Best Board Games of 2023 That We Reviewed RANKED

0:00 we played bunch of games this year and we reviewed most of them but which ones are the best ones in this video we're going to rank the best of this year all the games we played all the games we reviewed not all the games we played all the games we reviewed but we reviewed all the best ones so we took those and then ranked individually now we put it all together and haven't seen the results so at the end of this video you will have 10 games here from the best to worst that this year we played so there could be games from the 60s it's our list our best games of the year don't judge us well do judge us in the comments more comments the better yeah yeah do judges come on number 10 3 2 1 Twilight inscription feels like forever ago we reviewed it Twilight description is a roll and right game set in the world of Twilight Imperium Imperium Imperium so each of you play a race that is competing with one another and you try to get the most points at the end of the game and you have four sheets huge sheets which each works completely different one sheet is for exploring new planets another sheet is for creating warships and fighting Wars with each other another is for production so many things to do definitely the longest rolling right I've ever played you draw an event which says what happens then you roll dice and then you can use those results on one of your sheets that's also one of the choice you have to pick a sheet and spend all the results on that one sheep

1:30 and then chain effects happen based on what you Dre one of the best things about it it's really really good when you're playing solo plus there's bunch of choices which we love here Planet unknown wow wow wow we w wow W Planet unknown is a polyomino game with a lazy Susan this is competitive game where each player plays a corporation trying to find out what this unknown Planet all about on your turn if you're the first player you turn around this lazy hus when you stop when you decide hey this is a tile that I want to pick you just pick it and use it wherever Del laay us landed because of my actions you get the consequences because you will have to choose a tile that's pointing towards your direction but next round I'll be the starting player and then I can rotate it and pick one then you take the tile and place on your planet which is now more known than before and you get some bonuses from those tiles that you just placed and you mark those on your corporation board and as you move up these tracks on the corporation board you will unlock new things you will get more points you will get extra actions you will get like special cars that give you some kind of benefit which Styles and how and you score points for filling out your planet you score points for cleaning off like meteorites of your planets we called it space poop I think it seems like a complex game but it isn't very straightforward and simple to understand yet choices number eight is cocol kocol is definitely not a new game everyone's going to be like what they only played it in 2023 that's right it's

3:00 a competitive game either one versus one or two versus two and you have to flick discs and try to hit the center you can knock out other players discs if you hit the directly in the center that disc is removed and it gives you 20 points immediately so on your turn just take a disc place it on white line and flick it it was my most played party game of the year something that you can play a bunch of times in just one sitting cuz it's addictive the only regret for me and downside for this game is that I only discovered it this year mind bug wow mind bug is a simple card game that replicates the collectible card game gamep playay the most complicated way how to explain a game two-player card game where you fight one against another yeah yeah but it does by replicating the collectible card game game play so each player gets 10 card deck and you draw five of those immediately from the get-go on your turn you either play a card or you activate a card and what you're trying to do is you're trying to damage the opponent three times take away three of his life points but there's one catch both of us have two Mind buug cards that we can use at any time when the opponent plays a card so for example I play this huge crazy big monster and I say I will use my mind bug and take your card now it's mine but I have used up one of my two mind bugs and you also have two mind bugs these two very powerful choices that you will have in each game and each of the Monsters has special abilities different strengths and some of them better some of them worse depending on the situation now you know how it replicates the collectible card game gaml number six is

4:33 Earth how does this replicate the competitive card collecting it does not earth is a competitive Euro game hand management action selection hey you asked for it where you build your own Island consisting of trees bushes and different kind of plants which will potentially score your points at the end of the game and the game ends when somebody has finished his or her Island each round somebody will be the starting player and he'll pick one of the actions that everybody's going to do but since he's the starting player he gets a bonus action so his action is slightly better than everybody else's one you can plant any plants two get more soil to plant soil is like the money in this game to plant those cards you have to pay soil to get more cards because to plant these cards you have to get these cards that's where one of the biggest choices come in during the game you will draw a bunch of cards where you have to keep some uh which ones and the Last Action is to grow the plants you all already have planted it also has this 3D element to the game and this game is simultan simultaneous simultaneous that's what I said all of you play in the same time and it's much quicker it gives the same impact that Arc Nova or other big Euro games just quicker but it also makes it a bit more difficult because you have to make these same tough decisions just much quicker and Nerf your growing stuff and also we are trying to grow together with you this channel make it bigger better and our supporters are helping with with that so thank you consider becoming our supporter just to have more

6:03 videos to watch you trespass I say of course it's so high you rated like one or two my second favorite game of the year might be uh first one if it would be a bit more accessible yeah but it's an amazing big and massive game and we have talked a lot about it I have talked a lot about it you haven't listened all the time it's amazing it's a great story it's a ship management you play somebody who can control a Titan it's an grease like all these myths and then there's this big board where you fight these other Titans and gods you have all these items and you can upgrade stuff and there's exploration just like in seventh continent and the story is amazing it made you cry it made you laugh it changed your life you're not the same you're a better person now since you've completed only the First Act of the game that took you 100 hours to complete and now you're thinking of doing it all over again with your wife because you back the app that narrates everything and you don't have to read anything blah blah blah blah blah blah blah number five of 20123 can we move on now Terror Escape Terror Escape my favorite hidden movement game in this game you either played the Willen bad guy who's trying to kill Intruders people come into his house it's not his fault he has a chainsaw in his hand and he wants to kill you he you came in that house it's your fault he's just protecting himself some kids sneak into your house yeah and then trying to use your phone without asking you running around making noise

7:36 of course you want to chainsaw them in half it makes perfect sense or on the other side you play these kids that are running away from uh rain and hides in this Mansion but the door shut and they have to get out because they hear a chainsaw sound on the other side over the wall and that is just one of the bad guys like in the base game there are three different ones yeah the bad guy wins is if he kills at least one of The Intruders and the good guys win if they get out of the house or call the police on your turn you can move or do some C certain actions it is like a co-op on this team side part and we want to communicate right but the other player who's playing the bad guy doesn't see our part of the board they doesn't know where we are that's why we go like also that feels thematic and also you plays down noise whenever you do stuff really interesting cool and thrilling gameplay Star Wars deck building wow that's high I think we're going to be the only top that has this game so high but I just love it because of its Simplicity because of its uniqueness one of you play the rebels and the other one play the Empire so it's one versus one and the winner is whoever destroys the opponent's four bases on your turn you're going to play cards to either deal damage to the opponent's base or buy cards or instead of dealing the damage to opponents opponents opponents you can deal damage to the cards in the market so I could destroy a really good card that you have there so you don't purchase it on your turn it's really really quick you really

9:08 can build your deck to your uh liking there's all the characters that you want from a Star Wars game small fast simple yet quite deep and meaningful I'm not a huge Star Wars fan yet I really rank this game highly I really love it I'm super interested about game number two but before we do did you know that Katan author was a dentist oh no I didn't anyway let's move on to number two Nemesis retaliation wow this game is not out yet it's not going to be out for like 2 years almost I think it's coming out 2025 we did play a prototype of it this year and we did a review of it in this game you each play the soldier mercenary getting down to a facility a base that you need to explore because there's an objective you need to do you win the game if you first of all survive which is the hard part and also fulfill an objective which is almost as hard as the hard part but you get two objectives one is really good one that everybody gets go in get those eggs get out or do the similar type of thing and then you have a secret objective which you could say like killest basic feel of Nemesis but quite different gameplay you work as a team as a Cooperative game kind of somebody could be Traders all of you could be Traders and on your turns you play cards that gives you some action points which let you move Mo shoot and do other things because aliens come at you at in bunches all the all the time and a lot of them it's this movie that we run through as a team or not so much

10:40 as a team go in shoot have a good time and also backstab somebody B hangovers game of the year of 2023 is funny enough this is actually a game that came out this year and hey JY we are gushing over this game at one point this year I felt like I've already played almost all the type of games and I'm kind of getting bored of it not really but what else could surprise me and then I played this game in this game there are four roles that you play there is the working class there's the middle class there's the capitalist and then there's the state and each of you has a different Deck with different actions with all this asymmetry you all work together as well because you're one big system you're running the country make political choices and all those political choices influence every single player everything's connected in that game if I'm the capitalist I have a lot of companies where I need workers so maybe we can work something out so we should be friendly right we should work together and all that but only one will win the game individual competitive game where you have to work together you don't want the state to bankrupt but you do each round each player will have seven cards and you will play five of those and you can play the card for the event that's on the card or just discard the card and do one of your basic actions which are quite different for each of the roles each of us can propose a bill so change some rules in the country change a tax amounts change the health care state for example wants

12:10 other people to feel good right about his country but you also need to them to pay a lot of taxes to you so you will raise the taxes which nobody will like except you and then they go on a strike and oh man it's just so much it is a heavy game it is a very heavy game there's a lot of rules even though it's not that hard to get into it's one of my favorite games of all time spoiling now uhoh and it's so unique it's so interesting it's deserving of the game of the year for us if not the best then definitely no lower than second best asymmetric game that I have ever played anyway what was your best game of the year which of these would make your top 10 if any thanks for watching and let us know what are your top games of the

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