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Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
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A special deluxe edition reimplementation of Puerto Rico featuring enhanced components including miniatures and metal coins with all expansions and a new solo mode
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- the nomination lists are more important than the awards because you can go out and just buy any of these and play them.
- We're nominating them now, and as I always say, the nomination lists are more important than the awards because you can go out and just buy any of these and play them.
- These are going to be games that are fantastic to teach to someone who is not necessarily part of our fantastic little world of games. Something to get them in the door, get them excited about board gaming, get them introduced to all these amazing things you can do on the tabletop now.
- And so, we got together a group of 50 plus people, that's Dice Tower staff and the other reviewers, different reviewers, and we vote on the nominations, and so we're going to present them to you.
- Well, too bad to each of those nominations because you have to go up against the other four. That is a tough slate.
- if you enjoy heavy strategy games, you were eating well in 2024.
- This is a category for games that play really well with two. It doesn't mean they are exclusively two, although that's usually what is nominated, but it's just a great game for two players.
- This is something that for the last several, several years has become an increasingly large segment of the board gaming hobby.
- Not only are those like pretty strong solo games, but they're also some of the games that were mentioned in top lists of last year. That shows where the category has come.
- So, these are games that do something different. We see a lot of the same stuff, which isn't necessarily a bad thing because same can be good and comforting. But, something that does something unusual or different or feels fresh, here's some games that meet that category.
- My goodness, you now have to ask every time you sit at the table, 'Wait, is this cooperative or competitive?' That's something that was unheard of, you know, a decade ago even.
- I used to not really appreciate how good party games can be.
- So, this is going to be just that implementation of the theme, really immersing you into this world and this setting, uh doing something cool, or maybe just showing you a different kind of light on a thing that you're familiar with.
- I always find it odd how the new designer category often also every year seems to dominate best games of the year category, and I like that a lot.
- Artwork is something that just walking by a table, you can convince me to play a game just by showing me a good box cover. And I think that it's something that can We talked about the theme, can really sell that, but it's that first entry point in the game, and can grab your attention.
- Games are a total production, and what this category is about is saying, 'This is the most impressive full productions of a board game we've seen this year.'
- Now, in this category, we have 10 um 10 nominees, and they kind of encompass the whole package here. You know, we're we're looking at the mechanisms, we're looking at the theme, we're looking at the artwork, just all of it. Which one brought its best to the table?
- Games that are fantastic
- Then our next one is Codenames, a game that really brought party games back into the light, especially word team party games.
- This has sold a gazillion copies.
- And that is Pandemic Legacy Season 1.
- But this is the game. It wasn't the first legacy game, but it was definitely the one that people that kind of exploded and changed
- changing the landscape.
- Talk about a game that truly shook everything up.
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