Anachrony because we both love it and have spent to bling it out; Firefly because it was one of our first games that brought us into the hobby; 7th Continent because it was our first major Kickstarter, we have all the expansions/promos and is the game we probably have invested the most time into.
I believe this is the best representation of “Top 10s” at least for Board Games. The two of you passionately elaborates, expounds and share the feats and aspects of the choice games in your list without overselling them too much or going on stale and tedious when elucidating them. It always feel natural and nice to listen to. It very much convinces me to “hey I should definitely try this”. Although not all of course, but it reasonably helps me resonate more and consider a game before buying it. Others are just like “ohh I really love this…” and “I just freakin’ love this game” without expressing themselves in a more understandable manner. I guess Top 10’s shares that “marketing-like” aspect of attracting people to give certain items a chance to be experienced and you guys always did that brilliantly alrhough the basic premise is just “expressing or sharing” which is inherently good. The top 50’s you did before? TOTALLY liked and felt that. Your Vital Lacerda inputs? Mind-blowingly exciting and interesting. You even convince me more to try On Mars (still saving money for it though since I just got Lisboa and Age of Steam) despite it being so intimidating and you guys both put it “the most complicated” of Lacerda’s games. This channel is a gem.
My top 10: - Hanabi - Cubirds - Ticket to ride - Survive: Escape from Atlantis! - Monopoly Deal Card Game - Machi Koro - Jaipur - Dragon's Hoard - Concept - The Crew As you can see I am also very much into card games :D
Thank you for this top10! I will never get rid of my: Keyflower, Agricola, 7 Wonders, Wingspan, the West Kingdom series, Azul, New York Zoo, Clans of Caledonia, Caverna and Ticket to Ride Europe.
Never getting rid my old copy of Grand Austria Hotel Wingspan Castles of Burgundy (original) Rokoko (original) Not necessarily my favorite games but for sure won't ever get rid of them.
Odd submission: My equivalent of this is actually a game my friend owns. He has a copy of Inkognito, a deduction game first published in 1988, and since I can't find it anywhere I'm very protective of his. My hope is that, now that he has kids, I can buy it off him and keep it myself.
Great top 10! Always so interesting to hear how certain games resonate with people. For me, my #1 is Hanamikoji. I absolutely love to introduce new gamers to this game, and the moment when they go "aha" after playing the first few rounds.
Lancashire is also my preferred Brass, and I own both as well. I appreciate that Lanc has less rules and plays in less time. Makes it easier to introduce to new players, and thus easier for me to get more plays in.
Very, very difficult to give a concise answer to that question, but I'd probably go with: - Abyss (+ expansions ; one of the first games my wife and I bought, and we still love it to this day) - Cascadia - Calico (both these games are so simple, yet offer just the right amount of brain-burning to make us (and anyone we've introduced them to) want to come back to them again and again) - Everdell (technically getting rid of this game to replace it with the Complete Collection, but that title is not going anywhere - gameplay aside, its entire universe resonates so much with the Redwall books I was so enamoured with as a child/teenager that it has quickly become the centrepiece of my collection) - Hadrian's Wall (so satisfying as a solo game; it looks daunting at first, but then the pleasure of triggering all those chain reactions kicks in, and it's hard to get bored while playing) - Scythe (I think I needn't add to what you've already said) - PARKS (beautiful, relaxing, and again, just the right amount of challenge to it). This list will probably become far longer with all the Kickstarters arriving at the end of the year / Q1 2022.
We've tied all of those except for Abyss (the box art draws me in so much!) and Hadrian's Wall. Hopefully there wont be too many delays in KS shipping due to the global shipping problems going on.
@@BeforeYouPlay Abyss is a wonderful game with fantastic components and artwork, is very easy to teach, and really underrated :-) Admittedly it plays best with both its expansions added on (they give the core game far more strategic depth, and fix some of its less interesting mechanisms), but if you get the chance, jump in! As for Hadrian's Wall..... a pure endorphin factory.
Definitely some good choices there but a really big cheer for Ginkopolis, a game that has never been as popular as its unique play deserves. Watching you struggle to describe it was all too familiar, it's one of those games you pretty much have to play at least once before you can really grasp what it's doing, but once you get it, it just all clicks into place and makes perfect sense.
As always: great review. Very pleased that Bruges finished in first place. Stefan Feld's masterpiece and my hometown. Also funny that you own the Dutch version of Hoity Toity, same as mine. Keep up the good work and... greetings from Bruges.
I prefer Brass: Lancashire because it's a bit tighter and tougher of a challenge. Birmingham is a bit easier and more forgiving of mistakes. I prefer Agricola over Caverna and Le Havre over A Feast for Odin for the same reason. I like my heavier games to have pointy edges and force me to really think. Great video! I just ordered a copy of Hoity Toity off bgg marketplace. :-)
I will never get rid of Dungeonquest. An all time favorite even though there is only a 15% chance of survival!! And I just ordered the Downfall of Pompeii! Hearing Michelle talking about directing lava on your opponents, sold me! Lol
I’m going real old school. I am never getting rid of my Monopoly game from the 80’s. Too many game night memories with my parents to get rid of it even though no one, even me, wants to play it anymore. Also never getting rid of trivial pursuit. It was the first game I bought as an adult in the 90s. Current games I would never get rid of is Sleeping Gods, wingspan and splendor.
I am never getting rid of: Alchemists, Aeon’s End, Archipelago, Everdell, Mice & Mystics, Le Havre, Quacks, SOS Titanic, Spirits of the Wild and Valletta.
Interesting you say that will not get rid of Valletta. That was a game I was interested of for a couple of years ago but never bought and forgot about it. What is good with that game?
@@edmundengland actually while I do like the game, the reason I’m not getting rid of it is because we bought it in France after staying in Valletta. So it’s a souvenir of our trip. :)
@@BeforeYouPlay Yeah it is 1 of my fav games. I also think it has really good replayability. It has like 60 cases. Most people won't remember the details to any reasonable degree, especially as time goes on. Heck even during the game itself it is hard to know what is right lol.
As a completionist, some of the games I’ll keep forever are more ‘series’ than individual games: 1st edition Descent, Android: Netrunner, Commands and Colors: Ancients. Then there are the “grail games”, ones I pined for for years before I finally got them: Napoleon’s Triumph, Kanban EV and CO2: Second Chance. There are a few that would be so hard to replace that I would hate to part with them: Starcraft, Gears of War And finally, the favourites - not the “new hotness”, but enduring classics; several of which I’ve played hundreds of times: Tash Kalar, Fire in the Lake & Andean Abyss, SPQR, Mr Cabbagehead’s Garden
I know some people that love netrunner. I bought it and almost all the expansions and sold the set when they announced it was ending print. Never enjoyed it and I come from an MTG background. I never felt like when I won it was my doing but sheer happenstance.
- Discworld: Ankh-Morpork (it was a gift and is out of print) - Anachrony (My first Big Game, also I've upgaded it to Infinity box + extra tokens) - In the hall of the mountain king (one of my favourite games, again deluxified) - Space Race (I have both the card and the board versions, love the art, like the mechanics, at leat one of them will remain forever with me) - Cerebria (love the art, unique settings, pre-painted minis ...) + few more that were gifts
16:50 I recently designed a 3D-printable insert and dice tower for the original printing of The Castles of Burgundy. Increase fun and reduce setup and teardown time :D models can be found on printables (for free of course)
My home-made version of RoboDerby Express. Mum and I cutting wooden sticks into dice, and then meticulously printing and sticking the dice art onto them. Took forever, but it is my most wonderful game!
Our number 1 would have to be Kohaku. The wife and I just adore this game and play it to the wee hours of the night when we get it out and just keep playing just ONE more game. It had a pretty limited run, there were complaints about the acrylic tiles being sharp and those edges scratching the paint, but we sanded down all the edges and put on a coat of laquer on the back side and it has survived hundreds of plays in perfect condition so far.
@@BeforeYouPlay Scythe. We were at a local game store and had the game demoed to us and loved it immediately. Bought a copy on the spot with a couple expansions.
Even though I don't play it that much any more, I'd have to keep Puerto Rico because it is the game that solidified my love of board games and really got me in the hobby beyond the classics of Scrabble and Clue. Another one I hold dear is Expedition: Northwest Passage. I love the theme and the mechanic of the water freezing over and having to put out your sled while worrying about getting back to your boat on time before the ice melts and possibly getting stranded on an ice flow. Along the same lines is the game Raptor. It's not my favourite 2-player only game, there are so many great ones out there, but the theme and the way the game plays, as well as having taken a gamble on it without doing my now mandatory research on the game and finding it to be such a gem really endears it to me. Everdell and Nemesis have been my top two games for the past two years, so I can't see them leaving my collection anytime soon. The Gallerist is my favourite Lacerda game and I would hate to part with that one. Then I have the original Arboretum in the green box and I will keep that forever. The oldest game in my collection and this list is the 1963 3M edition of Acquire which is still an incredible game and plays so well. Lastly I'll add Condottiere to the list because it's a great game in a small box and my board wouldn't lie flat so I kept trying to flatten it more and then it snapped. I ended up snapping the other part off as well and taping them together and that extra bit of character somehow makes me love the game that much more. And it lies flat now. 😜
Oh. I misread the title! I thought you were getting rid of Obsession. What a great, super-underrated game. One of my new favorites. And I just finally got Lancashire - looked more for me than Birmingham. A lot better than I thought it would be. Seemed very dry, so I'd kept away.
Haha nice. Im from holland and its a surprise you are showing the dutch version of Hoity Toity; Adel Verplicht. 💪😀 pronunciation of the dutch title was really good 👍 Parade is a good title. Im happy with my copy, very hard to find indeed
Every time I hear about Goa I want to try it, I love each of your enthusiasm for these titles.. it really energizes my interest in reexploring my collection with friends. You guys rock!
A lovely list. My personal Forever games are: A Feast for Odin plus expansions Mage Knight Ultimate Edition Star Trek: Frontiers Gloomhaven Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion Lost Ruins of Arnak plus expansion I hope to add Frosthaven and Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread to this list when it's fulfilled, but without having played them, I can only hope they're as good as I wish for them to be Thanks for the fun video! 👍😎🚛
I love two rooms and a boom as my go to ice breaker / full group activity at a party. I think it plays at 10 people fine for a few rounds, especially if keeping it to basic roles. Would love to have a larger experience with the game though with some time to delve into different roles (every time I've set it up it's been at max 3 games). This was a cool topic to cover as it got some more unknowns to think about if ever running across used copies or new printings.
1) Spirit Island 2) Century Spice Road (reminds me of your Goa thematically 3) Mechs vs. Minions 4) Dice Throne 5) Raptor 6) Tash Kalar 7) Aquatica 8) Smash Up 9) Dominant Species Marine 10) Ethnos
I wonder if you guys have played the old Avalon Hill game called Diplomacy - not sure it's in your wheelhouse - but when I played it with friends (30 years ago and it was not a new game then) we had hours of fun because of the strategy and also the diplomacy phase - where you would work out deals and sometimes double cross your friends - it was tons of fun.
My sacred titles that am not getting rid of: Agricola original version. This was my entry game into heavier euros and I loved it. I have most of the alternative decks that are out of print for it Le Havre. Also a beloved Uwe Rosenberg game for me Advanced Civilization. Nowadays superseded by Western & Eastern empires, but I will stick to my orginial version. Great game with pretty unique mechanics. However, it is almost impossible to get to the table outside of conventions since you need minimun 5 people committing a full day to play it. Anachrony Infinity box. Recent purchase that won't be reprinted. Great thematic euro game with top notch components. (The metal resource cubes are so wonderful) Terraforming Mars. Awesome game. The Big box edition with metal cubes gives it a delightful table presence
I'd also never get rid of that awesome Nintendo shirt! As far as the games, somewhat surprising choices, but great stuff. I'd personally never get rid of a huge chunk of my games, including my Dominion collection (I've got every single card), my fully decked out Big Box KS version of Island of El Dorado, my signed copy of Stomple, my OG Space Hulk and OG Robo Rally sets, and ALL of my Star Wars games (I just love anything Star Wars). Some stuff I'm waiting on that I'll also probably never get rid of is my KS version of Endless Winter and the Big Box for Paladins and all the content for that game, including several KS promo cards.
I have most of the Alea big-box series, which includes "Adel Verplicht" (#5 in the series). I would never let any of that series leave my collection. "Castles of Burgundy" is #14 in that series. Totally agree with Ginkgopolis, Obsession, Kanban original, Panamax, Feast for Odin (with Norwegians), Goa, and Bruges. I would never also never get rid of Die Macher, 1841, 1856, 2038, and all of my Splotter games.
This is an awesome list! I’ve learned about so many good games. I am definitely hunting down “Two rooms and a boom”. 😁 Also, I think this is the most I’ve ever seen Naveen speaks in a video. Your excitement is infectious! 😝 Cheers guys. Lovely video.
Talisman (1983 Original), Knightmare Chess 1 & 2 (Original, not the reprints), Stone Age (w/o the expansion), Das Buch zum Spielen (Rare Catan expansion), and Cosmic Encounter(2000 Avalon Hill) would be a handful of games I would never get rid of. Most of which are out of print and they are just awesome to play. Some my most favorite game experiences were with these games.
I'll never get rid of StarCraft, Queen's Gambit, Epic Duels, War of the Ring, and probably 1960 (Z-Man edition), Ad Astra or TI4. I don't want to get rid of nearly any of the games I currently own but those titles in particular are among my favorites and mostly out of print
@@BeforeYouPlay Total fortune on our part. Friends who introduced to (and got us to love) board games gave us an "old" copy (the original edition) when they bought the updated one, THEN gave us THAT one too when they downsized their games!!
I agree with the Kanban size thing. I’m getting more and more annoyed about how games get bigger and bigger. I would love to have got La Granja, but due to the size of the new edition chose not to. I think when a game takes a while Kallax cube, when it’s impractical to take to a game night, when on a 6 seat table I still need a side table/a to make it fit, we have a serious problem. 😉
Vi seguo da qualche settimana e mi avete profondamente colpito per la vostra ordinaria semplicità. Sono un sacerdote cattolico che vive nella bella Sicilia e spesso i giochi da tavolo sono stati per i miei ragazzi occasione di aggregazione e di sano confronto. Non scrivo in inglese molto bene. Scusatemi. Grazie e continuate così!
Ironically Goa was the first game I ever sold ! Also I didn't expect to see Dutch version of a game in this one :D My 10 games I would never get rid off (from 1 to 10) : Shogun, Cosmic Encounter, Las Vegas, AquaSphere, Yunnan, The Staufer Dynasty, Manilla, Colossal Arena, Istanbul and Die Sieben Siegel (aka Wizard Extreme)
Still love downfall of pompeii to this day. you guys introduced me to Ginkgopolis and it's one of my fav now. Still need to get Obsession somehow. Great video!
So glad you found Ginkgopolis, Naveen search high and wide for it, he was so happy that they reprinted it! Hopefully you will be able to play Obsession sometime in the near future :-)
Parade is such a good game! I bought it at a hardware store that also randomly sold board games years ago. Haha. Sadly, someone stole my copy, so I'm happy to hear it is back in print!
What as breath of fresh air!! I'm tired of the heavy strategy games and so many of these sound like they are just fun!! Just what I'm looking for. And who cares what BGG ratings are anyway. Fun is fun!!
top games I wouldn't never get rid of: legendary marvel (too much money invested in it 😇) five tribes samurai (original print) eclipse lords of hellas voyages of marco polo auztralia blood bowl card games with expansions (out of print) akrotiri (very hard to find) splendor
I’m in the same boat as you with legendary marvel it’s by far and away my most expensive game when you account for expansions /sleeves I feel your pain😂
So many games to discover! Thank you for making this list, hadn't heard of any of these prior. Hope we get to play some of them soon! As for a game we're never getting rid of... our dad's cribbage board :)
If you've played The Crew, I'm interested to see how it compares? I love the Crew (and trick taking games in general), so I'm tempted to back the 2nd edition on Kickstarter!
Brass Birmingham (I like Lancashire also, but not as much so I gave it to my daughter). Scythe with everything. Istanbul with the coffee expansion. Quacks with all the expansions and geek up bits. Castles of Burgundy. Port Royal with the contracts expansion (I'm on my third copy of that and will need to replace this one soon). Space Base with some of the expansion components. Thanks for the video. I am now looking for a copy of Panamax. Good luck with that.
Hrm, the OOP stuff pops into mind first since the rest can be repurchased. Advanced Civilization with expansions (though I guess Western Empires fired this) StarCraft with expansions (in theory fired by Forbidden Stars) Battlestar Galactica (fired by Unfathomable?) OG Netrunner decks (had such a deliciously 90s art vibe to them even though reprinted) Ok, mebbe a Trove Chest full of Too Many Bones? So many play hours ahead of us on that one. Why you have to ask such hard questions!? :)
Feast is my #1 game of all time. It just has so many cool attributes to it. And I agree, the expansion is a must-buy for the game. The game is good without it, but it just gives a few quality of life upgrades while streamlining and balancing the core gameplay. I love it!
As far as your concern with Witness expiring goes, I don't think it is the case. Witness cases are often pretty random (blue saw 1, 3, 6 on the dice when looking from this angle; yellow saw 2, 2, 2 when looking; red saw .... ) and there's no way your brain will have remembered any of it years in the future. I first played this game a ton when a friend of mine got it. I got my own copy but never played it. Years later when that friend was no longer around, I pulled out my copy and played it with a new group and I didn't remember any cases except for the very first and very last one. So IMO this game has infinite replayability. You just have to wait a few years each time you reach the end.
I'll probably never get rid of Thunderstone Advance even if its third iteration is around. It's out of print and I've spent so much money on the expansions
What are some games you will never get rid of?
Biblios, Strike, and Flamme rouge for me 😄
Spirit island for me.
Anachrony because we both love it and have spent to bling it out; Firefly because it was one of our first games that brought us into the hobby; 7th Continent because it was our first major Kickstarter, we have all the expansions/promos and is the game we probably have invested the most time into.
Love letter, Hive, Azul
Hansa tutonica
I believe this is the best representation of “Top 10s” at least for Board Games.
The two of you passionately elaborates, expounds and share the feats and aspects of the choice games in your list without overselling them too much or going on stale and tedious when elucidating them. It always feel natural and nice to listen to.
It very much convinces me to “hey I should definitely try this”. Although not all of course, but it reasonably helps me resonate more and consider a game before buying it.
Others are just like “ohh I really love this…” and “I just freakin’ love this game” without expressing themselves in a more understandable manner. I guess Top 10’s shares that “marketing-like” aspect of attracting people to give certain items a chance to be experienced and you guys always did that brilliantly alrhough the basic premise is just “expressing or sharing” which is inherently good. The top 50’s you did before? TOTALLY liked and felt that. Your Vital Lacerda inputs? Mind-blowingly exciting and interesting. You even convince me more to try On Mars (still saving money for it though since I just got Lisboa and Age of Steam) despite it being so intimidating and you guys both put it “the most complicated” of Lacerda’s games.
This channel is a gem.
My top 10:
- Hanabi
- Cubirds
- Ticket to ride
- Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
- Monopoly Deal Card Game
- Machi Koro
- Jaipur
- Dragon's Hoard
- Concept
- The Crew
As you can see I am also very much into card games :D
I always wave back at Monique. :)
Haha, love it!
Me too
and I smile back to that handsomest loveliest guy she is lucky to have 🫶
Love all your play through reviews, but vids like this one are paramount. Great to see games that are dear to you two.
Hi Norman, thanks for the kind words. We really enjoy throwing in a video like this from time to time!
Thank you for this top10! I will never get rid of my: Keyflower, Agricola, 7 Wonders, Wingspan, the West Kingdom series, Azul, New York Zoo, Clans of Caledonia, Caverna and Ticket to Ride Europe.
You sound like our kind of gamer!! :-)
I forgot about Wingspan! That’s one to hold onto.
@@Console_Yourself Is it? Random. Go for Everdell instead
Eclipse, Dinosaur Island, Gloomhaven, Caverna, Feast for Odin, Xia, Legend of a Drift System and Trickerion.
An errata pack is coming for Obsession, The Useful Man. Make sure you get it.
Great news to hear! Thanks for the heads up ;-)
Never getting rid my old copy of Grand Austria Hotel
Wingspan
Castles of Burgundy (original)
Rokoko (original)
Not necessarily my favorite games but for sure won't ever get rid of them.
We really wanted to get our hands on original Rococo!!
I so bloody regret getting rid of my copy of Grand Austria Hotel (a game I hadn't yet played). An amazing and under-appreciated game.
@@markanderson100 I'm pretty sure you can still find it.
@@J-Wheeler-G Sadly, it's out of print in my region so I'm waiting for the reprint to hit stores again. Have you tried the Let's Waltz expansion?
@@markanderson100 where are you from? No, I'm not an expansion guy. I actually think the game it's perfect as is.
Odd submission: My equivalent of this is actually a game my friend owns. He has a copy of Inkognito, a deduction game first published in 1988, and since I can't find it anywhere I'm very protective of his. My hope is that, now that he has kids, I can buy it off him and keep it myself.
Great top 10! Always so interesting to hear how certain games resonate with people.
For me, my #1 is Hanamikoji. I absolutely love to introduce new gamers to this game, and the moment when they go "aha" after playing the first few rounds.
1:30 I didn’t realize that I would be sitting through a coffee commercial!
Lancashire is also my preferred Brass, and I own both as well. I appreciate that Lanc has less rules and plays in less time. Makes it easier to introduce to new players, and thus easier for me to get more plays in.
Very, very difficult to give a concise answer to that question, but I'd probably go with:
- Abyss (+ expansions ; one of the first games my wife and I bought, and we still love it to this day)
- Cascadia
- Calico (both these games are so simple, yet offer just the right amount of brain-burning to make us (and anyone we've introduced them to) want to come back to them again and again)
- Everdell (technically getting rid of this game to replace it with the Complete Collection, but that title is not going anywhere - gameplay aside, its entire universe resonates so much with the Redwall books I was so enamoured with as a child/teenager that it has quickly become the centrepiece of my collection)
- Hadrian's Wall (so satisfying as a solo game; it looks daunting at first, but then the pleasure of triggering all those chain reactions kicks in, and it's hard to get bored while playing)
- Scythe (I think I needn't add to what you've already said)
- PARKS (beautiful, relaxing, and again, just the right amount of challenge to it).
This list will probably become far longer with all the Kickstarters arriving at the end of the year / Q1 2022.
We've tied all of those except for Abyss (the box art draws me in so much!) and Hadrian's Wall. Hopefully there wont be too many delays in KS shipping due to the global shipping problems going on.
@@BeforeYouPlay Abyss is a wonderful game with fantastic components and artwork, is very easy to teach, and really underrated :-) Admittedly it plays best with both its expansions added on (they give the core game far more strategic depth, and fix some of its less interesting mechanisms), but if you get the chance, jump in! As for Hadrian's Wall..... a pure endorphin factory.
Definitely some good choices there but a really big cheer for Ginkopolis, a game that has never been as popular as its unique play deserves. Watching you struggle to describe it was all too familiar, it's one of those games you pretty much have to play at least once before you can really grasp what it's doing, but once you get it, it just all clicks into place and makes perfect sense.
Okay...so...Navine's French press moment auditioning to be on a commercial was kind of over-the-top adorable :).
A Feast for Odin with the Norwegians expansion is all merged into the same box and I will never take them apart!
Agreed. It's the only way to Feast!
As always: great review. Very pleased that Bruges finished in first place. Stefan Feld's masterpiece and my hometown. Also funny that you own the Dutch version of Hoity Toity, same as mine. Keep up the good work and... greetings from Bruges.
Couldn't agree more! It's a great game, we are super excited to play it more now that we have it!
I prefer Brass: Lancashire because it's a bit tighter and tougher of a challenge. Birmingham is a bit easier and more forgiving of mistakes. I prefer Agricola over Caverna and Le Havre over A Feast for Odin for the same reason. I like my heavier games to have pointy edges and force me to really think. Great video! I just ordered a copy of Hoity Toity off bgg marketplace. :-)
I will never get rid of Dungeonquest. An all time favorite even though there is only a 15% chance of survival!! And I just ordered the Downfall of Pompeii! Hearing Michelle talking about directing lava on your opponents, sold me! Lol
“And the Best thing about Dungeon Quest is….”
I’m going real old school. I am never getting rid of my Monopoly game from the 80’s. Too many game night memories with my parents to get rid of it even though no one, even me, wants to play it anymore. Also never getting rid of trivial pursuit. It was the first game I bought as an adult in the 90s. Current games I would never get rid of is Sleeping Gods, wingspan and splendor.
I am never getting rid of: Alchemists, Aeon’s End, Archipelago, Everdell, Mice & Mystics, Le Havre, Quacks, SOS Titanic, Spirits of the Wild and Valletta.
Interesting you say that will not get rid of Valletta. That was a game I was interested of for a couple of years ago but never bought and forgot about it. What is good with that game?
@@edmundengland actually while I do like the game, the reason I’m not getting rid of it is because we bought it in France after staying in Valletta. So it’s a souvenir of our trip. :)
Thank you for your kind words about Panamax 😊🤗
You two have such a good and joyful energy. Thank you for sharing it.
Witness is SOOOOOO good.
CAN I GET A....oh nevermind! :D
Witness is amazing. Was so glad to get mine off bgg a while ago.
You're one of the lucky ones!!
@@BeforeYouPlay Yeah it is 1 of my fav games. I also think it has really good replayability. It has like 60 cases. Most people won't remember the details to any reasonable degree, especially as time goes on. Heck even during the game itself it is hard to know what is right lol.
@@roxannejanisewski894 SO TRUE!!! lol
my list is Lisboa, Maricaibo, Everdell, Obssesion, Terraforming Mars, Whistle Mountain and Scythe in no order
As a completionist, some of the games I’ll keep forever are more ‘series’ than individual games: 1st edition Descent, Android: Netrunner, Commands and Colors: Ancients.
Then there are the “grail games”, ones I pined for for years before I finally got them: Napoleon’s Triumph, Kanban EV and CO2: Second Chance.
There are a few that would be so hard to replace that I would hate to part with them: Starcraft, Gears of War
And finally, the favourites - not the “new hotness”, but enduring classics; several of which I’ve played hundreds of times: Tash Kalar, Fire in the Lake & Andean Abyss, SPQR, Mr Cabbagehead’s Garden
I know some people that love netrunner. I bought it and almost all the expansions and sold the set when they announced it was ending print. Never enjoyed it and I come from an MTG background. I never felt like when I won it was my doing but sheer happenstance.
- Discworld: Ankh-Morpork (it was a gift and is out of print)
- Anachrony (My first Big Game, also I've upgaded it to Infinity box + extra tokens)
- In the hall of the mountain king (one of my favourite games, again deluxified)
- Space Race (I have both the card and the board versions, love the art, like the mechanics, at leat one of them will remain forever with me)
- Cerebria (love the art, unique settings, pre-painted minis ...)
+ few more that were gifts
Love seeing Scythe on the list, what a great game and build quality. Great content you both, keep up the good work!
16:50
I recently designed a 3D-printable insert and dice tower for the original printing of The Castles of Burgundy.
Increase fun and reduce setup and teardown time :D
models can be found on printables (for free of course)
My home-made version of RoboDerby Express. Mum and I cutting wooden sticks into dice, and then meticulously printing and sticking the dice art onto them. Took forever, but it is my most wonderful game!
Finally! Someone that agrees with me about Brass versions! I found Birmingham to be just a little messy with beer and pottery added on.
Our number 1 would have to be Kohaku. The wife and I just adore this game and play it to the wee hours of the night when we get it out and just keep playing just ONE more game. It had a pretty limited run, there were complaints about the acrylic tiles being sharp and those edges scratching the paint, but we sanded down all the edges and put on a coat of laquer on the back side and it has survived hundreds of plays in perfect condition so far.
I think it is absolutely amazing that of the 150 games in my collection, there was ONE crossover with this list. :) New Subscriber.
Thanks for the sub! What was the crossover?!?
@@BeforeYouPlay Scythe. We were at a local game store and had the game demoed to us and loved it immediately. Bought a copy on the spot with a couple expansions.
Great vid and great lists! Would love to see an 11-20 of this one ;)
Hah don't make us do it...!
Even though I don't play it that much any more, I'd have to keep Puerto Rico because it is the game that solidified my love of board games and really got me in the hobby beyond the classics of Scrabble and Clue.
Another one I hold dear is Expedition: Northwest Passage. I love the theme and the mechanic of the water freezing over and having to put out your sled while worrying about getting back to your boat on time before the ice melts and possibly getting stranded on an ice flow.
Along the same lines is the game Raptor. It's not my favourite 2-player only game, there are so many great ones out there, but the theme and the way the game plays, as well as having taken a gamble on it without doing my now mandatory research on the game and finding it to be such a gem really endears it to me.
Everdell and Nemesis have been my top two games for the past two years, so I can't see them leaving my collection anytime soon.
The Gallerist is my favourite Lacerda game and I would hate to part with that one.
Then I have the original Arboretum in the green box and I will keep that forever.
The oldest game in my collection and this list is the 1963 3M edition of Acquire which is still an incredible game and plays so well.
Lastly I'll add Condottiere to the list because it's a great game in a small box and my board wouldn't lie flat so I kept trying to flatten it more and then it snapped. I ended up snapping the other part off as well and taping them together and that extra bit of character somehow makes me love the game that much more. And it lies flat now. 😜
That Scythe legendary box is an absolute beast! Reminds me I need to play it again soon. So so good
We absolutely love it at 5 players :-)
You two make me smile. thanks.
Oh. I misread the title! I thought you were getting rid of Obsession. What a great, super-underrated game. One of my new favorites. And I just finally got Lancashire - looked more for me than Birmingham. A lot better than I thought it would be. Seemed very dry, so I'd kept away.
Haha misreading the title completely changes the video! So glad you enjoyed your play of Brass! I can't wait to play it again.
I think mine will be: castles of burgundy, Palladins, GWT, feast for Odin.
Haha nice. Im from holland and its a surprise you are showing the dutch version of Hoity Toity; Adel Verplicht. 💪😀 pronunciation of the dutch title was really good 👍
Parade is a good title. Im happy with my copy, very hard to find indeed
awesome video! Bunch of games I haven't heard of and looking forward to research more.
Every time I hear about Goa I want to try it, I love each of your enthusiasm for these titles.. it really energizes my interest in reexploring my collection with friends. You guys rock!
I’m curious about how you both feel about solo games and which solo games have you played if any?
We pretty much never play Solo, so the closest things would be co-op games where everything is public info.
@@BeforeYouPlay Fair enough.
Johari just goes to show, BGG ratings don't mean everything. You can love a game, ratings be damned.
Absolutely!
A lovely list. My personal Forever games are:
A Feast for Odin plus expansions
Mage Knight Ultimate Edition
Star Trek: Frontiers
Gloomhaven
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Lost Ruins of Arnak plus expansion
I hope to add Frosthaven and Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread to this list when it's fulfilled, but without having played them, I can only hope they're as good as I wish for them to be
Thanks for the fun video! 👍😎🚛
Oh, some love for Panamax.
I am also super happy that I have this rare and unique game in my collection.
It's such a great well rounded game!!
UK pronunciations for Brass games are:
Lanchashire - "lang·kuh·shuh"
Birmingham - "bur·ming·uhm"
Haha it's like we're not even trying! ;-)
Feast for Odin for the win. Looking forward to your playthrough.
We are excited to showcase it! Just a few more titles to get through first lol.
I love two rooms and a boom as my go to ice breaker / full group activity at a party. I think it plays at 10 people fine for a few rounds, especially if keeping it to basic roles. Would love to have a larger experience with the game though with some time to delve into different roles (every time I've set it up it's been at max 3 games).
This was a cool topic to cover as it got some more unknowns to think about if ever running across used copies or new printings.
So many games I’ve not heard of… interesting. I’ll have to check them out. I expected to see the usual suspects: Wingspan, Great Western Trail, etc…
I ❤ Obsession as well, a very nice surprise when I got it as well.
I'm never ditching my game of Candyland. I have the "Lord Licorice" expansion and it makes the game to intense and variegated to ever give up.
1) Spirit Island
2) Century Spice Road (reminds me of your Goa thematically
3) Mechs vs. Minions
4) Dice Throne
5) Raptor
6) Tash Kalar
7) Aquatica
8) Smash Up
9) Dominant Species Marine
10) Ethnos
I am glad you will use the Norwegian expansion for your Feast play through. It really sorts out the weaknesses of the original.
Totally agree!
I wonder if you guys have played the old Avalon Hill game called Diplomacy - not sure it's in your wheelhouse - but when I played it with friends (30 years ago and it was not a new game then) we had hours of fun because of the strategy and also the diplomacy phase - where you would work out deals and sometimes double cross your friends - it was tons of fun.
Really great video guys
My sacred titles that am not getting rid of:
Agricola original version. This was my entry game into heavier euros and I loved it. I have most of the alternative decks that are out of print for it
Le Havre. Also a beloved Uwe Rosenberg game for me
Advanced Civilization. Nowadays superseded by Western & Eastern empires, but I will stick to my orginial version. Great game with pretty unique mechanics. However, it is almost impossible to get to the table outside of conventions since you need minimun 5 people committing a full day to play it.
Anachrony Infinity box. Recent purchase that won't be reprinted. Great thematic euro game with top notch components. (The metal resource cubes are so wonderful)
Terraforming Mars. Awesome game. The Big box edition with metal cubes gives it a delightful table presence
I'd also never get rid of that awesome Nintendo shirt! As far as the games, somewhat surprising choices, but great stuff. I'd personally never get rid of a huge chunk of my games, including my Dominion collection (I've got every single card), my fully decked out Big Box KS version of Island of El Dorado, my signed copy of Stomple, my OG Space Hulk and OG Robo Rally sets, and ALL of my Star Wars games (I just love anything Star Wars). Some stuff I'm waiting on that I'll also probably never get rid of is my KS version of Endless Winter and the Big Box for Paladins and all the content for that game, including several KS promo cards.
I have most of the Alea big-box series, which includes "Adel Verplicht" (#5 in the series). I would never let any of that series leave my collection. "Castles of Burgundy" is #14 in that series. Totally agree with Ginkgopolis, Obsession, Kanban original, Panamax, Feast for Odin (with Norwegians), Goa, and Bruges. I would never also never get rid of Die Macher, 1841, 1856, 2038, and all of my Splotter games.
Just found a copy of Parade for $6! Great game!
Great find!!
Never getting rid of:
- Kingdom Death: Monster
-Obsession
These are my two grail games.
So many people agree with Obsession, it is such a great game! We still haven't tried KDM :-(
KDM is permanently in my collection.
YES!! I love Lancashire better than Birmingham as well. Glad I'm not alone.
Your videos are very professional - congrats. One suggestion, could we see more of the game and less of the people?
This is an awesome list! I’ve learned about so many good games. I am definitely hunting down “Two rooms and a boom”. 😁 Also, I think this is the most I’ve ever seen Naveen speaks in a video. Your excitement is infectious! 😝
Cheers guys. Lovely video.
Haha sometimes he gets really excited! Thanks for all the support!!
Some games that I’ll never get rid of are Bora Bora, Oracle of Delphi, Le Havre, Feast for Odin.
Talisman (1983 Original), Knightmare Chess 1 & 2 (Original, not the reprints), Stone Age (w/o the expansion), Das Buch zum Spielen (Rare Catan expansion), and Cosmic Encounter(2000 Avalon Hill) would be a handful of games I would never get rid of. Most of which are out of print and they are just awesome to play. Some my most favorite game experiences were with these games.
I'll never get rid of StarCraft, Queen's Gambit, Epic Duels, War of the Ring, and probably 1960 (Z-Man edition), Ad Astra or TI4.
I don't want to get rid of nearly any of the games I currently own but those titles in particular are among my favorites and mostly out of print
Great lists! Goa is in my top 5. I have inherited my friend's copy of the 1st ed. The auction is great. I love the track movements as well.
Totally agree! The game totally needs a reprint ASAP.
Great video! How many games do you have in your collection?
Never getting rid of:
- Dungeon Petz (my very favorite)
- Glory to Rome
- Castles of Burgundy
GLORY TO ROME!!!! If we could just get our hands on it :-(
@@BeforeYouPlay Total fortune on our part. Friends who introduced to (and got us to love) board games gave us an "old" copy (the original edition) when they bought the updated one, THEN gave us THAT one too when they downsized their games!!
Being from Belgium I'm really suprised and so funny you have a game in my language... "adel verplicht" never heard of that one.
I agree with the Kanban size thing. I’m getting more and more annoyed about how games get bigger and bigger. I would love to have got La Granja, but due to the size of the new edition chose not to. I think when a game takes a while Kallax cube, when it’s impractical to take to a game night, when on a 6 seat table I still need a side table/a to make it fit, we have a serious problem. 😉
Vi seguo da qualche settimana e mi avete profondamente colpito per la vostra ordinaria semplicità. Sono un sacerdote cattolico che vive nella bella Sicilia e spesso i giochi da tavolo sono stati per i miei ragazzi occasione di aggregazione e di sano confronto. Non scrivo in inglese molto bene. Scusatemi. Grazie e continuate così!
Witness has art from the "Blake en Mortimer" comic book series, from the artist Edgar Jacobs.
Ironically Goa was the first game I ever sold ! Also I didn't expect to see Dutch version of a game in this one :D
My 10 games I would never get rid off (from 1 to 10) : Shogun, Cosmic Encounter, Las Vegas, AquaSphere, Yunnan, The Staufer Dynasty, Manilla, Colossal Arena, Istanbul and Die Sieben Siegel (aka Wizard Extreme)
I'm never getting rid of Spirit Island, Everdell, Anachrony, North and West Kingdom Series, Cartographers, Roll Player.
I'm getting rid of my copy of Everdell... But only once my big box gets here and I can have the whole collection! Then I'm never getting rid of it XD
GOA 100% never getting rid of. Nostalgic and a GREAT game. Nice to see it on your list.
So good and absolutely deserves a reprint.
Arboretum
Ohanami
Viticulture
Grand Austria Hotel
Quacks of Quedlinburg (never fails to be a hit with non-gamers)
All evergreen games I never tire of.
Trickerion, On Mars, Scythe, Robinson Cruise, Fury of Dracula, Spirit Island, Paladins, Too many bones, The king is dead, Feudum
Still love downfall of pompeii to this day. you guys introduced me to Ginkgopolis and it's one of my fav now. Still need to get Obsession somehow. Great video!
So glad you found Ginkgopolis, Naveen search high and wide for it, he was so happy that they reprinted it! Hopefully you will be able to play Obsession sometime in the near future :-)
Parade is such a good game! I bought it at a hardware store that also randomly sold board games years ago. Haha. Sadly, someone stole my copy, so I'm happy to hear it is back in print!
I have a list of probably 100 games I'll never get rid of... LOL
What as breath of fresh air!! I'm tired of the heavy strategy games and so many of these sound like they are just fun!! Just what I'm looking for.
And who cares what BGG ratings are anyway. Fun is fun!!
Great episode!
Thank you.
If you want it, the Yokai Septet 2nd edition kickstarter has just a couple of days to go! Ends 9am PST, February 9th
Great list, really interested in trying out Witness and Feast for Odin
Hope you can try them out!!
We just played our first game of Panamax and had a blast!
top games I wouldn't never get rid of:
legendary marvel (too much money invested in it 😇)
five tribes
samurai (original print)
eclipse
lords of hellas
voyages of marco polo
auztralia
blood bowl card games with expansions (out of print)
akrotiri (very hard to find)
splendor
I’m in the same boat as you with legendary marvel it’s by far and away my most expensive game when you account for expansions /sleeves I feel your pain😂
As Bolton lad, I approve of the choice of Lancashire
So many games to discover! Thank you for making this list, hadn't heard of any of these prior. Hope we get to play some of them soon! As for a game we're never getting rid of... our dad's cribbage board :)
If you've played The Crew, I'm interested to see how it compares? I love the Crew (and trick taking games in general), so I'm tempted to back the 2nd edition on Kickstarter!
Brass Birmingham (I like Lancashire also, but not as much so I gave it to my daughter). Scythe with everything. Istanbul with the coffee expansion. Quacks with all the expansions and geek up bits. Castles of Burgundy. Port Royal with the contracts expansion (I'm on my third copy of that and will need to replace this one soon). Space Base with some of the expansion components.
Thanks for the video. I am now looking for a copy of Panamax. Good luck with that.
Naveen - Where did you get that t-shirt, it is so awesome!!
A website called Threadless!
Great video! Adel Verplicht was the first Euro I ever played (in 1993). Haven't played it in years. Fun!
Hrm, the OOP stuff pops into mind first since the rest can be repurchased.
Advanced Civilization with expansions (though I guess Western Empires fired this)
StarCraft with expansions (in theory fired by Forbidden Stars)
Battlestar Galactica (fired by Unfathomable?)
OG Netrunner decks (had such a deliciously 90s art vibe to them even though reprinted)
Ok, mebbe a Trove Chest full of Too Many Bones? So many play hours ahead of us on that one.
Why you have to ask such hard questions!? :)
Oh man, Advanced Civ is near the top of my list of games I'd like to play.
Feast is my #1 game of all time. It just has so many cool attributes to it. And I agree, the expansion is a must-buy for the game. The game is good without it, but it just gives a few quality of life upgrades while streamlining and balancing the core gameplay. I love it!
Totally agree 100%. We feel like it's not an "expansion" but an "update" to an already amazing game!
As far as your concern with Witness expiring goes, I don't think it is the case. Witness cases are often pretty random (blue saw 1, 3, 6 on the dice when looking from this angle; yellow saw 2, 2, 2 when looking; red saw .... ) and there's no way your brain will have remembered any of it years in the future. I first played this game a ton when a friend of mine got it. I got my own copy but never played it. Years later when that friend was no longer around, I pulled out my copy and played it with a new group and I didn't remember any cases except for the very first and very last one. So IMO this game has infinite replayability. You just have to wait a few years each time you reach the end.
50 minute video! Heck yeah! Love you guys
I'll probably never get rid of Thunderstone Advance even if its third iteration is around. It's out of print and I've spent so much money on the expansions
Haha you are committed! We unfortunately haven't tried it :-(