In this 200th episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, the team sit down for a frankly unwieldy chat about the top 10 games we collectively reckon you should play.
I'll let the episode speak for itself here - nearly two hours of absolute nonsense from all four of us. Thank you so much for listening to 200 episodes, here's to 200 more! x
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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1. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 Mentions: Pandemic 2. The Mind Mentions: The Crew - War of the Ring Mentions: Twilight Struggle, Cuba Libra, Labyrinth: The War on Terror, Combat Commander, 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Maria 3. Twilight Imperium 4th ed. Mentions: Eclipse, Oath, The King's Dilemma, Inis - Werewolf & The Resistance Mentions: Blood on the Clocktower, Secret Hitler, Mafia, The Resistance: Avalon - Mottainai Mentions: Mage Knight, Innovation 4. Crokinole Mentions: Jenga, Snooker/Pool, Toc Toc Woodman, Loopin' Louie, Flick 'em Up 5. Bohnanza Mentions: Modern Art, Sidereal Confluence 6. Tigris & Euphrates Mentions: Modern Art, Through the Desert, Samurai, Taj Mahal, Amun-Re, My City, Ra - Cosmic Encounter Mentions: Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Odyssey 7. The King's Dilemma Mentions: The Queen's Dilemma, Oath 8. A Feast for Odin Mentions: Le Havre, Nusfjord, Glass Road, Caverna, Bärenpark - Undaunted series Mentions: Dominion, The Quest for El Dorado, Combat Commander 9. Skull Mentions: Cockroach Poker, Go 10. Roads & Boats Mentions: Brass Birmingham, The Estates, Container, Food Chain Magnate, 'Hey, That's My Fish', Magic Maze on Mars, Magic Maze, Gardeners, Monikers/Celebrities, Carcassonne, Codenames, Decrypto, Fantasy Realms, Star Realms, City of the Big Shoulders, Patchwork, Here I Stand, The Quest for El Dorado, Terra Mystica
Heart Picks (games we wished made the list): Tom: Undaunted: Normandy Quinns: Monikers Ava: The Crew Matt: Brass: Birmingham
Ambie and Crystal discuss a whole bunch of games they played recently, and that's all we do this episode! We talk about Escape Team, Cursed Tales (online escape rooms), Cold Case: Murder with Interest, the EXIT: The Game - Advent Calendars, Cryptid: Urban Legends, Namiji, Orp: The Market for Space Merchant Translators, Oh Really?, Stay Cool, and Lands of Galzyr.
This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code 'GFGBLITZ2022' for 20% off non-exclusive items from their site: http://www.greyfoxgames.com/
We all saw this coming. The inevitable digital future has come, and suddenly Mark is a book store owner who just discovered Kindles. It'd be sad if it weren't so inevitable. We discuss the rise of digital gaming, and how it can, at least in some ways, replace parts of the hobby. Before we go down to Electric Avenue, we talk about Wormholes, Mogul, and Orichalcum.
02:07 - Wormholes 09:58 - Mogul 19:23 - Orichalcum 30:39 - Kellen's phone number 31:08 - Digital replacing physical games 43:15 - Garden Nation 43:41 - Living Forest 44:22 - Next Station: London 44:33 - Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar 45:49 - Gaia Project 47:15 - 7 Wonders Duel 48:32 - Race for the Galaxy 49:13 - Riftforce 50:30 - The Great Zimbabwe
Gobble Gobble Gobble, Cabalists! It's coming up on that holiday where we eat way too much take naps on the couch (or that would be a typical day at my house). The gang dives in with some games they've been playing including Planted, Horrified Universal Monsters, Monster Slaughter, Oak, Ark Nova and our feature review Alma Mater from Eggertspiele. Tony Topper does what a Tony Topper does best and enlightens us with all the best tabletop gaming news out there. And finally, the founders list some things that really stick in their craw and what games they're thankful for that fix those issues. Alma Mater Review 00:50:44, News with Tony T 01:19:33, What We're Thankful For In Gaming 02:08:29
It's a new episode and a new first player with Rob stepping up to the mic to talk about his favourite publisher "Fantasy Flight Games" and to discuss why some of the group have gone through their honeymoon period with FFG
FIRST PLAYER: Rob OTHER PLAYERS: Adrian, JP, Chris
OVERVIEW In this weeks episode, Rob takes the mic and debuts his first episode as first player to chat about his favourite publisher and why they aren't other peoples favourites anymore. In this episode you'll learn
- Adrian has finally completed Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (no spoilers) - Chris is needing some players to stop his partner from "having" to play Marvel Champions - JP declares his love for Vital Lacerda as he enters the "Lacerdaverse" - Rob introduces why FFG are his favourite publisher and the group discuss their varying opinions on the publisher - What is the best board game snacks and drinks at game night, find out in our question segment
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 2:32 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 2:47 - Adrian - Pandemic Legacy Season 1 8:08 - Chris - Bloodborne The Card Game 12:50 - JP - On Mars 19:18 - Rob - Marvel Champions 20:58 - TURN 3 - Fantasy Flight Games 22:57 - Some of our experiences of FFG 29:04 - The FFG honeymoon period 32:00 - FFG holds a lot of IP's to get new gamers into the hobby 36:05 - There's an opinion that FFG seems to be less exciting for seasoned gamers 42:42 - Are FFG like a comfy pair of slippers? 44:28 - The Keyforge bubble 48:07- Adrian's Star Wars Destiny revival 51:13 - There's so many games Rob's loved playing and introducing people to 52:50 - What do we hope for FFG in the future? 58:38 - The FFG expansion effect 59:39 - TURN 4 - Question Time: What are our boardgame snacks and drinks of choice? 1:07:59 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up? 1:08:15 - Chris - Fury of Dracula 1:09:27 - Adrian - GRIDCON, Space Base & Castes of Burgundy 1:12:38 - JP - ISS Vanguard 1:15:28 - Rob - New book series (He Who Fights With Monsters) 1:17:36 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
10 years ago we got hooked on the Living Card Game, Android: Netrunner. From our first play, we loved so many things about the game such as the asymmetric gameplay […]
Most of those time loop movies, while enjoyable, lack any degree of verisimilitude--clearly the chief use of a power to undo time or back up would be to get another chance at not saying something terribly stupid and embarrassing. One wonders if such time travelers would have a yet deeper reservoir of memories of sounding like a total cretin, even though those utterances were never said in the actual timeline (setting aside the multiverse version of time travel, or the "Infinite Douchebag" theory).
01:33 AYURIS: Anachrony: Fractures of Time (Richard Amann, Viktor Peter, Dávid Turczi, & Mindclash Games, 2020)
Games Played Last Week: 03:56 -Free Ride (Friedemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2021) 10:36 -Embryo Machine (Giguru Akiguchi and Toshimitsu Shigaki, LionWing Publishing, 2018) 11:31 -Monolyth (Phil Walker-Harding, CMON, 2022) 13:58 -Arcana Rising (Tim Armstrong, Grey Fox Games, 2021) 18:17 -Skymines (Viktor Kobilke and Alexander Pfister, Deep Print Games, 2022) 24:18 -Soda Smugglers (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2022) 27:27 -Hot Lead (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2022) 30:42 -Pumafiosi (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2022) 33:55 -Tiny Turbo Cars (Hjalmar Hach, Alessandro Manuini, Jonathan Panada, Laura Severino, and Giulia Tamagni, Horrible Guild, 2022) 38:02 -Terra Nova (Andreas Faul, KOSMOS, 2022)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 42:16 New Patreon-exclusive show: WIRED, about our Oathsworn campaign. 42:37 Check your Patreon messages if you submitted to get a copy of Horizons of Spirit Island! 43:10 Tragedy Looper: New Tragedies by BakaFire 45:49 Michael Crossman's 100 Post Apocalyptic Vehicular Combat Accessories on Kickstarter 47:07 The Last of Us: Escape the Dark 48:48 Minimalist version of Gatefall by Jack Dire on Kickstarter
In this episode Adrian, Sarah and Conor discuss the most recent Brisbane Game Day, drift into some video game chat, and recap the winners of this year's Kanga Awards. In Sizzling Games Adrian has been fighting a frozen fate, and Sarah has been placing penguins precariously.
We also recap last week's Question of the Pod: What is your ideal game length? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their experiences with us on Discord and the Facebook Community.
Finally, in Swear An Oath, Adrian played Endless Winter: Cave Paintings, Sarah came through with Civilization: A New Dawn, but Conor is yet to play burncycle. New oaths include teaching Bus (Sarah), Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis (Conor), and Dune (Adrian).
Question of the Pod: What is the oldest game in your collection that still hits the table?
The Kanga Awards (35:40)
Sizzling Games: Frostpunk: The Board Game (44:04), Yura Yura Penguin (1:07:25)
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Stampede is a game of card swapping and set collecting. Using each animal's special action, can you build the best album? It will take stealth, planning, and a bit of luck to collect the most dangerous... postage!
Shelley and I get some newer games to the table (I promise some Essen releases soon!):
First, we head to Australia and take
A Walk in the Park by David Harding from Grail Games
Then we head back in time to rebuild our cities in
Thera by Zach Hoekstra from Mr. B Games and L4 Studios
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