2025 was a great year for Board Game Arena. Every table played, every game discovered, every friend and every late-night session added up to something truly amazing. Looking back at 2025, one thing is clear: you made the year unforgettable.
Countless Hours, Shared Moments
Together, you spent over 69 million hours playing in 2025. That is more than 7876 years of games in just one year... Victories or defeats, new or old games, whether you jumped in for a quick session or played for hours with friends. It all amounted to a whole lot of fun!
Just over 78 million tables were completed in real-time mode and 17.5 million in turn-based mode.
Players From All Around the World
In 2025, players joined in from all over the world, turning BGA into a truly global experience. From Brazil to Italy to India, to many, many, more countries- our community crossed borders, time zones, and languages: all connected by the same love of play.
Speaking of languages, there were over 355k translations done in 2025. A whopping 298 new tutorials were created to help the Community with new games. And last but not least, 227 new games were added to BGA in 2025. These are impressive numbers. A huge shout out to those of you who contributed in making these available to everyone on BGA whether you are a game developer, a translator, or a content creator. You can be proud of yourselves, and we bow to you! Let's not forget the moderators who spend hours browsing the forums and investigating reports to make sure BGA is a safe place.
In 2025, we dabbled in new ways to share games with you: we had a blast being part of the Twitch Plays Catan event. We are looking forward to renewing and expanding on such experiences.
At some point this year, more than 6.3k real-time tables were opened at the same time. Turn-based tables were a hit and we reached a peak of 316k on-going games in 2025.
The Games You Loved Most
When looking at the number of distinct players, one title led the way: 6 Nimmt!, closely followed by Azul and Catan. If we look at the time spent on a game, Ark Nova clearly stole the show with 7.1 million hours played. Catan and Terraforming Mars were close when it comes to the time spent on games.
Whether you choose long expert games or prefer short energetic ones, each game creates moments you will not forget.
BGA is Competitive
Even if it is all fun and games, Board Game Arena also offers some competition. You organized, and finished, almost 80k tournaments in 2025. Altered saw the largest number of registered participants for a single tournament with over 1.2k who joined.
The games that saw the most tournaments being organized are none other than Carcassonne with 6.5k tournaments, Can’t Stop with 5k, and Azul with 4k tournaments organized in 2025.
The Arena also got a lot of interest, and the top three Arena games are Azul, Ark Nova and Ticket to Ride. These 3 games combined gathered over 4 million tables created in Arena in 2025.
A Year of Growth and Improvements
We know everything is not perfect on BGA and we are constantly trying to improve.
In 2025, we proposed enhanced tools for developers to help them improve their games’ quality and hopefully make their role easier. We worked hard, behind the scenes, to allow our platform to keep growing and support more players, more games, and to make sure you can share our common passion for them.
We hired new people to facilitate the above, to better follow games under development, as well as our internal development's, and to facilitate the conversation with you. We met many of you during physical events such as SPIEL ESSEN in Germany, Cannes in France, or PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia, to only name a few.
We still have a long way to go in 2026, and we want to improve the community’s experience on BGA. It is all worth it, as long as we keep bringing players together to discovering new games, making friends and being part of this wonderful community.
Thank You for Playing
These stats are not just numbers, they are stories. They represent friendships formed, skills improved, and communities built. Every hour played and every country represented is part of what makes Board Game Arena feel like home.
None of this would be possible without you. We are excited to keep building, improving, and playing together. If 2025 showed us anything, it is that the best part of gaming is you, the players.
Next week, we will start the BGA Awards, where you will get to choose your favorite new games of 2025. So, keep your eyes open and do not forget: take care and play fair!
2025: Leto ponovitve
Leto 2025 je bilo odlično leto za Board Game Arena. Vsaka odigrana miza, vsaka odkrita igra, vsak prijatelj in vsaka pozno nočna seja so se sešteli v nekaj resnično neverjetnega. Če se ozremo nazaj na leto 2025, je eno jasno: leto ste naredili nepozabno.
Nešteto ur, skupnih trenutkov
Skupaj ste leta 2025 igrali več kot 69 milijonov ur. To je več kot 7876 let iger v samo enem letu ... Zmage ali porazi, nove ali stare igre, ne glede na to, ali ste se na hitro vključili v igro ali igrali ure in ure s prijatelji. Vse skupaj je bilo zelo zabavno!
Nekaj več kot 78 milijonov miz je bilo odigranih v načinu realnega časa in 17,5 milijona v načinu na poteze.
Igralci z vsega sveta
Leta 2025 so se nam pridružili igralci z vsega sveta, s čimer so BGA spremenili v resnično globalno izkušnjo. Od Brazilije do Italije, Indije in mnogih, mnogih, več držav – naša skupnost je prečkala meje, časovne pasove in jezike: vse jih je povezovala ista ljubezen do igre.
Ko smo že ravno pri jezikih, je bilo leta 2025 narejenih več kot 355 tisoč prevodov. Ustvarjenih je bilo neverjetnih 298 novih vadnic, ki so skupnosti pomagale pri novih igrah. In nenazadnje je bilo leta 2025 v BGA dodanih 227 novih iger. To so impresivne številke. Velika pohvala vsem, ki ste prispevali k temu, da so te igre na voljo vsem na BGA, ne glede na to, ali ste razvijalec iger, prevajalec ali ustvarjalec vsebin. Lahko ste ponosni nase in mi se vam klanjamo! Ne pozabimo na moderatorje, ki ure in ure brskajo po forumih in preiskujejo poročila, da bi zagotovili, da je BGA varen kraj.
Leta 2025 smo se lotili novih načinov deljenja iger z vami: odlično smo se imeli, ko smo sodelovali v dogodku Twitch Plays Catan. Veselimo se obnove in razširitve takšnih izkušenj.
Letos je bilo hkrati odprtih več kot 6,3 tisoč miz v realnem času. Mize na poteze so bile hit in leta 2025 smo dosegli vrhunec 316 tisoč iger v teku.
Igre, ki ste jih imeli najraje
Ko gledamo število različnih igralcev, je ena igra vodila: 6 Nimmt!, tesno za njo pa sta ji sledili Azul in Catan. Če pogledamo čas, porabljen za igro, je Ark Nova očitno ukradla predstavo s 7,1 milijona odigranih ur. Catan in Terraforming Mars sta si bila blizu, ko gre za čas, porabljen za igre.
Ne glede na to, ali izberete dolge, strokovne igre ali pa imate raje kratke, energične, vsaka igra ustvari trenutke, ki jih ne boste pozabili.
BGA je konkurenčen
Čeprav gre zgolj za zabavo in igre, Board Game Arena ponuja tudi nekaj tekmovanja. Leta 2025 ste organizirali in zaključili skoraj 80 tisoč turnirjev. Altered je zabeležil največje število registriranih udeležencev na enem turnirju, saj se jih je pridružilo več kot 1,2 tisoč.
Igre z največ organiziranimi turnirji so bile Carcassonne s 6,5 tisoč turnirji, Can't Stop s 5 tisoč turnirji in Azul s 4 tisoč turnirji, organiziranimi leta 2025.
Tudi Arena je požela veliko zanimanja, tri najboljše igre v Areni pa so Azul, Ark Nova in Ticket to Ride. Te tri igre so skupaj zbrale več kot 4 milijone miz, ustvarjenih v Areni v letu 2025.
Leto rasti in izboljšav
Vemo, da pri BGA ni vse popolno in se nenehno trudimo izboljšati.
Leta 2025 smo predlagali izboljšana orodja za razvijalce, ki jim bodo pomagala izboljšati kakovost iger in jim olajšala delo. V ozadju smo trdo delali, da bi naša platforma lahko še naprej rasla in podpirala več igralcev, več iger ter da bi lahko delili našo skupno strast do njih.
Za opravljanje zgoraj navedenega, boljše spremljanje iger v razvoju, pa tudi našega internega razvoja ter za lažjo komunikacijo z vami smo zaposlili nove ljudi. Z mnogimi od vas smo se srečali na fizičnih dogodkih, kot so SPIEL ESSEN v Nemčiji, Cannes v Franciji ali PAX Unplugged v Filadelfiji, če naštejemo le nekatere.
Do leta 2026 nas čaka še dolga pot in želimo izboljšati izkušnjo skupnosti na BGA. Vse se splača, če le še naprej združujemo igralce pri odkrivanju novih iger, sklepanju prijateljstev in so del te čudovite skupnosti.
Hvala za igranje
Ta statistika ni le številka, ampak zgodbe. Predstavlja sklenjena prijateljstva, izboljšane spretnosti in zgrajene skupnosti. Vsaka odigrana ura in vsaka predstavljena država je del tistega, zaradi česar se Board Game Arena počuti kot doma.
Nič od tega ne bi bilo mogoče brez vas. Navdušeni smo, da bomo še naprej gradili, izboljševali in igrali skupaj. Če nam je leto 2025 kaj pokazalo, je to, da ste najboljši del igranja prav vi, igralci.
Naslednji teden bomo začeli s podelitvijo nagrad BGA, kjer boste lahko izbrali svoje najljubše nove igre leta 2025. Zato bodite pozorni in ne pozabite: bodite previdni in igrajte pošteno!
