Top 5 Unique Worker Placement Games

Board Game Hot Takes

In Episode 192 we each discuss our top 5 board games that use the worker placement mechanism in a very unique or interesting way.

We also discuss a poll on what to do with components after you upgrade them.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:24 Poll Time: If you upgrade components for a board game, what do you do with the replaced components?

10:16 Top 5 Unique Worker Placement Games

11:57 Lost Ruins of Arnak

16:25 Raiders of the North Sea

19:47 Bus and Dominant Species

23:32 Come Together (Great Wall)

27:52 Lorenzo Il Magnifico

32:10 Anachrony

35:03 Terracotta Army

38:16 The Godfather: Corleone's Empire

42:47 Architects of the West Kingdom

45:40 Chimera Station (Godspeed, Darwin's Journey)

50:32 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

56:50 Star Wars: Rebellion

1:00:06 Pendulum

1:06:34 Underwater Cities

1:09:21 Ceres

1:14:28 Runners Up (Argent: The Consortium, Cryo, Dwellings of Eldervale, Whistle Mountain)

1:15:55 Listener Shoutout