Be a sport and subscribe to the Fenirob YouTube channel. And most of all, keep nerding on.All freight has arrived except in the EU, Happyshops has received about 1/3 of expected stock and we are working on confirming arrival dates for the rest. What are your top five so far? I’ve put links below to any videos I’ve done on the above-mentioned games. I hope this gives you something to chew on and maybe a few ideas for games you want to check out. You should definitely check this one out.Īnyway, that’s my list so far of games that are new to me this year through the halfway point. To quote Bill and Ted, “whoa.” First Rat is a great game that deserves a lot of acclaim and one I continuously hope to get to the table in the future. It is an impossible task but we believe it to be our destiny. There’s something somewhat melancholy and poignant about that. Also, the concept of the game is that we are rats in a junkyard trying to collect resources to build a rocket and place our Ratronauts on it so that we can launch it to the cheese moon. But I have played it numerous times since then and for a game with very few mechanics, the level of thinking and planning and trying to be as efficient as possible is a challenging (but tolerable) exercise for the mind. You’ve probably never heard of this game and neither did I until a couple of months ago. RELATED: My Top 10 Board Games of All Time 1. Martin Wallace is a design genius and a game like this proves why. After each game, I keep replaying things I did well and things I didn’t do so well in hopes of having another chance to improve upon my last game. Every decision feels like the game-winner or loser. While the mechanisms are pretty simple (play two cards and draw two cards) there’s no doubt that the level of strategy required to excel at this game is as high as any out there. And even though it hurts my brain as much or more than any other game I’ve ever played, I can see why this game is a classic. I’ve played it a couple of times now and I do love it. So why is it only number two so far? ‘Cause it drains my brain in a good but exhausting way, and that makes it less attractive than number one on this list for me. I know, I know, this game set in the industrial revolution is an all-time classic and the new printing makes it even better. It seemed like a novelty at first, but much of the excitement in the game comes from that damn tower. Making it more exciting is that the tower is designed so that some of the cubes get stuck in nooks and crannies until future combats when they can be dislodged. Whoever has the most cubes making it to the bottom of the tower wins combat. There’s also an excellent combat mechanism that should be used in more games, and that is the cube tower – think dice tower but for dropping in cubes. Decisions get tough real early in this one. Everyone takes the same action at the same time, but the location of where the action is performed is secretly pre-programmed and then revealed. It has a programming aspect for your 10 actions. I picked up the big box version recently and so far I love it. This area control game is an older one, but it is new to me so it gets on my 2022 list. It is a pretty unique concept as far as I’m concerned and it comes together perfectly for me. The cards you play have both a win and a loss condition so even if you don’t take the trick you may be able to position yourself to gain control of the various areas on the board nevertheless. Since those are two of my favorite mechanics I had to give this one a shot and I was not disappointed. This game uses trick-taking with a view toward area control.

Brian Boru: High King of Ireland (Osprey Games) RELATED: Top 10 Tabletop Games of 2021 4. This adds a satisfying amount of tension and lots of fun. Since each player’s ranking of the factions remains hidden for most of the game, players may or not be helping each other with their respective moves. Set in a quasi Game of Thrones world, you’ll try to manipulate cubes on a map to help ensure that the 5 game factions finish in the order they were randomly assigned to you at the beginning of the game. I’ve been waiting for this game for quite some time given its epic look and also its reliance on deception and negotiation.

These titles may have been released prior to 2022, but I have not played them until this year. Now that we’re just over halfway through the year I figured I would make a list of my top five board games of the year so far.

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