Author Archives: Talia Rosen

Top 100 Week: Ancient History (pre-1990)

New releases often get most of the attention here at the Opinionated Gamers, so today we’ll be shining the spotlight on older games that made it into our Top 100 lists.  Aside from the four games mentioned in Monday’s piece … Continue reading

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Top 100 Week: Favorites Missing the Cut

We continue Top 100 Week here at the Opinionated Gamers today by sharing some of our all-time favorite games that missed the cut for yesterday’s aggregate list.  As mentioned yesterday, 19 different OG writers submitted their all-time Top 100 list, … Continue reading

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Top 100 Week: Top Games

As the summer draws to a close, and as the annual deluge of new games at Essen Spiel draws near, the Opinionated Gamers decided to memorialize our current favorite games by each creating our own Top 100 board games of … Continue reading

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How Do You Terraform?

The Opinionated Gamers often have long and winding conversations.  This one started with Stefan Feld’s Civolution, about which different OG members are variously excited or horrified.  Civolution definitely seems to be a love it or hate it sort of concept … Continue reading

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OG SDJ Week – Finale

Spiel des Jahres Week at The Opinionated Gamers ends today with our final ranking of the 45 games that have ever won the most impactful award in board gaming.  24 members of the OG voted with each person picking their … Continue reading

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OG SDJ Week – Kennerspiel

Spiel des Jahres Week at The Opinionated Gamers takes a detour on this penultimate day of the week to explore and rank the 13 winners of the Kennerspiel des Jahres.  The Kennerspiel debuted in 2011 to honor Antoine Bauza and … Continue reading

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