79: The 2021 Games of the Year episode

Going Analog Podcast

English - December 23, 2021 07:30 - 57 minutes - 53.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
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Previous Episode: 78: Board Game Arena pros/cons, playing "blind," and more (guest: Emerson Matsuuchi)

Next Episode: 80: New (and old!) games to look forward to in 2022 (guest: Ruel Gaviola)

Even though we've cautiously emerged from our social bubble, we figured we'd bring back our neighbor-friends and former bubble-ers James Hudson (Senior Director of Tabletop Games at Skybound) and Tom Twedell to discuss/argue about the games we played this year!

Party Game of 2021 Light Games of 2021 Medium Games of 2021 Heavy Games of 2021 Favorite New-to-Us Games of 2021

What's a medium vs. heavy game anyway? Turns out we obviously don't know! Check out a list of our winners below.

2021 Game of the Year (Party Game) So Clover! (everyone) 2021 Game of the Year (Light Games) Cascadia (James) The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (Shoe) Canopy (Christina) The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (Tom)

Runners up: Dice Throne: Season One ReRolled, Cubitos, Night Cage 2021 Game of the Year (Medium-weight Games) Genotype (James) Genotype (Christina) Sleeping Gods (Shoe) Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Tom)

Runners up: Red Rising, Shelfie Stacker, Summoner Wars (Second Edition), Kemet: Blood and Sand, Merchants Cove 2021 Game of the Year (Heavy Games) Sleeping Gods (Christina) Ankh: Gods of Egypt (James) Coffee Traders (Tom) Great Western Trail (Second Edition) (Shoe)

Runners up: Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz, Hadrian's Wall, Genotype 2021 New-to-Us Games of the Year Ginkgopolis (Christina) Nemesis (Shoe) Tapple (Shoe) Obsession (Tom) Meeple Land (Tom) The King's Dilemma (James)