Top 100 Games of All Time - 30-21 

I love how Wendy is presenting the list. Great presentation and personality! Add her to the group more often, please!

Absolutely hilarious having a hat disappear each round, including the one on Tom's head at the end! Nice little touch of humor to those who noticed 😄

I was defending Mike some days ago for being mocked for liking Tokaido and today he went and trashed my all time favorite game, GWT. You can go after him all that you want from now on : )

Wendy is great, brings a lot of energy and interesting takes!

I’ve got the Mike DiLithio song in my head for days now. Thanks, I guess?

I’d watch Zee learn to play Root on the app. I haven’t taken the learning plunge on this one either.

Petrichor is a game I discovered because of Mike. I've never been so happy to be introduced to a game I'd never heard of before. It's sitting happily at my #5 and I'm also salivating waiting on my collector's editon.

I'm watching list for the first time. Counting the days... And you know what? We're almost there...

As Mike mentioned, Garphill Games usage of similar iconography is very intuitive once you play a couple of their titles. Also I really like how the characters from one game crossover into other games in the same or different series. Definitely underrated synergy!!!

lol, Zee brought the teacher an Apple. What a suckup!

I haven't seen Cthulhu Death may die before, but that is an amazing cover.

Mike, you are worth it.

Another great list, always sad when the end’s in sight!

And yes, I agree. Radlands. It's Top 50 game minimum. It's way up there and it surprised me.

great group of games! this was fun to watch :) also… we love playing Near and Far in arcade mode! 🙌🏽🤓💗

Really surprised by the lack of love for the game Brass: Birmingham among the three presenters other than Wendy. Well respected game and production.

Zee, great picks in Unmatched and Everdell! Love those games :)

Is there a chance there is an additional microphone input that OBS is picking up? From one of the cameras, or maybe from the MacBook microphone? The sound is like someone’s hand is on a microphone…

Decided this year to track the games you all mention according to 1. Games I want to play (w) 2. Games I’ve played (p) 3. Games I own (o) Crossover in this stretch: Mike: (3) #28, 25, 22 (3o) Zee: (4) #30, 24, 23, 22 (3o, w) Tom: (5) #30, 28, 25-23 (2o, p, 2w) People: (5) #30, 28, 24-23, 21 (p, 3o, p) Totals (this stretch): Own = 10 Played = 3 Want to play = 3 Totals (overall, trying not to count repeats): Own = 22 Played = 36 Want to play = 17 Notes: 1. Want to play (w) can mean I want to play it for any particular reason. Own (o) and Played (p) can crossover obviously, but I don’t count a game in both categories, if I own it, it won’t be on the played list. 2. Set 30-21 holds the record with (10) games under my owned (o) category. Mike, Zee, & the People share this record with (3) games appearing in a set of ten. Mike has two sets (40-31; 30-21); Zee & the People (30-21). 3. Set 60-51 has the record with (10) games under my played (p) category; (4) other sets have (6) games each. The People hold the record with (4) games in a set of ten (60-51). 4. Sets 100-91, 90-81, 80-71 share the record with (4) games each under my want to play (w) category. Mike & Tom share the record with (2) games in a set of ten. Mike has three sets of ten (100-91, 90-81, 80-71); Tom has 1 set (30-21). 5. The highest crossover for: Games owned (o): (10) Mike, The People Games played (p): (15) The People Games I want to play (w): (6) Mike, Tom 6. The People & I have (30) total crossovers Tom & I have (26) total crossovers Mike & I have (22) total crossovers Zee & I have (16) total crossovers

I'm glad to finally see some love for Unsettled. I freaking love that game

22:29 the top right of the insert video lines up almost perfectly with the card on the table.

looking forward to the top 20

A Dominion app would solve my main complaint with Dominion. The constant counting of "I have 3 actions and 5 buys... Now I have 3 actions and 4 buys..." maybe that is due to limited experience and mainly playing the base game but that slowed the game down a ton for me a got annoying.

I almost never hard disagree with Tom but Masmorra is reeeally fun and I haven't had a bad game of it. I can't figure out why Tom is so harsh on it, frankly.

i checked through a bit of the video. I am very positive that the issue was coming from Wendy. She has her mic on her left lapel, so when she turns her head toward Tom & Zee, she is breathing directly onto the mic. 50% of the time her head is not turned that way, so it didn't happen consistently, which was why you didn't realize it during the couple times you checked. I have done sound engineering as a side gig for years, and lapel mic placement is typically the #1 cause of issues with wireless mics (other than dead batteries...)

Do you guys know Richard Bartle's taxonomy of Player Types? Tool where he put players of MMOs like World of Warcraft into four different types (Explorers, Killers, Socialisers and Achievers). From the discussion here, I feel like Tom and Mike are different types, Tom being more of an "Explorer" type whereas Mike may be an "Achiever" type- not just because Tom likes exploration in games, but he's talked about co-op games being too hard and he just wants to experience all the content. So he'll play a game on "easy" in order to see that content, whereas for an achiever playing on easy would be cheating.

I agree Sleeping Gods is his masterpiece.

...and so we interrupt today's top 100 list for *Top 10 Cave Games*

I think that the mic problem is a 5th mic that is being rubbed because I am looking at the panel and they aren’t doing anything to their mic that would make that noise, it’s something behind the camera

Backed for $50. Hopefully this can help fix the mic issues. :D

pretty sure the mic noise is comign from someone not on the video

I had been thinking of ordering the retail edition of Radlands, but after seeing Zee's #27, I ordered the Super Deluxe version.

I got Adventureland from a friend. Really enjoy it. Wish i could get the expansion for it.

Wendy, I found out about Five Tribes from Tabletop as well! As a matter of fact I found out about a lot of games from that show. But not as many as from The Dice Tower, and that’s a fact!

As an audio engineer I'm a little confused why the person behind the camera can't just listen to the mic's one at a time, without turning them off. Without knowing exactly how you're set up, but from looking at the equipment I see, I suspect there are simple changes you could make to your rig, that would make it much easier to identify sound issues like the ones in this episode. If it wasn't for the face that I live in Sweden, I would have offered to come by and help you out, but as it is it might be easier for you to find someone closer 🙂

In the end summary, People's Choice 28 is Space Base, and 27 is Gloomhaven JOTL

The audio sounds like someone is occasionally breathing into their mic. The switch of Tom's mic didn't fix the issue. Perhaps the nostrils of one of you is angled right at your mic. Try putting it higher on your shirt closer to your throat. Just a suggestion. It's been happening in almost every video. On a side note, Lexi really likes how Wendy presents the People's picks! Great job Wendy!

Yes Mike with the Petrichor love! I really like it but can never persuade people to try it.

Love the hat countdown

Second list in a row that I've crossed over with Mike and The People! #30 - Cartographers #29 - Paleo #28 - Aeon's End: Legacy #27 - Spirit Island #26 - Space Base #25 - Brass: Birmingham #24 - Stuffed Fables #23 - Everdell #22 - Above and Below #21 - Horrified

Live Shows segment suggestion: Poll the audience. The war between Dominion and DC Deck builder made me think of it. Love all you guys since the first top 100. (I miss the high pitched tone intro sound)

Not sure someone addressed it, but there is an app for Tom’s #25. Implementation is great.

It's weird that there isn't an app version of Dominion. I had never played it before but they released a digital version recently on steam and I've played more of it than any other game last year I think, rofl. There are a lot of deck builders out there, but seeing the kingdom cards you got in a game and trying to figure out which strategy or cards you want to focus on is so satisfying

Zee probably compared Death May Die to Arkham Horror LCG and decided one is more easier to get to the table.

Aren't there more than three games in Haba's family line? Adventureland, Karuba you mentioned, but there is a few more like Honga and Mountains? Or are those in some other line?

#Mikefanclub Honestly Tom's "hate" towards Mike is the catalyst for some of Mike's best jokes! Keep it coming!

Zee + Root = make it happen! we will be there!

*Listens to Tom’s Dominion app rant while using the iOS app* 😁 It’s been in beta for months, it’ll be out soon

I guess we're just not meant for Rosenberg's games with an huge variety of resources and buildings, but Caverna's gigantic building option board was just too much.

Tom starting off strong with the negging

Is the retail version of Marvel United worth it? Or is the game need many or all of the kickstarter-exclusives to be worth it?

It's nice to see Masmorra getting some love. I totally agree with Mike on that one.

Tom played the Root app tutorial live and we watched so... I think we can handle Zee doing it. Only difference would be that Tom played Root irl prior to the app.

Zee’s comedy is perfect

The best traditional combat deck-builder: Shards of Infinity. Also @RoyCanaday calling back to a few lists ago, Spectre Ops Broken Covenant fixed that misprint a while ago. Unless you just don’t like the red board, I’d suggest people just buy it instead since you get more stuff. Same with Dead of Winter - Long Night has much better components + modules, just different characters.

It looks like there is a fifth person somewhere messing with their mike all the time :)

57:30 Tom screams for a Dominion app when there is one (and a PC version)! He must not know yet, but yeah, it took way too long to have a standard app version of this game. (The expansions on the app are pricey though!)

They just do the "mics make noise" so people will go and support the Dice Tower kickstarter!

Hey Tom, I’m curious as to why Dominion over Shards of Infinity?

Surprising to see Arkham LCG dropped for Zee…..I think this new Edge of the Earth campaign would really bump it back up! Easily one of the best. Hopefully he finds some time for it.

My #24 is Everdell as well, Zee! Huzzah!

I think the sound issue is placement and they are rubbing / breathing. New mics are not needed.

the new anniversary edition of Carcassonne is amazing and I got a few promos and smaller expansions and added it to the box. not going full on big box with this but a little variety is cool. DEF don't need to own everything for this game [same way I feel about Dominion]

"Troops on a map"? But "Mates on a map" was right there! All fruit are vegetables (edible part of a plant) and a fruit is the reproductive part of the fruit, but not all vegetables are fruit.

Can we get get a the Dice Tower's top 10 blinged out games in the library??? Pretty please????

Don't see it in the recent comments, but the People's Choice List at the end is wrong: Where it has 27 - Arkham Horror LCG, it should be Gloomhaven: JOTL, and G: JOTL at 28 should be Space Base. I was entering everything in my spreadsheet for s&g so heads-up to anyone else using the end lists.

Everdell I REALLY wanted to like... and I DID like the tight worker placement, but the card goals and other goals just seemed like search the deck for a certain card and the luckiest player doing that had a HUGE point advantage. Maybe some of the expansions would fix it but I didn't want to invest in them without knowing.

Thunderbirds is great...sometimes. Others you just get bad luck with hood rolls and the game crashes to a halt with nothing you can do about it, which is hugely unfortunate :/.

There is a Dominion iOS app in beta currently. seems pretty good and expansion support is planned

I agree with Tom in 25... not about Dominion though XD... but about the fact that some "classic" games tend to become even better once the other "new reimaginings" past the hype... IMHO Dixit is better than Mysterium and Obscurio and it was the 1st one of that kind. I also like the 1st Azul to be honest, I feel even though more "basic" they also feel cleaner to a certain extent and I tend to enjoy their simplicity :) ... I am happy to see Five Tribes again (my #1) and I know it's going to be higher on Zee's list :P

Tom: "The two main complaints leveled against [Dominion]...'oh look! All these new things deckbuilding games can do!' and that's great - that doesn't make this one bad suddenly." Also Tom: Caverna is better than Agricola and Agricola therefore should no longer even be on the Top 100.

My top 30-21: 30 Sheriff of Nottingham 29 Star Wars: Rebellion 28 Super Mario: Level Up! Board Game 27 RoboRally 26 Ingenious 25 Dream Home 24 Sub Terra 23 Acquire 22 Mice and Mystics 21 The Republic of Rome Time's Up (Title Recall) is my #91 (Tom's #29). Deception: Murder in Hong Kong is my #80 (Mike's #27) King of Tokyo is my #54 (Zee's #30) Sub Terra is my #24 (crossover with Zee's #29) Orléans is my #64 (People's Choice #25) Any others mentioned may be higher on my list...

THE DISAPPEARING-HAT CONSPIRACY! Pink Hat... 12:40 - 12:50 Tan Hat... 21:33 - 21:43 Rat Hat... 29:38 - 29:45 Grey Hat... 39:33 - 39:42 Black Hat... 49:54 - 50:02 Dark Grey Hat... 1:01:06 - 1:01:13 Purple Hat... 1:08:02 - 1:08:08 Mustard Hat... 1:16:04 - 1:16:12 Tom's Hat... 1:23:29 - 1:23:34

The people's choice selections better reflect the games played by people who don't have a business account solely for purchasing games and who do not get free copies of games to review. The people's choice list should be called the realistic budget list.

zee is not realizing that DRAFTING cards Plus the polyomino game makes for a really amazing game. Lots of tension too as people snatch up the color or shape of cat tile you NEED lol. This is by far the best polyomino game made, and it's a great drafting game as well.

I expect a stretch goal for the 2023 Kickstarter to be Wendy and Tom spelunking. Or maybe just a live play of SubTerra.

I think Tom may have been thinking of Jump Drive when reviewing RftG at #27.

Ok, the bashing of Hansa Teutonica has come up a few times now...why? It's a perfectly pleasant board with wonderful detail, why the hate? Just because it doesn't have super heroes and fully saturated colors? Also curious as to what was 'broken' in Lancashire? I've only ever played that version of Brass and have never felt there was a problem with it. Curious as to what was so wrong that has led Birmingham to be considered the better version by so many.

So has Sleeping Gods been on everyone's list this far?

I'd like to see Zee playing the Root app!

59:00 What Mike said about Dominion is absolutely the case for me. I've already played games with deck building and so I wasn't really impressed with Dominion when I played it. Hell, I was kind of unimpressed. Having to buy a card that is JUST points to put into your deck that does nothing until the end when you score is pretty boring. I don't generally like deck builders anyway, but Dominion didn't really do anything for me. I'd rather play Star Realms or Mystic Vale over Dominion.

Would 100 percent watch Zee do the app.

#30.Road to the Whitehouse #29.Rail Baron- old Avalon Hill game ❤ #28.Command & Colors "Ancients" #27.Acquire- old Avalon Hill game 😁 #26.Shogun- old MB game 💯 better than "Axis & Allies" #25.Smash up #24.Bunny Kingdom #23.Roll Player #22.Splender this game will always have a place at my table. #21.Formula- D That's my 30-21 games

Mezo is such a great game and the ability to change tactics on a given turn is awesome. Definitely worth picking up! 7th Continent may be the single most disappointing game I have ever played. The lengths I went to in order to get a copy, only to play it and not enjoy it. I really just did not internalize how much of a survival game this was when I saw it. definitely a case where a demo or watching the game be played would have saved me some money.

I absolutely love Cthulhu death may die!

I actively avoid Dominion since my first play, it has so much text and as a first time player you have such a disadvantage compared to regular players. For a few years I thought deck building wasn't for me, just because of Dominion. After enjoying Century Spice Road, El Dorado and Great Western Trail I realize it was just Dominion that stresses me out.

You need like someone wearing a complete black suit to sneak in and adjust microphones when there is a mic problem. Or you zoom in on someone's face or on Tom's hat and secretly adjust it. ^_^

Hey I like this people's choice girl! Please come more often!

The mic issues I think is from something breathing out of their nose directly down.

What's up with Zee at the end of #27? LOL!

Lol Birmingham didn't remove any mechanisms from Lancashire. If anything it removed one edge case, and added three in its place! It is more replayable in terms of variety though which is why it is more popular.

I'm really curious what the bet was that Tom lost to Mike.

I am intimidated by the root app and would watch Zee learn

King of Tokyo Dark edition is THE BEST version of this game.

What’s going on with the noisy audio mikes yikes.

Soooo... what deck builder is better then Dominion?

I was introduced to deckbuilding through Dominion and everything Mike said applies to me :) . I have moved to DC purely because I am a HUGE fan of DC comics and have the big multiverse box.

“Give me an app!” Want to make a ton of money within a year? Begin to train to be a developer. In response to Tom, you may not realize how short we are as a people on developers. We are in a severely short supply, so old games, like Dominion, don’t get the priority. We just don’t have the talent to do all the development that’s needed in all sorts of areas.

Does Dice Tower publish a composite rankings list?

There's a problem with the mics......oh no tom always sounds like that