We’re taking a tour through the best rated games on Board Game Geek. But how many have you played? Tick them off as you go to find out!
Contributions from Chris Marling, Chris Jarvis, George Chrysostomou & Charlie Pettit
100 THE 7TH CONTINENT
Cooperative adventure and exploration game The 7th Continent raised more than a million Euros on Kickstarter in 2017. A seemingly remarkable number until you note the follow-up expansion campaign in 2020, in which you could bundle the expansion with the base game, went on to top seven million dollars from more than 40,000 backers.
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99 KEYFLOWER
UK designer Richard Breese started his game publisher company, R&D Games, in 1989.
It was the seventh game in his Key series of board games, which now bears more than 10 titles and many more expansions. His sister, Julia Breese, is responsible for the series’ whimsical and distinctive artwork while Richard himself added the graphics.
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98 TRICKERION: LEGENDS OF ILLUSION
Houdini. Derren Brown. Penn and Teller. Great illusionists of their time, and yet none possessed the Trickerion Stone… but you, great illusionist, can compete for fame and fortune (and the stone) by assembling your team, learning new tricks, and performing them. After seven weeks, only the best magician wins.
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97 INIS
Social Kingmaking? Celtic Themed? Dominance and politics? That’s Inis, where you’ll explore the lands to spread into six land tiles, control six sanctuaries, or have the majority in six areas. The clever intricacy of the game lies in the world expanding as you explore it, with conflict potentially arising immediately – should you chose it to.
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96 DECRYPTO
On the lighter end of games in the Board Game Geek Top 100, Decrypto is a game of figuring out the correct codes, whilst hoping your opponents don’t do the same. At its inception, its creator called it Cypher, before it later became Decrypto as we know it. An easy to explain party game, Decrypto sees players given a code with three digits between 1-4. The team will have four words in front of them, from which a clue is given for each word, and selecting the words will reveal a three digit code (Board is 1, Card is 2, etc in the below example). If they’ve guessed correctly, the code will match that of the clue givers, An immense part of the fun is the visual element, you’ll be sliding cards that look like gibberish into a red acetate
