Top Five Games I Sold and Bought Again

[Music] foreign hey everybody welcome back to the dungeon dive Daniel here I hope you're doing well and if you're not I hope you are soon okay today on the dungeon dive we are doing a top five games I sold and bought again so very simple topic these are games that I owned sold and bought again as the topic says so let's get right to it coming in at number five is a game called dungeoneer and dungeoneer was available from about 2003 to about 2006 originally designed by Thomas Denmark who also did most of if not all of the art for the game so when this game first came out there weren't very many Adventure or Dungeon Crawl games on the market mainly only the stuff from Fantasy Flight games stuff like Rune bound descent and Arkham Horror second edition so this was during my or right at the beginning of my third phase into hobby gaming and that is the phase that would eventually plant the seeds for the dungeon dive discovering these games at the game store and I bought these at a small game store in Seattle called Gary's games but discovering these was really like a breath of a fresh air for me and for a number of reasons I was creaming this kind of game this kind of big or not big but this kind of interesting thematic experience and I also was not playing solo at the time I was playing in a group and so dungeoneers is more of a group game than a solo game and I think that's one of the reasons why it is so interesting so a dungeoneer offers a unique kind of competitive dungeon crawling experience one that pits Heroes against Heroes it's not just a one versus mini game this is every hero or every player is playing a hero and you are competing to complete a number of quests before the other players as players you are moving your characters into new rooms throughout the dungeon this is an entirely card based Dungeon Crawl and as you move from one room to the next you generate two kinds of points that act as currencies you generate Glory points that you can spend to play good cards on yourself and you generate Peril points that your opponents can spend to play bad cards on you it's super unique and still really hasn't been replicated in other games there are pretty good solo game our solo rules available that are a combination of some fan made house rules and the official solo variant it has pretty good art for the most part I think a lot of the art is good but sometimes the theme of the game can feel a little pasted on I did a big Purge of stuff a few years before I started the dungeon dive and this was one of the victims of that Purge I hadn't yet switched over to full solo play and the groups I was playing with at the time really weren't into this game but overall the game is so unique that I just had to buy it again when I started the dungeon dive there just isn't really anything else like it and the boxes are super small so it's very easy to store on the Shelf I have everything for it actually right here so very very nice okay uh coming in at number four is space Hulk from 1989.

of course from Games Workshop and designed by Richard Hollowell so um space Hulk was one of my original Hobby Games from phase one of my collecting and playing this was probably the first big box hobby game I purchased with my own money I probably had received either Shogun or axis and allies possibly for Christmas before this but it felt amazing owning something like this when I was in high school we had a gaming Club at school and we played this game all the time we mixed it in with uh components and rules from Advanced space Crusade and other 40K stuff to kind of make our own hybrid system uh even back then I was like bashing games together and making house rules to kind of just create the kind of game that I wanted to play I sold this when I moved to Southern California to focus on music you know I needed some money I sold a bunch of my games I sold a bunch of my stuff uh almost all of them oh really I wasn't really playing tabletop games like this at the time my hobby time was basically spent with 70 live music uh 25 on video games and my tabletop gaming was all magic the Gathering at this time it's always been one of my favorite games and when the third and what fourth edition uh finally came out I just had to have it again and this is still the best produced board game I own it feels like a luxury item everything is so well made the cardboard is at least twice as thick as cardboard from any other game the tiles are embossed and they look amazing The Minis are exquisitely detailed the documentation is super well written this is just one of those games that you set up and just marvel at how good it looks I don't play it as much as I would like to and that's mainly because the focus is on a two-player competitive experience there are okay solo rules out there but it's just not the same the drama of rolling your hits having your guns Jam scraping by by the skin of your teeth and getting that final Victory just aren't the same by yourself okay uh number three coming in at number three is Kingdom Death monster and that was originally from 2015 designed by Adam Poots so I originally purchased Kingdom Death monster when the first Kickstarter went to retail when you could buy it from their website and it was by far the biggest most epic and most expensive game that I had ever purchased I bought a few expansions from eBay for super dumb prices because they were already out of print I played through the campaign with some friends I loved it some of my friends didn't some of my friends did love it it was an absolutely gorgeous game that really spoke to me and it's again it's one of those games that is fun to just look at and experience while it is also fun to play but then like everything went out of print and the prices skyrocketed and I had my eyes on a new synthesizer at the time a DSi Pro 2.

so I was able to uh sell my KTM collection for actually a pretty hefty profit at the time because I don't think there was any rumors of it coming back into print or something I don't know what happened but after that initial run sold out the prices just went crazy and I bought my DSI Pro 2 which to this day is still one of my favorite synthesizers that I have ever owned I use it all the time I love it to death but then when uh KDM when it got reprinted and 1.5 came out I really wanted it again I felt like my collection was missing I felt like it had this huge kind of hadium shaped hole to fill and that giant that giant black coffin box so I bought it along with most of the main EXT Mansions from the first uh from 1.5 um the game is just super unique I love the theme and the dark atmosphere it's super dark and mysterious I love the mystery of KDM it has a bunch of amazing Random Encounters the combat is fluid and dynamic and I love the settlement phase I doubt I'll buy anything else for it I know there's that rumored kind of Dungeon Crawl mode that might be coming out soon and I do have on pre-order the campaigns of death the new campaign book that uses the old expansions but I don't think I'll get anything else for it I feel like my KTM collection is complete I'm happy with what I have and honestly will probably all be dead before that last Kickstarter ends up getting fulfilled because I don't know what the heck is going on with that stuff okay coming in at number two is dungeon run from 2011 and dungeon run is from plaid hat and designed by Mr Bistro I was able to actually uh meet and talk with Mr Bistro not too long ago okay so um another really unique game like KDM like dungeoneer uh dungeon run is a unique game one that I haven't seen it scratches an itch that I haven't had scratched by any other game uh this is one with a very interesting competitive mechanism that doesn't work very well solo and another one like dungeoneer that hasn't really been replicated by other games so the first half of a game of dungeon run is Co-op or kind of semi-co-op the players are working together to explore a dungeon laying down tunnels moving from one room to the next trying to find the boss and then eventually kill the boss and once the boss is killed that unlocks the I think it was the summoning stone or basically the MacGuffin of the game and then one of the players picks that up and then the game switches to a competitive mode that's kind of like tag in the dungeon and the first player to get out of the dungeon with the summoning stone with the McGuffin is the winner and you really do need to work together to defeat the boss because once the boss comes out and the dungeon is shaped in a certain way it always seems to create a really interesting in the game scenario where if you don't work together you will all lose I recently played this game with the group and fell in love with it all over again it had it does a lot with a small number of components it has interesting dungeon tiles with traps and encounters it has a really solid loot deck a fun and counter deck and interesting characters with meaningful level up choices this one I sold during a a purge when I was moving a few years before the dungeon dive and it's so unique that I just I missed it and I needed it back in in my collection it's been out of print for a long time I doubt it'll ever go back in print so if it sounds interesting maybe look for a used copy and check it out okay and coming in number one the the game that I sold and I guess missed the most maybe or my favorite game of these I'm not sure how this is number one but actually it's number one because this is the game that inspired this topic so Arkham Horror second edition Arkham Horror second edition was my re-introduction into the world of tabletop gaming this is from 2005 designed by Richard lanius and Kevin Wilson so this was at the very very beginning of like phase three of my tabletop gaming hobby I had just moved to the Pacific Northwest and with all of the rain and the Gloom I wanted to get back into tabletop gaming I really wanted to get Talisman again a game that almost made this list but at the time it was out of print there really was there really weren't any games like Talisman on the market that I at least that I knew of so I went to a game store local to me and the employee there recommended Arkham Horror second edition and I feel like I had discovered this Holy Grail of a gaming there was so much stuff in that box this was like a super Talisman there were so many encounter cards and monsters and spells and weapons and items and characters the board looked awesome it was big it was epic I was like a kid on Christmas morning opening this thing I had never experienced a game like this before but then I tried to learn and play it and wow games really had to become far more complex during my uh brief time away from the hobby I couldn't make heads or tails of the of the rules and that led me to two very very important discoveries one would be Board Game Geek and at Board Game Geek I would discover Universal heads rules summaries so the esoteric order of Gamers slash Universal head was an absolute godsend their rule summary and player aids for Arkham Horror made the game click for me we started playing it all the time that's when I put together this group and we got together a lot and played Arkham horse second edition and then eventually we would start playing on descent first edition and um I bought a few of the expansions but not all of them I had two small box expansions and one large box expansion however during that Purge I I mentioned uh earlier I decided to sell it I had played it so much that I just wanted to kind of move on I wanted to free up some space and get a little bit of money to buy some other things I think I ended up selling a bunch of stuff and I bought a fender roads I see I tend to do that I'll buy I'll get into one hobby sell stuff to find another Hobby and then sell stuff from that hobby to go back and refund stuff from the previous hobby but I I didn't really miss it and when Eldritch Horror came out I thought oh wow this scratches that Arkham horse second edition itch perfectly and Arkham and eldratore I think actually does a lot of stuff better than Arkham Horror second edition and then Third Edition came out and that is a game that I love a lot I love it more than a lot of people do and then I got into Elder Sign and that game with the right expansions kinds of kind of feels like a small box version of Arkham Horror's second edition with a yahtzee thing going on however as the years went by I realized that I really was missing Arkham Horror's second edition I felt like there was a place for it in my collection and it needed to be there my collection just didn't feel complete without it I was missing it I was missing those uh chaotic games of getting brutally beaten down uh getting lost in time and space getting devoured I missed that intimate setting of Arkham City that Eldritch kind of uh veered away from in order to focus on a more epic worldwide conflict I missed all of the characters and I missed the messiness of the game and so a few weeks ago I actually bought a complete collection all of the pictures you are seeing on this video are uh the games that I own um I bought everything for it two of the small box expansions and two of the large box expansions hadn't even been opened yet so I got to experience the joy of being the first one to really dig into them and like I said this is the purchase that inspired this list this purchase inspired a literature project that I'm working on on my sister Channel all fiction is fantasy where I am a reading recommending and reviewing a story that covers each of the Elder ones each of the ancient ones the the great old ones the outer Gods featured in Arkham Horror's second edition and later this year I am going to be doing a deep dive into this series so all right you guys I hope you enjoyed this list of the top five games I sold and repurchased we will talk to you later bye-bye