It feels like we’ve reviewed a cool HUNDRED of these games, but this week we’ve got something a little bit special – a Lord of the Rings co-op based on Pandemic, and one of the most comprehensive and skillfully crafted games we’ve seen in years, The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. Pop an elf on a dwarf, sit back, and ENJOY.
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This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking two players! Tag Team is a head-to-head brawler, and Suna Valo is exactly the same, but for farms! Finally, Matt waxes lyrical about General Orders’ Samurai Sequel: ‘Sengoku Jidai’ – and, within it, has perhaps found a game that’s too small for even our perma-shrunk noggins.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Scum on the frontier; Frontier Scum.
Alfred Valley’s back with a spitwad rules summary to get you hyped about this rootin’ tootin’ acid western roleplaying game.
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Noughts Vs Crosses – the eternal battle. Who will emerge, forged in flame, to take up the mantle of ‘best shape’? There is only one way to find out…
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It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldn’t fit through the real floorboards. That’d be silly. And we don’t do silly, here.
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The finale of Board Games Direct is HERE! And we’ve got an interesting selection of boxed THINGS to show you! This episode focuses on games to play co-operatively or on your jolly lonesome – with an exciting peek at the next game from the folks who made BEAST, an especially shiny game about Hercules, and an unexpected peek at Animal Rescue Team – the first of two games that we’re co-publishing!
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We’re trundling towards the end of Board Games Direct, but we’ve STILL got a bunch of exciting new games to show you. A brand new version of Cascadia? Ooh! Gorgeous pond-management in Koi? Gazebo seems just as mean as it is colorful, and gingham allows you to live out your fantasies of being HUNDREDS OF ANTS CRAWLING OVER A PICNIC.
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In today’s episode of Board Games Direct, Matt and Tom are excited to present you with TEN games – all of which are on the lighter side! Explore the luscious landscapes of Parks, push a planet into a friend in ORBIT, or explore the megagame-in-a-box stylings of Coalition? Plenty here we’ll be wanting to see more of – keep an eye out in the coming months!
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“A DUEL TO THE DEATH, THEN!” I scream aloud in the cafe, as I throw a handful of playing cards at my bewildered partner. She’ll never beat me. I’m the master of my craft – The Schotten Totten World Wide Champion Supreme. You can retrieve my title from my corpse; an impossible feat, as I will never die so long as I bask in the radiant glow of victory.
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Today’s installment of Board Games Direct is an absolute crunch fest – a smorgasbord of textural games!
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