Top 10 Game Mechanisms - BGG Top 10 w/ The Brothers Murph

Check out the latest BGG Top 10 with the Brothers Murph. This episode's topic, Game Mechanisms!

0:00 Intro

1:01 #10 - Trick Taking
Fox in the Forest - Joshua Buergel - Renegade Game Studios

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine - Thomas Sing - KOSMOS

Claim - Scott Almes - White Goblin Games

2:04 #9 - Programming
Mechs vs Minions - Chris Cantrell, Rick Ernst, Stone Librande, Prashant Saraswat, Nathan Tiras - Riot Games

Quirky Circuits - Nikki Valens - Plaid Hat Games

3:25 #8 - Route Building
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries - Alan R. Moon - Day of Wonder

4:46 #7 - Rondels
Great Western Trail - Alexander Pfister - eggertspiel

The Red Cathedral - Isra C., Shei S. - Devir

6:05 #6 - Simultaneous Selection
Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest - Paolo Mori - Stonemeier Games

Coloma - Jonny Pac - Final Frontier Games

Histrio - Bruno Cathala, Christian Martinez - Bombyx

7:54 #5 - Engine Building
Terraforming Mars - Jacob Fryxelius - FryxGames, Stronghold Games

9:03 #4 - Cooperative Deduction
Paint the Roses - Ben Goldman - North Star Games

10:46 #3 - Deck/Bag Building
Orléans - Reiner Stockhausen - dlp games, Capstone Games

Quacks of Quedlinburg - Wolfgang Warsch - CMYK

12:17 #2 - Worker/Dice Placement
A Feast for Odin - Uwe Rosenberg - Feuerland Spiele, Z-Man

Viticulture - Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone - Stonemeier Games

14:02 #1 - Tile Placement
Carcassonne - Klaus-Jürgen Wrede - Hans im Glück, Z-Man Games

A Feast for Odin - Uwe Rosenberg - Feuerland Spiele, Z-Man

15:34 Wrap-up

[Viragomp]

I love these kinds of lists. Examining mechanisms make me really think about the games I own and am drawn to... and which ones I really need to stop buying, lol. My favorites are virtually the same as yours, except for trick taking.

[paulmccaffrey]

Your game mechanics are informative and are helping me with my game design. Thank you.

[Quicksand]

Wonderlands War is a fantastic bag building game!! Super fun video, love the recommendations!

[griffinsroost]

Hyperborea is an often-overlooked bag builder. Worth tracking down, along with the expansion.

[teejleague]

This was really, really helpful. We have played tons of games in the past couple years now, but I still don't understand a lot about categories. I think classifying is important because it helps me understand which games we're drawn to. There are definitely categories I don't know much about. I don't think I have any bag building games. I was wondering, would 7 Wonders be simultaneous interaction? Probably Bunny Kingdom too. Engine-building is something I had not understood before. I can see how I have confused it with deck building because it sounds similar in a way (you're winding up with something a lot better/more powerful). I think Ark Nova is an example of Engine Building with the updated cards. Is Tableau a type of engine building? Now I'm so curious about stuff. XD

[johnmable]

Soon we will start seeing top 10 lists of top 10 lists. Nobody thinks outside the box anymore.

[LinneasCabal]

Engine building is by FAR my favorite mechanism. My top pics recently are Furnace, TM Ares Expedition, It's A Wonderful World/Kingdom, Masters of Renaissance

[TisButAScratch]

Love you lads! Keep up the great work guys

[flickingbollocks]

So pleased you use the correct term in the title, at least.
Thank you.

[jkledis]

I love Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries - my Mother was a full Swede!

[frammentidipensieroludico]

My favorite game meccanic are open drafting, tableu building and dice placement.

[metallsnubben]

I'm a huge fan of asymmetric powers. Really asymmetry in general (could be in scenario, starting assets etc.), though that may be too broad to count as a "mechanic".

[borreholic]

This got me thinking about where I actually would draw the line between what is a "game mechanism" and what is simply a "game genre". Of course, it overlaps, and it's natural to categorize games by their main mechanisms, but at the same time, I think you can arrive at a point when a term is so broad it becomes something else. I guess there's no real right or wrong, but a part of me feels that there's so much that fits within something like "engine building" that it makes me reluctant to even view it as a "single" mechanism but rather something bigger built up of a set of mechanisms (which maybe describe what happens more in detail?). It's just a gut feeling.

[eVanDiesel]

Histrio mention....?
Histrio
there it is!

[shortydancer]

I have no idea what my fav mechanic is. Worker placement has just been over saturated.

[diamondmeeple]

These guys don't look like serious board gamers :P

[ricardorix]

Bluffing. Poker, Perudo, netrunner.
You missed the most obvious #1 which is Victory Point scoring. It's so over used and ubiquitous that's practically a given to be found in all games.
I'd much rather have a achievement based win like Innovation.

[RamonMercadoReyes]

I hate to be THAT guys… but engine building is not a mechanic. Look at terraforming mars on BGG and you’ll see “engine building” not listed under mechanics.