Twilight Struggle
"Twilight Struggle" was the highest-ranked game on BoardGameGeek from December 2010 to January 2016. As of August 2018, the board game occupies a fifth spot. Being released in 2005 it is the oldest board game in the overall top 10 ranking.
Mak-yek
Mak-yek (, ) is a two-player abstract strategy board game played in Thailand (formerly called Siam) and Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Players move their pieces as in the rook in Chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and intervention capture. The game may have been first described in literature by Captain James Low a writing contributor in the 1839 work "Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal, For Inquiring into The History, The Antiquities, The Arts and Sciences, and Literature of Asian, Second Part of the Twentieth Volume" in which he wrote chapter X "On Siamese Literature" and documented the game as Maak yék. Another early description of the game is by H.J.R. Murray in his 1913 work "A History of Chess", and the game was written as Maak-yek.