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

Grail Game - Illuminati Crime Lords

 Crime Lords is a stand-alone Illuminati variant.  As the original Illuminati is one of my top ten favorite games, I am hopeful about this one.  I haven’t played it yet, but I added it to my grail list when I found out about it.

 

I finally picked up a copy for $12 US, plus double that for shipping.

 

It was supposed to be complete, and it is.  In fact, the 2 sheets of counters, and 2 sheets of money are all unpunched.

 

With the reprint of Illuminati, I kept hoping that they would reprint this as well, but they haven’t yet.  Now that I finally have one, I expect they will.