Top 100 Games 2025 Edition – 70 through 61
We’re working our way through the list still. What games make it into the next 10 of my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition. We’re getting to that 1/3 of the way through the list. And it’s fun as always to make the list and talk about games that I maybe haven’t played in a little while but I still love. Or games that I haven’t talked about because they might not make other top 10 lists, but again, games that I still love. Random fact, the games on my Top 100 Games are the Top 12% of games that I’ve played.
Catch Up on the Top 100 Games
100 through 91
90 through 81
80 through 71
Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition 70 through 61
70. Meadow
Published By: Rebel Studio
Designer: Klemens Kalicki
This game is a beautiful nature game. It’s all about creating a meadow and stacking cards on top of each other really. Each card you select is going to have requirements as to how to place it. To go along with that, the selection process is great. I like how you place a token on a row or column and that token determines which thing you take. So you need to plan that out and sometimes make due with the limited placement access you have.
69. Mountain Goats
Published By: Allplay
Designer: Stefan Risthaus
Mountain Goats is a little, simple, climbing game. All you do is roll your dice and decide how to split them up. Then you move your mountain goat up the tracks that are those numbers. If you reach the top or are at the top, you gain those points. If someone else is at the top when you get there, you knock them down to the bottom again. The game is so simple, but it works really well
68. burncycle
Published By: Chip Theory Games
Designers: Josh J Carlson, Shannon Wedge
Now we move to burncycle which is a much bigger game. In this game you complete one off missions as robots. I like the theme of the game, robots took over and now big corporations and people have taken it back and are out after the robots. You need to sneak around to complete missions both in buildings and on the network. And the burndown of the cycle is a great tool for the game as well. Just a lot of really fun elements into a big game.
67. The Lost Expedition
Published By: Osprey Games
Designer: Peer Sylvester
The Lost Expedition is back on the list. This game is a great cooperative game. And I always like to mention, it is a good one for not having too much alpha gaming. The players all make their card choices with no input. And it changes up from morning trek to evening trek, I like that about the game as well. The former is playing cards in numerical order, or they slot in that order, while the other you just play out cards. So it changes up the strategy and sometimes you just end up stuck.
66. ISS Vanguard
Published By: Awaken Realms
Designers: Andrzej Betkiewicz, Krysztof Piskorski, Marcin Swierkot
Now to another big campaign game. This one is all about exploring space and figuring out the mystery of why a message brought humanity out here in the stars. The game is also interesting because it’s split into two parts, the planetary exploration part and then the ship management aspect. I like both parts and it makes for a fun campaign, one that I need to get back to, ideally in a group.
65. Mansions of Madness
Published By: Fantasy Flight Games
Designer: Nikki Valens
Now another scenario based game, Mansions of Madness is a classic at this point. Do you want to go on some big Lovecraftian adventure, but as a one off? This game is going to give you that. I like how grand it is, I like how the app lets the scenarios be different each time (albeit just slightly), and I like how the scenarios you play are so different. This is a good beer and pretzels type of game when you want a big game for an evening.
64. Sonora
Published By: Pandasaurus Games
Designer: Rob Newton
Not Available Currently
I like my roll and write games. And Sonora is a great one for that and it has a fun twist with it. Yes, you get all the combos that you get from a lot of roll and write games. But you also get to flick discs. So instead of rolling dice you are flicking discs with numbers to see what areas you activate. It’s fun to knock someone off a spot that they really wanted. And then, like I said, you go heads down and get to combo as many things as you can.
63. Lands of Galzyr
Published By: Snowdale Design
Designers: Seppo Kuukasjarvi, Sami Laakso
Lands of Galzyr is an interesting game because it’s really different than most games that I’ve played. This one is all about going on adventures and completing quests. But the stakes, while often cool and interesting, are never that high because what quest you go on, that’s determined by whatever shows up. I like as well how you can rotate your skills, so you might start out sneaking and then end up with great lore, it’s up to you and the quests you take.
62. Kohaku
Published By: 25th Century Games
Designer: Danny Devine
Not Available Currently
I like games where you can draft. And Kohaku gives you that as well as being a beautiful game to play. The copy as own has the acrylic tiles which give it a depth from the surface of the water to the bottom which looks amazing. But the game play is good as well. You pick out a koi and a scoring tile and they need to be adjacent to each other. Then when you play them out, you can never put a koi orthogonally adjacent to another koi and same with scoring tiles. So it’s a bit scoring tableau that you create.
61. Nidavellir
Published By: GRRRE Games
Deisgner: Serge Laget
Finally is Nidavellir. This is a game that I actually got rid of at one point. But then I decided to hop into a three player game on BGA. And I realized what I had not liked about the game before. Nidavellir is a great bidding and dwarf set collection game, but for me, only as a three or more player game. It’s fun to try and get your bids just right and still upgrade your coins. Plus you need to diversify what you collect so you can get the bonus powerful dwarves.
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