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Spider-Man
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Fang
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ytho
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Fang
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Fang
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Spider Man
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Spider-Man
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I was hoping Skull Kid might be one of the dlc characters, but hes an AT again :(
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Fang
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Wolverine
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I think Sakurai said they planned to reveal every fighter before launch, so unless they're doing 2 directs this month they should be revealing all 7 if Grinch is real.
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Not dead yet!

#41: The Grimm Forest
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/212402/grimm-forest
Year released: 2018
Placement on last year's list: n/a

In the Grimm Forest each player is an ancestor of the three little pigs. The goal of the game is to build houses made of straw, wood, and brick. There are 4 locations full of resources and each player has a hand of cards consisting of the locations. Every round players will play a card and all reveal at the same time where they went. If one player is at a location alone, they get all of the resources there. If multiple people go to the same spot, they have to evenly divide them. There are some "take that" cards where you can do things like send monsters to locations that do bad things to the players who went there. You can also get friend cards who give you a special ability throughout the game. Each player can only have one though, so if you get a second one you can replace your old one or give it to somebody else and force them to keep it, which makes them lose their current one.

This game looks really nice too. It has great components, nice miniatures (my girlfriend painted mine for me), and a Game Trayz insert. It's all a really nice production.

#40: A word game consisting of two teams and isn't Codenames/Codenames Pictures.
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Underleveled posted...

Punnyz posted...

it should've been today

just because I personally don't wanna wait

This and I don't have work today.

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Fang
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It's kinda coincidental how like in most games pigs are evil.

Spider-Man
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It's kinda coincidental how like in most games pigs are evil.

Aloy
Fox
Captain Toad
Waluigi
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Raiden
Venom
Bulbasaur
NGin
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#42: For Sale
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172/sale
Year released: 1997
Placement on last year's list: n/a

For Sale is a card game that has two phases. In the first phase players are auctioning to buy property cards that are valued 1 - 30. Once they are all auctioned off, the players try to sell those properties for the best value. Money amounts will be revealed and each player picks a card from their hand and plays it. The highest value property takes the highest amount on the table and so on. This goes until all houses are sold. Highest amount of money wins. It's another quick game that's simple to teach.

#41: Has a fairy tale theme
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#43: Ars Alchimia
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/160432/ars-alchimia
Year released: 2014
Placement on last year's list: #23

Ars Alchimia is another game that had a big drop from last year. I think this is due to lack of playing it much lately. Each player works in an alchemy factory. You can get up to 20 workers to send out to collect orders, gather resources, get assistants, and transmute orders. When placing at a location you can send as many workers as you want, and if someone else goes there they have to send that same amount plus at least one more. So you can spread out smaller numbers, or you can place bigger amounts at good spots to make your opponents less likely to want to go there too. It's a pretty light and quick worker placement that I need to get to the table more.

#42:The only game on my list that came out before the year 2000.
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Sorry for the lack of updates! Ill post some more later today.
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Batman
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Wolverine
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spodermen
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I want it to be real because of Banjo, but I vote fake.
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I haven't heard of this Gurumin game before, but after looking it up it looks really cool. I'll have to try it sometime.
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spodermen
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#44: Capital Lux
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205046/capital-lux
Year released: 2016
Placement on last year's list: n/a

Capital Lux is a card game with 4 different suits of characters. On your turn you can place one card in your Hometown (in front of you) or you can place one in the Capital (centre of the table). Placing in front of you strengthens your Hometown based on the number on your card. Placing in the centre of the table strengthens the Capital and lets you activate the ability of that colour. The thing to worry about is that at the end of each round, every Hometown that is stronger than the Capital is wiped out. It gives you an interesting way to decide if you want to work on making yourself stronger without being too strong, or letting the Capital get stronger and getting an ability. There are also ways to weaken the Capital in an attempt to have your opponents Hometown stay stronger than the Capital before the end of the round too.

#43: A worker placement game where you can get a large amount of workers.
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The popularity for Big Boss was bigger than Ridley
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Up for today. I'll post more tomorrow.
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Ryo
Neptune
Crash
Big Boss
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votes neptune
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Yoshi
James
Pikachu
Kratos
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#45: Stone Age
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34635/stone-age
Year released: 2008
Placement on last year's list: 15

Stone Age is another game that had a pretty big drop from last time. It's a worker placement game about sending your workers out to get resources. You roll a die for every worker you send out and you get resources based on how high you roll. One problem is that it relies really heavily on how you roll. There are ways to help your roll a little, but for the most part that doesn't really help you if you roll all 1s and 2s. There's also a strategy I've seen that involves not feeding your workers and taking a 10 point loss every round, which really isn't much of a penalty when you don't have to worry about food at all. I think it would be better if you just lost one worker if you couldn't feed them all. Other than that though, it's a good introductory worker placement game and I still enjoy it. I guess it dropped a little mostly because I've been preferring to play other worker placement games instead.

There's a 10th anniversary edition coming out later this year with better components and a double sided winter board that adds a more difficult variant. I don't own Stone Age so I thought about getting it, but it's pricey!

#44: There are 4 different characters in this game and the one on the cover of the box is the blue character.
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Bear Bro
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#46: Automata NOIR
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/225449/automata-noir
Year released: 2018
Placement on last year's list: n/a

Automata NOIR is a reimplementation of NOIR: Deductive Mystery Game. I haven't played that version so I'm not sure how different it is, but I do really like this one. There are multiple game modes but the main one is the two-player Killer vs. Inspector mode. There are 25 characters in a 5x5 grid. One player is the inspector and the other player is the killer. They both randomly pick a character to be their secret identity. Then the killer will start killing characters around them, and the detective wins if he figures out who the killer's identity is. The killer will win if they kill 10 people or if they kill the inspector. Normally in games like these I like to be the bad guy/hunted character, but in this one I think I like both roles pretty equally.

#45: Winter is coming
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Bear Bro
It's kinda coincidental how like in most games pigs are evil.

I've played one game solo one time. I'll mention which one it was when it comes up later in the list. I generally prefer to play them with other people though.

cyko posted...

Side note - I rather enjoyed this last year and look forward to your viewpoints again - even if most of them don't line up with mine

Thanks!
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Garland
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Bgg says "Each expansion is added to the basic game and they should be played separately." Maybe there are ways to mix them though.
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#47: Tiny Epic Quest
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/201921/tiny-epic-quest
Year released: 2017
Placement on last year's list: n/a

I've played a few of the Tiny Epic games, and Quest was definitely the best of them. This is basically the closest I've seen to a Legend of Zelda board game. It's all about exploring the land entering dungeons, fighting monsters, and learning new magic spells. It was the first Tiny Epic game to introduce ITEMeeples. These are plastic meeples with holes in their hand that allow you to attach weapons which allows the meeple holding that weapon to use a special ability. These weapons are basically all inspired of Legend of Zelda too.

While we're at it, I'll give my thoughts on the other Tiny Epic games:
Kingdoms - Played it once, it was alright. It has an expansion now, not sure if that makes it more interesting or not.
Defenders - Didn't play but I also didn't hear great things. There's a second edition and expansion that now that uses ITEMeeples so maybe that made it better?
Galaxies - This one was pretty good but I've only played it twice. There's an expansion for this too and I'm curious to see how it is.
Western - I have it, but haven't gotten it played yet.
Zombies - I'm interested to try it, the 5 different ways to play it is neat.
Mechs - The kickstarter finished recently I think, I didn't really look into it though.

#46: A 2-player hidden identity deduction game
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#48: Coup
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup
Year released: 2012
Placement on last year's list: n/a

The first game that's new to this list. I had played it before I did my list the first time, but I hadn't played it enough. This is a bluffing card game where you'll have two roles face down in front of you. They all have different powers and on your turn you'll claim one of your roles to use it's power, and if nobody accuses you of lying, then you do the thing. But if someone does accuse you and catches you lying, you lose a card. If they incorrectly call you out, they lose a card instead. It's another one with player elimination but it also plays very fast because it doesn't let people stockpile their money. Once you reach 10, you're forced to spend 7 of it to kill somebody's card. It's definitely one that you can burn out on from too many plays, and I think my game group plays it just enough that I still enjoy every play if it when we bring it out.

#47: The only Tiny Epic game to make this list
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Bear Bro
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Yeah I'm not a fan of the card game. I find it can be long at times which really sucks for the eliminated people. Dice is much faster so when you're eliminated you're not waiting too long to play again. My girlfriend really likes the card version though which is why I'll still play it every so often.
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Bear Bro
It's kinda coincidental how like in most games pigs are evil.

I'm pretty sure that's what happened to me. It used to be a good game to quickly play at the start or end of a game session. Maybe if the expansion came out a little sooner that would've made me like it more, but by the time it did come out most of us had moved on and lost interest. One of my friends did end up getting it which is when I tried the one module that I did.
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Bear Bro
It's kinda coincidental how like in most games pigs are evil.

#49: Splendor
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/148228/splendor
Year released: 2014
Placement on last year's list: #21

Another game that placed pretty high last time and fell. When I first got this game I was really into it. It's a really simple to teach engine building game. On your turn you can take gems, or use gems to buy a card. The cards you take will make other cards cheaper, and eventually the more expensive cards will award you points.

They eventually made an expansion that includes 4 modules, but you can only play one of them each game. Out of the 4, I've only played one of them and I liked it enough. Not enough to want to get the expansion for myself though.

#48: Published by Indie Boards & Cards
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#50: BANG! The Dice Game
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143741/bang-dice-game
Year released: 2013
Placement on last year's list: #8

Everybody is dealt a secret role card that tells them if they're the Sheriff, Deputy, Outlaw, or Renegade. The Sheriff and Deputy want to kill the Outlaws, the Outlaws want to kill the Sheriff, and the Renegade wants to kill the Outlaws, and then the Sheriff. Players roll dice and the results will do things such as shoot other players, heal players, or damage the person rolling. Since only the Sheriff is revealed, it's all about the mind games and trying to figure out who is on your side.

There is a modular expansion called Old Saloon and I definitely recommend it. I don't usually play with all of it at once, but some of them I really enjoy adding. Especially the one that lets the first person to die come back as a ghost, that adds an interesting twist and makes the player elimination element less terrible for that person.

I'm not sure why I had this placed so high last time. It's a fun game to play with a big group, but there are a lot better options out there.

#49: This game's box is way too big for the amount of content inside
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Bear Bro
It's kinda coincidental how like in most games pigs are evil.

Last year I did a ranking topic of my top 50 board and card games. I have played a lot more games since then and some of my opinions have changed. I figured I'd do a 2018 update and re-rank them. To help rank them this time, I used a website called pubmeeple and it helped a lot.

I will make reference to last year's list often but I don't plan to re-post it. Maybe I will after this ranking is done.

A fun fact before we start - This was 100% a coincidence, but 25 of the games on this list were on last year's list, and 25 of the games are new to the list (though not all necessarily new games). In fact, only 6 games on this list are from 2018.

After each writeup I plan to post some sort of hint/foreshadowing on the next game to come. So here we go!

#50 - This game placed in the top 10 on last year's list
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Ripto's Rage is one of the first games I completed 100%

So hype for Reignited
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Wolverine
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Spodermen
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Athena
Maya
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Kyle
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