at the time of recording, there were 370 games, and for you wise-asses, yes, more games have been added since then, at the time of upload (today), i've since played 387/389 of them (and will continue to catch up)
Top 10 played for the first time on the website #10 3:00 Illustori #9 3:47 Kingdom Builder #8 4:32 Beyond the Sun #7 5:05 New Frontiers #6 5:49 Letter Tycoon #5 6:38 President #4 7:39 Can't Stop #3 8:36 Targi #2 9:50 The Lost Ruins of Arnak #1 10:56 Perudo Top 10 games already owned that are also on the site #10 12:01 Love Letter #9 12:14 Forbidden Island #8 12:49 Teotihuacan: City of Gods #7 13:24 The Crew #6 14:00 Seasons #5 14:53 Viticulture #4 15:41 Agricola #3 16:23 Railroad Ink #2 17:22 Welcome To #1 18:13 6 nimmt! Top 10 most played games #10 19:16 Dice Forge (9x) #9 19:30 President (10x) #8 19:38 Potion Explosion (11x) #7 20:14 For Sale (12x) #6 20:39 Railroad Ink (13x) #5 20:48 Seven Wonders (25x) #4 21:34 Welcome To (28x) #3 21:52 Can't Stop (29x) #2 22:09 6 nimmt! (81x) #1 22:31 Perudo (163x)
i never really played too many board games outside of the household staples so seeing videos like this one always reminds me that there is literally a board game for everything
If looking for some different games comoared to old classics, My favorite board games include Cosmic Encounter, Love Letter, Gaia Project, Great Western Trail, Galaxy Trucker, Through the Ages, Spyfall, Jaws of the Lion, Puerto Rico, and the greatest of all time; Agrciola with the card drafting 10/7 variant.
@@Justagamerhere1 I am going to teach agricola to 3 other people. All our first time playing it. Should we do the card drafting thing? What is it? Anything else I should do?
He did a video on 10 (? I think) classic board games, and what to replace them with, if you like an aspect of a classic board game and want something better. (eg: Monopoly. Space Base or Machi Koro are better)
Although they’re raising the membership price soon. Still affordable, and if you start premium before the price goes up you’re apparently locked in to the current price for the foreseeable future.
I had a similar BGA related goal in the past few months. Not to play all of them, but I wanted to become an Alpha Reviewer, which meant having 750 games played. It took a while but I was so proud to get it done and I love testing the alpha games on there! Can't wait for games like A Feast For Odin, Burgle Bros, and Isle of Cats to get released to the main site. Congrats and keep the board game content coming!
Yup. My mom plays it with me, and she can't remember the name, so she just calls it "Farm 'n Starve." Loooove Agricola. My no. 1 most-played game on BGA (50 times).
Hello SungWon, I have never been into board games, and never owned anything above the basic scrabble or monopoly. I played Catan once and really enjoyed it, which left me so surprised that board games didn’t have to be so bland (and that they could be so expensive!). Through lockdown I discovered your board game series, especially the ones along with your dear wife. And they inspired me to purchase my first game, Azul! I have ADHD and I’m trying to get through med school, the lockdown really fcked with me, because I became so addicted to my smartphone and to the dopamine rush I lost track of real life and literally lost all motivation to do much in terms of my college life, because we had a long hiatus from the hospital, before being called in for emergency duty. My life was an utter mess, but then I gradually managed to wean myself off my screen dependent dopamine rush and slowly return to using my brain and getting involved with real life because I managed to supplement my entertainment with board games! I’m eternally grateful to you! My collection now includes Catan, Wingspan, Terraforming Mars, the Crew, Forbidden island Architects and Coup! I do wish you all the best. Special love prayers and good vibes for you.
Seriously thank u for this video! I discovered BGA during lockdown too but I'm so overwhelmed by all the choices that I just keep replaying my favourites :D my most played is cubirds with 284 games because I just like playing it while eating breakfast. Also Alhambra is something I love playing online but wouldn't IRL, because I don't fully understand the logic in how the walls are allowed to be placed, so I like how BGA does it for you.
We call it "Direktor und Arsch" So "Manager and Ass" So best of both worlds, I guess! That said, the rules are slightly slightly different between the rules of "Arschloch" The person playing the first card can't put a card on top anymore for example. This gives the last player the chance to trump and go first next, because there's literally no chance that a higher ranked player comes again. In Arschloch you play until everyone passed. The seating order actually matters and you change positions based on the finishing order every turn. In Arschloch, you just stay where you are. But when switching you know who comes after you and when. Lowest, i.e. not worst, cards are getting exchanged with highest cards depending on your position. In Arschloch the Highranking player can just give whatever cards suit him best. When you have 4 twos you don't really want to give away 3 of them and keep a single one, but maybe give away a 3 and two 4s for example. Not here, those three 2s are going regardless. The low ranking players have to give their highest cards obviously. I don't know about president, but it sounded like the high ranks just steal from the low ranks two cards? The way we play it depending on the amount of players, more cards get exchanged. Going from the middle you exchange one card per rank. So with 6 players first and last trade three cards, the next trade two cards, then one card. With 4 players only two and one cards are getting exchanged, but with 8 players UpTo four cards are getting exchanged. And so on Uneven player numbers have a player that doesn't exchange at all. That said, we don't have special deck or game for it just grab a regular old card deck. 53 cards. Four suits, Ace to King, 3 Jokers. To many players? Grab a second deck! I believe we once played it with three decks and like 12 people lol
That is not the name I knew for President that I learned as a kid. I learned the roles as "President", "Vice President" for the top two, and "Vice Ass" and "Asshole" for the bottom two, and the game, of course, was called that.
The funny thing about president is that, I played it for years before learning its real name, when my friends taught it to me they basically called it "the biggest Moron" (but in spanish) so instead of being named after the 1st place they named it after the last place (and yes, the next lowest player was the Vice-Moron)
Carcasonne on BGA is the perfect turn-based game to play. You never get lost on what your goal was, you can just look at a board in any state and figure out the best move is.
Thank you for doing this video. I have a premium membership on Board Game Arena but have only played 2-3 games. This week I started searching for games to play with my adult children during our weekly call and it occurred to me that I should give the site another try (I can only play Jackbox games so many times!). You've given us several to try. The thing I like about Board Game Arena over other sites like Tabletopia is that it makes it easier for me and my kids to learn games we've never played before because a lot is automated. I gave up on Tabletopia (which, admittedly, is prettier) because trying to learn the controls AND learn the game sucked all the fun out of playing.
This is a strange coincidence, I was literally just looking at the new games they have added recently and want to get back into BGA for the first time in awhile.
@@HappyBeeGaming I’m a ProZD subscriber already so I was just referring to the timing of the upload. If it was just a RU-vid suggestion I would not be surprised, that stuff is sometimes too good at tracking
If they won't sponsor you, I would love to see you do a 10 Worst Games list in retaliation Was Ice Cold Ice Hockey any good? It looks like it's very faithful to the concept of hockey, but could easily turn into a boondoggle
I really enjoyed that one (though play when your opponent is available online as turn-based takes forever). I liked it enough I made a physical copy through The Game Crafter! Kindof the reverse flow for typical BGA games. :)
Hey really good to see you getting a DLC voice in MH Rise. Monster hunter is one of my favorite franchises and I'll definitely be picking up that DLC voice.
Me and my partner literally got memberships because of your recommendation - you're right, they should sponsor you lol Thank you for introducing us to like 400 games we had never heard of before
12:57 OMG I Love that game! Don't really get to play many board games if any most of the time, and this one take a bit to set up IRL but I love how quick and fast pase it as you make a mad scramble to get finish before the island completly sinks
Insanely appreciated video! I’ve been playing on BGG on and off for about 4 months but catch me playing the same 5 games on rotation! Excited to commit and try these out with a trusted recommendation
What do you think are the worst games on the website? I always find it interesting to hear about bad games because you also learn about game design by knowing what doesn't work.
I always love watching your board game videos!! It gives me insight to new and cool board games that I don't even know exist. I now own a few of your recommendations (Escape the Dark Sector, Paperback, Just One) and always love finding new ones to purchase. Question: can we gift you board games that we would like to hear your thoughts on? Congrats on the goal!!
i have been playing a TON of 2-player only and 2-player friendly games with my wife on here. since 7 Wonders was mentioned, I'll say that we LOVE 7 Wonders Duel and always have a game of it going.
Great video - my son and I use BGA to play when he's away at college. We love many you mentioned like Viticulture, Seasons, and Can't Stop. We were also obsessed with Through the Ages, Terra Mysitca, and 7 Wonders Duel, to name a few. Looking forward to trying the ones you mentioned I haven't played - especially New Frontiers since we love Race!
I'm glad you mentioned President is in P5R because while you were describing it, that was all I could think of, lol. That minigame alone shows me how addicting it can be.
Dang, we have a lot of overlap in board games we enjoy, I’m SO excited to try out the games I haven’t tried yet. I love your board game themed content so much, keep it up!
My favourite board games from Board Game Arena: 1. Seasons, Sort of mean and imbalanced but otherwise super fun and awesome mechanics 2. Coloretto, Super simple but really engaging and unique card game about collecting different color chameleons and balancing when and how many you do 3. PI, A detective deduction game that's about trying to figure out a crime, criminal and location based on clues collected 4. Buttons, a game about assembling different colored buttons in a line to win, but the way you place your buttons can end up hurting you for a turn if not careful 5. Concept, this is sorta like charades/draw and guess but with a board of various icons, different colored tokens and with a bit of creativity a way to distribute/stack those tokens on top of the icons to bring about a certain meaning 6. Cats, Sorta like liars dice but with cards and a Schrödingers cat motive which is very charming. Basically you have cards that represent cats alive, dead, an empty box or a "heisenberg" which represents a wild card (i.e. either alive or dead) 7. Gaia, a truly fun and different world creation game where how and what you play affects your influence in the world as you play against your opponent 8. Hanabi, a cooperative game about assembling fireworks where you can see everyone elses hand besides your own. Oh, and no one can say a word, and through playing cards alone you have to coordinate colors and numbers played accordingly 9. Tokaido, a game about traveling through the island of Japan and trying to be the one that experiences and gathers the most on their journey, the key mechanic here is that the one most behind is the turn player always These are the games I remember best, but there's tons of cool stuff in there. I remember quite a while ago when that site had a modest amount of games and barely anyone knew about it. I'm glad it's getting the recognition it deserves.
In my friend group we call the game 'President,' Capitalism. Or Caps for short. First leaned it in Boy Scouts where they called it that. Many fun hours playing that one.
Super Enjoying the board game content! Have you ever tried to make some how-to plays? For example I know of one very cool Coffee themed deck builder, which is coming soon, and the devs were looking for cool people to make how-to play videos so the players can easier unterstand the game basics!
Never heard of this website but I'm excited to give it a try! Honestly you should've contacted them if they wanted to sponsor you for this.. or maybe you did and they said no :D
I’m a relative newcomer, despite loving board games as a child (I really wantedAtmosfear: The Harbingers one Christmas as a kid and loved it). So far I really enjoy Arkham Horror The Card Game, Horrified, Wingspan, Everdell and Azul. I just bought Ticket to Ride Europe, Pandemic Legacy, Codenames, Mysterium and The King’s Dilemma for Christmas. Can’t WAIT to get stuck into them all.
King of games, like some kind of Yugi…oh? Also, good job playing all the games on BGA! I’ve been on there for years but only scratched the surface. Do you only play real-time and with friends, or is there a chance that someone opening up a table for randos could see you slip in?
You should make a video on what you think are the best cooperative boardgames out there! I'm totally not asking because i need fuel to convince my friends to play with me now that we've found board game arena
In BGA I've found my favorite boardgame of all: Saboteur. I just love how everyone is just an asshole towards each other and the game modes like "Egoist Miner" and competitive make it even more intense.
I’m developing a war game right now and videos like this make me want to develop 20 more games. I really do just like the variety you have shown and giving excerpts of what each game is and how it plays. After writing this I’m going to sketch out a game based around drafting, farmers, and sorta mystical elements. And the game in my head plays on a 3 tiers system first tier would be resources, second tier is farmers and workers with higher value resources, and top tier is very expensive cards but very useful cards that are used to win the game. The game would be best played with 4 people as the mystical element would be used to destroy your opponents resources and farmers. The game is also a draft heavy game so each game you will in theory have a different deck and strategy. This lose game concept was formulated in the time it took to watch the video. Due to the fact that I have not really been exposed to many board games growing up. So yes, thank you for the video.
Congratulations! That's a goal of mine too, but there are a lot of games that just don't look appealing, sometimes it's 2-hour-games, and even if the site does a lot for you, sometimes you really have to learn the rules yourself and I just don't want to. By the way, I find it hilarious that you're calling 6 nimmt "Six nimmt" because it's actually "Sechs nimmt", it's German and translates to "Six takes"!
I would love to see the 10 worst games you played on the site. Even if they were 'We were half an hour into this and were just miserable I wanted to die'.
Love BGA and your lists... but where is the 10 worst games list!? There are some absolutely stinkers on that site and would love to see the companion video with the bad ones. Where are you at on Ice Cold Ice Hockey for instance?
I'm surprised to see President on here, I haven't played it in a long time. It's hard to play offline in general since the only people I play cards with insist on euchre
I've been looking for new board games, but have a limited budget for new games. Board Game Arena sounds amazing and I'm going to try out all your recommendations. Seems like it might work as a good preview to see if I want to buy the physical game.
(Brazil) Parabéns pela iniciativa, senti falta de um jogo chamado "the Boss", particularmente um dos meus favoritos...Mas só de Teres posto "president" no top 10 já concordo contigo kkkkkk
