Top 10 Hottest Board Games: January 2025 - The Best of BGG

Welcome to another month of all things Geek! Get some news, hear some things we’re excited about happening on BoardGameGeek and as always, we talk about the hottest games of the month!

00:00 Introduction

00:48 BGG News:
BGG Updated Blogs:

BGG Trends:

02:29 The BGG Hotness

02:54 #10 - Civolution - 2024 - Stefan Feld - Deep Print Games

03:53 #9 - The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth - 2024 - Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala - Repos Production

05:35 #8 - Sky Team - 2023 - Luc Rémond - Scorpion Masqué

07:00 #7 - Fromage - 2024 - 2024 - Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset - R2i Games

08:52 #6 - Slay the Spire: The Board Game - 2024 - Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, Casey Yano - Contention Games

11:17 #5 - Harmonies - 2024 - Johan Benvenuto - Libellud

14:07 #4 - Arcs - 2024 - Cole Wehrle - Leder Games

16:34 #3 - Ark Nova - 2021 - Mathias Wigge - Feuerland Spiele

19:01 #2 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - 2024 - Tomáš Holek - CGE

20:43 #1 - Mistborn: The Deck Building Game - 2024 - John D. Clair - Brotherwise Games

23:28 Most Played Games of the Month

25:30 Murph Picks

Nick: Artist Diary: Castle Combo:

Mike: How to “The Teach” a game

28:19 Outro/Favorite Game:

Nick: No Thanks

Mike: The Guild of Merchant Explorers

[aloharay]

chapter maarks seem a bit off for this video

[chaniofdune]

Love the "The Fast and the Furious" set decor! 😂

[GutosArtDepot]

That's the first time I've seen that Arcs old promotional video. So cool to see how the game has evolved from that. Great video!

[bart]

Guild of Merchant Explorers: one of my favourite games playable within 45mins. The expansion of GoME also is great.

[AhJong]

Love these monthly kids, great easy digestible goodness 😊