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What was your most-played game of 2017 and WHY?

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18 Jan 2018 11:37 #261369 by bfkiller
My number one was Dominion with 14 plays. A buddy of mine has all the expansions so a set group of us are slowly playing through recommended sets to get a feel for them. I'm enjoying the back-to-basics feel I'm getting from playing it. It'll probably be my most played game of 2018 as well.

Tied for second was Tash-Kalar and Twilight Struggle with 9 plays of each. I signed up for leagues for both, otherwise I wouldn't have played either so often.
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18 Jan 2018 11:49 - 18 Jan 2018 11:51 #261370 by repoman
Advanced Squad Leader without a doubt was the game I played the most. I played poorly but it was still playing. Not an evangelist so not trying to persuade anyone to play. I still think it's the stupidest most complex and convoluted game I've ever encountered but, boy, I sure do love it.

Outside of that, maybe Star Trek Ascendancy. Played that a bunch of times. Still can't win as the Klingons.

I am happy to report that I played no Cthulu Wars. A trend that is likely to continue for my entire life.

In the app adaptations of board games, I've played the hell out of Through the Ages. I got about midway down the list of challenges and got stopped cold. I can't find a way to win at all.
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18 Jan 2018 12:19 #261379 by SuperflyPete

RobertB wrote: MattDP wrote:

There were two that stood out though; Potion Explosion and Junk Art both saw a lot of play. Not hard to see why: short, family-friendly games that also have a decent slice of nerd appeal.


Potion Explosion would be the #3 game that isn't Love Letter on my list. I was tempted to buy better marbles for it, because the cheapo ones in the game are pretty sad.


If you include games I’ve played on iOS or online, then Potion Explosion is #1 or #2

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18 Jan 2018 12:24 #261381 by Matt Thrower

RobertB wrote: Potion Explosion would be the #3 game that isn't Love Letter on my list. I was tempted to buy better marbles for it, because the cheapo ones in the game are pretty sad.


Yes. One of mine is literally oval, like the shape of a rugby ball, and it won't roll down the chutes. I replaced from one of the spares in the box which are all, quite brilliantly, slightly different colours from their equivalents in the main marble set.

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18 Jan 2018 12:43 #261386 by barrowdown
If I throw out party games and iOS games, then my most played was some version of 40K followed by Unlock! and Exit (if I count the plays of the series as one game). I really did not play much of anything in 2017 that was too deep. I am hoping to play through Pandemic Legacy Seasons 1 and 2 with my significant other this year (3 games in on season 1).

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18 Jan 2018 12:51 #261388 by ChristopherMD
Not much gaming for me at all this year. I did play a few things but the one I probably played the most was Sword & Sorcery because we played through all of Act I which was 6 sessions. My friend that I played with keeps asking to play it again. With Act II's release and wanting to replay it all with different characters this game will not be a shelf toad anytime soon.
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18 Jan 2018 12:55 - 18 Jan 2018 12:59 #261390 by lj1983
My #1 was Legendary Marvel. I have most of the Heroes expansions. my wife and daughter enjoy it, they like the coop nature while also enjoying counting up points at the end to see who "won". tons of variety, with enough decisions to keep our attention while still allowing my daughter to play and enjoy it.

3 way tie -

51st State
Archipelago
Star Wars: Rebellion

51st state was new to me, and got a ton of play at the beginning of the year.
Archipelago is a friend's favorite game, and we enjoy the semi-coop nature of it
I started playing 2 player games with a friend, and we really got hooked on Rebellion both with and without the expansion.

also of note are Rhino Hero Superbattle, and Codenames....both games are short enough that multiple plays occur each time they come out.

Twilight Struggle has been played more this year for me than any time since college. A friend was gifted a copy, so I taught him. 2 player game buddy from above, we've played it a couple times. and then I ran a TS event at a local Con and got a couple plays.

Last year there were mass-layoffs in my industry, and my town. two of the casualties were friends of mine and have since left town. Those were my DoaM guys. so no Starcraft, Runewars, Nexus Ops.....
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18 Jan 2018 13:15 #261395 by Gary Sax

lj1983 wrote: 3 way tie -

51st State
Archipelago
Star Wars: Rebellion

lj1983 wrote: Archipelago

lj1983 wrote: Archipelago

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18 Jan 2018 13:25 #261397 by the_jake_1973
Twilight Struggle for me, but only due to the excellent PC interface. I really don't know that I could sit through a F2F playing of the game.
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18 Jan 2018 13:42 #261401 by RobertB
the_jake wrote:

Twilight Struggle for me, but only due to the excellent PC interface. I really don't know that I could sit through a F2F playing of the game.


It's fine F2F. Much better than, say, Eclipse in RL vs Eclipse on the iPad. My experience with Twilight Struggle has been the need for 20 or 30 ass-kickings before I remember all of the cards in the deck. The PC version is great for that.

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18 Jan 2018 14:29 #261409 by Jackwraith
The Others: Seven Sins. A couple of my regular really glommed onto it so we played a bunch of times to try out different party configurations and the different Sins and whatnot.

Jake, do you play TS on your phone? Because I have the app, but have yet to get in any games against a real person. Can the PC and phone apps interface?

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18 Jan 2018 14:49 #261413 by Michael Barnes
Archipelago is a friend's favorite game,

Hold up...is she from Canada?

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18 Jan 2018 15:03 #261414 by dysjunct

the_jake_1973 wrote: Twilight Struggle for me, but only due to the excellent PC interface. I really don't know that I could sit through a F2F playing of the game.


Huh. I love it F2F but find the iOS app intolerably slow.

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18 Jan 2018 15:19 #261415 by southernman
From that useful database site called BGG these are my top played games last year:

15 - Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) – Road to Legend
12 - Mage Knight Board Game
11 - Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game
11 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past
10 - Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game
8 - Love Letter: Batman
7 - Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition)
5 - Eldritch Horror

Not bad for my smaller groups and limited playing times, the Descent Road to Legend app helped a lot with two of us doing all the campaigns.

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18 Jan 2018 15:24 - 18 Jan 2018 15:24 #261416 by lj1983
friggin Mage Knight is my Shelf Toad. I've got the Lost Legion and some extra character...I haven't played it since 2012. I need to get rid of it.
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