Top 50 Games of All Time #31-40 (2023)

[Music] thank you this video is sponsored by game Toppers turn your own kitchen or dining room table into a premium portable game solution at a fraction of the cost hey everybody Welcome to the next installment of my top 50 games of all time I'm not going to do any Preamble for this video the next couple you can watch the original or the last one for all that stuff we're just going to jump right into the list here so number 40 is on Mars you know I left off the last video with the gallerist this is my favorite vitala shooter game on Mars absolutely love this game player count wise don't like the solo mode like a two three and four players that's fine I don't really mind which you know player kind of play it's going to take a little bit longer with four but I think there's enough kind of going on in your turn that you know you can you can take your time taking your turn like I said in the last video and then I'm gonna have enough to kind of process this is like my favorite Mars game there's been a lot of Mars games over the years uh I just love everything about this like you know just the idiosyncrasies of some of the different like Technologies and the cards and all this kind of stuff that you can do it does get a little bit on the abstract side I said earlier that the gallerist I thought was probably his best kind of thematic game thematic marriage on March is just just kind of below that in terms of that you know mechanics the thematics marriage but I really like the mechanics of on Mars that much more it just there's so much cool stuff going on um with like you know having like the shipments of the goods kind of cycle between orbit down to Mars and then all the different types of buildings and stuff that you can build and how you're all kind of like building together but you're you know you're not really cooperating but you're kind of piggybacking off each other and all this kind of stuff that's going on and it's just a weird kind of worker placement like it sounds like a night and day cycle kind of thing going on I don't know what else to compare to like kind of like Mage night or something like that but it's not really like that we have this weird sort of oscillating worker placement thing it's really really cool um I can't really say much about it it is a huge Beast of a game and but it's just magnificent to sit down and play it now the alternative because I'm doing alternative to some of these would be a Gaia project which again is like it's a space themed big huge beefy Euro game now guy project is based on uh terraforming um no terraforming uh the Terra mystica not terraforming Mars Terra mystica which is a fantasy version guy Project's kind of the Sci-Fi version I prefer guy project to uh Terra mystica by a little bit and I just find some of the other sort of enhancements that it has to be a little bit better but guy approached another one I don't really like the solo mode I like it two three four players I think any player counts fine it to me gets a little abstract I talked a little bit about this in the last video of the marriage between mechanics and theme and got a project like almost gets there thematically like it has some real cool tenuous stuff but for the weight of it it's not quite enough thematic now although because I'm doing my top 50 just know that if I was doing a top 100 guy project would definitely be on the list I can't remember where I priced it out at um it gets a little nebulous after about 40 or 45 so um it's in there it's in the top 100 but I just don't know where it would sit but yeah on Mars is just absolutely Bonkers bananas just amazing heavy Euro and I can't recommend it enough if you like that style of game so that's number 40.

uh number 39 speaking of Bonkers and bananas is necromunda to play different game then on Mars sometimes you just sometimes you surprise yourself when you look at this little like a how Okay so on Mars now number 39 necromonda is a miniature Skirmish game although I feel like it's more of an RPG and that's kind of the way that I prefer to look at this game is sort of a tactical RPG because the combat and all that stuff that can be that can be the least important part of the game in some ways or the least like at least part of where your attention is at I mean like managing your stuff and your base and your after game stuff and like figuring out territories and stuff when you you know you run a campaign and all that kind of stuff like that can that can take up a lot of a lot of your time when you have a game day uh but I really and really adore uh neckermunda it just is a very very old school um crunchy uh miniature Skirmish game where you're going to really kind of live and be at home and just kind of sit with your your War band or your team your gang in this case and really kind of live through them it's not really competitive in any real shape or form although in practice it's competitive from a thematic perspective what I mean by that is you have like two teams or two gangs out there just out like trying to kill each other so there's you get a competitive sense in a thematic way but if you look at it as like a real like I don't know what a good example is like balanced competitive framework for gaming it is not that that's not what the game really exudes but it still engages me in that way but it's just the opposite side of the brain than it would be the mechanical side of the brain but I still kind of triggers that competitive urge if that makes any kind of sense let me know because I don't think it does but it just gets in that gritty you know gritty survivalist competitive Vibe without really kind of being that way mechanically mechanically it's a role-playing game with some tactics in there to kind of get you into it into the fighting part of it but that's what I like about it that's what I like about this gritty sort of like exponentially post-apocalyptic dystopian hellscape of a game I like that it's I like that it puts you in that sort of perspective of a survivalist kind of thing and that's what I love about the necromonda game um now I always talk about player count it's it's really a two-player game in the battles but it's better if you play with a campaign you know with some extra people and you know like four or five people probably tops I would run and you know you have your kind of stories and stuff like that you need to really I think play it with the Arbiter which is sort of a new rule that was kind of introduced later on with some of the books to kind of run it as a as a game master the Arbiter can also play like their own gang or they could maybe play the uh oh gosh I'm forgetting the name of them the police squad you know the police gang you could play as them or something or whatever you want to do you can play with another gang and just kind of be like the ruling gang and so build up a narrative Arc and stuff like that so you see what I mean with an RPG it's really designed for that sort of experience but for people that really want to kind of get there down and dirty with the tactics and the you know the dice rolling and all the different mechanics and stuff like that so the alternative game that I have here could not be more different than neck or Monday and that's a Warhammer Aegis Sigmar war cry so it's necromondo sci-fi warhammering Sigmar war cries fantasy it's a very much more lighthearted approach to the miniature Skirmish game uh when you play your campaign you there's not a lot of like customization that you can do first of all to your warbands but each player is kind of like on their own little quests so you just play each other and you kind of interact with each other so it's this sort of um thematically like this thing called the Paths of Glory everybody's kind of like wandering the waist Wasteland of the chaos waste right and you know they're trying to get archeon's favor and they're kind of like all in their own little like murderous Crusade the two games have that in common but you can kind of play scenarios I don't really have anything necessarily to do with each other once in a while they will because you have like a sort of final scenario to kind of finish your quest and get your glory points but it's almost like you're just kind of haphazardly interacting with these different people so you can just play you can just start your own campaign and just go to the store or play with your friends and you just kind of keep track of your own stuff and then you kind of level up and then you will finish the campaign you can pick another one and go on from there so it's very loose and haphazard and all that stuff and it's it's like I said it's kind of the opposite of Decker Monday it's kind of like very beginner friendly relatively the necromonda and you can kind of play fast and loose with it it's there's not a lot of setup time it has like its own kind of packaged boxes you can get in very specific terrain setups that you can do and you can reuse the terrain in a lot of different ways and configure the map in a lot of different interesting tactical configurations and all that stuff so it's a little bit more easy to get into and that kind of stuff it's a lot of fun too um and it has kind of a cool like dice activation thing I think I talked last week about the claustrophobia game so it's got It's almost like a little flavor claustrophobia there with some of the special ability powers and stuff that you can you can trigger off which is pretty cool anyway so that's number 39 necromonda just an absolute Beast of a game now number 38 is a game called civilization New Dawn and this one I would recommend with the expansion I think the expansion is is necessary uh to play this game I would not play it without the expansion it is absolute blast with the expansion I would say player count wise I wouldn't play it with the solo mode I didn't like that at all um I played it up to four yeah two three and four players have played it and it's just a lot of fun so it is a kind of a streamlined pared down almost euroesque almost um civilization game and based off the civilization uh video game this has got the Sid Myers license so you got some some of the similar artwork and all that kind of stuff it's really really good like it's it's way better than I thought it was ever going to be when I first tried it and again you need the expansion I did not like it when I played it without the expansion this is years ago got the expansion everybody was saying you got to try it again so I did and I was like okay good this works really really well and it has this interesting bit where you're trying to take over territory and stuff like that but that's not really what the focus of the game is it doesn't really kind of ingenious way that you still you're still gonna fight and have little Wars and stuff like that but it's not quite as like catastrophic as some of these other kind of map exploration Forex style games can be we have these other kind of ancillary goals of trying to complete these different objective cards and get points that way this is a couple other things but it's not super complex it's a little on the complex side not that bad uh and just handle some of the interesting little details of Civ games in such a cool elegant way you're like oh that's so clever how they did that because it could you couldn't turn it in this like whole mini game thing this extra thing to get to think about but it's just it just works out really really well and I really recommend it if you like Civ games and you want kind of a quicker one it only takes a couple of hours to play especially when you play with like two or three people then it's it's gonna go pretty quick now the alternative to this is another game I really really like it's called the Golden Ages now the Golden Ages come out from stronghold games it's got an expansion which I think is not as necessary as the expansion versus New Dawn but I still think you should get it um it just makes the game a little bit better I think but I think it's fine without it but this is a definite Euro game style civilization game and it's very euro-esque um so if you know the combat or whatever civilization that kind of that's not your thing I would highly recommend the Golden Ages uh it's just a unique fun Civ experience and again this is one that is not really like a lot of other games that I've played and I I really recommend Folks at least try it just to kind of just to see that it's possible because there's always this kind of like Grail idea of a game that was like you know I won a Civ game and I want it to be like an hour and a half two hours tops and just be very elegant and unified mechanics and not a lot of like you know backstabbing and trading and dice rolling and big Wars and combat you know that's kind of been the holy grail and to me civilization New Dawn kind of takes the cake there but it's going to turn off some people that don't want really any kind of interaction although golden age has some but it's it's definitely a little bit more gloves off or gloves on I should say uh in the Golden Ages and I would recommend folks give that one a shot anyway so that's number 38.

number 37 is the castles of burgundy this is Steph and Phil game probably needs no introduction um it's not my favorite failed so there'll be another one up up on the list there I really like it I got the new one coming and the collector's edition or whatever it is really excited to play that uh this one has kind of fluctuated you know it's certain terms of my list it could have maybe been in my top 100 before now it's kind of crept back up um because it's been one that the family has kind of been able to revisit and play quickly and without too much like refresher in terms of the rules and so we're able to pick it up and play quickly again and there's just a lot of fun stuff going on in my game group has been playing it um I was probably been about a year since we played it but um you know when we do pick it up it's fun we play and it's like boom everybody's going it's quick and snappy and you start to see kind of like a little bit more of the long-term kind of stuff it's a little tactical like on the surface but there's some stuff going on in this game that it's like you know it's really cool to kind of try to plan out you know some of the yellow building scorings and the all those things kind of in-game bonuses and get the little combos with all the different animals and the trigger the combos with the castles and all this kind of fun stuff that you can do when you put your tiles out and all that stuff uh it's just really accelerating there's a lot of fun expansions and stuff that I've tried with it the different maps are really fun to play with uh it just adds a lot to it I'd play it two three or four it plays really quick like a fun little two-player game I remember when we played at lunch at work one time we knocked out a game in like 45 minutes we're like screw it let's play castle of burgundy and so we played it back and forth and we were just going and just having fun and not really paying attention to each other but we just we really liked the game so it was like oh let's just knock it out and you can do that or you can play a little bit longer of a game and be a little bit more strategic and thoughtful about it but it's a game that can kind of live in a lot of spaces and stuff so I'm excited to play the new one when it comes out the alternative to this one I have is called jorvik which was originally biker stat now Spiker stat he needed the expansion I thought to make that game really good and the expansion was called Kai's Spiker jorvik takes that sort of strange like German Middle Ages shipping game with like fires and warehouses in terms of mixes it with a viking theme which I thought kind of like to me detracted a little bit I don't know the game is so the talking about dry games the game is so dry I think that if you throw a biking theme on it just like doesn't fit you know it didn't fit to me like because it's like it's this glorified funky auction game and I like that you like to meet the like Vikings is not not a viking thing I'm not doing a viking thing right now by putting this worker down to bid on this like track of goods um it's it's another one similar to the Golden Ages though I would recommend people try it if you can somehow magically find spikerstat and Kai Spiker because I think it needs the expansion to be like amazing spider set by itself is I don't know it's it's an acquired taste we loved it and I like it at all the player counts two three four and five because it's absolutely Cut Throat like stab the person across the table in the temple and five players we've had some a lot of games with this one that are just like yeah they got they got like testing the best way let's just say that um because yeah it just gets crazy so the expansion though loosens it up a little bit the game without the expansion is like way tight and you got to be ready for that and it's like an you know let's say a knife fight and a phone booth that is five player um Spiker stat if you want to just lose in the the door a little bit you can you can throw in the expansion that's what jorvik has and jorvik I think is more readily available so for me the the Viking theme and that it doesn't work but if you want to get it you'll probably get a bargain prices I would get it it's a fun like freaking weird wonky auction thing there was that other game that came out uh what was the name of that one Capstone did I can't remember it was originally like in a shoe box from like 2005 or something it was this weird spatial auction game the orbic or Spiker stat is in that ballpark of just like absolutely mind taxing but simple brick game's very simple but absolute mind taxing auction Style game and it's a failed game that's why I throw it in here castles of burgundy completely different animals those two games the orvic and Castle burgundy completely different worlds okay so that's number 37 uh and speaking of different number 36 is Eldritch Horror this has been kind of a staple in my collection I've got all expansions and stuff for it they're not creating anything new for it although I think they're still producing it and making it I think you can find it but I'm not sure I think it's been a while since I've seen a copy in the shop uh this is my favorite in that kind of Arkham Horror style of the game it's argermore but it's over the whole globe and I just love like picking random expansions throwing together playing through it's it has a very adventurous sort of vibe to it and you know just kind of like I'm kind of going along seeing what happens almost like uh if a lot of people like that fortune and Glory game which I've never played but this feels like that how I imagine that game feels is you're on this big pulpy world traveling adventure and there's all kinds of crazy demons and monsters and you're going on these different sort of quests and things like that and trying to get different weapons and items but it's all just absolutely nuts and bonkers this one player count wise I think we played it six player one time don't don't do that you probably want to cap this one at four it's great solo I love playing it solo I usually when I play solo two fists that you know I play the two different Heroes and stuff like that uh three four players you know it's fine um there's a wonkiness with a player count and I can't remember if it's the even or odd number of players so you want to add in or subtract a character based on that I can't remember there's a funky sort of thing with it it's not a huge thing um but if you go on BGG and look it up look that up but the odd or even number of players because it does something to the difficulty of the game it's not a big deal but yeah this is one of those like easy Plug and Play Quick setup you know grab this deck of cards grab this extra map from one of the expansions set up and go Shuffle the decks and then you're off and you're just running to see what happens and you're trying to you know fight the big bad at the end and you usually lose I've lost this more than I won easily uh but it's fun that way I like it's like that easy to get into accessible kind of Adventure now the alternative would be Mansions of Madness second edition I would probably argue I talked a little bit about this in my first video in the series I'll talk more about it in the last one I would argue managers of Mana second edition is probably a better game design than Elders horror it is there's been some really epic fun just massive massively fun experience if I had playing match as a man to Second Edition you got the app you got the different quests and stuff you can do and just this whole thing about the some of the characters going crazy and turning Trader at the last second that just make it stop ridiculously fun at the very end um and it's just some of them there's just lots of different Vibes and stuff like that that you can get out of that game I don't know how readily available this one is uh compared to Elder Shore I'm not really sure I know they both have kind of sunseted new game production on this new expansions but I don't know um but Elder torch is much more easier to get in and play and still have a lot of fun crazy wacky scenarios but I would recommend you try either of them actually says number 36.

number 35 is completely different again this is going to be a theme going for the rest of these videos number 35 is London second edition uh this is a card game from Martin Wallace uh he had the original one he published under his own Banner of tree frog games and now Osprey has the new one I really like the new one it does some great improvements it's a car driven economic uh game like San Juan race for the Galaxy glory to Rome sort of Vibes to it in a way a little different obviously you're kind of trying to rebuild London after the fire you're taking loans you're building up these different types of buildings and systems and workplaces and schools and everything for the people as you rebuild London I just love that whole theme of that and it's really really tight and fun and just so different and unique it's an economic game and it's car driven and you're building these routes and love it all the player counts two three and four that's fine there's no solo mode as far as I know for this um it's just fantastic it's great this is another one easy to get into relatively easy to teach you know it's got some some complexity there um above your standard like Monopoly game and stuff like that but it's not too bad um I really really enjoy it now the alternative to that would be holler towel I would throw out there because that's a ulia Rosenberg game it has very car driven sort of ideas it's a little bit more of a work replacement game but you're really trying to build up like a card engine but in a completely different way London is much more card based but howler town if you do things right you can get it and start to chain a bunch of cards out kind of towards the end of the game as you build up your resource engine and build your big old like Town Center type of thing and you know swap resources like every who origin board game we get these resources to swap for that and get points um I would recommend that as an alternative because that's the how to charge is like kind of like your more traditional kind of Euro game with lots of cool card stuff and London is kind of its own like beast and its own unique kind of unicorn of a game that's a card based board game Euro economic thing um but yeah so if you want something a little bit more traditional Alex has a really good example of that and would probably slip into my top 100 speaking of that but London I cannot recommend it enough it's just it's brutal in a way but it's not not that's not too brutal I don't think so I think you could be okay with that because sometimes Martin Wallace games could be a little bit brutal but this is sort of semi-brutal all right so that's number 35 uh number 34 is Thunderstone quests now this is the latest iteration of Thunderstone which came out you know 15 years ago whatever and it's deck building game and you it's a dungeon car all really it's like a quest game you go through and you move your figure down to the dungeon and you get cards and upgrades and upgrade your characters that are in the deck and you go back to town you buy new ones you get new items you upgrade your characters go back to the dungeon you go down you fight you get cool items and you go back and forth and kind of loop play that game Loop a little bit and then you eventually will unlock the big bad and everybody's get a chance to kind of whack at that and then you have a winner so it's a mostly competitive uh deck building game and you can also play co-op which is really fun there's the um oh my gosh the barricades something okay I've never brain fart the barricades expansion which makes it Solo or Co-op but that's really cool it's also very tough actually um I don't know I kind of like it both ways you know um I like the co-op side I like solo stuff I like the competitive side I like playing through the campaign competitively because it's like oh well okay so you won the game so you get to keep a card or something like that I can't remember exactly and then you play again and you just kind of reset and then you set your decks and then maybe the one guy keeps the card and then or everybody gets scarred that's right sorry and you pick a card and you just kind of play through six games and it's not like it's cool because it's like the town is just like way more realistic than most RPGs and everything like if there's a problem in the town and the evil like demon fairy lady in the forest is messing up everything you don't ask one group of Soul or you know Heroes to go you know u5 you're the five that are gonna do it no you go up ask everybody everybody you can get your hands on to go do it and everybody's fighting it and then at the end there's one group of Heroes that did best and so okay you guys you guys win you guys you guys are the real heroes we all contributed okay we all get our participation trophies but you get the big trophy because you won and so then you play it again and then the next thing and you go like that's cool I like that like that actually that's not something like that would obviously be interesting or thematic or fun to me but in this kind of setting it actually works it's like oh why won't we all cop them together because we're all mercenaries you know and we want to get the glory and all the stuff for ourselves but we're still going to help the townsfolk kill the evil monster like that that makes sense that feels real to me so I really like that but you can play co-op and stuff like that solo too works great it's fun like it's it's very has a very good sort of story arc to each game where you feel like that big ramp up and you just feel more and more powerful and it just does a great job of that whole thing it just really juices you get your juices going and it just works with that deck building mechanic really really well and it's coming from somebody that did not like the original Thunderstone at all it just was not didn't do it for me but they've really kind of iterated over uh this design over the years and I think it really got to find uh you know fine Edge there now the alternative here is Lords of waterdeep and this is a two to five player game and I would play it probably at any of those player counts frankly and I like it because the reason I kind of link it with Thunderstone Quest is because it it's a fantasy sort of setting but it's a different kind of vibe on it right so it's a d d game Dungeons and Dragons was work placement game and you're building buildings and you're working for the Lords of the water deep in your recruiting Warriors and clerics and Rogues and you're going on these little quests and spending them like you're just getting mercenaries and spending them and just you know go do this Quest go do this thing uh and all stuff and it so it feels it's cool because it's like this sort of like the talk of the part of DnD that nobody talks about it like how do the civilization and the governments and all these sort of aristocrats all function you know you're always the adventurer like the lone Crusaders out in the wilderness you know doing your thing but it's like oh we you can make like a game in this world that has all of this kind of other stuff going on which must exist at some point and it's really fun and it's easy I played with the family the game group and it has some real a unique and interesting mechanics with some of the Intrigue card play that's something I haven't really seen in many other games especially when it came out um it's just it's a fun game and like I said I've played any player count two to five anyway so that's number 34.

number 33 is Cryptid that's from Osprey games and this is a game that is like a deduction game not a social deduction game but a pure kind of deduction game like you think of clue or any of those kind of games we were trying to find like the one sort of Final Solution by process of elimination everybody's trying to find in this case the location of the Cryptid or like the the boogeyman or Bigfoot or whatever Sasquatch um and you're trying to do that and I just absolutely love this game and there's something about this game that's probably just unique to me and I think one other content creator but I don't want to say his name to embarrass him because they may not agree but we I know this guy we'll just call him uh we'll call him David uh but he seems to really like this game too and we played this game together at a convention one time and we were I was like oh you like this is just as much as me so I'm not a freak because I really like this game as just like the best deduction game that I've ever played it's just so cool how you start the game off with like a little piece of information and everybody's like adding their little thing and then based on the cubes and the discs and everything on the board he starts with like your mind starts just like swirl and be like oh oh oh oh oh this is where it's at and I can the only way I can kind of talk about it other than just you know reviewing the game uh would be it's kind of like Kingdom Builder in a way that that Don speaking of deck balloon games Dominion Creator Don vaccarino Um Kingdom Builder has this weird kind of thing where you kind of like on the map you kind of encroach on this final Point completely different idea but Cryptid has that same sort of spatial visual thing where you're like zeroing in on the spot where the Cryptid is based on the kind of sharing of information on the sort of central map it's just really cool this is so fun and I kind of recommend it more I don't know that I've oh gosh I can't remember I played as a lot I don't think I've ever played with two or anything I'm sure it plays it too I think it only plays a three but yeah any three four five yeah definitely um I don't think it plays with two let's look at the Box three four five though great perfect I like it with five doesn't matter to me um a little story so I hate to say it's gonna sound like I'm bragging so one time I won this game five times in a row like as I got to like basically like a very Zen place with it and one of those times was a five player game I won it on the first turn I went last so there was four turns in front of me and I was like you know what like I'm in the zone I just guessed the thing and I won the whole thing on the first turn on my first turn on the fifth turn um yeah there was a time when I was like playing this a ton and I wish there was like a cryptic Championship or something I think I probably would I played it after that that period of time and like not done that well but I mean I've still won since then but yeah there's something about this game it just seems to sing to me oh now the alternative would be to crypto which is like code names but like amped up gamer code names and the crypto is not something that you could really play I think with the family groups or anything like that but it is something else and it is one of these kind of it's pretty simple mechanically relatively you know it's got some complexity there some just some quirkiness to it um but once you kind of get a group that likes this thing and and can kind of invest themselves and play it a couple of times in a row it just really comes together in the competitive aspect of it is really cool because you know that feeling when you're playing charades or Pictionary or something like that it's very kind of innocent lighthearted game by the end of the night people are like they're out they kill each other playing this dumb game the crypto has that same it's different energy but it's the same kind of energy there where it's like oh you know screw that team over there we're gonna get him we're gonna get him you know I mean so it has that sort of vibe but in this really kind of weird metaphysical mental kind of space of this like code decryption word solution kind of thing where you're trying not to like give away your Clues and stuff to the other team a lot like code names but just a little bit amped up you know a little bit I think a little bit more interesting uh not as accessible as code names or anything like that but I would definitely recommend folks give that one a try so that's number 33.

so number 32 is a rear window this is a game that was on my top 10 games last year uh again a very different kind of social experience this one's based on the Alfred Hitchcock movie or a window where there's been a murder in the movie now there may or may not have been a murder in the game but one player plays like the director the other players are playing kind of like the viewers and they're trying to sort of sort out if there's been a murder and kind of who's who kind of looking through the window but based on cards that are getting played by the directors player and so what happens is you're trying to if you're the director and there's been a murder then you're trying to get them to guess almost everything right but not everything because they'll be able to guess who the murderer is if there hasn't been a murderer then you're trying to get them to guess everything but you can't tell them you don't you know you don't disclose that at the beginning they've got to kind of figure it out so this is weird kind of back and forth cat and mouse around that it's like is it being 100 truthful or just 80 truthful and all this kind of stuff in this weird sort of translation part you have to do to translate the images and all that kind of stuff it's just a really really cool game um this game you could play it two player um it works although I think it's a little bit better with a bigger group of players but you could also probably play it with infinite number of players but that wouldn't really be fair I don't think it would get too much like bogged down in discussions and arguments about you know what what does the director player intend so the sweet sauce probably three four five in there and I think that's what the box says but you could play it with like eight people you know no problem um but it's again similar to Cryptid to crypto that kind of thing is a very unique experience that I think will take a couple of plays actually to kind of get into and get kind of that that mindset to get into now speaking of mindset the alternative to this would be a game called medium and this is a game where how do I explain it you're like playing cards to your left and right of the people that are sitting around the table from you and you're trying to sort of guess a word that joins your word that you played to each other and you get like three chances and then it's you're almost like trying to read each other's mind in a way but given some of the context of things um it was very interesting although this one has fallen flat with like half the people I've played it with the other half really enjoyed it but yeah it's one that I would recommend you try because I think it's just a unique experience that you you should try you may not you may hate it but I think it's one that you should just give it a shot because it's just so different all right so that's number 32.

and then the last one number 31 is where words and I'll just say the alternative now the alternative would be One Night Ultimate Werewolf I think with the Daybreak expansion so it would have been a few years ago I would have put one a Ultimate Werewolf up higher on the list like this but it's basically werewolf the old style game or the mafia Style game but where words it gives you that extra little something to do besides just accuse each other of being the werewolf or the liar basically because in the where words you're playing 20 questions and you get a word and the mayor gets the word and the mayor might be a Trader you might be a werewolf you know that somebody might be the Seer of the mayor could be the Seer and all these different kind of configurations and then you just you start the app that comes with it that generates the word for you and then everybody's trying to guess the questions in like three minutes and if you get the word right then the werewolves get to reveal themselves and they get to point out who they think the Seer was if you don't get the word at the end everybody has a discussion and tries to vote out who the werewolves were um this is easily my favorite social deduction game I played a lot of them you know uh secret Hitler werewolf uh the resistance and um that new one with the pirate ship and the Cthulhu stuff I'll feed the Kraken that one's a good one but um there's a lot of good ones but to me where words just takes the cake because you can play it in like I don't know five minutes and you can play it like 50 times if you want to in a row and it's just so easy to get back in and and the The Meta dynamic between all the players can just persist over many days and many games in many years but it's so quick and easy just to jump in and out of and play and it gives you again with the where words with the 20 Questions angle the ability to do something else other than try to socially deduce who gets caught you know pointing the finger in a wrong way you've got it you've got to deduce all that through this other means this other activity that you've got to like watch people and I like that more than just like tripping somebody up in some kind of logic argument which is fun too and this will have some of that but it has that other layer to it which isn't really complex it's just a simple game of 20 questions and it gives you a jumping off point to start the accusations and that's what I really like about it okay so yeah and the alternative obviously is one night but it's the swear words is basically one night but with the words part so if you don't want to do the words part I would recommend one eye because that's a lot of fun too okay so that's the last one for this one and we'll see you next time [Music] [Music]