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Year
2020
Players
1-2
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
Space! For millennia, humans have marveled at the cosmos. Modern astronomy gives us valuable insight about what’s happening in the universe, but there is still a sense of wonder to be had in looking up at the expanse above us.
In Stellar, you are stargazers, calibrating your telescopes to bring into view celestial objects of various types — planets, moons, asteroids, interstellar clouds, black holes, even satellites — as you create a beautiful display of the night sky!
You have eleven rounds to play cards to your telescope and notebook, building a night sky tableau. After that, you'll calculate your points, and the stargazer with the most point wins!
—description from the publisher
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Rob's Tabletop World Top List at 7:05 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Lack of communication regarding backer issues
- Suspicious behavior
- Disturbing radio silence
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And we're going to start with Plaid Hat Games.
- go to their booth. And I'm going to give you a game that completely shocked me.
- It is one of the best games I I've played this year, and we are just having fun.
- Shadowborne Games is killing it.
- It's Avalon. And Avalon looks fantastic.
- And the game that I'm really enjoying, and my grandkids and I are enjoying, is Wingspan Pocket.
- Bandai, um my wife and I went to the Florida Mall.
- The Gundam miniature game looks fantastic.
- The Gundam card game is absolutely fantastic.
- Secrets of the Lost Tomb 10th anniversary edition is coming out very very soon.
- you're going to be absolutely blown away.
- Now, on the negative side, one company that you should stop off and see is Academy Games.
- And it seems there is zero coming from their camp, from their website, or anything else.
- But, the radio silence is disturbing.
- go check out Dragon Dice, which is alive and kicking.
- It's a game that you will fall in love with and have a great, great time.
- So, those are some of the underrated companies and and games that you're going to want to check out at the fantastic Gen Con 2026.
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Gateway worker placement, easier for casual players and families
- Subtle player interaction allows for strategy manipulation
- Features real 19th-century art and artists
- Interesting strategic choices between small paintings and masterpieces
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Managing an art studio and creating masterpieces
- 19th century
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area control/majority — Collecting paint colors is based on majority of students at different paint piles, providing bonuses.
- Dice Rolling — Die rolls determine student placement at paint piles and paint collection.
- Set Collection — Completing paintings earns points and sometimes new abilities. Players can choose to focus on small paintings or masterpieces.
- Worker Placement — Players use students (workers) to collect paint colors. The game is described as a gateway worker placement.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Atelier is a game where you are managing an art studio in the 19th century trying to create masterpieces and various works of art for your patrons
- it's basically like a worker placement game okay but we like to consider it sort of a gateway worker placement game it's intended to be a little easier a little more for casual players families can play it
- it all does have actual 19th century paintings we paired with four museums throughout the country
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Chairman of the Board Top List at 7:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Highest placement ever on the list
- Interesting dual-layer drafting system
- Restrictive puzzle
- Multifaceted (notebook building, telescope space management, area majority)
- Differentiates itself from other card drafter games
- Great blend of mechanisms
Cons
- Can be a bit of a brain burner
- Drafting system can be obtuse at times
Thematic elements
- Building a constellation by placing cosmic bodies.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Competing for the highest value in telescope areas to score additional points.
- Drafting — A dual-layer drafting system where choosing a card for one area dictates drafting options for another.
- Hand Management — Managing cards for both the telescope and notebook.
- Set Collection — Creating runs of cards in the notebook.
- Tableau Building — Placing cosmic bodies (cards) into a telescope area.
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Quotes (from this video)
- hey everybody and welcome to the 2024 into 2025 edition of my top 100 board games of all time so this is the best of the best and to celebrate that more than I did last year I'm going to revert back to a 10p part Series where I talk about 10 games at a time this episode being the first of those covering covering game 100 up to number 91
- so that is long shot the dice game at number 92
- so that is par at number 91
- so there we have it that concludes the first installment of my top 100 Bard games of all time hopefully you've enjoyed it and discovered a game or two if you have please be sure to hit like And subscribe to my channel and check out my other videos too and for everybody else I'll see you next time on chairman of the board bye-bye
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The Broken Meeple Review at 20:56 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Visually appealing tracks
- Quick to play and learn
- Produced well
- Not anger-inducing
Cons
- Extremely boring
- Lack of meaningful decisions
- Feels like garbage
- Poor re-implementation of older, low-ranked games
Thematic elements
- Shell dominoes
Comparison games
- Start 11
- Alpha Rouse
- Dominoes
- Perfect Place
- Ticket to Ride
- Lost Cities
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players draw tiles and decide which to place or if they should draw more.
- Set Collection — Players aim to get rid of their tiles by placing them on the board.
- Tile Placement — Players place tiles onto a board in ascending or descending order, adjacent to existing tiles.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- The component quality in this game is off the freaking chain.
- This is effectively kind of like a light almost kind of gateway level game.
- I give this one a seven out of 10. Honestly, it's good. Not amazing, not fantastic, but I think for the right setting and the right group of people, I think this is going to, you know, hit home quite well.
- man, blummy, if you thought the original was produced, well, look at these. Oh my god, look at these things. These are multi-layered little plastic cakes.
- This one, it feels bad to call it garbage, but there's just nothing here.
- I give it a four out of 10, below average.
- I don't recommend Shell Weed, honestly.
- But I think Coffee Rush is worth a look.
- So, that's it for me on this episode of The Broken Mele.
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Chairman of the Board Analysis at 9:09 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
- Slightly down from last year
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Baron strong debut at number 77 as well.
- Floriferous has actually been in my collection for many years, but year after year it does nudge up and up and up, which goes to show it strength because of course we play more games each year, which naturally makes things fall down. But the fact this has gone from number um 98 to number 78 and it's a new best foriferous 2.
- kind of a passive rise for underwater cities. It's such a quality little engine building game from back onto the list from number 107 up to number 83.
- NAR as well has actually again been in my collection for a couple of years now, but last year in its debut year, it came in at number 124. So, it's pushed onto my top 100 for the first time at number 85.
- Get on board has come back into the top 100 as well, going from number 110 up to number 89.
- another debut with Toy Battle at number 90.
- Far Away, come back onto the top 100 from number 116 up to number 91.
- The same goes with QE went from 120 up to number 92 because I did play that one recently and obviously enjoyed it.
- other than that, we had a bit of a fall for games like Gold West, a bit of a fall for games like Mexico.
- Even brass fell a little bit, just hanging on to my top at 100, going from number 78 down to 96. Now, I really like brass, but I don't really play it too often um anymore.
- No Thanks, the classic little bidding or anti bidding game goes from a 104 up to number 97 back onto the list.
- interestingly, um Subastral and Stellar, two card games I recommended. They've always kind of just held on onto my top 100. Um they are now at number 98 and number 100. Um which was slightly down from number 95, 96 last year.
- the last kind of debut taunt game onto my top 100 is Tag Team. Um, a game I've reviewed recently uh on the channel.
- So, those are all the new games this year.
- So that's kind of why I didn't want to do the whole top 100 again because I thought, you know, it's going to be quite similar to last year's with a few jiggles up and down.
- a lot of these more unique games are going up. card game seem to be climbing for me quite a bit and those euros may be holding their place or slightly falling but the great euros of course I'm anchoring themselves at the top of my of my top 100.
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Chairman of the Board Other at 14:03 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Consistently High
Pros
- Has remained in the host's top 100 games.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Set Collection — Described as one of the little set collection games by Riddlin Pinchback.
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Banter and Boards Top List at 0:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Looking for extraterrestrial life
- Space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- if you're looking for games to play over and over again, this is a great place to start.
- Now, what game can you not stop playing? Comment down below. I'd love to hear it.
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Discussion at 8:34 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the algorithm has changed to a to a kind of thing where you can't do series of videos easily. It doesn't like that. You need to do long form content in one video.
- If you can't fit it on the shelf, it's not in the collection. And if you have to fit it on the shelf, someone else is leaving.
- It's like, why? You know, it's bad enough to be doing the whole logging plays to say like, 'Oh, I played this at this time. I played this at this time.' I could not care less who won what game and when.
- You do not have to meet a minimum prerequisite. It's just it does get on my wick that.
- It's like there are two people that sort of get on my wick with this or say that try to get out of the idea of helping to pack a game away. Smokers [...] and then the ones doing the BG stats...
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All You Can Board Top List sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- astronomy and exploration
- space-themed card placement with journal and telescope
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Stellar is not a super well-known, well-talked-about game. I found it randomly in a local board game store.
- it's basically a two-player only game, asymmetric
- Lost Cities is a hand management game
- Patchwork is a tight, solid Uwe Rosenberg design
- Santorini is my favorite abstract game
- Castles of Burgundy... there's nothing like it for me in two-player
- Race for the Galaxy is my number two two-player game of all time
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All You Can Board Top List at 41:09
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Small box games can sometimes get a bad rap because there's so many board games that release every year.
- Flip Tunes is a really small box clearly.
- it's such an easy game to teach
- Scout is one of the best card games I've played in the last little bit.
- Cascadia Rolling Rivers is a really satisfying game to manage the habitat cards.
- Take Time is a cooperative game that boils down to two sets of cards, 1 to 12.
- The Crew Mission Deep Sea is a cooperative trick-taking game for three to five players.
- Stellar is a really great smallbox game that left my collection.
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Actualol Discussion at 14:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- great family party game using Dixit cards
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's your game night, so you get to decide.
- Storing your games vertically isn't perfect.
- If your shelves are overflowing, why not play a game that doesn't take up any space because it's Hearthstone.
- This is your game night.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 5:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- novel take on Dixit-style play with competitive edge
- Nordic edition showing regional interest
Cons
- unclear exact rules from the preview
- back-of-box hints aren't sufficient for full clarity
Thematic elements
- social deduction/inference with competitive play
- Dixit-like storytelling with Nordic edition flavors
- storytelling-meets-competitive play
Comparison games
- Dixit
- Kehan-style party/social games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- competitive scoring — points awarded based on relative success to clues
- Compound Scoring — points awarded based on relative success to clues
- Storytelling / clue-giving — players give clues to guide others toward a concept
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a martin wallace game
- we have played it once but we played it horribly wrong
- i enjoyed parts of the game but i did not love it
- we did some rules mistakes like a lot of them
- it's a competitive dixit game
- i am not a huge world of warcraft fan i'm not a huge pandemic fan
- maybe those two together are much made in heaven it's the best thing ever
- it's a dynamic cooperative game
- you have dice in it
- you do not have dice in it
- it's a vampires deck building game
- reminds people of clank
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Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 4:13 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- fun social experience when played
Cons
- translation quality mentioned as problematic
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- party_game — social & dice/creative prompts in a Dixit-adjacent style
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we are going to say now that we're going to try to not say the reason we're not keeping this is because we're not going to play it or this is a great game but we just don't play it now
- it's better that they have it and maybe play it themselves
- nostalgia and memory... you can't live off nostalgia
- subscribe to your channel that's the drill
- it's just like a pure fun game; it doesn't have to be deep or strategic
- this journey of getting from Stone Age to Burgundy is kind of legendary
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 20:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful space-themed card art
- Strong tableau mechanics with replayability
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Space exploration and planetary aesthetics.
- Outer space tableau-building with planetary cards.
- Bold, cosmic artwork with stark contrasts and vivid colors.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck/hand management — Manage a hand of space cards to optimize draws and combos.
- Tableau Building — Construct a tableau of planets and space items for scoring potential.
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Quotes (from this video)
- the art on the cards are absolutely stunning
- the cards are gorgeous
- I absolutely love the art in Similar
- the art in this game is so freaking cute
- Meadow is one that everyone talks about how beautiful the cards are
- the art is absolutely stunning
- the artwork is absolutely fabulous
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Rolls in the Family Top List at 46:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- strong party-game vibes
- overlaps well with Dixit-style play
Cons
- can be less accessible for those unfamiliar with the art
Thematic elements
- creative association using picture cards
- storytelling image-card game
- party game with storytelling
Comparison games
- Dixit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — points awarded when others uniquely connect to your clue
- sparks scoring — points awarded when others uniquely connect to your clue
- storytelling/art association — players create connections between pictures to form clues
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is where it's at
- Scout has this really interesting aspect of you can only play cards that are next to each other in your hand to try to beat things
- it's a great escalation
- such an amazing feeling of like oh my gosh we're gonna go another round
- you either lose because you miscommunicate with your own team twice or you win because you intercept the other team's code
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No Rolls Barred Playthrough at 0:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Encourages social interaction and storytelling
- Tense and engaging, especially as connections form or fail
- Good for groups and mixed player ages
Cons
- Punishes risk-taking, which can frustrate some players
- Scoring can be opaque and requires careful tracking
- Can hinge on hive-mind dynamics rather than individual creativity
Thematic elements
- human connection, interpretation of imagery to form connections
- Casual social gathering (board game cafe environment in London) where friends discuss imagery that connects to a word
- image-based prompts with open-ended associations
Comparison games
- Dixit
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Elimination risk — If a player points to an image that no one else chose, they are out of the current round.
- Image Deciphering — A word is revealed and players select images from a deck that they feel connect to that word.
- Image matching and scoring — Players gain points when their image selections align with others or form a special connection with another player.
- Player Elimination — If a player points to an image that no one else chose, they are out of the current round.
- Special connection — If two or more players select the same image, they all gain extra points; if only one shares it, that pair also gains points.
- Word-to-image association — A word is revealed and players select images from a deck that they feel connect to that word.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Stella is a weirdly risky game; it's very tense because you are punished for taking risks.
- This is a joyful game but you it's a dilemma and that’s why I think this game has so much more teeth than something like Dixit.
- Stellar is a weirdly risky game; you are punished for taking risks and for being the person who identifies the most connections.
- It's a dilemma; it's a real dilemma and that's why I think this game has teeth.
- Special connections are the key—if two players share an image you both gain points.
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Top 10 List at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Positive reception as a stellar game; playful tone is highlighted in the comment.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Stella is a very stellar game
- Wingspan, of course, my number one game
- Last Lighthouse is shaping up to be one of my most favorite Buttonshy games ever
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Foster the Meeple Discussion at 8:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- We have 63 games to talk to you about today.
- Grab a coffee, we're gonna go quick.
- We love board games and board gaming things.
- I just bought too many bones and dungeons dice in danger.
- If you're interested in buying board games, I feel like we missed a bunch.
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Rolls in the Family Top List at 4:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Excellent crowd-pleaser for groups
- Great for large groups and multi-age play
Cons
- May feel repetitive to some players who crave heavier strategy
- Dependent on group dynamics for the biggest moments
Thematic elements
- party/social deduction through clues
- Word association with Dixit-like artwork
- group-driven, clue-based rounds with sparking moments
Comparison games
- Dixit
- Mysterium
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dixit-style clue giving — Players select a card that best matches a clue word and others guess which card fits.
- Super Spark moments — A highlighted moment when players collectively realize the best match, creating excitement.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- There are four of us. Uh this we were three for four. 75% pretty good.
- I like to be the ghost. I like True. I like to give the clue giving and figure out ways to uh help my fellow players guess their person, their place, and then their object.
- Push your luck and in this game you can do that.
- Eight out of 10 for Dune.
- This is Times Up title recall.
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