Pick Up & Deliver 702: Best Games of 2023

Brendan looks back at 2023 and reflects on which games are his favorite and which games deserve special recognition. Join us, won’t you?

Exempted from Consideration

• 49. Evacuation (2023)

Top 5 Games of 2023

1. Nucleum (2023)
2. Voidfall (2023)
3. Septima (2023)
4. Daybreak (2023)
5. Forest Shuffle (2023)

Superlative Games of 2023

• Best Legacy Game: Sagrada Artisans (2023)
• Coolest Gimmick: Faraway (2023)
• Most silly: DroPolter (2023)
• Funniest: Freelancers: A Crossroads Game (2023)
• Most meditative: Tipperary (2023)
• Best game no one wants to play with me: Fiction (2023)
• Awesome Components: Globetrotting (2023)

2023 games I have played but did not grant awards

• Earth (2023)
• Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game (2023)
• Sky Team (2023)
• Age of Innovation (2023)
• Cosmoctopus (2023)
• Distilled (2023)
• Apiary (2023)
• Forbidden Jungle (2023)
• The A.R.T. Project (2023)
• Thunder Road: Vendetta (2023)
• After Us (2023)
• Nimalia (2023)
• Expeditions (2023)
• Rats of Wistar (2023)
• Point City (2023)
• That’s Not a Hat (2023)
• Everdell Farshore (2023)
• Amun-Re: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)
• Chicken! (2023)
• Bark Avenue (2023)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Bedlam in Neverwinter (2023)
• Mother of Frankenstein (2023)
• Smug Owls (2023)
• TIME Stories Revolution: Cavendish (2023)
• Leaf (2023)
• Perspectives (2023)

2023 games that I want to play but haven’t.

• Earthborne Rangers (2023)
• The Fox Experiment (2023)
• Sail (2023)
• My Island (2023)
• First in Flight (2023)
• Wild Tiled West (2023)
• City of the Great Machine (2023)
• Hollywood 1947 (2023)
• Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory (2023)
• Darwin’s Journey (2023)
• The White Castle (2023)
• Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West (2023)
• The Vale of Eternity (2023)
• Knarr (2023)
• Stationfall (2023)
• Kutná Hora: The City of Silver (2023)
• Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze (2023)

What are your favorite 2023 games? Share your thinking over on Boardgamegeek in guild #3269.