Even though we've cautiously emerged from our social bubble, we figured we'd bring back our neighbor-pals and former bubble-ers James Hudson (Senior Director of Tabletop Games at Skybound) and Tom Twedell to discuss/argue about the games we played this year!
- Party Game of 2021 (2:30)
- Light Games of 2021 (9:13)
- Medium Games of 2021 (18:22)
- Heavy Games of 2021 (32:07)
- Favorite New-to-Us Games of 2021 (43:08)
What's a medium vs. heavy game anyway? Turns out we obviously don't know! Check out a list of our winners below.
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2021 Game of the Year (Party Game)
- So Clover! (everyone)
2021 Game of the Year (Light Games)
- Cascadia (James)
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (Shoe)
- Canopy (Christina)
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (Tom)
- Runners up: Dice Throne: Season One ReRolled, Cubitos, Night Cage
2021 Game of the Year (Medium-weight Games)
- Genotype (James)
- Genotype (Christina)
- Sleeping Gods (Shoe)
- Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Tom)
- Runners up: Red Rising, Shelfie Stacker, Summoner Wars (Second Edition), Kemet: Blood and Sand, Merchants Cove
2021 Game of the Year (Heavy Games)
- Sleeping Gods (Christina)
- Ankh: Gods of Egypt (James)
- Coffee Traders (Tom)
- Great Western Trail (Second Edition) (Shoe)
- Runners up: Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz, Hadrian's Wall, Genotype
2021 New-to-Us Games of the Year
- Ginkgopolis (Christina)
- Nemesis (Shoe)
- Tapple (Shoe)
- Obsession (Tom)
- Meeple Land (Tom)
- The King's Dilemma (James)
Here are all the games covered in this episode:
Party Games:
- So Clover!
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- Gorilla Marketing
- Telestrations: Upside-Drawn
- French Toast
Light Game:
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- Dice Throne: Season One ReRolled
- Cubitos
- Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Cascadia
- Calico
- Canopy
- Sea of Clouds
- Night Cage
Medium Games of the Year
- Genotype
- Red Rising
- Shelfie Stacker
- Sleeping Gods
- Summoner Wars (Second Edition)
- Ankh: Gods of Egypt
- Kemet: Blood and Sand
- Merchants Cove
Heavy Games of the Year
- Sleeping Gods
- Tawantinsuyu
- 7th Continent
- Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz
- Ankh: Gods of Egypt
- The Gallerist
- Hadrian's Wall
- Coffee Traders
- Genotype
- Great Western Trail (Second Edition)
New-to-Us Games of the Year
- Ginkgopolis
- Nemesis
- Tapple
- Obsession
- Meeple Land
- The King's Dilemma
- Shakespeare
- The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire