Top 10 Games of 2024 - with Joey, Jason, and The People's Choice

[@WeAreGamersYTube]

Game comes with standees - Joey: I wish the game came with minis. Game comes with minis - Joey: I wish the game came with standees.

[@TheWiseOne477]

So true

[@rogerx1258]

Standees are the way to go.

[@TeChNoWC7]

Easy fix; you have two different prints of the game.

[@TeChNoWC7]

@@rogerx1258but that’s how you want it. I want minis. So it might be in a company’s best interest to release multiple versions.

[@Peter93johnson]

So happy to see Railways of the Lost Atlas on someone's list from DT! This game is really great, and honestly looks great on the table, that image does not do it justice. Great pick there, Jason.

[@rogerx1258]

Great to see Jason. Sometimes his takes are very Jason but a lot of the times he has a special analytic view on what is good and why.

[@azintern2]

so great to see Jason again

[@TheSneetchBelly]

Love it when Dice Tower does Top 10’s

[@2532robh1]

Yay Jason is on!

[@franck777]

Excellent! Merry Christmas!

[@runraggedrhino]

1:06:48 *Tom lifts a cheek and passes wind on Joey*

[@ThorAxiun]

"Tom 10 Games" 😁

[@ruffiansgaming17]

Came here to make the same observation….

[@Peng-444]

Maybe that's his new nickname?

[@Phantisma09]

I'm glad to see others compare Joey to Bruce Campbell - Joey, if you could - give us a "Groovy" in the next video!! 🎉🎉

[@Phantisma09]

Also - Rock Hard 1977 gets compared to "Life of an artist" among my group of theatre folks and artists - so absolutely Magicians fit in that category

[@Schrogs]

Tom and Joey have such good energy but for some reason when zee is in the trio, it seems like tom sides with zee and zee does mesh with Joey. Was great to see Joey and Tom making each other laugh here

[@joshjenson8111]

Harmonies is good But #1 is insane

[@whytemeet]

I wish Jason was eating candy during this top 10. It would have been a nice throwback.

[@Animal_board_gamer]

Oh yes!!! I’m so happy harmonies was our number one of the year!!! It was definitely my favorite of the year!!!

[@leksiewwee4538]

for some reason, i realized i most look forward to jason's list among all the DT crew

[@jpbeland5762]

same for me

[@GrimDarkDude]

wow this was such a good top ten, you three rocked it together, great laughs thanks you!!

[@flupito]

Looooove harmonies

[@TheRASDEL83]

Harmonies is reaaaaaally good! Definitly in our top 10 at home!

[@tabletalkreviews]

I've only played Harmonies on the giant edition at a few local conventions. It is so much fun!

[@maizetoken377]

That cover to Intarsia is GORGEOUS!

[@joshjenson8111]

And it's a great game to play

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

I love Mistborn series of books, and Brandon Sanderson in general, but I haven't played the deck builders or RPGs. Glad to hear it works well.

[@christofferthormannjensen3371]

Top 10 from the games I've played: 1. Arcs 2. Let's Go To Japan 3. Castle Combo 4. Stonespine Architects 5. Harmonies 6. LOTR Duel 7. Andromeda's Edge 8. Agent Avenue 9. Rebirth 10. Wyrmspan

[@jazzeejax5816]

I love Jason so much

[@BoardGamePix]

Top 10 Joey's Print & Play games please.

[@VJMorph]

Yes! This! But only ones he hasn’t played 😂😂😂

[@Shoitaan]

I love my ARCS, Unconscious Mind and Andromeda's Edge. The kids keep asking to play Harmonies and Pokemon: Splendor over and over again. Harmonies is definitely deserving of peoples choice #1. It's a game that will continue to be in peoples collections getting played long after a lot of the titles in the reviewer lists fade to obscurity.

[@acostajimmy30]

Im really happy to hear that Star Wars Unlimited made this top 10. This card game is amazing. I speak for many SW fans cuz the character cards in this game really distinct the character in the movies or comics. Not only that its very strategic and quick 1 action turns that keep you engaged. With already 2 more series to add on since the March original, it has lots of fun abilities.

[@noizeemama3697]

Sooo cold there? 60s? We are still wearing flip flops and shorts in the 60s.

[@mjb8708]

Would be great if you could list the games in the timeline, in addition to Joey 1, 2, 3 etc...

[@daniellebackus819]

Just picked up Harmonies tonight, and it’s fantastic. The people are correct! (I think my personal game of the year is Creature Caravan).

[@VJMorph]

Can we get a plushy of that Cthulhu design in the Kickstarter?

[@hombrepollo]

Great List. I don´t know if i liked so much Railways of the Lost Atlas, it felt a bit plane to me.

[@arifjumali]

Good to see Wyrmspan is on people's list. Its a great game.

[@JackieFox1976]

Well, hey -- Christmas came early! Also #TeamBeige and yes, Joey does look a bit like Bruce Campbell. All he needs is a boomstick.

[@noizeemama3697]

I was beginning to think no one was going to have Rock Hard on their list. Tom, where did you get the T-shirt!

[@therealBocaStudios]

Love Jason on the channel! And Sam’s back as well..

[@akareject]

Doesn't look like anyone at the dice tower will be the voice of the people this year.

[@joshhorn4157]

where do you find the people choice list? I can find the all time list, but not the 2024 only list.

[@AzureRaiden]

We started playing harmonies with a house rule where a card cycles after every round just to keep the market refreshing from round to round. That is the one games problem that the market can get stale, so I'm glad there's some official rule for it. It might be my favorite of the year, but I didn't get to play AE so I'm not sure. I have a strong suspicion that that game would easily take that spot

[@naomiooooo]

Harmonies is Number 1 with my afterschool board game group. (I think it is in the top 25)

[@Kosmoloog]

Railways of the lost Atlas is my number #1 of 2024.

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

I've been counting the number of crossovers with my top 100 and other content creators. I have most in common with the People from the Dice Tower. So I guess I'll have to pick up Harmonies :)

[@maizetoken377]

Balatro is SO GOOD!!!!!

[@thedicetower]

I got Jason to play it directly afterwards and I think he's hooked.

[@joeferreti9442]

There is not that much meat on "SETI", essentially you either fly, scan or upgrade. For just that it's quite complex and arduous to play. Sure, the theme is nice.

[@PatrikGrip]

We need more Jason on the channel!

[@ConeDefense]

Unconscious Mind feels like it needs to be hype votes. I don’t feel like enough copies have been in hand to be that high yet - just got my kickstarter a few weeks back.

[@ordrune]

List at the end says Joey's #10 was Kelp.

[@thedicetower]

Yes, Joey changed his number 10 pick and informed the person who put together the slide show but not the person who put together the closing recap.

[@runraggedrhino]

38:16 "I think if you don't like Arcs, you're really going to dislike (Arcs)" Also, if you don't like this list, you're really not going to like this list!

[@nshaw1299]

21:10 While you are right, I don't think the 'only via crowdfunding' can be just 'swept' by what you said. It's top ten of the year yet the game is not accessible. However, I feel it is solved by another, yet simple, preamble to talking about such games in such top ten of the year lists: By wishing this game, would make its way to retail, possibly BECAUSE you highly rated it and raved about it, which helps create a demand. If you take Zee's funny comment about owning a handcrafted game, only 3 in existance in the world - it also shows that boutique games is a problrmatic thing, if there's no chance they will become available when there's further demand. People, and manufacturers, should always be reminded of that possibility.

[@mm-si3qi]

When you look at the list zee, Tom, and Mike did for top 2024 games, they had 26 unique games, 14 were crowd funded, 12 were not. Amongst those 26 games, 24 have some form of retailer selling the game. Whether it is in a boutique style, or a major board game retailer, they had someone selling a version of those games. The reality is that they are available. Are they the kickstarter deluxe versions? No. But this is a myth that these aren’t available. You can get them. If they were flexing some Brazil exclusive market games, or Japanese market games exclusively from the Japanese game market where they make sometimes just a 100 copies of the game, I would be more sympathetic. But this idea that almost all crowd funded games, like 8 out of 10 or 7 out of 10 games are just exclusive to crowd funding isn’t true. Many come back with expansions and offer the base on crowdfunding platforms, many end up going to retail, and very rarely can I never find a game on the secondary market on BGG. Only time I struggle is when it doesn’t have a market in North America. But kickstarter games? No. No issues.

[@nshaw1299]

@mm-si3qi I don't know if it's true, but you anyway neglect the question of price. A game costing over 80-100$ might as well be 'not available' to most people. I can't say 'games should cost such and such', but I'm pretty sure the board game revolution of the past 30 years, created much much more games who 'when available' cost a ton of money. (removing the factor of price due to low availability). Hoping for a retail version is an important wish in many cases. I'm not saying this applies to the games in the dice tower lists. I'm saying that 'wishing for availability (reasonable price included in that)' is a nice thing to say, to your audience, if you have a less available game on your top games of last year's list.

[@mm-si3qi]

@@nshaw1299 of course I neglected price. That wasn’t the issue. The issue was if a game is on Kickstarter is it available afterwards. It almost always is. What does pricing on Kickstarter have anything to do with the starting comment? If we are talking about pricing, your local game store almost sells it at full price. They can’t afford to offer discounts. People like miniature market can afford discounts, so it is almost always cheaper than kickstarter. But if a game was 80-100 on kickstarter, your local game store is selling it for that price, and online you might see a 15-20 percent discount. But you almost always have a retail edition, which means that games that start on crowdfunding are getting to people and they aren’t these rare sightings where people who bought into the crowdfunded site have a game no one else does. If a game was 80 dollars on kickstarter, MSRP is also 80 dollars. If you were priced out on kickstarter, you are more than likely priced out at retail. So I don’t get your follow up. Just because it starts on crowdfunding doesn’t mean it gets any cheaper when it hits retail. The retail edition that you are backing will either be cheaper because they want you to back and get guaranteed numbers, or the same as the retail amount if it goes to retail.

[@michaelbahrs2853]

It also sometimes depend where you live. I bought slay the spire some month ago at a retailer.

[@jentelecluyse6487]

I really miss Mike sometimes on this channel. But Joey makes up for this... OMG, he makes me laugh so hard :D

[@joaorobalo7594]

Mike was on the previous Top 10 of 2024 video, with Tom and Zee. It was posted one day before this one

[@jentelecluyse6487]

@ yeah I know. But he used to live there and be frequent on the livestreams

[@Straddllw]

I agree with Jason, Tom! Beige euro = good. Especially if its 2-4 hrs long euro. Jason Levine needs to play more euros. He doesn’t have access to the right players at dice tower to play with him and thats why we are not seeing him have played all of the hot new euros thats came out. No Andromeda’s Edge? No Unconscious Mind? What about Shackleton Base? Inferno? Men-Nefer?

[@darrenfraser1164]

What or where is this official rule change for Harmonies? Been looking and can't find anything.

[@e-manr.486]

So, when are we going to have Top 10 Beige games? 😉

[@XCM666]

03:41 Tom, have you been watching Pitch Meeting videos?

[@Joe_WS]

Tom is SO handsome without the hat. Just wanted to say this as a straight man.

[@mattvucu6706]

Tom knows this. He wears hats to ensure he doesn’t have more than 12 kids…

[@Joe_WS]

@ amazing 😂

[@shanedunlop8748]

why doesn't the dice tower like harmonies?? the game is awesome. should be on more top 10s

[@gamera2351]

Joey EASILY has the best taste in games at the Dice Tower. Not since Sam Healey has a reviewer fit my style. I think Joey is even closer to me than Sam was.

[@andrewclifton185]

1:05:16 Wow awkward minute there

[@benediktcz]

spark riders looks a bit like ftl: the boardgame

[@RichardMajeno]

Great to see Jasons top 10!! More gaming machine!!

[@chucktelschow]

I don’t think understand how crossovers work on these videos lol

[@thecrabbydice]

The gamg is a good game in theory but its like playing a chess varint ... if u dont know poker its a headache to teach

[@SamArmstrong-DrSammyD]

As a root hater (I dislike king slayer domino) arcs is fantastic

[@arcubal]

Starting to see a lot of 'group think' between the DT folks 😉 but also recency bias (after all Essen, the con of eurogames pumped out all of these recent releases)

[@bradymccann]

Can’t really avoid the group think when you’re all trying things in the same house for the most part! I don’t mind it. Their lists are definitely different

[@BlueGiantMedia]

If it can succeed while being beige it must be because it is mechanically solid. I'm convinced that this is the line of thinking. While I am definitely mechanics first, I will be the first to admit that there are plenty of beige games that are also trash.

[@1979kubala]

I think the peoples top 10 will change a bit give another 6 months or so. Its a bit soon as unless we kickstarted certain games and went to essen we dont have alot of chance to play as much as theyre just comin to retail. The top 10 are all either big kickstarters or were readily available games.

[@thedicetower]

Oh sure!

[@garryknox1614]

Disappointed I didn't see River of Gold on the Peoples List.

[@PickleTheHutt]

Completely agree on Primal regarding the minis. I will never buy the game with those giant minis. It's not even about cost as much as space. You could get every expansion easily in the base game box if they weren't minis (I actually prefer flat tokens to standees but either would be ok). I am not purchasing a game that requires that much space for minis that only serve to show facing. Knock 20% off the price with cardboard tokens and I'd be all-in. I'd possibly even purchase at normal price if it came with alternate nice tokens. I could make my own but that really shouldn't be necessary when spending that much on a game.

[@nirszi]

These lists just show me how weak to my taste this year was.

[@joelbergvonlinde1389]

I can’t believe Endeavor: Deep Sea wasn’t on any lists. That game is so great. And almost nothing like the old colonialism game it is built on

[@thedicetower]

I can't speak for the others, but I just haven't gotten it to the table yet. So many games! I bet YOU haven't played all the ten on my list! :)

[@joshjenson8111]

Intarsia would easily be in my top 10 of the year, Tom is so wrong about that game Good job Jason 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@albertfajarito1]

Too bad Bruce Campbell is not a nerd/geek else he would be a dream guest in DT with Joey. But Bruce does character voices and he has lots of them from listening to podcast he guested in so having him for a campaign game or D&D sess would be the way to go. He has lots of old timey voices from the 1920 ~ 50 I was thinking AH would be a good setting but the card play would probably turn him off immediately.

[@miseryguts36]

I really wish you wouldn't talk over each other so much!

[@johndaniels9095]

Why is everyone so mean to Jason?

[@Patronux]

I know, right? TDT always says it's just friendly banter, but Jason only takes it, never dishes it out, and that's why it comes across as everyone being mean to him, specially Tom

[@joeferreti9442]

LotR Duel is not better than 7WD.

[@danharshman]

Yes it is

[@deeza85za]

@@danharshman it isn’t

[@danharshman]

​@deeza85za you had to edit it isn't? Even your keyboard doesn't believe your lies!

[@bjohn55]

But everyone knows the new games are better than old games

[@danharshman]

@@bjohn55 old games, straight into the garbage.