Top 10 Games of 2024 - with Chris, Wendy & Camilla

[@jmlitwiller]

All I want for Christmas is unlimited time to play board games

[@daniellebackus819]

Spent a couple of very enjoyable hours arranging the art in the Creature Caravan cards, figuring out how many of them connect to each other. Gorgeous (and super fun!) game.

[@shanedunlop8748]

Harmonies is Amazing!!

[@IncredibleDream]

#2! We are so honored! Thank you so so much!

[@Helma2111]

Love I found your video, thanks for the entertaining and varied lists.

[@jameskirk4692]

Thank you all for this lists and video

[@bryanzirkel304]

Andromedas edge still my fav this year

[@laurencesingh3948]

My #1 of the year is Inventors of the South Tigris. It's absolutely magnificent. Windmill Valley and Ezra and Nehemiah round out my top three. I thought this was a little bit of a down year from 2023 and 2022 for me, personally, but still managed to find some gems that will be all-time favourites for me.

[@RadikalKit]

FYI, both you and Zee are playing Explorers of Navoria wrong. During the gather phase you take tokens off deck. Unfortunately they failed to specify a cleanup step between explore and gather which would have made it more clear

[@yardene3426]

Pirates of Maracaibo! So glad to see this as someone else's top game of the year!

[@nunorebelo1246]

Floresta means forest, and the feline on the cover is a "Lince Ibérico" (iberian lynx) which only exists in Portugal and almost got extinct.

[@deanmccrossen2766]

Yes Camilla! Kinfire Delve doesn’t get enough love.

[@arcubal]

Harmonies was done earlier by the underrated *Dreamscape* Also, shame Tidal Blades is still not delivered yet in Europe, so I'm gonna guess that it's on no one's Top 10 of 2024 over here.

[@joshjenson8111]

Stephens should have been on to the top board game cover art video

[@diszect7134]

Tidal blades is so good!!

[@palacsintaz]

Harmonies is excellent, we play it regularly. I hope we get an expansion soon, I am ready for more cards and maps!

[@heathwashburn194]

Totes Gorgeable!

[@thedicetower]

Ha! Seeing it spelled out really makes it feel like a Homestar Runner level made up word I love it. -Chris

[@WhatUpRob]

Reef has a similar quirk like Age of Steam, there you want your track to go through the most cities as possible before delivering your good, it’s not good to have a one stop delivery haha

[@CamObscura88]

Milla making her only 10/10 review (Kinfire Delve) number 2 and not number 1 is very confusing!

[@juvigoat2168]

Maybe it’s rated higher than another because it’s a favorite in its category?

[@jayray1714]

So many great games

[@jayray1714]

Forgot Ezra and Nehemia camed out this year. Absolutely fantastic game.

[@ThorAxiun]

This year for me in video games was pretty meh, but board games? Amazing

[@c.w.2000]

I think it's Joey's quick magician fingers that hit the transition buttons so fast. He can't help that he has honed that lightning-quick dexterity. 😄

[@kells_bells9008]

Woohoo Daitoshi ❤️ my favourite game so far from this year !

[@thegamesninja3119]

This game is a holiday tradition: The Dice Tower makes me buy stuff.

[@matt7912-j9p]

@Wendy and Chris - have you played Civolution yet? I think that might make your top 10, it's excellent.

[@RadeTcg]

This has been bugging me … can we not have the music 2x louder than the people talking please ?

[@thedicetower]

Which part is the music too loud?

[@zvnetzley9209]

I was wandering that as I read the comment, but then the musical transition to number 10 played and made me jump a little as it was much louder than the people...

[@lohengrindrd]

@@thedicetower The transition music was a bit louder than normal.

[@thedicetower]

Okay, thanks for the heads up. I'm not sure why they would be louder than usual but we can look into it before today's Top 10. Thanks.

[@nzcamel3]

Not surprised Chris that you love Galileo. Great minds thinking alike!

[@shanedunlop8748]

Arcs is brilliant. Yeah I tried learning Root and I understand it but to teach someone and actually do good, nah its wayyyy to hard. Arcs I don't feel like it's hard to teach. This game clicked with me too!

[@shawns3911]

Camilla’s description of what you’re doing in nova Roma was fun

[@sublifestudios2801]

Hey Camilla who did you play as for your first campaign of TB 2?

[@mtedens1]

33:30. Check out the fake gold bracelet on the wrist at bottom right. Who decided that needed to be added?

[@andymcguire237]

No Andromeda's Edge? That's personally my #1

[@jamesjacobthomson6198]

I thought pirates of maracaibo was an Essen 23 title? Great lists though! 👌

[@teadorit9781]

Yes, it was, but it only came to the US in 2024, I think.

[@jamesjacobthomson6198]

@teadorit9781 Makes sense. Good to know I'm not mixing up which Essen was which...

[@rpriske]

How is the art on Explorers of Navoria NOT by Cole Wehrle? It looks so similar!

[@TEN27]

is River of Gold worth it for 2 player games?

[@bradm864]

Have any of you played Civolution yet?

[@thedicetower]

Tune in today.

[@bruceulrich1231]

Daitoshi? Did you learn the fame from the rulebook or a designer publisher teach you? After 3 hours of bumbling around and trying to figure it out we gave up. We were all very excited to play and then we were all very excited to box it up and have fun

[@thedicetower]

We just worked through the rulebook and got it. It wasn't the simplest learn but I didn't find it egregious either. The weirdest part was probably grokking the mega machine. -Chris

[@bruceulrich1231]

I wanted so much to like it. I'll have to try again

[@bones983]

I love Harmonies, and it’s funny, Camilla’s thoughts on it are exactly why I dislike Tiny Towns. Yet I don’t find Harmonies nearly as restrictive.

[@boombox_up_to_11]

I feel like if you are finding Harmonies as restrictive as Camilla seems to think it is, you are just not playing the puzzle correctly.

[@bones983]

@@boombox_up_to_11 I don’t know about “correctly,” but I do think Harmonies allows for contingency planning more in line with Cascadia and Azul than with the more punishing Tiny Towns and Calico.

[@boardgameotaku]

I’m here dying at Camila’s face after Wendy’s “…rough stuff” 💀 LOOOL 1:09:47

[@runraggedrhino]

2:27 It was such an interesting decision to have a big black microphone in the middle of the DTEast logo!

[@arnold2011]

So few cross-overs. Interesting. I wonder if the next DT trio will have more.

[@jacobbengert5531]

Leviathan Wilds is one of my favorite games this year. It's super unique.

[@TheSneetchBelly]

Great video - lots of fun

[@Kojimalosophy]

how can you 'hate" harmonies? 😕

[@nshaw1299]

56:15 the best game you *make*? not best you made? You went to the allplay guys and told them that it's all downhill from here??? :-D (putting aside the mislead about message from the stars)

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

The music is very Christmasy!

[@rainerahlfors]

I'm honestly "meh" about Harmonies. The game is fine, and I don't mind playing it, but I don't think I will ask for it. Very mid.

[@rpriske]

Daitoshi seems... odd. Yay, let's destroy the environment?

[@thedicetower]

Destroying the environment causes major setbacks to you, so you also have to invest in rebuilding the areas you're mining from. -Chris