Brass: Birmingham (2018)

The reviewer explores how Brass: Birmingham, despite its sometimes bleak and relentless portrayal of the Industrial Revolution, is celebrated as the world's number one board game due to its intricate design, thematic depth, and compelling, often challenging, strategic gameplay.

Overall, I am giving it a perfect 5/5 because it is a fantastic game with robust mechanics, good replayability value, a thematic art style, and good-quality components. In all areas where it counts, Brass: Birmingham is a fantastic board game.

The reviewer considers "Brass: Birmingham" to be a perfect and amazing game, highlighting its excellent mechanics, deep strategy that varies with player count, and high replayability, making it their top-rated game within their collection.

The reviewer highly recommends Brass: Birmingham, praising it as a well-balanced, thematic, and visually appealing game that maintains tension across all player counts, making it one of their favorite experiences despite a slightly tedious setup process.

Here’s a story of a lovely lady (spoiler: it’s me) and her pride and how it has led to the discovery of the single greatest board game I have ever played. Brass Birmingham is easily my top rated game of 2018, and so far my top rated game of all time.

I did play it for a bit back in 2019 and thought it was pretty good! Not best of all time good, but then, that’s why review aggregations are a tricky business.

The reviewer considers Brass: Birmingham an absolutely incredible and amazingly good, deep, complex, and brain-burning Eurogame, praising it as one of the best ever designed and preferring it over Brass: Lancashire, despite a minor concern about variability.

The reviewer praises Brass: Birmingham for its immense strategy, deep yet simple mechanics, and excellent components, noting that despite its complexity, the game is never punishing and offers constant opportunities to adapt and improve.

Tables that relished deep engine-building, strategising around an ever-changing market and sessions bifurcated between the canal era and railway eras vaunted its design and have kept it in high regard over the past five years - it even dethroned Gloomhaven as BoardGameGeek’s number one title last year.

Rahdo praises Brass: Birmingham as a towering achievement in economic Euro game design, highlighting its ability to engross players and offer a rich, more forgiving, and ultimately superior experience compared to its predecessor. He finds it a brilliant experience he loves to play and teach.

The reviewer highly praises "Brass: Birmingham" as an excellent, rewarding, and genius strategy game, acknowledging its heavy nature and replayability, and noting its capacity to provide a deeply satisfying, albeit intense, experience.

The reviewer praises "Brass: Birmingham" as an exceptionally designed and deeply engaging economic Euro game, emphasizing its strategic depth, high replayability, and excellent scalability, recommending it as a must-own for fans of the genre.