Tom, your enthusiasm in this year's Top 100 all the way through is infectious and a tremendous asset to the boardgaming community. Thanks for a great list. And thanks for The Dice Tower.

Having Eldritch Horror as you number 1 is no surprise to me. with all the great expansions and awesome theme. However, Cosmic Encounter not breaking the top 200 is unbelievable. Thanks for all the hard work!

Nice quick descriptive top 10 list. Loved the scenery changes too. Well done!

Still miss Sam and Zee's commentary for every number on the list but as always great to hear your top 100 games, and what a fantastic list it was. Thanks Tom!

Another great top 100! I'm primarily a war gamer but I love the Dice Tower and all the great folks there!

I think your theme song is stuck in my head forever. Haha. Thanks for sharing your Top 100 Games! Loved it.

1: Cosmic Encounter 2: Summoner Wars 3: Dice Masters 4: Heroscape 5: Le Havre 6: Caverna 7: Arcadia Quest 8: T.I.M.E. Stories 9: Descent (2ed) 10: Kemet

Cosmic encounter is my favorite game of all time, and its all thanks to one of these top 100 lists!

Hi Tom, I think I like the energy you put in front of the camera on this top 100 list, plus, nice backgrounds!

Summoner Wars is my number one! So good Also 101-200 thank you Tom! I'm excited to see what barely missed the top 100.

Great list as alwayd, thank you so much for doing it! My favorite game is Five Tribes, cosmic encounter falls in my number 6 of all time!

at each higher/lower entree, I got more paranoid for summoner wars to not be in your top 100 anymore.... So glad to see my number one at two. Awesome game, awesome factions and the app rocks as well. Thank you for your top 100 2016 list. Enjoy them every time!

Cosmic Encounter. The greatest game ever designed.

Bought Cosmic Encounters 2 years ago after watching your top 100. Never had played a game of it before. I rarely have enough people wanting to or willing to play it. However in my opinion the games of it I have played have been among my best experiences playing games. Everyone is always either super pissed or laughing and sometimes wild swings of both mid game. I love it!

Nice upswing on Summoner Wars, deserving since the cycle is complete for them.

The world needs a top ten Tom Vasel's hats.

Killing it with the weight loss, Tom!

Just bought Heroscapes Rise of the Valkyrie Master Set off ebay. Thanks for the video. The game seems exciting after watching some other review videos and runthroughs. I can see why you like the game. I'll be working on a lot of custom terrain I'm sure. Thanks again, can't wait to try it out.

Yay for Cosmic!! It's one of my favorite three games hands down!!

ooooh, its almost time for the 2020 list!

Tom, if you read this, I know you have some influence on the game designers and your opinions and ideas matter to them. If you could just use that power for the good of humanity and jedi-mind trick Uwe Rosenberg into making an expansion for Caverna, I would owe you a lot. I love the game but it's slowly falling off of my top games because of the lack of diversity. I know there are rumors about new cards coming out but I'd rather have an actual expansion than mere rumors. I'm sure you agree with me on this. Thanks in advance.

Nice. No surprise on Cosmic Encounter being Tom's numero uno. He just l-o-v-e-s that game !

I laughed out loud at the end, hilarious

Yeah! Sweet! I'm so happy to see Caverna in your top 10. It's probably my favorite game, and one of the other two board game reviewers I enjoy watching - Sit Down and Shut Up, don't like it very much. The other group hasn't reviewed it. :)

Thanks Tom! Showing us the ones that almost made it is a great idea! I'm not disappointed but honestly curious how a game that I bought (and love) on your and Rob's recommendation, a game that you said you went to sleep dreaming about after you first played it, had failed to make the list and how close it got. I'm also curious if you still enjoy Abyss. : )

I can't believe how much everyone loves Time Stories. My group loves it. I think it's okay. Easily less fun than virtually any other game in my collection!

Fun to watch these countdowns and love seeing Heroscape still up in there. Is the video slightly sped up? Tom's voice sounds a bit high and fast.

Love your exit!

Love the ending. With Chaz's 100 you would expect something like that, the unexpected nature made it funnier.

I may not have played as many games as Tom but of the couple hundred I've played, Cosmic Encounter is by far the best.

well done

good choice on your # 2

Cant wait for the next set for Arcadia Quest

Hi, just a heads up that the 20-11 segment is missing from the "playlist".

YASSSS!!! Cosmic Encounter for number 1 again, sooooooooooo happy!!!

Ahh!! You woke up the camel!! (Totally didn't notice it there until it moved and freaked me out).

Looks like someone fixed it; 20-11 is now up. Thanks.

In my opinion, Mansions of Madness 2nd edition blows Descent out of the water.

I WANT THIS INTRO AGAIN!!!!

Yeah TIME stories, playing Under the Mask on Saturday, gutted that it'll be 4/5 months until the next one is available.

Those Ibex are amazing.

Realy nice: outdoors :)

And the link at the end of #30-21 is broken, as it just repeats that video. Just wondering. Love your reviews/lists.

Hey Tom, I was wondering: did you play the Game of Thrones version of Cosmic Encounter? If yes, is the difference strictly thematic, or are there any other major differences from the base game?

Cosmic Encounter is my number 5 game of all time

@thedicetower I have Cosmic Encounter + Incursion. I like the game, but many games just end after 2,5 rounds, when someone just gets all his attacks right at once with some luck. Those games I do not like (even if im the one in that scenario). I also feel that it is never usefull to attack a colony on your own home-system when you draw your own color from the destiny deck and no one in my group has ever (in 2 years!) once chosen to take a second tech instead of a second turn. My point is, a lot of the options you have seem useless making the game actually a little bit too straightforward for me and some of my friends. Do you have any tips (maybe some houserules or an expansion which really helps these problems) for playing Cosmic Encounter?

mon top ten : 1. les châteaux de bourgogne 2. la havane 3. lords of xidit 4. l'âge de pierre 5. dungeon twister 6. abyss 7. les aventuriers du rail 8. hive 9. mr jack pocket 10. 7 wonders duel

I NEED to know where to buy/how to make those chits trays for Le Havre!! Someone tell me please!!!

He might not dance, but he sure can run very fast :D oh well, the earth stays still, cosmic is number one again :) thanks for the list, Tom.

Thumb up.

I found it Tom...YEAH

When are you going to do another live play through of Heroscape?

Is the Top 10 theme song an homage to Frank Zappa? It certainly is reminiscent of Zappa.

Where is the video for #'s 20-11? Seems to be missing from the collection.

YEAH !!!

I have such different tastes for the most part. Of your top 10 only 2 are on my top 50 - Dice Masters (my 16) and Caverna (my 44). Cosmic Encounters isn't even in my top 500...and I've only played about 250 games.

That poor camel woke up wondering who was making all that racket

Well we have some overlap with our lists Tom: Commands and Colors Ancients, Memoir 44, Flick'em Up, and Twilight Struggle. 4/100 ain't bad!

Descent: It's probably a crime that I haven't played Descent. Fantasy games are my favorite board games to play. In fact, like some people, board games have replaced RPG's as life has gotten busier and fuller. You can have just as much fun in a great board game in a few hours compared to an RPG that will last all weekend! I considered getting Descent at the same time I considered getting Dungeons and Dragons Adventure System Board Games. But I decided to go with the D&D board games instead. They are cheaper, they take a shorter time to play, and they do not require a DM. I have gotten tired of being the DM and want to play more often. I was glad to see Tom does like the D&D games too. Although he considers them more of a co-op, which they are. And it is more like a tactical miniatures game. Anyways, maybe someday I will get to play Descent, I just don't want to own it or run it. TIME Stories: This game sounds amazing! Sadly due to personal reasons, they people who I used to game with and would enjoy this kind of game with, are no longer available to game with. And don't think my meetup group would enjoy this as much. But maybe I will play this some day. Arcadia Quest: Another dungeon crawl game that I really wanna play. Just hasn't happened. But I did watch a live play through, and it cooled me down, wasn't impressed with the live play through, and while it has cooled me somewhat, I know playing a game and watching it can be completely different experiences, so I still want to try this one out. Caverna: It's an ok game, probably around 160 on my list of favorite games. I would never request it. And will avoid it often. But I may play it again some time. Dice Masters: The idea sounds promising. But I tried Quarriorz and disliked that very much. I really like Super Heroes, but almost every SuperHero game I look at does not interest me. The one I like is called Heroes Incorporated. I will try Dice Masters some day, but I don't have much hope. Cosmic Encounter: Having started watching the Dice Tower in 2013 of coarse I heard of Cosmic Encounter, and perhaps, it may have been mentioned around me in years prior, but without notice or understood by me. So even after hearing Tom mention it in a few videos in 2013, it did not interest me. But then about 2 years ago now, I was at a game store meetup and someone asked if I would be interested in playing it. I am almost always willing to play anything once so I joined in. I loved it! A little over a year ago I found the base game real cheap and bought it. I have since bought about 3 expansions when I found them on sale, but haven't gotten it to the table yet. There is some interest at my meetup, so I hope to play it soon.

How would call to adventure rank in all of these games?

Surprised Scythe is not anywhere on the list. Guess I should go see if it made his top 200. He seemed to really like it, but I guess with his love of Cry Havoc and Blood Rage, that style of game may be well represented. I like the engine building emphasis with Scythe over battle, I also really like Blood Rage but some card combos are crazy overpowered and in games with new players, experienced players can get them pretty easily. Every blood rage game I have played has been a crazy runaway leader scenario due to that. I like introducing people to new games too much to ever have a group that is really good at any given game, if they have all played blood rage I will pull out another game, heh, so my own fault, I know.

I wonder if the fact that Caverna hasn't gotten any expansions is that the base game doesn't sell enough due to its high price. Agricola is so much cheaper.

Tom, are you saying that Caverna is casual? :)

Tom loves Cosmic Encounter, and it's the number one by a huge margin, then why does he hate Munchkin so much? CE is basically just Munchkin in space. Both are random in a sense who has which cards, both end up all players having 4 colonies / last level, both evolve around ganging up against the leader, both last too long for the simplicity of the game, and it the end the winning player / players just won because no one else had a card to prevent it.

Kemet... camel... I get it... ;)

I liked the camel the best :p

Who's singing along during the intro?

In this list I've got every single game and expansion for it apart from La Havre, Dice Masters and Heroscape (I was late to the game for that last one and had to take Arena Magic The Gathering Planeswalkers instead - yes I had to import the 3rd expansion for it to Europe because they are being slow with EU distribution). Would anyone recommend d&d dice masters or is that not worth it ? is the superhero themed game better?

Tom, you faked us out when you said Pandemic Legacy was your favorite "legacy game". I was so confused at how TIME Stories could miss the top 100 entirely!

Is there somewhere I can see a complete list online?

I feel like the blue powers in Kemet are broken. HAving +2 guys just seems impossible to beat

Starting point for Summoner Wars for a Dad and 14 year old (who is rank 2 in Hearthstone .. so will kick my butt); Summoner Wars Alliances, track down an original Summoner Wars Master Set, Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set Big Box Limited Edition?!?!

you should do a 100 worst games. I want to see the tears!

I never really got the hype for Summoner Wars. It's not BAD by any means, but I just never felt like getting it to the table. Unimpressive table presence, mediocre components and art (subjective as that is), all around a system that, while serviceable, never seemed to do anything special for me. Love the price-point but just never won me over. Completely replaced by Dungeon Command in my collection. Only 5 armies ever came out for it but it looks and feels so much more premium and the game the bling is grafted on to is a lot more fun to me. Less luck, more strategic, deeper. But I know Summoner Wars sells well and Dungeon Command crashed and burned so obviously I'm in the minority in that opinion.

#9 is quite a decent game

Where did Duel of Ages II end up?

I really don't understand the claim that Dicemasters has theme. I have watched many games of it (in an attempt to get what people see in it) and during the game no one ever talks about the heroes or what the actions mean or would look like. They barely talk at all, a casual observer would have no idea that a superhero battle was happening.

Check out kingdom death monster

i'm really surprised that captain sonar is not on the list.

Where did Star Trek Fleet Captains land? Don't remember seeing it on your list.

hey Tom can sam do a top 100 please I do like your games of course but I seem to side with Sam more on his picks when you guys do top 10s please and thank you

I don't think Tom and I could be friends in real life...

None of these games would make my top 25. Axis & Allies, Shogun, Monopoly (think I've played 1000+ games and I still love it) and Settlers of Catan is good. The only newer game that I really liked was Grand Austria Hotel, love that game. Heroscape is OK but why not play D&D with miniatures as it's 1,000x better?

I agree with you Tom about Carverna is far, far, FAR better than Agricola. Not even close.

Five years later, La Havre is #1.

Whaaaat where's Nothing Personal?

😊

Number 10 really should have been camel up...

Just don't like the "combat selection' mechanism of Cosmic Encounter. Was Fury of Dracula?

Duel of Ages out?

Haven't played Cosmic Encounter, have only watched The Dice Tower play it, and it looked very simple and not that fun to me.

cosmic encounter is ok, but i think dune is much better

Any list without Blood Rage in it is automatically discredited.

Some spoilers below...

so many fantasy ones, isnt better and cheaper just to get into D&D and be done with it?

Ooops. No codenames No one night ultimate No scythe

Uh, sorry, Tom, but I've got a handful of Zap cards, so I'm just gonna make your #1 not count. Summoner Wars wins!!! :-D

Tom and anyone for that matter.... You dance anytime you want and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.... The only crime against dancing is not dancing at all. :D

I've never liked that theme song.

This video has reminded me why I never trust Tom and never rely on what he recommends :D Le Havre, Caverna and Summoner Wars were sooo bad. Terribad..