Really good list ;). Let me add a few more games to consider: 1. Ra (probably my fav bidding game of all time) 2. Goa (Rudiger Dorn's best design) 3. For Sale (this is a super light filler, but works great for 3-4 players) 4. Nidavellir (it's suprisingly good) 5. Cyclades (GREAT auction mechanic, although it's very confrontational)
One favorite is Nefertiti. Three simultaneous auctions, which you make bids in via worker placement. Each auction has its own condition that will end it, like total value of bids or 3 workers placed in a line. And I've told you before about Karesansui but I can't not say it now
Barely wrote the Patreon comment yesterday when there was a new Top 10 popping up, nice! I guess this is a genre I have to look into. None of these games are part of my collection :-D Not even a games with Princes in it I guess, haha. So the only auction games I got here are Isle of Skye and El Grande - if they even qualify, but they got the mechanism listed on BGG at least. Both good games.
We do our best to be as quick as possible! There are a lot of great games here, both games that feels like auction games, and ones with more of a bidding thing going on. If there are some of them you are more interested in, and want to know more, just let me know :D I have only played El Grande once, and it wasn’t for me, haha! Isle of Sky is great, but I wouldn’t really put it on this list!
@@BoardGamingRamblings No hurries! :D I mean Rurik looks pretty interesting, but very hard to acquire from what I've seen. Especially as I don't want the deluxe with miniatures. Interesting though seeing Princes of Florence so high up, whilst El Grande also by Wolfgang Kramer wasn't for you! I think I will set a reminder and see if I can get a cheap second hand version to try that out as well. What I still don't really understand after the video is how you managed to rank the more or less plain auction games like Medici, Biblios, Pappy, QE, ... and why somebody would need more than one of those? Seems to be all the same process in your brain and the same way to play it.
I am a bit on boat with Sunnima on this matter of auction games. Puro auction games, I can enjoy them if they are quick and some kind of funny (High Society is a nice example). If they are too psychological (I mean trying to get into each other minds) and long I get really behind. I feel like everyone can read me and I can't read anyone else ahaha A bit of an exception is Power Grid I guess I am really curious to try Rurik: Dawn of Kiev and Q.E. Have you tried The Estates, Don (also called Serengeti) and Taj Mahal? The first two ones were nice and entertaining surprises for me, which a lot of laugh during game. Taj Mahal is probably my 2nd or 3rd favourite Knizia game, it is really great. But I have only played it 4p, so I have no idea how it works with more or fewer players. I like your lists. NICE! And happy new year!!
Taj Mahal is standing on the shelves here, just needs players to play, and time when we don’t need to play other games 😱 Really want to try it soon! The Estates was too mean for us, and have not played the last one! Thank you for watching, glad you liked the list!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Don was a surprise for me how funny and quick it was. It works great as a 3p game, so you just need an extra person to play it. It's a close economy biding (like Estates). Talking about that one: yep, Estates can be really mean. I tend to stay away from that too, but in Estates we just laugh how everyone tries to screw each other. Is weird, I can't explain why it works when so many others don't. You need to push Taj Mahal up on the priorities list
I am a big fan of auction games, they can have problems when the design lazily adds them as a way to let the players balance the game. But when they are implemented well, it is an excellent way to add interaction. There are many great auctions designs I could name, but I will throw out a lesser known Knizia title, Orongo. While it is not his best auction design, it is unique, and one that not enough people play.
I love bidding games! We share some similar tastes - so I wrote down a number you shared about to explore later! My favorites include: Keyflower, QE, Rurik, Biblios, For Sale, Power Grid
@@BoardGamingRamblings Pan Am was the first or second Action Selection game I ever played. It combines bidding, action cards, action selection, worker placement, securing routes...it's mechanics from a whole bunch of different games and somehow makes them ALL work together. Pretty astounding actually.
@@BoardGamingRamblings out of my control I'm afraid but pleased you guys have decided to back. Hope you're both keeping well, loving the videos as ever.
How can we not back a new version of a Martin Wallace game? 🥳 And, that wasn't meant that you didn't like us, haha! I know there are only so many copies to send out before KS's, so no worries (even if it was in your control) Glad you are enjoying the videos! We are doing our best to be better and better all the time! 🤩
Great lists! I've only played Princes of Florence once, but really enjoyed it (enough to buy a copy that I have yet to play). Will have to get that to the table post pandemic. I have definitely been missing my semi-regular games of Power Grid - it's pulled out very regularly when we have only 5 or 6 players in my Friday night group.
As we show in the thumbnail we own and have both played Modern Art. It’s in our «sell pile» at the moment. So not one of our favorites (not surprising for me, as I tend to avoid pure auction games, hehe) 😊 Glad to hear that your group enjoys it!
I would really love to, and it’s something I’d love to do in the future, but it’s not that easy. I cannot take pictures from bgg, so I’ll have to have my own pictures of all the games! After this year, when we have played all our games, I’ll try to have pictures of almost all of them, so maybe It’ll be easier for top lists in 22! Thanks for watching :D
I understand that. but as a compromise, maybe just take a photo of the back cover!? so people have an impression of how the game looks. have a nice week
I’m very surprised that Ra didn’t make the list. It’s the first game I think of when I think of auctions. Other games that would be on my list include: Goa, Amun-Re, and Homesteaders. The first edition of Evo is a fun lighter-weight, but heavily confrontational auction and dinos-on-a-map game. I really like Age of Steam and Power Grid, but don’t really think of them as auction games, despite the auction being so important in both of them. I also like Keyflower, but the auctions get out of hand when the player count goes above four.
Hope you’ll like it! I like it best with 5-6 players, which might be hard to get together now, but let’s play it together sometime! (Even though Sunniva will win)
I know I've said it before, but Paris: New Eden is a fantastic auction game. Simple yet clever, my most played (non-filler) game of 2020, my favourite 2019 game :) Generally not a huge fan of them though, but might need to check out some of Sunniva's in that case ;)
My top bidding game by FAR is High Society. I love the artwork, the theme, the gameplay, everything. I always lose, but I don't care. I adore this game. My second favorite was For Sale, but my wife REALLY doesn't like that game so I got rid of it.
I don't have or own a lot of auction games. If we count bidding my 5 favorite would be Sidereal Confluence, Age of Steam, Irish Gauge, Scoville, and Tinners' Trail.
Five tribes, railways of whatever, Ra, high society, cyclades, bruxelles 1983, biblios, taj mahal, high society, the estates and condottiere I just love how bididng mechanism can be implemented in such wide variety of other type of games.
Great list - makes me want to bring out a bidding game or three for next game night. Tramways has my favourite auction mechanic. A wonderful game similar-ish to Age of Steam. Modern art - classic Crystal Palace (doubt that the dice setting / bidding counts a a true auction) Age of Steam The Estates Power Grid And Terra Mystica has an interesting auction mechanic variant for setup which can really change up a game. And I'm hopeful that Furnace will be a wonderful auction game but I have yet to get my hands on a copy.
Glad you liked it, Jeff! Tramways is great! I do think I like Age of Steam better as a game, but I need to try out Tramways again! I wouldn’t think of Crystal Palace in this category, but that might just be me! The estates was sadly too mean for us, haha!
We haven’t played it 😱 Only played Jorvik, and we do like it, but I don’t love it! Feel like the full game is the absolute best, but it has also felt a bit long when we played!
I'm debating between Ra and Medici and Q.E. Don't want more than two auction games. High SOciety is much cheaper, and Ra is out of print, so that makes it tough.
I need to try Medici. I love RA its one of my favorite of all time games in general. I own Modern Art and its an ok game for me. Cyclades is another great game with an Auction mechanic.
We didn’t like Modern Art! I don’t know why, but it just didn’t click with us! Ra is one we need to get a hold of. Have only played once at a cafe in London, and it was enjoyable!
I love Euros but hate auction games :) The only one i enjoyed was dungeons petz (it is kinda auctiony with bidding for turns). Also, when is Etherfields review? :)
That's such a cool mechanic, but I wouldn't really call it an auction game as it's not the main mechanic, and it could even be argued that it is more bidding than auction.
Have you played some of the ones on Sunniva’s list? Many of those doesn’t feel like auctions, but just have some bidding involved! Some great euros in there!
@@BoardGamingRamblings power grid is the only one I played from the list. I find it an ok experience for myself. I can be convinced to play, bit it wont be my first choice.
Also, the Etherfields review is coming soon! We did film it a couple of weeks back, but I decided it would be a great idea to delete the audio and then save, so that the audio was gone forever 🤪 Gonna film it again this weekend probably!
I have not heard about The Boss, and haven’t tried Cyclades. I think Cyclades also is an area control game, if I’m not mistaken? If so, you’ll have Sunniva’s least favorite game ever, an auction game with area control 🤣
So we got some games in common then.... Amun-Re, the normal one is of course in a top 10. Modern Art and Ra should also be considered. But be honest Johannes... you are not very into auction games ;-) Too much competition for you.
Really good list ;). Let me add a few more games to consider:
1. Ra (probably my fav bidding game of all time)
2. Goa (Rudiger Dorn's best design)
3. For Sale (this is a super light filler, but works great for 3-4 players)
4. Nidavellir (it's suprisingly good)
5. Cyclades (GREAT auction mechanic, although it's very confrontational)
Totally agree with Ra.
One favorite is Nefertiti. Three simultaneous auctions, which you make bids in via worker placement. Each auction has its own condition that will end it, like total value of bids or 3 workers placed in a line. And I've told you before about Karesansui but I can't not say it now
Barely wrote the Patreon comment yesterday when there was a new Top 10 popping up, nice!
I guess this is a genre I have to look into. None of these games are part of my collection :-D
Not even a games with Princes in it I guess, haha.
So the only auction games I got here are Isle of Skye and El Grande - if they even qualify, but they got the mechanism listed on BGG at least. Both good games.
We do our best to be as quick as possible!
There are a lot of great games here, both games that feels like auction games, and ones with more of a bidding thing going on. If there are some of them you are more interested in, and want to know more, just let me know :D
I have only played El Grande once, and it wasn’t for me, haha! Isle of Sky is great, but I wouldn’t really put it on this list!
@@BoardGamingRamblings No hurries! :D
I mean Rurik looks pretty interesting, but very hard to acquire from what I've seen. Especially as I don't want the deluxe with miniatures.
Interesting though seeing Princes of Florence so high up, whilst El Grande also by Wolfgang Kramer wasn't for you! I think I will set a reminder and see if I can get a cheap second hand version to try that out as well.
What I still don't really understand after the video is how you managed to rank the more or less plain auction games like Medici, Biblios, Pappy, QE, ... and why somebody would need more than one of those? Seems to be all the same process in your brain and the same way to play it.
I am a bit on boat with Sunnima on this matter of auction games. Puro auction games, I can enjoy them if they are quick and some kind of funny (High Society is a nice example). If they are too psychological (I mean trying to get into each other minds) and long I get really behind. I feel like everyone can read me and I can't read anyone else ahaha A bit of an exception is Power Grid I guess
I am really curious to try Rurik: Dawn of Kiev and Q.E.
Have you tried The Estates, Don (also called Serengeti) and Taj Mahal? The first two ones were nice and entertaining surprises for me, which a lot of laugh during game. Taj Mahal is probably my 2nd or 3rd favourite Knizia game, it is really great. But I have only played it 4p, so I have no idea how it works with more or fewer players.
I like your lists. NICE!
And happy new year!!
Taj Mahal is standing on the shelves here, just needs players to play, and time when we don’t need to play other games 😱 Really want to try it soon! The Estates was too mean for us, and have not played the last one!
Thank you for watching, glad you liked the list!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Don was a surprise for me how funny and quick it was. It works great as a 3p game, so you just need an extra person to play it. It's a close economy biding (like Estates).
Talking about that one: yep, Estates can be really mean. I tend to stay away from that too, but in Estates we just laugh how everyone tries to screw each other. Is weird, I can't explain why it works when so many others don't.
You need to push Taj Mahal up on the priorities list
I am a big fan of auction games, they can have problems when the design lazily adds them as a way to let the players balance the game. But when they are implemented well, it is an excellent way to add interaction. There are many great auctions designs I could name, but I will throw out a lesser known Knizia title, Orongo. While it is not his best auction design, it is unique, and one that not enough people play.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check it out :D
I love bidding games! We share some similar tastes - so I wrote down a number you shared about to explore later!
My favorites include: Keyflower, QE, Rurik, Biblios, For Sale, Power Grid
Auction is one of my favourite mechanic!
Surprised not to find Modern Art on the list!
I love auctions, but Modern Art never clicked with me, sadly!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Have you tried Tramways? Very interesting auction mechanic and awesome crunchy Euro
Good lists. I also really liked Nidavellir and Pan Am for auctions/bidding.
Both games from last year we haven’t had the chance to play! 😭
Nidavellir is so good!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Pan Am was the first or second Action Selection game I ever played. It combines bidding, action cards, action selection, worker placement, securing routes...it's mechanics from a whole bunch of different games and somehow makes them ALL work together. Pretty astounding actually.
It would be silly if I didn't mention Tinners Trail, there's a new version on kickstarter don't you know! :)
Should have sent them a review copy, then they'd know ;)
We are backers! Sad we couldn’t help out with a preview for the KS, but maybe next time! 🤩 Good luck with the project!
@@BoardGamingRamblings out of my control I'm afraid but pleased you guys have decided to back. Hope you're both keeping well, loving the videos as ever.
How can we not back a new version of a Martin Wallace game? 🥳 And, that wasn't meant that you didn't like us, haha! I know there are only so many copies to send out before KS's, so no worries (even if it was in your control) Glad you are enjoying the videos! We are doing our best to be better and better all the time! 🤩
1. Cyclades
2. Lancaster
My top 2 auction games. Both excellent games!
We love Lancaster! Don’t think Cyclades will be for us, but we’ll have to try it sometime! Thanks for watching!
Great lists! I've only played Princes of Florence once, but really enjoyed it (enough to buy a copy that I have yet to play). Will have to get that to the table post pandemic. I have definitely been missing my semi-regular games of Power Grid - it's pulled out very regularly when we have only 5 or 6 players in my Friday night group.
Yeah, Power Grid shines with 5-6p! Princes of Florence is great! Do play it as soon as you can :D
Great list! So Medici over both Ra and Modern Art from the classic Knizia auction triology?
Can't believe Modern Art didn't even get a mention! It's one of my group's favorite games of any kind.
As we show in the thumbnail we own and have both played Modern Art. It’s in our «sell pile» at the moment. So not one of our favorites (not surprising for me, as I tend to avoid pure auction games, hehe) 😊 Glad to hear that your group enjoys it!
Yeah, check out the "Leaving the shelf" video we recently did for why it isn't there, hehe. Hope you can still like us 🤣
Power grid for the win!!
Yeah, only that it's Sunniva that has the win...
I really like your Top 10 lists. but one suggestion: would be great to have photos of the game, not only the cover. keep up the great work.
I would really love to, and it’s something I’d love to do in the future, but it’s not that easy. I cannot take pictures from bgg, so I’ll have to have my own pictures of all the games! After this year, when we have played all our games, I’ll try to have pictures of almost all of them, so maybe It’ll be easier for top lists in 22! Thanks for watching :D
I understand that. but as a compromise, maybe just take a photo of the back cover!? so people have an impression of how the game looks. have a nice week
@@MarkBuschhaus Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll do my best to make it better :)
I’m very surprised that Ra didn’t make the list. It’s the first game I think of when I think of auctions. Other games that would be on my list include: Goa, Amun-Re, and Homesteaders. The first edition of Evo is a fun lighter-weight, but heavily confrontational auction and dinos-on-a-map game.
I really like Age of Steam and Power Grid, but don’t really think of them as auction games, despite the auction being so important in both of them. I also like Keyflower, but the auctions get out of hand when the player count goes above four.
I have only played Ra once, and we do not own it! We got Goa after this video (because of comments) and that was amazing 🤩
Nice review. Just bought Power Grid 😁
Hope you’ll like it! I like it best with 5-6 players, which might be hard to get together now, but let’s play it together sometime! (Even though Sunniva will win)
@@BoardGamingRamblings im in 👍👍
I know I've said it before, but Paris: New Eden is a fantastic auction game. Simple yet clever, my most played (non-filler) game of 2020, my favourite 2019 game :)
Generally not a huge fan of them though, but might need to check out some of Sunniva's in that case ;)
Yeah, Sunniva’s list is the one to check out if you generally don’t like them! Paris: New Eden wasn’t for us, but so happy that you like it so much!
Good lists. I'd have Ra, Goa, and Modern Art in my top 10 auction games, I think.
Trying to get a copy of Goa now, as so many have talked about it here! Ra is another one we need to get into the collection! Thanks for watching!
My top bidding game by FAR is High Society. I love the artwork, the theme, the gameplay, everything. I always lose, but I don't care. I adore this game.
My second favorite was For Sale, but my wife REALLY doesn't like that game so I got rid of it.
I don't have or own a lot of auction games. If we count bidding my 5 favorite would be Sidereal Confluence, Age of Steam, Irish Gauge, Scoville, and Tinners' Trail.
Scoville is one that I want to try out! Heard good things. We are backing the new edition of Tinner’s Trail on KS now. Looking forward to play it!
Five tribes, railways of whatever, Ra, high society, cyclades, bruxelles 1983, biblios, taj mahal, high society, the estates and condottiere
I just love how bididng mechanism can be implemented in such wide variety of other type of games.
Yeah, it’s awesome, isn’t it? Thanks for watching! 🤩
Great list - makes me want to bring out a bidding game or three for next game night.
Tramways has my favourite auction mechanic. A wonderful game similar-ish to Age of Steam.
Modern art - classic
Crystal Palace (doubt that the dice setting / bidding counts a a true auction)
Age of Steam
The Estates
Power Grid
And Terra Mystica has an interesting auction mechanic variant for setup which can really change up a game.
And I'm hopeful that Furnace will be a wonderful auction game but I have yet to get my hands on a copy.
Glad you liked it, Jeff! Tramways is great! I do think I like Age of Steam better as a game, but I need to try out Tramways again! I wouldn’t think of Crystal Palace in this category, but that might just be me! The estates was sadly too mean for us, haha!
The auction in Tramways is SO punishing! But very neat game
How can you forget The Speicherstadt? Such a great game
We haven’t played it 😱 Only played Jorvik, and we do like it, but I don’t love it! Feel like the full game is the absolute best, but it has also felt a bit long when we played!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Definitely a better game at 4 or 5 players. Jorvik is both Speicherstadt and expansion Kaispeicher, which added "mean" cards.
I'm debating between Ra and Medici and Q.E.
Don't want more than two auction games. High SOciety is much cheaper, and Ra is out of print, so that makes it tough.
godt jobba!
Takker!
Biblios still stands as s great game. Can’t stand the idea og QE however. Great pics you both have.
QE is great as well! Have you tried it?
Nope 🙈 The idea is offputting to me. Mayhaps I should give it a go.
Pan am is cool - like the bidding here
I’d love to play it, but haven’t had the chance to find a copy here!
I need to try Medici. I love RA its one of my favorite of all time games in general. I own Modern Art and its an ok game for me. Cyclades is another great game with an Auction mechanic.
We didn’t like Modern Art! I don’t know why, but it just didn’t click with us! Ra is one we need to get a hold of. Have only played once at a cafe in London, and it was enjoyable!
Totally agree with Ra.
Doggy, Bob.... great video
We all need a Bob in our lives!
Yes, the past participle of bid is also bid.
Thank you! 😁
I love Euros but hate auction games :) The only one i enjoyed was dungeons petz (it is kinda auctiony with bidding for turns). Also, when is Etherfields review? :)
That's such a cool mechanic, but I wouldn't really call it an auction game as it's not the main mechanic, and it could even be argued that it is more bidding than auction.
@@nchlsrdmr Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch. But also probably why i do like it :)
Have you played some of the ones on Sunniva’s list? Many of those doesn’t feel like auctions, but just have some bidding involved! Some great euros in there!
@@BoardGamingRamblings power grid is the only one I played from the list. I find it an ok experience for myself. I can be convinced to play, bit it wont be my first choice.
Also, the Etherfields review is coming soon! We did film it a couple of weeks back, but I decided it would be a great idea to delete the audio and then save, so that the audio was gone forever 🤪 Gonna film it again this weekend probably!
I like your top 10 but I’m no good at auction games. Have you heard of Goa by Rudiger Dorn? That’s my no.1 bidding game 😊
Others have also asked about Goa! Guess I’ll need to check it out!
If you see it, buy it. As I said I’m not much of a bidding player but Goa is a fantastic game. Best with 3 or 4 but it’s ok with 2 players 😃
What about « the boss » , and Cyclades ?
I have not heard about The Boss, and haven’t tried Cyclades. I think Cyclades also is an area control game, if I’m not mistaken? If so, you’ll have Sunniva’s least favorite game ever, an auction game with area control 🤣
So we got some games in common then....
Amun-Re, the normal one is of course in a top 10. Modern Art and Ra should also be considered.
But be honest Johannes... you are not very into auction games ;-) Too much competition for you.
Haha, it’s not often that happens ;) I need to get a copy of both Amun-Re and Ra, both games I’d love to have in the collection!
I have a copy of Lancaster just sitting on a shelf not getting played. Hit me up
If you want to get rid of it, send us a FB message, and we’ll talk 🥳🤩