The Most Loved Board Game Mechanism
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Contents of this video
0:00 - What is worker placement?
3:45 - The history of this mechanic
7:41 - Why is this mechanic so good?
13:18 - Points to consider when designing with worker placement
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Sources
My Top 10 Favorite Worker Placement Games (Sunday Sitdown) | Jamey Stegmaier
• My Top 10 Favorite Wor...
Top 10 Worker Placement Games - with Sam Healey | The Dice Tower
• Top 10 Worker Placemen...
5 Things - Jeremy's Top 5 Best Worker Placement Games | Man vs Meeple
• 5 Things - Jeremy's To...
Aladdin's Dragons Review - with Tom Vasel | The Dice Tower
• Aladdin's Dragons Revi...
Tzolk'in - Full Rules Video | Gaming Rules!
• Tzolk'in - Full Rules ...
Raiders of the North Sea in about 3 minutes | 3 Minute Board Games
• Raiders of the North S...
Agricola - Playthrough & Review (Uwe Rosenberg Series) | Before You Play
• Agricola - Playthrough...
Viticulture Essential Edition - Let's Play and Review | Games Up!
• Viticulture Essential ...
Architects of the West Kingdom Playthrough - Meeple Overboard | Meeple Overboard!
• Architects of the West...
Most footage is sourced directly from the respective game’s publishing company website. Any footage from an alternative source has been attributed.
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Introduction: History of Worker Placement | Purge Reviews
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Worker Placement Games: What Are They & Which Are Best? | Game Hungry
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Defining Worker Placement | Mechanics & Meeples
www.mechanics-and-meeples.com...
Mechanic Archetypes - Worker Placement | Matt Pavlovich from Games Precipice
www.gamesprecipice.com/worker...
Board Games 101: What is a Worker Placement Game? | Nights Around a Table
• Board Games 101: What ...
HOW TO DESIGN A WORKER PLACEMENT GAME PART 1 | League of Game Makers
www.leagueofgamemakers.com/how....
My Top 10 Favorite Worker Placement Games (Sunday Sitdown) | Jamey Stegmaier
• My Top 10 Favorite Wor...
Top 10 Worker Placement Games - with Tom, Zee, and Sarah Shah | The Dice Tower
• Top 10 Worker Placemen...
Designer Spotlight: Richard Breese | Tabletop Together
tabletoptogether.com/2016/03/1... - Breeze interview
What was the first worker placement game? | Board Game Geek
boardgamegeek.com/thread/6362... thread arguing what first worker placement is.
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My favourite is Everdell. The game design is quite beautiful and its about the decisions you make in the game and not very luck based which I love
Too much luck in any game can spoil it so I totally agree. Everdell is a great game and very beautiful!
My fave of all is the King of Worker Placement games, "A Feast for Odin", Uwe Rosenberg's Viking polymino masterpiece.
Fantastic choice, thanks for commenting!
This channel is criminally underrated.
Wow, I'm very flattered! Thanks so much for your comment, much appreciated!
I would have to say my favourite is still Lords of Waterdeep. It was the first worker placement game I played and to this day it’s almost like a comfort food when we pull it out to play.
That's awesome that it's the first game you played too! Thanks for commenting and good luck!
I have a pretty simple definition of worker placement: you have a handful of workers and you put them on the board to do some actions. Any game that does this thing are worker placement games in my eyes. Some call games like Istanbul and Teotihuacan worker placement games, but they don't feel anything like games such as Agricola, Viticulture or Stone Age. In Istanbul and Teotihuacan you don't have a pool of workers but you're moving pieces on the table. If that's worker placement, then Monopoly is a worker placement game.
Yes I think this sums up the mechanic well! Agreed on Istanbul and Teotihuacan, they don’t feel worker placement-y!
Hi, thanks for the give away! Just got floating world in the mail, can't wait to play it! So many great worker placement games out there... I'd have to say Anachrony is my current favorite.
Amazing, really excited for you to play Floating World! Thanks so much for your support and good luck in the giveaway!
Everdell and agricola both hold a special place in my heart and collection
Awesome, thanks for your comment!
Gotta love viticulture over a glass or two. Perfect game for a perfect setting!
A favorite of mine too for sure! Good luck!
My fav is Viticulture. For the two reasons mentioned in the video...Grande worker and worker placement phase to decide who goes first for the round ;)
Awesome, good to hear from fellow Viticulture-lovers!
Everdell is my favourite worker placement game! The artstyle is so beautiful that it just brightens my day! Thanks for the giveaway and good luck to all :)
The art is so gorgeous, I totally agree. Great choice and thanks for your comment!
Favourite WP game is Lords of Waterdeep.
There are many others but I fell in love with that game for various reasons, one of them being its theme!!!
Good luck to everyone!!!
Awesome, thanks for commenting!
Lost Ruins of Arnak has been my favorite for a while.
Cool, I definitely need to play this game more!
My favourite worker placement game has got to be Istanbul. I love the consequences that come from choosing how to lay your workers out.
Nice choice, thanks for your comment!
Pillars of the Earth will probably always be my favorite worker placement game, because it was the first one I ever played, and it was one of the original worker placement games!
Nice choice! Good luck in the giveaway!
Worker placement is about action allocation. The game "the captain is dead" makes it very intense and personal as workers have a face, which makes you feel it almost as an RPG. The videogame version of this boatd game completes the experience.
Haven't tried that one but I'll have to give it a go.
I dont usually play lots of worker placement, but i think Architects of the west kingdom is my favourite from among those i played. Easy to learn and doesn't have much text to it so its more of intuitive gameplay.
Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
My favourite worker placement game is Agricola. I love the need to diversify actions to maximise use of available land, it really gets you thinking
Awesome, thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
One Small Step is our current favorite worker placement. Anything space we are in.
Awesome 🙌 Great choice and good luck in the giveaway!
Stone Age, it's definitely on the simpler side of things but it's also one of the first games added to my collection.
Cool! Thanks for your comment and good luck in the giveaway!
Worker Placement combines very well with Programmed Movement in a game like Tiny Epic Mechs.
Nice! I haven’t played Tiny Epic Mechs but I’ve heard good things 👍 Thanks for commenting ☺️
Everdell is my favorite Worker placement game because it combines Tableau/Engine builder and Worker placement 2 of my favorite mechanics!
Great choice, such a good game! Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway ☺️
My favourite wp game is Lorenzo Il Magnifico. It adds a twist to the traditional worker placement mechanic, as workers have "strenght" according to a dice roll, that affects all players equally.
Ah, nice. It sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for your comment!
Thanks for the video. My favourite worker placement game is Charterstone, although there are so many great ones out there!
I really enjoyed Charterstone too, nice choice!
Agricola Is still my favourite. Having the possibility of increasing the number of workers mitigated by the upkeep costs makes it one of the most interesting in worker placement in my eyes.
Great choice, I agree! Thanks for commenting ☺️
If you haven't already, perhaps you'll like Dune: Imperium, since there, the tradeoff of having more workers is having less cards for the showdown/buy phase, since you must play them for each worker placed. So not only is there an upkeep cost, you also decide which cards to place workers with(and use the upper "placement" effects of), and which ones to keep for showdown & purchases. Might be more interesting than uniform food
@@revimfadli4666 Great recommendation!
Viticulture would have to be my all time favourite. It's all about management and I love there are freedom yet still very strategic.
Completely agree, love it! Thanks for commenting ☺️
My favorite worker placement games (right now haha) are Everdell and Parks with the Nightfall expansion. I can't get enough of both of these games!
Awesome, thanks so much for your comment!
Great video! I'd say my favorite worker placement game is Lost Ruins of Arnak.
Awesome choice, thanks for commenting!
Very informative video.
This channel offers a very good collage of game mechanics.
Thanks for your kind words and really pleased to hear your enjoying the channel!
My favorite worker placement is always Lords of Waterdeep. Sometimes, I just want to play the classics.
Nice! Thanks for your comment ☺️
Still enjoying the Village.
Seeing your workers die of old age after doing the work you placed them for gives the meeple their own character
I agree, good choice. Thanks for commenting!
I like Raider of the North Sea as a worker placement boardgame a lot. Planning the actions and choosing what works best is just great.
Great game, I agree!
Worker placement games are probably my favorite genre! My fav is probably Lords of Waterdeep, but right now we're trying out Charterstone :)
Awesome! Charterstone was a lot of fun. Good luck in the giveaway!
Great overview! Good work. My favorite worker placement game... Difficult, but I'll say Stone Age
Thanks very much. Good choice!
We have been loving Under Falling Skies!
Awesome, never tried it but looks cool! Thanks for your comment 👍
I haven’t gotten to play a worker placement game yet, but my favorite one that I’ve watched others play and have learned about is Everdell!
Wow, I'm very excited for you to play a worker placement game! Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
Raiders of the North Sea is one of my faves. Although Everdale has started to become played more recently!
Raiders of the North Sea is one of my favorite too- good choice and thanks for commenting!
Our favorite worker placement is Tzolkin as it provides a dynamic yet simple worker placement mechanism!
Awesome! Thanks for commenting and good luck!
One of my favorite mechanisms and my favorite is (drumrolllll) Architects of the west kingdom. Different paths to victory and the concept of sending others to jail so you can profit from it like a dirty schemer is just brilliant.
Now of course I am really curious to try Philosophia.
Cheers
Awesome choice and thanks for your comment (I particularly enjoyed the suspenseful drum roll 🤣) Good luck in the giveaway!!
Worker Placement is by far my favourite game mechanic. We've recently learnt classics AGRICOLA and VITICULTURE and enjoyed them both. I really enjoy LORDS OF WATERDEEP, TARGI, and CAYLUS 1303.
But my favourite is RAIDERS OF THE NORTH SEA. I really like the method of one on/one off, and the way the workers escalate as you work on the board. And other than the colour of Meeple you need, it never really blocks a spot in the village which is clever too.
Great range of wp games for sure, two of which are my favorites- Viticulture and Raiders of the North Sea. Thanks for commenting and for your support as always!
My favourite worker placement game is Architects of the West Kingdom. I love the fact that, despite being a worker placement game, it doesn't have the "reset phase". I really dislike the "reset phase" because I feel it slows down the flow of the gameplay.
Great choice and thanks for commenting!
Lords of Waterdeep- Alltime Classic:D
Awesome choice!
Love me a bit of lords of Waterdeep for worker placent. Good luck!
Nice!
Everdell is my favorite worker placement game right now.
Great choice, thanks for commenting!
Viticulture is one of our absolute favorites but to be honest Lords Of Waterdeep may still be our favorite worker placement game!
It's so hard to choose just one isn't it!? Both great choices though. Thanks for your comment and good luck!
My fave is Agricola. It’s fun! I always love farming simulation video games and Agricola is my go-to worker placement boardgame ❤️
Awesome! Thanks for your comment ☺️
You should try Uwe's other games like Fields of Arle.
Thank you for a fun and informative video, I did get a bit confused at the beginning when talking about everdell and showing carcasonne
I was trying to highlight the confusion regarding how worker placement is defined (so it worked 🤣). Thanks for your comment and glad you enjoyed the video!
@@cogitodesign It definitely worked 🤣
Thank u for your useful and well-explaining videos. My favorite worker placement game is Robinson Crusoe: adventures on the cursed island
Thanks so much for your kind words, really pleased to hear you're enjoying the videos! Thanks for your comment and good luck in the giveaway!
Viticulture is just a classic... so many good memories. It's a tough choice but that would have to be my favorite.
Great choice, one of my favorite wp games too! Thanks for your comment!
Great video. Worker placement is my absolute favorite mechanic. Lords of Waterdeep was my first and still my favorite game with it.
Awesome game! Thanks so much for your support and good luck in the giveaway!
well done! I learned a lot altough worker placement games are my favorites in general. Stone Age is the mother of all worker placements, and i still play it online for now and then...But my absolutely favorite is archtects of the west kingdom ( with all the expensions )
Thanks so much for your kind words, pleased to hear you enjoyed the video!
Thanks for the video! My favourite is Agricola
Fantastic game!! Good luck in the giveaway and thanks for commenting!
“This war of mine” has been a solo worker placement game I enjoyed a lot during quarantine.
We just got “Floating World” in the mail last week! Yay! It’s my 9 y old daughters new favorite game. We’ve played it a few times now using different characters. I love how pretty it is and so easy to teach my daughter!
This war of mine is fantastic! I talk quite a bit about it in our emergence video. They did a great job with that game - so thematic through great story-telling. So pleased to hear you received you copy of Floating World and that it's a favorite! Amazing! We love to hear news like this, thanks for letting us know. Comments like this really make it all worth it! Thanks again for your support ☺️
Wow I learned a lot! My favourite worker placement games would be Anachrony, Everdell and Viticulture!
Really pleased to hear this and thanks for commenting ☺️
Worker placement games are one of my favorite mechanics. Anachrony and Lost Ruins of Arnak are my favorite worker placement games since I have a hard time choosing between the 2.
Nice!! Thanks for your comment ☺️
Lost Ruins of Arnak is probably my favorite recently.
Awesome!
My favourite worker placement game because of thematic reasons is Viticulture. Thanks for the lovely and interesting video!
Thanks so much for your comment and great choice of wp game!
Very cool video, thanks! My favorite worker placement game is my favorite game Everdell
Nice! Everdell is definitely one of my favourites too! Really pleased you liked the video!
Viticulture takes the cake for my favorite!
Ohhhh me too! Thanks for commenting!
My favourite worker placement game is "The Pillars of the Earth"!
Awesome, thanks for your comment!
Great video. I am a big fan of Viticulture EE with the Tuscany Expansion which expands on the first player action.
Thanks so much. Great shout with Viticulture! Good luck in the giveaway!
About left field but my favourite is Anachrony. Love the quirky SciFi nature of the game which is very different from most games I played
Epic game!! Thanks for commenting ☺️
My favorite worker placement game is Risk StarCraft, i played It some weeks ago and enjoyed so much, the four hours look like minutes 😅
Wow, that's dedication! Thanks for your comment ☺️
My favorite is Architects of the West Kingdom, but I still don't have it yet. Hoping I could have one by next year if budget fits... Good luck everyone!!!
Great choice, thanks for your comment!
I loved this video. Congratulations.
Thanks so much for your kind words, much appreciated and glad you enjoyed the video!
Well for me, my favourite worker placement game has to be the one that raised my interest in boardgames to the point where it is now: Viticulture. I've played since a lot more, but the thematic integration of this one makes it pop always as my favourite Worker placement game! Honourable mentions to Shem Phillips, always adding twists in a nice way to this genre!
Great choice, a fellow Viticulture-lover here too! Thanks for commenting!
@@cogitodesign I also love it for its theme, when answering the question "What kind of boardgames do you play? Like Monopoly?" I use the theme of Viticulture for explaining how much more this world has to offer :)
@@draecodefan That's a great idea! I find the same, whenever I mention board games people just assume Monopoly. I will use Viticulture as an example in the future, thanks!
Great vidwo, thank you! Viticulture is my favorite...especially with the custom workers. Dwellings of eldervale is also super awesome and unique.
Thanks for your support - nice to hear from a fellow Viticulture lover!
I've really only messed with Worker Placement in Carcassonne and 1 game of Scythe. Carcassonne is one of my absolute favorite games! Would also love to try Viticulture or Everdell sometime
I highly recommend both Viticulture and Everdell! Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
My favorite worker placement game is a quite older one... Village 😊
Awesome!
Feast for Odin is my fav!
Great choice, thanks for your comment!
My favourite worker placement is Raiders of the North Sea 🤩
Great choice!! 🙌 Thanks for entering the giveaway!
I love Architects of the West Kingdom, absolutely the best for me
Great choice! I also love Raiders of the North Sea - so good!
My favorite work placement game is Viticultu Essential Edition. I like to play this game, drinking a bottle of wine and trying to win that game. I always lose but I always enjoy to play it too much
Sounds amazing and great choice! Thanks for commenting!
I'm new to your channel but this video was great. Keep it up! My favorite worker placement game...tough one. I think I'll have to go with Dune Imperium, although that's a bit of a hybrid.
Really pleased you enjoyed this video! Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
My favorite worker placement game is Fields of Arle
Awesome choice!
My favorite worker placement that I've played is Agricola
Good choice!
My favorite worker placement game is After the Empire 🔥
Cool! Thanks for your comment and good luck!
My favorite worker placement game is Charterstone.
Awesome, I really like Charterstone too! Thanks for commenting!
Love your videos. :)
Thanks so much, really pleased to hear this!
Probably Caverna from Uwe Rosenberg, along with Agricola it was my introduction to board games (beyond Monopoly and Risk) and I loved it from the start. My favorite feature of Caverna specifically is probably the complete absence of luck or chance in the game. You can always know exactly what you’ll get out of an action with the only thing blocking your plans being the other players.
Great point about Caverna! Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway.
My favorite and most played is Raiders of the North Sea!
Great choice, I'm a big fan too!
Lewis and Clark is my favorite worker placement game for sure unless you count Terraforming Mars's 3rd expa sion Colonies which was great
I've been meaning to try Terraforming Mars' 3rd expansion! Good to hear you're a fan of it - I'll have to try and get my hands on it! Thanks for commenting ☺
@@cogitodesign yeah they tried to add worker placement and I think it worked really well. I like when one of the colonies fills up with resources and everyone forgets about it until I become first player and first turn after filling up with more resources I start placing those workers
@@BoardInTheHouseBGAplayer Ah nice tactic! I'll have to remember this!
Favorite worker placement game is
the fate of the elder gods mostly becouse I'm still loving hpl horrors theme.
Cool! Thanks for commenting ☺️
Thanks for this informative & entertaining video.
I think my favorite worker placement game would be Takenoko because it's pretty.
Tzolkin is the one of the best but I'm afraid it's too complicated for me.
I also like the recent game A War of Whispers where you can get agents in different kingdoms at the same time to help or to hinder a realm.
Awesome, thanks for your comment and good luck!
My favorite work replacement game is Euphoria
Hands down Keyflower. Not only is the worker placement used for area control/influence and activating actions, but can also be used as bids and be swapped between players. Way better than just the basic place and take an action.
An excellent example, thanks for commenting!
This is Underwater cities for sure !
Nice, thanks for your comment!
Two things I want to point out. First of all, there is NO added benefit to players going last in Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar. Why? Because it doesn’t really matter. If you go first, you pay lower corn costs. If you go last, you get to move up the gears faster, but you have to pay more corn for it. I think this is actually the most balanced solution for the “first player advantage” problem. The other thing is, normally, passing the first player marker does NOT mitigate unfairness. For example, in a three-player game with four rounds, somebody will end up holding the first player marker twice.
Yes, this is a fair point. The designers of Tzolk'in have clearly spent a long time balancing this issue. I wonder whether mathematically paying lower corn costs or moving up the gears faster are perfectly balanced but they must be close. Agreed on the issue of passing the first player marker. It is not a perfect solution especially with uneven player numbers. Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful comment.
My favourite worker placement games are Scythe, Anachrony, Trickerion and Tzolk'in. I really enjoy this type of games. I'm certain they're my favourites.
Great list of games, thanks for commenting!
Scythe is not worker placement, it’s action selection.
Currently enjoying Dwellings of Eldervale.
Awesome, thanks for commenting!
Agricola is a true modern classic!
Awesome, thanks for your comment!
Trickerion is my fav worker placement game.
Great choice and thanks for commenting!
Lords of Waterdeep is still one of my favourites. It was one of the first I played and always brings back good memories.
Nice choice! Thanks so much for your comment!
I love Viticulture, and the Tuscany expansion makes it that much better. I don’t love the specialized workers though. They just don’t seem to be all that useful.
Great choice! Good luck in the giveaway!
I would have to say viticulture and dinosaur island are my favorite worker placement games.
Nice, thanks for commenting!
This War of Mine: The Board Game.
I like historical places like Greece 🇬🇷 and like the great or Second World War. Those stories give you more relatable emotions because you’re outside the numbers and facts and you’re getting personal involved. You’re there they were the same age. This could’ve happened to me born in the wrong time wrong place.
Great choice, thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
Carson City is my fav. with the unique twist on wp.
Nice choice! Good luck in the giveaway!
I'm new in worker placement game still, so cannot say have yet a favourite one! I have enjoyed Everdell, however looking forward to receive Darwin's Journey from KS to finally play it in person (loved the graphic and playing it on TTS)
Awesome! Hopefully the physical copy of Darwin's Journey doesn't take too long to reach you. Thanks for commenting!
My favorite worker placement game is Agricola!!
Nice choice, thanks for commenting!
Viticulture is my favorite worker placement
Great choice!