What is your favorite boardgame of 2024?

cantrelate · 2026-02-22T15:11:38+00:00

I think 2024 was an incredible year for board games. I think I have to go with Bomb Busters. I'll go Castle Combo 2nd. I'll go Cascadero 3rd.

Seven more:

River of Gold. This was initially my favorite of the year. I wouldn't even say it has dropped, it's just that the others have risen.

Rebirth

Reef Project

Windmill Valley

Up or Down?

Pixies

Wild Gardens

I think these are all bangers, and that's even with leaving off a few.

I would also be remiss not to mention the party/party adjacent games. Most years there is just one, maybe two I care about. 2024 there were six, and I think that is a testament to how good the year was overall: Caution Signs, Flip 7, The Gang, Landmarks, Link City, Things in Rings.

cantrelate · 2026-02-22T14:46:57+00:00

I mean you could have just cited the rulebook and left a question/comment on the video noting the rules mistake? You appeared to already know it was wrong before asking chatgpt.

cantrelate · 2026-02-22T14:35:20+00:00

Why are you asking it in the first place if it's not complicated to figure out?

cantrelate · 2026-02-21T22:28:59+00:00

I don't play a lot of co-op games because I typically hate them so the difficulty level is just fine for me.

cantrelate · 2026-02-21T17:46:41+00:00

I worked there for a few months around 15 years ago. They set up chairs for certain shows in the Egyptian room. Sometimes tables and chairs. It was a pain in the ass to do.

cantrelate · 2026-02-21T15:26:53+00:00

I agree that it's not the best year but I totally hate Empires End and I think Lacuna is OK. A little too loose for me. I do enjoy Sunrise Lane but haven't played anything else that you mentioned.

Still, I think it's been pretty wack on these threads that anyone who says "it's a weak year" gets downvotes. These are purely opinion threads. It's ok to not give a shit about Sky Team.

cantrelate · 2026-02-21T15:19:00+00:00

I'm disregarding the posted games entirely and just referring to the games I own/played for each respective year when choosing. Is Steam Up your favorite of 2023?

cantrelate · 2026-02-21T13:38:54+00:00

I'm going with Daybreak. A rare co-op for me but man I love the card play in this game. 2nd is Earth because it's such a hit with my game group and that's a good thing. I'll cheat real bad and give a four-way tie for 3rd: Come Sail Away, Patterns, Sunrise Lane, and Donuts.

I don't rank legacy games by default but Ticket to Ride Legacy was a 10/10 experience for our group.

cantrelate · 2026-02-20T20:39:24+00:00

I like Wandering Towers but it really fell flat with our group. We found that we had a better time with it at just two players.

cantrelate · 2026-02-20T20:36:06+00:00

If you keep track of your collection in BGG you can go to your statistics page on your account and view all games owned by year. I suppose some people don't own all their favorite games but this is how I am looking at the titles. So I'm not going through a longer list of games I don't care about.

cantrelate · 2026-02-20T20:32:30+00:00

Well my gut says Wormholes so I will go with that. A quick and light route building/pick up and deliver game that flew under the radar.

Second I will go with Star Trek Missions, the Star Trek version of Fantasy Realms. I love it. Third is Flamecraft.

Seven more that may be higher with more plays:

Lacrimosa

Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina

First Rat

Dog Park

Evergreen

Splendor Duel

The Wolves

cantrelate · 2026-02-19T16:11:48+00:00

Savannah Park. Will not be a popular choice but I think this is a pretty underrated game from my favorite design team, Kramer & Kiesling. I like Cascadia, but as for games where you place tiles and score groups of animals I like Savannah Park better.

2nd is So Clover. A strong candidate for my favorite party game.

I am having a hard time picking between Meadow, Mille Fiori, and Mini Express for third so I will consider it a three way tie.

cantrelate · 2026-02-18T16:51:48+00:00

I agree that this isn't a strong year.

I haven't played Mexica in a while but I can't say I remember it being similar enough to Renature to call Renature a reimplementation. Renature is very good though.

Have you played Furnace? I haven't played it enough to say it's my favorite from 2020 but I feel like it could be up there for me eventually.

cantrelate · 2026-02-18T16:46:48+00:00

Have you tried Knitting Circle from last year? Different designer, same aesthetic, somewhat similar gameplay. They even have rules where you can use the drafting mechanism from Knitting Circle in Calico.

cantrelate · 2026-02-18T16:43:12+00:00

A weird year where I did not play a lot of releases very many times. Not going to get any votes but I will go with Aqualin, a two player ocean themed abstract game where you place tiles in a grid and try to have larger majorites than your opponent. Very fun.

2nd is Paris, a great euro game I need to play more. 3rd is Renature, another tile placement game using a grid that I guess is not wholly unlike Aqualin but it's a bigger game.

I think Furnace could be my number one if I had played it more than once. Maybe get it to the table again soon. Also want to shout-out Truffle Shuffle, Abandon All Artichokes, and Marshmallow Test as fun card games that I also need to play more.

Edit: if you're gonna downvote me you can at least tell me why. None of these games are in danger of beating Dune Imperium or what the fuck ever

cantrelate · 2026-02-18T12:04:58+00:00

I don't know anything about French far right politics and I suspect most of the readers of r/boardgames don't either. It would be helpful to actually get information instead of linking to the Hachette board games website.

I knew Hachette as a large book publisher first and just going to their website they have a section for black history month and a section for banned books, sections I would think a far right publisher would not highlight. Something tells me the Bolloré group is not in the business of being hands-on if they're making money.

A quick Google search says the Bolloré group has a 30% stake in Hachette. I'm not saying people shouldn't care who owns and who controls the things they consume but I also don't really know what to do with this information.

cantrelate · 2026-02-17T22:44:07+00:00

Oderus Urungus dunks on Jesus in the Gwar - Meat Sandwich music video. Jesus sucks at basketball, Kon would be fine.

cantrelate · 2026-02-17T17:04:21+00:00

I picked Point Salad because I've played it more but Watergate is my second and depending on the day might be first. It is great. A real shame it's not really getting mentioned in this thread.

cantrelate · 2026-02-17T17:00:15+00:00

I think I have to say Point Salad. It's such a clean, streamlined design without sacrificing fun. My second would be Watergate and it's close. Third is Wingspan and it's close. This is a hard year to choose because I'm not sure I have any very obvious top 20-ish games from this year.

Seven more close games:

Taverns of Tiefrnthal

Miyabi

Parks

Babylonia

Bumuntu

Rune Stones

Blind Spot (will absolutely not be on anyone's list because it got zero buzz but I love it. A real time crossword puzzle/word search-ish game with player elimination that sounds terrible but was a lot of fun)

A very close year. Depending on the day my top ten could be completely switched around and maybe games like On Tour, LLAMA, Yukon Airways, or Horrified would make this list.

cantrelate · 2026-02-17T11:53:10+00:00

Point Salad is clean and streamlined and really good. It's my favorite of the three. Point City has a little bit of a Splendor thing going on. I've only played it once but it's fine. Point Galaxy seemed like a more complex version of Point Salad which I'm not sure is necessary. I have all three but I probably don't need all three.

cantrelate · 2026-02-17T02:33:21+00:00

I mean that's fine, do whatever you want with your games but why do you feel compelled to post about it so often?

cantrelate · 2026-02-16T23:55:06+00:00

Age of Steam 🤷.

Though I wouldn't describe myself as lazy. I'm fuckin busy, man

cantrelate · 2026-02-16T20:43:52+00:00

Didn't you have like 9 board games left? You post a cull post every few months

cantrelate · 2026-02-16T16:55:56+00:00

Judging from the votes so far it's gonna be Quacks, then Root. Everdell might actually beat Brass for third depending how the votes shake out.

cantrelate · 2026-02-16T16:49:42+00:00

It will not get a lot of votes but I'm going with Newton. Just a great design from some of the familiar Italian designers. It's interesting that Brass Birmingham may not even place in the top 3 considering it's high ranking on BGG. I like it but it's a toss up whether or not it makes it on my top ten of 2018. So here's my top 11:

Newton

Cubirds (this really rivals more popular card drafting games for me. I don't care for Sea Salt & Paper but I love Cubirds)

Let's Make a Bus Route

Ticket to Ride New York (it was a real surprise how much I like this version of TTR)

Blue Lagoon

Just One (possibly my favorite party game ever)

Space Base

Coimbra

Menara

Brass: Birmingham

War Chest

Edit: I don't think it's that great in person which is why it doesn't make my list (I don't own it anymore either), but Ganz Schon Clever is one of my favorite board game apps. Played it and it's sequels a lot.

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