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IDJester, Phoenix Knight's Top Board Games - Board Game of the Year

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2022 2023 2024 2025 All-Time

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Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Eldritch Horror

Age of Innovation

The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43

Space Empires 4X

Black Orchestra

Valkyrie: A Black Orchestra Game

Cthulhu: Death May Die

Disney Animated

Gloom of Kilforth: A Fantasy Quest Game

Reign of Cthulhu

Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive

Mansions of Madness: Second Edition

Marvel Champions: The Card Game

Xia: Legends of a Drift System

Twilight Inscription

Star Wars: Outer Rim

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Nightfighter Ace: Air Defense Over Germany, 1943-44

Season Ticket Baseball

Payoff Pitch Baseball

Fall Classic Baseball

History Maker Baseball

Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Aeon's End: Legacy

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Star Wars: Battle of Hoth

Red White & Blue Racin': Stock Car Action Game

Western Front Ace: The Great War in the Air, 1916-1918

Glory Days Boxing

Lucidity: Six-Sided Nightmares

Heat: Pedal to the Metal

The Guild of Merchant Explorers

History Maker Golf

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Call to Adventure

Overboss: A Boss Monster Adventure

Strat-O-Matic Hockey

Hostage Negotiator

Star Wars: Imperial Assault

Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game

Foundations of Rome

Super Boss Monster

Return to Dark Tower

Fate of the Elder Gods

G.I. JOE Deck-Building Game

Horrified: World of Monsters

Face to the Mat

Second Season Pro Football Game

Sentinels of the Multiverse

Amerika Bomber: Evil Queen of the Skies

MAG-23 Guadalcanal

SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD

Inside the Crease Hockey

Undaunted 2200: Callisto

The Plum Island Horror

Defending America: Intercepting the Amerika Bombers, 1947-48

Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game

Hitler's Reich: WW2 in Europe

American Tank Ace: 1944-1945

Let's PLAAY Tennis

Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020

One Deck Dungeon

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition

Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Atlantic Chase: The Kriegsmarine Against the Home Fleet 1939-1942

Harry Potter: Death Eaters Rising

Fleet Commander: Nimitz – The WWII Pacific Ocean Solitaire Strategy Game

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

Warfighter: The WWII Tactical Combat Card Game

APBA Pro Hockey

Target for Today

Skies Above the Reich

Bismarck Solitaire

Clank!: Catacombs

Tank on Tank: East Front

Zombicide: 2nd Edition

Absolute War! The Russian Front 1941-45

Field Commander: Rommel

Skies Above Britain

Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations

On to Moscow Solitaire

Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Tiny Epic Galaxies

Praga Caput Regni

Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape

5-Minute Dungeon

The Isle of Cats

Warfighter Shadow War: The Modern Night Combat Card Game

Zombicide: Green Horde

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Valkyrie: A Black Orchestra Game
11
Disney Animated
17
Gloom of Kilforth: A Fantasy Quest Game
18

Biggest Climbers25 total

Age of Innovation+49
Nightfighter Ace: Air Defense Over Germany, 1943-44+26
Payoff Pitch Baseball+26

Biggest Drops33 total

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition-88
Pandemic-45
Star Wars: Imperial Assault-40

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