Boardgaming 2022: the year of "point salad really isn't very filling"

[Nightgaunt]

Okay, let’s do this.

The Top 5 board games of the last 5 years - 2022 Edition!

Almost exactly 5 years ago, @agapepilot organized a vote for the best games of the preceding 5 years. I stumbled across this yesterday, and it just seems silly not to hold another vote to glean what knowledge we can about the intervening half-decade. A lot has happened in board games in that time! In fact, 2017 seems to me to have been a watershed moment for the board game market. In April of that year, Gloomhaven would have its second Kickstarter (the first one in 2015 resulted in 4000 copies …

What were the best board games (or digital board game adaptations) of the last five years?