79: The 2021 Games of the Year episode

Dec 23, 2021

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)