2023 was a crazy year but we still played quite a few board games! This is my list of top played board games of 2023
With 2023 wrapping up, I wanted to do a video about my top 10 played board games. While I did not get to play as many games as I would like to last year, there were still some great one. Ones that are predictable and ones you may not expect. Hope you enjoy!
I do list the games with a quick description below but don’t scroll down unless you want spoilers!
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Top 10 Played Games
10. Bites
Players move ants along a trail and collect food as they go. However, the value of that food depends on how the other ants move. Bites is a game of shared incentives as you are always trying to figure out what the other players are up to. Variable “rules cards” tweak the rules to every game so that each play is fresh.
9. Bullet♥︎
In Bullet♥︎, players take on the role of heroines in a far-flung future Earth and use their incredible powers to defend the Earth from evil — or maybe just one another! This real time game has players avoid a barrage of bullet while using their heroine’s unique powers.
8. Fresh Fish
It’s time for the next market day! As a rising trader, you are trying to get the best spaces for your market stalls. Only the trader with the freshest goods will get the most customers. Players will try to get their stalls closest to their suppliers in this spatial game.
7. Blokus
Blokus is an abstract strategy game that uses Tetris-shaped, colored pieces. Each player wants to get all of their pieces onto the board. The only caveat to placing a piece is that it may not lie adjacent to your other pieces, but instead must be placed touching at least one corner of your pieces already on the board.
6. Arcs
Arcs is a sharp sci-fi strategy set in a dark yet silly universe. Ready yourself for dramatic twists and turns as you launch into this galactic struggle. I played this game while it was mainly in the playtest phase.
5. John company 2nd edition
In John Company, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambition.
4. arkham horror: the card game
Something evil stirs in Arkham, and only you can stop it. Blurring the traditional lines between role-playing and card game experiences, Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a Living Card Game of Lovecraftian mystery, monsters, and madness!
3. the crew: mission deep sea
In the co-operative trick-taking card game, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team.
2. root
Root is a game of adventure and war in which players battle for control of a vast wilderness. Each faction in Root has unique capabilities and a different victory condition. Fight over control of the forest to claim your dominance!
1. bloodborne: the board game
The town of Yharnam is rapidly degrading as a plague that turns people into beasts spreads uncontrollably. As a Hunter, it falls to you to quell this growing threat. All player will have to work together to fight through beasts, monsters, and townsfolk alike to survive the night and discover the source of this madness.
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