
For the final time until the end of the month here is the last “look at what I played” post.
And as usual this is just a bare bones, no frills post.
Here you go…


For the final time until the end of the month here is the last “look at what I played” post.
And as usual this is just a bare bones, no frills post.
Here you go…
Before I bore you with the December 2022 stats post it’s time to bore you with yet another post looking back to 2016.
As per usual for this post we start off with the top 9 games played that month.
Love Letter Batman, sadly no longer available for folks to buy. But it is my favourite version of Love Letter still. I love the theme, and the extra point for guessing what another player has in their hand when playing a Batman card, a nice rule change. Probably my favourite introduced by any version.
Ah yes Pandemic Iberia. The game ZMan was a limited printing. Yet somehow gets reprinted! It’s not a bad version of Pandemic. Don’t think I’ve played it since. However it is the version I’ve kept in the collection.
Braggart was a fun card game. But not one that held up to repeated plays over a short period of time. I gave this away in the end iirc.
We all know how I feel about Scythe. Nuff said.
Viticulture and Alien Frontiers both great worker placement games. Which I’m looking forward to getting back to the table as part of one of this year’s challenges.
I do need to get The Others (a great one vs many game, which soured how I feel about CMoN and will never back a project of theirs again), and Cry Havoc back to the table. I do really like both these games and they deserve more love.
Robinson Crusoe possibly the most brutal co-op game on the market. Also probably the most fiddly to setup also. Still a fun game with the right people.
Ok let’s wrap this post up with the raw stats for December 2016.
Naturally the next post in these look backs will move into 2017. See you then.
It’s that time of year once again when content creators of all types throw top 10 lists of this and that at you.
I’m not one to avoid jumping on a bandwagon.
This post is all about me choosing my game of the year for 2022 from the 54 new to me games that I played.
Now the caveat is that this is new to me. Which means that the games may or may not have been published in 2022. In fact one of them is approximately 40 years old! But until this year I had not played them.
But first here are some stats from that really great app, bgstats.
First my top 9 new to me games based on the number of game plays.
Next up the bgstats insights for those 54 new to me games.
I’ve played a few roll and writes this year. That side of the collection has grown considerably also. So I think it’s safe to say it’s a genre I enjoy playing.
There is one shown above, it’s not only my least favourite roll and write, but probably my turkey of the year also. That game is Super-skill Pinball: 4 Cade. The least said about this game the better.
Out of the remaining 8 roll and writes if I had to choose one to be the roll and write for 2022 it’d have to be…
the combotastic Three Sisters.
I really like all the others. They are great, fun roll and writes. But wow Three Sisters just blows the mind, especially when the combos kick off. The use of the rondel and die selection introduce a bit of decision making whether to take a die to deny an opponent that die and action, or go for one you really need.
A great roll and write that really does stand out.
My expansion of the year is the Rise of Fenris expansion for Scythe.
I had a blast playing the 8 game campaign. Which can be reset and played again. However you can also add it as modules to the main game. Adding more options, variability, replay ability to the game.
But that first play through. The twists and turns. The big reveals. Epic.
Also this was the last game I played with my friend Ben before he left us. Ben will be missed. But it’s the fond gaming memories that remain behind. Rise of Fenris will be one of those memories.
Honourable mentions: Dune Imperium: Rise of Ix (I won’t play without this expansion), Tapestry: Arts and Architecture
Ok onto the main event.
54 games to choose from.
Some incredible games played.
A very very hard choice. However I did come to a decision.
Drawn to the game by comparisons to Scythe, but apart from a mechanic or two it’s not really like Scythe.
I loved this game. From the variable board setup, to the era cards, power ups via paintings, variable leader powers and player boards, being able to tailor the maps to encourage or discourage combat.
It’s a really great game.
Honourable Mentions: Survive Escape from Atlantis, Libertalia Winds of Galecrest, Portal: the uncooperative cake acquisition game, The Thing boardgame.
Obviously I’ll be returning at the start of 2023 with the monthly round up plus the stats for for 2022.
Well here are once more with the brief but graphical look at the games I played in November.
Finally how I’m doing on my challenges.
It’s that time of month to once again summarise using the bgstat app what games I got to the table in October.
And now for the “raw” bgstats data!
Finally my challenge progress (if any).
I hope you like the new image for these posts. Don’t worry that’s the only change. I’m not going to start changing the current no thrills, just the data format.
No onto the data.
Ok here are the stats and games played for the month.
Finally here is my current challenges progress.
I know a couple of days late.
But still better late than never.
Besides I have a great excuse.
No really I do.
I’ve been working, and I’m really tired!
Oh on the life front some brief news before giving you those delicious stats to pour over.
I was offered and accepted the job at the other store. The higher ups just need to workout between them when I can transfer over. As you might guess I’m rather happy about this.
Now on with the show.
Now for the stats.
Finally the progress I’ve made on one or two of the challenges.
Same again next month?
Hasn’t the month gone fast? A little too fast.
Spoiler alert, but this months gaming stats are a little disappointing. Not a great number of games played.
Hopefully July will be better.
Ok here comes the bgstats stats with all that cool data.
And finally here is the little progress on the gaming challenges.
See you next month.
A new month and time for that brain dump of useless info about my gaming for the previous month.
As per usual for these posts I’ll just post the info with no waffle.
Here we go…
Now the “raw” data.
Finally an update on the progress made on my gaming challenges.
Last day of the month, my birthday, and all gaming done.
So it’s time to share my stats for April.
Now for the “raw” data.
Finally my game challenge progress.