Top 100 Board Games of All Time (60 - 51)

[Music] welcome to allies or enemies I'm Jess and I am John and today we are continuing to count down our top 100 favorite board games of all time and this time we are counting down the 50s we are going from 60 to 51 and every video we swap who starts things off and so this video it is over to you m number 60 is title BL and tital Blades is this really cool mix of American and European gaming Styles mushed all together and so first of all package is beautiful it's just this gorgeous like oceany world that I really want to go to but then also thematically it's weird which I really like cuz you're like Surfers but you're also training to fight like Kaiju who are coming to smash your world but everyone seems like perfectly kind of chill and happy about it and how you do this is through this cool d system so you're rolling dice to do most things which usually I'm not super into but here I like it because you are first of all you're leveling up the dice in like really cool ways where you've got this cool leveling system and they're going down these different paths but then also you got to choose one to spend those dice to fight against these monsters that are coming to smash stuff and all of it is an interesting decision really cool worker placement card manage all sorts of neat stuff and it's so pretty and it is my number 60 my number 60 is tillum and tillum is a very Euro game it takes place in Europe you are visiting different towns you're collecting a bunch of resources you're trading those resources in to build stuff mostly cath like all European have we not built enough Cathedrals yeah you are building a lot of cathedrals but how it does it is very interesting you have to to do your actions you select your dice but the dice is tied to the number of actions you can do in like an inverse manner so if you want to do a lot of Your Action then that means that your dice that you're taking you won't get a lot of those resources and so it's an interesting decision of what to do for how many resources you're getting and everything is interconnected in combos as well so even though you're just be able to like pick that one action usually you might be able to like collect other tokens that give you bonus actions or you'll be putting like people in houses and that will give you you can do and so I love the combos that get created cuz you can feel like you've really like pulled off a lot on one turn and so tillum is my number 60 my number 59 is terraforming Mars and terraforming Mars is a game that I forget that I like and then you really like it so you make us play it I'm like oh yeah and it's probably because it is ugly ug L this game ain't got no alibi it is as ugly as is a game comes it just really is but we do have the 3D tiles and that that adds a little bit to it for sure and we've got the Prelude expansion which I'm going to say is the only expansion you need for this game ignore the rest of the expansions ignore the other versions I'm not a big fan of any of the other kinds that I've played but base game and original preludes that's the only two things then just stop just just quit you got you got your perfect version of terraforming Mars right there plus maybe some some 3D terrain but it is it is a really solid um like kind of Tableau building uh kind of card drafty well yeah you are kind of drafting cards as well but it's really that building that Tableau and your Tableau gets outrageous it gets out of control it gets huge all the different stuff you could do the combos you can do which also is why I think this is the best at two players because I don't like to wait a lot of time for my turn to come around we can play a game of this in an hour and a half with two players with the preludes expansion which I think is the way to play and it is my 59 my number 59 is my city and I am just grouping my city and my Island together cuz I really like them both I did have to pick one so I went with the original one and my city is a polyomino tile placement campaign game and I love tile placement games and I love Campaign games and it does it so well it just builds like bit by bit on how you're actually like playing you the the tiles down and the city that you're building and it takes you through for like my city it takes you through almost like the Journey of the progression of the city a little bit too right it's got little I don't think we've ever read this story no and I don't want to give any spoilers away but I think it does the campaign element really nicely and I like that they group The like the each play is three chapters in a setting and so we always just sit down and play three games because it plays so quickly especially at two players and because of that I mean anytime there is is going to be another like campaign in the my City Style I I'm going to be interested and it's my number 59 my number 58 is explorers of the North Sea and I have always felt like this is the Shem Phillips game that flies the most under the radar and it's great it's terrific it's the second game I think that they put out after Shiites and I know ship writs didn't float everybody's boat pun intended uh but I know that the remake of that one is a little bit better but explorers is terrific you're you're Vikings you're just going around you're exploring different Islands I'm sure doing very nice things there and you're picking up uh you're you're you're smashing up Villages you're building things you're picking up animals you're moving animals around but it's got this real Wind Waker feel to me and I love anything where you're going to different Islands because Wind Waker is by far my favorite Zelda game one of my all time if not my favorite video games and anything that recreates that for me even a little little bit I just latch on to and this is one of the better Wind Waker esque board games that is out there and it is my 58 my number 58 is VI counts of the West Kingdom another Shem Phillips game but this time in the west Kingdom series and you are a VI count it's a Rondell so you're just going around this Castle doing your actions but how you do your actions is on your turn you always play a card and that determines how far you can go then you always have three cards available so you look at all of your icons and those icons determine like the strength of the action you want to perform and there are three main paths you can do so you can maybe build a lot of buildings you can collect inkwells to do manuscripts or you can do the castle action and you're always always doing that castle I love the castle it's just really fun a little bit fiddly but really fun to do and so if you have if you're really focusing on one that means a lot of your cards will have that icon but it's usually good to do a little bit of all of them too so it's just I love trying to like figure out how to get my icons chaining as they slide forward and I think the expansion helped boost some of the other strategies that weren't quite as strong in the base game and by counts of the West kingdom is my number 58 my number 57 is strike and this is definitely the lightest part of this this is as light as a game comes this is you're rolling dice you're rolling dice if the dice that you've roll like if after rolling dice you have made two dice match you take them if you haven't you can roll again or you can pass on to the next person that's it and then as soon as you run out of dice you're out but if everyone else runs out of dice you win and this game is so much fun it's meant to have kind of a gladiator theme I guess I I could see it like I've put it on there now we've got the um the Harry Potter version which actually makes them be like little spells so when you throw your and you're only throwing one dice at a time too so when you throw your dice sometimes you make these spells trigger and it does stuff and it's actually really cool I think it's maybe the I don't know actually which one I like better but no matter which one you've got this is a game that takes like five minutes to play each time you're never going to play less than five games of this in a sitting is a and you have won like a surprising amount of time but yeah I have won I have won like 80% of the games that we've played so this one wouldn't think is a skill game but it definitely is and it is my 57 my 57 is Marvel Dice Throne so this is another dice heavy game this is like competitive like Punchy yachy and so I really like the the Marvel version especially and what you're doing is you have your different characters and they have a bit of asymmetry for their powers and what they can do and you're rolling your dice and then you're seeing based on the result what kind of attack you can do against the other person and that's it you're just trying to like beat each other down and be the first one that gets your opponent down to zero but it's really quick it's really fun to push your luck because you can roll three times so you might be like oh I might be able to get my big attack and then end up with nothing cuz you rised it too much and it is my number 57 my number 56 is the White Castle and this was like everyone favorite game last year everyone went nuts for this game last year and I 100% understand why because it is you you only get nine dice in this whole game you are drafting Dice from these Bridges and you're playing those dice out onto dice placement spots and that's letting you do stuff that's generally pretty simple but you chain that stuff in really cool and clever ways and you have to because there's a lot to get done with only those nine Dice and so you're putting down like a specific kind of dice and that's letting you do two actions and maybe one of those actions is letting you do this other thing and you got to balance the resources you have and then also the placement spaces on your board and you also have this little card table that you're setting off to do different stuff and it's just it's so clever how it how each dice placement that you'd make puts you down these cool little avenues that all feel exciting like all nine turns you have feel like you're doing so many different cool things it can get frustrating sometimes cuz it's real tight but it is really a great game and it is my 56 my number 56 is jur which is a two-player only game and it's a really clever set collection game you have this available like Market of cards and you can either take one of those cards or you can exchange cards in your hand with the market or you can collect camels and what you're doing is you're trying to get the same kind of goods but there's a benefit to being able to collect a lot of those goods so if you're able to get like three four or five and play those you're able to get a bonus token but on the other side of it it's also a race to play it first because the first person to exchange those gets the higher value tokens and so you're constantly like keeping an eye on what your opponent is collecting to see if like I don't think they're collecting Reds I'm okay to keep doing it to try and see if when I get some more and anytime you have to exchange cards you're very aware that you might be putting stuff that your opponent wants in the center and so it's just this like plays very quickly but it's a really interesting like card playing game and it's always like best two out of three we always seem to go to three games and it's my number 56 my number 55 is Imperial settlers empires of the north and this is one of my favorite asymmetric games so you've got all these asymmetric races I don't remember how many were in the base game cuz we bought like all of the expansions since so we've got Oodles of them and they're all these really cool kind of Northern based um like tribes and each one has got its own deck of cards and each one is focused in a really different way so you've got some that are all about banking you've got some that are all about expansion you got some that are just super mean and like attacking the other person or use the resources in different ways but it's this game that has really a really simple rule set that you'd think there's not that many triggers that you can kind of play with like there's not that many sliders but they're really they found some really cool ways to mess with those sliders that you don't need to learn a ton to do each one of these different factions but each one really feels different and looks different and yeah it's just it's a game that I can just keep playing because I'm like oh I want to try this one now I want to try this one now I want to try like I always want to play like a full tournament against you instead of just one game of this more adorable and lighter than it actually is yeah it looks so cute and I think some of the cuter ones are the meanest ones too and it is my 55 my number 55 is viticulture which is uh I think it's a modern classic now it's a classic work rep placement game you're where you're making wine and I will say I'm it's my 55 with the Tuscany expansion cuz I think that really adds a lot more being able to take take more advantages of cards and open up more spaces especially for two players yeah especially for two players and I it has withstood the test of the time I really like that everything makes sense for how you're making your wine it's just like you need your field for your wine you need to plant your grapes you need to harvest your grapes you need to make wine with those grapes and still like it keeps it really interesting every time how you go about doing that particularly once you are introducing more of the card plays to be able to do them in like the non-stereo typical spots for those spaces and I still really enjoy playing it and it is my number 55 my number 54 is ganam and sometimes you've got a game that's kind of it feels like your little Hidden Gem of a game and this very much feels like like our little secret game that not enough people know about we' love more people to play this game so in ganam you are trying to move your folks from Earth to ganam so you're moving them from Earth Earth and then to Mars and then to gamed which is definitely in my top four Galilean moons and you are doing this by playing these different cards by taking different cards some of them let you add people to one of the planets some of them let you move people from a planet to a planet but you have to have exactly the people that are on that card so you kind of have to plan ahead and chain things and it's got fun little bonuses that you get from how you're playing your cards and you're building kind of a card Tableau and you've got different things that are going to trigger different things but it just it moves super super fast I love the theme and this is one we just we play this all the time this is like a midnight like I feel like playing a game game yeah let's just play a game before we go to sleep like this is totally that game that gets your brain moving but just enough that it's like comfy and it is my 54 my number 54 is tribes of the wind and first of all tribes of the wind looks lovely the Art Is by Vincent DET trit and in tribes of the wind you always have to have your cards in these card stands to make sure that the back's visible and that's important because anytime you play a card what you can do on that card is going to be dependent on what's on the backs of your neighbor cards those represent resources and so as a result I always feel like I'm invested in everybody's turn as I see how their cards are like leaving their hands and what is now available and that might mean I might choose to play a different card because now I can get that strongest action available from it so what you're doing is it takes place in this post-apocalyptic world and you live in the trees and you're like flying from trees to trees and so you're trying to clear up the pollution you're trying to get your people moving around the board You're Building Villages you're also building these like big tree houses and it's a race cuz the game and is triggered when the person's built their last tree house so you're always trying to maximize what you can do on your turn and that is so interesting that it's going to be completely dependent on what your neighbors are doing as well and it's my number 54 my number 53 is flam Rouge and flam Rouge is I think still my favorite racing game we'll see if there's another one on this list but I'm pretty sure it is my number one and it is because it's it's so tight it feels like cycling which I'm not really interested in but this game makes me interested in it partly because of the game play partly because of the mustaches and in this it is it's a game of inches so you've got a whole bunch of cards if you play all your cards like just back to back you will barely make it across the Finish Line it's that tight so what you need to do is play really cleverly so that you're like not expending too much energy that you're using your drafting as much as you can that you're using the course to go downhill and to really it is just such a such a game of inches and you're trying to like stay in this little packs if you get too far ahead you're just going to Tire yourself out cuz they've got these tiring cards too and it's it's cool that there's this race game where you want to kind of Stay Together there can't really be a runaway leader and it's it's like it's like the chess of racing games so so clever and it is my 53 my number 53 is Terra mystica and this is the first time I think it's made my list cuz we've managed yeah cuz we've managed to play it a lot more more with three or four players this past year and really it works better than at those counts than at two and in terysa you are terraforming land and you're putting buildings on it but there are a lot of interesting things about that first of all is you want to build next to your neighbors because it makes it cheaper but anytime you do they are able to get like a power bonus so by building next to them you're basically giving them something as well and you're also going to be competing for space too so that can make it a little bit tricky but you don't want to be too far or else it's too expensive the other thing that's interesting is when you're building your buildings anytime you upgrade you're having to physically take off the lower level and put the higher level out and because when you put your buildings out you are like that's the resources that you're going to get that means anytime you're taking those buildings back you're getting fewer of those resources so you're always it's a tough decision of when to upgrade because you usually do get bonuses but you're also losing some of those resources that you need and there are a ton of asymmetric factions and they're all fantasy theme and they all do play quite a bit differently and it's my number 53 my number 52 is Suburbia and this is just a terrific citybuilding game this is as close as I've gotten to a game that feels like Sim City which is one of my all-time favorite video games especially the one that's just like on the the green and um gray like gross early Super Nintendo version so good but Suburbia kind of recaptures that for me so in Suburbia you're playing out tiles to build the city every time you play a tile it does this cool thing where it triggers itself then it triggers its neighbors then it triggers anything else in your city then it triggers stuff in other people's cities and obviously as you get more and more of these you're going to trigger more and more stuff and it really is timed well for like I cannot I there's no more I can hold in my brain oh good the game is done like it really times that I think perfectly but one interesting thing about Suburbia is I think this is pretty much the only game that we kind of house rule it's not like our own house rule it's a BGG pretty common rule for this but we always play this with two rows of building so we always have one row of the base game tiles one row of all of the expansion tiles we always throw all of those in there it's the only game that we house roll and I strongly suggest to play with that role but that is my 52 my number 52 is revive and revive takes place in a postapocalyptic world the theming doesn't really come across but mechanically it interconnects just so many different mechanics cuz you're doing deck building there's also this shared map board and so you have to spend resources to be able to flip tiles to put people on the board to put different buildings on the board but what makes it really interesting is you're upgrading all kinds of different parts of your board so you're able to upgrade your card slots which is where you have to play your cards and that's just going to get you more stuff and there's this whole like technology track thing that's like on the middle of your player board and as you are moving along there you're able to like add these individual tiles and those give you free actions too so it can be really satisfying to just be able to do a whole bunch of stuff on a turn I will say turns can take a while because you actually end up doing being able to do quite a bit but between all of that then there's also like the different ways that you're scoring points too because you get this like card at the beginning for different scoring conditions and you're like racing towards collecting these like weird brain yeah they're really cool alien heads yeah exactly and so you're collecting those up but you're also using the board to try and get your people to like the endgame goals and everything feels so desperate but actually interconnected really well it's my number 52 my 51 is Clank and I'm lumping all the clanks in together but really I'm happy to play any of the Clank games and in Clank you are a thief and you are going into a dungeon You're trying to steal some stuff generally there's someone who wants you not to steal their stuff but the cool there's a few cool things in this first of all it's a deck building game and you're building a deck to do a few different things and so you've got to kind of build a bit of a balanced deck or sometimes you just want to be super quick there's cool different ways to build the deck but also it's this really cool push your luck mechanic because the better stuff is deeper in that dungeon but the deeper you get the harder it is to get back out of the dungeon because everyone's trying to get stuff they're trying to get out if they get out first though they are making that bad guy pull more blocks out of their bag so as you go you're making noise which is Clank and you're putting that in this bag when you pull it out if it's yours that's going to be damage that you're taking and if you get all that damage you are going to die if you don't get above a certain point that means no points Zer points that happens quite a bit in this game because you definitely like you go really deep the other person sees that they're like I'm just getting an okay thing and getting out of here and then you are in trouble and there's just there's so much stress in that The Pusher Lu fun the deck building's fun the theming of it really fun worked great with a whole bunch of players you can teach new players and it is my 51 my number 51 is Maric Kaio and Maric Kaio is by Alexander Fister and he's like the master of the Rondell so very much like some of his other games you are going around a circle stopping and doing actions also similar to some of his other games it's multi-use cards and I think they're used really cleverly because you have to spend your cards either as resources or you can pay them to be like ongoing assistance but one of the coolest things about this game is you can really like determine the pace of the game and that's because like you have a certain distance you can move your ship so if you're always moving the maximum it means you won't be able to stop and do as many actions but you'll be the first to like the end of that round and Jess is always doing the maximum I just I just want to take my time and visit these islands and she's like got to get to the end yeah because if you build if I let you do too many stuff you build too much like of an engine and if I can push you forward I'll get a bonus for being first and you may not make it to the end to get any bonus that make it to the end and so it's just it's really clever of that balance of how much you want to do but how quickly your opponents are going that you can do and keeping an eye on them to try and like maximize all like all of the different stuff that you're trying to accomplish before the end comes and it's my number 51 and that is it that is C down the 50s we have made it halfway through next time we are into the top half and we are counting down from 50 to 41 thank you so much for watching please let us know in 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