This is a brand new channel dedicated to the lesser-known board games! To provide some context for my future videos, this first episode looks at my TOP TEN FAVORITE BOARD GAMES OF ALL TIME (as of February, 2023). The games on this list are not necessarily the “undiscovered games” my channel will normally cover, but I wanted to introduce you to what type of gamer I am, what games I enjoy most, and how I got hooked on hobby gaming. I hope Episode 01 gives you some context going forward as you watch my future videos and listen to my recommendations.
WHY I STARTED THIS CHANNEL: Each year, thousands of new games hit the market, but only a handful become popular. The rest remain undiscovered. My wife and I love to sift through these endless piles of forgotten and undiscovered games from the past 30+ years and share our favorite hidden gems with you!
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Timecodes:
0:00 – Intro & Welcome
1:50 – How I Got Hooked on the Hobby
3:16 – What Type of Gamer am I?
5:12 – Number 10
6:59 – Number 9
8:23 – Number 8
9:45 – Number 7
11:54 – Number 6
13:24 – Number 5
15:47 – Number 4
17:50 – Number 3
20:18 – Number 2
22:18 – Number 1: My All Time Fav!
24:37 – Outro
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That’s actually an awesome Top Ten! Great mix of styles and designers! Ganges is the only one we share, it’s 7th on my list. But I’ve never played half of your list. I love worker placement and Caylus looks awesome! Great video!
Really enjoyed this list. Lots of overlap with our family
subscribed. been looking for a channel like this, really looking forward to hearing more about your undiscovered games. great top ten list btw. i love tigris and el grande. sooooo good.
thats a great top ten list. always wanted to try el grande & tigris but cannot find them here. cant wait for the ian o'toole's reprint of grande.
Would you believe I've never played any of these!
Awesome picks! Subscribed. Really like your tastes. I’d recommend trying Troyes. That’s a classic euro that you’d probably like.
Fun list. I have not played Merlin or Hansa Teutonica, but I can see why someone would put all the others on here. I actually do not like Caylus, but I can appreciate the design.
Based on your list, I‘d imagine you‘ve played Orleans. If not, it‘s definitely one I‘d recommend to you and others with similar tastes.
Cheers.
This was awesome! Excited for more content :). Dominion was also my and my husbands gateway game. And it’s currently my all time favorite game. Any chance you could do a video ranking the expansions and sharing which is your fav?
You like Amun-Re? Knizia himself rates this game among his best. Ra, El Grande and Tigris & Euphrates (both can be played online at boardgamearena) and Hansa Teutonica are for sure great games! In addition to these I also got Caylus in my collection, but not played it that much yet.
You put in this list some great classic games that are among my favourites of all time too… So now I need to check Merlin and Rajas of the Gange, for which I didnt pay too much attention when they were published!
Awesome list! I enjoy all the games on your list. Really look forward to your undiscovered games as we seem to have similar tastes.
Change out your number 1 for Troyes and your list is perfect!
Great list! Good luck with your channel! (By the way: are the dice in the logo supposed represent loaded dice? 6 & 1 are always on the opposite sides of properly constructed die. So I'm trying to suss out if this is a joke I'm missing.)
Great list! El Grande, Hansa Teutonica, Ra, Caylus, and T&E are all in my Top10 as well. I typically don't like Feld games for how point-salady they feel, but you've got me interested in Merlin. Will need to give Rajas a try as well.
Now I'm curious to see your 20-11 🙂
Just subscribed. Your top ten has a lot of overlap with mine, and I love your voice. Looking forward to more videos!
Love your list, have all of them except el grande and Tigris and Euphrates. Hope they get a reprint because nobody has said a bad thing about either of them
The theme of this channel is great. I love these underrated/unknown games :
– water of Nereus
– Honshu
– Kashgar:merchants of the Silk Road
-Queen’s architects
– Citrus
– Bora Bora
– Santa Maria
– Guillotine
Nice list and style of video. Looking forward to your undiscovered games. Surprised to see Merlin on your list, I love that game. Subscribed.
Only one I haven't played is Merlin. These games are all pretty popular though. I love hansa teutonica as well.
If you stick true to the name of "undiscovered games" , I will be a forever follower. I am always looking for hidden gems (rated < 7 on BGG). This list was not that, but that's okay given it's a top 10. But looking forward to more hidden gems lists from you.
Five Tribes, I tried it and had fun with it. Its like a similar game Manancala which is one of our native games in the Philippines.
Very solid list. Love that you have steered away from ‘cult of the new’ and lots of the bloated games now available. Nice solid Euro top 10 here
Aweosme list and awesome video! I like how you explain the games in such little time but with such eloquence, I just subscribed to your channel, looking forward to watching more of your content 🙂
I really like your list, here's a suggestion, could you make a similar list but using only games that came out in the last 10 years? Because that's when the board gaming industry really ramped up, but there are a lot of hidden gems as you call them that got outshone by the avalanche of so many major hits like blood rage, scythe, wingspan, clank!, Azul, etc.
I’m glad to see you included Merlin. I also have the deluxe BB, but haven’t explored all the content. I think I’ll try to table that this weekend, thanks to your vid! Subscriber here! Well done.
I’m sure you have these, but some of my “beige beauties,” as I like to call them, are – Goa, Thurn and Taxis, Race to the New found land, Saint Petersburg 1st Ed., Il Vecchio, Shipyard, Navegador, Oregon, Royal Palace, Arkadia, Diamonds Club: the list goes on…..I’m also a huge fan of the Rennaissance themed games. Signorie is one of my favorite games of all time. You should do a “my favorite Rennaissance-themed games” vid. With all these huge Kickstarter productions, I tend to go back to the simpler, old schoo euro feel and look! Some have better table presence than newer thematic euros.