TDG: Cody's Top Ten Gateway Games (September 2023)

Join Cody as he takes a look at his top ten gateway games!

[vincebui]

Hey Cody! Just wanted to share I've been a subscriber to your channel for a little while now and actually found it through your DC deck building game reviews. I don't get to play board games as often as I would like with family/friends. But I've shown them the DC deck building game as that's my favorite board game and they all loved it (they are non-gamers). So I love teaching that game.

Just wanted to say this was a great list as we also love Horrrified and I got my Father in law hooked on Ticket to Ride. I always appreciate your insight with these top 10 videos and the DC deck building game reviews. Thanks for all you do for the board game community and I always love your jokes! Haha amazing work bro keep up the great content please! 👊

[davidk]

Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons and Space Hulk are a really underrated gateway game to the Warhammer 40k universe of wargaming.

[MarkCMG]

My favorite ten gateway games, all of which can be taught in three to seven minutes. Many on your list require longer teaching times and I would consider them beyond gateway, more like next level intermediate games.

Carcassonne
Catan
Dixit
Forbidden Island
King of Tokyo
Love Letter
Patchwork
Stone Age
Ticket to Ride
Tsuro

These are the games I tend to show newer boardgamers, who might only be familiar with parlor games like Monopoly, Clue, or Risk (or even those with a Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Cribbage, Euchre, or Hearts background), when they stop in at Lake Geneva Games.

[TotallyBoard]

Really versatile list - I like it! Lots I haven’t played either. I’m really looking forward to trying Zombicide!

I actually recommended Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion for new(ish) players. Actually quite heavy but it was my first modern board game!

[jaysmith]

I've had good luck with King of Tokyo. Great fun, easy to learn and everybody seems to like it.

[lukerettie]

Memoir 44 is a lot of fun. Friend of mine has many of the expansions, I've been enjoying the Desert War expansion for it. Many tales of ridiculous last stands and clutch card draws. The Airstrike card has caused many such events.

[jeffa]

Next year is the 20th anniversary of the release of Memoir 44. Have you heard if Days of Wonder is going to do a nice version for it?

[chris]

Tiny Towns is great. Even my six year old nephew can play it and do decently well, so grown ups should certainly be able to handle it.

Some other good intro ones: Tokaido (a light set building game), The Captain is Dead (kind of like Pandemic but on a space ship), and Roll through the Ages (a roll and write but with a theme people seem to get easily).

[TheCamBeard]

I am literally painting Zombicide mini’s while watching this video. Haha
Such a good game! I’m excited for my set of Marvel Zombies to arrive as well.

[roberts]

I can't get our friends to try but agree with space base and TTR. Also Marvel United, Cascadia, Ready Set, Bet, and Foundations of Rome depending on audience.

[zacharyclark]

Great choice of gateway games. I have many of those.

Have you heard of the new Horrified coming out in October? It has a Greek Monsters theme.

[martafdez]

My list:
Azul
Patchwork
Heroscape
Era. Medieval Age
Zombicide (Specially Marvel and Contemporaneous)

[chavhunter]

I love the zombicide series all the games have different aspects from each other that changes how things

[rochedl]

My List:
Crokinole
a deck of playing cards :)
waterworks
Risk Europe
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