12 Top Board Games for 2021
With more than 3000 board games created every year, it is very difficult to determine what will become the most popular board game. Two methods we use are customer requests and each game’s waitlist
Here are 12 of the most sought after games and expansions at Seriously Board.
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
You are a member of “Jaws of the Lion”, one of the most infamous mercenary groups in this run-down backwater city of Gloomhaven. When a sinister cabal starts disappearing the less fortunate of the city, it somehow falls to you to get to the bottom of it….so long as you get paid for your trouble.
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is a standalone game that takes place before the events of Gloomhaven. It is aimed at a more casual audience to get people into the gameplay more quickly
Buy Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Pandemic Legacy – Season 0
Pandemic Legacy – Season 0
1962 — The Cold War continues as a new threat looms on the horizon, a deadly new Soviet bioweapon, something called “Project MEDUSA”. You and your fellow medical graduates have been recruited by the CIA for the critical mission of investigating and preventing its development. Travel the world using carefully constructed aliases to move swiftly between Allied, Neutral, and Soviet cities. Your missions will require you to neutralize enemy agents, acquire specific targets, and set up other CIA agents on location to execute your operations without a hitch. As you complete objectives over the course of twelve months, each success or failure will bring you closer to the truth.
As in the first two Pandemic Legacy games, each time you play brings new cards, rules, and conditions that affect future games. Each alias you create will gain contacts and other assets to execute your plans more smoothly. And, of course, the CIA will be watching and evaluating your performance in the field. Work together with your fellow agents to prevent this new bio-threat — the fate of the world depends on it. Can you save humanity once again?
Buy Pandemic Legacy – Season 0
Zombie Teenz Evolution
Zombie Teenz Evolution
Zombies are attacking the entire town! Cooperate with your friends and launch an expedition to drive off the overwhelming hordes. Collect the 4 Ingredients and brew the antidote that will save the world!
Zombie Teenz Evolution is the sequel to Zombie Kidz Evolution (#1 Kids’ Game on BGG). It is a standalone game with a different set of rules, so you don’t need to have played the first game to jump into the second. The rules are slightly more advanced and will require a little more strategic thinking.
Here to Slay
Here to Slay
A strategic card game. A role-playing adventure. A dangerous new world.
Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that’s all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns.
Chronicles of Crime: 1400
Chronicles of Crime: 1400
You are Abelard Lavel, a knight sworn to King Charles VI the Beloved. You live in the city of Paris in a family mansion not far from the famous Notre Dame cathedral. Since you were a child, you had strange, prophetic dreams in which you saw violent scenes of past crimes or even ones yet to be committed. Over time you learned that your unusual gift could be put to good use and you started to solve cases that nobody else could crack. This earned you some reputation in the city and now people seek your help whenever a mysterious crime is committed.
The Chronicles of Crime: 1400 standalone game brings back well-known mechanisms of the original Chronicles of Crime game while adding some new twists. Now you can deduce not only from the evidence you find or the testimonies given by various characters but also from the mysterious scenes depicted on new Vision Cards
The Isle of Cats
The Isle of Cats
You are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives.
The Isle of Cats is a competitive, medium-weight, card-drafting, polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-4 players (6 with expansions).
Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family, you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together
Calico
Calico
Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats.
In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colours and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create colour and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also able to attract the cuddliest cats!
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
Astronauts wanted! Scientists say there is a mysterious ninth planet located at the edge of our solar system. But despite all of their efforts, so far they have been unable to provide substantial evidence of its existence. Join this exciting space adventure to find out if the theories are just science fiction or if you will discover Planet Nine.
In the cooperative trick-taking game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, the players set out as astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. You need to complete 50 different missions as you travel across the solar system. But you will only succeed if you can work together as a team. To master the challenges and achieve your mission, communication will be essential — but in space, things can be more challenging than expected
Buy The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Circa 980 AD. The King’s reign has begun to decline. Choosing peace over prosperity, our once strong King is offering our enemies gold and land to lay down their axes. But peace is a tenuous affair. As poverty spreads, many people have lost faith in his ability to lead and sought independence from the crown. Since finding favour in his courts, our future has also become uncertain. As viscounts, we must be wise and decisive. Loyalty is to be upheld, but gaining favour among the people must be our priority, should there be a sudden shift in power.
Secure your victory by constructing buildings, writing manuscripts, working in the castle and acquiring deeds for new land. You begin with a handful of townsfolk, but quickly seek out more suitable talents to advance your endeavours. Travelling around the kingdom, you seek to increase your influence among the various areas of society.
Buy Viscounts of the West Kingdom
With new recently released expansions, these three games have only increased in popularity.
Wingspan with Oceania Expansion
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Wingspan$105.00 -
Wingspan: Oceania Expansion$55.00
In this second expansion to Wingspan, colourful and awe-inspiring birds from Oceania are added.
Buy Wingspan: Oceania Expansion
Spirit Island with Jagged Earth
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Spirit Island$137.00
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Spirit Island: Jagged Earth$109.00
New play options: combining adversaries, playing with an Archipelago (split island), and more.
Buy Spirit Island: Jagged Earth
Everdell with Spirecrest
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Everdell$129.00
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Everdell: Spirecrest$104.00
Spirecrest adds several exciting and challenging new mechanics and features to the Everdell base game.
