Lol, I fell for the gloomhaven behind you the entire time.

Thanks for making these videos! It is always cool to hear your opinions on board games because I recently got into them! Keep making content my guy.

Great top ten man. I can tell it's an honest one because you didn't shy away from some titles that gamer snobs might consider to be "lightwieght" or "party" games. I also love Mansions of Madness and I might end up playing it today just because of you mentioning it. Also, awesome CaH dig - I see what you did there. :-)

Can’t tell you how much I love your simplicity everything feels so organic and sincere

It was fun hearing your voice trying to sound like Erick Summer"s from The Dice Tower. Nice video!

I recently started getting into board games (Gloomhaven was my gateway drug!) and I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel. Really enjoying your content and looking forward to more!

great video man, just what i was looking for, thanks a bunch

I love the count down you did. I didn’t want to laugh but I had too

Super interesting and fun list! DIED LAUGHING at the surprise appearance timing of Cards Against Humanity 😂

I love lots of these choices but I’m lucky if I ever get one person to play because of my schedule. Would love to see a top ten solo and top ten two person game list!

Holy cow! I totally forgot about Last Word. Haven't played in a long time but have had a ton of fun with family and friends with it too.

Immensily enjoying your vids! Keep em coming!

I'm so delighted to see you add Takenoko to the Top Ten! I adore it too. So much fun and laughter while playing it. A lot of reviewers dismiss it, so I always like to see it get the love I feel it deserves. I've been lucky enough to play the giant Collectors Edition at a convention, and it's gorgeous! I completely agree with you on BSG too. I bought the core game the week it launched in Ireland and played it TEN times in the first seven days. It became my most played game quickly and probably still stands at the top. I have tons and tons of hilarious stories associated with it. I too have all the expansions. You should google "Dynamic BSG Rulebook" for an incredible resource that makes adding expansion modules a breeze. I'd leave a link, but KZfaq doesn't like links in comments. Finally, if you click through to my channel, I have my own to ten list I did a while back. Nothing professional, just for fun.

I have seen a shit ton of boardgame top 10s and review videos, and I enjoyed your video. Props on Civilization the Board Game making it to the list. have you tried Knizia's Yellow & Yangtze? I have wanted to play Tigris and Euphrates for some time and considered buying Yellow & Yangtze.

When I found out about chaos about half a year ago, it definitely was nearly impossible to find.

Great list, lovely channel, and your video work, style, and rising quality of thought is coming through with each new video. Thank you two for all the effort. Looking forward to the future of your channel :) Out of interest, have you every played the Spartacus board game? We share a lot of similar tastes from this list, so I thought I might suggest it, it's one of my favourites. Once again, good luck for the channel, looking forward to your next content.

Omg, love your humor!

Interesting list, thanks for the video

Great channel. Love the vid. BSG is my #1 as well, just dont play it enough. I am huge Civ fan as well but never bothered with the boardgame for some reason.

That footage of Twilight Imperium looks like the box exploded all over the table. o_O

Tigris & Euphrates is in my top #5 as well - it’s an unbelievable game but tough to teach to beginners

BSG is one of my most played games. It is definitely the one that has the most wear and tear (good thing I have card sleeves!). It's also the only game that I don't mind that the cards have screen grabs, because the cards refer to actual plot elements from the show. Sadly, I haven't had a chance to play it in at least a couple of years. I miss it.

I cried when I saw Battlestar Galactica. I came into the hobby too late, and as you said, it's now out of print and I'm not ready to mortgage the house to buy a copy. But I live with the dream that one day, whoever owns the rights to the board game will come to their senses and do a Kickstarter campaign with a new expansion where you can get a pledge level as an all in and pickup the lot. Only then I will be ready for the good Lord to take me home as my life will be complete having owned and played it.

Civ Rev is my favourite game of all time, I played it to death. It’s the reason why I fell in love with strategy and later board games.

Thanks for all the recommendations! I love me some BSG. Gonna pick some of these up for a friend currently on a board game binge.

We have the same number one. Such a good time.

Starting to Watch your channel some more, but dude.. your use of expressions is funny. The game blew you out of the water? 😂

The randomnesses of combat is brutal in Chaos in the old world ... One of my friends in my gaming group had such but luck playing this game several years ago ... He kept rerolling and failing every single time even with the maxed amount of dice ... it was unbelievable and funny at the same time, but sadly out of frustration he resigned and promised never ever again to play this game again nor any other with dice combat ... and The chaos in the old world is a literally the reason why we now avoid any games with dice combat system unless dice are only used as a modifier to change outcome a little!

That Twilight imperium looks awesome, would love to have a party to learn and play with it.

For Dominion Expansions, I'd recommend Dark Ages, Empires, Adventures or Renaissance if you want something that has some significant changes. Renaissance is quite easy going, not too many big changes, Dark Ages has a lot of interesting things in it and Empires and Adventures do some interesting/weird things too. You should also play Seaside if you haven't already, if you've not seen Duration cards then you're going to love that

If you can't get Battlestar Galactica, and you don't mind it being a non-IP theme, Dark Moon (and its essential expansion Shadow Corporation) is shorter and plays just like BSG, and both Dark Moon and Shadow Corporation are available on Amazon. Honestly I feel that with its expansion Dark Moon blows BSG out of the water.

oh man, the minute I saw the "Cards against humanity" I knew something was off XD

Good stuff!! Thanks for the tips! :-) try Everdell or arcadia quest for fun!!

My favorite games are ones that are lighter because it's easy to get others to play.

There are good picks man! Some recommendations based on what you like (if you already played, no worries): Heroes of Land Air and Sea - great civ game type game. Star Realms - deck builder with a bit more theme. Only great with 2 people tho.

Man I am really looking forward to playing Civ now :) I played the computer game since it came out from Civ 1 to Civ 6 ... I had the board game for so long now and I have not yet played it.

I saw what you did with the nukes and Gandhi there :P

Haha no surprise BSG is your #1 (same for me)! 2 Recommendations related to y’all’s love for Dominion and card games(i have a similar love for card games and dominion and both of these are in my top 20): Puzzle Strike 3rd Edition -dominion(deck-builder) but instead of cards there are poker chips which are your move-list to your character specific fighter going head-to-head in a gem-powered battle Tetris to see who can deliver the unholiest smack down. It's sweaty, exciting, and quick, and the forced-buy rule (where you _must_ buy a new chip every turn) really keeps the pressure on - none of this "buy two chips then sit on your haunches" crap. Codex: Card-time-strategy(my number #3 game all-time) -(basically Warcraft/starcraft the card game) My love for Android Netrunner, Magic, and Yugioh is great but THIS game blew those out of the water for me personally. "Players each control three different heroes and have access to a tech tree that allows them to use different strategies each time they play. The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent's base. To do this, players build up an army of units and heroes. Players determine the exact composition of their armies as they play by adding cards to their deck based on the tech they've chosen to pursue." Beware, though this game really is fairly easy to learn it has a LOT depth to it making it VERY hard to play with newcomers. Both by same designer David Sirlin(which many don’t like as a person but he’s made some of the best board games that resonate with me out the near thousand that I have played and they are built for endless replayability, well balanced gameplay, and incredible depth) Having watched nearly all your vids and realizing just how similar our tastes are I highly recommend giving these games a chance.

DAAAAAMN! I just realized the fact that you speak CHINESE as you included Sanguosha in your list!!!

YOU ARE AWESOME! ❤❤❤

Great shoutout to Dominion people should all give it a try especially the online version is so accessible and is free to play.

Hi @shelfside is it at all possible to get a top 10 board games with a 7 8 player expansion

wow, love for CIV. It's one of my favorite

Nice top. I like BSG a lot! Do you recommend the BSG expansions?

Nice Gandhi nuke reference

9:16 I can vouch for this. Newcomers to Tigris and Euphrates definitely get crushed. Even though I am pretty good at most strategy games, I played Tigris and Euphrates one time against two guys who were already familiar with the game, and I did not enjoy the experience at all. I doubt that I'll ever play it again. It just left me feeling like a total gaming noob.

Battlestar Galactica is plain amazing indeed. Its fraking amazing. It deserve a number 1 spot indeed

Your BSG looks never used compared to mine LOL. I played like 100 or 200 games with my box.

um i have never even heard of sun goa shun, where did you buy it ?

I have been interested in buying Mansions of Madness but I primarily game solo. I bought Star Wars Imperial Assault to play solo and had a blast, my first campaign was 25 hours long and I still feel like I got my money's worth from that. I've heard Mansions of Madness is only 4 scenarios though, anyone care to chime in on the value of the game for a mostly solo player?

"I still get entertained whipping it out"

If anyone wants to see domino but with a dash 0f randomness I would recommend ascension. It’s one of my favorite games of all time.

I've had my eye on Tigris and Euphrates for a while and now I'm trying to decide between that or Yellow and Yangtze. Have you had a chance to try out Y&Y? Thoughts on it vs T&E?

That's an older Civilization game. What do you think of the more recent one, "A New Dawn"? Thanks!

Have you played yellow and yangtze which is the new version of T&E? Any thoughts on it?

I managed to find a copy of the base game of Battlestar Galactica. Are any of the expansions must buys? How would you rank them? Trying to decide if they are worth the money....

let me get that food chain magnate son.

i'll take a look at twilight imperium. I was never interested because i knew it was good, but thought it was star wards theme (probably confused with other game), so that it's not star wars IP (i dont like it) was what i needed to check it out, hopefully my wallet won't suffer that much

You said dominion click with you after your 3rd game that seem kinda long to see if you would like a game or not wouldn’t u say so?..... with me dominion click right after my 3rd turn, I literally said “man, I’m in love with this game”...😁👍🏻

What is going on with the Gloomhaven box in the back there? Did you simply toss all the stuff in there, frustrated by the sorting? :D

I’m new to your channel and I couldn’t miss the Gloomhaven in the back, could you tell me your opinion about the game and why it was not in your top 10?!

Chaos in the old world was Root before Root. 4 different factions that play almost completely differently.

Have you guys at shelfside played Dead of Winter yet?

Have you tried Civ New Dawn? I own it instead of the previous one

Do have to say that although I love TI4 you definitely can* go wrong with that one haha. I actually use that game as the prime example of games that scare people away and it is the only game my wife hates because of just how long it is and how tragic things can go when you are so invested in it only to have everything blow up at the end. I enjoy the game a lot but it definitely is only for the intense board gamer crowd haha

I was gonna comment 三國殺 is literally a ripoff of Bang! but thankfully you said it yourself lol

Dominion cracked it. Its the first game where you can have fun while losing. Super relaxing game

Any new updates to this list?

Old guy suggestions- Buy basic Squad Leader and its Cross of Iron expansion - from Avalon Hill, -Greatest war board-game, stay away from ASL Get a copy of Divine Right- TSR.(costs $$) and War of the Ring- FantasyFlight. Fortress America is good too,

I think civ game was taken from an old board game initially.

Wondering if you've tried the new Civilization game (A New Dawn) ?

Do you much prefer TI4 over TI3?

BSG the show doesn't do BSG the board game justice. :P

Dang I love BSG. I don't have a big enough group to play it with. We'd be best friends.

Civilization is a very good game, but the sequel Civilization: A New Dawn completely replaced it for me. In fact, that game is in my Top 10 games.

ghandi and his nukes :) never gets old

After your video I started to thinking about the CIV board game. Our taste in case of boardgames is really simiular, but i think the most important thing in a boardgame the player interaction. How much is the player interaction in case of CIV and what expansions are crucial? Btw great channel, You guys deserve more followers!

Civilization is all about who gets that nuke first then nuke on player for the sake of nuking, then the other players wins for kek.

Seeing Gloomhaven as a jumbled mess hurts a little. I love sorting it back into the box after playing.

Crazy...

There are over 3.2 million combinations of cards in Dominion first edition haha and you've played them all???

Mansions of Madness annoys the crap out of me. That final puzzle is so hard. Plus the monster minis with those bases just suck. Otherwise I do love it! There are tons of expansions too.

Am I the only one really nervous about that phone being placed like that?

You’ve played all 3,268,760 combinations of base set Dominion kingdoms but you’ve never tried Intrigue? It is time my friend.

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Liked your video and respect for toplisting 3 of my favs--sgs--dominion--and takenoko. I will definately give civ and last word a try they look so fun. One thing is dominion gets exponentially more fun and difficult with each expansion and there are like 12 of them..and also there's an online version that's very cheap to play check it out if anyones interested dominion.games/

Sanguosha you should buy the 2 heroes version of it (forgot what it's called in English). More balance (lots of op heroes are nerfed), more combo, and more fun. It's straight-up changed from king vs outlaw into 4 different factions (you never know if you're the majority or minority) and the card design is way better!

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If you haven't got around to trying more dominion expansions yet, I really recommend going for empires. All the cards in it are great, and it has some other neat things outside of just the cards including some alternative scoring conditions that can really make the game more interesting if you've played a lot of dominion already.

Sir I hope you read this... Please play One Night Werewolf with your friends

I think i am resigned to the fact that I’ll never play TI4. Mainly, I don’t have a game group and friends aren’t gamers. It’s usually just me and gf.

So no Root huh?

Did you lipsync to your own voiceover?

Noo! Not again! Don’t show off your Battlestar collection again 😭

wait there is a story in dominion ? really ?

TIL ITS R. KELLY NOT ARC. KELLY!

Эх, если бы я понимал тебя, было бы намного интересней. Придется учить английский язык

i so hate the panda game, its so boring, and many people want to play it.

o god i hate dominion even more, so much more. there are so many many good and great deck builders out there. not dominion tho. it wins most bland game of all time, in the history of man.

Oh man... I can’t speak chinese