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Fun fact: I wanted to play Ticket to Ride so badly I drove across town to a comic book store. I found my former middle school best friend working there. We hit it off, I got him hired at my company. He met his wife at the company we both work for. They are married with two kids. I bought him Ticket to Ride as a wedding gift, because that’s what started it all.
I loved this game so much that every birthday and Christmas mom would get me this game! I have 14-16 Ticket To Ride maps! Japan is one of my favorite maps!
I agree. it had a lot of buzz before it came out but flopped when it did. There are a number of flaws in it. DEFINITELY does not belong in the best of the century list. it is extremely meh and flawed at best.
Wingspan is truly magnificent in game design and its rise in popularity in such a short space of time isn't surprising. Everdell would be the only game missing in this list for me.
If I am not reliant on reading glasses anymore I would like Everdell a lot more. The text is just too small to see the cards on the board. I am standing up to look at them through out the game.
This is basically a list of bestsellers (which is great!) and somehow a spectacular failure like SeaFall randomly inserted there like nobody would notice hahahaha
Games I was surprised didn’t make the list over games that did: Castles of Burgundy, Dune: Imperium, Root, Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition, Concordia, Orleans, Quacks of Quedlinburg, Sleeping Gods, and Dominion, and Stone Age. Considering all the top 100 lists out there, a top twenty could be made over and over again for a 20ish year span. Many of the games selected were pretty legit, Sea Fall was the biggest surprise since it’s not generally rated well on average in the board game community. Personally, Final Girl, The Witcher: Old World, Ra (the 25th anniversary edition), Lost Ruins of Arnak, Revolution!, Tash Kalar, and Onitama are some of my most played and enjoyed.
I wondered about dominion too, but that's a card game as there's no board to play on. I wondered about considering sushi go even a board game, but on technicality, it is :-p
@@crabring Games like Bohnanza, Schotten Totten, The Crew, and Love Letter are just a few popular games without boards that are considered board games among board game hobbyists. Board games generally encompass dice games, dexterity games, card games, tabletop war games, party games, tile laying games, and sometimes even tabletop RPGs like D&D.
@@KidJVI agree. His was a silly and snarky post; clearly the list was put together by some folks familiar with tabletop games. As a someone who has played and collected board games since the 1970s, I found the list just fine. I have played all of these, and only SeaFall fell truly flat for me. Two of these would make my personal Top-20: Terraforming Mars and Power Grid, and a couple more just miss out (Scythe). While some games, like Twilight Imperium IV, Root, and Twilight Struggle are phenomenal, they are also difficult to get to a wider audience-this list was probably targeting the casual player or non-players, Also, they’ve left off games newer than the past 5 years, with Wingspan being the most recent releases, sounds like on purpose. I’d bet they did that to fall out of the trap of the Johnny-come-lately (cult of the new); so while Ark Nova, Dune Imperium, and Hegemony are all great games, and may eventually be on a list like this. I think they wanted to avoid the trap of recent hype. And while I might have left off ‘Sushi Go’ (own it and it’s great!) because 7 Wonders was already on this list, for something completely different, such as Gloomhaven, if you asked 100 different board-gamers a Top-20 list, you are likely to get 100 different answers anyway.
I’ve been playing euro games/hobby games for over 20 years, and I actually agree that Ticket to Ride belongs at the top. It’s the ideal “modern classic” in this hobby. However Seafall is a BANANAS pick.
Monopoly, and Risk are great games, and have stood the test of time. Lets see how the games in this list do 50 years later, I doubt they will exist! Sorry is a great game for when you just want to relax with an easy game, nothing wrong with that!😎✌🗽 P.S. If you want an excellent, more complicated game, try Billionaire form the 70's. It too has withstood the test of time as it's still available though most have never heard of it. ✌
Monopoly hasn't stood the test of time. Few people who embrace modern games miss it. I'd play Catan, Carcassonne or almost any other game from the video over it.
@@i3loody-rainbow736 These are the top 10 games from one list I looked at, and I like them all except one that I haven't heard of so must be newer. Chess. Stratego. Monopoly. Risk. The Settlers of Catan. Scrabble. Battleship. Clue. I can see why some, or virtually all youngins these days would not like Scrabble as anyone versed in English would crush them. Sadly, English seems to be a second language these days behind slang, and ebonics.✌😎🗽 P.S. Two more games that are based more on skill, and knowledge are Pictionary, and Trivial Pursuit. I'm sure some of the newer games are great, but the old ones that have withstood the test of time are hard to argue with as people are still buying them in droves! ✌
Betrayal is SO MUCH fun!!! I have the second edition, which adds another level to the house, and about 25 MORE potential haunts. It is awesome! Last time I played, I was the traitor, and summoned a literal dragon! I won.
I was hoping to see Imperial Assault (or something like it such as Descent) where you have a progressing story line and plays like X-Com on a board. You constantly improve your characters as you find stuff during the missions. But this is Star Wars themed. And the story varies depending on if you won or lost the mission (sort of like the story progression of the old Wing Commander games).
While I can see the case for a number of games on this list, SeaFall really jumps out as a giant, “huh?” Plus it’s hard to make a list like this and not have Brass (pick a version, they’re all awesome), Gloomhaven, Castles of Burgundy, or (my personal favorite) Twilight Imperium 4th edition.
This is a cool list. As long as you enjoy the games you're playing with friends you're doing it right! There're so many board games out there that you could spend your whole life playing, and still only hit a fraction of them.
A friend of mine shared the theory that Monopoly shows how corrupt you can be if you buy properties or something like that. So we played to see if we would become evil by buying property and giving each other money.
Pandemic used to be my favorite game. The last time I played it was January 1st, 2020. My family won’t play it with me anymore. (I am completely serious!). 😂
You don’t need them to have fun with Pandemic! In fact, I’ve found that I enjoy Pandemic much more when play it as a complex puzzle, managing multiple roles myself. I get to live and die by my own dumb decisions, not those of my husband and son 😂
A list like this is pretty tough as there are some many good boardgames. “Camel up” is a great family exciting game for example that wasnt on the list. “Sleeping Gods” is another epic boardgame.
I like a lot of the games on this list. Ticket to Ride is a great game for new gamers. However, my favorite game - Smash Up - sadly did not make the list. Smash Up is great if you like mixing ninja with Cthulhu or fairies with zombies.
I developed the root of a board game in high school, but this was before the Internet, and I did not trust any company to help me flesh out holding the fear that it actually was successful, I would get screwed over. I considered a Kickstarter years ago but have since just let it fade away as a dream.
Games that should be in this list. Dominion - the original deck builder that is still being played today. Inspiration for countless number of games. Pandemic Legacy - not the first legacy game but it was the most successful. Using board games as a changing story-telling device Zombicide - the first truly large crowd-funding game.
Wingspan and Ticket To Ride are such amazing games for all skill levels. Great at all party events. For those who love worker placement though, there is literally no single better game than Agricola. The re-playability, strategy, and almost infinite occupation/minor combinations make Agricola the greatest strategy game there is.
I'm not sure how code names made the list but dominion did not. Both are card games with no board, but dominion has spawned something like 14 expansions and is quite epic.
I knew the minute I saw the list wingspan would be #1 or #2, even though it’s moment has definitely passed. No brass Birmingham, ark nova, the crew, gloomhaven, or viticulture though.
For Part 2 Root: Woodland Game of Might and Rite, Smallworld, Roll for the Galaxy, Blood Rage, Cascadia, Decrypto, Gloomhaven, Monikers, Quacks of Quedlinburg, Splendor, Secret Hitler, Arkham Horror, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, Cash'n Guns, Disney Villainous, Cosmic Encounter, Jaipur, One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Tokaido, Munchkin, Dead of Winter, Coup, Mysterium, Wavelength, Sagrada, and Dixit.
I don’t want to be disparaging, but this is such a strange list. There is a mix of games that are influential (though no longer considered the best in their genre) and some that may genuinely be considered some of the best (at least to a light family environment). In either case, Seafall is a very strange inclusion (given that it was so poorly received by critics & gamers, and the designer has apologised for it). I wonder if this list is just what the researcher happened across when googling “best board games” and the disparate results came out of multiple returns on that search. In any case, I don’t want to be overly negative and I am grateful that channels like this are helping to legitimise non-mass-market “hobby” games :)
While these are all great games I feel that this list is a little outdated, especially since all of the games mentioned on WatchMojo's Top Ten Board Games of the Century list are on here. Not that it's bad or anything, but not too many people enjoy Power Grid as much anymore, as there are better heavy games similar to it that have better looking boards. And you know Machi Koro got a sequel and a legacy version, right? Why weren't they mentioned here? And also where was Unmatched, Horrified, Nemesis and Gloomhaven? Those are games that definitely deserved to be on here, if not than an honorable mention at least
Before i graduated. We have a game design class. One of my few now sophmore buddies. He made his and it was awesome. The cards he made looked identical to something from red dead redemption. The color, the look. Also, i only heard of codenames from wildcat and nogla. But to me none of these count for me. I'm more of a life,mon,uno,cards against,jackbox. Kind of guy.
OOH AND SCENE IT TOO. Love that series. Yeah. DVD of something plus board game= awesome fun. Nick scene it, Simpsons, Disney, WWE dvd game, dreamworks trivia game. I may have to get that one again
I was really interested - and not disappointed, lots of games I do not know but seem very interesting. But I am very surprised that Zombicide has not made it on to the list. Cooperative, very tense, and every box has slightly different mechanics that nonetheless completely change the game.
boardgame enthusiast and boardgame convention worker here. this list is ridiculous. for example: only one of the highest kickstarter games ever (no exploding kittens) and only one of the top ten list from bgg (worlds biggest boardgame community side)
This comment section makes me realize how many people are still stuck in the mass market games of the 20th century (they might still be ok and fun, but... ) The equivalent of people raging about Pacman, Frogger, Ping Pong, or Tetris not being in a list of modern videogames of the 21st century lol
I personally love wingspan with 2 major critiques the Ravens are massively over powered ad the Hunting birds are massively underpowered. With each hunter you get a chance at about 50% ish of what you are guaranteed with any other bird you pick. [ undoubtedly confirmation bias but the RoadRunner has oddly never failed me except on my very last game ]
So my understanding of this list is that it is the top 20 board games for the masses, not people who are actually into board games. Its sort of like how movie critics rate things in a stupid way, or like how game lists dont include quality (like how battlebit is beating battlefield right now). For those that truly enjoy board games as a lifestyle, this list isnt for you. This is for the general population of people who maybe have 5 games on their shelf for when their mother in law and high school bestie might be in the same room.
