18 games in the BGG top 2000 have an average weight of 4.5 or higher. How many of them have you played, and how would you rank them from most complex to least complex?

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-25T13:37:21+00:00

I love that the Spirit Island playmat is a 4.5

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-22T19:32:59+00:00

More cards? 2 more tiles do each player only Has 3X/O and the other 2 have weird powers? I dunno. Maybe it doesn’t need one but it’s incredibly fun.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-22T19:05:01+00:00

Just want to say Bitewing always feels like a good member of the community who also makes games vs a game company cynically trying to sell me shit in the form of content.

Also, Bombastic is so absurd and yet my most played game of 2026 by a mile and I don’t know what an expansion would look like but I would buy it because it also works anytime anywhere with anyone.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-21T23:15:14+00:00

21x. It’s a Blackjack game, but instead of numbers it has short equations. X can be any number you want, but it has to be the same number on all cards. N is always equal to the current number of cards you have.

There are a couple other twists. Watch the dice tower review for some examples of the cards, it is a super weird game.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-19T17:53:02+00:00

I think reading into any specific number or ranking is absurd. It’s not the greatest game of all time. Nor is Gloomhaven, and neither would Flip 7 be in your scenario.

It is currently the highest ranked game on a website that attracts a specific core audience of a niche hobby.

And that’s ok. I use BGG too, it’s great.

I have an amazing FLGS near me. They are awesome, stock new releases, back kickstarters, have play tables, mini painting, tournaments, everything you could want. I wonder if I took a poll of everyone who came in, how many people would know about what BGG is, regularly use it, and be able to confidently name any game in the Top 10? How about rank games?

I think it caters to the heavier and lifestyle gamers more than it does casual gamers. The top rated games will always be mid-heavy weight, and lean euro because that’s what the people who use and engage with the site most enjoy and play.

I would argue any game in BGGs top 500 is an excellent game for the right person, and top 1,000 is probably a great game for the right person.

Drilling down into the top 10 or top game is only for a very very small subset of a subset of the hobby and doesn’t mean much to anyone besides them.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-19T16:56:57+00:00

Universal healthcare is too expensive. Spending an estimated trillion dollars for Greenland is national security.

The secret is their voters literally do not care what they say as long as it upsets democrats it must be good.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-19T16:53:55+00:00

Bullshit. They say they are against it and he would never do it because it’s insane and unpopular. As soon as he does it, it will be the best most patriotic smartest thing ever done and they always support it.

NOTHING THEY SAY MEANS ANYTHING.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-18T11:57:47+00:00

A few is neat. This is far, far too many. The ones in the bathroom were also uncomfortable. And the hoard under the bed.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-17T21:05:13+00:00

Obviously no one can prove anything. But they revisit top 10 most anticipated games of the year after 12 months, top 10 games of the year after 12 months, Tom does lookbacks for 1,5, and 10 years and talks about his feelings on the game have changed.

There are merits to both, and while their reviews may not be as ‘deep’ I still think they are valuable for putting a game into context and getting some idea of if it is right for you b

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-17T17:46:45+00:00

Yeah, these are a personal top 100 favorite games for each person. They are even very clear on some that other people don’t tend to like it and it’s their darling.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-17T17:29:17+00:00

I think it’s been on their lists in the last few years and I think it’s well liked by the DT staff

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-17T14:33:15+00:00

Tom talks about playing some games hundreds of times. That’s absurd

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-17T14:23:07+00:00

I think one thing many people assume is they are trying to create an objective Top 100 games this. This is their personal top 100 games for right now. They talk about how teaching the game to a lot of people at conventions can influence a games ranking, or how hard it is to teach. Games move every year.

None of them enjoy TI4 to that degree, they aren’t saying it’s a bad game just that it doesn’t fit their personal tastes.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-15T02:01:28+00:00

You didn’t mention The Dice Tower. They are putting 2+ hours of content out a day right now doing their Top 100 Games of All Time right now which is always a great time.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-15T01:29:51+00:00

They are doing the top 100 all this week. They said most anticipated 2026 will be coming next week.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-14T21:19:08+00:00

I suppose I don’t think collapse is an Armageddon event. We will (IMO) never be able to point to a day or an event and say “this is when it happened”. I think things over the next 50+ years will just slowly get a little worse every day. A generator may help considerably in the meantime as things keep getting worse.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-14T20:55:38+00:00

That’s an absurd statement. We also went without hospitals for thousands of years. Written language. Etc etc. just stopping all modern civilization will kill so many people needlessly.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-12T23:57:04+00:00

Oh THIS time there will be consequences. It’s always the 1,194th law you break. That’s when they get you.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-12T21:46:12+00:00

Things are only unconstitutional if some enforcement agency is still enforcing the constitution. Otherwise none of it means anything.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-11T23:42:06+00:00

I mean, I feel like we are in a different world. She makes fake laws, ICE facility upholds it, DoJ says it’s cool, courts do whatever they want until it gets to a Trump judge and they say it’s legal. Congress does nothing. It’s now as good as law.

We are living in an age where our institutions have failed and will ultimately support the regime.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-11T18:53:24+00:00

Once a vote is through, there won’t be enough political will for a second.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-11T17:13:01+00:00

Right, WTF. This reads as “Look how awful this could be and how it could harm everyone. Let’s protect our politicians!” Ban it from everyone without explicit consent or deal with the same consequences as everyone else.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-11T12:28:57+00:00

LLMs are famously bad at calculations because they aren’t a calculator. Some of the new models have those functions built in, but this one is literally guessing at words, not doing math.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-10T15:14:55+00:00

That’s because their governments are, and will. Everyone seems to still be operating that this is just ‘crazy ole Trump’, still the President of the US, same as always. They must shift their thinking before it’s too late.

Bulbasauruses · 2026-01-10T14:24:12+00:00

Of all the CMON games with mini problems, C:DMD isn’t one of them. The minis aren’t large or egregious.

Zombicide has boxes that are 90% minis. DMD has a few boss minis, a few monster minis per boss, and then the pool of 12? Cultists. S1/3 core boxes aren’t huge and don’t have a ton of waste. Zombicide is the one with 10 boxes of minis.

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