Wayfarers is great. Probably my number 1, but I need to go back and look at my full list. Have played it at 1,2,4. It's fine at 4, took us a little over 2 hours with teaching. At 2 it's a 1 hour game. So roughly 30 mins per player. Plus if you're good you can zoom through the journal tracks and end the game sooner. I found it to be on the lighter side compared to the whole west kingdom series.
Full list of my favourite (new to me) games of 2022: 1. Wayfarers of the South Tigris 2. Cafe (based on your playthrough) 3. Now Or Never 4. Bonfire 5. Zapotec 6. Mountain Goats 7. Crystal Palace 8. Paleo 9. Bag of Chips 10. Project L
2022 release is probably Terra Nova. As for new to me game in 2022: Fields of Arle, Bora Bora, Great Western Trail, and Lorenzo Il Magnifico were all high lights
Thanks for the heads up on Rear Window! I don't stop to look at "IP games" for one second, so completely ignored this one. My family loves deduction games (enjoyed Awkward Guests a lot this year), and this looks right up our alley!
Prospero Hall is an interesting designer, their Jaws game is fun and one of the few things I can play with gamer friends, my son and nieces and even my nongaming mum and dad. Everyone has fun and kids love getting to play a man eating shark and gang up on everyone. It's a game of 2 halves, the first a hidden movement hunt and the second a tense fight on a disintegrating boat. I love Mysterium and the film Rear Window so I need to try that.
Have you guys ever thought about live streaming boardgames? Could be really fun to hang out with you guys virtually and consistently seeing you play games.
We love Ark Nova! My wife & I were very happy when you presented the Fire & Ice award for it. We're fairly new to the hobby and we have enjoyed your videos and presenting so many quality games that we've enjoyed this past year including Cascadia, Sunset over Water, Indian Summer, Agricola, Castles of Burgundy, Dune Imperium, Guild of Merchant Explorers, and Under Falling Skies. We're Star Trek fans and have enjoyed Star Trek: Five-year Mission. We are looking forward to Trailblazer - The John Muir Trail coming soon in early 2023. Again, we love your videos and looking forward to the coming year!
sooo many new games new to me in 2022. Obsession. Rococo Delux. Calimala. Pax Pamir. Caylus 1303. Lisboa. Golem. Oh my! love them all so much! Happy new year guys!
I shouted out loud in surprise when I saw your number 5!!! AHHH tbh I wasn’t expecting it but it’s so fun to see!!! Also added 07 and 03 and 09 on my wish list now too! 😂😂😂 this was so fun~happy new years friends! 🎉
Thanks for the video guys! Seeing all the other videos of top 10 games of 2022 kinda pressured me into trying to keep up with all the great new games that came out. But it was refreshing to see you liked a couple of games that have been around for several years already.
I cut my teeth on Sam, Zee, & Tom on the Dice Tower and added in Rodney and Chaz before they merged forces. I love the additions, changes, and growth made on both channels, and I have tried and left behind several others along the way. For me, this has been the year when Before You Play exploded in every great and glorious way. I appreciate your teach style, playthroughs, and candid opinions on all things gaming and look forward to a great 2023!
Rear Window is an excellent movie! Suspense at its absolute best. It is a master class in ramping up the tension. I would love for you two to watch it. :)
It might be a good movie - for the 50ies. As far as I am concerned, it bored me to death. Still, I could watch it to the end, that's something you can't say about many films from these ages.
Thanks for the video guys -- always worth hearing your views on the current (or near current) crop. Great to see you discovering COIN. I came to the hobby playing Euros, but have always been interested in history, then a few years ago I found Cuba Libre and yeah..... went down that rabbit hole! What is really nice is seeing some convergence of euro/strategy and history/wargames in recent years, borrowing of mechanisms or stories to make some really great games (I'm thinking Pax Pamir, Watergate, Undaunted etc.).
Always happy to see love for COIN games in the more euro community. Hopefully you get a chance to try more. I'm really hyped for Red Dust Rebellion since I'm happy to see COIN go into fictional wars and, especially, into much better art design!
I love your videos! You are obviously board game fanatics just like the rest of us and I love how you delve into each game and explain the mechanics and strategies of each. I wanted to use the word "approachable" in my comment, but couldn't figure out if it's you guys (your personalities or interest in the hobby) or how your explanations make the games seem easy to dive right into. Either way, keep up the great work! I look forward to more videos!
Favorite new to me games in 2022 were Teotihuacan and Anno 1800. I have only ever played them solo, but absolutely loved them. Flamecraft would probably be my runner up.
I have really loved Autobahn from Alley Cat Games this year. I’m looking forward to trying Weather Machine when it finally ships in the UK! Thanks for continuing to produce some great content and happy new year. 😊
My favorite games that were released in 2022 are Splendor Duel, Town 66, Maui, and Village Rails. Some games I played for the first time in 2022 included Alhambra, Stone Age, and Istanbul.
So pleased you enjoyed Cuba Libre that much, the COIN series is fantastic. Async play works really well on Vassal. I also love Carnegie and Ark Nova too. Big fan of Root too, but haven’t tried the Marauder expansion yet. Also pleased you found a copy of Oracle of Delphi, I found one early in 2022 too.
This was such a great year. My favorites: Tiletum Weather Machine Endless Winter Zapotec Foundations of Rome Flamecraft Planted Guild of Merchant Explorers First Empires Dog Park Honorable Mentions: Azul: Master Chocolatier (This was actually the first edition of Azul I've ever played.) Messina 1347 (Technically a 2021 release, but it was hard to get in the U.S. until this year, otherwise it would have been top 10 for sure, probably top 5.) I got Ark Nova and Woodcraft for Christmas, but haven't played those yet, and Carnegie is definitely on my wishlist.
Cuba Libre is indeed great! If you like asymmetric games like this, try Labyrinth: The War on Teror (also by Volko) ;). And as for Innovation, try it either with Echoes of the Past or Figures in the Sand, it's one of the best card games out there.
Oracle of Delphi is one of my favorite games! One pet peeve of mine, TMG is only a distribution partner for North America. Hall Games is the true publisher/developer. And they deserve all the credit because they are a great publisher and should be featured more than TMG. A similar situation is also A Feast For Odin and Ark Nova. Publisher is Feurland but Z man and Capstone distribute in North America.
Oracle of Delphi is top of my "want to play/own" list! I really hope another publishing company picks up this game so that I get a chance to play it :)
Queen Games seem to have been picking up all the other OOP Feld games for their City Collection, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it come out as part of that series in the coming years.
I don’t play a lot of computer games but I played 100 hours of Anno 1800. So I’m excited to try the boardgame. The video game is really good I hope you’ll try it! It just got released on Steam so you can try the campaign for 2 hours and refund it if you want 😂
Best game this year for me I only got two weeks ago but I have played some 8 times now and that is Undaunted: Stalingrad. It is a campaign version of Undaunted and it is incredible. The last two scenarios that my friend and I played were the most emotion I have ever felt in a board game before, and I play a lot of them. The theme, the story, the choices, the mechanics, everything work so well in that game.100% would recommend, especially if you already like games like Memoir '44 or Undaunted.
Wayfarers has quickly become one of my favorite games! Yes, this is a first of a trilogy with Scholars (April 2023) and Inventors (2024) being the next two. Ready, Set, Bet was a hit with our family this year. The app is nice but I personally enjoyed calling the races. Turing Machine is a work of genius. Fantastic logic teacher! I described Anno 1800 as "techtree the game". Lol, I loved Ark Nova as well, nice. I've been curious about the Marauder Expansion. Excellent list!
10) Star Wars Outer Rim Unfinished Business expansion 9) Dune Imperium Rise of IX expansion 8) SolForge Fusion 7) After The Empire 5) Next Station London 4) My Father's Work 3) ISS Vanguard 2) Oathsworn 1) Heat Pedal to the Metal
Aqualin is quick and fun, I agree. I have Shipwreck Arcana, but haven't tabled it yet. Picked up The Guild of Merchant Explorers a week ago and have played it seven times (twice at four players and the rest solo). Have played two of the four maps. (And yes, those are villages that you are building in the game.) Have you played Matthew Dunstan's print and play game, Voyages? Wonderland's War takes a bit of time to set up and has some fiddly rules, but it is lots of fun. Keeps everyone engaged! Thinking about picking up Turing Machine because I heard they release a daily puzzle.
I super love Carnegie, it jumped straight up the list of my all-time favourites after I'd played it a few times. Naveen should try it, it's right up your alley! Also love Oracle of Delphi and always glad to see it get mentioned. Happy New Year from the West Coast of Australia!
Such a great start into 2023! Thank you for this video! It‘s really nice to hear about some games other than new releases. Also good to see which of the sponsored videos made it into your list.
My tastes have been consistently complexifying! Here's my top 10 discoveries of 2022: 10. Smartphone Inc. 9. Whistle Mountain 8. Corrosion 7. Golem 6. Ark Nova 5. Skymines (the only 2022 game in my top 10) 4. Gaia Project 3. Crystal Palace 2. The Gallerist 1. Underwater Cities (I'm now a big Vladimír Suchý fan!) All those are such great games. Didn't play a lot of 2022 games, but some of them, like CARNEGIE and DICE THEME PARK, I liked a lot! I can see them being replayed again soon! VERDANT has completely replaced CASCADIA for me (which I was never a huge fan of), so that's another win. A bunch of them I thought would have been good, but they had one thing I didn't like. - DOM PIERRE was a great wine-themed game, but bad luck in the market can make you waste several of your precious turns if you don't have the opportunity to refresh it. - GALENUS had some neat mechanics-including the genius idea of tiebreaker tokens!-but it had so much player interaction that the competition for certain areas could be pretty vicious. - MERCHANTS OF THE DARK ROAD was great thematically, but the strictness of the rondel meant that sometimes you were limited to doing something you didn't want to do, and also, the winner of our game won by following other people's adventures, and so when we saw it was better to follow them than start our own, no one wanted to start any and it became a big game of chicken. - READY SET BET is well designed, but I don't like loud, riotous games, so I didn't enjoy it at all. - SWATCH was cute and light, but the cards made for huge point swings based solely on luck (some gave you one colour cube, others gave you 6). - VEILED FATE was interesting for a social deduction game, but that isn't my favourite genre, nor is fantasy my favourite theme. I'd probably pick it if that type of game was suggested, though. I had a bad experience playing VIVID MEMORIES but I want to try it again because I think I could like it if I had a better experience. YAK was good for a light, family-weight game. And that's all the 2022 games I played! Overall I played 162 different games, 89 of which were new, so I consider that a successful year! 🙂 As always, thanks for a great video, Monique and Naveen! Have a lovely 2023!
Nice list! My favorites released this year in the US were Wonderland’s War, Ark Nova, and Caper Europe. Special shout out to Wingspan Asia! Have loved the duet mode.
I’m very much in favor of presenting older new to you games in a best of the year compilation. Let’s encourage people to look back in time in their quest to find their next favourite game. As for me, my favorites of this year are: The Old Prince 1871, Smoky Valley and Heading Forward And my best new to me this year: Three Kingdoms Redux, Hansa Teutonica and Dual Gauge
It is possible that Wayfarer's of the South Tigris is heavier than Paladins, but if it is I think it is only by a little. To me, it doesn't feel as heavy, but that may just be because Wayfarer's feels more intuitive.
Ha! Sleuth was the very first game I played with my now wife. We only played it because non of my regular gaming friends was available, so we joined a bigger group. We both hated it. 😂 Never thought I'd hear people talk about it again.
I really want to like Ready Set Bet! However, when I brought it to the table, it just went flat. The players voted early and then just sat there as I rolled the dice to see who won. We did two rounds and then just called it. I still think that it should be fun, but that one experience was not so good. Cuba Libre is a great game. One game that I would also recommend is Washington's War--good two person game, and less crunchy.
Hi Anne! We actually have a copy (shelf of shame big time) that we still haven’t played after getting it about 3-4 years ago! So many games… so little time!
I just picked up The Shipwreck Arcana this year as it just came back into stock at my FLGS. It's super good! The components, the art, the quick play with co-operative deduction. I've heard paint the roses replaces it, but I've not played it and I'm perfectly happy with Shipwreck Arcana. I pre-ordered Turing Machine months ago. Hoping to get my copy soon.
Fun choice of games (not only 2022 games gives you much more choices). My game of the year is Carnegie by a long shot (also liked that dice game 😂) Happy new year!
I understand not wanting to spoil your choices on the time stamps. But maybe you can keep a photo of the game you are talking about on screen? That will be helpful.
I love Oracle of Delphi, top 10 for me, the most underrated Feld games out there. NOTE you can play online at YUCATA! There are people there with over 1000 logged logged.
Wow, very surprised by Anno 1800 being #2. Felt like after 1 playthrough that was enough to experience everything the game had to offer. I enjoyed the first play but don't see myself wanting to get it to the table again. Played 4 players. Guild of Merchant Explorers was really good. Looking forward to another play.
I so agree that the Hirelings are a gamechanger for Root! It has always been so hard to find 4 players and now we can have 2P games! Your list might have us spending more money soon. :)
My favorite new games I played in 2022 are: 1. Pax Pamir 2nd ed 2. Indonesia 3. The Great Zimbabwe 4. Ark Nova 5. Res Arcana 6. The Gallerist 7. High Society 8. Radlands 9. Boonlake 10. Project L
Carnegie has a solo mode on BGA but I don’t love how the automa is implemented, and that’s the only way I’ve played it so far so I’m hoping to get to play it at different play counts in future to change my mind. I got quite burned out by losing on repeat and feeling like I didn’t have enough actions to bother getting many new departments. Recency bias or no, boop is amazing. Everyone I’ve shown it to has loved it so far. Btw your boop link to playthrough appeared at the wrong time (earlier than I think it was intended). I have Turing machine and ark nova still in shrink and waiting for the right day 🤞
I just got Cuba Libre after seeing Rodney rave about it and then play with you and Matthew. It's amazing! The Marauder expansion is also really good (I didn't like Root at first either!)
@@brianfoley1805 when I got Cuba Libre I also got FitL for once I'd learned CL. Very interested in Vietnam so it was a no brainer. Can't wait to try it.
Forgive me, I can't remember from you top games list of all time if any of the GIPF series appeared on there, but if not with Aqualin, Boop, Shobu being mentioned I bet you would dig some of the GIPF series. DVONN is my favorite of the batch. I think most people prefer YINSH the most. Most of the series is a hit. Check em out if you haven't.
Very interesting. I always find your "top" videos very good and interesting. After watching one of your playthroughs of Ark Nova several months ago, i thought maybe it would be your number one for the year (never played it nor do i have anything to do with the game whatsoever, it's not a disappointment, it's not that, just a bit of a surprise). But i really enjoy when you do this kind of videos almost as much as the playthroughs. Anyway, wish you a Happy New Year for you and yours!
Actually, you were right - Ark Nova is both of our #1's of the year! These 10 are just our top 10 besides Ark Nova lol. We briefly mentioned it in the beginning of the video since we had already talked about Ark Nova during the Fire and Ice Awards. Sorry for the confusion, and thank you so much for your kind words! Happy New Year to you and yours!
Just to be clear... you still need to play with the Clockwork expansion for 2 players. Hirelings just makes it better right? I love Root but it does not make it into my Top 10 due not being great at 2 players which is my main player count 😅
Just tried Turing Machine this week and enjoyed it very much! However, the machine (solo) was really hard to beat so there was a luck of guessing there, but as you guys said, the journey itself was fun :D Anno 1800 and Carnegie, both of them are amazing! The Shipwreck Arcana and Campaign Trail seems very interesting. I highly recommend Woodcraft (probably the best game I've played in the last quarter of this year) and Lacrimosa XD Both are very thematic euros
We reaaaallly want to try Woodcraft! I haven’t tried Turing Machine solo yet, I’ll have to try it now that you mentioned it. Thanks so much, Happy New Year!!
I bought Anno 1800 for solo play (official solo variants have been published) but as Naveen mentioned there aren’t actual resources in the game and that produced this effect, for me at least, of the feeling of just placing cubes on locations with no thematic feel at all. I bet the multiplayer is good, however, because so many reviewers, from Zee Garcia to Alex at BoardGameCo to Naveen, say as much. Still, I do NOT recommend it for solo play.
What are some of your favorite board games from 2022?
For me Endless Winter and barenpark which I just played this year. My mum like it and we played 10 times already. Happy NY!
Wayfarers is great. Probably my number 1, but I need to go back and look at my full list. Have played it at 1,2,4. It's fine at 4, took us a little over 2 hours with teaching. At 2 it's a 1 hour game. So roughly 30 mins per player. Plus if you're good you can zoom through the journal tracks and end the game sooner. I found it to be on the lighter side compared to the whole west kingdom series.
Full list of my favourite (new to me) games of 2022:
1. Wayfarers of the South Tigris
2. Cafe (based on your playthrough)
3. Now Or Never
4. Bonfire
5. Zapotec
6. Mountain Goats
7. Crystal Palace
8. Paleo
9. Bag of Chips
10. Project L
2022 release is probably Terra Nova. As for new to me game in 2022: Fields of Arle, Bora Bora, Great Western Trail, and Lorenzo Il Magnifico were all high lights
My favorite games that I played in 2022 are:
1. Welcome to the moon
2. Anachrony+ Exosuits
3. Dune Imperium
I love that Alex R gifted you that game
Anno 1800, Ark Nova (18 plays this year and I'm still looking forward to the next play), Bonfire, Merv, Riverboat, Tekhenu, Tawantinsuyu, Zapotec.
Awesome, Jeff! and WOW 18 PLAYS!
Thanks for the heads up on Rear Window! I don't stop to look at "IP games" for one second, so completely ignored this one. My family loves deduction games (enjoyed Awkward Guests a lot this year), and this looks right up our alley!
Yeah it's very "Mysterium"-like deduction. Hope they will enjoy it!
Prospero Hall is an interesting designer, their Jaws game is fun and one of the few things I can play with gamer friends, my son and nieces and even my nongaming mum and dad. Everyone has fun and kids love getting to play a man eating shark and gang up on everyone. It's a game of 2 halves, the first a hidden movement hunt and the second a tense fight on a disintegrating boat.
I love Mysterium and the film Rear Window so I need to try that.
Have you guys ever thought about live streaming boardgames? Could be really fun to hang out with you guys virtually and consistently seeing you play games.
We love Ark Nova! My wife & I were very happy when you presented the Fire & Ice award for it. We're fairly new to the hobby and we have enjoyed your videos and presenting so many quality games that we've enjoyed this past year including Cascadia, Sunset over Water, Indian Summer, Agricola, Castles of Burgundy, Dune Imperium, Guild of Merchant Explorers, and Under Falling Skies. We're Star Trek fans and have enjoyed Star Trek: Five-year Mission. We are looking forward to Trailblazer - The John Muir Trail coming soon in early 2023. Again, we love your videos and looking forward to the coming year!
Great list! You have fantastic taste!
sooo many new games new to me in 2022. Obsession. Rococo Delux. Calimala. Pax Pamir. Caylus 1303. Lisboa. Golem. Oh my! love them all so much! Happy new year guys!
Love the mention of Campaign Trail. Owned it since about 2017 in original form and it's been on my top 30 list ever since. Absolute blast of a game.
Would love to play it again sometime!
Wish I could find it to buy somewhere!:/
I shouted out loud in surprise when I saw your number 5!!! AHHH tbh I wasn’t expecting it but it’s so fun to see!!! Also added 07 and 03 and 09 on my wish list now too! 😂😂😂 this was so fun~happy new years friends! 🎉
Thanks for the video guys! Seeing all the other videos of top 10 games of 2022 kinda pressured me into trying to keep up with all the great new games that came out.
But it was refreshing to see you liked a couple of games that have been around for several years already.
Nice to see Anno get some love. What a fantastic race game.
I cut my teeth on Sam, Zee, & Tom on the Dice Tower and added in Rodney and Chaz before they merged forces. I love the additions, changes, and growth made on both channels, and I have tried and left behind several others along the way.
For me, this has been the year when Before You Play exploded in every great and glorious way. I appreciate your teach style, playthroughs, and candid opinions on all things gaming and look forward to a great 2023!
Rear Window is an excellent movie! Suspense at its absolute best. It is a master class in ramping up the tension. I would love for you two to watch it. :)
It might be a good movie - for the 50ies. As far as I am concerned, it bored me to death. Still, I could watch it to the end, that's something you can't say about many films from these ages.
Shobu is an all-time favorite for me. Really scratches my "chess but I'm actually decent at it" itch.
Thanks for the video guys -- always worth hearing your views on the current (or near current) crop.
Great to see you discovering COIN. I came to the hobby playing Euros, but have always been interested in history, then a few years ago I found Cuba Libre and yeah..... went down that rabbit hole!
What is really nice is seeing some convergence of euro/strategy and history/wargames in recent years, borrowing of mechanisms or stories to make some really great games (I'm thinking Pax Pamir, Watergate, Undaunted etc.).
Always happy to see love for COIN games in the more euro community. Hopefully you get a chance to try more. I'm really hyped for Red Dust Rebellion since I'm happy to see COIN go into fictional wars and, especially, into much better art design!
Really enjoyed Oathsworn, Dead Reckoning, and Heat. Also Wonderlands War
I love your videos! You are obviously board game fanatics just like the rest of us and I love how you delve into each game and explain the mechanics and strategies of each. I wanted to use the word "approachable" in my comment, but couldn't figure out if it's you guys (your personalities or interest in the hobby) or how your explanations make the games seem easy to dive right into. Either way, keep up the great work! I look forward to more videos!
Favorite new to me games in 2022 were Teotihuacan and Anno 1800. I have only ever played them solo, but absolutely loved them. Flamecraft would probably be my runner up.
Shipwreck Arcana is so good! And the publisher offers a free print and play of it on their website - hoera!
Aww that’s awesome! Yeah really great game
Unfortunately it's a bit too easy. We've played 10 times at every difficulty and never lost.
I have really loved Autobahn from Alley Cat Games this year. I’m looking forward to trying Weather Machine when it finally ships in the UK! Thanks for continuing to produce some great content and happy new year. 😊
Loved seeing Innovation on there. It was a favorite of ours back when we were getting into gaming around 2010. A great two-person game.
My favorite games that were released in 2022 are Splendor Duel, Town 66, Maui, and Village Rails. Some games I played for the first time in 2022 included Alhambra, Stone Age, and Istanbul.
My Favorite Game by far is Weather Machine! Hits the topic perfectly with an awesome mechanic
So pleased you enjoyed Cuba Libre that much, the COIN series is fantastic. Async play works really well on Vassal.
I also love Carnegie and Ark Nova too.
Big fan of Root too, but haven’t tried the Marauder expansion yet.
Also pleased you found a copy of Oracle of Delphi, I found one early in 2022 too.
This was such a great year. My favorites:
Tiletum
Weather Machine
Endless Winter
Zapotec
Foundations of Rome
Flamecraft
Planted
Guild of Merchant Explorers
First Empires
Dog Park
Honorable Mentions:
Azul: Master Chocolatier (This was actually the first edition of Azul I've ever played.)
Messina 1347 (Technically a 2021 release, but it was hard to get in the U.S. until this year, otherwise it would have been top 10 for sure, probably top 5.)
I got Ark Nova and Woodcraft for Christmas, but haven't played those yet, and Carnegie is definitely on my wishlist.
It was a great year! Fantastic list btw. Naveen really wants the Chocolate Azul! How cool that it was your first one =)
Cuba Libre is indeed great! If you like asymmetric games like this, try Labyrinth: The War on Teror (also by Volko) ;). And as for Innovation, try it either with Echoes of the Past or Figures in the Sand, it's one of the best card games out there.
Rear Window is a top 10 movie of all time, watch it today, thanks for the game recommendation
Cannot wait for the South Tigris Trilogy playthrough and review. Also would love a Raiders of the North Sea playthrough and review.
Oracle of Delphi is one of my favorite games! One pet peeve of mine, TMG is only a distribution partner for North America. Hall Games is the true publisher/developer. And they deserve all the credit because they are a great publisher and should be featured more than TMG. A similar situation is also A Feast For Odin and Ark Nova. Publisher is Feurland but Z man and Capstone distribute in North America.
Also I’m going to now walk around Strategicon with Dephi in my hand so we can play it.
@@shortydancer hah next time! And yes, very good point about the publisher clarification
My wife and I recently got Rear Window and really enjoy playing it. (2 player)
Oathsworn is #1 for me. Also enjoy Encyclopedia and Wayfarers and Dune Imperium.
Thanks for sharing!
With how much BGB talks about Innovation, I want to try it too. It seems a little daunting though
It’s WILD lol
Oracle of Delphi is top of my "want to play/own" list! I really hope another publishing company picks up this game so that I get a chance to play it :)
Queen Games seem to have been picking up all the other OOP Feld games for their City Collection, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it come out as part of that series in the coming years.
Touring Machine! LOVE THAT GAME!!!!
Love the Wayfairer theme and art.
I don’t play a lot of computer games but I played 100 hours of Anno 1800. So I’m excited to try the boardgame. The video game is really good I hope you’ll try it! It just got released on Steam so you can try the campaign for 2 hours and refund it if you want 😂
I own Wonderland's War and it's already my #2 game of all time! If we ever end up playing something again, I can teach it to you. :)
Ahhh that’s very nice of u! Thank you! Glad you enjoy it
Woah did not expect cuba libre to be number 1
Nice!
Rove, Skulls of Sedlac (Button Shy Wallet Games), Cascadia, Planted, Forbidden Island, Schotten Totten
Have you all played Tiletum? That was my number two behind Carnegie for 2022.
Appreciate the content guys! Thank you 🙏🏼 campaign trail and the guild merchant one looks interesting.
Thanks! Happy New Year!
Best game this year for me I only got two weeks ago but I have played some 8 times now and that is Undaunted: Stalingrad. It is a campaign version of Undaunted and it is incredible. The last two scenarios that my friend and I played were the most emotion I have ever felt in a board game before, and I play a lot of them. The theme, the story, the choices, the mechanics, everything work so well in that game.100% would recommend, especially if you already like games like Memoir '44 or Undaunted.
Wayfarers has quickly become one of my favorite games! Yes, this is a first of a trilogy with Scholars (April 2023) and Inventors (2024) being the next two. Ready, Set, Bet was a hit with our family this year. The app is nice but I personally enjoyed calling the races. Turing Machine is a work of genius. Fantastic logic teacher! I described Anno 1800 as "techtree the game". Lol, I loved Ark Nova as well, nice. I've been curious about the Marauder Expansion. Excellent list!
10) Star Wars Outer Rim Unfinished Business expansion
9) Dune Imperium Rise of IX expansion
8) SolForge Fusion
7) After The Empire
5) Next Station London
4) My Father's Work
3) ISS Vanguard
2) Oathsworn
1) Heat Pedal to the Metal
Aqualin is quick and fun, I agree. I have Shipwreck Arcana, but haven't tabled it yet. Picked up The Guild of Merchant Explorers a week ago and have played it seven times (twice at four players and the rest solo). Have played two of the four maps. (And yes, those are villages that you are building in the game.) Have you played Matthew Dunstan's print and play game, Voyages? Wonderland's War takes a bit of time to set up and has some fiddly rules, but it is lots of fun. Keeps everyone engaged!
Thinking about picking up Turing Machine because I heard they release a daily puzzle.
Ooooh, I really want to try Touring Machine. Thanks guys. Nice video
I super love Carnegie, it jumped straight up the list of my all-time favourites after I'd played it a few times. Naveen should try it, it's right up your alley! Also love Oracle of Delphi and always glad to see it get mentioned. Happy New Year from the West Coast of Australia!
Great list - I really enjoyed it, as usual! ☺️
Such a great start into 2023! Thank you for this video! It‘s really nice to hear about some games other than new releases. Also good to see which of the sponsored videos made it into your list.
Turing Machine is very interesting… thanks for this video.
My tastes have been consistently complexifying! Here's my top 10 discoveries of 2022:
10. Smartphone Inc.
9. Whistle Mountain
8. Corrosion
7. Golem
6. Ark Nova
5. Skymines (the only 2022 game in my top 10)
4. Gaia Project
3. Crystal Palace
2. The Gallerist
1. Underwater Cities (I'm now a big Vladimír Suchý fan!)
All those are such great games.
Didn't play a lot of 2022 games, but some of them, like CARNEGIE and DICE THEME PARK, I liked a lot! I can see them being replayed again soon! VERDANT has completely replaced CASCADIA for me (which I was never a huge fan of), so that's another win.
A bunch of them I thought would have been good, but they had one thing I didn't like.
- DOM PIERRE was a great wine-themed game, but bad luck in the market can make you waste several of your precious turns if you don't have the opportunity to refresh it.
- GALENUS had some neat mechanics-including the genius idea of tiebreaker tokens!-but it had so much player interaction that the competition for certain areas could be pretty vicious.
- MERCHANTS OF THE DARK ROAD was great thematically, but the strictness of the rondel meant that sometimes you were limited to doing something you didn't want to do, and also, the winner of our game won by following other people's adventures, and so when we saw it was better to follow them than start our own, no one wanted to start any and it became a big game of chicken.
- READY SET BET is well designed, but I don't like loud, riotous games, so I didn't enjoy it at all.
- SWATCH was cute and light, but the cards made for huge point swings based solely on luck (some gave you one colour cube, others gave you 6).
- VEILED FATE was interesting for a social deduction game, but that isn't my favourite genre, nor is fantasy my favourite theme. I'd probably pick it if that type of game was suggested, though.
I had a bad experience playing VIVID MEMORIES but I want to try it again because I think I could like it if I had a better experience. YAK was good for a light, family-weight game.
And that's all the 2022 games I played! Overall I played 162 different games, 89 of which were new, so I consider that a successful year! 🙂
As always, thanks for a great video, Monique and Naveen! Have a lovely 2023!
if you like Innovation, also try Impulse and Red7 from the same designer.
Wonderful list, maybe the best I have seen for 2022, lots of variety!
Thanks for the great year of content, best wishes for 2023!
Ark Nova, Dandelions, and the Great Wall were probably my top three.
Nice work avoiding the phrase 'herding cats' 😂
😅
Im going to be devastated if no one picks up Aqualin and they stop printing it, it's such a brilliant game! Loved your list!
I’m so glad I grabbed Aqualin when I had the chance!!
Nice list! My favorites released this year in the US were Wonderland’s War, Ark Nova, and Caper Europe. Special shout out to Wingspan Asia! Have loved the duet mode.
Oh yes, the duet mode is awesome! Wonderland’s War made it on so many people’s list! We really need to try that. Happy New Year!!
I’m very much in favor of presenting older new to you games in a best of the year compilation. Let’s encourage people to look back in time in their quest to find their next favourite game.
As for me, my favorites of this year are:
The Old Prince 1871, Smoky Valley and Heading Forward
And my best new to me this year:
Three Kingdoms Redux, Hansa Teutonica and Dual Gauge
Happy new year! Best wishes for you guys😁 Thanks for all the great videos last year. Keep on going, love you guys
happy new year you two - what a delicious game salad!
Happy New Year!!
It is possible that Wayfarer's of the South Tigris is heavier than Paladins, but if it is I think it is only by a little. To me, it doesn't feel as heavy, but that may just be because Wayfarer's feels more intuitive.
Ha! Sleuth was the very first game I played with my now wife. We only played it because non of my regular gaming friends was available, so we joined a bigger group. We both hated it. 😂 Never thought I'd hear people talk about it again.
I really want to like Ready Set Bet! However, when I brought it to the table, it just went flat. The players voted early and then just sat there as I rolled the dice to see who won. We did two rounds and then just called it. I still think that it should be fun, but that one experience was not so good. Cuba Libre is a great game. One game that I would also recommend is Washington's War--good two person game, and less crunchy.
Do a Cuba Libre playthrough! I also got it this year on their P500 but have no one to play it with.....
Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉 Thanx for video
Naveen, are you looking for a copy of AquaSphere by Feld? I have a copy that isn't getting played if you are looking to fill out your Feld collection.
Hi Anne! We actually have a copy (shelf of shame big time) that we still haven’t played after getting it about 3-4 years ago! So many games… so little time!
I just picked up The Shipwreck Arcana this year as it just came back into stock at my FLGS. It's super good! The components, the art, the quick play with co-operative deduction. I've heard paint the roses replaces it, but I've not played it and I'm perfectly happy with Shipwreck Arcana. I pre-ordered Turing Machine months ago. Hoping to get my copy soon.
Great list! Thanks as always!
Fun choice of games (not only 2022 games gives you much more choices). My game of the year is Carnegie by a long shot (also liked that dice game 😂) Happy new year!
Wooooow, Cuba Libre made it! So glad it found a good home. :D
Rodney will be so proud. ;) May 2023 have many more newfound loves in store!
I understand not wanting to spoil your choices on the time stamps. But maybe you can keep a photo of the game you are talking about on screen? That will be helpful.
I love Oracle of Delphi, top 10 for me, the most underrated Feld games out there. NOTE you can play online at YUCATA! There are people there with over 1000 logged logged.
Wow, very surprised by Anno 1800 being #2. Felt like after 1 playthrough that was enough to experience everything the game had to offer. I enjoyed the first play but don't see myself wanting to get it to the table again. Played 4 players. Guild of Merchant Explorers was really good. Looking forward to another play.
Why surprised? Everyone's different, some hate the stuff I love too. Guess they liked it more than you did
HNY!!! My favorite game this year was Revive. Wish it had been distributed better. I’d imagine it’ll get a lot more buzz in the next few months.
I like this list! A lot of unique good choices, thanks!
I so agree that the Hirelings are a gamechanger for Root! It has always been so hard to find 4 players and now we can have 2P games! Your list might have us spending more money soon. :)
First Rat, Akropolis, and Tiletum
We have First Rat but haven't had a chance to play it yet!
I'm going to order Tiletum. A nice drab looking Euro should be right up your alley, Naveeen!
My favorite new games I played in 2022 are:
1. Pax Pamir 2nd ed
2. Indonesia
3. The Great Zimbabwe
4. Ark Nova
5. Res Arcana
6. The Gallerist
7. High Society
8. Radlands
9. Boonlake
10. Project L
The list:
1) Resurgence
2) Orconomics
3) Cursed Court
4) Twilight Inscription
5) Catherine The Estates of the Tzarina
6) Wayfarers
7) Heat
8) Ostia
9) Legacies
10) Mosaic
Only played 9 but the two I will cite are Cat in the Box: Deluxe and Carnegie.
Carnegie has a solo mode on BGA but I don’t love how the automa is implemented, and that’s the only way I’ve played it so far so I’m hoping to get to play it at different play counts in future to change my mind. I got quite burned out by losing on repeat and feeling like I didn’t have enough actions to bother getting many new departments.
Recency bias or no, boop is amazing. Everyone I’ve shown it to has loved it so far. Btw your boop link to playthrough appeared at the wrong time (earlier than I think it was intended).
I have Turing machine and ark nova still in shrink and waiting for the right day 🤞
Guys you should definitely watch Rear Window 😊
would love to see the 2-player game of wonderlands war to see if it works as well as the higher player counts 💜
Thank you for your content I enjoy it. I didn't see any big heavy KS games on your list is there any particular reason?
Happy to see Oracle of Delphi made it on the list! It was a good time being able to teach and subsequently destroy you guys. 😛#badteacher
I just got Cuba Libre after seeing Rodney rave about it and then play with you and Matthew. It's amazing! The Marauder expansion is also really good (I didn't like Root at first either!)
Ooooh NICE!! Hope you enjoy it.
The other games that surprised me this year were Gutenberg (simple, fun and plastic free) and Meadow (quite relaxing at 2 but quite mean at 4p).
Wait until they try Fire in the Lake!
@@brianfoley1805 when I got Cuba Libre I also got FitL for once I'd learned CL. Very interested in Vietnam so it was a no brainer. Can't wait to try it.
Carnegie is amazing
Forgive me, I can't remember from you top games list of all time if any of the GIPF series appeared on there, but if not with Aqualin, Boop, Shobu being mentioned I bet you would dig some of the GIPF series. DVONN is my favorite of the batch. I think most people prefer YINSH the most. Most of the series is a hit. Check em out if you haven't.
Anno was a great game.
Very interesting. I always find your "top" videos very good and interesting. After watching one of your playthroughs of Ark Nova several months ago, i thought maybe it would be your number one for the year (never played it nor do i have anything to do with the game whatsoever, it's not a disappointment, it's not that, just a bit of a surprise). But i really enjoy when you do this kind of videos almost as much as the playthroughs. Anyway, wish you a Happy New Year for you and yours!
Actually, you were right - Ark Nova is both of our #1's of the year! These 10 are just our top 10 besides Ark Nova lol. We briefly mentioned it in the beginning of the video since we had already talked about Ark Nova during the Fire and Ice Awards. Sorry for the confusion, and thank you so much for your kind words! Happy New Year to you and yours!
@@BeforeYouPlay yes, that's right, now I see. I lost the first moments of the video, distracted by one of my little girls! 😂 Take care!
Just to be clear... you still need to play with the Clockwork expansion for 2 players. Hirelings just makes it better right?
I love Root but it does not make it into my Top 10 due not being great at 2 players which is my main player count 😅
Long live Turing Machine 😊
Always great!
Just tried Turing Machine this week and enjoyed it very much! However, the machine (solo) was really hard to beat so there was a luck of guessing there, but as you guys said, the journey itself was fun :D Anno 1800 and Carnegie, both of them are amazing!
The Shipwreck Arcana and Campaign Trail seems very interesting. I highly recommend Woodcraft (probably the best game I've played in the last quarter of this year) and Lacrimosa XD Both are very thematic euros
We reaaaallly want to try Woodcraft! I haven’t tried Turing Machine solo yet, I’ll have to try it now that you mentioned it. Thanks so much, Happy New Year!!
Happy new year's eve!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Happy New Year’s Eve Jeremiah!!!
woah surprised that Root expansion is #1 :o
Alex of BoardgameCo said he didnt like it.
I bought Anno 1800 for solo play (official solo variants have been published) but as Naveen mentioned there aren’t actual resources in the game and that produced this effect, for me at least, of the feeling of just placing cubes on locations with no thematic feel at all. I bet the multiplayer is good, however, because so many reviewers, from Zee Garcia to Alex at BoardGameCo to Naveen, say as much. Still, I do NOT recommend it for solo play.
CUUUUUUUUBA!!!!! Great list :D
Where do you finds async opponents for your COIN games?