Top 10 Games of 2023 with Jason Levine

[@polymossimal]

Always good to see Jason! Hope you are doing well.

[@jasonlevineDT]

For those wondering why I had a cough drop in my mouth during this video…I had to shoot it the day after I returned from PAX Unplugged and I got a sore throat while there in Philadelphia from the cold and due to talking with so many fans. Again sorry for that but I had to protect my throat at the time and we did have a shooting schedule. I hope everyone enjoys the video anyway!

[@Hemux0]

@jasonlevineDT yeah you have always been a super cool dude, Jason - one of the biggest nerds in the team, if Tom is a giant you are a TITAN of board game knowledge

[@thinkoutsidetheboard]

Glad to have this video and hope you're feeling better!

[@biisama]

Have you had a chance to play Star Wars: Unlimited yet? If so, do you prefer Lorcana over it?

[@MichelC2000]

Very rich top 10 with lots of side comments and side stories. Loved it! Thanks for spending the time doing this 😀

[@rolfvansoelen8916]

Nice to see you again Jason, always love your input! Great list with a couple of surprises for me, will check them out . Take care !

[@travelingboardgamer0314]

Good list Jason. Thank you.

[@Kramek63]

Jason, great list of games. Good mix with various mechanisms. Some of them were already on my Wishlist, but several were new to me or added based on your description. Path to civilization, Last Light, and World Wonders are looking very interesting.

[@tamidorwindtaenzer1377]

So good to see you again. Hope to see you more often from here on. Nice list.

[@zen4one588]

Hi Jason! One of these years I'll get over to DT East so hope to see you there

[@WillColton0]

Is he eating candy while doing this list? 😂

[@theshelflifeboardgamelonge2873]

Not only that but I think he adds more to his mouth every time the camera cuts away 😂😂😂

[@JonReid01]

He had a sore throat so it was cough drops. (He commented that on the live version)

[@a-c-m]

Who is this guy actually ? Is he part of the DT crew ? Never seen him before.

[@alexisedwards2784]

Cough Drop.

[@DontNickMe]

He should have had tea or something instead and they can just cut out the drinking parts. The candy makes him smack lips which hurts my ears a bit

[@jpbeland5762]

I hope we will see top 10 games of 2024 with Jason Levine!

[@freeheeler00]

I was going to play Last Light today with a local game group but my kid is sick so I'm staying home. I'll get to it soon Roy!

[@dougwarr9459]

Please take us on a tour of your game collection again please!

[@siegfriedsteurer6660]

Hey Jason, curious if you didnt like Hegemony? Thought I would find it on your list. As for Mr. President, I highly recommend playing the Vassal version, and it is a nice multiplayer too. Get well soon!

[@Peng-444]

Yes! Last Kingdom is an awesome game, so pleased to see it getting recognition because it seems to be under a lot of people's radar.

[@lopol78]

Nice to see you Jason, feel better

[@LoneWolf-zc7nw]

Glad to see you back. I hope you make new update to your top 100 and resume to make "every game is awesome".

[@ianw0ng]

hope your sore throat gets well soon. 💪

[@thinkoutsidetheboard]

Love Jason and appreciate this list, but get this man a glass of water!

[@trailzilla5934]

Glad to see this video…we need more Jason👍

[@fingolfinfinwe]

Yeah Jason!! Thanks for the video & list!

[@barryhodd4545]

What's with all the masticating?

[@jamesbrazeal3847]

I had Zero interest in Last Light until, you described it as Concordia and Mission Red Planet. I love those games and Aquatica. Will need to get it now and I love Roy so will enjoy supporting him as well.

[@robertcrist6059]

People might have forgotten about Earth lol I'm currently compiling all the top ten games of 2023 lists from you content creators, so far I have seen 43 unique lists, and Earth has made 21 of those lists, and five times it ranked as someone's number one game; and fun fact for you Jason, you aren't the only one to put Lorcana on thier list and another person didn't but mentioned they would have if it were a board game.

[@robertcrist6059]

@@TabletopFamily Well I got some data! 43 top 10 games of 2023 lists compiled from 7 channels, making the 'Top 10 of the Top 10 Games of 2023': 10: showing up on 6 different lists, coming in at 10, 9, 3, 1, 1, 1...Darwin's Journey 9: showing up on 6 different lists, coming in at 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1...Barcelona 8: showing up on 7 different lists, coming in at 10, 7, 7, 7, 5, 2, 1...Sky Team 7: showing up on 7 different lists, coming in at 8, 8, 6, 6, 5, 3, 1...Last Light 6: showing up on 7 different lists, coming in at 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2...Ticket to Ride Legacy 5: showing up on 7 different lists, coming in at 9, 5, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1...Thunder Road Vendetta 4: showing up on 7 different lists, coming in at 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1...Sagrada Artisans 3: showing up on 8 different lists, coming in at 10, 7, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2...World Wonders 2: showing up on 10 different lists, coming in at 10, 10, 8, 8, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...Apiary 1: showing up on 21 different lists, coming in at 9, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1...Earth Other fun tidbits: - I don't know how to frame it, but the lowest number of mentions for a game being 5, Evacuation tops the lists with the highest scores, 5 mentions coming it at 1, 1, 1, 1, 2; Unmatched Tales to Amaze comes in second with 1, 1, 1, 2, 2. Yeah Earth had (6) 1 rankings, but also mentioned 21 times, so 4/5 for Evacuation is impressive. - Hegemony has the biggest disparity in it's rankings, mentioned (6) times 1, 1, 1, 8, 8, 8 - From above, Ticket to Ride and World Wonders both didn't log a number 1 in their mentions, but enough mentions to make the top ten top ten - If scored like a track and field event i.e. finishing 1st gets 10 points, 2nd 9, 10th 1 point etc. your new top ten top ten is: 10: Darwin's Journey (41) - number 10 on the top ten top ten and number 10 on this version of the top ten top ten 9: The White Castle (42) - new to the list! Was the 13th game just outside the top ten top ten 8: Ticket to Ride Legacy (47) 7: Unmatched Tales to Amaze (48) - not on the original list! similar to the next game it logged 5 mentions and with 1, 1, 1, 2, 2 it scored big 6: Evacuation (49) - not on the original list! As stated above it had 5 mentions and 4/5 were ranked at 1, so scoring major points 5: Thunder Road Vendetta (51) - placing 5th on both lists 4: Barcelona & World Wonders (52) - Barcelona would break the tie given 2 less mentions on lists 3: Apiary (54) 2: Sagrada Artisans (59) - moving up from 4 -> 2 1: Earth (153) - too many mentions to overtake

[@jonsparks3152]

I finally got Last Light played today! Really enjoyed it. Can’t wait to play it with 8 players.

[@bayareamasto]

This is why Tom always roasts Jason….

[@TeChNoWC7]

Yeah and it’s baseless. Jason has character, something any hobby loses as it goes mainstream.

[@Bravefreezer]

When the ASMR community gets wind of this bad boy, it will likely be the most watched DT video in quite a while!

[@johnwhitesnake6353]

Always great to see Jason! Hope you are well

[@BGBarbarian]

Long time no see!

[@warever37]

What kind of candy lasts for 14 minutes?!

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

That’s what I need yo! ;)

[@DontNickMe]

Can you try not to have hard candy while making videos? It makes a loud smacking sound that's pretty harsh on ears.

[@DontNickMe]

Maybe have tea instead and just edit out the drinking parts.

[@marcohoehener463]

Really bothered me too. Good list, though....

[@clawlan]

Misophonia warning ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[@SRS1918]

Don’t be so soft, just don’t watch the video if it bothers you

[@beerman2000]

Makes the video unwatchable

[@fleazapp]

THE BEST top 10 video on the channel. Nailed it down

[@warever37]

How do you spell the game that's similar to Coloretto... Tricketta?

[@robcooke88]

Triqueta

[@pacnwnudist]

Triqueta

[@ryanmahon1662]

Jason big fan but are you eating a mint or something? All I can hear is smacking very distracting. Let’s pick up the professionalism. Apologies if a medical condition undisclosed.

[@beanis8624]

What are you eating the whole video?

[@odditie]

If the gaming machine can’t get everything played, what hope do the rest of us have?

[@TerrierHalo]

Biggest letdown of 2023 for me was going to watch The Machine and only too late realizing it wasn’t a Jason Levine biopic. :/

[@2532robh1]

Jason is my favorite.

[@em3sis]

Maybe dont eat candy/cough drops when you sit down to make a 14 min video where you talk the whole time. Just some constructive feedback.

[@ciirax]

Appreciate you, skipping this now.

[@davidpoilievre4095]

I could't finish the video because of this.

[@Situaties]

Yep, gross, SKIP.

[@josemiso3221]

Sorry but unwatchable

[@MarcTelesha]

Drink a cup of water :) I use to record people and a drink of water fixes about Everything.

[@mattlewis5095]

Hey man, where is your top 100 of recent years?

[@stevensum2011]

When you coming back Jason? Where did you go?

[@CTHenry]

We need more videos with Jason!!!

[@nshaw1299]

Bender: I'm gonna go film my own top 10 video... with blackjack and cough drops!

[@RoboStuk]

Jason is great,he appears too rarely on this channel.

[@mydemon]

Hard candy be going Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck. Slipck.... lol

[@Danny_DaKid]

Him sucking on that piece of candy is making this almost unbearable.

[@crabnuggets2128]

Dude, you can’t suck on a candy during a video.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

He just did. Suck on that! Jk.

[@villardileonardo2411]

Earyh as TfM killer ??? NOT EVEN CLOSE. Its not a bad game, but has not a tenth of TfM depth.

[@superhans7624]

Can’t listen to this, sorry

[@Bravefreezer]

#asmr

[@bornofashes]

Such a poor decision to produce a recording when you knew your primary faculty for communication was compromised. Could you not have waited a day until you felt better?

[@SPQRKlio]

I give him kudos for powering through (not knowing what the scheduling demands were), but it’s always better to take care of oneself first and deal with work second in importance, if possible.

[@nathansutterfield]

​@SPQRKlio I get that, but it he could have just waited 15 minutes. If it was a longer span of time I might give him more leeway.

[@warever37]

​@@SPQRKlioor maybe drink an herbal tea before recording instead of sucking on a cough drop for 14 minutes.

[@TheBeastsquirrel]

I'm sure he has a sore throat or something, but the constant sucking and lip smacking makes this verry difficutl to watch. That being said, I do appreciate the effort and hopefully you get better soon.