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We’re finally back! This summer was a challenging one, and we are thrilled to be at the mic and recording again. During our months away, we had the chance to try out some competitive games (we know - not our usual). But these four competitive board games all share elements of our favorite cooperative games. Join us as we find co-op within competition in these casual competitive games.

In this episode we cover:

• A special dedication to our late listener and biggest fan, Rob’s mom
• Bailey confusing several of the games Rob’s been playing, and doubling down thinking she’s right
• Finding the co-op qualities in competitive games

Game Details:

• Name: Machi Koro
  • Publisher: Grounding
  • Year: 2012
• Name: Piepmatz
  • Publisher: Lookout Games
  • Year: 2018
• Name: Azul
  • Publisher: Plan B Games
  • Year: 2017
• Name: Sushi Go!
  • Publisher: Gamewright
  • Year: 2013

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Spring may have sprung, but we head to the frozen north for this episode! Join us as we adventure through a co-op game unlike any other - the educational, inspiring, and culturally-diverse, Never Alone, by Upper One Games.

In this episode we cover:

• The irony of deliberately sitting on a game review, only to be delayed in publishing by a sinus infection
• Bailey’s getting a big head over her YouTube skills
• Introducing, World Games - culturally rich games for a global audience
• A win for diversity in gaming

Game Details:

• Name: Never Alone
• We played it on: PC
• Also available on: PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Upper One Games - the first indigenous-owned game company in the US
• Year: 2014

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To pair with Never Alone, we recommend

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Explore other Inupiat/Inuit stories from cultural organizations - we’ll include some links in the show notes
    • Native Languages of the Americas: Inuit Legends, Myths, and Stories
    • Eskimo Folk-Tales
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Sticking with the educational theme - find a documentary to watch!
  • Something about climate change or the fishing industry if you want to align it with some of the issues facing the Inupiat people.

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Who says you need the controller to have fun? There’s tons of co-op to be found in single-player games! We’ve wanted to do an episode like this for over a year, and the release of the latest Souls game gave us the perfect opportunity. Join us in our inaugural Co-Op Co-Pilot episode featuring the open-world dark fantasy hit, Elden Ring, by FromSoftware.

In this episode we cover:

• 10 years together - and Souls games are at our core
• Co-Op Co-Pilot mythbusting
• Bailey’s Dark Souls voice acting debut
• All the Elden Ring we can talk about without spoilers

Game Details:

• Name: Elden Ring
• Rob’s playing it on: PC
• Also Available on: PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox Series X & One
• Developer: FromSoftware
• Year: 2022 (Brand-spankin’ new at the time of recording)

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TW: War and Violence

Over there! Over there! Threats rain from the sky and danger looms all around our heroes. Can friendship triumph over the trials of war? Join these two Yanks as we hope to survive the perils of No Man’s Land in the moving cooperative World War One card game, The Grizzled, published by Sweet Games.

In this episode we cover:

• The Bloodborne and Parks and Recreation crossover we’ve always wanted
• Unlearning a Match 3 mechanic
• Finding fun in the futility of war
• What is simple, may not be easy. In fact, it may have a 10% win rate.

Game Details:

• Name: The Grizzled
• Medium: Board Game
• Developer: Sweet Games
• Year: 2015

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To pair with The Grizzled, we recommend:

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Soft Cinnamon Cookies, from Foods that will Win the War and How to Cook Them (1918) C. Houston Goudiss and Alberta Goudiss
    • 1 cup molasses
    • 2 tablespoons fat
    • ½ cup boiling water
    • 1 cup flour
    • 1 teaspoon soda
    • ½ teaspoon ginger
    • 2 tablespoons cinnamon
    • ⅛ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon of cloves
  • Mix molasses, fat, and boiling water. Sift dry ingredients. Add the liquid. Add enough more flour (about four cups) to make dough stiff enough to roll out. Cut and bake about 15 minutes in moderately hot oven.
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Watch 1917 (2019), dir. Sam Mendes
  • Drink a French 75
    • 1 ounce gin
    • 1/2 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
    • 1/2 ounce simple syrup
    • 3 ounces Champagne (or other sparkling wine)
    • Garnish: lemon twist
    • Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.Strain into a Champagne flute.Top with the Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Our Trine adventure continues! Join us as we jump between 2 and 3D, try to coin a new phrase for a gaming mechanic, and discover the magic of flight in Trine 3 and Trine 4, developed by Frozenbyte.

In this episode we cover:

• Rob can’t stop playing monster-catching games
• Beating Pokemon as a life milestone
• The drama of an unfinished game - Frozenbyte’s Trine 3 AMA
• Wright Bros. moments in Trine 4
• Our 2022 Gaming New Year’s Resolutions

Game Details:

• Name: Trine 3 and Trine 4
• We played them on: PC
• Also Available on: Nintendo Switch, Xbox and Xbox One, Playstation 3 and 4
• Developer: Frozenbyte
• Year: 2015 and 2019

Post Trine 3 Frozenbyte Reddit AMA

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Late - but look! It’s another Ours, Played Bundle Episode! We join Amadeus, Pontius, and Zoya on a grand adventure. Much like our heroes’ plans are interrupted by the will of the Trine, we’ve put together an unplanned bundle ep as we explore Trine and Trine 2, developed by Frozenbyte.

POD UPDATE: As Rob’s grad school program kicks into high gear, we will be scaling back to one ep a month. If we feel we can do more, we will! But we want to make sure we have enough time to get to know the games we play and put out quality content while navigating his final semesters in school. We love this show and are so grateful to you for sticking with us through this busy time in our lives.

In this episode we cover:

• An utterly insane 3 weeks of home repair disasters and a close call on the road
• Rob is 1,000 years old in Halo-playing years
• The 20-minute-rule in gaming or, cutting bait and moving on
• “Anti-Hero Co-op,” or, “Abandon Your Wife”

Game Details:

• Name: Trine and Trine 2
• We played them on: PC
• Also Available on: Nintendo Switch, Xbox and Xbox One, Playstation 3 and 4
• Developer: Frozenbyte
• Year: 2009 and 2011

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To pair with Trine and Trine 2, we recommend:

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Watch all five Mythica movies (2014 - 2017)! These fantasy-packed (and delightfully campy, at times) adventure films pair perfectly with our trio of heroes. All are available on Prime Video.
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Greenback
    • 1.5 oz gin
    • ¾ oz creme de menthe
    • ½ oz fresh lime juice
    • 2-3 oz club soda (optional)
    • Shake gin, creme de menthe, and lime juice. Strain into ice filled old fashioned glass. Top with club soda as desired.
    • To fit Trine, garnish with one of those little sword toothpicks and a lime wedge.

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Ready to dance for your feline captors? Look for us on the island stage in this week's episode. We revisit and finally conquer one of our first co-op games, BattleBlock Theater by The Behemoth.

In this episode we cover:

• The very clear and important difference in world vs chapter of the game
• You can’t reset the past, and that is ok (preferable, even)
• Theme music as a litmus test of Behemoth humor
• The appeal of Kitty Litter Box cake

Game Details:

• Name: BattleBlock Theater
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Xbox 360 and Xbox One
• Developer: The Behemoth
• Year: 2013

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To pair with BattleBlock Theater, we recommend:

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Cupcake cats (cat-cakes?)
    • Select your favorite cupcake recipe (boxed or from scratch!).
    • Bake as directed - the flair will come in the decorating.
    • Got any leftover halloween candy? Set aside some mini chocolate bars - the square ones will work best.
    • Cut them in half to make 2 triangles - these will become your ears.
    • Place them towards the top of each cupcake, point up.
    • Bonus - take a chocolate chip (or m&m) and place in the center as a nose.
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Foghorn
    • 2 ounces dry gin
    • 1/2 ounce lime juice
    • 4 ounces ginger beer, or ginger ale
    • Lime wedge, for garnish
    • Gin and lime juice in ice filled old fashioned glass. Top with ginger beer or ginger ale and stir. Garnish with lime wedge and enjoy!
      • Spoilers - if you give one to your friend and they don’t respond…. Dump them overboard!

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We’re back with another Gloomcravens episode! This week, we start the main Jaws of the Lion campaign scenarios and get pulled into our first side quest. Venture with us as we split the party (what?!?) and enjoy a special guest appearance by our four-legged co-host.

Spoiler Alert - this ep will cover introductory scenarios 6 and 21 in the game, so we do include general descriptions of what occurs in the scenario book. If you are at all concerned about spoilers in this long-term campaign, please play before listening.

Game Details:

• Name: Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion
• Medium: Board game
• Developer: Cephalofair
• Year: 2020

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Theme Song Credits:

"Oppressive Gloom" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Quick! We’ve finally gotten a break in Rob’s busy work schedule to get to the card table and continue our Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion campaign. The wait was worth it for us to dive back into the world of mystery and monsters as we conclude the introductory scenarios and look ahead to starting Jaws of the Lion in earnest.

Spoiler Alert - this ep will cover introductory scenarios 4 and 5 in the game, so we do include general descriptions of what occurs in the scenario book. If you are at all concerned about spoilers in this long-term campaign, please play before listening.

Game Details:

• Name: Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion
• Medium: Board game
• Developer: Cephalofair
• Year: 2020

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Theme Song Credits:

"Oppressive Gloom" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Look at that! Cheers to one year in podcasting. Laugh with us as we look back on a year in covering co-op gaming through pointless stats, favs vs flops, and what we’ve learned about ourselves as individual gamers and as a pair.

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Clear the card table and the bookshelf - we’ve got to make room for this game. An impulse buy has led to new gems in our board game collection and library. Tune in as we clear our minds and steel our resolve in the cooperative limited communication card game, Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game, published by Osprey Games and based upon the bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas.

In this episode we cover:

• Two trips to the auto repair shop are decidedly not better than one
• Actually reading the source material is a good way to avoid spoilers
• Our hope that our listeners are very nice people… or at least tolerable

Game Details:

• Name: Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game
• Medium: Board Game
• Publisher: Osprey Games
• Year: 2019

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To pair with Embers of Memory, we recommend:

• Bailey’s Recommendation
  • Read the books! Sounds obvious, huh? Take it from us as newcomers to the series, you will get more out of the game by reading the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Bailey is already hooked!
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Play this while watching or listening to something else! The solitaire-like pace and limited communication allow you to play while splitting your attention

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Creative, unique, and shrouded in mystery, Moon Hunters by Kitfox Games is unlike other games we’ve covered. Tune in as we study up for a personality test game and struggle to determine if the results are reflective of the game or of ourselves.

In this episode we cover:

• Longing to be ambushed by enemies
• The irony of a Dark Souls fan wishing for more in-game explanation
• A solution to character envy

Game Details:

• Name: Moon Hunters
• We played it on: PC
• Also available on: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
• Developer: Kitfox Games
• Year: 2016

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To pair with Moon Hunters, we recommend

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Listen to They Might Be Giants “The Mesopotamians” - the final song in their album The Else
  • Shout out to Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh!
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Star cocktail
    • 1.5 oz apple brandy
    • 1.5 oz sweet vermouth
    • 3 dashes peychaud’s bitters
    • 2 dashes simple syrup
    • Lemon twist garnish
    • Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, stir, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass

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Sun’s up and the clock is ticking - it is time to get to work. And boy, we have never enjoyed chores this much! Join us as we gush about our agricultural exploits, romantic foibles with NPCs, and confusing James Taylor for Uncle Iroh in Stardew Valley by ConcernedApe.

In this episode we cover:

• How well clapping comes across on microphones
• Soulslike farming simulators
• The objectively correct order of the seasons
• Is Stardew Valley worth breaking up over?

Game Details:

• Name: Stardew Valley
• We played it on: Nintendo Switch
• Also available on: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC
• Developer: ConcernedApe and publishing by Chucklefish
• Year: 2016

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• Spirit of the game is getting to know the small town and be a part of it sooooo….
• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Visit a local farmers’ market
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Visit a local brewery or distillery - vaccinated, outdoors, masked and distanced as needed!
    • Shout out Fulltilt brewing and Baltimore Spirits company

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Sickness cannot stop Ours, Played; all it can do is delay it for a while. We’re back from our summer colds and ready for true love and high adventure in the cooperative match-3 board game with true to life minis in The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game published by Ravensburger.

In this episode we cover:

• How colds hit harder after a year of isolation
• Our Discord debut
• Miracle cures for board game minis
• The complexity of the Fire Swamp level (we’re not thinking of building a summer home there, though)

Game Details:

• Name: The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game
• Format: Board Game
• Publisher: Ravensburger
• Year: 2020

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To pair with The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game, we recommend

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Watching the 1987 movie, The Princess Bride, of course!
  • Reading Carey Elwes’s (Wesley) book, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Vodka Martini - the original colorless, odorless poison!
    • 2 oz good Vodka
    • ½ oz dry vermouth
    • Lemon twist
    • Stir liquid ingredients over ice, strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with Lemon Twist.

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The game room is nearly set up, so it is time to return to the table top! Join us at the tabletop in the next installment of our miniseries as we continue to explore Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion by Cephalofair.

Spoiler Alert - this ep will cover scenarios 2 and 3 in the game, so we do include general descriptions of what occurs in the scenario book. If you are at all concerned about spoilers in this long-term campaign, please play before listening.

Game Details:

• Name: Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion
• Medium: Board game
• Developer: Cephalofair
• Year: 2020

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Theme Song Credits:

"Oppressive Gloom" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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We put one foot in front of the other and managed to beat a game and get an episode out on time despite our move! That was no small….feet. Partner up and join our team of helper bots as we bobble through 3D puzzle platforming challenges in NExT Studios’ Biped.

In this episode we cover:

• Our short careers as speedrunners
• Sacrificing marital and in-game harmony for laughs
• Our recommendations for the Biped sequel

Game Details:

• Name: Biped
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch
• Developer: NExT Studios
• Year: 2020

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To pair with Biped, we recommend

• Bailey’s recommendation
  • Summer is coming, and I'm looking forward to baking in our new kitchen.
  • I’m recommending a dessert that has two prominent flavors, so, I’m suggesting homemade strawberry lemonade bars.
  • Ingredients
    • Crust
      • ½ cup of butter (room temp)
      • ¼ cup of sugar
      • 1 ½ cups of flour
      • ¼ tsp of vanilla extract
      • A pinch of salt
    • Filling
      • 1 cup of fresh lemon juice
      • 1 tsp lemon zest
      • ¾ cups of diced strawberries
      • 1 ¼ cups of sugar
      • 4 large eggs
      • ¼ cup of flour
      • ½ tsp of baking powder
      • A pinch of salt
      • Powdered sugar (for dusting)
  • Instructions (Crust)
    • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
    • Line baking pan with parchment paper
    • In a bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
    • Add flour and salt and continue beating until dough forms
    • Bake in the oven for 18 mins or until edges are golden brown
  • Instructions (Filling)
    • In a blender, add lemon juice, lemon zest, diced strawberries, and sugar, blend until smooth
    • Add eggs and blend again
    • Add flour, baking powder, and pinch of salt and blend for another 15 seconds
    • Pour mixture on crust and bake in the oven for 35-40 mins
    • Let cool completely
    • Dust with powdered sugar
• Rob’s recommendation
  • Left hand
    • 1 1/ 2 ounces bourbon
    • 3/ 4 ounce sweet vermouth
    • 3/ 4 ounce Bruto Americano
    • 2 dashes Xocolatl Mole Bitters
    • Cherries, for garnish
    • All mixing glass with ice and stir. Strain and garnish with cherries
  • Right Hand
    • 2 oz rum
    • 1 oz sweet vermouth
    • 1 oz campari
    • 2 dashes mole bitters
    • All in mixing glass with ice, stir, strain, orange twist garnish

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Packin’s takin’ up our time, we’re stressed and wanna shout. Life’s boxed up in cardboard ‘cuz we’re…..movin’ out. Not sure if Billy Joel inspired this co-op game, but in this episode, we blur the lines of reality and gaming by playing the hilariously frantic moving simulator, Moving Out, by DevM Games and SMG Studio while also packing for our real life move. Don’t just stand there - everything’s gotta go!

In this episode we cover:

• The benefits of children’s educational games played by adults
• Farts. Yes, really.
• Which part of speech is fart. Again, yes, really.
• The efficiency of chucking possessions rather than carefully moving them

Game Details:

• Name: Moving Out
• We played it on PC.
• Also available on: PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch
• Developer: DevM Games, SMG Studio. Published by Team17 (same folks who bring you Overcooked and Overcooked 2)
• Year: 2020

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To pair with Moving Out, we recommend moving out of your home - just kidding!

• Home decor shows - there’s a million of them out there, but two that got me through getting ready to move were Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and Get Organized with the Home Edit - both on Netflix!
• Moving liquor and beer is a pain… so our suggestion is just drink whatever is left.
  • For us that was tequila, pineapple juice and a lime wedge. It gets the job done.

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The Wizard of Oz gave the Cowardly Lion courage, and in this episode, we muster up our own bravery to finally start our campaign in the epic adventure board game named for the king of the forest. Join us at the tabletop in the first part of our miniseries as we begin to explore Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion by Cephalofair.

Spoiler Alert - this ep will cover the first scenario in the game, so we do include general descriptions of what occurs in the scenario book. If you are at all concerned about spoilers in this long-term campaign, please play before listening.

Game Details:

• Name: Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion
• Medium: Board game
• Developer: Cephalofair
• Year: 2020

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Theme Song Credits:

"Oppressive Gloom" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Step right up, young wizards - think you have what it takes to master the Chaos Trials? As it turns out, it takes quite a lot. Come join us as we battle our way through dungeons of elemental enemies and frantically search for the health-potion-bestowing relic merchant in Wizard of Legend by Contingent99.

In this episode we cover:

• The fact that ice is also water
• How anthropomorphized objects soften the blow of losing
• Cooperative capitalism vs deceptive advertising
• Marriage interrupting time for video games

Game Details:

• Name: Wizard of Legend
• Medium: We played on PC, also available on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Contingent 99
• Released: May 2018

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To pair with Wizard of Legend, we recommend:

• Playing Big Book of Madness
  • We thought we’d pair one element-slinging wizard game with another. This one is tabletop, however.
  • Check out our previous episode on BBOM.
• Delayed Blast Fireball
  • Delayed blast fireball straight from the D&D cookbook:
  • 1.5 cups bourbon
  • ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 5 cinnamon sticks broken in half
  • ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup hot water
  • Fill glass jar with bourbon, red pepper flakes, and cinnamon, shake and sit for 5 days. Shake once per day. After infusing, combine brown sugar and water and strain bourbon into the mixture
  • Enjoy neat or as a part of another whiskey cocktail that could benefit from some heat!

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Extra extra, read all about it! We’re bringing you the latest in Ours, Played news in our first ever Patch Notes episode. We’re super excited to announce some new content ideas, and we can’t wait to share them with you.

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We look to the sea - a spunky young guitarist, and her feline first mate for company. Come aboard our ship as we care for the souls of the nearly-departed in the whimsical, deeply emotional, and ultimately triumphant cooperative resource management video game, Spiritfarer, by Thunder Lotus.

In this episode we cover:

• The burgeoning genre of grieving simulators
• Drunk sawmill operation. Seriously.
• How many times is too many times to tease your spouse and co-host in one episode

Game Details:

• Name: Spiritfarer
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation4, Xbox One
• Developer: Thunder Lotus
• Year: 2020

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To pair with Spiritfarer, we recommend:

• Restorative yoga and/or guided meditation
• Charon
  • 1oz. Vodka
  • 1oz. Cherry Brandy
  • 1oz. Orange Juice
  • Shake on ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass

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Dice, dice, baby. You won’t need the whole dining room table for this one, but you’ll definitely want to break out the dice trays! Descend down the monster and trap-laden floors with us in this miniature cooperative dice pool board game.

In this episode we cover:

• The real life dangers of virtual sea travel
• Too many dice can spoil the broth, but that’s not the American way
• Rob’s inability to ever use the correct singular/plural of dice or die
• Bailey’s inability to ever use roguelite or roguelike correctly
• Ikea’s guerilla support of our board gaming addiction

Game Details:

• Name: One Deck Dungeon
• We played it as a board game
• Also Available as a video game on PC
• Publisher: Asmadi Games
• Year: 2016

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To pair with One Deck Dungeon, we recommend

• Watching Xena: Warrior Princess
• Watching The Dungeon Master (aka Ragewar)

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Sure, we’ve had one Player, yes, but what about Second Player? In this episode of Ours, Played, we band together with the Fellowship on their quest to destroy the one ring - one brick at a time. Bash, break, and build your way through Middle Earth with all your favorite characters and lighthearted Lego fun in Lego: The Lord of the Rings by Traveller’s Tales.

In this episode we cover:

• The importance of hitting record to… actually record audio
• The objective value of the elderly
• How to take cool LOTR monsters and make them boring AF
• The things we do for loving the original IP

Game Details:

• Name: Lego: The Lord of the Rings
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
• Developer: Traveller's Tales
• Year: 2012

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To pair with Lego: The Lord of the Rings, we recommend

• Watching the The Lord of the Rings movies, of course! Extended editions if you are superfans like we are.
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King
• French Gimli-et ...er….Gimlet
  • 2 Oz Gin
  • 1.5 oz elderflower liqueur (St. Germain)
  • .5 oz lime juice
  • Shake all ingredients over ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge (or if you haven’t gone grocery shopping in a while like me, use the dehydrated lime wheels you’ve been storing).

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She’s hot and he’s cold. She jumps and he rolls. She swims as he glides; true love they will find. (Ok - enough with the Katy Perry remix). Get close to your Player 2 and join us as polar opposites become close companions in this beautifully illustrated, cooperative puzzle platformer, Degrees of Separation by Moondrop.

In this episode we cover:

• Figuring out who needs to be where in order to do what
• Scarves: Magical keys to doors OR emo boy fashion staples
• Does it count as beating the game if you accidentally missed a whole level?
• Rob’s incredibly high standards for unlocking levels in games.

Game Details:

• Name: Degrees of Separation
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Moondrop
• Year: 2019

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To pair with Degrees of Separation, we recommend:

Love Potion

• ⅓ cup Vodka
• ¼ cup Peach Schnapps
• 1 cup Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice (or preferred red juice)
• Pour all ingredients into a swing top bottle, gently swirl to incorporate, and refrigerate until serving. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with Strawberry and raspberry on the rim.

Braided Heart Loaf

• Ingredients
  • 1 package of dry yeast
  • 0.25 cup (50 g) warm water
  • 1 tsp. (4.2 g) sugar
  • 2 cups (400 g) milk
  • 0.5 cup (100 g) sugar
  • 0.5 cup (100 g) shortening
  • 2 tsp.(2.1 g) salt
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 7 cups (1400 g) of flour
• Baking Instructions
  • Add 1 tsp. of sugar to warm water; dissolve yeast into water
  • Scald milk, and then add the 0.5 cup sugar, salt, and shortening. Stir to combine, then take off of the heat and cool until lukewarm.
  • Add the yeast mixture to the milk mixture; stir in the eggs.
  • Start adding the flour a little at a time, stirring to blend in.
  • When dough is too thick to stir by hand, dump on a floured board and knead until smooth and elastic.
  • Put dough into a greased bowl, cover and set in a warm place to rise until double in size.
  • Remove from the bowl and place on a surface for shaping. Punch down dough and divide into 6 equal parts.
  • Roll each part into a rope about 24 inches (60 cm) long.
  • Use 3 ropes and make braid; repeat with the other 3 ropes.
  • On a large pizza pan or tray, shape a heart, (Each rope will he half of the heart). Wet ends of water and work together.
  • Let the dough rise in a warm place for about 1 hour.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 F (176 Celsius) degrees.
  • Bake until bread is brown (about 50 mins). Set to cool before enjoying.

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3...2…1... We have liftoff! Our mission in search of the mysterious Planet 9 begins. Don your pressurized spacesuit and turn off your comms as communication is limited in this cooperative trick-taking card game, The Crew, published by Kosmos Games.

In this episode we cover:

• Our AI teammate trying to kill us
• Whether or not 52 pickup is actually a card game
• Defining the exact moment that talking in a limited communication becomes cheating

Game Details:

• Name: The Crew - The Quest for Planet Nine
• Medium: Board Game
• Publisher: Kosmos Games
• Year: 2020

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To pair with The Crew, we recommend:

Space Junk Cookies (an out-of-this-world take on the Kitchen Sink Cookie)

• Ingredients
  • 2 tbs.(34 g) canola oil
  • 1 cup (201 g) butter (softened)
  • 1.5 tsp. (6 g) baking soda
  • 1 cup (201 g) brown sugar
  • 2 tbs. (34 g) cornstarch
  • 0.5 cup (100 g) granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3.25 (650 g) cups of flour
  • 1 tsp. (4.2 g) salt
  • 2 tsp. (8.4 g) vanilla
  • 1-2 cups (200 - 400 g) chopped Milky Way bars
  • 1 cup (201 g) chopped pretzels
  • 1 cup (201 g) chopped walnuts
• Baking Instructions
  • Cream together butter, oil, and sugars until light and fluffy
  • Add eggs, vanilla, and salt until combined
  • Add baking soda, cornstarch and half of the flour. Mix only until combined.
  • Add chopped Milky Way bars, pretzels, and walnuts.
  • Chill dough for 1 hour.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176 Celsius)
  • Drop heaping spoonfuls of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Bake for 7-8 mins or until the tops are golden brown.
  • Remove from the oven and let cool on pan for 2 mins.
  • Transfer to the cooling rack before enjoying.

Venus:

• 2 oz gin
• 1 oz cointreau
• ¼ oz simple syrup
• Dash Peychaud’s bitters
• 6 Raspberries
• Shake all ingredients (Raspberries too!) over ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with remaining raspberries

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All aboard! Train’s leaving the platform - but wait! We still need to build the track. Grab your tickets and meet us at the station as we frantically lead our locomotive through puzzling pixelated landscapes in Unrailed! by Indoor Astronaut.

In this episode we cover:

• A cooperative board game announcement that has us (Rob) super hyped
• The acceptable level of emphasis for pronouncing exclamation points
• The similarities of being a railway worker and a line cook
• Introducing….Ours, Played Date Night!

Game Details:

• Name: Unrailed!
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Xbox, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Indoor Astronaut
• Year: 2019

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To pair with Unrailed!, we recommend:

• Drinking a Dynamite
  • 1 oz Gran Marnier or other orange liqueur such as Cointreau
  • ½ oz Cognac
  • 2 dashes angostura bitters
  • 1 oz orange juice
  • Combine all ingredients in a chilled champagne flute or cocktail glass and top with champagne
• Watching The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

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Smiles, everyone! Life on the island sure is swell thanks to our own, Mr. Sunshine! Or so some might want you to believe. Join us as we jump, kick, and roll our way into revolution in the puzzle adventure game, Pikuniku, by Sectordub. Plus, we explore finding opportunities for co-op within single-player game modes.

In this episode we cover:

• Whether or not it is ok to willfully buy into government coverups if it’s profitable
• The performance enhancing properties of whiskey for puzzle platformers
• The one surefire strategy for tricking your partner into enjoying gaming

Game Details:

• Name: Pikuniku
• We played it on: PC
• Also Available on: Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Sectordub
• Year: 2019

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Focus, breach mages! For The Nameless approaches, and the fate of the city of Gravehold is in your hands. Join us as we build up our decks and pray that the turn order is in our favor, so that we may drive back the vicious nemeses and their hoards of minions.

In this episode we cover:

• To shuffle, or not to shuffle? Flipping a traditional convention of deck-building games on its head.
• The going conversion rate of HP to citizens of Gravehold.
• Rob gushes over the most beautifully organized board game he has ever seen.

Game Details:

• Name: Aeon’s End: Second Edition
• Medium: Board Game
• Publisher: Indie Boards and Cards
• Year: 2017

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Surprise! It’s time for an Ours, Played bonus episode. In our first holiday special, we’re asking you to help us find what to play on game night. Listen as we highlight the co-op games that are at the top of our wish lists this year, and let us know which game should find its way under our tree.

Wish List Games:

• Gloomhaven
• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth
• The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game
• Spiritfarer
• Stuffed Fables
• Unrailed!

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They - are - family! Linda, John, Kevin, and Lucy! Not forgetting the rest of the Bergsons, of course. This week we were adopted by the guardians of Mount Morta to drive back the Corruption and protect our lands.

In this episode we cover:

• Growing as a team: leveraging leveling up to boost all Bergson family members’ stats.
• Interior design inspired by the Bergsons’ manor.
• The rogue-like and rogue-lite talk: moving beyond frustration to realizing that death is progression.

Game Details:

• Name: Children of Morta
• We played it on: PC
• Also available on: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch.
• Developer: Dead Mage Inc.
• Year: 2019

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It can be a big and scary world out there. When we feel broken or are far from home, we are made whole by those we keep close. Come get tangled up with us in adventure, memory, and yes...yarn, in Coldwood Interactive’s adorable co-op puzzle platformer, Unravel Two.

In this episode we cover:

• Bringing your own meaning to an ambiguous story line.
• Actually remembering the co-op controls increases your chances for success.
• Tangling ourselves up in the coolest puzzle platformer mechanic we’ve ever seen.

Game Details:

• Name: Unravel 2
• We played it on: PC
• Also available on: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Coldwood Interactive
• Year: 2018

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We’re surrounded! Archers, knights, swordsmen - to arms! After a gaming PC snafu delayed our intended game review, we broke out another low-tech family favorite, Fireside Games’ Castle Panic. Join our ranks as we defend our castle from an onslaught of monsters, plague, and the dreaded giant boulder.

In this episode we discuss:

• The appropriate level of mourning when one’s gaming PC dies suddenly
• How it's totally fine to sacrifice your entire castle as long as one tower survives and you kill all the baddies
• How Castle Panic is inextricably linked to the Dungeons and Dragons movie from 2000…

Game Details:

• Name: Castle Panic
  • Castle Panic The Wizard’s Tower
  • Castle Panic Engines of War
  • Castle Panic The Dark Titan
• Medium: Board Game
• Developer: Fireside Games
• Year: 2009 (base game)

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A shadowy figure approaches you. He offers you his full protection from the terrors of the night, and all he asks for in exchange is a few hours of your time. Get ready to focus up, gather resources, and test your luck with us in Fantasy Flight’s Eldritch Horror. Keep your allies close and enemies as far away as you can if you hope to survive the mythos phase!

In this episode we discuss:

• Our board game preference: Long and complex, or really long and complex
• The exact odds of rolling a 5 or a 6 on a six sided die
• How many expansions is too many expansions for one of your favorite games

Game Details:

• Name: Eldritch Horror
• Medium: Board Game
• Developer: Fantasy Flight Games
• Year: 2013

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It’s an Ours, Played two-for-one special! This week we lock, load, and test our luck on hostile alien planets in Hopoo Games’ Risk of Rain 1 AND 2 in our first ever bundle episode.

In this episode we discuss:

• Just how much time and effort has gone into defining the term rogue-like
• Why it's ok to large amounts of alien monsters even if you don’t take the time to learn about them in item descriptions
• Our preferred method of teleportation in video games

Game Details:

• Name: Risk of Rain & Risk of Rain 2
• We played them on: PC
• Risk of Rain 2 is also available on: Xbox, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Hopoo Games
• Year: 2013 & 2020

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Battlestations, L.O.V.E.R.S.! Anti-love has corrupted the universe, and it's up to us to free our space friends and bring back the love. Join us on EP 4 of Ours, Played as we navigate the playfully psychedelic cosmos of @asteroidbase’s Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

In this episode we discuss:

• The pros and cons of rescuing all your friends, or just the required minimum
• While 2 might be better than 1, 2 players is probably not better than 4 players
• The shortcomings of playing co-op with an AI controlled cute space animal

Game Details:

• Name: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• We played it on: PC
• Also available on: Xbox, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: Asteroid Base
• Year: 2015

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We’ll shoot, smack, and spellcast our way through the monster-swarmed world of Chronicon - an incredibly detailed fantasy RPG by a solo developer. Join us on our quest to max out our kill-streak and strive to find legendary-level loot.

In this episode we discuss:

• The importance of killing monsters quickly when one is killing monsters
• Our appreciation for variable and adjustable difficulty options in video games
• An impressive early access success story

Game Details:

• Name: Chronicon
• We played it on: PC
• Developer: Subworld
• Year: 2015

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Put down the controllers and clear the table - we’re switching to a board game tonight. Terrifying creatures run amok in the Elementary College, and it’s up to our team of magic students to seal them back into The Big Book of Madness through our family’s favorite cooperative, deck-building, strategy game.

In this episode we discuss:

• Whether or not Roman numerals should be read phonetically
• Why choosing the coolest looking character is not always the best strategy
• If small cards are an acceptable way to add difficulty to a board game

Game Details:

• Name: The Big Book of Madness
• Medium: Board game
• Developer: Iello
• Year: 2015

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Greetings, Knight! Grab a friend, a weapon, and the floating animal sidekick of your choice, and join us on this episode of Ours, Played as we hack and slash through the classic The Behemoth beat-em-up, Castle Crashers. We are excited to share the couple’s perspective on this fast-paced and lighthearted co-op game.

In this episode we cover:

• Which floating animal makes the best pet
• Our dislike for beach volleyball (when it comes to our fantasy games, at least)
• The ethics of beating up your friends to rescue a princess

Game Details:

• Name: Castle Crashers
• We played it on: PC
• Also available on: Xbox, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Developer: The Behemoth
• Year: 2008

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Welcome to Ours, Played - a podcast for couples looking to find the perfect cooperative video game or board game. We believe the best cooperative games fit the players both as individuals and as a team. In this first episode, we share what we each look for in the games we play and reveal some of our favorite co-op games.

The Games that Made Us - below are games that we have played throughout our lives that exemplify what we look for in games.

• Animal Crossing Wild World
• Dark Souls
• Dead Cells
• Killing Floor
• Outward
• Path of Exile
• Risk of Rain
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Yoshi’s Island DS

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