As I do every year, yesterday I posted a video showcasing my favorite games that I played for the first time in 2021 and that were released approximately in 2021. In a tough year for supply chain, I was delighted with the games I played.
Various Categories
- Favorite Expansions: Expedition Leaders (Lost Ruins of Arnak), Manufactions (Fantastic Factories), Forgotten Realms (Magic), Strixhaven (Magic), Cursed Hoard (Fantasy Realms), Into the Horizon (Shards of Infinity), as well as Between Two Castles: Secrets & Soirees, Tapestry: Arts & Architecture
- Sequels: Herbaceous Pocket, Cartographers Heroes, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- New Stonemaier-Related Products Released This Year: Red Rising, Rolling Realms, Between Two Castles: Secrets & Soirees, Tapestry: Arts & Architecture
- Favorite New-to-Me Games Released Before 2021: A War of Whispers, Blitzkrieg, Quetzal, Conspiracy, Abandon All Artichokes, The King’s Dilemma, My City, Dwellings of Eldervale, Tranquility, Small Islands
- 2021 Releases I Haven’t Had the Chance to Try Yet (that I’m most eager to try): Caper: Europe, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Hunger, Anno 1800
- 2022 Releases I’m the Most Excited About: Flamecraft, Earthborne Rangers, Namiji, Now or Never, Momiji, The 7th Citadel, Merchants of the Dark Road, Marvel Dice Throne, Dog Park, The Age of Atlantis, Lands of Galzyr, First Ascent, Mythwind, Planet Unknown
- Stonemaier Coworkers: (Joe) Formosa Tea, Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin, and The LOOP; (Alan) Planet Unknown and Genotype; (Morten) Flourish and A Gentle Rain; (Alex) Dune Imperium, Sentinels of the Multiverse Definitive Edition, Roll Player Adventures, Cubitos
- Honorable Mentions That Didn’t Quite Make the Top 10: 7 Wonders Architects, Khora, Maglev Metro, Furnace, Genotype, Floriferous, Groundhog Day, Destinies, Enchanted Plumes
My Top 10 Favorite Games of 2021
- Roll Player Adventures (video)
- Ark Nova (video)
- Sleeping Gods (video)
- Dice Miner (video)
- Cubitos (video)
- Canvas (video)
- Cascadia (video)
- Sonora (video)
- The Whatnot Cabinet (video)
- Red Rising (video) and Rolling Realms (video)
What were your favorite gaming-related products and new games of 2021?
Here is last year’s list, and here is my latest overall top 10 list. My video for this topic is below.
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I think I “only” played 53 games from 2021 release (although 355 new games in total in 2021). 82 new games in 2020 which were released that year (329 new in 2020 from ay year).
The Crew: Mission Deep Sea and (what I call) Pandemic Warcraft was my number two.
Was given a Rolling Realms Die for my Dice Distancing playlist but it was too large (only played the PnP and haven’t made a video of that yet)
Nothing new from 2022 yet but I have some shipments on their way from Germany, Poland and the UK
Too many games to play. Not enough years. I guess that’s a good problem to have. =)
Think, play, live board games