Changes to the Website

But there are going to be some changes for what is coming out in terms of articles. Mainly around the 10 Minute Marvel podcast. If you are a fan of the podcast, that has been consistently coming out the whole time. In fact we just wrapped up talking about Daredevil Born Again. They are not going to be cross posted to Nerdologists.com anymore, at least for right now. Just because they come out Monday or Sunday and they’ll show up a week late cross posting.

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Also let’s talk streaming. Streaming on the Malts and Meeples YouTube channel is going to return. But it’s going to be on a different cadence than it has been in the past. My normal schedule now is going to be to have Friday’s off of work. That means I write all the articles on Friday, stream, hopefully, during the day. And then Friday evening the goal is going to be to stream again and get back to play Baldur’s Gate 3 and finish up that playthrough.

What’s Not Changing

The articles that are being written aren’t going to be changing. I plan on covering crowdfunding games. I plan on doing reviews and writing about different types of games and creating lists. And come October, I plan on doing my Top 100 Games, of all time, 2026 edition.

And with that, I want to announce a series of articles that is going to be coming up where I’m on my way to 1000 board games rated on Board Game Geek. Right now I’m at just over 800 board games and just over 900 board games and expansions.

These articles are going to be two different types of things. The first type is going to be mini reviews and full reviews of the games that I’ve played since I wrote articles last. Mainly because some of the games got one play and then passed on playing more. The other is going to be going through all the games that I’ve rated on Board Game Geek and taking about them and why I rated them where I did.

Thanks for Sticking Around

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All The Anime I’ve Watched Ranked

So I’m not going to do a write-up on all of them. But you can see the top 10 here, and for those, I’m going to be doing a little bit of a write-up. And I’ll probably do something even faster for the top 25 or so, so you know why I like them.

1 Dan Da Dan

Dan Da Dan is a really fun and silly anime, though one that isn’t just all gags and nonsense. The story is what drew me into it from the start. A girl who believes in the paranormal and not aliens, and a boy who believes in aliens and not the paranormal. What happens when they both realize the other one is right? That’s the premise of it, but there is great character development, romance, and a lot of odd situations in the show.

2 Sword Art Online

I know that Sword Art Online is popular to hate on, but I really like it. I think that the characters and stories are generally interesting. And the topics around AI, really, are relevant right now. It also had a chance to do something different with how it handles the start of the anime and the “trapped in a game” trope, and I like how it did that. Is it perfect, no, but I really like what it tries to do and the grandness of the vision.

3 Shangri-La Frontier

I think that Shangri-La Frontier could pass Sword Art Online as time goes on. This is another anime about a video game, but the main character isn’t trapped in it. Instead, he is someone who loves the most garbage games out there, the ones where the mechanisms are janky and the story is annoying. But what happens when he plays a “god tier” game like Shangri-La Frontier? How are his skills going to translate over and is the experience going to change him?

4 Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki

Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki is one that has stuck at the top of my list of anime that I just love. And the new season of it has really helped solidify that. The story of a boy who feels like life is an unfair game feels real. And then him learning about how life can be a god tier game and how to play it is really well done. And I like how it isn’t just this simple story of treating it like a game, but how to treat life with respect. Plus a great cast of characters really make the show.

5 The Apothecary Diaries

This is another anime that could go up, I really loved the first two seasons and immediately after watching them I went to read the manga. This is a slow burn romance story of Mao Mao and apothecary, kind of, and Jinshi who runs the Emperors inner courts. But while there is that slow burn romance, it is also has great mystery elements as Mao Mao is trying to figure out different events that happen in the court and help unravel the mysteries. It’s just brilliantly written and paced wonderfully well.

6 Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Another slow moving anime, Frieren is just a standout in storytelling. Frieren is an elf who, after the heroes party with her in it has driven off the demons and defeated the demon king, just goes on her way. She doesn’t think about how her life, being so long, compares to those of her fellow companions. And only too late does she start to realize what she has been missing out on. It’s heartfelt and well done with characters that are great again.

7 Kaiju #8

Kaiju #8 is back to a much goofier anime. I love kaiju, they are fun, but what happens if a human becomes part kaiju, and one who has flunked out of the defense force training program multiple times. This is an anime with a lot of humor and heart to it and that combination just makes it a ton of fun. Plus the music in it is great. That moment when the music hits and you know the main character is going to do something awesome just stands out in my head and is so much fun.

8 My Dress-up Darling

This one is another romance anime but it is an anime that is doing a whole lot more than that. Gojo and Marin are from two different worlds, reclusive and popular, but sewing and cosplay draw them together. And their romance is so cute and wholesome, all while centering around cosplays that are generally neither of those things. But the story is just amazing and like I said, the anime is more than just a romance. It is a story about normalizing hobbies that maybe aren’t considered as acceptable and showing off the diverse and wonderful cast of people in them.

9 Kaguya-Sama: Love is War

I like romance anime a lot. A lot of them tell really interesting and fun stories and Kaguya-Sama: Love is War tells it in a unique way. How do two characters who vie for power on the student council fall in love. And in this war for power in the relationship and student council, who will confess their love first, because whomever does is going to lose the war? It’s very humorous, very cute, and Ian Sinclair’s narration is simply amazing as he goes crazy with it in a perfect over the top way for the story.

10 Assassination Classroom

This is another one that has stuck around my list for a long time. I just remember it being so interesting while I watched it. Assassination Classroom has a super goofy premise, an alien who destroyed the moon is practically impossible to kill. So he takes up teaching a class of misfits and one of their goals, for the class is to kill him. But it’s really about the students, what they’ve been through in their lives, and how the teacher, before they kill him, can help them grow and become better people.

11 through 20

11 Trapped in a Dating Sim – Silly fun trapped in a video game, but this time it’s a dating sim.

12 A Returners Magic Should be Special – What happens if you know the future because you’ve lived it? It’s a trope I love.

13 To Be Hero X – Superheroes, but you get your power from how much people trust you and that can control you or erode.

14 From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman – Old man sword fighter who has just trained folks his whole life, doesn’t think he’s that great, but maybe he actually is.

15 Dealing with Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze – A pretty nobody joins the family of three supremely talented sisters, how can help them and bring them back together as a family?

16 The Ossan Newbie Adventures Trained To Death By The Most Powerful Party Became – Old dude adventurer just getting his start, the trope of he doesn’t think he’s great, but he really is.

17 Monthly Girls Nozaki-Kun – What it’s like to create a manga and all the work that goes into it in a cute romance done in vignettes.

18 My Senpai is Annoying – My boss is annoying, but maybe he’s kind of sweet too, fun comedy romance.

19 Space Dandy – He’s a dandy guy, in space, and his adventures are absurd but so much fun.

20 Steins;Gate – An amazing and heart felt time travel story that does a great job with the time travel and the emotion in the story.

21 through 30

21 Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
22 The Gorilla God’s Go-To Gal
23 Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
24 Saiki K
25 Horimiya
26 Mashle
27 Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
28 Spy X Family
29 The Shiunji Family Children
30 The Water Magician

31 through 40

31 Komi Can’t Communicate
32 New Saga
33 Delicious in Dungeon
34 Food Wars
35 Ghost Hunt
36 I May Be A Guild Receptionist, But I’ll Solo Any Boss To Clock Out on Time
37 I Left My A-Rank Party to Help my Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths
38 Yamada-Kun and the Seven Witches
39 Tsukimichi
40 My Love Story with Yamada-Kun Lv 999

41 through 50

41 My Roommate is a Cat
42 Witch Watch
43 More Than A Married Couple But Not lovers
44 Summer Time Rendering
45 Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies move to a Starter Town?
46 Dagashi Kashi
47 Our Last Crusade
48 Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low Level Spells
49 The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World
50 Beast Tamer

51 through 60

51 Bofuri
52 Cowboy Bebop
53 Fruits Basket
54 Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
55 Lord of Mysteries
56 Cultural Exchange with a Game Center Girl
57 Once Upon a Witches Death
58 Little Witch Academia
59 Toradora
60 Is it Wrong to Try and Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

61 through 70

61 Let’s Play
62 Restaurant to Another World
63 My Hero Academia
64 Fire Force
65 Edens Zero
66 Bleach
67 Gurran Lagann
68 Rascal Does Not Dream
69 The Devil is a Part-Timer
70 The New Gate

71 through 80

71 After School Dice Club
72 Time Travel Girl
73 Ultraman
74 Soul Eater
75 Kill la Kill
76 The Dreaming Boy is a Realist
77 Berserk
78 The Brilliant Healers New Life in the Shadows
79 Rent-a-Girlfriend
80 Masumune-Kun’s Revenge

81 through 90

81 Don’t Toy with Me Miss Nagatoro
82 Dr. Stone
83 My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds The Heroes
84 The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest
85 Bogus Skill <> – About That Time I Became Able to Eat Unlimited Numbers of Skill Fruits that Kill You
86 Full Metal Panic
87 Shy
88 Jujutsu Kaisen
89 Tokyo Revengers
90 Demon Slayer

91 through 100

91 Management of a Novice Alchemist
92 Ancient Magus Bride
93 Love After World Domination
94 I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World
95 A Couple of Cuckoos
96 Rising of the Shield Hero
97 Isekai Cheat Magician
98 Secrets of the Silent Witch
99 My Next Life as a Villainess All Routes Lead to Doom
100 Inuyasha

101 through 152

101 Blood Blockade Battlefront
102 Fairygone
103 The Unaware Atelier Meister
104 The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made
105 Fairy Tail
106 Akame Ga Kill
107 Magmell
108 The 100  Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Love You
109 Konosuba
110 Tokyo ESP

111 Laid Back Camp
112 Neon Genesis Evangelion
113 Code Geass: Lelouch Rebellion
114 Reborn as a Vending Machine
115 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
116 My Darling in the Franxx
117 A Certain Magical Index
118 Kakuriyo – Bed & Breakfast for Spirits
119 How Not To Summon A Demon Lord
120 K-On

121 The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a Typical Nobody
122 Death March To The Parallel World Rhapsody
123 Gamers
124 In Another World with my Smart Phone
125 Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
126 The Detective is Already Dead
127 I Was Reincarnated as the 7 th Prince so I Can My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability
128 D. Gray-Man
129 Cells at Work
130 Sky Wizard Academy

131 Pokemon
132 Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?
133 Blue Exorcist
134 Cautious Hero
135 Overlord
136 Love Tyrant
137 Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
138 Eureka Seven
139 The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation out of Debt
140 Cardcaptor Sakura

141 Is This a Zombie?
142 The Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest
143 Raven of the Inner Palace
144 Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles
145 Aria the Scarlet Ammo
146 Am I Actually the Strongest
147 Magi: Adventure of Sinbad
148 Gun Gale Online
149 No Game No Life
150 The Silver Guardian

151 Domestic Girlfriend
152 The Wiseman’s Grandchild

Missing: Chained Soldier and Wandance

Final Thoughts

This is a long list and for the most part, I like these anime quite well. It’s interesting, to me, looking at my list, that a lot of them higher up have pretty strong romance elements to them. I do enjoy a good romance and the storytelling in a good, more serious than comedy, anime romance can be done quite well.

Also looking at the list, and in particular at the top 8 or so, they are all neck and neck. I think in the Top 5, all could easily be #1. And any of those Top 8 could fall into that Top 3 depending on what I’ve watched the most recently or what mood I’m in. Dan Da Dan is one that just really has grabbed me since I started reading the manga and the anime adaptation is just as good.

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Anime I Watched in 2025 Ranked

1. The Apothecary Diaries

This is an easy one to top off the list. The show is just great and I can’t wait for more of it come out. The blend of mystery with the aesthetic stands out among a lot of shows. And the character development and growth as the romance slowly burns is amazing as well. I’m tempted to watch it again because it’s that good. And I’ve read the manga, even though I’ve watched the anime, but The Apothecary Diaries stands out.

2. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Now, this is one that was obviously out before last year. But I didn’t get around to watching it until the start of last year and it’s wonderful. The story stands out as something different. Yes, there is this element of fantasy and adventure, but seeing Frieren as the world and those she cares about pass her by as she’s an elf and they are not is interesting. And the revisiting of parts of her past are great as well. It tells this complete story that feels unique.

3. From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman

You’re out in the countryside living a nice normal life. You run a school that teaches swordsmanship, but overall, it’s a simple life. Turns out you are a master swordsman and you need to heed the call to come and train those at the royal city and take part in that life. That’s the plot, it’s a bit dumb, but I like the I’m really overpowered characters, especially when they are an older man who really just wants to live a simple life. It’s tropes, but with a twist.

4. Dealing with Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze

There are a number of romance anime on the list and Dealing with Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze is my favorite. This one follows a boy who is the son of a famous actor. She passes away and a connection, the Mikadono Sisters’ father, gives him a spot in their house. Of course, they are all elites in their own area, and they expect him to be the same. But he’s not great at anything, he just looks pretty. So how can help help the Mikadono Sisters be sisters and join into their family?

5. To Be Hero X

I wasn’t sure about this one at the start, mainly because watching the trailer it looked interesting, but didn’t blow me away. To Be Hero X is a story of a world where superheroes are a thing. And the more people trust you the more powerful you can become. It’s a cool concept, and creates a lot of interesting situations of people gaining and losing powers. The aesthetic is something else with 3D animation and 2D as well blended together depending on the story. Highly recommend this one for that superhero storyline.

6. The Ossan Newbie Adventures Trained To Death By The Most Powerful Party Became

I’m tempted to say this one should be higher. But it’s also in the Top 10 of 59 different anime, so that’s a good thing. Another older protagonist, and this one who has been trained by the most powerful party and he’s now an old adventurer. But because he was trained by insanely powerful people, he himself is overpowered compared to everyone else. It’s that different perspective of the older character that works well in this one.

7. Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

I think this is the first Isekai on the list. It won’t be the last. But this one is more of a slice of life Isekai where the main character ends up in another world but still has access to an online shop. So he gains familiars and generally goes on standard fantasy adventures. Again, it’s the overpowered character, and one who just wants to explore and enjoy his life, not become some great hero. Also, a lot of the food looks really tasty, anyone know where to get some orc meat?

8. Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie

Another romance here, and this one has a bumbling main character. No, it’s not Shikimori. She is, in fact, awesome at basically everything she does. Her boyfriend is a bumbling disaster magnet. It’s a really cute romance with characters who just love each other no matter what. And both of them are worried about losing the other, Shikimori if she doesn’t act girly enough, and Izumi because he’s a walking disaster magnet.

9. Witch Watch

We go from a bumbling male protagonist and now we flip it kind of back around. A strong ogre is set to be the familiar of his childhood friend, the witch. Of course, he’s very serious about everything and she’s a ditz and doesn’t really have great control on her abilities. This is a harem anime, but instead of him collecting girls, she’s collecting a lot of different supernatural creatures around her. There are slice of life episodes and then more serious storylines that happen, but as a whole, a fun and funny show.

10. The Gorilla God’s Go-To Gal

This one has an interesting premise, one that I actually think is cool and could have a fun RPG built around it. When you reach a certain age you draw a card and that card determines what animal deity’s powers you get. The main character gets a very rare one, but not one that is going to make her standout in a way that she wants. That story element is a lot of fun, and the main characters just have good chemistry through some of the plotlines are a bit standard.

11. Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister

Another romance anime, this one about a boy who wants to get into medical school, that is his goal. But he’s given the opportunity, one that he doesn’t want, to live at a shrine where three shrine maiden, the Amagami Sisters (not related to each other) live. The interesting thing about this one besides the romance, is the idea of this red string that can cause events to get replayed. It allows for him to grow closer to all of the characters and creates interesting moments as they try and break the loops.

12. The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World

I originally read this manga and I had a bunch of fun with it. This is another overpowered main character. He’s the iceblade sorcerer, one of the great sorcerers, but he just wants to go to school and lead a normal life. So he is trying to hide that fact from everyone. But things keep on coming up that make him need to show off his overpowered skills, even as much as he tries to hold back. It’s a good story about trying to lead a normal life when you don’t feel normal.

13. The Water Magician

This anime came out this year, and after the first episode I was hooked. Another isekai, but you go to another world you want to lead a pretty normal life. Turns out that your abilities as a water magician are not normal. But you don’t know that because you honed them out in the boonies before you realized you probably needed to find people and live a more normal life. It feels like it should then turn into a harem anime, but it doesn’t, there is a romance but it just works really well.

14. I Left My A-Rank Party to Help my Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths

What do you do when things in the great A-Rank adventuring party aren’t actually great. They really don’t want you there. so you leave and then you join up with your former students to help them. It’s a fun anime, again a pretty overpowered main character and a typical fantasy world. But there are fun elements like the fact that they can live stream their dungeon crawl adventures and gain popularity. Like The Water Magician, just a fun anime.

15. Lord of Mysteries

I think this could go higher on my list. Mainly because I haven’t finished up the first season. But this is a highly complex mystery series about someone who transports into another world. There he can level up his abilities, but of course, there is a risk that you turn into a monster. Aesthetically this is a stunning show. And the story has so many layers that you kind of need to keep watching it again and again to fully understand everything that is being set-up.

16. Once Upon a Witches Death

Another one I feel could be higher, but it’s here because I watched a lot of great anime this year. Once Upon a Witches Death follows a forty-year-old horny man… wait, that’s not right, it’s a teenage witch who often acts like a forty-year-old horny man who finds out that she is going to die. There is a chance to save herself, so that’s her mission, at the start. She’s not good at staying on task, that lecherous old soul, but she has a lot of meaningful growth in the series. So two thirds fun and one third serious, the series shines.

17. I May Be A Guild Receptionist, But I’ll Solo Any Boss To Clock Out on Time

The title says it all. All the main character wants to do is live a normal life. In fact, it should be a pretty easy life as the receptionist for the adventurers guild. Of course it’s not though because the adventurers are so bad at taking down the dungeon bosses that it’s creating a pile of paperwork for her and that means overtime. Is she able to balance her life and her powers to deal with these monsters and get to the point where she doesn’t have any OT.

18. New Saga

This is a trope that I love. You know what it is going to happen at the end because you’ve been there. You know you lose, and now the question is, how do you keep that from happening? Plus, the stakes can’t just be you lose, it has to be that everyone loses to make it even grander. I love that story trope and with some fun characters and interesting developments in trying to change the world it’s a very good series.

19. Delicious in Dungeon

Another one I want to be higher. I’m going to keep on saying it, a lot of these I love. Delicious in Dungeon is a dungeon diving anime where they need to get down there, figure out what is happening with the dungeon and try and get a party member back. Of course no time to gather any food so you need to make a meal from what the dungeon is giving you. It’s silly and series and sometimes a bit gross but overall a really good anime.

20. The Shiunji Family Children

You grew up with your whole life thinking you had siblings. The fact that you look nothing alike wasn’t a giveaway apparently. Then when the youngest becomes a teenager your dad surprises you with the story that you are all adopted. The oldest is now the heir to the family’s fortune and everyone will be well set-up, but could you fall in love with the person you thought was your sibling? Apparently in this anime the answer is yes. It sounds dumb, and it is a dumb premise, but the writing makes it work.

21. Summer Time Rendering

There aren’t enough horror anime out there. Summer Time Rendering is a great one for that. You get stuck in a time loop but whenever you die you get closer to the point in time where you died, so the loops get shorter and shorter. Can you unravel the mystery that is happening on the island and maybe understand why you are the person who is looping. So good and creepy and a really good mystery.

22. Yamada-Kun and the Seven Witches

Firstly, I want to commend this anime for being one season, telling a complete story, and then it’s done. Yamada-Kun has the power to steal the power of witches, or at least swap with them. He’s a high school student who finds it out by accident. There are always seven witches at the school and now it’s a mystery as to why. Of course, it’s not going to be easy to find them all and not everyone is using them for good. So how is this mystery going to end?

23. Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low Level Spells

Long name and fun anime and manga. This is one that I’ve read as well as watched. The deity who summoned the main character to this world sees that he didn’t get any good powers. So like she does with all of them who don’t get good powers, she dumps them into a dungeon and they can die there. Turns out that his basic powers can level up and soon he’s extremely powerful and kind of on a revenge tour, though that is generally more of a background plot part.

24. Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl

Another romance one and this one is a bit awkward. That is mainly because there is an age gap between the two main characters. It all revolves around a kid who works at a Game Centre. When a foreign student comes in her befriends her not realizing their age difference. And they kind of fall for each other. Once they realize, it becomes a waiting game and trying not let others know. It’s a goofy romance show, but one that I enjoyed.

25. My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds The Heroes

You want the plot or at least some of it, you got it. But the assassin is in an interesting spot. He is the most powerful, and the summoning to this world isn’t on the up and up. He starts out wanting to go home, but is that going to work and what about the characters he meets along the way in the world, can he leave them? Also, does he care enough to help his classmates get home?

26. Let’s Play

Based off of a web comic, this one might move higher as more comes out. Though it’s getting close to being done for this season, I think. It’s about a shy girl who creates a video game and the people in her life. The story is a solid romance where she has a bit of group of boys who like her. And it does a good job dealing with some heavier things that the characters are dealing with. The one thing that does disappoint me a bit about it is that the animation is not as good as it could have been.

We’re going to start going through them faster now.

27. Masumune-Kun’s Revenge

Masumune is rejected when he’s young so his plan is the get in shape become awesome and then break the girls heart back.

28. The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest

Following in the footsteps of his mentor the main character wants to become the strongest and a court magician. But when he skills aren’t used as they should be he’s kicked out of the party and is now on his way to being the strongest with his old party.

29. The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made

Imagine you could eat a fruit and get super abilities. That’s what happens to the main character who is dumped into a fantasy world. It’s pretty fun but doesn’t blow me away.

30. Dr. Stone

The world is petrified and Dr. Stone, a highschooler, is the first to awaken. How can he rebuild the world with science and who should he awaken?

31. Shy

Shy has superpowers but she is also really shy. How can she overcome or work around her shyness to be the hero she wants to be?

32. The New Gate

I’ve read this one, but trapped in a death game the main character beats the final boss and everyone logs out except him. He gets a gate into a new world, but really the world he’s been in in the future. What is his new adventure.

33. Rascal Does Not Dream

A surprisingly good show with romance and characters who struggle with puberty syndrome, this being something that makes people forget them and the struggles of why it happening.

34. The Brilliant Healers New Life in the Shadows

Overpowered main character, check. Kicked out of his party, check. Now he’s setup shop in the slums and just wants to help people like he couldn’t before.

35. Bogus Skill Fruit Master – About That Time I Became Able to Eat Unlimited Numbers of Skill Fruits that Kill You

He wanted to be the hero, too bad, he only got the skill fruit master from the fruit of mastery. And you know if you eat two, you die. Turns out, maybe not the case for him.

36. More Than A Married Couple But Not Lovers

Let’s go to an absurd world where high school students are asked to live together to learn how to be couples. But the main character doesn’t end up with who he wants to and someone who actively bugs him. How can they make it work? It’s actually pretty cute considering the absurd premise.

37. Secrets of the Silent Witch

The witch is really shy but extremely powerful. In a world where you can’t normally cast spells without speaking she can. But then she gets an assignment that puts this shy character into a school setting to protect a prince.

38. Management of a Novice Alchemist

She’s an alchemist who is learning. And now she has her first shop set-up out in the boonies. How is she going to help the people out there?

39. Isekai Cheat Magician

Isekai, check. Massive powers, check. Still a lot of fun, yeah. Doesn’t stand out, but you get the picture.

40. My Next Life as a Villainess All Routes Lead to Doom

Isekai, yes. No massive powers because the main character is reincarnated into a video game as the villainess and her main goal is to avoid all the bad endings her character gets in the otome game.

41. Love After World Domination

What happens if the two main powers from rival factions fall in love? Can they keep it hidden? This is an absurd but fun story.

42. The Unaware Atelier Meister

Kid is super powerful, don’t convince him of that, instead let him just use those powers to help others.

43. Kakuriyo – Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

You can see spirits and when your grandfather passes away you inherit his debt in the spriti realm. It’s an interesting story but doesn’t quite make it.

44. In Another World with my Smart Phone

Could and maybe should be lower, but isekai but with your smart phone.

45. The Dreaming Boy is a Realist

Should be higher, the main character has a love of his life. He professes it every single day and gets shot down. So one day he stops and just wants to help his love live a happy life, but does she happen to actually have feelings for him.

46. Cardcaptor Sakura

Kids show about a girl who has to capture cards that escaped her basement and only she has the power. Silly fun.

47. How Not To Summon A Demon Lord

Video game characters summon and try and bind a player character bringing him into the game. But the spell bounces back on them and now they are bound to him. Kind of like In Another World with my Smart Phone, doesn’t stand out.

48. Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?

Students keep on finding themselves in compromising situations with teachers. It’s a comedy and not that great.

49. I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Not an isekai, the character is just brought back to his same world. The main character is a bit annoying, his sidekick is more annoying, and the story doesn’t stand out.

50. Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles

Reincarnated in another world and into someone who wants revenge. It feels like many isekai before.

51. Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero

You can get pulled into another world, get powers and return. It’s honestly very forgettable for having a different premise.

52. The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a Typical Nobody

Maybe should be higher, but the Great Demon Lord is reborn in the future, a last ditch effort to save himself. Now he’s a new person, or is he, in a new body.

53. Reborn as a Vending Machine

Isekai, check. But this time it’s as a vending machine that can level up. It’s probably too low because it is something different, but also mainly is just okay and fun most of the time. I think it’s that the novelty wears off.

54. Death March To The Parallel World Rhapsody

Isekai, check. But this time into a game that the person created, or something close to that. Doesn’t feel that interesting.

55. Love Tyrant

Your name is put in the Kiss Note (not Death Not) you need to kiss someone or you’ll die and then you fall in love. It’s an okay comedy, romance, harem anime.

56. The Silver Guardian

You’re in love and also in a video game. This anime is just a mess as it’s about a video game that’s going to be shut down and needing protect the person you love. Sounds simple enough, but the anime doesn’t do anything that well.

57. Domestic Girlfriend

You love your teacher, you bang her sister (unknown to you) and then they become your step siblings. It’s erotic and romantic and generally garbage. I’m glad they made a season of it because the actual ending sounds worth than the one season was.

58. Raven of the Inner Palace

This should be higher, but it’s this low because it’s the if you watched The Apothecary Diaries watch this. This, however, has none of the heart, little of the mystery and animation that is flat and lifeless. It’s probably better than some, like I said, but the gap is so huge and it feels like a disappointing anime more than the others.

Final Thoughts

Great year for watching anime for me. And I should say, this is not all I watches. I watched Sangri-La Frontier again. And then there were season two of My Dress-up Darling, Kaiju #8, and Dan Da Dan. Plus I rewatched some anime as well like Solo Leveling and Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki. And of course I’m watching My Hero Academia now. It’s one that I’ve watched before, but with the final season out now, it’s time to watch the whole thing.

What’s your standout anime that you watched this year?

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Top 10 Anticipated Board Games in 2026

The Games aren’t listed in any order. And I’ll call this out, but a lot of these are crowdfunding games, but ones supposed to be coming in 2026 in terms of delivery and ones that I didn’t back.

10. Forsaken

So the first game on the list is a crowdfunding game, but it’s okay to be on here because it’s not crowdfunding in 2026 and it’s not one that I backed. But it is one that I was tempted to back. This is a sci-fi/western sandbox style game. And all of those elements are things that sound interesting to me. It is a long time coming, so I hope that the game is still good and hasn’t been overworked or changed too much from the crowdfunding plan originally. If it hasn’t been, then I think with that theme it sounds like a lot of fun.

9. Sail Legacy

This is another crowdfunding game, but again another one I didn’t back. I love legacy games, so it is surprising that I didn’t back it. But I wanted to play some Sail first to see if I even liked the game. And I really like Sail as a two player trick taking game. You are always trying to complete missions and challenges and they get harder as you go.

I think there is some interesting room in the game to make it a legacy game. In particular, how the board might change as you sail could be one way or introducing new monsters. Also, the pirates that you have access to, there is room to let players tweak the powers, or maybe to have one of the pirates die.

8. Restart

Travel back in time to save the future is the tagline and I like that sort of story. Time travel is always interesting, though, games often struggle making it work. I think that T.I.M.E. Stories does some interesting things with it, but I want to see how other designers can make it work. I believe, though, that this is a crowdfunding game from 2025, so I don’t actually expect this one to come out in 2026 just with how crowdfunding board games are generally delayed.

7. Winnie the Pooh: Serious Detective

Just a reminder that Winnie the Pooh and other works, like Alice in Wonderland are public domain now. So while there hasn’t been an influx of board games around that theme, people are having fun with it. This is a cooperative deduction game with some fantastical settings. So three things that I really enjoy. Can you figure out what is happening in the different narrative driven cases that might be in the Hundred Acre Wood, Wonderland, or the court of Camelot?

6. Hanami

The cover of the game just draws me in. And it’s about having a picnic under the full bloom of the sakura blossoms. That sounds just nice and relaxing. The game mainly sounds like a set collection game, so I’m guessing you are gaining tiles, and placing them in ways to score points. That is a pretty common thing for games, but one that I find that I really enjoy. Especially if you can make it really pretty to look at. And Hanami definitely seems like it is going to be doing that.

5. StarDriven: Gateway

The game on the list that I’ve played. This is a competitive game of space exploration, fighting aliens and other players all while managing your crew. That crew management aspect is the part of the game that really shines for me. I love figuring out where to place the crew to take stronger actions and really optimize what I’m trying to do in the game. I believe that there is a solo mode as well for the game, which I only played at four players, so that is also tempting about the game.

4. Zombie Princess

This is the follow-up to Rebel Princess. Apparently things didn’t go well and now the princesses are zombies. Honestly, with the lore I created, it sounds like Pride, Prejudice and Zombies if you combine the two games. But this is going to be Spades. But we already know what to expect. I am expecting special powers and whacky twists on rules like we got in Rebel Princess. If that is the case, it’ll be time for me to learn how to play Spades.

3. Bagged & Boarded

The term bagged and boarded probably isn’t one that people are familiar with, but it is one that I know really well. It’s what you do when you get comics. Well, generally first I read them and then I bag and board them. This allows you to store them well because otherwise comics just become piles and like to slip all over the place.

But that’s just the theme of the game. You are kids who are trying to get the most valuable comic collection. This is really going to be a stock type of game where you are trying to buy and sell comics at the right time to build up your collection. And while normally stock market games don’t interest me that much, this game sounds like a ton of fun because of the theme that I love.

2. Viking Route

I’m pretty sure this has been on my list previously. I’m not sure if it was a crowdfunding one or something like that. Or if it is one that has been on my board games anticipated list before. But the reason for my interest in this one, the answer is magnets. You are sailing your Viking ship around and you are using magnets to control the ship. Now it’s not like a proximity thing, it’s more like a how you can affect a compass as you need to navigate through the treacherous seas.

1. Cozy Cat Cafe

I’m not sure how I missed this game on crowdfunding original. It seems like the type of game that I would enjoy and my wife would enjoy at least from the theme perspective. The game is about building up your best cat cafe and the artwork on it is great. You need to place the elements of your cafe to get customers in which are going to give you money and points that let you win the game. It seems like a pretty simple game, but one because of the them I hope has that cozy feel that the name says.

Bonus Expansions

5. Even Deeper Regrets

Mainly I’m interested in this one because it looks like a little expansion. I need to play Deep Regrets sometimes to make myself more interested in this. I really do love the theme of deep sea fishing and then horrible beasties down there that you need to contend with.

4. Galactic Cruise: Achievements

I have played Galactic Cruise once on BGA. That was enough to tell me two things. Firstly, that it’s a tough game to learn on BGA. There is a lot going on with it. Also that even with that tough time learning it and optimizing my playing, I really enjoyed it. From what I can tell Galactic Cruise: Achievements is going to add that, achievements to the game. But it doesn’t look like a massive expansion that is going to make an already complex game even more complex.

3. Andromeda’s Edge: Genesis Expansion

This is for another game that I own and I need to play. Andromeda’s Edge is the space version of Dwellings of Eldervale which I’ve played and I like. So if I get Andromeda’s Edge played and I like that better, I’m interested in an expansion for the game.

2. Slay the Spire: The Board Game – Downfall

This one is tricky to put on the list. I hope that it comes out next year, but I believe it is crowdfunding next year. This is going to give you four new characters to play, more bosses, and more rewards. I already love the base game, see my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 edition to see how much. So giving me more, I am going to be very happy about that.

1. Tag Team Expansion

It isn’t up on BGG yet, but I am very excited for this expansion. I love Tag Team, it’s one of the games I’m playing a ton of board game arena, but it’s also one that I’ve had a lot of fun with in person as well. The game is simple, you just take two characters into battle and the auto battle. Your big decision is where you add in a new card to the deck. And that seems really simple, but the characters are all so different and the out thinking your opponent is great.

Final Thoughts

Like I said, the list is hard to make without it being mainly Kickstarter and Gamefound board games that are hoping to be delivered in 2026. The games that are going to make my Top 10 of 2026 at the end of next year, those are going to be different games. But it’s fun to look at BGG and determine what games might make the list. And let’s also be fair, I don’t make it through all the games listed for 2026 because that is 18 pages of games and expansions. So maybe I’ll do a next 10 list sometime as well.

Is there a game that you are excited for that is coming out in 2026, let me know that.

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Top 20 Crowdfunding Projects for 2026

There’s no order to these, mainly because some of them I just don’t know enough to put an order to them. And it’s really about letting you know what is coming.

Grassfed

This is a farming deck building game. If that sounds both unique and not unique, I think that it’s right. Deck building is a really common mechanism in a board game. But farming, that it’s all that common, it might be part of a game but this game is all about farming. So I want to know how that’s even going to work in a deck building game.

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Catacombs

There are games called Catacombs out there, but none of them have cats as the heroes and the villains of the game. This is a cooperative adventure game where you as cats are exploring and having to deal with the villains out there. It sounds silly, but it’s on my radar because the artwork is not silly and it is cats, which again is silly.

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Labyrinth Chronicles

Labyrinth is a board game that I haven’t played. But when Labyrinth Chronicles was announced it was more interesting to me. Mainly because it seems to give a bity of story to the game. And if it still keeps it as a simpler game, it’s one that I could see playing with my kid often now because of the complexity level of the original game. I just want it to be something that can keep myself engaged as well. Of course, by the time it comes out actually, he’ll be a little bit older, which might be better.

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The Void Unveiled: Echoes of Arkham

I love Lovecraftian themes. Mainly because with Arkham Horror and the games that Fantasy Flight has put out, they tend to be mystery games as much as horror games. This one is going to be a cooperative story-driven Lovecraftian game. Both of those things I really love. I hope that it is replayable, but even if not, sounds like you play through a few chapters of it with a lot of narrative in it, so it won’t be a one off or limited shelf.

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Terraforming Mars: The Legacy of Mars

How do you turn Terraforming Mars into a legacy game? I’m not 100% sure on that, because I don’t think that you can terraform it all each game, that doesn’t make thematic sense. But if they can create a clever way to do it, it’s going to be great. Ways that Mars can be built up over time, ways to improve projects or improve the funding you get from your corporation. And I love a legacy game, so this one is very interesting to me, also interesting that it’s a part 1 though that’s less good.

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Gothic – A Shadow’s Quest

This is an RPG esque board game, so I definitely have a type of game that I’m most apt to put on the list. This one was one that stood out to me on one of the Gamefound Feasts for upcoming crowdfunding projects. In particular, I think that it’s an already established world, the Gothic games are video games, so I am curious to see how it’ll get translated over to a board game.

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Jurassic Crisis

Like every good child at heart, I also like dinosaurs. This game is interesting to me because it’s a one off game, first of all, but it’s a PvPvE game. So they describe it as semi-cooperative. I take it to mean in this game that you all need to deal with the events (or the game) because the game can win. But at the end of the game if it doesn’t win, there is only one winner. My big concern about this one is when you look at the component picture there is so much stuff.

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Towers of Yoma

The game calls itself a maze tower defense game. And one of the first kind of app or flash game that I really enjoyed was tower defense, Monkey Bloons. This one is going to give you that tower defense, I think also creating pathways for the enemies to go to optimize how that works. And then you are also doing deck building as well as a mechanism for the game. It feels like the type of game that I’d enjoy and while I’ve found some tower defense board games to just be okay, I hope this one offers interesting and robust play.

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SHANGHAI The Nevernight City

Detective/mystery games always interest me. If you watched my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition, you know that Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game is way up there for me. This game, I hope, is going to offer really deep and interesting mysteries like that one did. It might mean that it’s a bit less replayable but that’s okay if it offers an amazing experience. And the aesthetics of the game look on point.

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Demon Castle Mononoke

The theme of this game is what interests me right off the bat. I think that the cover is okay, but this is a survival game set in Japan where the yokai and spirits are real and you need to survive in this castle. I hope that it’s an interesting game, as it looks like one that is going to be smaller and maybe simpler. I find that survival is a good theme for games or good mechanism in some ways because the impending dread of losing or dying works well to creation tension.

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The Malice of Light Adventures

There are a few things that interest me about this game. It’s a roguelike boss-battler, so that is interesting. It’s from the Saddler brothers who have made some very solid games, and some slightly overdone games. And it’s based on a book series of which I have the first that I need to read which is written by one of the Saddler brothers. So I hope that this is a good game because the theme interests me and I like a good roguelike game.

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The Horror Possession

I doubt most people remember Clue the VRC Game. It’s not a great game and you needed a VCR to play it, it was the thing before DVD’s the thing before Blu-Rays the thing before everything being digital, for those who don’t know. That concept is intriguing as you try and and save someone from demonic possession. So, is this going to be a good game or is it going to be a bad game and a bad movie, who knows. But it feels like something a bit old school while trying to do something new and different.

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Shattered Divinity: The 7 Fragments

I don’t know a ton about this one, but it’s a JRPG anime themed board game. And that is interesting because as popular as anime is, there aren’t a ton of board games that use that style of theming successfully. Information is limited on how the game is going to work, but sounds like they are going for a short campaign, which is nice for the game as well.

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Jisogi: Anime Studio Tycoon

This is a reprint of a game that already had a crowdfunding campaign. But I totally missed it first time that it was out. This is a game all about building up your anime franchise. And it looks like you’re building everything from plot, following the trends, and adding unique characters into your anime so that you can run the most successful studio. And the artwork looks great for the game as well which is fun and really sells the game.

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Final Girl Series 4

I don’t need more Final Girl. I’m actually pretty unlikely to back this one, but I wanted to call it out. Final Girl is back with another series. That means more final girls, more monsters and more combinations to play with. If you like the game, it’s a chance to grab even more scenarios to play through. And the game is great, I like the hand management, I like the time management, and I like how it nails the best and most B horror movie tropes.

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Flame & Forge

This seems like a lighter game than some on the list. But it’s going to be one that has a bunch of things in it. You need to play workers, gain games, and slay the dragon to save the throne. This seems to include deck building as well which is something I like. And with a modular board, it’s going to set-up different scenarios and challenges for you to play through. The artwork is pretty app-like, which is so so for me, but hopefully it aligns with a lighter fun and funny game.

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A Dragon’s Gift

This I believe is a little solo Button Shy game from Scott Almes. And I think that a lot of his little designs are good. Not all of them are great and make me lover the game, but I enjoy a lot of theme. This one immediately caught my eye because of the artwork. But it’s also a solo only game and it’s about collecting goods and getting them together as a gift for a cute and grumpy looking dragon. So the them sounds interesting, though I’m sure it’ll mainly be the cute artwork and mechanisms.

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Mythwind: Herbalist and Shepherd Expansions

This is more for a game that I already enjoy. And I think that it’s fun that they can continue to build on this game by just adding more characters you can play. The cozy story of the game already works. So to add in more characters with their own puzzles is a smart way to do it. Mainly because it’s plug and play and doesn’t add that bulk of getting more to the table. Yes, there is more, but you still only have the main board and cards plus your character. And two fun sounding characters.

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Here to Slay Dungeons

Here to Slay is a cute little card game, but Dungeons is going to give you that same cute package and put it into a dungeon crawler experience. I’m not sure that this is going to be a game for me, but I want to learn more about it. I think for a lot of people it might be a nice and easy entry point into something like a dungeon crawler without it feeling too expansive or too generic fantasy because of the artwork.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl: Unstoppable

Firstly, I just bought and I need to read the first Dungeon Crawler Carl book. I’ve heard mixed things on it, though no one with a mixed opinion on it. Either people like it for they don’t. But it’s a solo or two player deck building game based off of a system that already exists. And it’s a world that already exists as well, so I think that it’s going to be an interesting game and interesting theme for a game. My opinion might change once I’ve read the book, but either way, I’m interesting.

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Final Thoughts

It’s always so hard to know with crowdfunding games this early what is going to be interesting and what isn’t. You can see how I wrote up about different things how little information there is at times. But all of these games on Gamefound, Backerkit, and Kickstarter have something that interests me about them.

I think the closest for a must back for me from all these crowdfunding games is going to be the Terraforming Mars Legacy. I enjoy Terraforming Mars and Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition. So I want to know how they plan on making it a legacy game. The thing that worries me about it is that it’s the first four chapters, so is it going to feel incomplete as a game, most likely yes, and is that just FOMO to get me to get the next one, also likely yes.

Is there a crowdfunding game coming in 2026 that you’re most excited for? I’m sure I probably don’t even know the one that I’ll look back at, at the end of the 2026, and have been the most excited about.

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The other way, and this will happen at the end of the year, so soon, or start of next year, are the crowdfunding campaigns that I’m looking forward to in 2026. Generally I put together a Kickstarter list and a Gamefound list for that. So look for those coming up, if that’s what you hoped this was.

Top 10 Anticipated Crowdfunding Games – Delivering in 2026?

The order on this is pretty loose. I think that there are probably some higher on the list that I anticipate less than lower, but I’m excited for all of these.

10. Werewolf: The Apocalypse: RETALIATION

Let’s kick it off with a big old campaign game. This is set in the World of Darkness/Vampire the Masquerade setting. Just on the werewolf side of things. This one definitely had some cool elements that I remember when they were crowdfunding it. Mainly the different forms that your characters can take, wolf form, hybrid, or human form. And I think that element is going to be fun to play around with.

Plus, I’ve liked Vampire: The Masquerade -CHAPTERS that they’ve come out with. Yes, this is going to be a different game. And I like that it’s not just a reskin of something they already did. But with the work and detail they put into that game, I think they can do the same with werewolves which I generally prefer to vampires.

9. FLOE

FLOE is a different type of game on the list. This is an action selection/worker placement game. So, no, everything is not just massive campaign games. This one I was drawn to because of the great artwork on the game and, I’d say, almost a Lost Ruins of Arnak feel of mixing exploration into a game that is about optimizing your strategy. I really enjoy that feeling in a game and FLOE looks like a fun one for that.

Now, they have reworked a bunch of it. This is always a concern with crowdfunding games. It’s possible that the game is still pretty early on in design, and even though they had prototypes, seems like issues were found. So, I hope that it’s still a game that is going to give me what it promised.

8. RoboMon

RoboMon could echo the last paragraph about FLOE. This is basically robot Pokemon. And that sounded fun to me. Give me that tabletop solo (and I think maybe cooperative) version of a game where I’m out collecting different creatures. Now, I also own Dragon Eclipse that does this as well. But RoboMon promised that in a smaller box.

I hope that the changes, and they seem to be relatively extensive, are good for the game. But I’m glad that it isn’t a giant minis game that had a massive overhaul or something like that. I think that gives me more hope that the game is going to have a similar feel to what I backed. And I think that it should based off of what I’ve heard as it did keep the theme.

7. Enormity

Now back to another big campaign game. RoboMon is a campaign game too, just not a huge one. Enormity is going to be that big campaign game with a lot of plastic minis in it. But this one drew me in because it’s not just a campaign game but it’s one that’s set in space and has that horror element to it. I own so many fantasy campaign games, so when you give me something different I like that.

The last updates make it sound like it’s getting close to those final stages of playtesting and development where it’ll soon start getting proofs of things. With a big game like this, I don’t mind if there is a delay because I want you to get it right and give me the best game possible.

6. Camp Grizzly

Do you want to own Camp Grizzly now, you can do that for a large sum of money. Thankfully it got a reprint. This is game that was on my radar as a large chunk of money, but I certainly couldn’t justify it. Camp Grizzly is going to be a horror themed game where you play camp counselors who need to escape the serial killer. Got to love that classic trope of the 80’s horror films.

That theme is my sort of theme. And I hope that with the crowdfunding campaign and this coming back, they’ve taken the time to trim off the right rough edges and fat of the game. It’s a new company putting it out too. But I’m really excited for this horror game to show-up, I’d think maybe by the end of 2026.

5. Horror on the Orient Express

Another horror game and this one has been a bit since I backed it. I think I saw the prototype at GenCon in either 2023 or 2024, but I didn’t get a chance to demo it. You play on a train trying to find the cultists and deal with the Lovecraftian monsters that are attacking the train. The theme is fun, the game looks really cool, so there is just a lot to like about this one.

Plus I always enjoy a good cooperative experience. I hope that this one gives a unique flavor to what it doing and that the horror theme comes through. Lovecraftian settings are great for mysteries, the Arkham Games demonstrate that, but I also want to have enough horror in it.

4. Lands of Evershade

Awaken Realms games almost always make the list for ones that I want to back and ones that I anticipate. At least their big campaign games do. Lands of Evershade is a very ambitious big campaign game where it is meant to be mimic elements of an RPG setting. But instead of having that DM/GM running the game, instead have that narrative book. Then I assume that you get down to the table for tactical combat with minis like Awaken Realms always makes.

But this game just sounded right up my alley. I love a huge story and I want to explore a unique world. The world of Lands of Evershade definitely seems like that. And I think this sort of game is also ripe for expansions if I get through the how story so I can explore even more.

3. Witchbound

I think Witchbound has been on the list for a couple of years now. But I’m still so excited for it. And it and #2 I know are both coming soon. Now, Witchbound is going to be a bit slower, the creator had their shipping partner fall through and is doing it themselves. But let’s recap what Witchbound is.

Witchbound is a point and click adventure board game. You remember those games where you select something, combine another item with it and see what happens, that is this game. All of it is set in cool scenes and an interesting world. The different items you have the more story will unlock. Same with true with interactions, the more you have, the different things you unlock. I love how simple the game is to play and the story of a new witch in a land where there had been witches finding her power is great.

2. Stonesaga

Stonesaga I believe is on the boats or will be shortly. If I remember correctly, the hope is to start shipping by the very end of the year or very start beginning of next year. This one I have a special spot in my heart because I know the designer. But it’s also a very fun game. It’s a campaign game where it’s less about that story but more about a living world that you build and create.

You are stone age people who are building a society. You need to figure out how to do everything through different actions. And you take actions like mining, foraging, fishing and more. And then as you build things up, the world opens up more for you. So there is this survival element to it, but then story elements for the world itself. I want to dive into this game and see what there is to offer after the first few learning games.

1. Rogue Angels

Finally, and this one has been my number one for a few years, we have Rogue Angels. I love this game. I already know I love it because I have a prototype of it which I played on the Malts and Meeples YouTube, and you can see that first video below. Also, I played it with the designer several times on TableTop Simulator.

This is an epic space campaign game. You explore story, make decisions, fight bad guys, puzzle your way through scenarios where you really shouldn’t fit. It’s great with how it works. I like how the enemies activate. I like how there is cooldowns on cards that you play out for actions. Then the story, itself, is a lot of fun as well. And there is a lot of story written in a way that feels like video game dialog happening.

I’m going to be so excited when this one shows up. And I need to get a group ready to play it when it does. Of course, my main campaign group is the midst of Frosthaven, so it might be a minute, but I might spin up another group.

Final Thoughts

There are more crowdfunding games as well on the list. More Dice Throne characters, a new game, Song of Silverant from Red Raven games, and even more. I did skip a few where I think the odds of them coming out in 2026 are low. And I suspect that half of the list of crowdfunding games I created will only be delivered in 2026.

Is there a crowdfunding game that you are most excited to be getting in 2026?

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Top Games of 2025

29. Digit Code

This game wanted to be like Turing Machine where it was a puzzle and race to figure out a code. And it works on a digital clock style face. But it’s just kind of a dud for me, the game doesn’t feel that clever in what it does.

28. Gatsby

Gatsby I think is a game that more people are going to like. But for me, Gatsby is very much a miss. It was meant to be a tense two player experience and often times felt like that control in what you did was lacking.

27. Paper World

Paper World is a game that has some stuff going for it, it maybe should be higher. But it’s very simple, and not that unique of either collect all of a color or number and then creating piles and patterns. Again, felt like it was lacking.

26. TacTile

A very abstract game where you move pieces to try and get to your opponents side of things. The game just didn’t do anything for me in terms of interesting decisions.

25. Sir Ocelot’s Cave

This is one I was hoping I’d like. These animals who are delving into a cave to get treasures. And you play out different tokens to create overlapping spots to gain those treasures. But after two plays the game really felt the same, and the core loop of the game is not interesting.

24. Garden Rush

Garden Rush is another game that I gave a good shake to and realized there is one thing I don’t like about the game. The game is just too long. It is fun drafting tiles and putting them in rows and columns to make patterns and get points. But the game just goes on and on and does the same thing every time.

23. INK

INK is another one that does some interesting things. You create connections of colors and when you complete a large enough area to score, you get some bonuses. But in this game you can move as far around a loop as you want to pick a card, but the game then penalizes you for doing that too quickly. So it’s just a miss for me.

22. Verso

Verso is a set collection game, but one that doesn’t do that much in it’s set collection. It tries to be clever, but most of the time the move is obvious. It’s not a bad game as the push your luck aspect to it isn’t too bad, but overall it just didn’t keep my attention.

21. The Hanging Gardens

The Hanging Gardens is a fun little drafting game. You are creating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and to do that you draft cards from columns and try and get scoring combinations in how you place the cards. The game is pretty simple, which isn’t bad, but led to me not playing it often.

20 Viva Catrina

Viva Catrina is another drafting game where you are trying to complete areas to score points. As well as then get symbols that are going to score you points as well. The drafting mechanism is interesting as you have a two tall by ten or twelve wide grid. You draft from anything that has been revealed as you work your way in from either side. Cool idea, just not that exciting in execution to play.

19. Super

Super is a superhero grid and engine building game where you place your heroes to power them up in a grid. Then if you have enough you can go after missions and complete them for points, but it uses up the hero. I like it in concept, but a game where it’s about that grid building and you destroy the grid really fast.

18. Crafting the Cosmos

Now we are into games that I really enjoyed. Crafting the Cosmos is a game about gaining planets and getting resources to then score those planets. But it uses a really cool marble movement mechanism where the dice end up determines the action that you do. Each player has a marble of their color and shared use of the neutral colored marbles. So you move the neutral marbles and is going to change up what options your opponent has for moving the marbles around.

There are also special powers that you can get in the game which is going to drive the replayability of the game. Overall, I like this one a lot, but it’s down here at 18 because it’s one that I don’t feel the need to get.

17. Moonshine

Moonshine is another one of those games that I don’t feel the need to get, but I’ll keep playing it on Board Game Arena. It’s a simple engine building game where you get symbols on dice that are rolled to then get patrons into your speakeasy. They are going to give you symbols that might mean you can have more at the door, or you can see more when you pick them, or you can roll more dice on your turn. It’s simple, but it’s a lot of fun.

16. Pergola

Pergola is the first one that I’ve picked up for my collection. This is a fun action selection game where you are building up a garden. I like it in person and digitally, and I like how it’s a very free form game. By that I mean that you generally have areas to place the plants and bugs in your garden, but you can adjust as you go so you create your own tableau at the end.

But the game is really about the action selection system. You use these little trowels that have two actions you take. Generally gain a plant or gain a bug. But they are slotted over another action that you gain. As you remove a trowel, the rest shift down and you are creating new combos of actions. So there is a little bit of planning that you can in the game.

15. Toy Battle

Toy Battle is one of many two player games that I played this year. And it’s lower on the list, but it’s one that I want to buy. Toy Battle is kind of League of Legends style battler where you fight over lanes by playing out monsters. You can always defeat an opponents monster with something higher number wise. A lot of the monsters have powers as well, and that creates strategy in how can you push for a win in the game. Because you either want to make it to your opponents base, or secure enough victory points.

14. Pyramido: Forgotten Treasures

Another one that I own on the list, Pyramido is a great drafting game where you build up a pyramid and you gain treasures. One of the coolest parts of the game is that you score each time you finish a layer. So you draft a layer, score the gems in the groups that you can activate. Then you build up the next layer, but the games on the edges that you don’t cover up, those can be scored again. So you are trying to create this scoring chain that works the whole way up your pyramid.

13. Forest Shuffle Dartmoor

I think that Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor would be higher on the list if it wasn’t so similar to Forest Shuffle. It is just a different setting now with moor cards and things that make your caves unique in the game. So it’s a step up, probably, from regular Forest Shuffle, but it’s so similar.

I really enjoy the game though, the playing out of cards and having to spend cards from your hand to do that is a lot of fun. And by playing Dartmoor, I get to try new strategies versus the more common strategies that you get in Forest Shuffle after you’ve played it a number of times.

12. Scratch & Catch

Scratch & Catch is a simple game, but a fun game. You are trying to get rid of your fleas and gain points as a cat. And you are just doing that by playing out two cards. If your second card stacks on another one, you gain the cards adjacent to it which give you points. If you create a run with that card, you are getting rid of fleas which are negative points. Simple, but fun. It reminds me of Parade where it gives you really thinky moments but it is easy to play.

11. Duel for Cardia

Another one of the two player only games on the list. In this one you are trying to outsmart your opponent as you have a wizard battle. Each wizard is going to have a power. But, here’s the twist. If you play the higher numbered wizard, you gain the point. If you play the lower numbered one, you get the power, and that power can manipulate your opponents hand, cards already played, or if you can pull it off, just win you the game.

That little twist of who gets the power makes this an intense back and forth game of keeping track of what your opponent has played and trying to figure out what they have in their hand and are going to play next. It’s fun that sometimes losing a final match-up can give you the power to win the round.

10. One-Hit Heroes

This one dropped a little bit from my Top 100 Games list. But it’s still a great game. I love trying to figure out how to play your heroes so that you don’t take any damage. You know what the enemy is going to do, so how can you stop it with the cards you have to play. And each enemy is going to play a little bit different, so that’s fun. Plus, each hero is going to play a bit different, which I love because that makes it an asymmetric game. The game even lets you level up characters by giving them new cards for the decks between each boss you fight against.

9. First-Class Letters

First-Class Letters is the only 2025 roll and write game that I played this year. And it’s one that doesn’t feel like it should work. It’s a word game, you are rolling the dice to determine what letters you can, and can’t use in your word. The ones that you can are going to be the ones that give you points. But if you use the one you can’t, you get no points for that word.

There are two more twists in the game. The first is that as you fill in your words, they need to end the game in alphabetical order. Any that aren’t, no points. And before you start the game, you roll three of the letter dice and that determines what letters some of the words must start with. So that puts added stress on for getting words right.

8. Arigato

Arigato is one of the games that just surprised me this year. It’s a game of artisans and using them to create their masterwork and retiring them. What is so fun about this game is chaining together powers of the cards in play, you have a two by two grid, managing that, completing objectives, gaining resources and getting all of that work together.

Those objectives can give you a ton of points. Or you can get a ton of points from getting as many artisans as possible retired. Or you can gain points by how you use cards in your grid. And then, each hand, each round, you play a card to your grid, use two for resources and pass two. But even those two you pass can trigger things.

7. Otter

Otter is a small little game that is a ton of fun where Otters want to give all of these tasty sea creatures loving hugs. And as a player, you want to empty your hand of cards. But to do that you need to play them out to the various otters. And each otter is going to have a way to do that. It might be clams and ascending number order. Or it might be fish with a gap between numbers of greater than three. If you meet both criteria you can keep playing. Only one, you have to stop.

Now that might seem like you could get locked out of being able to play. And that is true, but in that case, you can flip a card, or whenever you want, you can flip a card, so that now it might be lower numbers on clams, or the clams for ascending order might be fish now. So you can manipulate how that scoring works. Of course there is a cost of drawing cards back into your hand to do so. Which makes for this great back and forth decision making process.

6. Trinket Trove

Trinket Trove is a set collection game, it’s that simple. But it’s really not that simple. Why, because the hand of cards you have, those which are your sets, are also the cards you use to bid to get more cards. The more cards you bid, and higher value of cards you bid, the earlier you draft. And you don’t just draft the cards that have been flipped out, you draft the ones that your opponents are bidding with as well.

Just that simple twist with the hand management makes this a great game. It is also still easy to teach, but not a simple game to do really well in. And there is an element of luck, what cards come out to set collect, who knows, but that makes you need to be adaptable.

5. Ace of Spades

This one was lower on my Top 100 List. I did have a chance to play Ace of Spades as a two player game as well as a solo game, and I really enjoy it at two as well as solo. This is kind of a Balatro like game in that you are playing out poker hands, but instead of defeating a blind, it’s a bad guy. And as you do that, they give you permanent powers, sometimes, or one time use powers to make hands stronger as the bad guys get harder.

The downside to this game is that poor decisions were made on the artwork. Because of that Devir has wisely pulled the game off the shelf and is going to be redoing it with reworked art, potentially, and changing out some of the insensitive characters. Once it is back out, it’s 100% worth playing.

4. Symbiose

Symbiose is a sleeper hit for me this year. It’s another really simple game but it works so well. In this game you have a two by four grid of cards. They are all face down, and there is a pool of four cards in the middle. On your turn you take a card from the middle and add it to your grid. You then take that card from the spot you added it and place that card in the pool. Each card is going to give you some scoring based off of the other cards you have.

But let’s talk about the scoring because that is where the twist comes in. When you place on either the left edge or right edge, you score those cards based off of your opponents grid on the left and right side. If it’s in the middle four, that scores your own grid. Just figuring out when to grab scoring for your opponents and trying to optimize the scoring in a fast game is a ton of fun.

3. Zenith

Zenith is another two player game and made my Top 10 Games in my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition. I love Zenith which technically is a two or four player game. But in this game you are trying to gain favor from planets. You do this by playing out cards, which cost, to bring the favor to your side. Or you play cards for technologies, and that can help you gain influence, gain credits or other manipulation of cards.

There are two things I want to highlight still. The first is how tight the resources are in the game, and that means you need to be strategic about how you use the cards. The other is that the game has three ways to win, and all of them are fun to try and pull off. Win favor from a single planet three times, or four different planets, or five total favor. And the back and forth of trying to block those strategies is so much fun.

2. Marvel Dice Throne: X-Men

It’s Dice Throne, and I love Dice Throne. I almost forgot that X-Men came out this year. But I really enjoy it, especially because it has characters I love in it with Gambit and Rogue. And Gambit is fun to play with aces that you power up to add to the damage that you are doing or to heal. It’s always fun to have more Dice Throne. But I’m not going to go more into the game because I’ve talked about it a lot.

1. Tag Team

Final game is another two player game. And this one is going to be high in my Top 100 Games next year. I played it two late for this year. But Tag Team is a two player battler game where you take a team of two unique characters up against your opponents. The first player to get a knockout wins the game.

But the twist. Of course there is a twist and that is that this game is an auto-battler game. What do I mean by that, I mean that it’s a game where combat is just flipping cards from your deck and seeing what happens. That might sound boring, but the twist does more than just mean that the game plays itself. You start with two cards, one for each character, and after you flip both of those out, you draw three and you add one of them to your deck. When you add it, you can’t adjust the order of any cards in your deck.

So now the game is trying to out think your opponent. I have a big attack, they have a block lined up with that attack. If I play a card below, it means that my attack is one earlier, kind of. But if they add theirs in below, they’ll keep it blocked. So where do I want to add it, and it’s a chance to out think your opponent, if you can.

Final Thoughts

2025 was a great year for gaming for me. I played a ton of new games, probably more so than a lot of years. And I own even more with the 2025 release date that I need to play. BGA also really helped get those numbers up and introduce me to games that I might not have played otherwise.

The additions of Tag Team and Zenith to my collection really give me a lot of fun two player games to play. And there are 14 more games that I own from 2025 that I need to get played. Of course some of them are big campaign games. Let’s just quickly list them out.

• Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
• Vantage
• The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the SEcond Era
• Deep Regrets
• Dragon Eclipse
• Critter Kitchen
• The Dark Quarter
• Tend,
• Rove
• Origin Story
• Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game
• Onoda
• Super Squad High
• Tricky Kids

Which game is the next I should try. Tricky Kids, Onoda, Super Squad High and Origin Story are all ones that sound like a ton of fun to play. They also aren’t campaign games so it is going to be easier to get them to the table. Especially for Onoda which is a solo only game.

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50 through 41
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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition – 10 through 1

10. Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition

Published By: Bezier Games
Designers: Daniel Byrne, Jose Gerardo Guerrero, Kevin Pelaez, Tirso Virgos

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The top trick taking game on my list is Hearts. Well, not completely Hearts, it’s Hearts with shenanigans and that is the element that makes it amazing. If you are familiar with Hearts, you know you don’t want to win the hearts because they are worth points. In this game, you are doing the same thing, but as princesses trying to dodge the proposals of the princes and of course the very dangerous frog princes.

But let’s talk about the shenanigans because that is where the game separates itself from Hearts. In Rebel Princess you each get a princess with a special power. It might be to force someone to lead a suit, or you take over the lead of a trick even if you didn’t win the previous one. They are once per round. The bigger shenanigans comes from the rule for each round. It tells you how to pass cards, but also then something special that round, like the number furthest from the led card wins the trick, to make the trick taking different.

9. Zenith

Published By: PlayPunk
Designers: Gregory Grard and Mathieu Roussel

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Zenith is the new one on the list, and it blew me away on BGA so much that I knew I needed to pick it up when it came out. Zenith is a two or four player, but really two player game where you are having a tug of war over different planets. When you get influence on a planet all the to your side, you get a token, and you win with three from one planet, four different ones, or five total.

But let’s talk about winning influence. The simplest way is to play a card down on your side of the table, that’ll move it one towards you and give you some other bonus. But to do that you need to pay the cost, so sometimes you need to do other actions to get more money. One of them is to discard a card for a bonus. Depending on the type of card, you get a different bonus for it, and you gain the leader token which means you get an extra card in hand. Finally there is technology which you use to gain bonuses but also move influence on planets.

8. Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Published By: Contention Games
Designers: Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano

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You know that I love Slay the Spire the video game and the same is true for the board game. In the board game it’s the same thing as the video game, but everything is scaled down. This is a very smart decision because I don’t want to do a lot of math, but I still want to play the same game I love. So you climb the tower, you fight normal and elite monsters, and you rest and add cards, everything that you love about Slay the Spire the video game.

But there is an extra twist for the board game as well. In the board game you also can play it cooperatively. And I love that for the game because there is no reason that you shouldn’t be able to. It levels up how much health the boss has, and each character gets their own row of normal monsters to face. The cool thing about that row is that I can help you attack your row if your monsters are attacking for too much. Or you can help with mine, but whichever row you attack, you get attacked by your row. So there is a strategic puzzle to figure out as a group.

7. Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game

Published By: Portal Games
Designers: Jakob Lapot, Przemyslaw Rymer, and Ignacy Trzewiczek

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I might be the person in the world like Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game the most. But I think it is worth talking about and I think at least the core box is one that more people should play. The core box is a series of intertwined cases that you need to figure out the leads and what to track down. The best way, and I mean this as compliment, I can describe the game is that it’s like NCIS or CSI but fun because you are the detectives.

The game has so much going for it. You need to figure out what lead you want to track down, you need to take evidence to the lab and get your results, or you need to spend resources pressing people for more information. All of that is going to cost time, so you need to get it done before time runs out.

And all the cases are different. Even in the core box where they link together, they are all unique. And the one off cases are all different as well and set in different time periods or different locations. Even the Batman version of the game is a ton of fun.

6. Dice Throne

Published By: Dice Throne Inc.
Designers: Nate Chatellier, Aaron Hein, and Manny Trembley

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Dice Throne is probably always going to be game in my Top 10. Mainly because they keep on coming out with more Dice Throne and I keep on buying it. But the game is a great plug and play game that can be described as battle Yahtzee. But that is not fair to the game because Dice Throne is more than that. Yes, it uses the Yahtzee style rolling to deal damage to your opponent, but the cards, and dice manipulation and how you work that together is where the game is so fun.

Plus, each character in the game is unique and does something different. Whether that is with Marvel and Gambit who has his aces that he can play, Doctor Strange who has spells that he can cast, or Scarlet Witch who can swap out the dice that her opponent roles. Or it is unique for the non-IP characters as well with the Gunslinger having a showdown type of defense, the Treant having sapplings that do unique things, or the Pyromancer building up their flames.

5. Aeon’s End

Published By: Indie Boards & Cards
Designers: Jenny Iglesias, Nick Little, and Kevin Riley

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I love deck-building and Aeon’s End is my favorite mainly deck-building game. I put it that way because I have another game that uses deck-building, but it is less of a deck-building game. This one is great because it gives you a boss battler as well as you play the game. You need to cast spells to deal with the bosses actions, minions, and hopefully knockdown the boss, the nemesis, if you can.

The game does a couple of fun things. Firstly, I like the turn order in the game, though I will say, I think that it makes it a two player game. The turn order is randomly drawn from a deck, so you might go twice in a row, if you have two of your number in there, or you might have the nemesis get multiple turns in a row. It keeps the game feeling tense and stressful. But I think it works best as a two player game because otherwise you might have a long time between turns.

Then the deck of cards. As you add cards and you need to draw again, you don’t shuffle the deck. Instead you just flip it and you draw from that. If you are smart, you can set it up so that you are drawing a strong hand. It is tricky, but it’s also a ton of fun when you get it right.

4. Lost Ruins of Arnak

Published By: Czech Games Edition (CGE)
Designers: Elwin, Min

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This is the other game that has deck-building, but it’s less of the game. Lost Ruins of Arnak is a deck-building, worker placement and resource management game that I just love. The theme really helps sell me on the game where you are exploring the jungle and trying to become the most famous explorer. Yes, that theme is hiding behind the mechanisms in some ways, but it’s there.

The game is really a great puzzle as you need to figure out how to explore new locations, defeat those monsters, and go up a research track. But they do it thematically in some areas, and I love that. You can buy new gear with money, but when you do that, it goes to the bottom of your deck of cards. Why, because it needs time to ship over. But if you buy a relic, that’s there, and you can use it immediately. Or on the research track as you advance, you need to discover, magnifying glass, before you can write about it, journal.

And the Expedition Leaders makes the game even better. It means that each player is starting at a unique spot. And it helps shape how you want to solve the puzzle. I thin the game is a 9 for me without this, but with it, and it’s an easy addition, it’s an easy 10 and in my Top 10 of all time.

3. Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon

Published By: Awaken Realms
Designers: Krysztof Piskorski, Marcin, Swierkot

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Now a game that has been in my Top 10 for a long time with Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. I still think this game has the best story and writing of any game that I’ve played. It does an amazing job of weaving together a narrative over three different campaigns. And you want to explore and read all the story. It’s so good and the storymode fixes the issue, that even though the regular game is a grind when it comes to resources, this is still a game that I love.

I think that the game works so well too in what you are doing. The combat and diplomacy checks you come across offer interesting puzzles of card play. And then when you go to a new card and you find new choices, it’s really interesting. I also should mention with combat, I like how you sometimes just want to runaway. A combat is going to be too hard for you and instead of taking a ton of damage, if your draw bad cards, you should just run.

As an aside, I can’t wait to play the new game in the series. But it’s being waited on because of other campaign games to play. I’ve heard it is less grindy, so if you are worried about that in the base game, maybe check out that version.

2. Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Published By: Fantasy Flight Games
Designers: Nate French, MJ Newman

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At number two is a return to glory in some ways. I think that Arkham Horror: The Card Game was in the Top 3 or so when I first started the list. But it is back here because I’ve gotten to play more over this past year. I’ve done the story in the core box and started on another one. And I built my own character for that which is fun to do as well.

The game is just impressive with how it uses cards in such an interesting way. I love how they become a map for the house, city, or whatever you are in. And how they use simple symbols to help you know what connects to what in the game. And each campaign feels different. I played the Arkham Nights one at a game store, and that was super unique and fun, while the base box felt like a great introduction, and the Scarlet Keys is already shaping up to be different.

I also like that each character you build is going to be good at different things. So you need to balance the party. But you might want a challenge and create a different and unique combination of characters to go with as well.

1. Frosthaven, Gloomhaven, Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

Published By: Cephalofair Games
Designer: Isaac Childres

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The final spot on the Top 100 Games (of all time) 2025 Edition is the same as it’s always been. This is Gloomhaven, or Frosthaven, or Jaws of the Lion. They are all the same game, though Frosthaven does add in a city management phase which is very fun for the game as well. This is an amazing dungeon crawler game and very worth checking out if you haven’t played a dungeon crawler before. Especially Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion as a starting point for the game.

In this game you play different scenarios and you need to figure out with your unique character how to defeat the enemies and complete the objectives. In Gloomhaven a lot of the objectives are defeat everyone. But Frosthaven adds in more variety, so you need to figure out the puzzle.

And how do you do that? You do that with playing cards from your hand. Each card has a top action, a bottom action, and an initiative on it. You pick one of the two cards to set your initiative and then generally you have a plan of which top of a card and which bottom you want to use. But, if the board changes, maybe the enemies move on you, you can adjust which top and bottom you want to use from the cards you play. And did I mention that each character is unique and feels different in how they play, because they do. And you get a try a lot of them.

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