What are some of your favorite "older" (2016 and before) board games?

thank you for giving older games more exposure. I understand that people who joined the hobby in recent years prefer recent trends, but for a oldschool player as myself, I can hardly pick any game released after 2018 that is better than something released previously.

These guys putting out Grand Austria Hotel and this in a row it's legendary BG designing status right there

One of my favourite games ever! Glad to see you two playing it.

As a Lorenzo I support this review.

Nice Playthrough. This is definitely not a "multi-player solo" game. cant wait to get it to the table.

The first time I played this game was a 5-player game. It took absolutely forever, especially since 4 of us had never played before, but it immediately became one of my favorite games. I've only played with all of the expansions, and I don't see a reason to play again without everything included. At higher player counts, the fifth tower is absolutely essential! I couldn't imagine playing a 4-player game without it. Dang, I want to get this to the table again ASAP!!

This game with the expansion is in my top 3 of all time. Such an amazing game!

1:07:31 “The Klemens Franz artwork…I personally feel very at home whenever I play a game with this kind of artwork.” Naveen gets it. 👍 My husband and I feel the same way about his art. 😄

Thank you for reviewing an older game. I know you guys showcase alot of kickstarter games, good to see oler games make it into the Que

This is one of my favourite games, especially with the expansions.

This is my favorite! Thanks for filming great playthrough 😊

We purchased this game at BGG con in May. Our first game was with four-players, and three of us not having played before. It was brutal and a lot of frustration amongst the players. We have played several two-player sessions and have really enjoyed the game. Thanks for the play through and review.

On fire! Awesome. Good to see some non-KSers.

When I first entered the hobby of modern designer board games in late 2009, the 'heaviest' game I enjoyed was Agricola. In recent years, my enjoyment of heavier games has definitely grown, but my top 10 of 2016 and earlier reflect my previous enjoyment of lighter, medium-ish, games: Agricola Xia Mythotopia The Bloody Inn Black Fleet Castle Merchants Caylus Master Builder WarQuest A Castle For All Seasons

I think this game is fun. However, my partner and I played it after already being deeply in love with Grand Austria Hotel by the same designers, which we think is a superior game, so Lorenzo doesn't make it to the table too often. The two games share similar mechanisms, and both are quite tight and cutthroat, but GAH has more theme, which puts it over the top. Would love to see you two play it. It's great at two players. Thanks for the video. It makes me want to play LIM again (except our table is currently swallowed up by Lisboa). :)

Knew nothing about how this game played, so thanks for posting your playthrough. Looks like a lot of fun!

Great playthrough! I love this game, I should play it more often. PS; I turned emo every time you said "Yellow Card".

One of the absolute best Euro games out there!!! tight and without theme at all hahaha but very good IMO

My favorite thing about the expansion for this is that it adds player powers with a wonderful auction for them. Such a great auction, wish more games would imitate it.

Thank you for the great playthrough! Haven't played this game since 2020 but now want to play it...this weekend ;) It was one of the first "heavy" euro I bought around 2018. I thought the renaissance theme was original until I found there were 100s games with a renaissance theme😂

Great game. Consistently in my top 5. Another great euro with the theme of renaissance Florence that you might enjoy is Calimala.

I can’t believe this was on your milestone. Had this game including the expansions. Kind of trailed of my radar this game.

I love this game so much. I wish to see that mechanic of the dice being the value of everyone's worker in the future. I have this idea of it being used but if you inprove the value they change for everyone else too.

Love Lorenzo! Great play

This was an awesome playthrough! One of my favorite euros for sure ❤

As always a great play through. Id love to see you two try out 2015’s Grand Austria Hotel by 2 of the the same designers. I know Naveen would really like it. It seems right up his Euro alley. It was introduced to me just a few months and and i absolutely fell in love with the game. Not too long but with great decision space and a fun theme too. Some day I hope to see it on your channel. Id be super curious to see what you think! Cheers!

I really need to get this one to the table! I have owned it for a while now. Thanks for the playthrough!

Never heard the term 'gamer oops' before but I like it, and I'll start using it :D Great job as usual!

So here's the thing. I've watched reviews of this game in the past and was thinking "meh, can't see what's so great about this game". Watching your video made me rethink that and now I want to buy it ! It looks great ! Thank you guys, this was very enjoyable although my wallet won't like it as much. XD

Never liked this game, but you guys make it nice) Always watch you with pleasure) 😊

Great! Lorenzo is in my top 4 games ever! The expansion is great as well; it loosens up higher player count a bit with a 5th tower (can be used at any player count btw). the zig-zag balance of strategy and tactics in this one is so fun. add the expansion asymmetric family powers on top of this game and it stays fresh for a long time.

Nice job! This is a game in my Top 3 along with Barrage (from the same designer) that I strongly recommend you to play!

This is one of my fav games of all time!!!!

Great play-thru and review as always! Since you like the tightness and tension in this game you might also like the game punishing aspects of World without End. The pain is okay because everyone suffers, so doesn't feel arbitrary. 😀 Increasing limits on action options as each era progresses before resetting for the next era leads to a nice tension and hard choices. Bonus is that it plays quickly. Not sure how easy it is to get hold of that older game, but it is one I love to keep going back to.

Great video, thanks! The houses of reniassance adds another tower which helps with the tightness and variety, like it a lot, we always play with it. The pazzi conspiracy i do not like, it adds more player interaction, but sometimes in a take that kind of way. Also it adds a lot of setup time for what it is.

Great game! I have the older base game and the expansion that came out for it and I recommend everything that comes in that expansion!

One of my favorite games.

Lorenzooooooo 😍😍😍😍😍 Thank you Monique and Naveen!

Love playing Lorenzo. 5 players experience is AMAZING

You might want to check out Golem - same designers, amazing game with a little more theme (though not much) and a little less tight!

Well I’d love to see a play through for GOA. I know you both like it and Naveen has or had it very high on his top 100 a while back.

very nice！ just bought it today🎉

I am thinking of getting this but want to see how it plays at 2, and how it compares to Grand Austria Hotel first! so glad you made this playthrough! Off to make a cuppa and watch it :)

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Great video! Thank you. I am trying to find the marvel game you talked about on bgg and cant find it.

Hey guys - I hope you are well. Do you use just a felt table cover? It looks great.

Great game, ill be keeping it for a while as well. The 5th tower added in the expansion loosens things up a bit, and is great in 3p and above games. My only problem with this game are that the 1x purple worker pieces are nearly the exact same size as the larger 5x purple worker pieces, and it's hard to tell them apart without having both sizes side by side. Also, the 4 leader cards you get at the beginning of the game only have iconography, to make the game language independent, and while there is an index telling you what these cards do, they are not in alphabetical order AND are split up between 2 or 3 rulebooks. So you and all other players have to go through a maze of Italian names to find the 4 you are using this game, and when you forget what one of them does, its back to the Maze for another 3 minutes.

I need to swipe the dust out from this one and bring it to the table again.

At 17:48, when Monique takes the yellow card as a result of the effect of her character card: I thought it wasn't possible to boost card effects with workers? In other words: isn't it only possible to use servants when placing a worker to boost that worker's dice value?

Seems you 2 would enjoy Barrage 😀!

I'd definitely take an excommunication if I was Monique at the second Era. The points on faith escalate so much and also not having to care about faith is very nice imo

love lorenzo a lot. greate game

I think that since you likes this one so much - you should revisit Grand Austria Hotel. Yes, it can deive you nuts. Yes its very unforgiving but it's good. I have a wierd thing with it and I keep doing worse and worse everytime i play. But i still loveee it Well love and hate at the same time 😂😂

Wow, after all that praise Monique says they game "might make it into her top 50" 😮 What kind of superstar genious games are on her top 50 I wonder...🤔

Omg. This is my all time favourite game. So clean. Despite it being my favourite game i strongly reccomend you DON'T cover the second 'running your engine' space as it suggests for 2p. The 3 pip penalty is punishment enough, and it can just become a race to that spot each round otherwise.

Ah to bad you did the base game. The 5th tower is needed to make the game shine. I rate it at least a point higher with these added components.

If Monique was meaner, she should have taken the harvest action away from Naveen in the last round.

Getting some Castles of Burgundy vibes from this one. Also I wouldnt call anything after ~2007 "older" games. Lots of very relevant and amazing games made in 2016 and before. Great Western Trail, Pandemic, Castles of burgundy, 7 Wonders Duel, Brass, Feast for Odin, Concordia, Viticulture, Caverna/Agricola, Power Grid, Eclipse, Robinson Crusoe, Dominant Species, and the list goes on... personally I think modern era of board games started somewhere around 2005 and we are still in it. Most new games rehash mechanics invented in the last 20 years anyways.

this or grand austria hotel?

Making a point to introduce this as a dry euro is very poor form. You didnt say any such thing about the AWFUL Lisboa.

first, woohoo