallet out again... what am I buying this pay day Adam?
Yes you are right Adam. Splendor! I think I need it :) :) :)
I like Eurogames, but the idea that they don't have a luck factor is wrong. Any game that has dice, cards, tiles or a spinning wheel has a luck factor.
I think they made this list just to keep quoting Istanbul, not Constantinople
Look at the meeple: 🧑🦲
I have always hated this term because it doesn't mean a lot today and feels outdated ... to me... fe. Caylus which is a "eurogame" pretty interactive, far far away from peaceful and kinda thematic...not in a "i slay orcs in a dungeon" way but in a economic construction site logistics way.
These terms are relics from the past with its categories easy Family/Kids game, card/board game from hundreds/thousands years ago, rules heavy RPGs/Tabletops/economic simulation and "the other stuff".
RIP to Angry Grandpa!
I would actually like to know "10 Games like Monopoly, but Better."
I'd say Lords of Vegas has the best Monopoly feel that I know. You buy lots and build casinos on the lots and instead of it being a case of someone landing on your stuff, it's a case of you get paid if your stuff comes up. It also allows for trading/negotiating like Monopoly does. It beats Monopoly in my opinion due to having no player elimination, it doesn't go on for ages and it is more fun (imo). Only goes to 4 players though without the expansion.
I'd choose this over Monopoly any time for playing at Christmas too.
The Dice Tower have a video titled "10 Games Better Than Monopoly" that may be of interest to you.
@@wizardryuk 🤔
Am I the only one that doesn't use the numbers in kingdomino? They feel really useless.
Didn't know these kind of games were called Euro Games... then I guess it shows how American I am that I've always hated these kind of games. Haha! Seriously, though, I have zero interest in any of them. Frankly, I don't see the appeal. Give me something like Mysterium, Telestrations, or Secret Hitler over any of these.
#MrBeastCameo
Takenoko is clearly not an Eurogame, there is luck everywhere in the game ! It's a good game, but not an Eurogame at all.