Top 10 Best Board Games of 2024!

[@carrickrichards2457]

6:44 Endeavour Deep Sea (BGG 8.3) 16:50 Agemonia (BGG 9.0) 28:55 Ezra and Nehemiah (BGG 8.3) 37:20 Inventions: Evolution of Ideas (BGG 8.1) 49:17 Harmonies (BGG 8.1) 53:45 Arcs (BGG 8.2) 1:02:58 Unconscious Mind (BGG 8.0) 1:12:21 Shackelton Base (BGG 8.0) 1:21:27 Andromeda's Edge (BGG 8.5) 1:37:51 SETI (BGG 8.4) 1:49:10 Civolution (BGG 8.3) Late Honourable Mentions: Daybreak (7.7), Slay the Spire (8.8), Captain's Chair, Pampero Anticipated for 2025: Vantage, Rogue Angels, Keyside, Die SandBurgen von Burgund, Storyfold Good list, thanks.

[@Benny_Shoga]

You’re a hero

[@steveg9939]

Great video as always! I usually don’t have the time to play and vote for these games before the year’s end but fortunately for me, I now have some ideas of what to buy and what to try. Very nice discussion.

[@jankogo]

A pleasure as always, Paul. I have to check out the new Lacerda and maybe Ezra and Nehemia.

[@frankhechtner3156]

Thanks for this fantastic top 10 list and your detailed discussion about each game. It was a pleasure to watch it during the last days of this year 2024. I didn't know that Inventions is pretty high on your personal list 🙂 all the best frank

[@CATPLANET24]

Great conversation! Sorry, I missed the live feed! So many new games to try.

[@NathanBeitler]

I haven't played most of these games yet. I own Andromeda's Edge and Ezra and Nehemiah and those are both great. Thanks for posting your list of favorites. I've heard enough praise for Civolution and Arcs that I think I may have to pick those up.

[@Bleuchz]

Daybreak didn't make my 2024 list because it was a top 5 2023 game for me :P SUSD is gaslighting the boardgame community with their end of year list lol.

[@ferrum5]

Great list. I'm glad "Inventions Evolution of Ideas" and "Unconscious Mind" made it into the top 10 🎉

[@bradymccann]

Just bought Civolution and came to see where you ranked it. Awesome

[@MrJonnyalpha]

Me too. It should be arriving tomorrow.

[@Afloplouf]

You won't like Slay the Spire, you'll get addicted. It could even become your favorite 2024 release. It works great solo but it's even better 2-players.

[@shatnershairpiece]

Endeavour deep sea is great. Probably my favourite release of 2024. But I have not played civolution yet, which I got for Christmas.

[@jcdc9437]

I can even think playing a solo bg like Frostpunk live or any heavy games, I come back a lot in my solo games. I put a camera to help me see my mistakes when I have a doubt on something. Thanks for sharing.

[@Deltium5683]

Both of you are fantastic board gamers. Thanks for the great video.

[@KellyLees-wl3im]

Thanks for the video!

[@StewartEnnew]

I played Deep Sea Endeavor at Gridcon, keen to give it another go. Civolution is awesome, it plays so smooth as a solo game.

[@mrsamtheman80]

Re. Solo Ezra and Nehemiah, I have played it about 5-6 times and it is very well done! Two of the top YTers, thanks for this stream!

[@Boberman286]

Frostpunk "Not a complex game when I get the rules right"... Understanding a game for the 1st time is part of complexity.

[@Resilio67]

So glad to hear, you will do your own Top 10 games of 2024 Paul 👍😉 I'm really looking forward to it. Take your time. Happy new year 🎉

[@GamingRulesVideos]

I will. Sometime next year.

[@RasmusNicolajWest]

Nice video. Next year you need to play all 10 games in one live session :D

[@GamingRulesVideos]

lol

[@mrsamtheman80]

I am looking forward to Hoplomachus: Victorum-but-now-you-can-finish-in-one-day 😊 Love the game but it is just too long without the soon to be released expansion.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

I too am looking forward to that one.

[@eldolceable]

Oooof I’ve been thinking about Civolution and men-nefer and now this being number 1 is killing me lol

[@gertdelen5993]

I am surprised men-nefer is not on the list

[@texascpa]

Endeavor Deep Sea is by far the best board game of 2024 for me.

[@RaduStanculescu]

I tried Arcs once, and I love almost everything, except the fighting which is one of the worst and most random ones in all games I played. I'm not usually into games with combat, but I think all the ones I have played (maybe except Risk? :P ) have better combat mechanisms than Arcs. I know some players don't like the restrictions created by the card draw as well, but I feel like that mechanism is indeed restrictive but clever. But I don't find anything good to say about combat in it.

[@GORYOUN]

hope Rogue Angels is a success. I own Burning Suns. That game took forever to deliver. Credit to Emil for his determination to deliver that game - He learnt a lot from delivering Burning Suns. He deserves any success Rogue Angels gets.

[@BharathDaphne]

Thanks for the forecast! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

I have literally no idea what you said at all.

[@BryanWinston-g7b]

OMG Paul!!! I was the guy that started that thread that Andromedas Edge was Dwellings of Eldervale 2.0, and Luke Laurie came into the thread and took me to task. In all fairness I wasn't saying they were the same and it was a cash grab, I never meant it that way. But the differences between these games are very small. However having bought both of them I absolutely stand by my original assessment, there is absolutely no reason to own both Dwellings and AE, and AE is the better game.

[@djtarquin]

Youre 100% correct

[@GamingRulesVideos]

I agree.

[@BoardGamecomments]

Root is in my top 10 of all time and I dislike the one off version of Arcs. I've compared it to the old Revels Deer Hunter advert, I'd rather play a game that I know I'll enjoy rather than a game that I have 75-80% chance of enjoying and 20-25% chance of absolutely hating. But I didn't have the chance to play the campaign mode to give it the best try possible. I'm sure you will enjoy Slay the Spire. It's almost like the design team had you in mind as their target audience because they're giving you almost the same game as the video game, but in board game form, and you will have Rick to block hits for you.

[@michaeledmonds4849]

I had my Nemesis:Retaliation pledge refunded. Too many games, and I have enough similar games to not need another one.

[@Afloplouf]

Endeavor Deep Sea was my biggest disappointment this year. I liked a lot the original despite the theme and the player conflict. This one should have been a no brainer with the included solo campaign. Except it felt completely flat and I'm not sure why. Maybe because the open information of the first one have been replaced by randomness of the map and the cards.

[@Mucky_bg]

at the complexity discussion (at endeavor): yes, a 4 for someone can be a 2 for you, but that's why it's an average weight based on all votes. for new games it's purely subjective. for games that are out for some time and have a bunch of votes, it gets more accurate to the average gamer. I'd even go so far and say that bgg ratings are usually a bit lower than what the average gamer would rate it since it's a website that only people know that play a lot (and give a damn about rating themselves)

[@KDSBestGameDev]

I own both dwelling and Andromedas Edge but only played Andromedas Edge currently. I own both because my wife is sick of "space" themed games. I just bought both 1 week ago so I will eventually play dwellings. I know some people, who like dwellings more because of the theme. I think combat sucks at Andromedas Edge. The comment maybe you should have just sacreficed 2 ships instead of 3 is not 01:31:50 doing it for me. The combat mechanic is awful, but combat is IMHO not that important. Rest of the game is awesome. Also a bit nitpicking but when you have no worker on the board you can go "everywhere" except combat (without the appropriate ship), but if you have a ship out you can't go to far away from it. This is thematically very strange for me. Seti is plain awesome, but I would weight it more a 3 than a 4. Civolution is my top 5game of all the time

[@daveheasman3680]

Derrick seems a nice guy but feels a bit odd picking a co-host who has played so few of the games in the list

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Derrick was chosen weeks before the votes came in :)

[@RasmusNicolajWest]

In general I like Stonemeir games and Martin seems like a super cool dude. But Tapestry sucks, sorry to say that

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Tapestry is awesome :)

[@djtarquin]

I love Arcs, my gaming group hates it. I'm probably selling the game, which is a shame.

[@jonasakerblom2675]

3 hours? Who has the time for that…

[@KDSBestGameDev]

I had ❤😂

[@tomlegend7776]

Bye!!!

[@tomlegend7776]

@@KDSBestGameDevAnd me!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

With all the prep, this video took me about 6 hours, and 3 hours of Derrick's time too. And none of us made any money out of it. All the ad revenue went to charity. So... yeah, it was long, but we got chatting :)