Board Games of 2024 - Half Year Overview

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Board Games of 2024 - Half Year Overview
It's 6 months gone and not a ton happens in the board gaming world in the first half of the year. So this is a quick round up of how the year is going so far. My 3 surprises, disappointments, anticipated and best games so far of 2024.
But there's way more games to come yet this year. . . .
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
03:30 - Surprising Games
08:52 - Anticipated Games
13:55 - Disappointing Games
25:52 - Best Games
32:52 - Summary Thoughts
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@raduprofeanu6891 5 дней назад

Finally somebody said it ... "Wrymspan is Wingspan with extra fluff". Thank you good sir. Persoanlly if i am going to play a multiplayer solitair game i would rather play a streamlined game.

@RichTea83 5 дней назад

Thank you for doing what you do. Even when I'm not into the games you're reviewing, I'm definitely squinting at your heavily-stocked shelves behind you for ideas 😆

@TheBrokenMeeple 15 часов назад

I appreciate that!

@nkorppi 10 часов назад

Love myself a themeless brain-burny mechanical game if it's done well. As you know, Inventions is my favourite board game by a Huge margin. It has a fast setup (by far the fastest 4.7 complexity game to get going) and it leaves extreme room for player improvement over multiple games. This makes it the most refined Lacerda. There's so much room for smart creativity... Or should I say "inventiveness". The recent Lacerdas have been better and better at being Pandora's (sand)boxes. I think this may be the least luck-dependent Lacerda. I'm not against theme, but a great abstract is just fine for me. Love Sankoré too, although setup is much more annoying.

@a-c-m 5 дней назад

Some notable potential additions for best games released so far in 2024: - Ezra and Nehemiah (Garphill) - El Burro (Spielworxx) - Harmonies And for most anticipated: - Civolution (by Stefan Feld but NOT on Queen Games but on Deep Print Games)

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

I would try Ezra and I want to try Harmonies. Civolution...........not so much, it's a Feld. Why the publisher distinction?

@a-c-m 5 дней назад

@@TheBrokenMeeple Because Deep Print Games has some really good and experienced people behind it and it won’t hence be „just another Feld“ like his various games coming from the Queen Games serial production line (and are massively overpriced). It looked interesting to me but then I heard Paul Grogan singing the praises so I got very intrigued. And I like the fact that this is a civ game without some military confrontational elements (which I rarely like in civ games - I rather have a pure engine builder or a pure area control game. A mix between those rarely works well).

@ericthomas5694 5 дней назад

Civolution sounds like it will be a VERY different Feld game. We will see!

@seraphiccandy21 10 часов назад

I'm sorry but Harmonies is so overhyped. Its a decent little game but not worth the 8.2 score on BGG. 7.4 at best

@TheBrokenMeeple 10 часов назад

@seraphiccandy21 I'll certainly temper expectations

@ferrum5 4 дня назад

"Inventions: Evolution of ideas" is a fantastic game. I like it more than On Mars and Kanban. The theme is not as easy to get as it is in other Lacerda games, but after a few games, you get it.

@TheBrokenMeeple 4 дня назад

A good strong theme doesn't need 5+games to make itself clear to people.

@nkorppi 10 часов назад

It's a masterpiece. Beyond other Lacerdas and also beyond other all time favourites like Barrage or Brass: Birmingham. It's sculpted to offer huge strategic depth, without having a convoluted setup or rules that would need to be relearned every time. It does "complexity" better than any other game.

@ferrum5 6 часов назад

@@nkorppi I really love Inventions. Right now, it's my favorite board game, my number 1, I just think it's perfect for me

@elikurtz729 4 дня назад

Thank you for the overview! Slay the Spire knocked it out of the park for us :D - also we do quite enjoy Forest Shuffle with the mountain expansion as filler. Think many of your presented games are not yet released here. SETI really sounds interesting and triggers my inner physicist :D I do have two play groups - one prefers Wymspan, the other Wingspan or so they claim :P ... I just think of them as different games and do enjoy both with these groups :) ... Tastes can not be disputed I guess :D Otherwise Black Rose Wars, Primal, 7th Citadel and Deeprock Galactic 2nd Ed. are the most recent arrivals and will hopefully see play soonish. We do love crunchier co-op puzzle adventures ^^ Wish you many fun game rounds :D

@gregorys9629 3 дня назад

Yes, Slay the Spire is my favourite release of the year so far too :)

@seraphiccandy21 10 часов назад

Perch is coming out this year! Also surprised you didn't mention Botany being released this year as it had quite a large backing. Locally, I'm also looking forward to the dutch release of Rebel Princess as till now its only been available in Spanish/English in my country and all the text on the cards is Spanish :/ I would prefer 100% english but the import costs are just way to pricy for a little card game. So when its released in dutch at least it will be a language I can read...

@ericthomas5694 5 дней назад

Best new games I’ve played this year so far - Pampero, El Burro, 7th Citadel

@ilqrd.6608 4 дня назад

Ohhhhh Pampero! Do tell!

@idjester 5 дней назад

well done as usual... explained well... good job

@boriskirov3953 4 дня назад

Great summary, thank you!

@matissmatiss3126 5 дней назад

Yeah, I liked Wyrmspan, but can’t disagree what You said here. Bird theme was better, art was better, etc. And definitely the book for Dragons is the most useless component ever 😅

@BoardGamePairofDice 5 дней назад

Great episode! Love the content!

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

Thank you!!

@Static442 5 дней назад

Wyrmspan for me improves Wingspan massively, I hate the feeder dice with a passion and balancing the action points in Wyrmspan is a fantastic improvement.

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

Oceania sorted out any flaws I had with normal Wingspan. The dice never really bothered me and for a light game, they fit just fine. I get that people want to minimise on the luck front but then you are still drawing dragons randomly anyway.

@levenzaha 3 дня назад

I’m very surprised about the wyrmspan commentary. Not because you prefer but it the reasons 1. I really saw very little hype around the theme. Most peole I know, myself included, rolled their eyes on the ridiculous dragon theme. The dragon book pretty stupid too 2. That is to say the reason I was excited about wyrmspan was because it fixed much of the game play issues I had with wingspan, with the lucky dice, the lucky personal objectives, egg spamming, and compete lack of interaction 3. Saying “why would I play this when I have wingspan” but then also commenting that you need expansions is somewhat contradictory 4. And of all things… the metal coins? They’re totally fine and are actually kind of neat. No better or worse than anything in base wingspan 5. I personally hated wingspan, not because of birds but because of the frustrating game play. Wyrmspan removes much of the frustration and replaces it with very interesting choices. I wouldn’t call it amazing, the length to luck ratio is a bit high, but it’s more fun to explore the combos without the “oh well, I didn’t get worms”

@klaus3856 5 дней назад

I look forward to learning more about Black Forest and SETI, maybe Civolution as well. Shame about Inventions, glad I did not back it.

@stevekingswell9143 4 дня назад

Great cast, thx

@VikingKittens 4 дня назад

Wonderful video, Luke! I am excited to get my pre-ordered copy of Windmill Valley, and you have put Black Forest on my radar. Cheers to you, good sir!!

@TheBrokenMeeple 15 часов назад

Thank you!!

@srpad 5 дней назад

My top three favorite new for 2024 games that I played so far (not necessarily in this order) are 1. Let's Go to Japan 2. Star Wars Unlimited and 3. Raising Robots.

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

I guess Raising Robots was 2024.........wouldn't make top 3 but it was fine, just took way too long and I'd rather just play Wingspan.

@Datasun7 5 дней назад

Great video Luke! I think the worst thing I've played by far this year is Botany (I think it's just delivered to backers so far), I don't think you'd like it either Luke haha

@Duxa_ 5 дней назад

OMG! Sequel to Glass Road!!! How did I not hear of this before.... must pre-order! Love Uwe!

@robinsmith6847 5 дней назад

Unconscious mind is my first ever backed game since getting into the hobby and can't wait for it to arrive. Look forward to the review.

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

Hoping they'll give me an advance copy but i won't hold my breath.

@tehpickle1250 5 дней назад

Paul Grogan on Gaming Rules did an unboxing the other day, and I was pretty much salivating the whole time. Do want now please.

@robinsmith6847 4 дня назад

Yeah I saw that too. Fingers crossed you get that copy man.

@GardeningPropaganda 19 часов назад

Our favorite shiiiiiiiiirt!

@warpo007 5 дней назад

I could smell wymspan a mile away. you confirmed it.

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

It's staring us all in the face, but SM is a master of marketing!

@RaduStanculescu 5 дней назад

I don't care about most Stonemaier stuff, even older ones, so I was ready to skip Wyrmspan. I'm glad I didn't though. The track that TheBrokenMeeple doesn't care about replaces the randomness of the dice tower. It also improved on running the same row over and over again by making such runs limited and more costly each time. If you want a more strategic Wingspan, this is it. (and I don't care about the theme anyway)

@Punkve1987 4 дня назад

I bought Dune: War for Arrakis in order to see if war games are for me. It turns out that they are, as this one is fantastic (and an actually thematic Dune game). Now I am looking forward to A Gest for Robin Hood to see if a 2 player COIN game can be for me as well.

@EngMadison 5 дней назад

Ive only played Donut Shot and Captain Flip. Donut Shop is nice, Captain Flip is forgettable. Ive heard good things about Cascadero.

@goldengriffon 4 дня назад

An interesting concept for a video, though I think it went on too long. I'd suggest heavier editing. For an overview video such as this I don't know if we need so many detailed thoughts. Or perhaps separate videos for each category.

@aSyphodias 4 дня назад

Only got one game from 2024 and it was a KS: Primal the awakening, my first and probably last mini heavy game. Love it though. After that I just keep buying older 'proven' games usually and even that has slowed dramatically. This year I got: Whitehall mystery, Long shot the dice game, Ashes Reborn and the loop.

@warpo007 5 дней назад

have you done a themless top 10 yet? must have.. would be a lot of roll & writes if it was me

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

If I have, it hasn't been for a long long while. It may be time to renew it.

@rachelandryan 5 дней назад

Surprised not to see Leviathan Wilds on this list (aka Shadow of the Colossus the board game)

@Punkve1987 5 дней назад

I bought Wyrmspan thinking that even though I love Wingspan, I have played it to death, and so a change of pace might revitalize the system... I will be keeping Wingspan.

@thelinuxlich 4 дня назад

My gripe with Merv is that it looks like a game where players can specialize in one of the sections of the board and it would be reasonably balanced, but it isn't, and the wall building event is boring, no one will ever suffer from that if playing marginally good.

@S.Kapriniotis 4 дня назад

So many good games, no, fantastic games from previous years that I haven't played yet, so being a slow half of a board game year does not look that bad to me!

@mrbovinejoni569 5 дней назад

The best (and only) game I've played that was released in the first half of 2024 is Salton Sea.

@siriactuallysara 4 дня назад

We did get Dawn of madness Finaly

@david6294 5 дней назад

I kind of agree with you about Wyrmspan. Have played it about half a dozen times and that's probably enough. Will stick with Wingspan.

@ViscountCharles 5 дней назад

I'm with you on Wyrmspan - that Wingspan is a fine game, whereas Wyrmspan changed the theme to something I could not care less about, has more complicated mechanisms, but no greater payoff. I'll stick to Wingspan and find out about real birds, rather than stare at made up dragons which definitely don't. Also with you on SETI; I spent most of Expo demoing it, and I'm very keen to acquire a copy and be able to play it properly. As for Lacerda games, I didn't like CO2 when it first came out, and everything since then has been worse. I'm still trying to decide if Windmill Valley is good, bad or indifferent. But a few games of it, then a switch to Lost Ruins of Arnak on BGA, reminds me that one of them makes my soul sing, and the other .... does not. I think it's the way that WV makes chaining actions so much like hard work, whereas it's really easy in Arnak. And yes, Black Forest is an auto-buy for me.

@warpo007 5 дней назад

I'm a huge Lacerda fan, but i tend to agree, a few of his games get very dry with crunchiness.

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

Just his recent stuff - I still adore the 4 I own.

@junyanliu3621 5 дней назад

@@TheBrokenMeeple which four they are ? just really curious

@coltonbeatty6117 5 дней назад

@@junyanliu3621 He has Kanban EV, The Gallerist, Lisboa, and Vinhos Deluxe Edition by Eagle Gryphon Games (although, a lot of people say the original 2010 rules version of Vinhos is better). I don't care about any of them, though.

@junyanliu3621 5 дней назад

@@coltonbeatty6117 I am surprised he does not have on mars.

@coltonbeatty6117 5 дней назад

@@junyanliu3621 I think he's said that On Mars, for him, is just too fiddly with special "and then" rules and such, and too burdensome for set-up, explanations for new players, etc. for its own good. But, I think he's said that it's not "bad". So there's that.

@elainetyger 3 дня назад

How can you say you were disappointed by Wyrmspan when you never expected anything from it in the first place? Was there ever a point when you said hey I want to check this out and then you were disappointed because it wasn't as good as you expected? I just don't understand the terminology of disappointment that you were using

@TheBrokenMeeple 2 дня назад

More than I'm disappointed that even when taking something as excellent as Wingspan you can still make it worse!

@stevekingswell9143 4 дня назад

Thank you so much for the Arachnophobic warning, you have saved my life!

@TheBrokenMeeple 2 дня назад

:-) Yeah I appreciate it when I get them too!

@jokerES2 5 дней назад

The Sankore mold stuff delaying actual delivery is going to significantly impact how it will do in 2024, if it even gets out by the end of the year. Still don't expect it to be great, but it'll likely be a 2025 disappointment for me.

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

Mold? Oh I missed that - ewww.

@jokerES2 5 дней назад

@@TheBrokenMeeple Yeah - that's what drove the publisher to delay the game out. The earliest delivered games had issues with mold in certain bags. Unsure if it's a replacement of those components or an entire reprint.

@rockinteenwop 5 дней назад

For me, surprise game is Skyrise Delulxe (over produced but great game play), looking forward to Windmill Valley and unconscious minds. Big disappointment is Fractured Sky, but Inventions is a hit with us. Wyrmspan is a miss compared to Winspan. 🤠👍

@steveg9939 5 дней назад

Not much for me in the games you mentionned. Was interested in Sankore because I really liked Merv but since it’s more complex and fiddly I will pass. I also will keep playing Wingspan.

@geertvanderslacht7223 5 дней назад

Now I have to play Windmill Valley. I do not see the hype, but as everyone is praising this game, I must miss something.

@elqord.1118 5 дней назад

Same here. Nothing wowed me but it’s getting stellar reviews so far

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

I wouldn't go stellar, I mean I gave it a 7, 8 if you want to play solo, it's certainly a good game, but remember we've not had the best year so far.

@fotiospetropoulos8101 4 дня назад

Completely agree with Inventions. Huge disappointment.

@KenDudd 4 дня назад

Really happy to hear that Black Forest is shaping up nicely!

@tehpickle1250 5 дней назад

This post ran longer than I expected, sorry! I have to admit I find Inventions unnecessarily labyrinthine, and just *too* dry. At the end of the day the chain actions are just so... uncompelling, and that's pretty much all it is. There's just not enough there, and to me it feels like it has been deliberately designed to hide that fact(imo) in an arbitrarily tangled up mess of wires that exist purely to waste time. I think it's obtuse, and worse, I think it has been designed to be obtuse *on purpose* just so us fans can say "look how complex and therefore good it is." I've never gotten that impression from his games prior to Weather Machine, but that feeling is particularly strong here. I am really hoping and praying that the upcoming Speakeasy will be a thematic and mechanical "return to form." On a very surface level, it certainly looks that way, but I have to admit my patience at excess rules that seem to exist for the sake of existing (and I say that as someone that loves On Mars and everything that comes before it), with no interesting thematic justification is wearing thin. Both Weather Machine and Inventions are very guilty of this, and I'm getting a bit jaded with spending £150 to see the same recurring issues. I love Vital Lacerda designs in general but somehow Inventions comes out of the oven feeling simultaneously half-baked AND overdone. I guess that's quite an achievement?

@coltonbeatty6117 5 дней назад

Managing the challenge that Inventions offers, pretty much feels like cheating at a choose-your-own-adventure book: look ahead to the outcome or two (plus 'bonuses'/'bennies') that, at least appear to, have the highest "game-theoretic value" at that juncture, and then reverse-engineer the way to accomplish them. Not too much one can do to meaningfully affect other players' paths through the game either. I have to give credit for the analogy to a user who rated and reviewed Inventions (very low rating) at BGG.

@81pariahsg 4 дня назад

It's been quite a disappointing year release wise. Highlights for me are expansions.. probably the forest shuffle and distilled cask strength expansions. Shipwrights easily worst 2024 game I've played this year.

@matt_stowball 5 дней назад

6 Nimmt is a terrible game?! 😱

@warpo007 5 дней назад

so edgy Luke :P

@TheBrokenMeeple 5 дней назад

Someone has to be! :P

@ralfn9629 5 дней назад

100% agree on your Wyrmspam-rant -- but unlike you I have NO interest in playing it. So -- everybody hyped about this BUT the 2 of us. Theme is terrible. How can this be better game-wise than Wingspan? The guild-track might be good, but I like the dice-birdfeeder. Love all these phantastic bird cards. (And unlike you - I even like the big box.)

@uriangatobataclan 4 дня назад

Serious honest question: Why do people dedicate so much time to games they don't like? I know games meny people dislike and I love and viceversa. Can we agree on changing sentences like "This game is boring" to a more somewhat professional "I find it boring"? I think the ponit of listening each other is sharing our passion about the hobby, not ranting too much time about things we dislike. And this is not personal, I think this happens to most board game content creators.

@abelb.7997 2 дня назад

Because that's what critics do. It's assumed that when you're watching a critic, they are giving their opinion. If they had to preface every positive or negative comment they made with a disclaimer that others may find it better or worse, it would be tiresome.

@TheBrokenMeeple 15 часов назад

Basically what Albelb said. Disclaimers are only a thing because these days everyone is either afraid of their own shadow or everyone is way too easily hurt by the smallest of comments on the internet. It should be always obvious that it's purely opinions, but as critics we are supposed to speak our mind and tell it how it is, not sugar coat it.

@Tom_McCall 4 дня назад

"No sequels". Number 1 best game...... a sequel.

@TheBrokenMeeple 4 дня назад

Black Forest is fundamentally different from Glass Road other than the dials. When I say sequel I'm talking more about say Tainted Grail and TG Kings of Ruin. They are different games but one is a direct sequel of the other.

@jamescartwright1150 4 дня назад

The only ones I've got released from this year so far are Seaside and Fateflip: Washed Ashore. I agree about Wyrmspan, was disappointed they didn't make one about bats and other flying creatures.