Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition – 20 through 11
Today the list is will finish. Join me on Malts and Meeples over on YouTube to watch that. But let’s catch up and see what games just miss out on the Top 10 of the Top 100 Games. These are all amazing games and just looking at the list, there are a ton that I want to get played right now. So don’t look at these are games that are lacking, but more amazing games that you can try.
Top 100 Games (of all time) – 20 through 11
20. For Northwood! A Solo Trick-Taking Game
Published By: Side Room Games
Designer: Wilhelm Su
A solo trick-taking game seems like it shouldn’t work. But For Northwood! works really well. It’s a simple trick taker, you need to follow suit if you can. But the twist is that you need to win a specific number of tricks each time. You play over eight rounds and need to win between 0 and 7 tricks, exactly. That sounds impossible, but you get powers that help you manipulate your hand. It’s always a question of, which one do you go for, in terms of tricks to win, and as you get further along, can get manipulate your hand to make it work.
19. Marvel Champions: The Card Game
Published By: Fantasy Flight Games
Designers: Michael Boggs, Nate French, and Caleb Grace
I love Marvel and this is the game that gives me the Marvel feel to it. You are a superhero and you want to stop the bad guys scheme and defeat them. But, thematically, when you are in your hero form the bad guy is going to fight you and you take damage. So you need to manage going between your superhero and alter ego form so you don’t get hit. Of course as your alter ego, the villains are going to be scheming away. And you can create all sorts of fun combinations of heroes and villains to face off.
18. Floriferous
Published By: Pencil First Games
Designers: Eduardo Baraf and Steve Finn
This game is one that I think is really overlooked in the gaming community. It’s a clever drafting game that does two very interesting things. The first thing is how scoring works. You don’t have much scoring that just happens, instead you draft your scoring cards. So there is always a choice between, do I draft more flowers or do I draft scoring cards. The other is how the drafting works, and this it maybe a bigger twist. You draft from a column, how high you are in the column determines when you draft next round. So it’s very possible you want to draft a less ideal card to get a perfect card.
17. Stars of Akarios
Published By: OOMM (Open Owl Studios)
Designers: Brendan McCaskell, Jonathan Thwaites
I love my big campaign games, and Stars of Akarios is one of my favorites. This one works so well for me with the tactical space combat, the planetary exploration, and a story that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The tactical space combat really shines in the game as you use your dice to position your ship, attack, and avoid the enemies the best you can. And the exploration is a bit like The 7th Continent/Citadel where you flip over cards and create a map and really explore as you go.
16. Clank!: Catacombs
Published By: Dire Wolf
Designer: Paul Dennen
While i just did sell all of my other Clanks, this Clank! Catacombs spot is for all of them. Clank! is a push your luck game where you build up a deck of cards to get into a catacombs, in this case, and get out with the most points and best treasure that you can. Of course, if you are too noisy doing that, you clank, and when the enemy activates it might knock down your health. So it’s this push your luck in making noise, and going deeper. I like, too, with Clank! Catacombs, the map gets built as you go, so the board really is different every time.
15. Roll Player Adventures
Published By: Thunderworks Games
Designers: Keith Matejka, James William Ryan, and Peter Andrew Ryan
Another big campaign game here with Roll Player Adventures. This one is all about dice manipulation and a fun story. I had a great time playing through the first campaign, and the additional one that I have, I need to get to the table. The system works well, though I will say, with four players it becomes a bit easier than at lower player counts. But the simple map movement, the story, the skill checks and of course combat and leveling up make this a fun time.
14. The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game
Published By: Office Dog
Designer: Bryan Bommueller
Buy The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game
I like trick-taking games. Not a ton make it to my Top 100 games mainly because a lot feel similar. The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game is one that is different. Yes, it leans into a lot of standard things, but it’s also cooperative and story based. There are other cooperative ones out there, but the story based feels unique. Especially because this closely follows the books, so you get to chapters with Goldberry and Tom Bombadil as required characters which is fun. And the cooperative elements are challenging for the game.
13. Pirates of Maracaibo
Published By: dlp games
Designers: Ralph Bienert, Ryan Hendrickson, and Alexander Pfister
The second of three new games on this part of the lit in a row. Pirates of Maracaibo is a pirate resource management game. I normally would want it to have more adventure, but this one is a ton of fun. I love building up my ship and seeing what strategy of building up ship, getting treasure, exploring, and competing quests can lead to victory. And it is great because all of them feel good to do. It isn’t a game where I feel like I need to go one way, though, I think some ways are more consistent.
12. Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game
Published By: Brotherwise Games
Designer: John D. Clair
By Mistborn The Deck Building Game
Another deckbuilding game on the list here with Mistborn. And I like Mistborn just a bit better than Clank! because of a little more pure deck building. But also it has a lot of fun elements to the game. It leans into Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn world and let’s you burn metals to play cards. I also like the turn track, you always bump up in power as you go up the track. This makes for a really great experience of feeling like the game is ramping up.
11. Sleeping Gods
Published By: Red Raven Games
Designer: Ryan Laukat
The final game on the list is another big one, though not a campaign game. Sleeping Gods is a sand box story game where you are dropped into an unknown world and need to find and deal with totems. Of course, it’s a new land, so you don’t know where those are. And there are monsters and other interesting things to deal with. You need to control 9 crew, but really, it’s one turn and you just need to remember a few key abilities as you play. So it sounds like a lot, either cooperative or solo, but it’s not too bad.
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