The Great Board Game Cull of 2023

When you have 125+ board games, there are always going to be some that you don't like as much as others. I'm getting rid of 30 games, but I don't want to waste your time.

So here are the 10 most interesting games leaving my collection! Enjoy!

Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
Welcome: 0:11
Stone Age: 1:02
Terraforming Mars - Ares Expedition: 2:23
Valeria Card Kingdoms: 3:58
Formula D: 5:38
King of Tokyo: 6:43
Ethnos: 7:12
Smash Up: 8:48
Munchkin: 9:28
Pandemic: 10:17
Anachrony: 10:58
Final Thoughts: 14:08

Board and Savior Music by Hussain Hamoudi @huspainmusic
Background Music by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio

[laartwork]

King of Tokyo for me is great when player count is high, as a gateway game that veterans like (with evolution). Suitable for younger ages. It also has never failed to entertain. I can't get rid of it.

[TheAlexHopp]

I am just now discovering your channel and good lord. I have watched a ton of board game YouTubers and this was quite possibly the most entertaining video I have seen. Bravo!

[NoeAnton]

I agree on Ethnos, but unfortunately, some of my groups tend to be on the larger side, and it's one of the very few games that plays full player count while still feeling strategic, engaging and fun without being a party game. Even with the hundreds of games released, there are VERY few of those. I have a 700+ collection and I'm pretty sure that games that play well strategically, without being super complex or party games, play under 2 hours and fit 6 players I can count with one hand. Also I disagree on pretty much every point with Anachrony, every one I've played it with has loved it, particularly heavy gamers.

[zacdredge]

Some say the B Roll of Board and Savior doing a Fortnite dance in public has been lost forever, others claim it was confiscated by the CIA for use in some sort of psyop project. We'll never know the truth...

[elikurtz]

That was so much fun to watch (a second time too :P ) loved your Smash-up face and the finale was gorgeous :D Please keep up the great work! Cheers to you and happy/happier gaming :D
Funnily Stone age is one of our nostalgia Soul games ^^ but it works only with the Trader expansion and needs exacttly 3 players (always the same of course ^^) Smash up is really strange ... I loved the Idea but it feels so clunky it ranks for me as unplayable - except if you are drunk ... but then it feels complicated :P So very much like good old Kingmaker Munchkin (Cthulhu Munchkin RULES THEM ALL after everyone has become a Cultist muwhahahahahaha :D ) Luckily I have a friend I could pass these on to. He has a huge Munchkin collection now. And coming to think of it I have not been there for playing games in ... To his defense he also got good games and the hiatus rather stems from past Covid restrictions. Sadly we kind of never picked up where we left off and my board gaming priorities had a tectonic shift since then ^^ (Looking at the stacks of games on the floor and overstuffed shelves and seriously considering to cull some now ... arghhh I must go insane ^^)

[thegamesninja]

I am going with the team "rebalancing". This means tweaking my collection to fit where I am. If a game doesn't solo, I have zero room for it.. beyond ones I have an original attachment to.

[seyedaminfirouzeh]

Nice JOB, Valaria Card kingdom serves us as gateway !! so we keep it. I really agree with Ethnos.

[junyanliu]

I would love to know what are the other games you culled !

[stan]

Valeria and space base both give me that same feeling. I think it's because there's so much luck involved, that your decisions don't really matter that much. (Which is perfectly fine for party games) but i don't think these two games aren't fun enough to be a party game. So I start to ask why I'm even playing them halfway through

[mkitten]

Stone Age for me is one of those earlier games that keeps sticking around, I don't play it often, but when it does come back to the table, I just keep enjoying it, which doesn't really happen much with the early games for me.

I really like Ares Expedition. I never got into Race for the Galaxy, and Roll fo the Galaxy just merely felt alright for me. So for me personally, Ares Expedition is the more enjoyable game with that system.

It's a shame you didn't enjoy Valeria: Card Kingdoms. That one is just a delight to get back to the table for me every time. I will say the regular game is better than the solo.

I culled Anachrony myself this year. It's a good game, but not the big greatness that people make it out to be. And it has several factors that count against it for me. The huge box, big set-up, big teach, it just felt like more work to get to the table than I was willing to put in. I'm not a big theme person, so the time travel theme doesn't hit with me.

[kiranthomas]

Whats a good replacement for King of Tokyo?

[NoDramaLlama]

You didn't play Valeria Card Kingdoms with anyone... And you didn't like it, and it's core mechanism is about simultaneous play... You failed the game