Top 10 Essential Games Everyone Should Own!

Tom Vasel, Sam Healey, and Zee Garcia share their picks for essential games everyone should own.

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00:00 - Introduction
04:44 - Sam’s #10
05:50 - Tom’s #10
06:40 - Zee’s #10
08:22 - Tom’s #9
10:06 - Zee’s #9
11:29 - Sam’s #9
13:18 - Zee’s #8
14:41 - Sam’s #8
15:44 - Tom’s #8
17:04 - Zee’s #7
19:49 - Tom’s #7
21:49 - Sam’s #7
23:14 - Tom’s #6
24:14 - Sam’s #6
26:07 - Zee’s #6
27:21 - Sam’s #5
29:19 - Zee’s #5
29:54 - Tom’s #5
32:44 - Sam’s #4
34:09 - Tom’s #4
35:30 - Zee’s #4
37:48 - Tom’s #3
39:57 - Zee’s #3
41:47 - Sam’s #3
43:16 - Zee’s #2
44:08 - Sam’s #2
45:39 - Tom’s #2
48:00 - Zee’s #1
49:48 - Tom’s #1
52:20 - Sam’s #1

[Kriterian]

10: Time's Up! Title Recall / Dr. Eureka / Onitama
09: Dominion / Dixit / Raptor
08: Five Tribes / For Sale / King Tokyo
07: Blood Rage / For Sale / Bang: The Dice Game
06: Onitama / Small World / Dominion
05: Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (picked twice) / Pandemic Legacy
04: Ticket to Ride / Codenames / Carcassonne
03: Splendor / King of Tokyo / Stone Age
02: Ticket to Ride / 7 Wonders / Sheriff of Nottingham
01: Pandemic / Sushi Go Party! / Shadows Over Camelot

[MrLivebynight]

"Everyone who's running for office should be forced to play these" - talking about Pandemic, in 2016.

Just 2020 things.

[erevisentreri]

Watching this post/during Covid times and that convo between Zee and Tom about politicians needing to play co-op games when they're talking about Pandemic feels real prophetic

[davidtroutman]

39:50 Splendor does well and everyone should own it because: 1) It's quick to setup and to teardown; 2) Its gameplay is easy to teach; 3) Its playtime is fairly fast; 4) And it has fantastic component quality.

[tarfinand]

How about a video "10 games we agree on"? All of you try to come up with a list of 10 games that you believe all of you would agree. Bonus points for entries having same position on the lists;). This may be either very short and boring video, or quite the opposite. I would like to see how well you think you know each other:).

[kiwisoup]

Everybody is raging over this being more geared towards gateway games, but do hardcore gamers really need a list of essential games? Let's be real here...you already know your essential games and all you would do is argue about how wrong this list is...

[robbertsroost]

Have you ever done a Top 10 games on a budget? Like games under $25 - Might be an interesting topic...

[jtucker]

Hmm my Amazon shopping cart has $421 worth of games in it now...

[rocketeye]

Owning Pandemic, Splendor, Dominion, 7 Wonders, Stone Age, Ticket to Ride, Small World, CATAN, Blood Rage, and ECLIPSE for the win!

[madifinley]

I own Splendor and I love it. I have taught it to a lot of people and it has been a hit every time.

[IvVu]

Giving the Blood Rage discussion that we saw I think that now we need a Top 10 next step games

[adrianojedaf]

lets take a second to thank these guys for doing what they do! they bring to people who like board games so much content and joy... Thanks!

[Peng-]

Usually Tom or even Sam's lists are more my wheelhouse but Zee Smashed it for me. I like his take on the topic rather than merely gateway games, which is a list on its own for me.

[TheCagedRaven]

I raised my children on board games. Now I've been introducing various games to my grand children and the children I work with. The favourites so far are Sushi Go, Outfoxed, Mancala and Cockroach Poker. Some of the games you three mentioned are already on my wish list; I'll be checking some others out. Thanks for this video.

[jeangodecoster]

the one grudge I hold against Pandemic is that while it's a cooperative game, there's often going to be one player who takes the lead on what others have to do

[mikesouthwell]

Exactly what I do: watch, pause, add to cart, resume, and repeat.

[tigertemprr]

Great update. The original video is what got me back into the hobby. Thanks for continuing to put out great content ever since, Dice Tower!

[YuGiOhDuelChannel]

SmallWorld changed my life man! Game got me hooked on boardgames, couldn't sleep the first time I played it haha

[Stephen-Fox]

I think Zee's list is the closest to what I'm be looking for from this sort of list now - 10 games making up a well rounded collection for people who are into the hobby, while Tom and Sam's list is for where I was 10 years ago - 10 games that would make up a well rounded collection for people who are just getting into the hobby and haven't already gone through their gateway and next step phases while guided by people who already have a collection.

So Zee's list is a good 'if you're making a communal collection for gamers, start with these games' while Sam and Tom's is more 'start by considering these games if you're just getting into the hobby and are starting on your collection for yourself.' - And I think both of those are perfectly valid things to consider as 'essential games'.

I'm also not sure consumable games have a place on either list - I like them, myself, but they wouldn't be games I'd be starting a collection with in any circumstance, making Pandemic Legacy the only game I actively disagree with on the three of your lists (And that might apply to campaign games as well as Legacy games), even if some of the others aren't entirely to my tastes - Perfectly good examples of categories that should be considered for any personal collection of 10, or which a communal collection of 10 should consider starting with.

[eckfunk]

In case you ever redo that kind of list: I would prefer if you would first agree on 10 categories and then everybody has one game he proposes.