We typically put our Top 10 lists together in March as we have to get around to playing some of the late year releases that come out in November and December and this year there were several that we definitely wanted to get played. We accomplished the nearly impossible task of distilling an entire year’s worth of gaming down into a list of the 10 games that we most enjoyed. I hate doing this. I hate having to make somewhat objective choices about which games were better and which games should even be considered for the list. The first comment I would have is that not all games are the same. Not the same scale, the same play time, the same mechanically or even historically. Each game is unique and in my opinion, all games have something objectively good about them. Secondly, we didn’t get around to playing some of the new releases in 2023. I say some but we actually didn’t play a lot of the new releases and did the best that we could to play as many as possible. So we might leave off a game that you thought was very good and deserving and it probably is but we either didn’t get around to playing it or it just didn’t hit with us. But, in the end, we have to make this list and this is our best effort at doing just that!

In 2023, we played nearly 40 unique titles from 22 different publishers. Some were solitaire only games, some were operational, strategic or tactical scale. Some used counters. Some used cards. Some used wooden bits and some used miniatures. Some were only card games with no other components and some were cooperative. We played a lot of games! And here I present to you our list of the Top 10 Wargames of 2023!

-Grant