Board Games I Love But Never Want to Play Again!

[@TabletopTurtle]

If anyone uses Tabletop Simulator and they want to teach me a hot new game from 2024, let me know! I need to play as many releases from this year as possible to do my Tier List video for the year!

[@chrisedwards6573]

I can teach Andromeda's Edge. Do you consider it from this year? I could teach Arcs but to be honest I don't like it; probably will sell/trade my copy.

[@2006louisb]

Really enjoy the list/tier videos (and the wider content in general tbh) as I always come away with new games to check out and new perspectives on games I already own/have played - very refreshing

[@TabletopTurtle]

Happy that we were able to provide you some insight! Hopefully it doesn't lead to you emptying your wallet, though! 😜

[@MattWGAllan]

They're literally playtesting a reprint of Nations. A big part of the reason it's not talked about any more is that it's OOP from the original publisher, Lautapelit.

[@TabletopTurtle]

That must be it. Happy to hear it's being reprinted. I always avoided seeing if any game I currently own is out of print because I know damn well the temptation to sell will be too high.

[@renato123wenzel]

Runewars is a epic masterpiece - flawed in same ways but much more immersive like Twilight Imperium and working with less players! Being OOP is a Top 10 game ever in collection

[@TabletopTurtle]

Sometimes, the flawed games are the best usually because they're trying something new! I havnt tried their miniature game yet

[@MorkSal]

There are games that are entirely meant to only played once. Like the Unlock! series. You play it once, but then you should pass it on to friends and family. Definitely a casual game but still. At least you can pass the Unlock series on, unlike the Exit games, which have you rip up cards etc.

[@olivierjodoin2283]

Nations is still Rahdo's #7 favorite game in the world out of thousands but yeah, apart from him I don't recall anyone mentioning it.

[@TabletopTurtle]

That makes sense. He hates confrontation.

[@svinnibg]

I really enjoy your honesty and commitment in the videos. Thank you for all your thoughts. By the way, you're very cute and remind me a bit of Bynx (videogame streamer). Please, keep up with your content!

[@svinnibg]

Speaking about the Mansions of Madness, it's not a nerdy thing with complicated mechanics at all. There's Arkham horror that is great for heavy players in the same universe. But unlike other FFG's games, MoM does truly provide great story, huge plot twists and haunted atmosphere, as you mentioned. It has something for all player types. I clearly understand your feelings but if you ever play it again - please, just let the game go, you don't need to overplan anything, just make interesting decisions (kill witnesses, cooperate with the Old Gods, barricade your only exit - that's what I enjoy to do) and feel the game emotionally, not with your brain. Also, mechanically, the app is very deep in the way it works. People just don't get a chance to discover it because it's not explained explicitly. Anyways, these are just my thoughts that helped me fall in love with this game. Have a nice day, man!

[@TabletopTurtle]

Thank you very much! We do look somewhat alike, as well. No, mansions is fairly simple to wrap your head around, which makes it a good game to introduce to people who are outside the hobby and are a little hesitant to play a game. It's certainly not as boring as Betrayal. The first time my friends and I played that game we had some dumb random mission where you had to play a game of chess with Death or something. Lord did it ever suck.

[@shatnershairpiece]

HA! Sell after 12 times? Even my favourite games don’t get that many plays. Most are 1-4 plays, sell and move on. I treat them like movies most of the time. Merchants and marauders was one and done. I remember being a pirate, and losing to other players who were merchants. Why call it a pirate game when it is clearly a merchant game? Still waiting for a pirate game that surpasses Blackbeard from 1990 and it hasn’t happened.

[@TabletopTurtle]

That's probably a pretty healthy relationship with games. The second hand market is so good too if you're in a bigger city that you don't lose much, either.

[@grog3514]

Check out black fleet.

[@TabletopTurtle]

@@grog3514 Games like Black Fleet and Jamaica are certainly fun family affairs, but I'm not sure either really capture the scurvy-goodness of pirating.

[@grog3514]

@@TabletopTurtle have you tried forgotten Waters or Firefly? The later is set in space but plays like a pirate game if you have the pirates and bounty hunters expansion.

[@shatnershairpiece]

@@TabletopTurtle that’s what I do now. Facebook marketplace often has amazing deals. I just avoid buying anything new and try to get something old for 20-30 bucks. I am playing Pirates of Maracaibo right now.. This one is actually not bad. But again crazy prices are keeping me out of the new market. this one cost me $80.

[@TheZak6969]

Mine is Kemet. That game rules and I would recommend it to anyone, totally worth the price. But you really have to play with people of your skill level since it’s really hard not to blow new players out of the water. I’m always teaching new players so it just kind of takes up room on my shelf.

[@TabletopTurtle]

I'm a Cyclades man myself. The skill issue is a big problem, especially if you play games online now and then. There are so many games I just had to walk away from playing online because I kept getting better and making it impossible for my friends to enjoy the game with me and that's no fun for either of us!

[@OpGamerBruh]

10. Mage Wars 9. Merchants & Marauders 8. The Search for Planet X 7. Battlestar Galactica 6. The Quacks of Quedlinburg 5. Mansions of Madness 4. Nations 3. Rune Wars 2. Mysterium 1. Commands & Colors: Ancients

[@TabletopTurtle]

Oh my, spoiler! 😂

[@voldosmith]

New sub, so do a video about games you would never get rid off

[@TabletopTurtle]

That's a good idea! Although I'd be afraid it would just consist of the games in my top 100 at the top 10!

[@myoman1977]

Dark moon is a great alternative to Battlestar

[@TabletopTurtle]

That'd a game I've always looked at but never pulled the trigger. It's like Battlestar distilled to its traitor element right

[@dilatedbeholder3865]

Twilight Imperium. Fantastic title but once you have managed to win a 6-player game of this, there's just not much to draw you back again.

[@TabletopTurtle]

Haha retire on top! I've won this game so we can burn it in a fire now so that no others can win!

[@HeyImBode]

I think there's an in between to be had to be honest. Yes, I think it's inevitable that you will outgrow games. So yes, I think it's good to be ready to handle the mix of emotions with games "you're supposed to love" and have the self honesty to not beat yourself up about it. Of all games, I have that right now with Twilight Imperium due to prophecy of kings :( But at the same time, I don't think games having a shelf life shouldn't prevent us from being longevity-minded when it comes to purchases. Even if the community can buy/sell used games to give each box a second or third life, I have a lot of mixed feelings about encouraging or getting too comfortable about making ephemeral purchases. It'd be one thing if the market at large already adopted the plastic free production methods we are seeing with Earthborne Rangers & Daybreak. But if a game's going to end up full of plastic minis, I feel justified in being a buzzkill that would beat myself up over treating those boxes as discardable.

[@TabletopTurtle]

I think that's fair criticism. I certainly don't want board gamers to start treating games in a way that mimics the real-world problem of engineered planned obsolescence, or worse, a sort of games as a service like apps or video games these days. My recommendation really only works for people that have a fairly good second-hand market in their location, so they can enjoy a game for some hours and know that they're really only losing 10 bucks when they turn around and sell it.

[@mccallosone4903]

theres a simpler version of mysterium. called mysterium park. gets rid of a lot of the fluff. its like in a yellow or green box. dixit is better game tho

[@TabletopTurtle]

Yeah I saw a few trailers on my feed. I'll likely just stay with Dixit. Don't fix what isn't broken, I guess.

[@paulhamrick3943]

No offense, but whenever I go to a board game store that doubles as a place to play miniature games, I look at the games they are playing and I just think it looks absurd and I can’t imagine they “simulate” battle/warfare better than a game like C&C Ancients, although maybe they do? I guess they don’t rely on playing cards in order to move your units. But they do look more cartoonish, sorta juvenile.

[@TabletopTurtle]

For some perspective, I'd wager the average non-gamer seeing a person pushing around blocks with stickers on them probably thinks the same thing you do about miniature gaming. 😜I think there are a lot of different miniature games out there that can cater to a wide variety of different aesthetic tastes and there are certainly some that literally just look like miniature versions of real world tanks, soldiers, whatever. C&C is great, but it's taking warfare and HEAVILY abstracting it, as all games have to do, but to a point where I don't think it's simulating being a general.

[@MorkSal]

I'm not a Toaster!

[@Kevin720c]

for me its a waste of money. i don't want a box to be sitting on me shelf collecting dust, i want to play it. Video games are no problem because I can always sail the seven seas. But board games are very physical. I will sell the thing, trade or get some friends made hostage to play the damn thing

[@TabletopTurtle]

Same! Helps to have a good second hand market too for board games, so you can sell it and not lose too much in the process.

[@cometier]

Time stamps would improve the video

[@TabletopTurtle]

I did it! Are you happy now!? Do you love me yet!?

[@WalderFrey]

Merchants and Marauders was a bad/terrible game from day 1. Pure garbage. BSG is an all-time classic that has never been surpassed. If somehow it got reprinted (and not as Unfathomable), it would sell like hot cakes.

[@TabletopTurtle]

It might

[@WalderFrey]

Vanishingly small chance of a reprint. FFG don't have the IP, the series is now 20 years old so kids don't know who any of these characters are, and FFG aren't into board games all that much any more.