You get to command a pesky pirate ship, the royal navy and also a merchant ship tasked with delivering goods around the Caribbean. In this Caribbean adventure, players take command of a fleet of ships playing their trade during a time when the wooden sailing ships ruled the seas. I love a good pirate game and Black Fleet has easy to learn rules and creative game play make it a fantastic family game.
This is a highly thematic game that is a lot of fun. Just barely missing the top spot in our Top Ten Deck Building Game list earlier this year, Legendary Encounters lets players play through the Alien movies in a pure cooperative game with the possibility of a betrayer being thrown in the mix.
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I’ve always been a fan of the Legendary series (see my review of the Legendary: Marvel Deck Building Game) and Legendary Encounters was a massive upgrade on an already great game series. Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game For a price of about $20, it’s hard not to grab a copy of this gem. Port Royal has a great theme and also plays quickly. I quickly fell in love with this press-your-luck card drafting game. I had not heard of this game until a friend brought it over to my house for a game night.
Just barely missing the cut, Port Royal gets an honorable mention for being a game that caught me by surprise this year. Until then, let’s get to the lists! Top 10 Games of 2014 Honorable Mention: Port Royal As games start to arrive on our shores in the spring of 2015, we should have ample time to play them before we have to make our decisions on our 2015 Board Game Awards. The second half will be the games we’re most looking forward to getting to our tabletop. Since games from the October Essen Spiel always seem to take a long time to make it “across the pond”, it’s hard to rank every game that comes out when we don’t even have some yet! With that in mind, the first half of the list will be our Top 10 Games from 2014, which only includes games that I’ve actually played. I’m sure I had to leave out many of your favorite games from this year, it always seems to happen.Īlso continuing in on what we started last year, this list will be split into two halves. There are just so many quality games coming out each year that it’s so hard to narrow them down. I swear it gets harder and harder each year to put together this Top 10 list. 2014 is coming to a close and, as is our annual tradition here at Board Game Quest, we are going to take one last look back at the year.