Back in January, Epidiah Ravachol issued a fun challenge: Play 51 games in 2015. I paid attention to folks’ posts about it throughout the year, but figured I didn’t have a shot at hitting 51 — it was a busy year. To my embarrassment, I also spent nearly the entire year thinking the challenge was 51 games new to me in 2015, which sounded very unlikely indeed.
But taking stock here in late December (edit: updated through the end of the month), I made it to 80 games in 2015, of which 12 RPGs and 22 board games were new to me. Across my 19 RPGs, I logged 46 gaming sessions. For board games, it was 184 plays across 60 games.
In 2014, I played 12 RPGs and 58 board games, for a total of 70 games. I love trying out new RPGs, so I’m glad to see that total up 63% this year. 2015 was also the year I played my 100th RPG, which would put my 200th something like 5-6 years out, in 2021-2022.
Just typing those dates makes me feel old! Somehow, I’ve lived to see The Future.
RPGs
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition
- Apocalypse World
- Barbarians of Lemuria
- DCC RPG
- Dragon Age
- Executioner
- Fear Itself
- Honor + Intrigue
- Microscope
- Mini Six
- Psi Run
- Savage Worlds
- Star Wars: Age of Rebellion
- The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game
- The Final Girl
- The Plant
- The Quiet Year
- The Thief
- tremulus
Board Games
- Animal Upon Animal
- Bausack
- Biblios
- Candy Land
- Click Clack Lumberjack
- Concept
- Connect Four
- Cosmic Encounter
- Disney Dazzling Princess
- Don’t Break the Ice
- Don’t Spill the Beans
- The Duke
- Duplik
- Elefun
- Enchanted Cupcake Party Game
- Escape: The Curse of the Temple
- Fibber
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
- Funemployed!
- Go Away Monster!
- Go Fish
- Hamsterrolle
- Hedbanz: Identity Crisis Game
- Hold On Scooby-Doo
- Hollywood Game Night Party Game
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
- Kingdom Builder
- Labyrinth
- Last Will
- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
- Let’s Go Fishin’
- Longhorn
- Loopin’ Louie
- Love Letter
- Memory
- Mermaid Island
- Monopoly Junior
- Old Maid
- Pandemic: The Cure
- Patchwork
- Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords
- Quiddler
- RARRR!!
- Red7
- Rhino Hero
- Richard Scarry’s Busytown: Eye found it! Game
- Risk Legacy
- Scrabble Junior
- Seasons
- Slamwich
- Sorry! Sliders
- Splendor
- Spot it!
- Superfight
- Sushi Go!
- Temporum
- The Castles of Burgundy
- The Magic Path of Yoga
- The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game
- Tsuro
- XCOM: The Board Game