I Played ALL 370 BOARD GAMES on Board Game Arena

[@ProZD]

at the time of recording, there were 370 games, and for you wise-asses, yes, more games have been added since then, at the time of upload (today), i've since played 387/389 of them (and will continue to catch up)

[@neilxdavis5359]

I love your old short skits. I started making them myself and I'm on my way to 7k in less than a year. Keep it up!🙏

[@glumboy4229]

I can’t stop watching Seven Hunnid on KZbin

[@derekdougal2491]

Awesome vid! I just got into the game Parks and would love to know your thoughts on it!

[@Shiekism]

Have you played Archipelago? If so what are your thoughts on it?

[@phyphor]

So you've signed up as an alpha tester now, right, to get access to even more games and provide feedback on the implementation?

[@zeikjt]

Top 10 played for the first time on the website #10 3:00 Illustori #9 3:47 Kingdom Builder #8 4:32 Beyond the Sun #7 5:05 New Frontiers #6 5:49 Letter Tycoon #5 6:38 President #4 7:39 Can't Stop #3 8:36 Targi #2 9:50 The Lost Ruins of Arnak #1 10:56 Perudo Top 10 games already owned that are also on the site #10 12:01 Love Letter #9 12:14 Forbidden Island #8 12:49 Teotihuacan: City of Gods #7 13:24 The Crew #6 14:00 Seasons #5 14:53 Viticulture #4 15:41 Agricola #3 16:23 Railroad Ink #2 17:22 Welcome To #1 18:13 6 nimmt! Top 10 most played games #10 19:16 Dice Forge (9x) #9 19:30 President (10x) #8 19:38 Potion Explosion (11x) #7 20:14 For Sale (12x) #6 20:39 Railroad Ink (13x) #5 20:48 Seven Wonders (25x) #4 21:34 Welcome To (28x) #3 21:52 Can't Stop (29x) #2 22:09 6 nimmt! (81x) #1 22:31 Perudo (163x)

[@tbpopje]

Thanks!!

[@Aigis31]

DICE FORGE AND POTION EXPLOSION ARE ON THERE? now my interest is piqued

[@duckwantbreads]

Suprised he's played 7 Wonders so much but not 7 Wonders Duel, I guess he doesn't do 2 player stuff as much.

[@shllybkwrm]

Hey thank you!

[@predebon]

@@Aigis31 terra mystica also

[@MasterOfBepis]

i never really played too many board games outside of the household staples so seeing videos like this one always reminds me that there is literally a board game for everything

[@paulwaltersheherfeministvl521]

yes

[@Justagamerhere1]

If looking for some different games comoared to old classics, My favorite board games include Cosmic Encounter, Love Letter, Gaia Project, Great Western Trail, Galaxy Trucker, Through the Ages, Spyfall, Jaws of the Lion, Puerto Rico, and the greatest of all time; Agrciola with the card drafting 10/7 variant.

[@grog3514]

@@Justagamerhere1 I am going to teach agricola to 3 other people. All our first time playing it. Should we do the card drafting thing? What is it? Anything else I should do?

[@guardforever9661]

Household staples are almost all just... bad. I recommend checking his video about common upgrades to classic board games

[@blindey]

He did a video on 10 (? I think) classic board games, and what to replace them with, if you like an aspect of a classic board game and want something better. (eg: Monopoly. Space Base or Machi Koro are better)

[@moonpalace.mp3]

I loved this video and will be trying out some of these but I have to say: I CRAVE a video of you talking about some of the stinkers on there

[@ngvot]

Same!

[@leekaien6415]

Chuu chuu yeah~!

[@Squidwidge]

I would love a 2024 update to this video where prozd plays the games released since the original video came out

[@shasam7134]

Membership is really cheap as well, compared to buying the actual board games. One set of catan would buy you 2 or 3 years on this site for example.

[@ConManAU]

Although they’re raising the membership price soon. Still affordable, and if you start premium before the price goes up you’re apparently locked in to the current price for the foreseeable future.

[@flowjan2335]

​​@@ConManAUtwo years later 36 € a,year still very affordable

[@robertdascoli949]

"you gotta feed your family or they're going to die" Not the best description of Agricola I've ever heard, but also not inaccurate.

[@joepilato9412]

lul it's the only way I ever describe it

[@quibily]

Yup. My mom plays it with me, and she can't remember the name, so she just calls it "Farm 'n Starve." Loooove Agricola. My no. 1 most-played game on BGA (50 times).

[@leakedzebra]

Hello SungWon, I have never been into board games, and never owned anything above the basic scrabble or monopoly. I played Catan once and really enjoyed it, which left me so surprised that board games didn’t have to be so bland (and that they could be so expensive!). Through lockdown I discovered your board game series, especially the ones along with your dear wife. And they inspired me to purchase my first game, Azul! I have ADHD and I’m trying to get through med school, the lockdown really fcked with me, because I became so addicted to my smartphone and to the dopamine rush I lost track of real life and literally lost all motivation to do much in terms of my college life, because we had a long hiatus from the hospital, before being called in for emergency duty. My life was an utter mess, but then I gradually managed to wean myself off my screen dependent dopamine rush and slowly return to using my brain and getting involved with real life because I managed to supplement my entertainment with board games! I’m eternally grateful to you! My collection now includes Catan, Wingspan, Terraforming Mars, the Crew, Forbidden island Architects and Coup! I do wish you all the best. Special love prayers and good vibes for you.

[@jjudge001]

I had a similar BGA related goal in the past few months. Not to play all of them, but I wanted to become an Alpha Reviewer, which meant having 750 games played. It took a while but I was so proud to get it done and I love testing the alpha games on there! Can't wait for games like A Feast For Odin, Burgle Bros, and Isle of Cats to get released to the main site. Congrats and keep the board game content coming!

[@VGInterviews]

The funny thing about president is that, I played it for years before learning its real name, when my friends taught it to me they basically called it "the biggest Moron" (but in spanish) so instead of being named after the 1st place they named it after the last place (and yes, the next lowest player was the Vice-Moron)

[@brianhatch8596]

Great review, they really should sponsor you! I have a pretty big group who plays BGA via zoom every Saturday night and we have a blast.

[@WisecrackJax]

Carcasonne on BGA is the perfect turn-based game to play. You never get lost on what your goal was, you can just look at a board in any state and figure out the best move is.

[@Pxtl]

That is not the name I knew for President that I learned as a kid. I learned the roles as "President", "Vice President" for the top two, and "Vice Ass" and "Asshole" for the bottom two, and the game, of course, was called that.

[@quackkillerreal]

Hadn’t heard of this site before and was wanting to try some new board games, glad this video came when it did!

[@floriandechering6567]

In German the president game is called "Arschloch" which translates to asshole. Pretty fitting description for the losing player 😆

[@bcdm999]

Yeah, it's called Asshole in a lot of English-speaking places too. I've heard it called both Asshole and President in the US and Canada

[@Trunn52]

I've played it under the title of big king little king, it's a staple of family reunions

[@blue_tetris]

@@bcdm999 That's what I always called it, too, yeah.

[@TheThursty100]

We call it "Direktor und Arsch" So "Manager and Ass" So best of both worlds, I guess! That said, the rules are slightly slightly different between the rules of "Arschloch" The person playing the first card can't put a card on top anymore for example. This gives the last player the chance to trump and go first next, because there's literally no chance that a higher ranked player comes again. In Arschloch you play until everyone passed. The seating order actually matters and you change positions based on the finishing order every turn. In Arschloch, you just stay where you are. But when switching you know who comes after you and when. Lowest, i.e. not worst, cards are getting exchanged with highest cards depending on your position. In Arschloch the Highranking player can just give whatever cards suit him best. When you have 4 twos you don't really want to give away 3 of them and keep a single one, but maybe give away a 3 and two 4s for example. Not here, those three 2s are going regardless. The low ranking players have to give their highest cards obviously. I don't know about president, but it sounded like the high ranks just steal from the low ranks two cards? The way we play it depending on the amount of players, more cards get exchanged. Going from the middle you exchange one card per rank. So with 6 players first and last trade three cards, the next trade two cards, then one card. With 4 players only two and one cards are getting exchanged, but with 8 players UpTo four cards are getting exchanged. And so on Uneven player numbers have a player that doesn't exchange at all. That said, we don't have special deck or game for it just grab a regular old card deck. 53 cards. Four suits, Ace to King, 3 Jokers. To many players? Grab a second deck! I believe we once played it with three decks and like 12 people lol

[@PsiRedEye22]

Coincidentally, in America, President almost always means Asshole anyways.

[@703rdstudio9]

SungWon's top 3 most played games going from 29 to 163 times played is pretty wild. I guess it just shows what a good game Perudo is.

[@coasterb1]

Thank you for this review, I've added a couple games that I need to learn/play on the website.

[@manchild3437]

In my friend group we call the game 'President,' Capitalism. Or Caps for short. First leaned it in Boy Scouts where they called it that. Many fun hours playing that one.

[@loganfrandrup6590]

12:57 OMG I Love that game! Don't really get to play many board games if any most of the time, and this one take a bit to set up IRL but I love how quick and fast pase it as you make a mad scramble to get finish before the island completly sinks

[@hydroflast9032]

Broooo this video isn't for this but I'm so happy for your monster hunter gig you did and I'm for sure getting it XD. This is amazing stuff

[@ngvot]

Seriously thank u for this video! I discovered BGA during lockdown too but I'm so overwhelmed by all the choices that I just keep replaying my favourites :D my most played is cubirds with 284 games because I just like playing it while eating breakfast. Also Alhambra is something I love playing online but wouldn't IRL, because I don't fully understand the logic in how the walls are allowed to be placed, so I like how BGA does it for you.

[@tbahr123]

This is a strange coincidence, I was literally just looking at the new games they have added recently and want to get back into BGA for the first time in awhile.

[@HappyBeeGaming]

Google would legitimately track that so might not be a full coincidence if you went to the site on a chrome instance logged into this same account

[@tbahr123]

@@HappyBeeGaming I’m a ProZD subscriber already so I was just referring to the timing of the upload. If it was just a KZbin suggestion I would not be surprised, that stuff is sometimes too good at tracking

[@fnord3125]

i have been playing a TON of 2-player only and 2-player friendly games with my wife on here. since 7 Wonders was mentioned, I'll say that we LOVE 7 Wonders Duel and always have a game of it going.

[@Yous0147]

My favourite board games from Board Game Arena: 1. Seasons, Sort of mean and imbalanced but otherwise super fun and awesome mechanics 2. Coloretto, Super simple but really engaging and unique card game about collecting different color chameleons and balancing when and how many you do 3. PI, A detective deduction game that's about trying to figure out a crime, criminal and location based on clues collected 4. Buttons, a game about assembling different colored buttons in a line to win, but the way you place your buttons can end up hurting you for a turn if not careful 5. Concept, this is sorta like charades/draw and guess but with a board of various icons, different colored tokens and with a bit of creativity a way to distribute/stack those tokens on top of the icons to bring about a certain meaning 6. Cats, Sorta like liars dice but with cards and a Schrödingers cat motive which is very charming. Basically you have cards that represent cats alive, dead, an empty box or a "heisenberg" which represents a wild card (i.e. either alive or dead) 7. Gaia, a truly fun and different world creation game where how and what you play affects your influence in the world as you play against your opponent 8. Hanabi, a cooperative game about assembling fireworks where you can see everyone elses hand besides your own. Oh, and no one can say a word, and through playing cards alone you have to coordinate colors and numbers played accordingly 9. Tokaido, a game about traveling through the island of Japan and trying to be the one that experiences and gathers the most on their journey, the key mechanic here is that the one most behind is the turn player always These are the games I remember best, but there's tons of cool stuff in there. I remember quite a while ago when that site had a modest amount of games and barely anyone knew about it. I'm glad it's getting the recognition it deserves.

[@happymaskedguy1943]

I’m a relative newcomer, despite loving board games as a child (I really wantedAtmosfear: The Harbingers one Christmas as a kid and loved it). So far I really enjoy Arkham Horror The Card Game, Horrified, Wingspan, Everdell and Azul. I just bought Ticket to Ride Europe, Pandemic Legacy, Codenames, Mysterium and The King’s Dilemma for Christmas. Can’t WAIT to get stuck into them all.

[@XxDeadpool99xX]

We just played the DVD version of AtmosFear on New Year’s Eve. The countdown in the game ended almost exactly at midnight. Such a fun game!

[@DaniSInNC]

Thank you for doing this video. I have a premium membership on Board Game Arena but have only played 2-3 games. This week I started searching for games to play with my adult children during our weekly call and it occurred to me that I should give the site another try (I can only play Jackbox games so many times!). You've given us several to try. The thing I like about Board Game Arena over other sites like Tabletopia is that it makes it easier for me and my kids to learn games we've never played before because a lot is automated. I gave up on Tabletopia (which, admittedly, is prettier) because trying to learn the controls AND learn the game sucked all the fun out of playing.

[@leahbairos9680]

Me and my partner literally got memberships because of your recommendation - you're right, they should sponsor you lol Thank you for introducing us to like 400 games we had never heard of before

[@indiegamelab3441]

Wow, you sir have a voice made for radio/podcast. I listened to this without watching the video and it was fantastic.

[@chrismanuel9768]

He's a professional voice actor!

[@BrofUJu]

Lol, literally his job. That's great.

[@bcdm999]

If they won't sponsor you, I would love to see you do a 10 Worst Games list in retaliation Was Ice Cold Ice Hockey any good? It looks like it's very faithful to the concept of hockey, but could easily turn into a boondoggle

[@brettpaul4653]

I really enjoyed that one (though play when your opponent is available online as turn-based takes forever). I liked it enough I made a physical copy through The Game Crafter! Kindof the reverse flow for typical BGA games. :)

[@taffy4102]

I found it incredibly slow and it got stale fast, but I’m not a huge sports fan and I’ve met people who love it so maybe I have a grudge.

[@shannonpepitone4920]

Love BGA! So cool to see someone that has played them all! Just recently heard about liars dice! Thanks for letting me know it’s on BGA.

[@lordwormeater]

can we just commend the man for the amount of dedication he put into his goal?? holy shit.

[@Grepehu]

In BGA I've found my favorite boardgame of all: Saboteur. I just love how everyone is just an asshole towards each other and the game modes like "Egoist Miner" and competitive make it even more intense.

[@elimaki5929]

Hey really good to see you getting a DLC voice in MH Rise. Monster hunter is one of my favorite franchises and I'll definitely be picking up that DLC voice.

[@dibti0]

Perudo/Liar’s Dice was popularized in the second Pirates of the Caribbean film. It’s such a cool game.

[@jadespider7526]

#5 "President", I know this game as The Great Dalmuti...and it's great fun...only if you're winning...and I never win, I hate it.

[@nathanmendelsohn37]

Insanely appreciated video! I’ve been playing on BGG on and off for about 4 months but catch me playing the same 5 games on rotation! Excited to commit and try these out with a trusted recommendation

[@ikbenale]

What do you think are the worst games on the website? I always find it interesting to hear about bad games because you also learn about game design by knowing what doesn't work.

[@trla6505]

True

[@KurosakiYukigo]

I'm glad to see Seasons get some representation. Absolutely one of my favorite games that i have accidently played at a party somewhere.

[@forzahorizon7490]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpTXdKeijJadY7M.. .

[@TheLuminousCleric]

If I cant buy it, I cant play it.

[@monomundo]

Thank you, I just discovered BGA as I was not able to meet with my local game group. I can finally play the games no one wants to play with me :D

[@BlueDavrial]

I wish there was more streams of Sung Won and friends playing games on BGA because wow were the previous streams amazing

[@Aigis31]

I'm glad you mentioned President is in P5R because while you were describing it, that was all I could think of, lol. That minigame alone shows me how addicting it can be.

[@nayelisamantha862]

Congratulations! I love this series and enjoy your honest opinions about the games that are bad. Keep doing what you love

[@otherwiseguy]

Nice list of recommendations. I'm *furious* that Tzolk'in and City of the Big Shoulders weren't mentioned, but I suppose I"ll live.

[@J-Wheeler-G]

I love playing Euro's. And to me nothing like playing them in person. For the same reason, you can't laugh at someone to their face.

[@benzrecycler]

Great video - my son and I use BGA to play when he's away at college. We love many you mentioned like Viticulture, Seasons, and Can't Stop. We were also obsessed with Through the Ages, Terra Mysitca, and 7 Wonders Duel, to name a few. Looking forward to trying the ones you mentioned I haven't played - especially New Frontiers since we love Race!

[@miirico5398]

So happy mate to get to use your voice in MHR! More power and looking forward for more of your voice!

[@syrindigo26]

Dang, we have a lot of overlap in board games we enjoy, I’m SO excited to try out the games I haven’t tried yet. I love your board game themed content so much, keep it up!

[@stellaris4568]

BGA is great, I finally got to play Castles of Burgundy because of it. I’m obsessed with Abandon All Artichokes

[@Epinardscaramel]

Oh that's fun, I listen *yesterday* to an episode of your podcast where you said this was your goal 😁 Congratulations!

[@rujon288]

when you said perudo i smiled. this has been a family favourite for years (:

[@AquaShibby3000]

If you're not sold on 6 Nimmit, or Board Game Arena for that matter, go play a few rounds and be amazed at how it's 4:00 am all of a sudden.

[@BearTheGrudge]

They absolutely should sponsor you. I haven’t used BGA in a long time but I’m about to dust it off to give Targi a shot because of you

[@mariannecrews4263]

Soo, congrats on the role for MHRise!! I love your work, and now have a reason to play a guy in Rise! Continue the great work man!!!

[@joshuadewaal]

#5 President is called "Big Two" in Hong Kong, super popular there.

[@WhoYouTh1nkYouAre]

To Affiliate manager of boardgamesarena: Dear guy, contact this MAN already! You won't regret this for sure.

[@apigeon5328]

Dang that’s dedication

[@Pauleypauley7]

I wish I knew about this site sooner, sounds like a really good option for board games you don't own yet and playing online of course

[@loglorn]

You should make a video on what you think are the best cooperative boardgames out there! I'm totally not asking because i need fuel to convince my friends to play with me now that we've found board game arena

[@BioYuGi]

I would love to see the 10 worst games you played on the site. Even if they were 'We were half an hour into this and were just miserable I wanted to die'.

[@charlesh4333]

I’m developing a war game right now and videos like this make me want to develop 20 more games. I really do just like the variety you have shown and giving excerpts of what each game is and how it plays. After writing this I’m going to sketch out a game based around drafting, farmers, and sorta mystical elements. And the game in my head plays on a 3 tiers system first tier would be resources, second tier is farmers and workers with higher value resources, and top tier is very expensive cards but very useful cards that are used to win the game. The game would be best played with 4 people as the mystical element would be used to destroy your opponents resources and farmers. The game is also a draft heavy game so each game you will in theory have a different deck and strategy. This lose game concept was formulated in the time it took to watch the video. Due to the fact that I have not really been exposed to many board games growing up. So yes, thank you for the video.

[@caitlinrobinson6812]

I play just desserts, Hugo, and splendor a lot. My friends have been doing virtual game nights a lot because of the pandemic.

[@Andy-Mesa]

No mention of Through the Ages or Puerto Rico? Even though you did mention Puerto Rico: The Card Game: The Board Game aka New Frontiers.

[@paulbunyunn]

I always love watching your board game videos!! It gives me insight to new and cool board games that I don't even know exist. I now own a few of your recommendations (Escape the Dark Sector, Paperback, Just One) and always love finding new ones to purchase. Question: can we gift you board games that we would like to hear your thoughts on? Congrats on the goal!!

[@sanjithechef]

I remember you saying you wanted to check this for board game geeek off your list after your podcast (with Arin Hanson?) glad you did it for arena!

[@kanedafx]

Agricola is indeed amazing. I, too, prefer it to Caverna.

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

amazing work prozd. thanks for the gamer dedication.

[@wavesofbabies]

"ProZD rates 400 board games on Board Game Arena" [0:01/18:20:15]

[@MarlaDesat]

Adding Forbidden Island to our next games night because of this!

[@ToastGreeting]

I'm surprised to see President on here, I haven't played it in a long time. It's hard to play offline in general since the only people I play cards with insist on euchre

[@Rendolf45]

"King of Games, signing out" _Yugi Muto has joined the chat_

[@AgentZeata]

I believe President also goes by another name, The Great Dalmuti. Not 100% sure but your explanation sounded just like it.

[@jaerin1980]

No stinkers list? I was hoping to see some of the bad ones too! I could imagine there would have been some funny things to say about some of them.

[@ClaudeAndTaylor]

The Crew 2 is on the site now and it's AMAZING

[@shortydancer]

I’ve always known president as Thirteen. I think Vietnamese call a similar game tien lien. It’s pretty popular there

[@miguelpereira702]

first time on your channel. Still only at 9:40 and though I'm enjoying your thoughts for sure, I have to say that what made me comment right now and feel sure I'll be back for more of your videos is the MUSIC 🎶 :D I think there's some kind of pavlovian reflex for me that takes me to a happy place every time I listen to Transport Tycoon-like music.. 🎹 🚚🚌🚂😌 good job, man. Thanks for the amazing throwback (..) Finished watching. Still liked the whole video, just too bad you curse a bit too much in my opinion

[@wolfson109]

My buddies and I always end the night on 6 nimmt after we've been drinking. Every time one of us has to pick up cards they always say "shiiiit"

[@twonky007]

Should have added top 10 worst implemented games as well since you weren't sponsored, haha!

[@KnightMirkoYo]

Since starting BGA, I played quite a lot of 6 nimmt!, it's such a fun game. I'll also try Perudo then :3

[@commandercat10]

I want to play this now

[@IizJessieify]

I love Railroad Ink! We bust it out every time we have a little time to kill.

[@xBloodXGusherx]

I just found this channel. Excited to check out the content!

[@aquaintsound]

I'm immunocompromised so I'm still trapped inside because of covid, this is gonna help me keep connected to my friends so THANK YOU

[@rantanen1]

Never heard of this website but I'm excited to give it a try! Honestly you should've contacted them if they wanted to sponsor you for this.. or maybe you did and they said no :D

[@ThatJakers]

What no mention of Abyss!? You heartless dry-bones monster!

[@yoriex3577]

Congratulations! That's a goal of mine too, but there are a lot of games that just don't look appealing, sometimes it's 2-hour-games, and even if the site does a lot for you, sometimes you really have to learn the rules yourself and I just don't want to. By the way, I find it hilarious that you're calling 6 nimmt "Six nimmt" because it's actually "Sechs nimmt", it's German and translates to "Six takes"!

[@bungalo50]

Perudo is THE BEST, I always carry a set in my backpack.

[@HowieRaps]

Your youtube shorts are god tier. Wish you'd do more

[@BB72]

President is a game we used to play with normal decks called scum

[@flutesalute]

I've only played Uno on BGA so this is a great list of new ones to try!

[@sweesbees]

would love to see your take on top 10 bga games least deserving of being hidden behind the premium paywall

[@predebon]

(Brazil) Parabéns pela iniciativa, senti falta de um jogo chamado "the Boss", particularmente um dos meus favoritos...Mas só de Teres posto "president" no top 10 já concordo contigo kkkkkk

[@KitDreamer]

Prozd: *says Boardgame Arena* Subtitles: *says anything BUT Boardgame Arena*

[@MrLinguist88]

Super Enjoying the board game content! Have you ever tried to make some how-to plays? For example I know of one very cool Coffee themed deck builder, which is coming soon, and the devs were looking for cool people to make how-to play videos so the players can easier unterstand the game basics!

[@spyrodragonsbane3076]

Friends and i called it president, vice-president, bum and vice-bum. Interesting to see all the other names lol

[@Detrian159]

The next step is playing Tabletop Sim with a VR headset.

[@WaterMeLoan64]

Irish Soda Bread is Amazing!

[@poposterous236]

When I was growing up, "President" or "Rats for Breakfast" was actually called '*sshole'

[@Vikingblood801]

Nice challenge! I will go for Perudo as I love liars dice but I didn't know it was there. I will check out New frontiers as I love Roll & Race ftg. One thing I disagree I really don't like "Welcome to" which was awful and I will never play again.

[@cdrunner7876]

Hey just so you know I really care about your board game reviews.

[@hish.b]

Liar's dice is played in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies