My Top 100 Games - as of 2025

 Rank     Last           Name  

1             1                Space Hulk

2             2                Circus Imperium       

3             4                Diplomacy

4             3                Family Business

5             6                Assault on Hoth

6             7                Illuminati 

7             10              OGRE

8             5                 Warhammer 40,000 (up to 3rd)

9             9                  Bosworth

10           8                  Icebergs

 

11           12                Risk 

12           11                Walk the Plank

13           22                 Car Wars (up to 5th)

14           NEW             Acquire  

15           14                  Cash ‘n’ Guns – second edition

16           34                  Daytona 500

17           NEW              Tetris Link

18           NEW              Tiki Topple 

19           NEW              Super Mario Bros. Power Up Card Game

20           NEW               No Thanks

 

21           NEW               Downforce

22           NEW                King of Tokyo

23           NEW                Don’t Look Back

24           NEW                Unmatched – Little Red Riding Hood VS Beowulf

25           18 – 1st Ed     Groo the Game – 2nd edition

26           26                     Blood Bowl

27           26                     Fortress America

28           NEW                 Samurai Jack: Back to the Past

29           NEW                 Fallout Shelter

30           31                     Tsuro

 

31           15                           Sushi Go                                                                                                            

32           NEW                     Pandemic: Contagion                                                                                 

33           NEW                     Marvel Splendor                                                                                            

34           27                           Go                                                                                                                                         

35           28                           Star Wars: The Queen’s Gambit                                                             

36           19                           Race Day                                                                                                           

37           29                           Conquest of the Empire                                                                             

38           30                           Battle Masters                                                                                                

39           33                           Battleship Galaxies                                                                                                     

40           NEW                     Transformers Armada: Battle for Cybertron                                      

 

41           36                           Car Wars Card Game                                                                                  

42           38                           Guillotine                                                                                                          

43           37                           Camel Cup                                                                                                       

44           13                           Survive: Escape  from Atlantis                                                                

45           NEW                     Disney Haunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits                                    

46           NEW                     Monopoly Empire                                                                                          

47           83                           Canasta                                                                                                             

48           35                           Rocketville                                                                                                                       

49           NEW                     Cathedral                                                                                                          

50           20                           Highlander: The Card Game                                                                    

 

51           NEW                     Sorry! Sliders                                                                                                   

52           82                           Resistance                                                                                                                       

53           89                           Colt Express                                                                                                                    

54           NEW                     Love Letter: Batman                                                                                                    

55           84                           Wits and Wagers Family                                                                            

56           NEW                     Blitz Bowl                                                                                                          

57           21                           Crimson Skies (WizKids)                                                                                            

58           41                           Hey, That’s My Fish!                                                                                                      

59           16                           Bang: The Dice Game                                                                                 

60           51                           Zombie Dice                                                                                                    

 

61           53                           Dilbert Card Game                                                                                       

62           52                           Cthulhu Dice                                                                                                                   

63           23                           Scoville                                                                                                                              

64           NEW                     Disney Villainous                                                                                                          

65           NEW                     Batman: Gotham City Strategy Game                                                                 

66           NEW                     Tantrix                                                                                                                 

67           42                           Pitch Six                                                                                                             

68           NEW                     Get Lucky                                                                                                          

69           NEW                     Dust Tactics Revised Core                                                                        

70           54                           Rules with No Name                                                                    

 

71           50                           Zombies!!!                                                                                                                        

72           56                           Shogun (Ikusa)                                                                                                                

73           81                           Monopoly                                                                                                                          

74           57                           Aliens                                                                                                                                  

75           62                           Chess                                                                                                                                  

76           59                           Canvas Eagles                                                                                                                

77           40                           Horrorclix                                                                                                                         

78           63                           Girl Genius: The Works                                                                                               

79           45                           Cardline – Animals                                                                                                       

80           24                           Heroclix                                                                                                             

 

81           58                           Search for the Emperor’s Treasure                                                                       

82           47                           Timeline: Music & Cinema                                                                                        

83           48                           Spooks                                                                                                                               

84           65                           INWO                                                                                                                  

85           17                           Monty Python Fluxx                                                                                                      

86           64                           Elixir                                                                                                                    

87           90                           Word Thief                                                                                                                        

88           86                           Iota                                                                                                                       

89           NEW                     Space Marine Adventures: Rise of the Orks                                                      

90           NEW                     Pamplona: Viva San Fermin!                                                                                    

 

91           39                           Star Wars Miniatures: Starship Battles                                                               

92           60                           Dragon Dice                                                                                                                     

93           NEW                     Timeline Challenge                                                                                                      

94           NEW                     Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons                                   

95           92                           Yahtzee: Free For All                                                                                                    

96           NEW                     Domination                                                                                                                      

97           61                           Pente                                                                                                                   

98           NEW                     Exago                                                                                                                   

99           44                           Blokus Trigon                                                                                                                   

100        46                           Blokus                

Top 100 Games - as of 2025 - overview

I last did a list of my top 100 games back to the end of 2015.  It is a good exercise but not something that I would want to do every year.  But to revisit a decade later seemed like a good idea.  

So 30 new games made it into my top 100.  Well, new to me.  The oldest of these new games Is Domination from 1963, and Acquire from 1964, and the newest games are  Groo the Card Game second edition, and Munchkin – The Nightmare Before Christmas, both from 2023.

 

Some of my games have slipped.  My top 12 remains my top 12 but the order has changed slightly.  But there are 5 games that are new to the list that dropped in the top 20.

The highest game to have fallen off of my top 100 was Pandemic, which was 43 last time.  This was replaced by Pandemic Contagion, but even Pandemic Hot Spot: North America ranked higher than it and helped to drive it off of the list.

 

The game to have dropped the farthest and still remain on the list was Monty Python Fluxx which fell 68 points.  This is probably due to us not having played it in the last five years.  The game that was on the list before that has risen the most is Canasta, which rose 36 points, despite not having been played in the last five years.

 

These are the ones that almost made the top 100:

 

100

Rank     Previous             Game

101        NEW                   Dixit!

102        NEW                   For Sale!

103        NEW                   Dune (Parker Brothers 1984)

104        55                       Fluxx

105        69                       Unexploded Cow

106        78                       Chill: Black Manor Morn

107        87                        Empire Builder

108        NEW                    Space Marine Adventures: Doomsday Countdown

109        NEW                    Bob Ross: Art of Chill Game

110        91                        Qwirkle

 

111        NEW                    Lanterns

112        85                        Scrabble Slam

113        NEW                   Unspeakable Words

114        67                       Quiddler

115        70                       Junta

116        71                       Toss Up!

117        72                        Risk: Balance of Power

118        73                       Star Warriors

119        77                       Hive

120        79                       Filthy Rich