(It was later replaced by Twilight Struggle, which was number one for just under five years.)

Puerto Rico originally held the spot from 2003 until mid-2008, before reclaiming its title from Agricola for a few months in 2010. Gloomhaven’s run of five years and two months reportedly makes it the longest-reigning BGG number one to date. The previous games to have taken the top spot in BoardGameGeek’s rankings in addition to Brass, Pandemic Legacy and Gloomhaven are Paths of Glory, Tigris and Euphrates, Puerto Rico, Agricola and Twilight Struggle. The latest change sees Brass: Birmingham - a follow-up to designer Martin Wallace’s 2007 title Brass, now known as Brass: Lancashire - become only the eighth board game to be crowned as BoardGameGeek’s number one since the website launched over two decades ago. The 2018 strategy game, in which players look to play the British city’s trade market during the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, has risen to become the number one game in BoardGameGeek’s influential rankings.īrass: Birmingham’s ascension saw it dethrone Isaac Childres’ epic dungeon-crawling fantasy adventure Gloomhaven, which had held the top spot for just over five years since knocking off similarly acclaimed co-op legacy game Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 in December 2017. Is Brass: Birmingham the best board game you can play in 2023? According to users of board game wiki BoardGameGeek, that might well be the case.

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