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The 10 Best New-To-Me Games in 2021
2021 was a whirlwind of a year. The year began with a newborn in the household, we in BC were under heavy lockdown (in this case, heavy lockdown means no visitors) which continued until June!! My game group had been playing games via Tabletop Simulator since late March 2020 which gave us access to a ton of games that we wouldn’t have been able to play otherwise. Thankfully, come the summer we were allowed to gather again and we’ve been playing in person ever since, even including a Cabin-Con retreat!
This list will include several games that were not released in 2021, and that’s okay. This list is to showcase the best games that were new to me this year! While I am often a victim of wanting to play the newest games as they release, I do enjoy going back and finding the gems that I initially missed
Evolution: Climate – A Digital Heat Wave
The Evolution app recently launched the Climate expansion, which adds significant changes to the Evolution landscape. If you haven't already, you can check out my thoughts on the base game of Evolution here! What's Different? Evolution: Climate adds a weather mechanic...
Evolution – It’s Not Easy Being a Carnivore
Number of (physical) plays: 6Designers: Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, and Sergey MachinArtists: JJ Ariosa, Giorgio De Michele, Catherine Hamilton, and Kurt MillerRelease Year: 2014Mechanics: Hand Management, Direct Conflict, Secret Unit DeploymentPublisher:...
Top 100 Games as of 2020 – #40 to #31
I feel compelled to complete this series before 2021 ends. I never realized how much effort it takes to write about 100 games before! This is the point where I move from games that I just ‘like to games that I ‘like like’. These are games I would ask on a date to see if they want to go steady with me.
Eclipse – It’s a Euro-y War Game, I Swear!
The way my game group convinces me to play a direct conflict game is to downplay the more random elements. “Eclipse is barely even a war game” they said. “You only really have one or two battles in the whole game” they claimed. And it’s with that in mind that I sat down at the table to play Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy designed by Touko Tahkokallio
Cabin-con 2021 Report
In November 2021 my gaming group (Bear, Otter, and Bigfoot) and I rented a cabin and spent a weekend playing board games all day and night. Here’s how it went
Top 100 Games as of 2020 – #50 to #41
We're past the halfway point on my top 100 games! I would quantify this as the turning point where I move from games that I enjoy to games that I'm enthuastic about. I worry that over the next couple posts I'll get progressively more verbose 50 - The Isle of Cats The...
The Fox in the Digital Forest
Trick taking games are a tale as old as time and have been ubiquitous throughout my growing up. My mom had a group of three other ladies who would gather and play Hearts until the wee hours of the morning. Later on in life, Euchre, Whist, and Spades were added to the rotation, with slight tweaks to the rules depending on who was joining the table that night and where they came from. As I got older, my family started playing Wizard during our reunions, and now we have reached the point where everyone in my family owns their own copy.
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