Brendan looks back at the games that came out in 2011 and ranks them. Join us, won’t you?Exempt

• Last Will (2011)
• The Castles of Burgundy (2011)

Top 5

• Dungeon Petz (2011)
• Trajan (2011)
• The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus (2011)
• Mage Knight Board Game (2011)
• Friday (2011)

Want to play

• War of the Ring: Second Edition (2011)
• Discworld: Ankh-Morpork (2011)
• Village (2011)
• Nightfall (2011)

Honorable Mentions

• Sign of things to come: A Few Acres of Snow (2011)
• Best Stabby game: A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) (2011)
• Game I could get lost in: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (2011)
• Best Dice Game: Elder Sign (2011)
• Game I like that no one else does: Kingdom Builder (2011)
• Weirdest game: Tragedy Looper (2011)
• Game that’s more hype in my mind than plays on my table: Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game (2011)
• Best game I played in Iceland with an Icelander: Yggdrasil (2011)
• Really fun real-time drawing game: Pictomania (2011)
• Excellent I pick-you choose mechanism game: Mammut (2011)

Played

• Takenoko
• King of Tokyo
• Skull
• Flash Point
• Sentinels of the Multiverse
• Fake Artist Goes to New York
• Eminent Domain
• Rhino Hero
• Dark Moon
• The City
• Star Trek Expeditions
• Star Trek Deck Building Game
• City Square Off

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