What is the Shelf of Shame?
It refers to a list or shelf of soemthing that someone collects but hasn’t gotten around to using or playing yet, Common with Board games and Books. It can also be found in other hobbies too such as record collecting.
I use shelf of shame in a light hearted sense and a way to classify the games i won and have not played my copy of yet. I thought i would use this blog to curate my list and a way of tracking my progress in reducing my own list. My goal is to reduce this list to 20 or less (from the 57 on january 1st 2025) by the end of the year. Anything still on here will be next years target.
I am including any game I own and haven’t played (my Copy) regardless of how long i have owned it so anything i buy needs to be played or will end up on here.
Updated Shelf of shame
Anything that I now was before UK Games expo last year i have listed as April 2024. some of these have been on here Longer I just can’t remember exact dates.
| Game | Added | |
| 1 | 5 Tribes | April-24 |
| 2 | Ark Nova | April-24 |
| 3 | Bears v Babies | April-24 |
| 4 | Betrayal at House on the Hill | April-24 |
| 5 | Calico | April-24 |
| 6 | Camel Up | April-24 |
| 7 | Cheating Moth | April-24 |
| 8 | Citadels Classic | April-24 |
| 9 | Curios | April-24 |
| 10 | Cute Comical Creatures | April-24 |
| 11 | Dixit | April-24 |
| 12 | Dobble | April-24 |
| 13 | Dominion | April-24 |
| 14 | Eldrich Horror | April-24 |
| 15 | First Martians | April-24 |
| 16 | Founders of Gloomhaven | April-24 |
| 17 | Grimm Inc | April-24 |
| 18 | Gubs | April-24 |
| 19 | Hanabi | April-24 |
| 20 | Hit Z Road | April-24 |
| 21 | Libertalia | April-24 |
| 22 | Meepleland | April-24 |
| 23 | My Village | April-24 |
| 24 | Night Quest (Drinking Adventure) | April-24 |
| 25 | Odin’s Ravens | April-24 |
| 26 | Pan-Am | April-24 |
| 27 | Purranormal Cativity | April-24 |
| 28 | Quacks | April-24 |
| 29 | Smash Up | April-24 |
| 30 | Snapshot | April-24 |
| 31 | Star Wars: Empire vs Rebellion | April-24 |
| 32 | Stitches | April-24 |
| 33 | The Chameleon | April-24 |
| 34 | The River | April-24 |
| 35 | King of Tokyo | April-24 |
| 36 | Last Night on Earth & Zombies Expansion | April-24 |
| 37 | Barcelona | May-24 |
| 38 | Camel up Off season | May-24 |
| 39 | Fire Tower | May-24 |
| 40 | Rafter 5 | May-24 |
| 41 | Windmill Valley | May-24 |