Topic of the Week: The "correct" size for a game collection

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If I absolutely had to cull my collection down:

Games I would keep

The Bloody Inn
Chinatown
Codenames
Concordia
Dungeon Petz
Ethnos
Everdell
Ghost Stories
El Grande
Great Western Trail 2nd
Hamsa Teutonica
Heat
Inis
Istanbul
Kingdomino
Libertalia
Lords of Vegas
Lords of Waterdeep
Lost Cities
Love Letter: Batman
Marvel Champions
Mysterium
Orleans
Pandemic (some flavor, not sure which)
Quacks of Quedlinburg
The Quest for El Dorado
Ra
Sheriff of Nottingham
Spirit Island
Star Wars: Imperial Assault
Star Wars the Deckbuilding Game
Taverns of Tiefenthal
Unmatched
War of Whispers

Down to 34, though would definitely be sad to see a lot missing.

EDIT: Forgot one.

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Thats what I was just thinking!

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It’s been a year and my “main” games are down to these:

Mains
  1. Indonesia
  2. The Great Zimbabwe
  3. Stephenson’s Rocket
  4. Chicago Express
  5. Prussian Rails
  6. Food Chain Magnate (especially with Ketchup modules)
  7. 1830
  8. Zoo Vadis
  9. Ride the Rails
  10. Pax Renaissance
  11. Glory to Rome
  12. Innovation
  13. The Estates
  14. Age of Steam
  15. Cthulhu Wars
  16. Dutch Intercity
  17. South African Railroads
  18. Ponzi Scheme
  19. Dominion (though one can argue that this is a side dish due to how fast this game is)
  20. Age of Innovation
  21. Guards of Atlantis
  22. Impulse
  23. Irish Gauge
  24. Seasons
  25. Cosmic Encounter
  26. Pax Porfiriana
  27. Pax Pamir
  28. Bus
  29. Kingdom Builder
  30. Brass OG
  31. Glorantha: the Gods War

Add in the “sides” and you have an additional 30-ish games. I can probably chip off some but I’m not really keen. Is this it? Other than some shame pile games and some anticipated games (e.g. Dogs of War), I guess this is the home stretch.

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There’s so much crossover in our interests that the list of the games in your top 30 that I haven’t played yet is probably the best way for me to select which games I should look into.

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You can also check me on BGG and see the games I’ve rated 10’s and 9’s. I don’t have Bridges of Shangri-La in the list because it felt like a side game but can be argue it is a main game. And also Pax Renaissance, because I forgot to add it in (until now)

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