Top Ten Game Lists – Board Game Quest https://www.boardgamequest.com Board Game Reviews, News and More Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:00:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 38014872 Top 10 Star Trek Board Games https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-star-trek-board-games/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-star-trek-board-games/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:15:13 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=56881 Some intellectual properties really suffer for a lack of good board games. Fans of Transformers, G.I. Joe, and others have often been starved of good board games for their favorite franchises (at least until recently). One that has not had that problem, however, is Star Trek. It has a long and varied history with board […]

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]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-crowdfunding-games-that-just-missed-the-mark/feed/ 4 52717 Top 10 Stefan Feld Games https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-stefan-feld-games/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-stefan-feld-games/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:05:13 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=52577 There are few debates around Board Game Quest Headquarters as intense as a discussion of the staff members’ favorite game designers. Veteran editor Andrew Smith, for instance, is a devotee of Vital Lacerda (and often bursts into rooms Kool-Aid Man-style shouting, “Kanban!”), while Brian Biewer—whose favorite game of all time is always the last game […]

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]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-stefan-feld-games/feed/ 1 52577 Top Ten Designers with free-to-play games on Yucata (and my favorite Yucata game by each) https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-ten-designers-with-free-to-play-games-on-yucata-and-my-favorite-yucata-game-by-each/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-ten-designers-with-free-to-play-games-on-yucata-and-my-favorite-yucata-game-by-each/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:00:58 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=52282 I love playing games online and while Board Game Arena gets a lot of love these days, one of the best places on the entire internet is the game site called Yucata. Yucata was created by Kay Wilke, a.k.a. Sparhawk, but he now shares the duties with a group of dedicated volunteers. Yucata, which has […]

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]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-ten-designers-with-free-to-play-games-on-yucata-and-my-favorite-yucata-game-by-each/feed/ 2 52282 Top 10 Trick-Taking and Ladder-Climbing Card Games https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-trick-taking-and-ladder-climbing-card-games/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-trick-taking-and-ladder-climbing-card-games/#respond Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:04:26 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=52730 As mentioned (and perhaps coined?) in my recent review of Thrones of Valeria, we are in the midst of a magnificent Trickaissance. There has been an absolute boom in games that rely on the primary mechanic of “trick-taking,” or the adjacent mechanic of “ladder-climbing.” If you’re interested in why that may be, there’s an excellent […]

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]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-trick-taking-and-ladder-climbing-card-games/feed/ 0 52730 Top 10 Licensed Board Games https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-licensed-board-games/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-licensed-board-games/#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:03:26 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=52265 Everyone has licensed games. Nowadays there are licensed games for practically everything, and they are getting better. Gone are the days when licensed games were highlighted by such gems as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a Halfshell Card Game, X-Men: Crisis in the Danger Room, Batman: The Animated Series 3-D Board Game, Star […]

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