I’m amazed that I didn’t even get out of the top 100, like you I consume a lot of board game related ‘stuff’. Though I presume that I probably did listen to a podcast with it mentioned, but that I was a bit tuned out at the time or something. Anyway, it completely passed me by. Now I’m curious as to whether it’s any good.
I’m still very new to RPGs but as seem as you mentioned it I thought I’d give it a go… I got as far as #3 Masks of Nyarlathotep… So not a great showing from me there
Tricky to be truthful on this one because I’ve been on BGG a lot recently due to trading. Aprt from having read them on the site I’ve never seen, played or heard anyone talking about Mechs & Minions (#40). Definitely Trajan (#93) has never crossed my radar, despite owning Dominion (#94).
I don’t pay a lot of attention to the Hotness rankings because I’ve noticed, doing the contests, that they always want you to click on the game’s BGG page, which obviously gives it a spike.
For ratings… the first one where I don’t have at least a vague idea what it’s about, either thematically or mechanically… #161 Tichu.
There are two separate lists on RPGG - “RPG items”, which includes adventures and campaigns, and “RPGs”, which is just actual “games” for which you don’t already need a system book. For RPGs, the first one I haven’t played is #4 Blades in the Dark, but the first one I haven’t heard of is #58 Urban Shadows.
I like to think I’m fairly tuned in, but I’m not super interested in heavy games or BGG rankings, which means that coming across a few things in the top 100 draws a blank. #6 Through the Ages: A Story of New Civilization
and #7 Gaia Project
both draw a blank for me. Maybe I’ve heard of them?
Then #35 Blood Rage I feel like I definitely haven’t come across. Followed by a few more in the top 100.
I do a little better when it comes to the Party Games rankings, which I think is probably going to be my best category. First I haven’t heard of is #32 Tumblin-Dice.
First off: Baby Gloomhaven is already top 100?!?!?! And why am I actually surprised?
(I haven’t looked at the Top 100 in a while)
Besides knowing that Tom Vasel has an opinion on Grand Austria Hotel at #92, I know nothing about that game. I watched him take apart the BGG Top 100 a while ago, so I kind of heard of some games there I otherwise wouldn’t know.
Next one is: Railways of the World at #126? Never heard of it. But it reimplements Age of Steam so I have kind of maybe heard of that?
I am not a war gamer so #142 Paths of Glory. Best case I can make for it that it was mentioned in an article on wargames and nazis I read a while ago. Three spots further down is the next one: Combat Commander Europe
Next on is #176 Steam another one claiming to be an Age of Steam variant.
So the pattern is obvious: I know nothing about wars and trains.
But at 198 I am all out of cheap excuses with “1960: Making of a President” --no war no trains in sight. But not surprised it’s a GMT game.
Neither have I heard of #199 Imperial.
So with much good will I made it nearly to 200. I couldn’t hold a debate on most of these but I have been known to go through the Top 100 to figure out what kind of games those were and whether I needed to own them I am done with that strategy though.
PS: Can I add a second challenge? (Also stolen from somewhere). How many pages do you have to go until you get to a page where you haven’t played at least one game? This isn’t quite as harsh and last time I checked I got into the thousands.
From 800 onwards it’s getting thinner… I made it to the 1500s and nearly had to stop but found an old game from 1986 that I’ve played as a child (Labyrinth) and I dropped out on page 28 the page that has both Pictures (Spiel des Jahres 2020) and Iwari (debated here in the forum a few times)…
Most of the weird games I’ve played are courtesy of my Spiel visits…
Last year’s big Alexander Pfister release. I was quite hyped on it but ended up not buying it… when there was a debate (here?) about the colonialism theme. It’s something something quite blue in the Caribbean with ships and pirates.
It’s a big survival exploration game. Much like a choose your own adventure book. It has a bit of a steampunk flair where the characters are dropped on an unknown continent and have no idea how they arrived there and had to solve a mystery. The follow up “7th Citadel” was on Kickstarter recently and got huge backer numbers.
Yeah, I think this is what caught me up. I got to Macao #312 and couldn’t remember if it was one of the place-named-Euros that I had heard about before or not.
#47 Anachrony for me; I think I’ve heard the name before, but I couldn’t guess at the theme or genre from the game title alone, which I guess is a good metric for ignorance of a game’s existence.
