The BGG Top 50 Project

posted by defectiveyeti

Hey, here’s something fun: in the coming months, Max and I are going to post reviews for every single game in the BGG Top 50.

What is that?, you may ask. Well, “BGG” is short for Boardgame Geek, and the “Top 50” are the first half’a-hundred games to appear on thier list of highest ranked board games, with the following modifications:

Given all that, here is the list:

  1. Twilight Struggle (2005) —  Reviewed
  2. Agricola (2007) — Reviewed
  3. Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization (2006)
  4. Puerto Rico (2002)
  5. Eclipse (2011)
  6. Power Grid (2004)
  7. Le Havre (2008)
  8. Brass (2007)
  9. Dominion (2008)
  10. Caylus (2005)
  11. Mage Knight: Board Game (2011)
  12. 7 Wonders (2010)
  13. El Grande (1995)
  14. Race for the Galaxy (2007)
  15. War of the Ring (2004)
  16. Ora et Labora (2011)
  17. Tigris & Euphrates (1997)
  18. Dominant Species (2010)
  19. Battlestar Galactica (2008)
  20. The Castles of Burgundy (2011) — Reviewed
  21. Paths of Glory (1999)
  22. Steam (2009)
  23. Commands & Colors: Ancients (2006)
  24. Summoner Wars: Master Set (2011)
  25. Twilight Imperium (third edition) (2005)
  26. A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) (2011)
  27. The Princes of Florence (2000)
  28. Stone Age (2008)
  29. Lords of Waterdeep (2012) — Reviewed
  30. Goa (2004)
  31. Combat Commander: Europe (2006)
  32. Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage (1996)
  33. Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game (2010)
  34. Troyes (2010)
  35. Here I Stand (2006)
  36. Runewars (2010)
  37. Earth Reborn (2010)
  38. Tichu (1991)
  39. Chaos in the Old World (2009)
  40. Pandemic (2008)
  41. Shogun (2006)
  42. Imperial (2006)
  43. Glenn Drover’s Empires: The Age of Discovery (2007)
  44. Die Macher (1986)
  45. Hansa Teutonica (2009)
  46. Ra (1999)
  47. Space Alert (2008)
  48. Claustrophobia (2009)
  49. Navegador (2010)
  50. Blood Bowl: Living Rulebook (2004)

Blood Bowl? Srsly? Well okay, rules are rules.

The list of games to be reviewed will remain static, even as the actual BGG 50 changes during the course of the project. Reviews will be posted in order (except for Agricola, which we’ve already covered). Where one of us has already written a review for a particular game we’ll update and reprint it (because, dude, we are hella lazy). We’ll play a game at least three time before reviewing it (but reserve the right to cheat on Twilight Imperium and/or Die Macher). And we’ll continue to review non BGG Top 50 games over the course of the project — expect at least one BGG50 and one regular review or article a week.

Ready, Freddy? Let’s do this thing.

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