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Need? Everyone "needs" games, they just don't know it, or understand it. Games are how we learned key life skills as a child, wihtout the risk of real harm. Games are how we learn complex life skills as young adult, without the risk of real harm. Games are how we cope with life circumstances and any insurmountable problems when we are adults. Everyone should have so many games. They are like books, you can never have too many, and you will never likely read them all.

Earth or It's a Wonderful World?

Good problems to have 👍

Hilarious how comments are fully of just euro games. The type of games that are just pretty math problems and can be "solved" or meta'd very fast. Long last games are ones that make you out think your opponent, not who's better at math (euros).

Met a guy at a meetup that claimed he never plays the same game twice. Blew my mind. I asked if he never listens to the same song twice or go to same restaurant twice.... Most games can't be fully explored in just 1 play.

Earth is very interesting to me. I like it for sure. But your points are very valid. It feels very open. Which is both good and bad, depending on how you see it and what you like in a game. It's mostly good for me. It feels good building a good engine; and when your cards come together well. It sorta fits nicely in between Wingspan and Ark Nova. I do think those two are better designed games overall, but Earth still has a place in my collection.

It's a strictly worse race for the galaxy, isn't it? I'm not sure even the iconography is better. Maybe a better theme/look, but it's stock photos, not art. At least it's brighter? Like others have said, though, race for the galaxy is so good that a strictly worse version can still be quite fun.

I know you aren’t an Ares Expedition fan. I’m a huge fan of it. I just kept thinking “I wish I was playing Ares Expedition”. Ares scratches the same itch as this one does. I’m sure you have one that scratches one too

Played Earth a bunch on BGA, played a friend's copy once last year. So much of it felt like reinventing Race for the Galaxy to me, but if the cards were all devoid of personality and the action selection mechanism was more blunt. Every card feels so average that if I asked someone "What is your favorite card in this game?", they might not actually have an answer, or misremember the name. Doesn't help that you draw a billion cards every game and your starting setup is euro game mad libs. I shouldn't be too harsh though, I would gladly play Earth over a lot of other games that come out these days. Its proximity to Race for the Galaxy (my #3 game) makes me more willing to play it while also being more critical of it.

Love this game, easily top 5 for me. It plays excellent at 2-5, comes in right at an hour for all player counts, +/- 10 min depending on each players AP.

Love this game, easily top 5 for me.

Chaos is right. Nothing particularly great imo about this engine builder that others don’t also do, and this game has that race to the end and gets points for doing it which isn’t fun imo. I didn’t see the mass appeal of this game. It’s fine, and I’d play it, but I’ll just as easy look at someone’s shelf and say oh what about that one instead.

Fantastic Factories is my king for simultaneous tableau engines

I hated this, the action selection felt really boring and obvious and running the engine fiddly and tedious. Everyone heads down with the simultaneous play, might as well have been playing a solo game. I’d rather watch an England football match… ok maybe not.

Me and the Mrs love Earth. Nice review as always mate.

This is my wife's favorite game. It's one of my favs. I can look past the chaos since I got so many plays under my belt. I know what cards to gun for. I know what colors to major in. There's something mechanically well going on in this game when you familiarize the ins and outs of some cards and realize which combo best together.

I enjoyed Earth, but Earth is a mess as well. Both these statements are true. Its a great sandbox engine builder and you can do a lot in it, but its such a messy game in many regards. Fun, enjoyable and clever, but just a little sloppy in places for me to truly adore.

No Warhammer?

I am sure this list is full of fantastic games, in researching what are considered the best games to play vary a ton. Because people have different interests. So far the games we play every weekend include Catan, Carcasson, Isle of Cats, Root (though its too much for my gaming partners) and Doomlings. I am not much of a deck building hard core strategy player but I love playing games. When it comes to a game that requires a lot of memorization, I am just not good at that.

You need Dune: Imperium on there :)

So many good points here. Lately, the games we pull out the most are Dominion and The Crew. As I've bought our last few games, I have been thinking a lot about replayability & what our family will most enjoy & request, so I'm excited for some new games I've ordered, but also pulling out some games we already have that are collecting dust.

Wow! Great news about RDR (yep, 1st to give it an acronym!). I think I pre-ordered a copy years ago, can't wait to see it.

Looking forward to seeing your projects out on the market!

Dune was my introduction to 'serious' boardgames, we would play it all day long

I totally agree that Dominion should be on this list, but I am curious if you've had a change of heart on the game. I remember you writing on your Dominion video that you didn't really enjoy playing it all that much. Anyway, great list. I would personally nominate Race for the Galaxy- it's such a snappy and satisfying tableau builder once you get master the somewhat arcane notation.

I don’t suppose there’s any way to change the shipping address of a purchased copy of Red Dust, is there? I backed a few years ago but am moving! I’m not big into COIN games but was excited that a person with many of the same game favorites was designing their own game!

Wish you good luck with all your projects !

This is amazing! Can’t wait to support your kickstarter. Keep on keeping on.

omg you are such a legend im stoked to hear that you have a book coming out and a wonderful community , you rock man !

Really good word about consuming too many games and being burned out.

That last things u say i second milion times. Definetely on my list: -treason games like Avalon, BSG, the last Cthulu thing - with bsg i think i have around 300 games or more, - some area control unsymethric games like Chaos in the old World or Root.

Love playing solo.

Winspan needs a mention here! + expansions

Best video on gaming ever.

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your passion. Hope it’s all a success!

Best of luck ☘️🤗🥳📖🧩♟️you and Steph deserve it 😊 it’s not easy resisting ads, the easy way out. As Dumbledore said, “Harry, there’ll be a time when we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy" 🌟

So excited for you!!!

really happy for you mate, gonna be hoping for the best on Red Dust, and I'll keep an eye out for the kickstarter on Shadow Moon Syndicate!

My favorite games are those that maximize both gameplay and art quality (which I know might sacrifice some of one of them to increase the other). So I think that book might end up on my hands some day.

Brilliantly conceived. I am not a keen solo player, but it may have been a category you could have added. In any case Bravo!

Exciting news all around. The new book sounds really unique. It also made me think, "I wonder if there is also enough matieral out there to create a book about bland and ugly art design in games??" Hmm.

Very cool

$64,000 for a metal roof! Is the cost of labor and materials higher where you live? My Dad can put a metal roof on a single story small to medium size house for less than $7,000. Even if the internal structure needed redone it shouldn’t have been more than $15,000. I feel sorry for you if you got ripped off. If the guys that did your house charged 64,000 I hope they rebuilt the trusses (if needed), and used OSB, roll paper, 2x4s and 2x6s planks (not 1.5x4 furring strips which rot off in 20 years) and at least 18 (not 19) gauge metal. But don’t worry if they did actually do a good job your roof should last your lifetime unless a strong natural disaster strikes.

I'm so happy to see all these projects finally coming to fruition for you, after all these years, J! It couldn't happen to a nicer bloke and a lovlier family <3 Please send my love to both Steph and Anne, as always. I've not been keeping up with the online boardgames community generally this last year, apart from the Discord server that I call home, you know the one :-) Both kids have their big national exams this year, the BAC for Rhianwen and the Brevet for Elis, as well as having to move on to uni and a new high school in September. I also finally managed to get to the UK in March to see my oldest daughter for the first time in years and to meet my grandson for the first time! He was 3 this month and is gorgeous. I miss our chats very much, and chatting to all our other online BG friends, but, like you, real life is just too busy, stressful, demanding and sometimes I just need to switch off from the screens and focus on what's tangible :-) I hope everything goes well for you with both the launch of RDR and the KS campaign! If RDR ever gets a French edition, let me know, I've got French friends that would love it ;-D 💚💚💚

Excellent list! I agree on most of what you said, especially on Dominion and Spirit Island. The only game I've played I don't agree on is Game of Thrones. Played it several times and I don't see the replayability since it has a balance issue.

Thank you for the update and congratulations on the projects! I'm also looking forward to them! What an amazing time we live in isn't it? Where we're just watching video content about board games yet we also know you, the creator, and you make it so very personal and connect with us in such a real, down-to-earth fashion. Thank you!

A new game on Kickstarter! Congratulations, look forward to seeing it launch.

Look forward to seeing the coffee table book and the games you select.

Congratulations on Red Dust being at the printers. Look forward to the 3 minute "How to Play"

Thanks for the update. Seen so many creators dissappear of the face of the earth without a word. You do what you want to do and if that means downprioritizing ”3 minutes”, fine. Good luck with everything. Something koto.