Top 10 Games of 2022 - BoardGameGeek Show 1-24-23

[@helainacappel4990]

Wow! Thank you so much Nikki and Lincoln!! Creature Comforts is so special! We're glad you see that too. Great show everyone!!

[@Keeplanders]

Talking about games, amazing! Can you please do a top 10 list of personally most played games of all time? I would love to learn what games I could buy which are highly replayable.

[@MattHarropActor]

Heat was my game of 2022. It’s just soooo much fun! I love deck builders, and although it isn’t one it’s almost a deck deconstructed, trying to manage the heat, I love it. 1:58:28

[@Brwykk]

Get Dave on talking about everything history of board games please! I would love to hear all about what I've missed, and how we got to where we are today. I've only been in the hobby 5 or 6 years

[@monstermash4324]

So happy to see First Rat getting big love, it was one of my favourites of 2022 as well and I really loved the Game Night playthrough!

[@cwb95k]

Excellent lists all around and several games I never got to this past year. Heat & Foundations made my own top 10 for 2022. Noteables I was a little surprised didn't make anyone's list: Skymines, Ready Set Bet, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, and Frosthaven. I suppose, with what did Dave say...4000+ options for 2022...there are bound to be games that didn't get played and I suspect we will learn of many hiedden gems down the road with more time. Great video and thnks for doing a top 10 Lincoln, even though it's not your favorite thing to do.

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

I am so pleased that you guys did this!👏👏 Each participant executed their part so well! Thank you for taking the time and effort. Watched and enjoyed every minute of it! THANK YOU AGAIN! Heat must be great. Wish I had a group to play it with. I do plan to pick up Splendor Duel to play with my wife.😊

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

BTW, has Dave lost weight or something? He's looking great!

[@gr8fulded]

John Company truly is an experience like no other! I would love to see Candice do a rolling teach of it on Game Night!

[@zhivik]

Or anywhere else, to be honest. This is also my top game from 2022, as it offers both a very compelling gameplay, and it is also something unique, which you don't get to see so often. It doesn't mean there weren't any other good games, it's just John Company really stands out when compared to the rest.

[@stevegeorge7773]

Ricky Royal does a great teach on his channel on YT called Box of Delights.

[@zhivik]

@@stevegeorge7773 True, though he does only solo playthroughs (still very educational and entertaining). If you want to have a look at a multiplayer playthrough, I strongly recommend the Guerric Samples Games channel. It features people who playtested John Company while in development, which is why they know the game intimately. Also, that group has a great sense of humour, so it is a delight to watch :)

[@stevegeorge7773]

@@zhivik Yea, I know of the YT channel. To be honest, for me, it's not that great IMO. They don't explain the rules, they just play the game and it is hard to understand and grock what is going on. Its like this for most of the games. The proportion are them just playing the game and with something like JC its very hard to get what's happening. There is no degree of understanding that peep-ples visiting the channel are not as well versed, familiar, if at all, with the games they are streaming. As most of the games I would consider very ascerteric, niche, in nature (with the exception of Root), that lack of explanations, or proper step flagged teaching, about why certain actions and decisions are made makes it a hard channel to want to visit. But I have enjoyed one or two of their game plays. Ricky Royal on the other hand who does deep solo plays of John Company explains the whys and hows of decisions and its/their effects and what can or could be considered. I think I am more in his camp of teaches than the other YT channel. These are very strongly connected to what I would explain, or think about in a multiplayer game. But that you for the kindness of the suggestion and my apologies for the long winded reply.

[@zhivik]

I completely get where you are coming from, and it is a valid criticism of Guerric's channel. I should have said explicitly that I don't recommend people going there if they don't know anything about the games they are playing. If you want more explanations, Heavy Cardboard are doing a good job with that, though Edward is sometimes overdoing it, in my opinion. In all fairness, though, John Company is a very procedural game, and it is not that hard to get into it. In fact, I would argue that it is one of the friendliest heavy games towards new players. Of course, there is a difference between understanding the rules and being able to play well, which is the real challenge with John Company :)

[@tomcrane9448]

Great watching you guys you are such a class act. Love Dave, Lincoln and Nikki (and Aaron) especially when you do your playthroughs as your personalities work so well together. Aaron seems to spice the playing up as he seems to like to win a lot which I think knocks off a bit onto other people playing. Love Candice too, not seen her before on your playthroughs but not seen them all yet, would be great to get her on with you 3. She shows such great enthusiasm for the games she likes and also seems to like a different type of board game to Lincoln, Dave and Nikki some of which would be great to showcase.

[@bibleboardgames]

Thank you for all your top 10s! I liked this as I picked up a few ideas for future gifts.

[@Flip5ide]

So happy to see Die Wandelnden Türme on the list, our family have loads of fun playing that!

[@d-ditto9900]

Great list. A lot of games on my radar too. Especially Wonderlands War which I've had on my list for the past year and am hopefully picking up (Deluxe Edition preferred) at UK Games Expo this June 🤞🏻. Thanks for the run down all.

[@bensonliou]

will you guys also make it for 2023? I really like this topic ❤

[@tombeullens4914]

Nice to see you guys doing such a list... However not a great fan of Heat here... Only seen the base track and played it once but looks like it's always the same, straight and wait for a turn. I can be wrong but that's my opinion for now ☺️. Love Wonderland's War, First Rat and Ready set bet though. Best game for me in 2022 is Marrakesh by Stefan Feld and my surprise game Trekking through history (Would love to see you guys play those two)... I'm also surprised long shot the dice game didn't make any list

[@davidarnott4850]

I'm fairly certain that Long Shot: The Dice Game would have made my list had I even HEARD of it, let alone played it.

[@cardboardconjurer]

The surprise of the episode is that, 39 years on and counting, Dave has been in the mood to see "Amadeus" exactly once

[@Beachapeeater]

Loved this - thanks all!

[@RedMountain111]

Great lists! Glad you liked Findorff, as I'm patiently waiting for its release in the US. Should be any day now. First Rat is great too!

[@shinyhappymeeple]

Great lists. I’m with Lincoln, Heat and Wonderlands War are amazing games that I just can’t play enough

[@msmilder25]

Long Shot the Dice Game would have to make my top 10 list for the year, I was sad none of you had it on your list. Great roll and write meets racing meets betting game, with fantastic components and very low price point, it checked all the boxes for me. If you haven't played it yet, you really need to, as I think it's the perfect GameNight game. I also had E.T., Planted, Next Station London on my list...anything else I would put on the list would be games I WANT to play, but haven't played...I'm just not keeping up with new games, and I'm fine with that. Searching for those evergreens, and avoiding flash-in-the-pan games.

[@davidarnott4850]

Long Shot and Wordcraft are games I'd never heard of until doing this episode, and I absolutely wanna play 'em both.

[@christiansruiz4943]

amazing games im going to get First Rat / heat pedal to the metal flamecraft

[@tapoweify]

Always love your content, keep up the great work.

[@matthewdavis101]

I love this. No group I trust more!

[@rollingwiththebeard]

Scopa! I just discovered Scopa recently and love playing an app version with the wife!

[@ChromaTick360]

Heat was my #1 non-campaign game of 2022. Such a great racing game!

[@edwindrood2816]

Nice job dropping in thr box art

[@truemoney9874]

I can’t imagine how hard it was for everyone to put together their list

[@konstantinwendt3385]

Hey Folks, not sure if any1 else alrdy asked it: Dave said he browsed games published in 2022 on BGG. I can't find the option to filter the games by release date :( Can any1 help? :)

[@donnakeferlis1649]

When you click the search in upper right, instead of typing in a name of a game, there's an advanced search option. Click advanced search. Then fill in whatever fields you want. If you want games from 2022, just put in the date range - 2022 to 2022.

[@konstantinwendt3385]

@@donnakeferlis1649 great! thanks a lot!

[@randalladkins7452]

1:09:38 - Dave should try Dice Theme Park! Great game with a similar feel to Dice Hospital, but by different designer. Both are Alley Cat games. Dice Theme park I find thematically funner, since ones piping down ate people leaving your theme park, not people dying out of your hospital! 😮

[@davidarnott4850]

Dice Theme Park showed up a while ago on Board Game Arena. I read the rules, watched a video, and played it with my friend, Mike (we're always checking out the Beta section there). But neither of us were blown away. And the next time we "met" there, we talked about trying it again... but neither of us really felt it enough.

[@TheAmazingYeti]

I am not sure when it will happen.. however they will be releasing a cheaper version of Foundations of Rome eventually. They told me that during the most recent Kickstarter. I don't believe it'll be using the same name of course. But they're very much aware that people want a budget friendly version of the game.

[@pamd9834]

Flipping the board in First Rat is good. The scoring tracks are randomized leading you to consider different strategies based on points. I should’ve waited; Dave said this.

[@msmilder25]

I think I'm up to 5 2022 games played, I'm still playing catch-up with titles that came out in 2019-2021.

[@damaddestgamer]

Did you guys ever end up posting the 5th jurassic park stream? Don't think I saw that one.

[@REV1517]

I would like to see y'all play Clacks board game and give a review.

[@Yogington]

Gotta shout out how ace Nikki was this episode.

[@shannonmccure6972]

Please do a top 10 of affordable games for folks new to the hobby. Thank you!

[@snieves4]

Thanks

[@delledonne80]

Oh my god your itchy ans scratchy shirt is awesome! Where do you buy it??

[@claireharding1551]

Village Rails is another Osprey game and it's fab

[@Dr_C_Smith]

Dave looks good and healthy, like he’s slimmed down a little bit. Nice work, fella!

[@elvishopper4495]

Games aside, Where the heck do I find that amazing itchy and scratchy jersey!?

[@boardgamegeek]

Elvis, I buy my jerseys from Geeky Jerseys! I'm not sure it is available right now but you can submit your email address to be notified when they open up preorders again. Thanks for the note and for watching.-Lincoln

[@shannonmccure6972]

Where can I get a green tshirt like hers?

[@Big_Dai]

Hey Lincoln! No chance for you and the crew to try Oros?

[@boardgamegeek]

Not yet. I’ve seen the game in person but we don’t have a copy and haven’t had the opportunity to give it a shot. Maybe this year we can try it. Thanks for the note and for watching-Lincoln

[@rapp.p4724]

As a Yinzer, Candice's pronunciation of Carnegie hurt my soul. lol. It's more like Car-Neigh-ghee.

[@paolastoto]

what state are you guys filming from?

[@boardgamegeek]

We are in California! -Lincoln

[@tiagomarques9822]

Dave, have you played On Tour, Railroad Ink or Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama? Those are 0-interaction games as well, all 3 quite good.

[@davidarnott4850]

I have played On Tour and Railroad Ink. Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama looks like another game I have player with letter connections that I can't remember... but I don't think I've played this one. On Tour was just okay, and I was fairly disappointed with Railroad Ink (a handful of plays on BGA only).

[@tiagomarques9822]

@@davidarnott4850 Kokoro is indeed a different version of the game Avenue, with a couple of extra content. It has dry erase boards instead of blocks of paper, a deck of cards with both player powers and restrictions to change the way the game is played and a die to randomize where certain features go in the boards. I get what you say about the other two. I do like them, actually On Tour more than Railroad Ink. There’s another game I remember watching you guys playing and that I have in my wish list right now: The Guild of Merchant Explorers. I don’t remember much player interaction: did it have some? But well, to each their own: my wife is happier the less other people mess up what she is trying to do in a game, even if at the end she comes in last, and neither does she like to interfere with others’s plans. For her, being able to fulfill her plan is the most important thing. I’m not like that, but neither do I like lots of interaction negatively affecting too much what the others do.

[@kcatton9734]

so good

[@CheeseDud]

I’d say that Rolling Realms also has zero player interaction as far as roll/flip and writes go

[@aloharay]

Definately different lists... glad we have so much choice. Didn't groove with Dave's list. Candice and I are twins though in our game taste.

[@davidarnott4850]

Heh, Ray, you are likely in the majority here :)

[@n.talbert]

You mention of playing a game with michael aldridge. Not sure if you know how they've been treating their last kickstarter campaign (Warehouse 13 expansion) or not, but hopefully I can bring it to your attention. They posted an update blaming covid for the game not being out, then went total silence. Nobody had even logged into their account on kickstarter until nov 2, 2022. even after they logged in, they left no updates or comments.

[@ClaudeAndTaylor]

So awesome to see roulette taking game ahhhhh!!

[@arekkrolak6320]

In this jacket Lincoln looks like Apache warlord

[@damaddestgamer]

I was very meh on Wonderland's War, too much press your luck.

[@wayner7263]

So basically he copped out. If you are going to make a top 10 list, DO THE WORK! 😛

[@BackinPoint]

Thanks for the thoughts! Appreciate you. Although, I do want to say I find Dave to be incredibly irritating and sometimes skip the video when he’s in it.

[@hovhannesbeaver8161]

No Marvel United. Someone made a mistake :P

[@boardgamegeek]

Marvel United is great but it came out in 2021. Thanks for the note and for watching. -Lincoln