About Board Game of the Year

With so many board games being released these days (nearly 5,000 in 2023 according to BoardGameGeek.com!) BoardGameoftheYear (or BGotY - "bah-GOT-ee" - as it's affectionately known) is an attempt to filter these down to the best and brightest releases of the year. BGotY is an aggregation website, that takes the top games lists of some famous and many lesser known content creators and influencers within the hobby and presents them as one comprehensive list to help determine which games are truly deemed "the best" of the year.

We've sifted through hours of video and audio content and scrolled through dozens of websites to collect this data. Not every list we came across was eligible for aggregation, and if you'd like to review our criteria for what was and was not imported, please review our Eligibility Criteria.

You can also review a detailed breakdown of the scoring system used to rank the games on BGOTY.

If you have any questions about the methodologies used for scoring, or would like to suggest a list that we may have overlooked, please email us at boardgameoftheyear@gmail.com.

Thank you for visiting our site! We hope that you will find it useful, and that it may even help you find a new favorite board game that you hadn't heard about previously. Happy gaming!