Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 60 through 51
It’s time again to round out the bottom 50 games of my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition. We have games 60 through 51 this time. Checkout the video of these ten games over on Malts and Meeples YouTube. And join me there every Wednesday at 9 PM Central to see what games are making the list. And see what might be new on my Top 100 Games list from what it was in 2023. There is at least one in my Top 100 Games in this section of 60 through 51 that is new, but which is it.
Catch up on previous videos here
100 through 91
90 through 81
80 through 71
70 through 61
Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 60 through 51
60. Medium
- Published by Greater Than Games in 2019
- How well can you and a partner connect two seemingly separate words?
This is a really fun party game. You are just trying to match up with your partner (for the round) on two words. But can you both land of the same word? If not, now you need to use those two new words. But, of course, those two new words might have gotten you further apart. This game is one of those party games that has a lot of great highs to it as people land on the same word. And also a lot of moments of just fun as you think it’s impossible to connect the words.
59. Under Falling Skies
- Published by Czech Games Edition in 2020
- Battle aliens and defeat the mothership before it lands.
I love this as a solo game. I really enjoy the complexity and thought process of needing to manage how to alien ships are descending. Yet you also need to push to research. So it’s a balancing act of trying to get what you need done, but also not stretching yourself too thin that the smaller vessels are making it into the city scape and pushing the end of the game along faster. So the whole thing is a giant puzzle and a very fun one at that.
58. Final Girl
- Published by Van Ryder Games in 2021
- Be the final one standing in a horror film as you take on the roll of the Final Girl.
This is one that is perfect for the Halloween season so great for me to talk about it this week. It’s a solo only game where you are taking on a killer, a ghost, or whatever the story is as the final girl. The one who is standing at the end of the movie. And who knows if you will survive or not, but that is the fun challenge of the game. Plus the action system in the game is really good as you spend resources to succeed on checks, but also need those to replenish the cards and actions you can take.
57. Stonespine Architects
- Published by Thunderworks Games in 2024
- Build out your best labyrinthian dungeon and show the you’re the best architect.
This is a really fun drafting and set collection game. And I think one of the elements that really stands out to me is how become unique in your scoring. You are able to stop buying stuff to grab a scoring card. And that scoring card is going to shape how you play the game, but you also don’t want to stop too early because you need to collect those tokens to bolster up how dangerous your dungeon really is. It’s a great balancing act and adds just a bit more choice to the game. Also this is a new one to my Top 100 Games list.
56. World Wonders
- Published by MeepleBR and Arcane Wonders in 2023
- Build out y our civilization and compete to complete wonders to make your lands the best.
I appreciate the ease of play. I say that knowing that World Wonders is not the simplest game to learn, but it is a game that as you get into it, to goes really fast. And I like the push your timing element of the game as well. I won’t call it push your luck, but you might be ready to build a wonder but have a lot of money to buy tiles left. Well, if you don’t build it now, someone else might snag it, but if you do, it might put you behind for the next round and the new wonders that come out. And I believe this is new, though maybe 2023, to my Top 100 Games.
55. Homebrewers
- Published by Greater than Games in 2019
- Become the best home brewer and win awards at Summerfest and Oktoberfest.
This is a great little engine building game that I really like. I like it for the theme, but also for the game play as I always have fun with it. In the game you brew beer to get better at brewing beer. And some of how you do that is you get new ingredients to work with and add to your recipes for IPAs, Porters and more. Those ingredients are going to help build out your engine and might get you more money, move your up on tracks, etc. At the end, though, most of it just comes down to who is the best at brewing beer.
54. Potion Explosion
- Published by Horrible Guild in 2015
- Combo marbles together to create the most and the greatest potions.
This is almost an app game as a board game. And I mean that in the best way possible. There are a number of app games where you remove a “thing” and try to get matching “things” to touch because of it. Here you remove a marble and you want to get like colored marbles to touch. Because that cascades together and then you get to take those marbles. If you play it right you can create a bit change to get the marbles you need to complete a lot of potions in one turn. And that puzzle is the fun of the game to leverage your potions to complete more.
53. Mansions of Madness
- Published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2016
- Investigate mysteries of the elder gods in this app guided game in FFG’s Arkham line.
This game is one of the first really big games on the list. And there is a lot that I like about it. But it did use to be higher on my list. I think it’s dropped because I haven’t played it as recently, and because I’ve played more story driven games. This one, though dynamically adjusts the story and the world as you play through multiple times and that is a fun element. But the different scenarios and missions are all fun, and I enjoy that variety in the game.
52. Ohanami
- Published by Pandasaurus Games in 2019
- Create your best Zen garden to score you the most points.
The last two games on the list are small. This one is great though for me because it’s a chill game, for the most part, and easy to learn and play. You collect cards, drafting them two at a time. And then you add those cards to three columns. But you either need to add to the top, higher, or bottom, lower on the column. And things can never drop out of numerical order. Plus how the different color score, as you draft over three hands, makes the game even more of a puzzle. And there is a fourth color as well that can be huge, but you are giving up points elsewhere. Overall a really fun little filler game.
51. Vegetable Stock
- Published by Good Game Studio and Arcane Wonders in 2019 (and 2024 for Arcane Wonders)
- Collect vegetables and be able to sell them for the most at the end of the game.
This is a stock market vegetable drafting game, and I love the absurdity and double meaning of Vegetable Stock. This is another small game that is more of a filler than anything. But it’s a really fun filler as you draft over six rounds. Each round you draft from N+1 cards where N is the number of players. That last card is then used to adjust the stock market. So you need to be smart in what you draft. Draft too much of one veggie it’ll never move up, but if it moves up too much the market might just crash and make them worthless.
Upcoming Streams
Just a reminder on my streaming schedule. It’s not just all my Top 100 Games (of all time).
- Monday night, time varies, I play different small solo games, though I might be looking to start up a campaign again. Expect Final Girl next week for Halloween. And generally the streams do start between 8 and 8:30 PM central time.
- Wednesday at 9 PM central is going to continue my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition for another six weeks. After that expect this to be when I play my small games. Only 5 more weeks left of my Top 100 Games, then likely this will switch to smaller solo games and video games.
- Friday at 9 PM central my wife and I are streaming a playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3. Join us for the adventure of Nina and Kaerok and see what choices we make.
The best way to know when we go live, though is to subscribe and click that notification bell. I can’t promise, and in fact it’s pretty unlikely, that I’ll have events to click on ahead of time. Though I do want to get better at it. I hope that you can join a stream and hop into the chat. And let me know what games in this list are your favorite or that you want to try.
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