I am a latecomer to the world of 18xx, but after my first several plays of 1846, I am fully on board. I already knew he loved expansions and building on his designs with Tramways, but Clinic Deluxe now has more than twenty modules you can add and a strong core gameplay loop that I love. Clinic DeluxeĪlban Viard has vaulted into my top 3 designers in recent years, and games like Clinic Deluxe are a big reason why. This and its new edition, Stained Glass of Sintra, are well crafted, finely balanced puzzle-style games that I have a blast playing. Azul: Summer PavilionĪzul is one of the hottest games of the last three years, an abstract with beautiful production values, clever scoring mechanisms, and a bit of a mean streak. Glen More II takes the original up several notches with Chronicles that add depth, replayability and new options in ways I’ve never seen before in a game this size. Glen More is a long time favorite, so much so that I backed Lunarchitects when it was on Kickstarter specifically because of its similarities. Botanik has creative, mind-bending artwork, an innovative approach to tile drafting, and a fun puzzle experience that’s more accessible than Curious Cargo, but with a similar puzzle-y approach.
One of the cleverest, most engaging, brain burning two player puzzle games I’ve played in a long time. I love dice placement as a mechanism, but it can be challenging to mitigate and manage the rolls…unless everyone has the same dice! Lorenzo is an almost punishingly tight tableau builder that offers endless permutations, made even more engaging by an expansion loaded with additional content. Scores are low and money tight – making every decision impactful. Players race to grow vegetables and use them to fulfill contracts and long term customers, while drafting cards in a central turn every round. This is one of the few Rosenberg games that doesn’t immediately feel like a Rosenberg. Complete with many of his trademark mechanics, including follow actions, and another beautiful board from Ian O’Toole, this is a prize in my collection. Lisboa takes everything I love about Lacerda’s designs and channels it into a sublime 2-3 hour experience of rebuilding a broken city. The perfect refinement of Richard Borgs’ Command & Colors system, this one shines. Rather than buying starter sets and overpriced miniatures for a tabletop war game, I’ve been more than pleased with Battlelore Second Edition.
#BRASS BIRMINGHAM UPGRADES FULL#
The only thing holding this game back from going higher is the lack of opportunities to play it with a full group of four. What if 4X but just the tech tree? That’s the guiding inquiry behind Beyond the Sun and it makes for a fascinating, engaging, blast of a game that plays quickly as you build up your civilization to incredible technologies end to end. Texas Showdown is a brutal, clever game with a race to the bottom and I love it. Who would have thought I’d be a trick taking guy? But here we are eight years after initial reviews of Chronicle and Poison, and I have multiple trick takers on my top 100. With expansions and new card options, I can see it going even higher on my list. More interactive thanks to the dice and card auction/draft than most games in the genre, it allows several different paths to victory. Bright and beautiful artwork, unlike anything I’d seen on a euro before, Coimbra is a joy to look at and a fantastic experience. This game of dice drafting and resource management first caught my attention thanks to its cover. From its engaging theme to the creative way it approaches cooperative reimplementation of classic Vital Lacerda rules, CO2 is a blast. I’ve had this one in my collection for several years, but just got a chance to play it last summer for the first time and was instantly enamored. YokohamaĪt once initially overwhelming and deeply fulfilling, Yokohama has grown on me substantially in the last two years, especially as digital implementations make what was long a difficult game to get to the table easier to play. Anthony’s Top 100 Games of all Time (2022) 100. If you’re interested, you can also view the lists from 2015 when we did our original Top 50’s for episode 100. You can view the entirety of both lists on this page.īoth of these lists were built independently of one another, so it’s a lot of fun to see where they match up and where they don’t.
#BRASS BIRMINGHAM UPGRADES UPDATE#
Every year, we sit down and update our top games of all time list, with Chris and Anthony both building their own personal Top 100 lists.
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