In my last post, I laid out the bones of our Depth Year plan. Let’s take a closer look at our quest to get our number of unplayed games (aka Shelf of Shame) trending toward zero. We’re breaking the year into quarters for this goal and focusing on 15 games each quarter (yeah… we’ve got waaaay too many unplayed games). The 15 games won’t be the ONLY games we play during the quarter, but we will be making a conscious effort to get the unplayed playlist to the table each quarter. For Quarter 1 (Q1), we’ve got the games below in our playlist. I’ll update each entry with a play date once we’ve played the game.

With every play, we will make a decision on whether the game stays or goes. There are three potential outcomes for each play: 1) definitely stays, 2) definitely goes, or 3) needs another play before deciding.

Things in the “going” pile will be sold, traded, or donated. Prior to 2019 starting, we’ve added 40+ games to our going list, which was a great exercise in getting over the emotional attachment we have to our games.

Which would YOU recommend we play first?

Game Details
Name	Above and Below (2015)
Accessibility Report	Meeple Like Us
Complexity	Medium [2.52]
BGG Rank	325 [7.38]
Player Count	2-4
Mechanism(s)	Action Points, Dice Rolling, Narrative Choice / Paragraph, Set Collection, Storytelling, Trading and Turn Order: Progressive
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Among the Stars (2012)
Complexity	Medium Light [2.24]
BGG Rank	808 [7.04]
Player Count	2-4
Mechanism(s)	Closed Drafting, Open Drafting, Simultaneous Action Selection, Tile Placement and Variable Player Powers
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Caverna: Cave vs Cave (2017)
Accessibility Report	Meeple Like Us
Complexity	Medium [2.55]
BGG Rank	766 [7.12]
Player Count	1-2
Mechanism(s)	Tile Placement and Worker Placement
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia (2013)
Complexity	Medium [3.12]
BGG Rank	538 [7.19]
Player Count	2-6
Mechanism(s)	Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Race, Set Collection, Trading, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement and Worker Placement with Dice Workers
Notes from Rebecca	Greg played this on January 19th, 2019

Game Details
Name	Founders of Gloomhaven (2018)
Complexity	Medium Heavy [4.10]
BGG Rank	2109 [6.62]
Player Count	1-4
Mechanism(s)	Action Retrieval, Auction/Bidding, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Follow, Hand Management, Network and Route Building, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Voting and Worker Placement
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	The Fox in the Forest (2017)
Accessibility Report	Meeple Like Us
Complexity	Medium Light [1.57]
BGG Rank	528 [7.13]
Player Count	2
Mechanism(s)	Hand Management and Trick-taking
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Hero Realms (2016)
Complexity	Medium Light [1.86]
BGG Rank	245 [7.53]
Player Count	2-4
Mechanism(s)	Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hand Management, Once-Per-Game Abilities and Take That
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	My Little Scythe (2017)
Complexity	Medium Light [2.00]
BGG Rank	717 [7.27]
Player Count	1-6
Mechanism(s)	Area Majority / Influence, Dice Rolling, Force Commitment, Grid Movement, Pick-up and Deliver, Solo / Solitaire Game and Take That
Notes from Rebecca	Rebecca played this on January 19, 2019

Game Details
Name	The Others (2016)
Complexity	Medium [3.03]
BGG Rank	928 [7.33]
Player Count	2-5
Mechanism(s)	Area Majority / Influence, Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Interrupts, Modular Board, Team-Based Game and Variable Player Powers
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Root (2018)
Complexity	Medium Heavy [3.76]
BGG Rank	28 [8.08]
Player Count (Recommended)	2-4 (3-4)
Mechanism(s)	Action Queue, Action Retrieval, Area Majority / Influence, Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Race, Sudden Death Ending, Variable Player Powers and Variable Set-up
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Stuffed Fables (2018)
Complexity	Medium Light [2.44]
BGG Rank	465 [7.48]
Player Count (Recommended)	2-4 (1-4)
Mechanism(s)	Cooperative Game, Dice Rolling, Role Playing, Square Grid, Storytelling and Variable Player Powers
Notes from Rebecca	Both played this on January 12, 2019

Game Details
Name	Tiny Epic Quest (2017)
Complexity	Medium [2.68]
BGG Rank	948 [6.99]
Player Count	1-4
Mechanism(s)	Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Modular Board and Push Your Luck
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Tiny Epic Western (2016)
Complexity	Medium [2.88]
BGG Rank	1800 [6.64]
Player Count (Recommended)	1-4 (1-3, 3-4)
Mechanism(s)	Area Majority / Influence, Commodity Speculation, Dice Rolling, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers and Worker Placement
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Tiny Epic Zombies (2018)
Complexity	Medium Light [2.48]
BGG Rank	1190 [6.97]
Player Count	1-5
Mechanism(s)	Area Majority / Influence, Cooperative Game, Dice Rolling, Modular Board, Pick-up and Deliver, Push Your Luck, Semi-Cooperative Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Team-Based Game and Variable Player Powers
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA

Game Details
Name	Vinhos: Deluxe Edition (2016)
Complexity	Medium Heavy [4.01]
BGG Rank	119 [8.12]
Player Count	1-4
Mechanism(s)	Area Majority / Influence, Variable Phase Order and Worker Placement
Notes from Rebecca	Played on TBA