The Top 100 Board Games of All Time – Episode 8: Twilight Imperium
It’s time for the return of the space king: where will Twilight Imperium fit onto the Top 100 board? (plus chat about Thunder’s Edge, the newest TI4 expansion!)
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SU&SD’s Inside Scoop!
Thank you so, so much to the kind folks who keep this daft little site pottering along every year. You’re the absolute best. The bees knees!
Shut Up & Sit Down literally wouldn’t exist without kind folks keeping it alive with their generosity, and we don’t take that privilege lightly! We really hope that you enjoy the upcoming bundle of bonus bits, and indeed all the other cardboard nonsense that we’ll put on your screens in 2026…
Read More2025’s Best Board Game Gifts!
‘Tis the season! We’re back with a bumper stack of great board games to recommend you buy for your best pals, your arch enemies, or perhaps even… yourself?
That’s right! It’s the Annual Shut Up & Sit Down Board Game Gift Guide and it’s beaming directly into your eyeballs right now. Links for any and all games discussed will be directly below!
Read MoreGames of Essen 2025 – RANKED
We hope you enjoy this week’s video, which is an elongated and trundling trip through MOST of the games that we played at this year’s Essen! This is a chunky video in a loose, chatty format – we do hope you enjoy it as something a little bit different!
Read More5 MORE Great Small Games!
Games! Games! Games! It’s the small ones that usually slip through the cracks, so Tom’s back with another roundup of recent favourites!
Joraku and Bottle Imp fill the trick-taking quota for the video, whilst Naishi and Iliad present a bit of two-player tension. Bean Counters Inc is also there, because he’s a goofy guy and we love him.
Read MoreDogs of War – A Classic Reborn
FUN STUFF: We’ve been hard at work resurrecting a SU&SD favourite – Dogs of War is back!
Hugely exciting news today folks, a game we fell in love with more than 15 years ago is finally coming back into print.
And this time it happened because of more than BLIND WISHING – Dogs of War is the second game in our new SU&SD Presents line: a series co-published with Play to Z games in which we find games we love and help make them even better. We handled a lot of the art direction for this new version, and we can’t wait for folks to get their grubby (or clean) hands all over it. And finally, after ALMOST TWO DECADES, Matt gets to have a copy of Dogs of War on his shelf.
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8 New Co-op and Solo Games │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #7
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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