Limited Play Time: Recent Episodes
Kyle Bolin, Jason Cavallari
We're a board game podcast that discusses one board game at a time that we've had limited play time with.
This week we’re taking a break from our typical review format to try a topical, conversational style instead. We’re discussing crowdfunding like Kickstarter and how it’s changed and affected the board game community over the years. Let’s think together!
Atlantis Rising is the name of the game we’re talking about this week. Can we stop it from sinking? Will it ever actually rise? If so, does it then become a mythic floating air city? Also, is the game any good? Hark, an episode!
This week we’re covering Kyle’s impressions of Marvel Dice Throne and checking in with Jason after he’s played a couple more games of Akropolis and Wormholes. 3 games in one episode! What even is the podcast anymore?!
Today we’re bringing you the State of the Imperium Address! We’re discussing the Twilight Imperium expansion Prophecy of Kings, our overall feelings about Twilight Imperium in 2022, and also a few more thoughts about the new Twilight Imperium-themed Roll and Write game, Twilight Inscription. Open comms and prepare to transmit!
GenCon was last week and we’re finally here to do a debrief! In this episode we talk about the following games: Mini Rogue, Unmatched, Lords of Vaala: Dragonbond, Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors, Kingdom Death: Monster, Guild of Merchant Explorers, Mall Hero: Paranormal Activity, Kill Team: Kill Zone Live, Atlantis Rising, Oath, Critical, Akropolis, Wormholes, Killer Queen, Tabletop Escape Room: To The Aid of Santa, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Blood on the Clocktower, Twilight Inscription, The Crew, and A Battle Through History.
It’s our special GenCon 2022 preview episode! Jason and I have combed the Board Game Geek preview page and pulled out several games that caught our eye, so have a listen and find out if any of them are worth your attention and time at the show! Games discussed during this show include: Warhammer, Castles By the Sea, Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis, Twilight Inscription, My Father’s Work, Dice Hunters of Therion, Akropolis, CoraQuest, Wormholes, Planet Unknown, Lords of Vaala: Dragonbond, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Spaceship Unity, A Battle Through History, Evergreen, Maui, Forgotten Depths, Terracotta Army, and Distant Suns.
It’s our very first LPT Cage Match! In one corner, weighing in at 2.30 out of 5, we have It’s a Wonderful World! And in the other corner, weighing 2.16 out of 5, we have Fantastic Factories! Surely, one game is a better game than the other, right? RIGHT???
This week we’re looking at Destinies, published by Lucky Duck Games! Is it Joan of Arc with exploration? Is it 7th Continent with QR codes? Maybe! We don’t really discuss those exact points, so decide for yourself!
It’s a special list episode! Today we’re talking about our top 10 (between both Jason and Kyle) “Grail Games,” meaning board games that are difficult to acquire but still desirable. Specifically, the ones we don’t already own but would like to, if it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
This week we’re talking about Photosynthesis. The board game, not the process you learned about in biology. It’s all about growing trees, harvesting tress, and a Pac-Man-looking Sun that feeds instead of eats!
Behold the glory of Ra! Or whoever the alligator guy is. Dog heads! Cat heads! It’s time for Egypt! Ankh: Gods of Egypt, in fact! Brought to you buy CMON and Eric M. Lang as the third of a trilogy of area control games!
This week we’re looking at a record-breaking FOUR games, all from publisher Button Shy Games! We’re talking about Agropolis, Liberation, Antinomy, and Hórreos! They’re little, they’re short, and they’re affordable! A welcome change from most of the other types of games we usually talk about!
Put on your robe and wizard hat because this week we’re finally reviewing Jason’s favorite game of all time, War of the Ring: Second Edition! The Eye of Sauron gazes upon us while we discuss how the game plays, who might enjoy it, and who might want to throw it into the crater of Mt. Doom!
This week on Limited Play Time we’re taking a look at one of the hottest game of the last couple… few? Couple-few years? I’ve lost track due to pandemic-time. But anyway, we’re talking about Lost Ruins of Arnak! It worker placements, it deck builds, it resource managments, it research tracks! What CAN’T it do?! I guess… I guess we don’t really go into that.
This week we’re being transported to the high-fantasy, leather jacket-wearing, gun toting, demon-infested World of Middara! It’s anime, it’s dungeon crawling, it’s narrative, narrative, narrative! All the best things, right? Listen on, and find out!
No, this is not our Nicolas Cage tangent episode, though that would have been fun. We’re talking about the BOARD GAME, The Night Cage! We played it at GenCon and talked briefly about it on a GenCon episode, but now we’re back to do a SLIGHTLY deeper dive into the dark, mysterious hole we have to crawl out of with nothing but a candle stick and some hope.
It’s the holiday season, and you’re frantically looking for ideas for your game-loving family and friends! Calm down! Put down the knife! LPT is here to help with suggestions for the best possible gifts for every type of gamer! That we thought of! Now drink some hard nog and take a nap!
This week we’re flipping the script on our previous episode and talking about our 10 greatest surprises in board gaming! These are the games that had the widest gulf between expectations and pleasant outcomes! It’s like a second helping of Limited Play Time top 10 lists during this festive Thanksgiving week!
We intended to do a recording of us playing an actual game that would’ve been actually entertaining, however we’re disappointed to say we don’t think it was going to work out. So instead we’re bringing more disappointments! Our top 10 disappointments in board gaming! Some of these are good games, really! Just a swing and a miss or two that took the wind out of our sails.
This week we’re travelling into THE COSMOS as we become 2-mile high frogs with a hunger that only planets can satisfy! How did we not realize these were frog-Galactuses before? Anyway, this week we’re covering the one-of-a-kind board game, Cosmic Frog!
It’s SPOoooooKY October, so we’re incidentally bringing you The Hunger, a game about vampires racing to bring flowers back to their castle! And maybe a few human blood-bags too. We super didn’t plan this for Halloween, but we’ll enjoy the horror themed appropriateness anyway. Get your deck building boots on because you’ll need ‘em to get through all the snow, swamps, hills, and graveyards in your way. By building a dope card deck.
Our galaxy has been reborn, again! This week we’re reviewing Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, the second edition of the very popular Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy! Put on your space suit and charge your warp cores, it’s an epic 4x space opera for the ultimate prize… Victory points!
It’s our GenCon wrap-up episode as we’re combining all of the RPG and board games we played on days 3 and 4 together in one episode! Games discussed in this episode include: Cosmic Frog by Deviant Weasel Games, Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors, Factory 42 by Dragon Dawn Productions, Kemet: Blood and Sand by Matagot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Change is Constant by IDW Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail by Burnt Island Games, and Furnace by Hobby World and Arcane Wonders!
We’re still alive on GenCon 2021 Day 2. We’ve been surviving on pizza, donuts, and immune boosters and we’re ready to talk (a little) about The Night Cage by Smirk & Laughter Games, Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, and Cytosis: A Cell Biology Board Game by Genius Games!
It’s day 1 of GenCon 2021 and we’re masked, vaccinated, and ready to throw dice at zombies, vampires, and whatever else this convention can throw at us! We’re starting by discussing Skytear and Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall!
This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about how much of our souls we’ve lost to Bloodborne the Board Game, another game by CMON. Is it the next big thing in dungeon crawling co-operative games? Maybe, but probably not.
What do YOU want to do with $110 this weekend? The answer MIGHT be “play Cthulhu: Death May Die!” But you’ll never know unless you listen to this review of the game! Set your sanity marker to 0 because we might drive you crazy with ANOTHER Cthulhu game!
This week we’re talking about our experience with Marvel United, the co-op Marvel Superheroes game from Spin Masters and CMON! It’s an EXPANSIVE game system with a LOT of content, and there’s currently an X-Men version in Later Funding mode, so give us a listen and see if you think it might be for you!
This week we’re going back and REVISING our personal Top Ten lists! Thing change, and they definitely have since 2018! It’s an extra-long episode with extra-many games to discuss, so get comfy and buckle-in. Games discussed in this episode include: Root, Hive, For Sale, Unmatched, Marvel Champions, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Gloomhaven, The Castles of Burgundy, Power Grid, Kingdom Death: Monster, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, Spirit Island, Memoir ‘44, Too Many Bones, Cthulhu Wars, Magic the Gathering, and War of the Ring.
This week we’re taking a look at another game from Bezier Games, Suburbia! Are you a fan of Sim City? Cities in general? Hexagons? Then Suburbia has something for you! We take a look at the game in general but also how it compares to its sibling game, The Castles of Mad King Ludwig.
This week we’re taking a look at Pax Pamir 2nd Edition, a game from Cole Wehrle, designer of Root! Pax Pamir portrays the 19th century conflict in Afghanistan referred to “The Great Game.” Will we consider Pax Pamir a “Great Game” after playing it? It’s complicated!
Gaze into the maw of madness and return to your terrestrial life prepared to… build… a castle.
This week we’re talking about 2014’s Castles of Mad King Ludwig, a tile-laying, shape matching, set-collecting classic from Bezier Games!
This week we’re talking about Nemesis, the game where you try to evade lower case aliens who might try and fill your body with their eggs, or maybe just eat you! It’s a semi-cooperative romp through a playful spaceship full of horrors!
This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about the Yahtzee-style battling game, Dice Throne! But wait, there’s also cards! And player boards! So much game in such a little package!
WE AWAKE FROM OUR SLUMBER DEEP BENEATH THE BLACK SURF AND BLOOD TINGED MOON TO BRING YOU TALES OF MAAAADNESSSSS! MANSIONS OF MADNESS, the co-op, app-driven board game from Fantasy Flight Games!
This week we’re taking a look at two digital adaptations of existing board games. Root and Roll for the Galaxy! Do they hold up as well as the physical games? Yes, it seems like they do. But listen to find out more!
This week we’re taking a look at the kickstarter for CMON’s Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape, the follow-up to 2017’s Massive Darkness. A game we reviewed a long time ago and felt good about with some caveats. We tried the demo out on Tabletop Simulator and are prepared to give you our VERY early impressions!
We discuss GenCon 2020, which was entirely online! 8 different games, 3 different gaming platforms, and how an online-only GenCon compared to the real thing!
It’s our 100th episode! To celebrate we’ve assembled a group to play Blood on the Clocktower! We’re giving it a second (and third) shot and hopefully giving our listeners some entertaining radio at the same time! Here’s to (hopefully?) the next 100!
Kyle had a baby, the Irish train we were still on went completely off the rails, and after two weeks we’re back on track with Marvel Champions! One of the hottest new games and definitely one that’s burning through wallets already, we’re excited to talk about WHY it’s worth the money to Kyle and whether or not it should be for you as well!
This week we’re talking about Wizard! Oops, I mean Sorcerer! A strategy card game! By White Wizard Games! But what KIND of a strategy card game? Listen and find out!
This week we’re talking about the newest and greatest in board game train technology! Irish Gauge! The train spreading, auction making, screwing-over-your-friends game from Capstone Games! All aboard!
This week we’re BOTH talking about Kyle’s favorite game of 2019, Street Masters by Blacklist Games! Fans of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat should pay special attention because the guy who kinda looks like Goro and Blanka’s lovechild has you in his sights!
This week we’re looking at the newest game from Stonemaier games, Tapestry! It’s a “Civilization game you can play in under two hours!” But really… Is it???
This week we tackle the MASSIVE board gaming phenomenon Kingdom Death: Monster! Or maybe it tackles us.
This week we address the tie-in game to the biggest movie of the holiday season! Star Wars: Rebellion! Fantasy Flight released this game three years ago, just in time for Rise of Skywalker! Now you can understand the backstory to Rise of Skywalker by experiencing it through board game mechanics!
This week we’re talking about Starling Games’ Everdell! One of Jason’s top 10 games of the year! It’s a little of everything! Action selection! Tableau building! Animals! Find out if it cast its spell on me as well!
We’re back! After a 2 1/2 week hiatus we’re back with our first impressions of Time of Legends: Joan of Arc! It’s a scenario based skirmish miniatures game of EPIC proportions! Too epic? Maybe. Maayyyyybeeeeee.
The end (of 2019) is nigh! We have assembled the ultimate list of games (that were new to us) from 2019! Get them as gifts for others! Ask for them as gifts for yourselves! Allow your opinions to be validated because you already own them!
This week we forget what month it is, make Halloween sounds, and then discuss Santorini, the tower building tic-tac-toe game. Is it good? It has plastic and gods! What does that tell you?!
Grab your wizard cloak and wand, because we’re flying into Imperial Assault at Warp 9 with Phasers set to FUN and you never know when the pop culture references are going to veer off path into Mordor! The game’s about a Star War.
This week we’re talking about our experiences with Cloudspire, the newest game from Chip Theory Games, the makers of one of Kyle’s favorite games, Too Many Bones! Does Cloudspire live up to the legacy of TMB? TLDR: no. But give a listen anyway and find out why!
This week we have discourse about what defines “fun” in board games! We have discourse about different types of fun and which games deliver certain types of fun over others. Also, we review Gaia Project.
This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about a game with off-the-charts hype! Wingspan! We’re… watching birds… and stuff. Feed the birds, breed the birds, feed the eggs of certain birds to other birds. And done with so much color!
This week we’re talking about one of the most anticipated games of GenCon 2019! Black Angel! Can you be the best AI at making robots, sending out robots, and keeping destructive aliens off of your ship? You get a robo-cookie!
This week we’re talking about Era: Medieval Age, a game by Matt Leacock that plays nothing like Pandemic! It’s everyone for themselves as they try to construct the best medieval town using the traditional building method of Yahtzee-like dice throwing!
This week we’re discussing Glorantha: The Gods War, the follow-up to Cthulhu Wars from Peterson Games! The minis should be called maxis! That doesn’t sound right, now that I’ve typed it out.
This week on Limited Play Time we discuss the limited play time we’ve had with Bargain Quest, the fantasy store ownership simulator! Send those adventurers off equipped to kill a dragon! Or don’t. Just make sure you take their money before they get eaten.
For our 80th episode we’re giving out 10 awards to the best expansions in each of the categories we decided upon! We tried making 10 categories for the functions expansions fulfill when trying to expand a bae game out. Did we succeed? Email us and let us know at podcast@limitedplaytime.com!
This week we’re talking about Starling Games’ Anomaly! One player takes the role of a mysterious creature compelled to hunt three students on a space station and DRAIN them of their life force! Or it can eat fuel canisters. If it has to. It’s essentially like the Anomaly settles for Spam instead of prime rib. Also, the students can fight back!
This week we’re discussing Disney’s Villainous, the very popular action-selection game starring Disney’s most dangerous villains! Thanos, Darth Vader, the Nazis from Indiana Jones… Oh wait, sorry, I meant Prince John the skinny cat, the Queen of Hearts from Alice and Wonderland, and SMEE, Captain Hook’s right-hand man!
We’re posting several days early! We found out that the Late Pledge Manager for Batman: Gotham City Chronicles was closing this Saturday and decided to get our episode out early in case YOU, the listener, need to know what we think to get you to jump into Gotham or turn around and head for Metropolis instead.
The GenCon 2019 train keeps a rollin’ on today’s episode where we talk about Unmatched, the new game from Restoration and Mondo Games! It’s a deck driven, miniature skirmish game with such a light rule set that you could teach it during an elevator ride! But is it fun? Join us on this journey through time and fiction and find out!
It’s time for our full thoughts on Renegade’s new game, Terror Below! It’s worms vs humans, but it’s also HUMANS vs HUMANS! Hopefully you’re a degree closer to Kevin Bacon than your opponents and ready to throw some improvised explosives in the desert!
This week we’re doing a deeper dive into the Apocalypse! Planet Apocalypse by Peterson Games, to be accurate! We get a little deeper than we did during our GenCon coverage about our impressions and discuss who we think this game may be for. MAYBE IT’S YOU!
On the third day of GenCon, LPT gave to thee: Impressions of Blood on the Clocktower, Anomaly, Red Alert, Black Angel, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Gaia Project, and one brief check in with Twilight Imperium 4th Edition! A bounty of gaming excitement and a trove of fatigue induced slap-happiness!
We’ve completed Day 2 of GenCon 2019 and we have SO much more to talk about! We tried a ton of games today. Most of them quite good! Enjoy our impressions while we work on surviving day 3!
We're at GenCon! We're all (finally) here after several trials and tribulations. But it's all worth it because now we have SEVERAL things to tell you about! Enjoy!
This week we’re talking about the things that have us jittering and tittering about the upcoming GenCon! What events/games/surprises does 2019 have in store for us? Listen with your ears, get a taste with your brain!
WHO LOVES ZOMBIES?! Everyone, right? That’s why they’re so hot right now! No one ever gets tired of ZOMBIES!
If right now you’re saying, “Kyle, you CRAZY, son. Zombies are TIRED. Zombies are out of style! Zombies burned themselves out!,” then I would reply, “uh, yeah, maybe so. But we had to do this at some point anyway!” So here we are. Talking about Zombicide: Black Plague. It had to happen someday.
This week we’re taking a look back at the classic light-medium weight area control game, Small World! It’s got whimsey, it’s got humor, it’s got Commando Halflings! Every wanted to be a Dwarf? HOW ABOUT A DRAGON MASTER DWARF?! Small World has you covered!
This week we’re going UP, UP, AND AWAY with Sentinels of the Multiverse! It’s a superhero card game with a deck for just about every flavor of superhero AND you can fight your enemies in a volcanic dinosaur land! So it’s got everything!
This week we’re traveling DEEP INTO SPAAAACE! In a race for a galaxy of victory points! Start grabbing those planets and building your interstellar credit unions, because whoever gets the best tableau of planets/developments/VPs is going to be the Galactic Champion!
This week we’re FINALLY talking about the game Kyle’s mentioned about two dozen times. The game the internet hasn’t stopped talking about for the last two years. Gloomhaven! The dungeon crawl that’s almost a euro! Will Jason like it? Or is it too abstract? Not thematic enough? NOT ENOUGH MINIATURES? Listen and find out!
This week we’re talking about WHY Forbidden Desert is one of our favorite games of all time! Is it because we love sandy underwear? Probably so!
This week we’re talking about the worker placement game with a Dungeons & Dragons theme, Lords of Waterdeep! Does it utilize its rich D&D theme to the fullest to make a wonderful, thematic euro? Or is it… Something else? Listen, and find out!
This week we’re travelling backwards in time THOUSANDS of years! Or is it forwards in time?! It’s so hard to tell when you’re talking about SPACE EGYPT. That’s right, this week we’re taking a look at Kemet, the Egyptian themed war game that somehow includes Stargates, so obviously this is Space Egypt. They have giant scorpions in Space Egypt.
This week we’re slinking through the streets of Whitechapel, trying to avoid capture as the infamous Jack the Ripper in Mr. Jack! It’s another “classic,” but how does it hold up?
This week we break from reviews and time constraints and have relaxed discussion about what we like and don't like about digital adaptations of board games! What works, what doesn't, and when can we expect digital Spirit Island?!
This week we’re trying to sniff out THE TRAITOR in our midst! Only… there wasn’t one. Anyway, we’re talking about Shadows Over Camelot, a co-op/semi-co-op from Days of Wonder that follows the exploits of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table and their exploits defeating their enemies with dope poker hands.
We’re leaning on our Dungeon Crawl expertise this week as we talk about Mice & Mystics, a dungeon crawl where everyone takes on the role of a mouse! With weapons! Look out for the roaches, they’ll steal your cheese!
This week we’re talking about the hottest game of 2018! Root! Is it worthy of all the praise and hype heaped upon it over the last 8 months? Listen and find out!
This week we’re talking about Xia: Legends of a Drift System as well as its expansion, Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star. It’s a sandbox game in the style of another game we’ve talked about, Western Legends. Only in space! With BIG CHUNKY MINIS!
This week we’re talking about a skirmish game of epic proportions! Mythic Battles: Pantheon! The Greek gods are HANGRY, and they’re fighting over the last McNuggets in all of Greece! Can your side collect all the nuggets before the other side and feed your HANGRY god? If not, don’t worry, just murder the other guy!
This week we’re talking about Brass: Birmingham, the sequel to Martin Wallace’s classic economic game Brass! It’s dark, smokey, and I think it may have given me some Black Lung, but we’re gonna soldier on and talk about it anyway!
This week we’re talking about our first experience with Sword & Sorcery: Immortal Souls, by Ares Games. It’s a dungeon delving, goblin-killing, getting killed and becoming a bothersome ghost-of a time!
Also, we go JUST over 30 minutes on this one, so the next episode is free!
This week we’re talking about ANOTHER “Hottest Game of 2016,” Terraforming Mars! How did it take us this long to talk about it?! We could have FLOWN to Mars and back since it was released, so there’s obviously no excuse.
We’re back to normal this week, which means we’re talking about one game that we played at JasonCon. It’s Reef! Next Move Games’ big 2018 release involving chunky, colorful pieces!
It’s our 50th Episode! And we’re recording it together in ONE ROOM! We decided to forego the usual Top 10s on the 10s and have elected instead to record ourselves and our two guests (Gabe and Dave) playing several games of Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game! It might get silly.
Can you smell the cardboard for this week’s game? No you can’t! Because we’re talking about Magic the Gathering: Arena, the new digital version of Magic the Gathering, the classic Collectible Card Game!
This week we’re going back to the far flung past of TWO THOUSAND and EIGHT and discussing the ancestor of all deckbuilders, Dominion! We’ve maybe said some negative things about it in the past, but we’re here to revisit it and try to fairly assess how well it holds up in the FAR FUTURE of TWO THOUSAND AND NINETEEN!
This week we’re talking about the only Party Game in the world! Codenames! Can you identify your agents before the other team? Can you identify them before the MYSTERIOUS assassin stabs you with a nerve agent? In my head-canon this game is trying to kill you with nerve agents.
Limited Play Time apologizes for several things and revisits a couple more. Plus, a news bit!
Grab your plow, your scythe, your pitchfork! This week we’s FARMING yo! We’re going back to the far-flung past year of TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN and looking at Agricola, one of the modern classics! But how does it hold up ELEVEN years into the future? Let’s find out!
We’re traveling DEEP into the past today! All the way to… TWO THOUSAND AND TWO! And then Puerto Rico will take us even FARTHER back to some vague colonial time, or something. We obviously didn’t think hard enough about it. Mistakes were made. But anyway, here’s Puerto Rico!
Come and let us REGALE you with tales of the CLOUD CITY and it’s amazing electric grid! Wonder at the genius design of a floating platform prone to lightning strikes and wind gusts! Baffle at the decision to walk around this platform and attempt to build a rocket ship on it when certain death looms at every moment! Seriously, why didn’t we just build the rocket on the ground?
This week we’re talking about Forbidden Sky, the newest cooperative game in Gamewright’s “Forbidden” series from Matt Leacock. Forbidden Desert is one of our favorite games of all time! Will Forbidden Sky establish itself as a worthy successor?
Scott Dack steps in to pinch-hit for Jason while he’s on vacation and talks with Kyle about Too Many Bones, Kyle’s favorite game of 2018! Expect a lot of gushing and worshiping at the altar of extremely well-produced components!
This week we're talking about Terra Mystica, a heavyish Eurogame involving terraforming the planet so your camel people can be comfortable in a world with no cigarettes!
It’s the holiday season, and we’re here to join you and your loved ones by the fire while we talk about the BEST games that were new to us in 2018! This episode is PERFECT for your drive to Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve because it’s EXTRA long! It’s the 40th episode, so we’re suspending the usual 30-minute time limit to give ourselves a holiday treat with nearly an hour of board game discussion!
This week we go deep into a discussion about whether or not The Big Book of Madness is or is not a Cthulhu game! Or at least, we mention for a second before delving into how the game actually plays and whether or not it’s fun. Maybe we focused on the wrong discussion. Jury’s out.
This week we’re looking at Concordia! It’s so Euro! Last week was a Saturday morning cartoon, this week is a walk through an Art museum.
This week on Limited Play Time we’re taking a closer look at Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar, the new release from Restoration Games! Is it just as hot and spicy as the original? The burn marks speak volumes!
This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about Orbis, a new tile-laying, kingdom building, god-game from Space Cowboys! Can choosing hexagonal tiles and building them into a pyramid make you feel LIKE A GOD? Listen and find out!
This week we’re taking a look at Fantasy Flight Games’ Arkham Horror: The Card Game! Stacks on stacks on stacks on STACKS of Cthulhu for you! Is this too much Cthulhu? Will we have to rename ourselves to Unlimited Cthulhu Time? Listen and find out!
This week we’re talking about Nemo’s War, the solo-adventure game that can (sort of) be played cooperatively! Climb into this auditory submarine as we explore the depths and 20,000 leagues of breadth of this gorgeous piece of cardboard and wood!
This week we’re talking about Azul! Beautiful tiles! Elegant mechanics! A bag! Short and sweet! Just like this description!
Clear some space at the table because we’ve got a FEAST of a game! We’re talking about A Feast for Odin, a massive game from Uwe Roserberg that has all the mechanics you’ve been looking for: Tetris in a house, sending Vikings off to strip mountains of their natural resources, sending pieces of a dinner table away on a Viking boat, and more! Get your stomach ready!
Happy Halloween! It’s October so we’ve decided that our Top Ten list for the 30th episode will be All Hallows Eve themed! Open your candy bag and let us pour in our Top Ten picks for Halloween gaming!
We’re putting out all the fires this week with Flash Point: Fire Rescue! It’s a co-op, action point based game where you rescue people from a burning building while racing against the fire threatening to bring the building down on everyone’s heads! And it’s got lil’ chibi firemen minis! So cute!
Two games, for the price of one! Which, until we have a way to monetize, is ZERO! We’re discussing the miniatures skirmish game set in the Firefly universe, Firefly Adventures: Brigands and Browncoats! Then, because we just can’t stop the bullet train, we’re going to ALSO talk about our time with Aeon’s End: War Eternal! It’s a deck building adventure! Wait… That could be confusing.
We’re going backwards through time, to the nineteen hundred and eighties! Specifically an imaginary universe where Saturday mornings in the nineteen hundred and eighties were spent watching the adventures of Lazer Shark, Super Sheriff, Galactic Waveryder, and Phantom Cosmonaut as they… Race against each other in a small forcefield enforced arena floating in space? We’re not exactly sure, but we KNOW it’s dripping with that 1980s theme, and it’s pretty fun to boot!
Who’s dying for more Cthulhu? Jason is! So we’re doing MORE CTHULHU. This week we’re talking about Tower of Madness! It combines press-your-luck dice elements with press-your-luck stick-pulling-marble-avoidance elements! It’s Kerplunk plus Yahtzee, but with tentacles!
It's our 25th episode, and we're going all out with Twilight Imperium! Biggest game in the galaxy!
Put your literary pants on and find your masquerade mask! This week we're talking about IDW Games's Masque of the Red Death!
This week we're discussing our impressions of Evil High Priest, a new game from Peterson Games. We took on the roles of leaders of cults trying to competitively raise Great Old Ones from the Elder places, and whoever does the most summoning goes home with a Ribbon of MADNESS!
We discuss the new Eurogame, Coimbra! Wonderful colors, game design, and rules rules rules!
We're hoping to encourage you all to join us at the next GenCon by telling you what's so wonderful about the convention! Bad Game Demo's made the cut!
This week we're talking about the medium-weight Eurogame, The Castles of Burgundy! We also discuss our perception of what constitutes "a Euro" and which one of us is the bigger Euro-Fan!
Mechanics!
This week we're taking a look at iello games' Bunny Kingdom! It's designed by Richard Garfield and it's a visual delight!
This week we're looking at Battlelore: Second Edition, a fantasy themed light wargame! Kyle goes super deep (much deeper than anyone probably wants) and Jason stays in the kiddie pool!
This week we're leaving the light in favor of the dark side with Massive Darkness, a fully co-op dungeon crawl from CMON. We discuss the virtues of loot and dice rolling as well as the two branches of HeroQuest's family tree.
This week we're discussing Scythe! The 2016 action selection, worker placement, area control, mech warfare, hero adventuring, power wagering engine builder from Stonemaier Games! It's got hexes, wood, AND plastic. So much to discuss and not enough time!
We discuss the best ways and places to play Splendor and the reason why it fails to be at all educational.
This week we're talking about the only deck builder we can agree we like, Clank! Or as it's actually named, Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure. Kyle also talks a little about some of the differences between the newer version of the game, Clank! In! Space!
We discuss The Others, the 1 vs all board game from CMON! It's Sins vs FAITH, and caught in between are hobos, civilians, and orbital strike cannons!
It's our tenth episode, so we're celebrating by starting a tradition of doing Top Ten lists on our Tenth episodes! We're starting by doing our top ten games of all time because we thought it could help give people an idea of our gaming tastes. And because it's what we want to do. So, without further ado, our Top Ten Games of All Time!
This week we're discussing Rattus, a game about spreading The Black Plague and babies around Europe while competing at who can keep the most babies alive, and Kingdomino, a small kingdom building game in which no babies are harmed.
We discuss Blood Rage, which is an area control, miniatures, card-drafting, death-chasing viking game!
In this episode we discuss Fate of the Elder Gods, another Cthulhu game. This one's a worker placement game with a few unique twists thrown in. How many Cthulhu games will we discuss before the end of this podcast/the end of time? Only Nyarlothotep knows.
It's a game about witch hunting, but it uses worker placement rather than hidden roles, like you might assume.
We talk about our time with the original Fireball Island from 1986 PLUS we added an extended section about Kyle's impressions of the new remake of Fireball Island currently up on Kickstarter!
We discuss our two play times of Rum & Bones: Second Tide. It's a pirate themed, MOBA-inspired, miniatures game! Put your favorite Pirate movie soundtrack on in the background for maximum enjoyment!
We review our limited time with Scoville, a game about growing, harvesting, and trading/cooking peppers!
We discuss our plays of Food Chain Magnate, a fairly heavy game from Splotter! They have an otter as a logo, so they're clearly the cutest board game publisher in the world.
Our first episode of Limited Play Time has us talking about our experiences with Cthulhu Wars, a massive area control board game by Sandy Peterson set in a Lovecraftian Earth! Get in touch with your inner Shoggoth and join us!