Episodes

  • 1P 370 - Loooooong Games
    Mar 1 2025

    This week Julius and I talk about looooong games. These are games that take 3 or more hours to play! Serioulsy, these are the kind of games I wish I could play more often but find it hard to get out on the table...

    • 03:44 7th Continent (BGG)
    • 04:25 Sleeping Gods - Distant Skies (BGG)
    • 08:28 Mr. President: The American Presidency (2001-2020) (BGG)
    • 12:12 Cantalopp (BGG)
    • 15:30 Silverton (BGG)
    • 18:20 Kindgom Legacy: Fuedal Kingdom (BGG)
    • 24:23 Ironsworn (RPG Geek)
    • 26:52 Tales of the Arabian Nights (BGG)
    • 29:00 Choose Your Own Adventure - The House of Danger (BGG)
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    32 mins
  • 1P 369 - Fit to Print
    Feb 22 2025

    This week, Julius introduces Fit to Print the newspaper layout game. It actually sounds like a fun game with a timer. In this game, you are buying the best stories and laying out on your newspaper to make the most captivating paper in town! It sounds a big goofy but it also sounds really fun.

    Also, Final Girl contest reminder!

    • Fit to Print (BGG, AEG)
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    35 mins
  • 1P 368 - Free Ride
    Feb 15 2025

    This week I tell Julius and the audience all about Free Ride, the train game by Friedemann Friese and published by Rio Grande Games. This is a fun pick-up and deliver game with quick turns that includes a solo challenge. Hop aboard and hear all about the game and what I think.

    Also, listen in for the Final Girl Season 3 giveaway!

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    37 mins
  • 1P 367 - Welcome to Reckoning
    Feb 8 2025

    This week Julius tells us about the small game Welcome to Reckoning. This 1 player game by Mike Heiman set in a wild wild west with cosmic horrors. Gotta love those cosmic horrors.

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    30 mins
  • 1P 366 - Vinhos
    Feb 1 2025

    This week we talk about a Vital Lacerda big-box game on wine making. The game is the 2016 release of Vinhos: Deluxe Edition. It's a fun game that lets produce wine, compete in wine fairs, sell and export. All this in an effort to become the pre-eminent wine producer of Portugal. It's a pretty neat game with an interesting theme but maybe too big for me.

    • Vinhos: Deluxe Edition (BGG, Eagle-Gryphon)
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    43 mins
  • 1P 365 - Popular Mechanics: The Year
    Jan 25 2025

    This week, we look at a year of gaming. Well, sorta. We look at games that have a year in them or somehow use the flow of time in them. It was harder than expected, but we found a few games that do have a pretty decent sense of time passing.

    Check out the sample fancy map someone drew for Cartographers:

    • 02:30 Creature Comforts (BGG, KTBG)
    • 04:30 Project Ecco (RPG Geek, More Blueberries)
    • 07:55 Cartographers (BGG, Thunderworks)
    • 11:50 Hostage Negotiator: Career (BGG, VRG)
    • 16:50 Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (BGG, Z-Man)
    • 19:05 Fields of Arle (BGG, Asmodee)

    Honorable mentions

    • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar (BGG, Buried Without Ceremony)
    • Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop (RPG Geek, Lost Ways Club)
    • The Quiet Year (RPG Geek)
    • Legacy of Yu (BGG)
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    25 mins
  • 1P 364 - Power Plants
    Jan 18 2025

    This week Julius and I look at a game about growing magic herbs and plants in a communal wizard's hedge. Position your helper sprites to help you get the most plants from this shared garden. This is an interesting game of area control in which, each turn, you are placing plant patches to trigger a variety of powers and increase your control over the garden. This game's solo experience closely mimics the multiplayer game using a bot that doesn't really add any time to the play. In fact, because of player analysis paralysis, it may be faster.

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    46 mins
  • 1P 363 - Bot Factory
    Jan 11 2025

    Julius and I talk about Bot Factory but Vital Lacerda. Mostly Julius describes the game and I talk about how much it reminds me of Kanban and how I want to play either of those two games. Bot Factory is based on Kanban in both the theme of managing a factory and the mechanics which are simplified quite a bit without making it a simple game at all.

    • Bot Factory (BGG, Eagle-Gryphon)
    • Kanban EV (BGG, Eagle-Gryphon)
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    52 mins