
TOP Games of All Time (2025) 70-61
TOP 70 - 61
70. Dice Forge
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -4
Publisher: Libellud
Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 45 minutes
Mechanisms: Dice Building, Dice Rolling, Open Drafting
Sleeves: USA 56x87mm
Building your own dice during the game is a rare mechanism and this game does it right. It's a quick game that doesn't overstay it's welcome and still long enough that you start to feel the difference in each player's dice.
69. The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game
SPOT: 2025 NEW
Publisher: Ravensburger
Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 20-160 minutes
Mechanisms: Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Campaign Game
Sleeves: TCG 63,5x88mm
A wonderful IP game with simple card play and nice logic puzzles. Failing a scenario is not the end of the campaign but it will bring the Eye of Sauron closer to finding the ring bearer which will cause the end of the game for the players… which is a nice twist to a campaign style game.
68. Arkham Horror (3rd Ed.)
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -3
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Players: 1-6
Playing Time: 120-180 minutes
Mechanisms: Cooperative Game, Modular Board, Dice Rolling
Sleeves: MUS 41x63mm, STN 57,5x89mm, OSDE 102x128mm
This game offers a lot of combinations that make each scenario replayable even if you know the main gist of it. It's a long game but if played with fewer players, it's a manageable project.
67. Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -3
Publisher: Druid City Games
Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 60-90 minutes
Mechanisms: Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Open Drafting, Worker Placement
Sleeves: MUS 41x63mm, S65 65x65mm, STN 57,5x89mm, BST 70x120mm
Such a beautiful production, with a lot of good choices. Levelling up and trading goods to get better and better at fighting monsters… just lovely.
66. Concept
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -3
Publisher: Repos Production
Players: 4-12
Playing Time: 40 minutes
Mechanisms: Party Game, Team-Based Game, Communication Limits
Sleeves: STN 57,5x89mm
You are giving clues to other players and try them to guess the right words. Clues are given by pointing to the concepts like SMALL + FLIES + YELLOW + BLACK = BEE. I great party game for all ages.
65. Bohnanza
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -2
Publisher: AMIGO
Players: 2-7
Playing Time: 45 minutes
Mechanisms: Hand Management, Negotiation, Set Collection
Sleeves: USA 56x87mm
If you like negotiation, this is a quick and fun game to play. There will be back and forth around the table for each card and the shy will not prosper.
64. Clans of Caledonia
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -34
Publisher: Karma Games
Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 30-120 minutes
Mechanisms: Commodity Speculation, Contracts, Market, Variable Player Powers
I love games that offer buying and selling goods. The original theme does put this game in a special place in the »farming euro games« that are available to board gamers.
63. Daybreak
SPOT: 2025 NEW
Publisher: CMYK
Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 60-120 minutes
Mechanisms: Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Multi-Use Cards, Simultaneous Action Selection, Variable Player Powers
Sleeves: MED 43x67mm, TCG 63,5x88mm, BST 70x120mm
A fiddly game of saving the environment that works well.
Every turn the game will push on your difficult choices of playing cards for their effect, for improving existing cards or even discard them to activate other cards… many choices that will help you save the planet. But will you save it in time?
62. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -3
Publisher: FryxGames
Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 45-60 minutes
Mechanisms: End Game Bonuses, Follow, Hand Management
Sleeves: TCG 63,5x88mm, BST 70x120mm
Improving a planet together with other players but at the same time trying to be in front of the competition, is always putting some strain on your decisions which agenda to push forward. You also try to read what your opponents will do next turn so you can get some free actions of them. So many interesting decisions.

61. Great Western Trail: Second Edition
SPOT: 2024 >> 2025 -4
Publisher: Eggertspiele
Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 75-120 minutes
Mechanisms: Worker Placement, Set Collection,
Sleeves: USA 56x87mm