Marc’s Top 100 Games 2020 Edition

#100: Air, Land, and Sea#99: Star Wars Armada#98: Mechs v. Minions#97: Sushi Go! Party#96: Friday#95: Forbidden Desert#94: 18MEX#93: Die Macher#92: Stay Cool#91: Roll Player#90: Keyflower#89:

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Sorry For The Pause

I’ve not posted anything here in a couple of weeks, and in the heavily competitive world of trying to get people’s attention on the internet,

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What To Get From The GMT Sale

It’s that wonderful time of the year again where GMT holds their annual sale! If I had to pick a favorite publisher it would undoubtedly

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Brand Update!

I’ve got a new logo! The original logo was acquired on the cheap and I always knew that I would want to update it. So

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Dr. Esker’s Notebook Review

In my review of Exit: The Pharaoh’s Tomb I speculated about the naming ritual of calling such a puzzle game an “escape room”, it lacking

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Reviews

Crusaders Review

How can I talk about Crusaders without discussing the theme? The Crusades are a deeply uncomfortable part of western history and while I’m fairly ignorant

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Welcome To 2-Player Game Month!

Abstract month got pushed back a bit, and you’ll still see some remnants from that into February (like this afternoon’s podcast!), but starting with yesterday’s

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Welcome To Abstract Month!

For 2019 I’ve decided to implement one major change for The Thoughtful Gamer. We’re doing themed months! January will focus on abstract games, and while

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T-Shirts Available!

As you can probably tell, I’m not much of a graphic designer or someone who has any eye for that kind of visual, but I’ve

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Surprise Stream! Netrunner

Netrunner may be now officially dead from a corporate perspective, but it’s still alive in our hearts. If there’s anything the game’s taught us it’s

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Top 10 Games Of 2017

Listen, people. I know. 2018 is over halfway done and here I am posting a top 10 of 2017 list like I’ve lost track of

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What I’ve Been Up To

Hello, all! I realize it’s been a little while since I last posted anything here (10 days by my count–yikes!), so I wanted to make

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Top 100 Games Livecast TONIGHT

We’re doing a double-countdown live-cast! Find out what my 80-41st favorite games of all time are with plenty of disagreement and debate–guaranteed. 8:30 pm EST

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Reddit AMA March 14th!

Hello, everyone–exciting news. To commemorate the 1 year anniversary of The Thoughtful Gamer I’ll be doing an AMA (“ask me anything”) on r/boardgames on the

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Looking At 2018

Hello, faithful readers. I’ve posted a quick review of 2017 and some goals for 2018 over on my Patreon page. I think 2017 has been a

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Game Table Build

Hi Everyone, Marc is on vacation this weekend so here’s a guest post I put together recapping the process of building a custom game table

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