Top 100 Games of All Time - 90-81

[@scottytedrow9272]

May we always have Mike and Zee!!!

[@henrikwakman7776]

Don't take Tom for granted😉

[@carla8478]

@henrikwakman7776 Maybe only mentioning Mike & Zee is in a way an extra compliment to Tom, like he's a default given. Got to have Tom. ​

[@dimmok8344]

@@carla8478I mean it’s his channel originally.

[@dimmok8344]

@scottytedrow9272 I agree, I laugh the most when it’s the three of them

[@BeefyChud]

I said the same thing when it was Sam and Zee. Rip Sam

[@unrealed]

2 top 10 lists I’d love to see: top 10 games that have become too hard to jump into and top 10 games that are different every time

[@michaelfoley7577]

Oh, I LOVE that second list idea.

[@johnsonnavinr2522]

Top 10 games that have too many expansions

[@gamera2351]

Arkham Horror the card game definitely should be on the first list.

[@welersoncarvalho2471]

Top 10 Stories in boardgames please

[@welersoncarvalho2471]

Or top 10 Narrative boardgames

[@IndianaGeologist]

You three are national treasures.

[@m4rw03l]

Mike caught me offguard by correcting chat on the WU TANG Clan. This is so funny and mind-boggling. 😂

[@ZD10house]

Mike knows his music! I would never dare play Hitster with him.

[@mrbastos]

Listening while at the gym was dangerous. Lots of funny moments, almost dropped my weights. And yes, Wu Tang is for the children.

[@kathleenlonergan]

You guys had me laughing out loud through this whole video. Thank you for being awesome - as always! - and bringing such levity and joy.

[@soulside]

Zee was on fire today

[@rpduerr5600]

He was quite.... Enhanced!

[@TheSneetchBelly]

I love that Balderdash is on Tom’s list. So unpretentious. Its a great timeless fun game.

[@SoundsLikeZach]

Christmas immediately followed by DT Top 100 is the most wonderful time of the year 😊

[@doggosplosion]

DT Crew: Zee always has out of print games from so long ago on his list. Zee: Smacks down FINSPAN, "How do you like them apples"

[@JonReid01]

They were so surprised 🤣

[@Highbrow42]

Thumbs up for Mike shenanigans

[@Bleuchz]

Zee, A Flash in the Span was right there!!? =)

[@linusottosson5425]

Bruce, I just want to say THANK YOU! 👏🏻😂

[@michaelfoley7577]

I've actually heard a good number of people put River of Gold on the end of year lists. I really want to try it.

[@donbooger]

I catch my shoutouts often, makes me wonder how many I have miss. Its an excellent thing to buy on the gamefound campaign. - Bryce Tonkin

[@appleseiter15]

90. Port Royal 89. Fractured Sky 88. Meadow 87. Fuse 86. For Northwood! 85. Space Base 84. Star Wars: Outer Rim 83. Android: Netrunner 82. Spirit Island 81. Bullet

[@Steve-L]

Loving Tikal, glad to see Zee has it again!

[@ivanbarilar8768]

Zees float/sink solo only tip was perfect. :)

[@clintjackson6613]

Viscounts and Parks are some of my favorites from this list

[@Bocaj6487]

I like the Balatro mention. I've been having a lot of fun playing it lately. Do you guys play Balatro?

[@thedicetower]

Mike and I play it a LOT, Zee has played it some. It's one of my favorite apps ever - Tom

[@salmonblox]

@@thedicetower I KNEW you would like Balatro, Tom. I just knew it 😅

[@ExoticGaming-ld3fy]

81. Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth 82. Kinfire Delve 83. Star Wars: Unlock! 84. Baseball Highlights: 2045 85. Picture Perfect 86. Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion 87. Nemo's War: Second Edition 88. Splendor Duel 89. Twilight Struggle 90. Undaunted: Normandy

[@bensgoogle]

PARKS baby! Zee is the undisputed Voice of the People, just…not the People who forgot to vote for it apparently.

[@angelafortunato87]

I really like Parks, it's a great game!

[@daniellebackus819]

Oh good to know that there’s an adventure mode in LOTR journeys in middle earth. When I played it, it was so hard to pass the skill check and couldn’t progress. Makes me more excited to try it again

[@stevewithington1787]

Nice to see Vital Lacerda getting some love with a couple of games in the top 100 (seriously doubt that there will be any higher). The "heaviness" of his games is highly subjective IMO. I really struggle to see why people say The Gallerist is one of his lighter games because for me (and I've played them all) it was the game of his where the actions were most removed from the theme. Games like Kanban and Lisboa are generally rated as heavier but everything you're doing just makes sense which makes it far more intuitive. For this reason it's by some margin my least favourite of his games. Beautiful board though.

[@davegildersleeve4316]

Great video guys !!!!! What the heck is jackbox? LOL

[@joeferreti9442]

"Viscounts of the West Kingdom" is pretty good, rondel with deck building and set collection and much more, a bit heavy on the bookkeeping though

[@steverigatones7264]

‘Call me now’ went under appreciated

[@davidrath7828]

I've always loved Parks. Don't love that Keymaster is no longer producing the game with its original artwork.

[@Dalmatinac3]

In terms of Wingspan, Finspan, the one i'm enjoying now is Reforest. A tiny card game that gives me the same feeling as playing Wingspan or Finspan. Easier to get to the table, easier to setup, quicker game. If you all are deciding on Wingspan or Finspan, try Reforest, you'd be delighted as to what it has to offer.

[@daniellebackus819]

Reforest is fantastic. I play it solo all the time

[@danhopper8266]

Every con I’ve been to I’ve seen Eclipse played

[@uplift-yourdailypickup6424]

Botswana is soooo good! Personally I like Mikes version (the Japanese version). I think the 25th century one is slightly too garish

[@chrismichael9556]

Dam props to Mike for knowing tical is a method man album. Niiiice .🙌

[@SaraJaneJinx]

HAHAHA, what a funny video 😂❤

[@searose6192]

I like the way Liboa looks...definitely not my type of game, but its pretty!

[@TheEternal792]

Did Mike get to play A Message From the Stars? Definitely a great game...one of my favorite deduction games, and an all-around top game from 2024.

[@eNVyBoardGaming]

I’m curious if Parks will make it back on the list with the 2nd Edition coming out this year.

[@mrlanglands7467]

Definitely would want to learn and play Formula E with Mike

[@searose6192]

Love Coffee Roaster.....what production issues was there? I bought mine years ago and it is the brown one....didnt notice any issues.

[@sorrowsong08]

Eclipse had a few expansions in 24, I believe.

[@adilmajid8785]

What does it mean when someone says they “like the cadence of a game?”

[@thedicetower]

Generally that means the flow of a game, its lilt, the way it gives tension and relief. Comes from the musical term.

[@adilmajid8785]

@ thanks! What do you mean by lilt?

[@creativeneko2405]

​@@adilmajid8785lilt is "a characteristic rising and falling of the voice when speaking [or singing]." So it seems like another word to further discuss the satisfying flow and shift of the game.

[@adilmajid8785]

@@creativeneko2405 thank you!

[@eNVyBoardGaming]

Also I’ll be curious to see how the new smaller GWT, El Paso is received this year and how it will compare. Maybe one Mike will enjoy.

[@Kensai_]

Come on Mike, get ahold of yourself! Is your 88 a new strategy to generate tension and drama? 😂

[@Joshua_Tymchyn]

Dang, I don't get the sass on Wyrmspan. It's by far my favorite of the trilogy so far.

[@MrPorko2c]

31:58 Agree with Zee. After getting into the hobby in 2019, starting light, and then playing a lot of heavy games (because I felt that’s what would make me a “real” gamer), I have begun to trend light/medium again. That’s just what I prefer - fairly quick games that are easy to teach and table.

[@lohengrindrd]

I have found other Lacerda games much easier than Gallerist which I feel to be the most difficult to grok. Lisboa actually plays very smoothly and in a much more linear fashion than the Gallerist.

[@JonathonV]

Not sure if we played it incorrectly, but Cinque Terre was so frustrating the one time I played it. The dice are rolled at the start of the game, and then you realise just how good or bad your cards are. Sure, you could get the resource on your card and get $1, or you could get $5 from the thing that randomly rolled high. Meanwhile, everyone else who needs that resource is sitting pretty and doesn’t have to worry about the negative points they’re going to sustain from their worthless contract not being fulfilled. All three of us agreed that we’d be content to never play it again. 😂 My other disagreement: Wayfarers and Scholars of the South Tigris all seem like very different games to me. Wayfarers has a bunch of little mini-games to pursue, whereas Scholars has a giant action loop that everyone is contributing towards. I’m convinced that this is the best series of board games ever made, but they really have very little in common (I suppose Inventors and Wayfarers would be the two that are the closest, but even they are quite different). The only common elements across all three games are that they reuse certain icons (mostly for different purposes) and involve dice placement and placing influence tokens on cards or in guilds. But overall, they’re quite different. And I’m surprised that everyone seems to think Scholars is more complex than Inventors, when Inventors is so much more of a point salad that you have to keep track of way more things. Anyway, glad to see Mike back! I always enjoy these lists!

[@keithsoules4740]

Dixit, Mysterium, Rear Window 👍

[@gozzywozzy485]

yay Ruination! such a great game

[@andrewplaysyellow]

I miss when Zee used to work for Arbies

[@friendofdavid1423]

Formula E would have been great for my collection, had it supported 2 players. Since it didn't, we never bought it.

[@runraggedrhino]

1:02:34 How would you say "longe-TI-vity" in Korean, Tom?

[@lesliem6084]

Zee, interested to see you liking Fin Span. After loving Wingspan, and still playing it years later, I was really eager to get Wyrmspan. But then I really didn't like it. So much downtime, such fake groupings, those extraneous uninteresting boards... So I was going to pass on Fish. But now maybe I'll give it a look. Thanks!

[@aronkleinsasser970]

I completely agree with you. Love Wingpsn, was excited for Wyrmspan but bounced of it pretty hard for much of the same reasons you listed. Most people seem to disagree with me. I would like to try Finspan

[@sauce773]

I hope they make a sleeping gods app or console version. Its a type of board game ill prefer to play digital.

[@Thebestdruid]

Many of the timestamps are labeled wrong, labeled Zee when it's the People, etc

[@Pithecius]

Parks’ drop might have something to do with the controversies surrounding ownership of the company? The second edition art debacle is too new to have had an influence on the voting.

[@TheEternal792]

I gotta disagree with Tom on Garphill game similarity. Their iconography and obviously they share the same world, but the gameplay on all of them is quite distinct. Even Wayfarers and Scholars feel very different, because even though they both have dice, the things you do with those dice are very different.

[@TheErnieforss]

28:23 Feels like fantasy flieght just makes lcg now. I'm not happy about it. My favorite moments in an ffg is moving plastic and discovering whats there and doing dice rolls for combat

[@Ian-R-Wilz]

Your Timestamps for 87 are mixed up. The people's is on Mike, Mike 87 is on Zee, Zee 87 is on Tom, and Tom doesn't have an 87 timestamp

[@garyfaust6769]

Root became a success and a lifestyle game. There is always more to learn. Game collectors can't be investing in less than 100 games.

[@funnymanfish]

90. Atlantic Storm 89. Keyflower 88. Say Anything 87. Stuffed Fables 86. Guildhall 85. Small World of Warcraft 84. Crokinole 83. Ca$h n Guns (Second Edition) 82. Pandemic 81. Wits & Wagers Party

[@joshjenson8111]

So many bad games

[@YourRump]

Stuffed fables is the worst piece of garbage I’ve ever “played”. Such a broken game it’s completely unplayable.

[@carla8478]

Thank u for submitting your list. I got to play Crokinole for the first time this past year. I enjoyed it quite a bit. And it was an extra huge hit witha friend of mine. Sorry others felt the need to be rude.

[@Fissi0nChips]

I play Eclipse semi regular at home.

[@xshadowscreamx]

The immortal Dixit

[@koalabrownie]

Oh no I just got the coffee roasters app. 1:16:00 Didn't try it though. I just play Explorers all the time

[@ZD10house]

Coffee Roaster is great, on the table or the phone. One of my favorite quick solo games alongside Deep Space D6.

[@rgmnetid]

1:01:18 I've not played, but this game strikes me as Monopoly done correctly.

[@FunkyFoxGaming]

Added A Message from the Stars and River of Gold to my list to try. Had some crossovers with you guys, but nothing in the same 10 yet. 90. Twice as Clever 89. Rome in a Day 88. Roll Player 87. Seep Sea Adventure 86. Tidal Blades: Banner Festival 85. Elysium 84. Rolling Realms 83. Roll for the Galaxy 82. 5 Towers 81. 7 Wonders Duel

[@carla8478]

I keep looking hard at Tidal Blades: Banner Festival, really need to play that one.

[@FunkyFoxGaming]

@@carla8478 Its a fun, fairly light game. Completely different to the other two games in the Tidal Blades line, its just set in the same world. But most importantly, it has great squishy fruit tokens.

[@darinherrick9224]

Yeah LOTR Duel is really really good.

[@lukasvitroler2178]

yay for shoutout

[@dbungart3044]

11:58 Mikes reaction was awesome lol

[@lostcause78]

1:34:30 - awkward.

[@TeChNoWC7]

I cannot emphasize how much I disliked Message From the Stars. Deduction is so hit or miss for me, and this was the sweet spot for 'everything a deduction game can do wrong' for me.

[@tulsaborn545]

59:07 *gasp Zee said "ization"

[@BoardGameCasualChannel]

I hope Mike finds a way to move back to Florida

[@notboardatall-yw6vh]

Wu-Tang and board games forever.

[@ZD10house]

The Dice Tower is for the children.

[@nshaw1299]

Dixit player count is confusing... Original Dixit 1st printing and Dixit Disney has voting mechanism for 6-player. Original Dixit latest printing is 8 players. Dixit: Odyssey (which includes that kid with the Troll you possibly mentioned who may or may not show a plumber's crack) goes to 12 players. Same game, just the box includes voting mechanism for different player counts. Not sure why not always give the 12 player option.

[@raum1988]

90 - Fort 89 - Looot 88 - Viticulture 87 - Power Plants 86 - Star Wars: Outer Rim 85 - Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering 84 - Genotype 83 - Wandering Towers 82 - Forgotten Waters 81 - Leaf

[@carla8478]

Ooh, excited to see Leaf mentioned. I've had my eye on that one. Keep hearing good things about Genotype too.

[@dramajoe]

90 -- Pax Pamir 2nd Edition 89 -- Deep Future 88 -- Rajas of the Ganges 87 -- Space Base 86 -- Anachrony 85 -- At the Gates of Loyang 84 -- Dragon Ball Z TCG (2014) 83 -- Crokinole 82 -- Earth 81 -- Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula

[@daniellebackus819]

Balderdash is a great game

[@Valcurdra]

Parks was out of print, a new reprint just got announced with different art due to loss of licence on the art, could be the out of print, could be backlash from the announcement, personally I didn't think the game was that good.

[@Jason-fv4rg]

Sorry, it's Jason Pootman!

[@jmlitwiller]

#SupportBruce

[@CresentSoul]

Mike is always about physter

[@dmck957]

Did people not get 25 picks last year and only 20 this year. Games like parks could suffer from that

[@vanyaserra1]

Architects is the worse. I think my order for the West Kingdom trilogy is Paladins, Viscounts and then if I must Architects. I prefer the South Seas trilogy except for Paladins I think that is my favorite of the two trilogies and I just played it on the cruise. I prefer Pillars over Architects, doesn't have the meanness. My favorite Garphill is and might always be Hadrian's Wall what a fantastic game.

[@BobbyReichle]

I have gotten all four mermaids once, ask me anything.

[@AleksandarDaGr8]

I’ve played it about 40 times, it’s happened about 4-5 times for us, seems like a good ratio to me. Tbf tho my partner and I tend to let the round go longer than others may

[@BobbyReichle]

@ i agree that it seems like it is the perfect amount of likely to happen. And it sounds like you two are well-matched then if you both let the round go!

[@joeferreti9442]

"LotR Duel" is not exactly a new game. It's a retheme and simplified version of 7WD, which was very popular and widespread and highly rated.

[@lawofgravity1979]

FOR REAL?!!!??!!

[@mindjohn]

I regret buying all three 20 Strong games because I also felt how random the system is across all three games. Solar Sentinels gives you 80% of what the other expansions bring IMO

[@brianbrinegar]

Mike’s games in this set didn’t seem like the best 100. Vindication and Formula E he sort of crapped on. He was more than excited about things in the 90’s than these. Wonder if he actually likes these better.

[@JamesSmithisMyName]

Please get Vabanque at DTW. I've been itching to play

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

Pandemic LOTR! 22:27 I thought this outburst was wishful thinking!

[@modemacabre]

Tom, every year you say it and every year you're wrong: Viscounts is the best of the West Kingdom trilogy. ; ) That said I really don't enjoy teaching this game.

[@jasonpmathew]

#TeamBruce

[@MrPorko2c]

1:24:28 to be fair, about a 10th of all board games ever made are from Reiner Knizia.

[@El-gu2hi]

fun lists! though the joey jokes are getting kind of tired.

[@searose6192]

😂 12:39

[@scottytedrow9272]

Floater 😂

[@MrTomahawker]

For me Viscounts arent only best in trylogy(by far) but also best out of any Garphill games

[@Dalmatinac3]

7 Wonders Duel is just better than the LotR version. Withe Pantheon expansion. I sold my LotR version. The map is just not needed. At first it seems great, but at the end of the day, its not thaaaaaaat impressive.

[@MrPorko2c]

Disagree. LOTR version has a more streamlined ruleset, making it easier to teach as a result, and therefore easier to get to the table while being similar enough to the OG game.

[@vizjereigaucho6469]

ABC

[@wedge47]

Zee "I don't play trash". So hard to even listen to this guy anymore.

[@boycebulldog]

It was a joke…