With so many stellar games released last year we wanted to see what everyone’s favorites are!
In the comments below please share your top five favorite board games released in 2012.
(note: I say “board games” in the general sense… card games, miniatures games, RPGs, etc. are all welcome!)
In 2012 I discovered:
Tension!
Ankh-Morpork
Catan: Traders & Barbarians
Grass
But my favourites have to be:
Axis & Allies 1942 (2nd Edition)
Axis & Allies 1941
Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 (2nd Edition)
Axis & Allies Europe 1940 (2nd Edition)
1 Android-Netrunner
2 Star Wars Card Game
3 Puerto Rico 10th Anniversary Edition
1.lord of the rings card game
2. star wars card game
3. netrunner card game
4.pathfinder rpg
5.star wars: edge of the empire beta rpg
1. Thunderstone Advance
2. Ticket to Ride: India
3. Star Trek Catan (my favorite catan variant other than Cities and Knights)
4. Ticket to Ride: Asia
5. … I think that was all the new games I played this year…
My favorite game of 2012 was definitely Thunderstone Advance! A great deack-builder and a wonderful new edition of Thunderstone.
Of the games I’ve played, the ones I’ve enjoyed the most are:
Escape: The Curse of the Temple
Seasons
Lords of Waterdeep
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
The Manhattan Project
Starship Merchants
Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery
City of Horror
Infiltration
Africana
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small
Games from 2012 that I haven’t had a chance to play but really want to:
1989: Dawn of Freedom
Archipelago
CO2
Copycat
DC Comics Deck Building Game
Descent 2nd Edition
Dungeon Command
Fleet
Keyflower
Love Letter
Mage Wars
Mice and Mystics
Milestones
Myrmes
Rolling Freight
Space Cadets
Suburbia
Targi
Terra Mystica
Tzolk’in
X-Wing
Quite a year. There were a number of really good expansions as well. Of them Dixit Journey and the Romulan Expansion for Star Trek: Fleet Captains come immediately to mind.
For those that think this was a bad year, exactly what kind of games do you play?
My favourite game of 2012 was Lords of Waterdeep. My only regret was waiting so long to purchase it. For months I wrote it of as another dump DnD game from WoTC; boy was I wrong.
1. Mice & Mystics
2. Lords of Waterdeep
3. Flash Point (not sure that it released this year, but my group discovered it this year and boy has it been played.)
4. King of Tokyo!
5. Penny Arcade: Rumble in R’lyeh
From the new games this year, it would be Zombicide; although Mice and Mystics might take its throne, but I need few more plays to judge.
From the new games I played this year, it would have to be Lord Of The Ring LCG, it provides a deep game experience and can be played solo.
And looking forward, my most anticipated game of the year would be Solforge (digital only).
My gaming wish would be LOTR LCG on iPad; it would streamline deck building and fit so well on a digital format.
1. Lords of Waterdeep (easily takes title)
2. Legendary
3. 7 Wonders Leaders
4. 7 Wonders Cities
5. Thunderstone Advance
Trajan was going to be my #1 but I guess technically it came out in 2011 but wasn’t available in the States until 2012
I’ll give honorable mentions to a few I think are probably great but I haven’t had the play time with them yet to be sure. Space Cadets, Libertalia, Love Letter, Fleet, and Milestones.
I loved Lords of Waterdeep, Seasons, and Smash up!