Episode 362 – Our Top Ten Games of 2023
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What We’ve Been Playing
Seven Bridges – a roll-and-write that feels different from any other.
Tesseract (our review)
Smug Owls (review coming soon)
Unmatched: Sun’s Origin (Tomoe Gozen & Oda Nobunaga)
Oh What Fun! (last year’s review)
Motley (review coming)
Trio (review coming – we recommend!)
Monthly Report and Year in Review!
Anitra’s December: 45 plays of 27 unique games. Learned Camel Up on New Year’s Eve! H-index 3: Trio, Skyrockets, Tesseract, Smug Owls.
Andrew’s December: 28 of 17 unique games. H-index 3: Tesseract, Trio, Smug Owls.
Andrew’s 2023: 288 plays of 148 unique games. H-index: 4. Most played: “Unpublished Prototype”, Unmatched, Jekyll vs. Hyde, FORK. 64% of plays at home.
Anitra’s 2023: 564 plays of 210 unique games. H-index: 9 – Calypso, Unmatched, Numbsters, GROVE, Roll to the Top, River Wild, Forage, Wildtails, Turbo Kidz. 2 players is most often: 37% of the time. Next most common is 3 players and solo, which each get 18%. 67% of plays were at home.
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Top Ten Games of 2023
Andrew came up with a way to rank our top games and allow for overlap: we each distributed 10 points among our top 6 games. It worked! We have a top ten.
At one point each, our bottom five:
Unmatched (see our previous reviews)
Her Story (our review)
Tesseract
Smug Owls
Disney Animated (our review)
At two points each:
Junk Drawer (our review)
Roll to the Top: Journeys (our review)
Turbo Kidz (our review)
Our #2 game, with three points:
Illiterati (our review)
Our top game, at a combined FIVE points:
boop. (our review)
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