Top 10 Board Games of 2025! | The Year of Hidden Gems

Here are the definitive best board games released in 2025 in a top 10 list! If you’re looking for the best board games released this year, this list brings together both of our personal top tens with some inevitable board game crossover. What really set 2025 apart wasn’t the big, highly anticipated releases. It was an incredible year for hidden gem board games. Titles that didn’t dominate the hype circles online or flood social media, but absolutely delivered once they hit the table. It always feels fun discovering these board games and sharing them! If you’ve been playing a lot of board games in 2025, we’d love to know where your top 10 overlaps with ours and where it completely doesn’t. 🎁 We would love your support on Patreon to continue doing what we're doing and producing high quality content that you won't find anywhere else on YouTube: https://www.patreon.com/c/Tabletopturtlegaming And if you wanted to buy any of these games, obviously purchasing through our Amazon affiliate link is greatly appreciated! Thanks for watching, Turtle Gang! 🎦 OUR GEAR AND AFFILIATE LINKS Camera - Sony ZV-E10: https://amzn.to/4c1xLw6 Lens - Sigma 30mm: https://amzn.to/4rPhZJm Microphones - Comica BoomX-D2: https://amzn.to/3NBKRa6 Key Light - Apature Amaran: https://amzn.to/4uPX0c9 RGB Tube Light - Neewer TL60: https://amzn.to/47Q09Pg Camera Slider - Neewer 16in: https://amzn.to/47QtSri Gimbal: https://amzn.to/4acB5SV *All games with the dollar symbol are games provided by the publisher; however, free games have zero impact on whether we think they're a good board game and where they place in the ranking. We put that there only to exercise full transparency on this channel. 0:00 - Introduction 0:22 - Covenant 3:00 - Aeterna - https://amzn.to/4qkDBNX 6:20 - Aspens 9:00 - Ants 12:28 - Brink 16:10 - Unstoppable 18:56 - Tend 22:08 - Moon Colony Bloodbath - https://amzn.to/49hy6tg 25:10 - Galactic Cruise 28:20 - Recall 32:54 - Kinfire Council 36:01 - Elder Scrolls 38:55 - Luthier 42:27 - Critter Kitchen 45:44 - Old King's Crown 50:07 - Ruins 54:14 - Conclusion