The 10 *BEST* NEW Board Games Played First Half 2024
My top 10 **best* games I’ve played so far this year of 2024 in the first 6 months. Now the real question is how do you define “best”. Most fun? Most technical masterpiece? How big does accessibility or potential play a factor?
I guarantee to surprise you with at least 3 of my picks so far this year.
Truth be told though, if I included games from July and August, this list might already look different!!!
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Time Stamp:
00:00 – How Do You Define Best?
– July’s Games Not Included!!
01:09 – The Biggest Surprise of All: Star Wars Unlimited
– Love The Game: Hate the Model
03:14 – A Love Letter to Expansions: Summoner Wars 2nd Edition Content
05:13 – Tell Me If You’ve Heard Of It: Acornism
– The Reason To Crowdfund
06:20 – Indie Import Winner: Tricktakers
07:30 – When Everything Is Crazy, Nothing Is Crazy: Mindbugs Battlefront
08:49 – Divisive Opinion: Faraway
– I Still Hate Those Maples
09:52 – An Exception to the Rule of Expansions: Veiled Fate
11:27 – Fun Factor Off the Charts: Dodos Riding Dinos Dodo Dash
13:13 – Where’s Rocksteady: A Jazzy Bebop
– Knizia Vibes
14:11 – Speaking of Knizia Love: Cascadero
15:07 – The Last Surprise Based on Potential: One Hit Heroes
16:29 – Final Thoughts
– July & August Games Will Bump Things Around!!
Whoa! Hopefully Essen will introduce something new, fresh and innovative.
THX CHRIS
Great vid and games! One suggestion for future videos – I've noticed tho is your videos are quite dark if you're able to get some extra lighting 🙂
From what I have seen to come out this year I think "Leviathan Wilds" has to be one of the best games for the year, any thoughts on it?
Great video! Quick question : What minimum age is required, in your opinion, to play (to understand, and/or have the dexterity for it) Dodos riding Dinos? Is there a difference in that regard between the OG and the sequel game? My sons are 2.5 and 4 y.o., and I'd really like to introduce fun board games to them!
Would love a worst 10 list too.
There are so many new games and so much hype about them all, good for reviewers to also put out there which ones didn’t do it for them and why.
Most of my time in 2024 has been spent playing Arkham Horror the card game, Too Many Bones and Lord of the RIngs the card game, but of the new games it's 7th Citadel & Tainted Grail Kings of Ruin that have dominated my table. But both are basically campaign games so you know they get 40 hrs each of stuff to do.
Faraway is a great game! No Vale of Eternity? 🤯
Chris, great list. I haven't played a single one of those games! Good to hear some games I haven't even heard of before. Thank you!
why isn't harmonies on this list? did you like that game?
Hate to be a buzzkill but FYI the Red Sun Rising (and Violet Moon Waxing) boxes for Summoner Wars are just the Spanish boxed sets of factions that have already been released in English. I think they're the same as the similarly-named French boxes from Matagot (although those ones never got separate BGG entries). In any case – no new content there, unfortunately.
Fall of Lumen is on the top of my list for now 😁