BoardwithFriends: Recent Episodes
and all the Nerdy Fun!
A board game podcast with reviews of new and old games, interviews with designers and publishers, and a knack for staying on topic at least 60% of the time.
Zach Sean and Devon unite once more to finish up their review of the War For Cybertron Trilogy's final chapter Kingdom.
Zach and Sean discuss the events of Renegade Con 2021. We learn all about the new Essence20 RPG system that will be used for the Power Rangers, GIJoe, Transformers and My Little Pony RPGs. We Discuss the 3 new Deck Building games for Power Rangers, Transformers and GIjoe, and upcoming releases for Heroes of the Grid.
Zach is joined by Carla from Weird Giraffe games to discuss some recent plays and discuss the current state of board game publishing.
Zach and Sean finally had some game nights! We talk about several expansions to some of our favorite games including Villainous. We also go over some new stuff like the Star Dew Valley board game.
We're back! It's been a long hiatus and we apologize. There's going to be some changes going forward where we put out more off topic episodes but there will still be Board Game content to be had. In this episode Zach and Sean (eventually) discuss their top 5 games of all time!
Zach and Sean are once again Joined by Devon Decker of the Say Report to discuss our thoughts, reactions, and opinions on the second chapter of Netflix's Transformers War For Cybertron Trilogy: Earthrise.
Zach and Sean are joined by the infamous Devon Decker of The Say Report to discuss the new Netflix series Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege.
Zach and Sean return to the air waves. We apologize for the wait to all 5 of you! In todays episode we discuss the death of the Transformers Trading card game. We then look at some recent plays of Zach's like the new Jungle Cruise board game and the Dresden Files card game. Then we discuss playing some classic games over steam.
Going a little crazy here. Zach and Sean discuss a few recent plays of Attacktix and Sean gets the one thing he's wanted since the very beginning. Zach finally plays Jack Box Party Pack. Oh and we go off topic. Like a lot.
Zach and Sean are stuck at home just like most of the world, in this more off the cuff episode they discuss how they're dealing with it. Stay safe everyone and wash your hands.
Zach and Sean discuss recent plays of Catan, Love Letter, Steam Park, Hotel Tycoon, and then dive into a discussion on what makes a great Escape Room.
Zach sits down with Kevin Russ the designer of Tumble Town coming to Kick Starter from Weird Giraffe Games.
Zach and Sean kick off 2020 with their usual round of recent plays including Nyctophobia, A fake artist goes to New York, Celestia, and Sean's experience with a mail order murder mystery. We then give an in depth first impressions review of the latest Tiny Epic from Gamelyn Games, Tiny EPic Tactics.
Zach and Sean sit down and almost seriosly discuss the future a critical failure. What's working, what's changing, and we only get sidetracked ... ten or so times.
Zach and Sean are joined by Carla Kopp of Weird Giraffe Games to countdown our top 5 games we've played this year!
Zach and Seand are joined by Cory from The Commander Crew youtube channel to discuss an updated opinion on the Transformers Trading Card Game from Wizards of the Coast.
Zach and Sean go through their latest plays at Sean's bachelor party like Trash Pandas and a 6 Player game of Heroes of land air and Sea. They then go over a comparison of Betrayal at the House on the Hill vs Betrayal Legacy. No spoilers of course.
Zach and Sean are Joined by Mike from the Fanholes Podcast to discuss the new Power Rangers Heroes of the Grid board game from Renegade Games.
Zach is not joined by Sean this month, instead Carla from Weird Giraffe Games jumps into the cohost Chair. We discuss Recent plays of Rajas in the Ganges, Istabul, Star Wars Risk, and the Evil Comes Prepared expansion to Disney's Villainous. We then go into our Topic of how to handle unplayed games.
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Zach and Sean are joined by Sean's brother Ryan to discuss recent plays of Celestia, Racoon Tycoon, and more. We then dive into a discussion of how I.P. games have changed over the years and what we like to see out of them in modern times.
Zach and Sean are back to discuss some recent plays, and they dive into the latest Tiny Epic game from Scott Almes and Gamelyn Games, Tiny Epic Mechs.
Zach and Sean celebrate their 50th episode with a very special guest Carla Kopp from Weird Giraffe Games. We discuss recent plays like Groves, Villainous, the Venom Assault expansion, Cold Water Crown, Binding of Isaac, and Fireball Island, We then give a list of our Top 5 easy to teach games.
Zach and Sean embark on an epic SPOILER filled discussion of Avengers Endgame. If you have not seen this movie and do not wish to know anything DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS. If you have seen it or just don't care. Well, we get into it it.
Sean's sick, Zach is busy, just enough time to discuss some recent plays and give our first impressions of Spirit Island!
Zach and Sean discuss recent plays of Fleet the dice Game, Attacktix, Welcome To, Yahtzi, Heroes of Land Air and Sea, and their time at Totalcon 2019. They then dive into a full review of the recently released kickstarter game FireTower from Runaway Parade.
Sean and Zach discuss their ambitions to be the very best like no one ever was! Pocket Monsters are everywhere in this off topic Bored with Friends episode on pokemon.
In this episode Zach and Sean go over some games that are soon to be released like the upcoming expansion to Villainous, wave 2 of the Transformers TCG, Big Easy Busking's revised kickstarter, and Tiny Epic Tactics from Gamelyn Games. They then discuss their ideal gameroom or Nerd cave imagining all the fun things they could possibly want.
Critical Failure has launched a new campaign and seeing as this month we don't have an off topic episode for you, well ... Zach thought he'd share the feed. Word of warning there's some adult language and some less then kid friendly humor in this episode. So if younger ears are listening you've been worned.
Zach and Sean are back in 2019 discussing recent plays of Heart and Brain, Dragon Ball Super card game, Harry potter Clue and their experiences with previews of Big Easy Busking and Animal Kingdoms. We then give a in depth first impressions review of Master of the Galaxy from Ares Games.
Zach finally gets a switch! Sean and Zach discuss games like Super Mario Party, Smash Bros, and more.
Zach sits down with game designer Steve Aramini to learn all about the development of the award winning game Animal Kingdoms from Galactic Raptor Games.
Sean and Zach discuss their top ten games they played in 2018. The rules were simple, only games you played for the first time this year. Let's see what they chose and we'll see you all next year!
Zach and Sean discuss recent plays of Shadow Hunters and House of Danger. Sean tries to sneak in more discussion about JackBox Party Pack. We then give a full review of Stellar Leap from Weird Giraffe Games.
Sean and Zach discuss recent plays of Onitama and Mario Party. They then dive into TWO spooky reviews of Paws and Padlocks from Puppy Slime Games, and Tiny Epic Zombies from Gamelyn Games.
Zach and Sean go over some things. Where the shows are out, how Critical Failure is doing, and where things are going.
Zach sits down again with Carla from Weird Giraffe Games to discuss her latest project up on kickstarter Dreams of Tomorrow.
Check out the Kickstarter here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weirdgiraffegames/dreams-of-tomorrow
At last, Transformers has a Trading Card Game! Zach and Sean review their experience with this new release from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. The Transformers TCG will be available for purchase on September 28th so if you like what you hear, go out and find it! This promotional copy was provided for free for review purposes from Hasbro.
Zach and Sean discuss some recent plays including the children's RPG system Amazing Tales. We then give a full review of the Kickstarter game Everdell from Starling Games.
Zach is joined by Justin Mike and John to discuss their love of Gunpla and model kit making. Sean couldn't make it cause he didn't do his homework.
Zach and Sean discuss their upcoming show at Cumbercon, September 29th at the Cumberland Public Library in Rhode Island. They then go over recent plays of Fly, Rum, Karuba and more. Finally they review the Dice Hate me Games Beer lovers extravaganza BrewCrafters!
Zach, Vanessa, and Sean discuss the most Magical place on Earth! Well Sean and Vanessa do anyway, Zach chimes in once in a while.
Zach sits down with James from Joggle Games. A local designer in Rhode Island to discuss the newest Game Crown of Aragon. If you like what you hear head over to Joggle's website www.jogglegames.com And support their Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jksearles/crown-of-aragon
Sean and Zach discuss recent plays of Spy from pack-o-games, What did you Meme, and Banana Bandits from CMON. We then forego our usual full review of a title to engage in a discussion topic of our favorite child hood memories in Board Games. NOTE: We had some technical difficulties recording the skype feed which unfortunately resulted in the conversation cutting short.
Zach and Sean have a discussion about Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, thoughts, feelings, emotional outbursts, revelations are to be had in this hour long rant about this Fantastic sequel that had no right to exist.
Zach and Sean go over recent plays of Crown of Aragon from Joggle, Hero Realms from White wizard Games, Drinking quest, Sentinels of the Multiverse, and Castles of Caladale from Renegade Games. We then give a full review of Heroes of Land Air and Sea from Gamelyn Games by Scott Almes.
Zach and Sean discuss recent plays of Outburst from Hasbro, The Mcdonald's Game from Milton Bradley, Racko, and Fortress from Stronghold Games. We then discuss our recent experience with the prototype for the upcoming FireBall Island: The Curse of Vulkar from Restoration Games.
Zach is joined by Vanessa and his Mom! Together they discuss recent plays of Potion explosion, Doctor Eureka, and Terra-forming Mars. We then deep dive into the much anticipated Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks board game from Gale Force Nine.
Zach interviews Carla from Weird Giraffe Games! Carla brings us up to speed on Stellar Leap and chat's about their latest project Fire in the Library coming to Kickstarter on March 19th 2018
Sean brings the game to the table this time, he and Zach review Scott Pilgrim's precious little card game from Renegade Games.
In our second off topic episode Sean decides to subject everyone to trying our Dungeons and Dragons. Turns out it's pretty fun leading to the creation of our 3rd show Critical Failure.
Zach and Sean discuss recent plays then review the deck building space epic CLANK IN SPAAAAACE from Renegade Games
In our first episode of our off topic show BORED with friends, Zach, Sean and Devon discuss volume 1 of IDW publishing's series Transformers: More then Meets the Eye by James Roberts.
Originally aired in November of 2017 Zach is joined by Devon and his sister Dayle in this extra large episode discussing their experience at PAX Unplugged, as well as a review of Renegade Games' Pie Town.
Originally aired in October of 2017, the friends discuss recent plays then dive into a little background on the future plans of the show.
Originally aired in September of 2017, Zach sis down with Carla of Weird Giraffe Games to discuss her kickstarter of Stellar Leap!
Originally aired in September of 2017, The friends cross over with the Fanholes Podcast for the Turtle Power Podcast Hour event to review TMNT Shadows of the Past! Special Guest Mike from Fanholes!
Originally aired in May 2017, Zach and Devon interview the designers of Puppy Slime Games, and discuss their first Kickstarter Paws and Padlocks.
Originally aired in August 2017, Zach and Devon review Tiny Epic Quest from Gamelyn Games.
Originally aired in July 2017, In a small tribute to one of Zach's favorite Podcasts Flip the Table, The friends review Monopoly Gamer.
Originally aired in June 2017, Zach and Vanessa discuss their recent experiences in an escape room and review Blood Rage from CMON
Originally aired in September of 2016 Zach and Walt interview Jerrason Banes on his $1 kickstarter game Stellar Armada
Originally aired in May of 2017, Zach and Devon review The Networks from Formal Ferret Games.
Originally aired in March 2017, Zach is joined by Vanessa to review the Awkward Yeti's Kickstarter game Organ Attack!
Originally aired in February 2017 Zach and Devon review Tiny Epic Western from Gamelyn Games
Originally aired in January 2017, the Friends review VENOM ASSAULT from Spyglass Games.
Originally aired in November of 2016 Zach and Waltchad countdown a list of their top 5 games to celebrate one year in podcasting.
Originally aired in August of 2016, Zach flies solo to talk about gaming by yourself and the different Hobby game related activities he enjoys.
Originally aired in July 2016 Zach and Vanessa discuss their visit to Elm City Games cafe in New Haven Connecticut.
Originally aired in February of 2016 Zach and Walt interview the designers of Spyglass games and discuss their kickstarter project the Deck Building game VENOM ASSAULT
Originally aired in July 2016, The Friends review the pirate themed tile laying game Dead men tell no Tales from TMG
Originally aired in July of 2016, the friends discuss Themes in Boardgames and how well they can be used.
Originally aired in June of 2016. Zach, Sean, Waltchad and Devon review the kickstarter game Chaosmos from Mirror Box Games.
Originally aired in May of 2016. Zach is Joined once again by Vanessa to discuss playing games with their kids as well as some great suggestions to start out with.
Originally aired in May 2016. Zach and Waltchad discuss different intellectual properties that they'd like to see made into games.
Originally aired in April of 2016 Zach and Waltchad discuss their favorite upcoming releases announced at Gama Trade show.
Originally aired in March of 2016 the friends discuss the Hype of games vs the actually product.
Originally aired in March of 2016, the Friends discuss how they go about introducing the Hobby to first timers, what games they like to use, and how well it works.
Originally aired in February of 2016 Zach and Waltchad are joined by Nathan "Bouv" to discuss recent plays and have a discussion about Kickstarter and it's use in the Hobby gaming industry.
Originally aired in February of 2016. Zach is Joined by Vanessa to discuss favorite games to play as a couple.
Originally aired in 2016, Zach, Sean, and Waltchad are joined by Devon Decker to review Ghostbusters the Boardgame from Cryptozoic.
Originally aired in January of 2016, The friends unite after the Holidays to discuss recent plays of One Night Ultimate werewolf, Shadows over Camelot, and many more.
Originally published in December of 2015 Zach is joined by Vanessa to discuss countdown their favorite hobby games.
Originally published in December of 2015. In our 4th episode the friends discuss different Star Wars games like the X-wing miniatures game from fantasy flight and Star Wars: RIsk.
Episode 3 of our show originally published in December of 2015, the friends discuss co-op games like Forbidden Island, Pandemic.
Episode 2 of board with friends published in November of 2015. Zach and Chad discuss games of their childhood like, Clue Museum caper, Hotels, and The Great Blizzard Strikes.
Originally aired in November of 2015, our first episode brings Zach, Sean and Chad together to discuss the hidden movement game Specter Ops from Plaid Hat Games.