Sam & JT's Top 5 Tile Placement Games

Hey, folks! Continuing from their Bottom 5 on The Dice Tower today, Sam and JT bring you their Top 5 Tile Placement Games! If you enjoy this content, please consider hitting those Like and Subscribe buttons, and we'll hope to continue seeing you right here...on the Flipside!

Sam & JT's Bottom 5 Tile Placement Games on the Dice Tower:

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro and Welcome
3:07 - Number 5
7:20 - Number 4
11:38 - Number 3
16:09 - Number 2
20:48 - Number 1
26:14 - General Chatter & Outro

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[Joris]

I caught your video while playing Diablo—great stuff! Here's my quick top 10, based on my current ranking of games I've played. I might be breaking Sam's rule about mentioning games I've already talked about, but I enjoy list-making too much to overthink it.

For 'tile placement, ' I’m using a broad definition: anything you place or orient that’s central to the game. So, it doesn’t have to be a literal tile (which I think Sam hinted at too).

Here's my top 10:

A Feast for Odin – (You're awesome, JT!)
Cartographers – It's a flip-and-write, but placement matters, so it fits.
Bärenpark
Llamaland
Akropolis – (JT strikes again!)
Railroad Ink – Like Cartographers, where placement matters.
Rajas of the Ganges – Lots of mechanics, but tile-laying is central.
Earth – Optimal plant placement is key.
Karuba
Babylon – A recent pick—maybe you've seen it?

Honorable mentions:

Fall of the Mountain King – Ancestry card placement is cool but is just one part of this area control game.
Tikal – There’s tile placement, but area control feels more central.
Gorinto – Fits the 'placement matters' rule, though my gut says no.

I might reconsider whether 'strange shapes' (looking at you, Cartographers and Bärenpark) should be a factor in my list.

[CaptainGamer]

Excellent list, Sam and TJ!! Foundations of Metropolis, Apiary, and Cascadia are in my top 3 tile placement games. I'm looking forward to adding more tiles to my copy of Apiary with the "Expanding the Hive" expansion for Apiary.

[thewoopsik]

Thank you for the video and see you next week.

[kjv]

Hey JT! Quadropolis is in my top 10 games period. Good pick!

[RALFNE]

Nice lists. I would maybe add Land Vs Sea and The Isle of Cats Big Box. Also for me Carcassonne, the OG as you mentioned, is still my number 1 if you include ALL expansions like the Maps or the latest Wonders of Humanity etc.

[kikkoarceo]

Champions of Midgard for Viking Euro game too 💪🏽

[pluvia]

During the Bottom 5, I thought the lighter Uwe Rosenberg game Sam was talking about was going to be Patchwork. That one is probably his lowest complexity game: 1.60 weight on BGG.

[luce]

Enjoyed the video! I'd like a visual of a game in action for each one, I find it really helps to work out whether I might like the game or not - the box covers usually look really nice but aren't always representative of the actual game...

[Ian-R-Wilz]

I recently did my personal 5 and dime for polyomino and non-polyonimo tile laying games on my channel.
My top 3 polyomino were: Tenpenny Parks, Isle of Cats, World Wonders
My top 3 non-polyomino were: Cascadia, Beacon Patrol, Azul:Summer Pavilion

I will do my top 10 overall at some point, but I have a few in my collection of each that I need to play.

BTW-It's Tan-gram (they are short a sounds), not Tengrem

I love Apiary, it's my #1 solo game, but I wouldn't put it in the tile placement category. It has tile placement in in but it is a worker placement game that leads to everything else IMO. I would say tile placement is the secondary mechanism for it. There are so many ways to score in it. SM isn't heavy at all.

As for Harmonies all I heard about it was that it was an Azul killer. I heard no negativity against it.

[intrusivemoose]

Agreed that A Feast for Odin is my #1 tile laying game too. But to be fair I also rate Foundations of Rome a 10/10, so excellent choices gents.

For a smaller footprint game, I would consider “Sprawlopolis” a tile layer, it’s cards, but hey if minis count then so should cards lol. I think it’s my favorite of the small box tile laying games.

[robtrot]

My favorite tile placement game currently is planet unknown.

[DMBrownlee]

I think polyomino tile games where the you have to fit the pieces like a puzzle feel a lot different than tile laying games were the tiles are the same shape and their placement is influenced by other goals such as scoring. I also have to admit that I agree with Sam (ouch, that hurt) in that Suburbia was a miss for me as well. Carcassonne is an evergreen game for me, so I would have left it on the list. I haven't played Kohaku, but another really fun tile laying game where you place tiles in a checkerboard pattern for scoring is Cacao. The tiles in Cacao have four "meeples" in various distributions on the edges which determine number of resources produced and area influence depending on how they are oriented and what they are placed next to. Hive an Patchwork are fun tile games for two players. If you like polyomino tile placement, in addition to Patchwork, you might try Cottage Garden, especially if you like cute games with a gardening theme and, to a lesser extent, cats. Another good game Sam mentioned liking fairly recently and may have missed is Bonsai. So many good games in the tile placement category.

[victorabaxter]

Some constructive feedback: please check audio levels. It keeps clipping. I think mostly with Sam’s mic. Keep up the great videos!

[andresbergmann]

Foundations of Rome vs foundations of metropolis?

[rudyjansen]

Ouch, this was rough, apparently tile placement isn't something I love. The Great games I consider tile placement are Carcassonne and Sub terra, guess I'm out of touch.

[Buschman.]

"Why does a simple game have to be under produced?"...PRICE!!!!...Mr. Moneybags. We all don't have a Fortune 500 YouTube channel. Or access to a neverending Inventory .... (Gamer Snob...geesh)

[Buschman.]

...& where's Carpe Diem, Dice Theme Park, N.Y. Zoo, Overboss, ....THE COLONISTS for crying out loud.Even Origins: First Builders; a stretch but point
of game is buying Building Tiles to form City Districts.