285 Board Game Reviews! | Rapid Reviews All of 2022

foreign [Music] [Music] reviews it is rapid reviews we got no time we have no time we've got 285 games to talk about Nick yes most the time I don't feel like hey we play too many games but when you then have to review them all back to back to back to back well I'm like maybe we do a half we're choosing to do this technically you know anyway you deal with it chat listen here deal the chat what's up everybody I'm Mike I'm Nick that is Nick right there we are the brothers Murphy it's time to do rapper reviews 2022 edition if this is your first ever time seeing a rapid reviews we do this monthly we talk about every single game we played in a month and that's a you know 28 to 30 game chunk and we're going to uh now review every game we play in the year take a real look back yeah and um 285 games paid 172 new games yeah which is a lot is very surprising like 135 or somewhere 33 years which is cool that we played like like you you mentioned it's like it's like every other day Tech technically we played a new game yeah yeah this is our jobs that makes sense but it's like and I think like how is that possible in last night I was just like you want to learn to play burden and we're like we played that I'm like that's how it happened that's how it happens you know so that won't be on this rapid review but it'll be in this coming months rapid review so last time we did this last year this video was like over four hours long so we're gonna try and make this quicker though we have more games to talk within last year so settle in your butt so we are going to be going through these lists every single review is going to be like a sentence Max like because we got a lot we say we say that but you know so we're gonna start as we always do with rap reviews with all of the new to us games and then all the games we've played before so the whole first half of this will probably take a little bit of a break in between uh but the whole first half is all going to be games that are new to us yes everything that was a first time play uh in 2022 whether it's a 2022 game or older we had a lot of games to play for the very first time yeah we'll hop right into it if you're watching this live or watching it later a couple things give this video a thumbs up really want this one to get out there in front of people and if you're new to us please consider subscribing uh and we'll just say in general because we don't have time to read off all the names thank you to everyone who became a patron to us we're not gonna do that that's a lot of people we really appreciate it uh we had a good year in patreon let's keep it going if possible it helps us pay for the studio with from which we are filming to your faces and people who are here live thank you for being here lives we love it talk to chat a little bit but not too much because again the games chat's going indeed chat are we all right I guess we're gonna start off with things that are new to us like we said that's why it says new to us right there these games are new to us right here I'm Gonna Roll these sleeves our first one we played a lot of what sir you turned it off how do I do that because you you're highlighting the the ICS we're new to us games Scout is one that we played a ton of this is like the most played game of the year Mary probably I mean I played a lot of touring machine that's more my thing is definitely the game we played the most together because this is a card game where you are trying to put together a hand of cards that's really great where you can play Pairs and three of a kinds and runs of color it's a ladder climbing game and ideally what you need to do is play something that's more powerful onto the table than what was played before yeah it's really fun because it's easy enough to get into it's in a tiny little box uh and it's very still talking about Scout yeah we have like two I know a little sense of what the game is the point is I really like scout scout is outstanding hi this is Mary by the way it's really fun it's really fun Scout is absolutely we got to play Arc Nova Arc Nova came out last year but we finally got to play we played the first time at Dice Tower West with our good friends in ayton city and oh my God that that was March of this year that was this year yeah arcanova it's like the hottest game in the last couple years pretty much um it's it's very very fun got a lot of different mechanics a little bit of Rogers a little bit of terrifying Mars a little bit of civilization dude on there really really fun about building a zoo see I'm done already yeah it's a really great game they live up to the hype wait very is how Tigress might might go mess around become a top 10 game I don't know it's the best Garfield games which is saying a lot yeah it's my newest in the Garfield games new Trilogy of the South Tigress Trilogy and this one uses dice placement and worker placement uh in in and you build this massive Tableau of cards it's just so fun to explore synergies and combos between cards and get your resources I just want to explore this game more and more and more yeah so so good for Scholars of South Tigers too I can't wait um we got to play a decorum decorum is a new game this year this is a game or a Cooperative deduction game where everyone's um decorating a house together but you will not talk because you're very bad at communicating this game you will not talk about what you want in the house but you are very specific about what you want so you're constantly moving stuff around painting walls changing the rounds and you're trying to get everyone's conditions to be met again without you talking about what your conditions are very very fun you get into the role playing of being very like Petty about things being like I hate that lamp yeah like stupid I hate you because you like that it gets very very fun it's all all about passive aggressiveness and it lives up to that title yeah again we played a bunch of his framework one of the most played games this year yeah an Uber Rosenberg game uh kind of similar in the line of like sagani Nova Luna framework they all do a very similar thing we're gonna Place tiles you're gonna hope to surround that tile with certain colors in this case certain color frames uh to complete tasks because this tile might need four silver frames around it and there's this kind of flow through adjacency where if there's a silver frame and another silver frame on this side it counts as adjacent to that this one does it the best of them all because it's really smooth the draft tiles and it's a game you can play over and over again I love this game so much lots of people just got here ask me to start over no no we're only four games in um basically it's been love love love love so far I'm curious if someone in chats come here the whole time count the negatives I don't know how many negative views are gonna be there's a couple where we got in the chamber but not many we don't dislike truly we don't dislike that many there's something uh Boone Lake uh Boon lake is a game of Alexander Fister uh trash game no it's really great we love it this is getting I feel like we like more than most other people it seems like a lot of people don't tend to love this game but we really do but this is a game where you're building out kind of like a engine of cards and you're going down this River and you're putting out like settlements into this like uninhabited area kind of like old Pioneer Town looking yeah and it's really really fun it's the main gripe for it is it's just too long it's two players like I don't mind it at all I don't think I'd ever want to play with like three or four players no because I don't think you would make the game players yeah I don't think it makes the game better but it would make the game longer which I don't wobble boot like we really really love I think it's fantastic I can I can I can acknowledge the flaws that this game has and still have so much fun playing it anyway that I'm like I'm fine with it I got no problem yeah absolutely no problem really great legacy I still haven't played this one yet it's so good Legacy of you is a solo resettable campaign game from shenfield I know I really do I almost I almost waited yesterday for my birthday oh really and I was like it's a bit too much steps you know what I played black son which we'll talk about later did you play it I loved it yeah we'll talk about lyrics yeah it's great it's okay Legacy of you dude Black's another though it's so good so good Legacy he was also great resettable campaign game where you're trying to build out these sections of a canal not unlike Shakespeare looking for the dark lady in Black Sonata and uh you are dealing with barbarians that are kind of threatening you constantly you are are uh it's just this kind of efficiency puzzle with all of your resources both workers and the actual resource how do I eke out as much as I can with the stuff I have if you like Hadrian's Wall you might like this because it's a similar feeling of like I've got this pool of stuff what do I do with it um Legacy use incredible it is so fun as you play through if you win a bunch of games the game gets harder if you lose a bunch of games again it gets a little easier and it kind of self-scales and you're trying to win seven games before you lose something what a good fantastic super cool because there's this flood coming here constantly getting flood that's why you're building canals because your people are dying because of concerts that's a great cover we paid Paris Suck It Foster the meeple did we nail the pronunciation exactly this is uh Paris City of Lights um in English like city of buses I can't remember which one it is this is a two-player only game where it's kind of this interesting like half and half game where that first half the game you're like putting out these like cobblestones and stuff like that and you're essentially doing kind of like area majority you're trying to have like your color cobblestones in certain places you want to have them together large swaths of your color because it's going to give you more flexibility later whereas next turn you're put next round essentially or accept half you're putting out these like probably probably almost they're polyamino tiles that are buildings that you have drafted in the first half of the game because you can either place a tile or draft a piece but you need to be able to put them only on your color or Cobblestone so you're trying to build it out and trying to think ahead like okay if I build this like this I can put this Poly on the top there super puzzly super fun there's also a decent amount of variety in the game because there's like these kind of postcards yeah they give you like little special powers the reaction stuff and we have very cool little games we have the Eiffel expansion which gives you just more actions and stuff it's really really fun two-player game that you play in the Box yeah severe per usual kills it yeah really really finely game good game and we nailed the French thank you for some people who are bless you come in Fast Forward dice game is really fun it is it's a Mass Market game 100 you're just rolling dice it's just frantic and stuff but it is super duper fun really for a game where you're not making a ton of like deep strategic choices you are having to choose like what dice you want to hold back and roll some more but you're just trying to roll the certain dice faces to dodge the attacks of whatever boss you're in front of like the root pack if you're playing you know the first one as you play uh more and more uh packs there's like eight of them you get more and more kind of things you have to manage like against the dragon and start stacking your dice because in that in the game you're jumping from Cloud to Cloud so there's a dexterity element it does a good job that's where I stop it you never beat it yeah uh it does a good job of feeling a cuphead obviously has great art because cuphead is great art and just the franticness of rolling the dice feels like cuphead as much as you possibly could by making something so completely different than a video yeah totally uh it's really really fun it's a great box great art honestly it's fantastic you should give it a drink it's really good Elena said I take these are not alphabetical no we're doing all of our new games first new to us games and then but they're not in any kind of order with them they will kind of go alphabetical at times because the way that our app does it goes by number of plays and that'll be alphabetical and then it'll be after that code when we go down to like one place so it sort of isn't isn't yeah not really a an organization we play Glenn Moore too with lynnea actually in chat play Glenmore 2 this is uh Glenmore Chronicles um this is a tile Lane game where you're putting out these tiles and there'll be different Scottish stuff and when you put down a tile you get to activate that tile and all the tiles around it which you're mostly going to give you kind of resources they might allow you to move around your Scotsman around your little your little area yeah and you're trying to essentially score a couple different things you have like whiskey that you can get and your um your you can turn in some of the tiles would be like hey you can turn in these resources to get these points so you're activating those but the thing is once a tile is completely surrounded or there'll be a time where also you can't activate that tile anymore because it's completely surrounded by other tiles and so it's constantly this this interesting you need to kind of keep building out but you also be efficient you don't want to build out because if you have the biggest area at the end of the game you will lose points so you actually want to keep your kingdom it's like as small as possible over build if you can interesting for a tile Lane game usually Italian games you want to go as big as possible this one you actually don't there's a whole bunch of different modules the ones we've played really really fun like it a lot yeah it's really fun great tile placement if you like tile placement you'll enjoy that one that's what I say yep great wish and Trail Argentina indeed this game is hadope if you like Great Western Trail you'll probably like this game if you don't like Great Western Trail this probably won't change your mind because it's like 80 the same the whole body and soul of Great Western Trail is very much there where you're going on a rondelle you're going down a trail stopping off various buildings and ending up at a location to drop off cows it's starting again it's all about that hand management Great Western Trail Argentina kind of adds to the um I guess like when you ship off your cattle then they go onto ships instead of just on a train and then you're done with them you put your disc on a ship but then those ships might ship out to these European cities where then you can bring your disc down into a different area where some area control and you want to kind of get uh you know onto these little spots or give you money and stuff so it's just more to kind of do there you can as you move your train down get shortcuts you can start making routes quicker and quicker there's a lot of fun changes to the game that we really prefer really like um and so yeah it's I think a fantastic addition yeah uh that I would probably play over a Great Western Trail at this point oh that's very very good play Ella Skye from Chief index even the Scottish team gun um through another Scottish themed tiling the next game will also be about Argentina um and so this is a this is kind of like Carcassonne and cartographers had a baby where you're you're laying out tiles like cars in the car they'll have different um things on them you have to make the landscape make sense if you can but then there is scoring like cartographers we're gonna have four scoring conditions in the first round of your score Like A and B then B and C then C and yeah I think everything will score three times it's a similar kind of scoring like exactly that kind of vibe yeah and so it's it's just really really good also by Alexander Fister really really fun um we liked a lot we just got The Druids expansion we heard it's really really good we haven't played with it yet but yeah so if you want like carcassone but like thinkier because now you have like different scoring conditions every game it's great for that it really is a midpoint between like carcasson and cartographers you know like where oh because of the scoring thing I want to get a bunch of small areas of water completed or you know uh get a bunch of this type of building other side of the animal so just it gives you different things to focus on as you play and there's like bidding mechanisms for you know I know I know Nick's going for this thing so I'm gonna make this tile cost more so when he buys they get more money and stuff like that just adds a few things to like a carcass yeah it's really really really really really good like it a lot really fantastic um okay we'll play wax on that yeah I don't want like to play it because it's really good it is so good this is a solo deduction game how does it work where you are I don't know you are uh walking around uh England London and you were looking for the dark lady who was like basically Shakespeare's Muse for all of all of Shakespeare's sonnets yeah Shakespeare kind of alludes to this person who clearly had captured his imagination uh their imagination it's probably a group people that wrote all these things but it doesn't matter uh and so like there's always been this mystery like who's the dark who's this Muse figure you know was it someone who was from the history was it was it an equation mind yeah someone in his mind or whatever and so you are basically searching out for a certain person based on the various aspects that they trade they have like they're married they have kids they have some sort of tie to Shakespeare they are a historical figure of some kind yeah there's all these different uh traits and you're kind of like whittling down to three of them which will point to one person specifically uh and so you are moving around the board and the dark ladies moving from location to location and what you have is basically this deck of cards that will show you a feature of that location and from that kind of like stop the if you can probably get an idea of where she's going and you hope to land the same spot same time to confront her and then if you make a credit I guess yeah who are you she runs away in the shadows you might have caught a glimpse to give you a little bit more info you saw a wedding ring as you were running away you know what I mean and so like it and through this you just then start to make leaps of Logics like a search for Planet X and stuff it's really really fun I love of course like the historical theme of this yeah it's cool it is so cool and the fact that you make this deck of cards which basically is a sequence that she's walking around and it it works it actually works it's really cool I'm so glad you played it I want to talk to you about it it's so much fun yeah I like black Sonata a lot really really good uh Kate tree said with the 285 unique games in a year how many did you play more than once a decent amount I'm not entirely sure the exact number but a decent amount I don't know um I can try I'll do I'll do a quick a quick see look here and see I'm Gonna Play Kites uh um kites is a really great real-time game um by Floodgate games but great best mobile art where you have these sand timers and you are cooperatively playing out these cards whenever you play at a card whatever color kite is on there you will flip that color sand timers like red blue purple green that kind of thing I keep saying in the timers if sand timer runs out the game is over you lose um they also have different amounts of sand in them so the purple one is like two minutes long but the red one is only like 30 seconds long but there's also more red cards and so you want to try you play a card and then you draw a card and it goes to the next person and you win the game once you get all the cards down the table so you're constantly just playing playing and switching and switching switching and it's really really fun is so fun it's way more fun than it than it it's just an excuse to shout at people that are sitting two feet away from me it's great we all want that it's got great bestsellable art that you unfortunately will not pay attention to because you are screaming at people there's no playing cards there's just like afterwards check out the art it's great it's really fun yeah it's uh under radio you'll see that in the list tomorrow speaking of we'll play a game called Leviathan Wilds which won't be coming out for a little while they they launched their Kickstarter yeah uh and then they but they will launch it again so Leviathan Wilds is a Cooperative game where you are playing these climbers and you're climbing up these like you can see like in the cover right here these giant creatures and you're basically trying they've been like you can see like the blue crystals there they've been like corrupted essentially and they're kind of like all agitated and wild now yeah if you're trying to like remove those crystals to kind of bring them back because these these creatures are naturally very docile and stuff like that and you're kind of moving around and dealing with these attacks are gonna Target like I'm gonna do an attack like this you're trying to get out of the way their attacks and it was a fun Cooperative game that probably still needs a little bit of Polish yeah um and it seems like they're going to do that and relaunch the campaign but there was there's a fun core here for a Cooperative game that uses climbing and your grip strength is your deck of cards that you have you ever run out of cards in your deck you fall which is in the end of the day because they're all different shapes stuff they really do feel different and so I think they're gonna be like 20 the campaigns kind of places like campaign in every Leviathan is yeah it was very very cool we've got to play Miss over Carson this is like this spooky like kind of Halloweeny version of Carcassonne but it's Cooperative um and so it's normal cargo so you're playing out tiles you're trying to finish cities finish roads and stuff like that but then there's also these Mists and these myths have ghosts in them if you ever run at it whenever you have ghosts you have to put ghosts on the board if you ever run out you lose out and then if you ever close off an area of mist all those ghosts will go back away um it's really really fun it's fun to kind of be like hey like what should we do what should we do here also like if you both end up on a road instead of you have no one getting the points you'll get double the points so a lot of times you're both trying to get into cities and then close them because then you'll get like double the points because you always have points thresholds that yeah amount of points before you lose yeah I mean you're trying to hang really really fun I like a lot there's like a whole bunch of different difficulty levels we suck at this game so we play on the easy one we still lose all the time yeah but I really like it I think it's an outstanding version of carcass I think so too I think this will probably become a default way that we play that way um especially during like Halloween time it's really cute yeah I really like this really really good like it about it and the night before fresh we played two days in a row I play it again today I don't know Planet unknown is very very good uh planet is a polyamotile game uh where you are building putting out different types of trains onto a planet kind of terraforming it um and you're bumping tracks because we love bumping tracks bump them tracks how many games will be featured that have bumper tracks probably a lot a bunch um and it's just like this track allows you to bump this other track and now you can do this one and it's cool because they're all different everyone has like a corporation you can all play the same chord print yeah you can all play different corporations for async we started playing those planets they're nuts it's I it's so good I hope it keeps they keep printing it because I think it'll just keep selling selling I agree I think there's just high appeal it's all simultaneous play So It Goes Down Smooth this will be the game that above all I would play a six player because you play it all the same time so it's not gonna take forever indeed it was a game where you're ultimately kind of moving around a different locations and you're collecting cards you're kind of like kind of collecting stuff to have like a great day like to go on a picnic or whatever it's a very Mass Market game it's very cute machine it comes like a little Pusheen figure that's adorable uh we played it this is not like our type of game person beanie you do because that you got from when we played that right there put this on for a bit uh this game is super cute especially if you have people like like Pusheen uh get this game for that yes it's adorable it is a fun little game that's ultimately fairly simple but there's like a real game there's some stuff that's consider about where you move and like how that blocks people and things like that so there's a real game there but it's ultimately very light with very high appeal Pusheen so great again it's like it's not our favorite but it's good yeah uh Ready Set bet was a very good this is a uh horse racing betting game um where the kind of person running the horse facing me rolling out these Dice and all the horses are gonna be moving up the thing and you are have kind of almost like a big roulette table um and you are putting down bets over what horse you think is going to win but again it's all done by Rolling you're dying you're gonna win place or show meaning are they gonna come in for a second or third if you roll like a six and then you roll six again that horse then gets a boost of speed and it's just one of those things where you're putting down your bets and eventually everyone has their bet down and then everyone is just screaming over who's rooting for the horses that you bet on and it's such a simple game and it just it's so much fun it is so much fun what's really cool because every round you get like prop bets there's extra special bets are only there for that round you get these little cards that might give you an extra betting disc or this kind of bonus if they're 11 12 it gets rolled you get a dollar and things so it gives you like all these fun little things that get the game kind of just gets crazier and crazier but so fun to have someone who's just rolling these eyes and moving the horse and calling out the race I don't know if the app is out yet is it out yet but um they will have an app that can run the horse race for you yeah um just in case you don't want to but it is I prefer to like really and call yeah I like it I think it's really really fun we'll play some skymines we did skymines is theme of uh Mombasa from Alexander Fister yeah this one sets it on the moon which is preferable because as so far as we understand there are not people up there uh and so we're cutting up the land and stuff you're not cutting on people's neighborhoods yeah that's which we love which is great uh this one is really fun we've never played mumbas but we'd always heard really great things about it mechanically like from a mechanism standpoint it's a fantastic game and this is just that which is nice yeah and it's it's really really fun yeah it's kind of like this this interesting Corporation is basically investing in their steak on the moon you're trying to kind of get in with those yeah you're trying to get shares of those companies so you want a lot of their stuff out on the moon so that your Shares are worth more money um it's got this really interesting kind of like kind of way of deck building um where you're putting cards into various discard piles but every at the end of your turn you get to grab those discarded Kyle's back so it's nice because you get a really strong hand but then you have to split the hand up so you can't like keep spamming these really really strong hands and it's a very interesting kind of way of doing deck programming that's really really fun liked it quite a bit I liked it a lot it's cool and there's like a whole other sideboard we haven't even explored KT says uh race that bet not for introverts probably not as much uh because it's it's going to be loud and I'm sure that game will annoy people at conventions but I love that don't care at all um I'm gonna play I don't know if you played parade I played it once a long time I could have played a couple times this year I played a dice tower West uh with a whole bunch of different people and then I played it with Matthew in um Manchester this is a great little kind of like line management game where you are putting uh Alice in Wonderland folk at the end of this line also Loki one of the coolest covers it's a good cover and you essentially are trying to not take cards you don't want cards cards are worth points you don't want points um although you can kind of try and like shoot the moon with of the color of card uh which you can do and this is a game where it's like you definitely want to play it with more people because the more it's at Matthew and I played a two-player and it was way too easy to just never take apart you need to have a little bit of the chaos from like what people are playing or like how do I now deal with this there's you want that you want that blend for sure yeah and it's really really fun it's a classic game for a reason been around for a long time I really like the Alice in Wonderland one it's really really cool um and yeah this is a game that honestly I saw like a shop I'd probably pick it up for us because I think it's a great like hey let's play a quick easy game uh that most people really like I'd love to pick this one up Civ says I'm really torn between a long shot the dice game and race that bet if you are don't want the hooting and hollering play long so the dice game gives you similar Vibes yeah uh without the the zanyness yeah and they're but they're both great they're not even so it's ready set bed a bit like camel up not really honestly um no because it's just a real-time element makes it feel very different play Terracotta Army this is a new game by Borden dice I really like this one I really like this one a lot yeah this is a game very bored and dicey where you are choosing an action you'll get to do multiple actions but those actions are constantly changing and so these rings that you ultimately do three actions kind of from this exactly each round the Rings will turn so the action setup is to be different sometimes you're like oh this is a really good combination of actions I want to make sure I go there first but you're ultimately building up the Terracotta Army and putting it in the mausoleum whenever you build a new Terracotta Army statue you will then put your base on it you'll put in the mausoleum they will do some special powers while they're in there but mostly you're trying to do is like make groups of them essentially have like area control but the thing about the mausoleum which is interesting is you can really influence the Mosley and you can move stuff around there are these inspectors going around so you're constantly trying to like move stuff and make it most advantageous for you it's really really fun I like it a lot we've only ever played it at two player I think I would like to try it at more but I actually also really really like it at two players so I still get to be a game that like I don't really need to play it more because it's just gonna get longer yeah and he's getting a lot done in two player really high scores yeah you get more actions per round at to play Everything get five versus like three and then four player games still fills up and stuff there's still a lot of intrigue around like who's building where uh really like Terracotta Army and it's very like simple ultimately like compared to a lot of other board and dice games indeed you can play viticulture we'll play this on New Year's Eve not for the first time but again really really for the most recent time on New Year's Eve yeah this is the this is the expansion for viticulture world makes it cooperative this is what captivity culture is my number one game when we did our top hundreds of year spoilers I guess um I really love viticulture it's my favorite game um and this kind of just cemented it there for at least a couple more years I think I really like viticulture world because it's just viticulture where you're building out your Vineyard except for now everyone is working together to try to get a certain amount of points a certain amount of influence points but it's cool because you do really have to like discuss what's happened because you do not have much time you only have six rounds to do it yeah and so you can like trade some stuff sometimes like give people some wine but like here you have this you can fill this wine order and you're really having to discuss it and just like how do we want to do this trying to make this work because there's really little time yeah like it's so hard you only have six rounds and like I feel like a normal game of viticulture is like probably six or seven rounds so it's not like that different but with the other things you have to consider and the events that are happening and oh man yeah you feel like crunch so very good yeah it's really good we're very bad at it Woodcraft I think in a a redraft a couple years from now I feel like Woodcraft is gonna be our favorite game from this year yeah well to see it wasn't really our list but like the more we played we played it again the other night and this is another uh Vladimir Suki game uh in Ross Arnold and um and it's just super super fun it's kind of like that a lot of their games where it's just like you have a very interesting action selection system the longer you wait to take an action the more bonuses it's gonna have attached to it you're doing this you're manipulating dice cutting them in half a sauce it's a very well thematically integrated again I feel the idea of like splitting a six to a two and a four is a completely abstract idea but the idea is like you're sawing that piece of wood and half and you have a bigger piece over here and smaller piece like to me I'm like that is so satisfying to do something that is purely mechanical yeah it's so so fun I feel like we're just scratching the surface surface with I feel like we're both still very bad at the game oh scratching the surface with the strategies and stuff it's so much fun it's so so fun you're making wood wooden crafts and beautiful things like guitars we had to play um uh avatar Last Airbender Fire Nation Rising a very long name yes this is another one of the rising games like Thanos rising or Plankton Rising or the Batman who laps Rising a whole bunch of Rises a bunch of them they're all very similar but this one is the Horizon series is very good this is actually the first Rising game we played neither of us have watched Avatar um although I've always wanted to but here's some pieces but it's really really fun it's kind of like a crisis management game it's that's a tournament you've coined a lot recently and I think it's a great one kind of like pandemic in that way where you're just like you have crises and you're chaunsely trying to manage them you're rolling out dice there's kind of two halves of the game and it's I thought it was really fun yeah I agree I think it's a really fun to build up that pool of dice there's a nice ramp up that happens in the game uh and it's legit difficult yeah we got wrecked very good very very fun you play boop boop uh there's another little kitty cat game it's an abstract kind of strategy game where you are putting kittens and cats onto a bed and if you put a little kitten down it will Boop all kittens yours or the opponents one space away in the direction so if they're diagonal one space diagonally away we try to just get your little kittens three in a row to make them into a cat cats are cool because kittens won't Boop a cat and ultimately to win the game you need to get three of your cats in a row on the bed so it's just all about placing it down saying Boop and throwing cats off the bed for them to hop back up on and stuff it's really adorable if you like kind of pure abstract strategy get the stuff where it is chest like games this one has high appeal from the theme which for me helps out because like I don't love those types of games that much but this one is so cute uh that my wife and I will play it and it's just fun to Boop the cats so this one this is great because the theme for me really helps you're actually playing on this like little cloth yeah that's like this little you know tufted wonderful little bed spread so yeah I'm excited to play it seems cool it's really cute really cute like give me give me abstract strategy with cute another cat in the Box interesting trick taking game where there are kind of no well there are suits but every car doesn't have a suit when you play a sign when you play it you assign a suit to a card when you play it which is super interesting I am not sure if I like cat in the Box I think there's too much going on I think I think uh jury's still out for me on this the times I've played it have always been at like a convention uh we got a Gen Con played it there or played it as strategic concept so we're always playing five player I do not recommend playing this game at five player it's too much there's just too much chaos and craziness I want to try it like three or four and see continue to try it some more because there's the whole thing of like you're gonna choose uh you're gonna play before you make it a red you're gonna put this little token out on the four red in this middle board and stuff you're trying to like not scream no one else can play a four red exactly so it's all about like having you know your your options are dwindling in favor throw off suit which you can do you lose like if red was the or say yellow was a suit and I play Blue I then take a token off of yellow I can no longer play Yellow this round so you're trying to stay in the round as long as you can I love that aspect yeah there's also bidding for how many tricks you think you will win I agree there's a few different things in with the board you're trying to make a big grouping of your things and the board I think it's cool I just think five players is too much and you also play one round per player in the game and then you're playing five rounds of this I just don't think it's worth that but I think three or four would be a great player account yeah just like with the bidding and then you're you can only play each color and number once you're also trying to get multiple your things on that board there's so many things going on I'm gonna take out two of these things and I think I'd love this game I still need to try it some more but I I don't think cat in the box is going to be for me I think it's gonna be too much for a trick dangerous out for me I know it's not for me at five player which is I think pretty much the only way I've played it I really want to play more dead reckoning dead reckoning this game is toy this game is Tied by John declare uh shouts out uh this is a another card crafting game where but you're a big pirate card crafting game where you are have different crew pirate crew and you are giving them different abilities to give them different symbols and stuff which allow them to do actions better essentially and you're moving around to these different Islands trying to have like different um stuff on this island have like control of these various Islands it's got this really cool battle symbol where it's got this kind of like Cube Tower type battles dropped into this like little tray and then kind of where the cubes land depends on what you do so it's like it's no different than rolling dice it's just random but it's just more interesting and more like fun and it's just it's a really fun game this is a game where it's like it's a big long games I know don't know when we'll ever get to play it but I do love that we have we have a couple of The Saga expansions too I'm like I want to play them but we just don't play these games very often open those but I'm excited but I really like that art is you know tool it's just dope it's a cool game it's a game that yeah it takes a while because it kind of meanders you can sort of just like take your time with it which I think is super cool but this is like a we're gonna do this this is something new this is our whole evening right here which I think is you're playing three four player game it's probably gonna be three hours yeah just because you're having a good time oh if you're playing four players a three four hour game for sure yeah it's really fun yeah but it's really fun stuff and card crafting like okay this is this is interesting card crafting to me I really like dead reckoning it was cool it's fire oh Dreadful Meadows this is a nice um game by Arcus games this is there I think there's more and more games that are coming out around Halloween nowadays which is great but this game I'm here for it a candy growing game you are candy confectioners your spooky confectioners and you are building out different tiles and these tiles are going to be patches that will have candy on them and then you can Harvest those fields and harvest that candy the candy is going to be um your points in a lot of ways they're also going to be the way you pay for something candy is kind of like your multi-use resource it's everything it's what you're gonna spend to get more stuff but it is also your point so you're right it's like your investment because you're using some of my points here to grow more points you're trying to fulfill contracts and so you need those candies which have different values to them to buy these new patches but you also use the fulfilled contracts it's a tough little balance every confectioner also has a little special power that all seem very minor but actually make you play very differently it's really really fun it's got great art it looks great I just love I love specifically holiday themed games it's very very fun I'm really excited to bring it out this is I'll play this off season of course but this will be played every October for the for as long as I can picture the future definitely this is great very very happy Steve says I play cat in the box of the murph's at five and it was too long and two of us had a clear clear like runaway lead and so the last rider was like we're not going to win I do I think that is part of the problem we played escalation this Little Rock the Suburban Wars yes that's an old lady with a bazooka what are you doing this again you're trying to like one-up your neighbors you're ultimately trying to play higher cards yeah uh and I think you can play sets of the same number to make a two you know two twos or a 40 in that way yeah or kind of like a Fuji flesh Vibe uh and you're trying to like you're yeah it's like basically you're escalating these things escalating Petty neighborhood yeah squabbles and so like I think the old lady's like the highest card so it's like the the end game is like she has a bazooka but it starts off with like less you know overt uh things and you're trying to basically be able to keep playing cards I think if you can't play cards you have to take cards and stuff that's right and you're trying to you're trying to um like a lot of writer Fantasy games your cards are negative points you wanna you wanna have collected as few cards as possible by the end of the game uh and that's how you it's a fun little game with like really weird theme that I like but it was like a little time yeah it's cute little oh that was fun I thought it was fun yeah that's right it's a fun time played Fife is a new game by Pegasus Spiel this is kind of right in that that area of like those kind of Calico games abstract kind of games very very simple rules but as you go your options get less and less and less you're basically have a five by five grid you will have two little tiles the tiles will have a color a number and a symbol on them and then you will put one out on a turn and then draft a new one and that's pretty much it and then throughout the game you'll put out these different scoring conditions around your board and the scoring condition will be like in this row I wanted to go five four three two one and this one over here I want to have all one color this one here I want to have three one color two of another color yeah and so you're putting out these scoring conditions you're trying to make your grid work for the two scoring conditions that's and it just is destroys and there's also two diagonals yeah so it's a game that's really fun crazy crazy symbol but like Calvin that way it just destroys your brain because you're thinking so hard trying to make it work and as you're filling this in your options are getting less and less and less I like this a lot more than Calico because Calico feels too brutal and too restrictive yeah whereas this one at least you're getting to choose where you're putting these scoring conditions which to me opens it up a little bit more and I do I really like five I think if I want like a very tough thinky kind of abstracty game that has low rules I'm gonna pick five over at Calico all day oh over 100 yeah this completely replaces it yeah yeah uh uh yeah Savvy see I try to account yep yes it's great um 18 Lila put Nick give me your thoughts Hit It First negative review inbound I don't like 18x6 games I have no interest in playing them um this is a kind of card version of an 18xx game it's Gulliver's Travel theme for some reason I love the cover I honestly think it's dope it just looks it's adorable it's like a big man being like hey hey little people yeah hey what are you kids yeah it's uh it's an 18x it's card based yeah it's a card game you're laying out track and you're trying to like run down these tracks and it's just like there's just a ton of math and it's like one of those things where I I didn't like it I I was I tried it because again I still want to try a full team actually no I don't want to try an 18x I will hate it I just don't need to do it so Nick's tried an 18xx card game we just backed in 18xx Rolling right yeah maybe that'll be the one maybe that'll be the one this this is not convert you it's a card version of it I didn't enjoy it I don't think I'm ever gonna enjoy those kinds of games you're getting stocks you're running your things you're having to do tons of math I just 18xx the XX stands for the year so it's like 18 30. there are a bunch of train games that take place in the 18th 19th century so 1830 is a version and so yeah I didn't like it at all I never want to play it again I never never want to do that the philosophy meeple you ain't wrong Evan is Taylor worth mostly for solo no I do not think so uh yeah you don't think I do not like the solo of that it's too much to manage um we play the Grana this is the deluxe version we also played the groundhog the older version for the first time this year the grand hot is a potential top 10 game of all time once we get it and we're able to play it more this is great LaGrange got a beautiful the farm looks I want to live there can I get 10 million where you're building out your farm trying to fulfill contracts trying to send stuff kind of into town you're building out your farm but they have qualities cards because they're not cowards who only do W's cards quad use cards the bottom part of your card is going to be a an ability the right side of your car is going to be some kind of farm extension the top part of your card is going to be contracted and the left side of your cards be some kind of farm like a Vineyard or something like that yeah and every card you have to choose what do you want it to be what do you want it to be and it is so much fun the decisions are so juicy this one is super super pretty the old one is also great this one mechanically is based in the same got an upgrade also has a ton of new modules that we haven't had a chance to play it because we're still waiting on it but this one is the groundhog we first played it we were like whoa that's really good I think it says potentially a top 10 game for me it's so freaking good this fire lagrant has good uh as is the initiative was super duper fun this is one more of it I know I think it's the one we can actually like play through and we should play through I think we can get the fam we should do it like where it's like you come over like one day we've been on one long day yeah right or as you come over like once a week we'll do it after over span of a month we'll finish it I love that that's a great plan this is a uh uh a campaign uh game where uh we love the theme so much because it's it has a comic book that you're going through a story so you only play through it once because you'll learn the answers as you play uh you're going through the story and it's these kids like set in the 90s and these kids go to garage sale and pick up a board game from a garage sale that some they realize like someone has like customized a bunch of ways and you're playing like the key I think the game is called and so there's this like mystery that starts unfolding around this game so you are playing a game as kids playing a game and like figuring out what's going on because there's all these codes and stuff you're trying to solve it's super duper fun it's a really approachable gameplay it's mostly going around picking up these tokens and stuff and then you can get basically these weird symbols are doing these ciphers and figuring out uh the answers to puzzles and stuff but uh as you go through the story more there's like little details that you might have missed it's weirder and stuff yeah it's an interesting it's very cool very cool game that works really well yeah just super I just love the comic the story that's going on these are like these kids it's really really entertaining are we gonna play It's a Wonderful Kingdom this is a two-player only version of It's a Wonderful World I did really like this version this has instead of just drafting this has an eye split you choose portion of it which I really love the ice but you choose mechanic we both still like it's a wonderful world better because the drafting is just easier and this game is also Calamity cards which are negative points I don't care and you're constantly throwing those in being like hey you can take this but you're gonna have to take negative points and to me I just don't really feel like that's needed um there's already so much of like oh I I speak you Jesus is already a tough mechanic because you're like oh I don't wanna I need Mike to take this so I need to get him what he wants but I don't want to give him too much of what he wants and I just don't need the negatives but there's a couple different like modules you can kind of play with which are cool who wants to give quests try playing it without the Calamity do you think it'd break it I don't know I think it's worth trying I wonder if it does I have so much trouble scoring points in this or It's a Wonderful World already then like I don't need four negative points it's only gonna score four positive points totally anyway I still really liked it but the thing is also it's a wonderful world is also just grade it too like so it's like I still really like this one we still have um but it was good but we like it's a wonderful world Jerry's still out on this one yeah still good I'm gonna play Elden ring the bird game got to go out to Jolly Old to play this game um and it was very fun I really like the Elder Marine game the scenario that we played I think most of them are like this the first half of the scenario you were out exploring you're doing all these different actions you're kind of getting these like small little spikes and skirmishes and you're essentially trying to fulfill objectives once you fill the objectives you can then find the boss and then you find the big boss and the whole second half of that scenario is you in the boss fight it's got to say you in the boss punch your way out but notice the whole boss the fighting in this game is cool because it's a it's not like dice based games card base it's all card based and everything is Telegraph so like you're basing a layout what the boss or the enemies are gonna do and then you basically have to be able to deal with that so to me the fighting is more of a puzzle than it is a fight because you're like okay they're gonna move here and do this how do I keep hitting them without getting hurt and the bosses of course hit very very hard and to me that puzzle was really really fun some people are not gonna like that they want to have the kind of like more rolling dice kind of dice chunking thing I don't want to have had that kind of game I actually really really liked it yeah um it was very expensive it was very big but like I thought the game itself was really really good um and this is from someone who's never played Elderberry never played bloodborne never played Dark Souls don't care about any of those yeah but I liked the game I really thought it was very very fun um it's just it's big and expensive but I thought the game itself was actually really good yeah I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they're like oh yeah it's actually really solid I think you would like a lot yeah I was really stoked I'm sorry to try it like can fire Chronicles nice fall this is a another campaign game indeed uh this is a good intro to Campaign games it is what this does is if you get the box and you open it up it's going to hold your hand yes through the setup and through the first couple scenarios which is what we showed to y'all in our live stream and play through video it I mean it holds your hand it goes like this is what these things are grab these pieces out these are what these pieces are and stuff and now here's a box to open this box that's gonna give you your first character here's how a character works I love that fact because if you just get gifted gloomhaven and you have no idea what type of game is you will never make it to the beginning of the game you won't it's just too much yeah and so this one really teaches you how to play a campaign game and that's something that I really appreciate there's fun story since I've really interesting characters we play we thought this wyvern this Dragon it's cool I got a super simple gameplay yeah but it's it's really cool and then we got it got to the point where the story then opens up you can do a new side question and stuff there's gonna be a ton of content you get to this Village and also you're like oh we can make choices no because it's now held your hand through a couple things now it gives you a little bit of Freedom it's super duper cool it was I liked it a lot I thought it was cool again we don't really playing games no but I thought this was a great one to get people into Campaign games I thought it was awesome yeah yeah yeah it's a good way to approach a campaign type of game yeah mountains out of mouth Hills mountains out of Mall Hills this game was surprisingly very good uh this is a kind of a mass Market game by the op this is a two-tiered game where it's a big 3D board because you are moles and you're underground doing mole stuff just crawling around underground but as you're crawling around you are programming your movement on the bottom board and you're moving around but as you're moving around you're pushing dirt up and you're pushing dirt up to the top board and the top board is a whole bunch of these little Hills this is kind of like big old dirt Hills and that whole part up there is area control so your programming your movement on the bottom but doing area control on the top and it's a really interesting mix that's ultimately very simple yeah but it's really really fun and so you're trying to have like more of your dirt on the top of the stack than anyone else also if it gets too big it'll fall over which can actually be a benefit because then you're adding dirt to other stacks and I actually thought it was really really fun yeah it's really interesting I think the game scales for player counts in terms of how much space you have to operate underground but I think I would like it at a third place I think so just so there's more toppling of the mountains yes that's one thing that my only note I could say was that like depending on which round you're in the mountains can only be so high yeah mole Hills um and then they topple over and at two player it was actually legit really kind of difficult to make it tall enough so that they would topple and I'm like that seems super fun because all of a sudden you mess up yeah people stuff and also I'm not talking about so I'd want a third player like a lot of area control games usually two player isn't as good unless they really scale it yeah and I appreciate they scaled it down so that you have less room to operate so it gives you a similar feeling yeah but um yeah honestly this game works really well if you like program movement if you don't mind like a robo rally where like your movement's gonna get messed up if you don't mind that we're both pretty bad at those types of games but I enjoyed uh uh making the attempts and stuff yeah that was very good that was a good game that kind of overlooked I could play Dimension with my good friend Nate I want to play this Dimension was very fun this is the next strategies are gone man yeah we should we should really want to play it it's really fun it's a little abstract game absolutely the theme is the balls the same that little this balls are big definitely this game is kind of expensive because it has these really nice like wooden balls and basically you have these different different like um objectives objectives each round or basically different schematics what's the word um no when it's restrictive though um different rules you have to follow that's what I'm trying to say about restriction basically we have to do and so basically it'll be like you have to put all the balls into a stack you have to try and use all of them but it'll be like orange cannot touch black yellow cannot be above anything it has to be on the bottom there's all these different rules and so you're having to build this puzzle out all your thing that makes yeah it does not break any rules yeah you're trying to do it faster and it's really fun it's a really fun little puzzle very very simple obviously in terms of what you're doing but you're like oh crap no I can't put that there because green can't touch white crap I had to put over here no but that messes up because now yellow's over here and it's a really fun little space 3D Puzzle yeah that I thought was really really really fun the problem is it's ones I don't think they're making it anymore but it's kind of expensive because it's they're really nice like drains really constraints that's the word I'm looking for thank you so much thank you um you have all these constraints and it's a really fun little puzzle you just play a bunch of different rounds and then you just and every time you just have a different amount of constraints that you have to follow and they just go and it's really really fun but if we found this somewhere for cheaper that might be great for like Logan later in life obviously like as a puzzle spatial thing you know if she's like four or five so why it weighs off yeah super fun museums suspects this is a great game by praise be praise be there's more praise begins right there look at that okay cow and lavaland look at that right there praise be somebody behind us there Museum suspects is a guess who kind of game yeah kinda uh where you are our uh we are suspecting people of stealing from a museum yeah we're like security guards like yeah and there's like a little grid of characters I think a four by four grid who do that don't you touch that painting because they're like three inches away I can't see you uh and you uh are are going around investigating there's all these Clues around the the display of characters that are in the museum today yeah uh and you are gonna as you go and check out these cards you are going to get information that will basically rule out certain people make sure that these people are innocent anyone wearing this purple hat like this and many characters will be wearing a purple hat like that are not the person who's stolen anything and then you're gonna make a bid you're gonna put like a little kind of uh token down and it'll have a basic different values based on how confident you are that you're this person is who stole uh and at the end of the game you're gonna see who stole stuff or didn't steal stuff because this game can have multiple outcomes it could be that based on the types of cars that are around that multiple people were stealing there could be one person who sold or there could literally be nobody who stole and there's an option to choose Rican bid saying I don't think anyone's the only thing based on the information that you get so it's very light but it's just a little more fun of the kind of bidding than like a straight up guessing type game yeah it's really fun I think very underrated game that like no one talks about I think it's great for families we play Port Royal The Big Box push your luck game pirates game where you're trying to get points and stuff like that it's really fun we we played a little bit we haven't played really too many like the modules or anything like that modules we can play stuff solo Co-op there's a kind of quicker version of Port Royal which is not a long game anyway but it's important luck the first couple times they played I played some stuff wrong here and it really hurt my enjoyment the game was like this game is sort of short and easy and it's lucky and I mean it is like it's a personal life for sure like but then with some of those changes like oh this is really fun you're trying to like basically spend your coins to to get stuff in your cards or coins on the back side that's cool that's good wait rise this game is about bumps and tracks there's 10 different tracks you gotta bump on those tracks this track lets you bump this track this backtrack and then you bump this track and that truck on this side that's rather than both the track it's great tracks I don't know how you really score points but you get to bump a lot you do bump a lot of tracks all the tracks are different um but they mostly if you move up this track and now you can choose you can move up either this track or this track you move that track you get to do what's on that track it's that's literally oh there's a kind of like an industrial theme going on sure but really it could be just nothing but bumping tracks and symbols and it was it's really fun if you like it I don't know how much staying power it has I think after like 10ish plays we're probably like cool we're done but honestly at this point like if I get 10 plays out of a game I'm happy I'm like I'm happy with that I think that's great I don't think this game will last forever for us but it is really fun to bump those tracks and make these cool combos that's something that's really exciting and uh there's like these action cards and events that happen and stuff and I like that as you build up your industry your conservation track takes a hit and you have to get that back right you have to make sure that you're not like wrecking the environment for the sake of industry or if you build up your Banks guess what people get mad because you're taking money out of their pocket they start rioting It's gotta make people happy uh it's a lot of fun stuff to do it's really good I liked it a lot just bumping tracks we love bumps it's a solid bump puzzle we got to play the new uh Star Realms the eyes of Empire it's mostly still just Star Realms except for now you can like upgrade your cards it's the Legacy version of it and so you can put stickers on cards and make them better yeah it's really cool it's Star Realms hero Realms really really fun deck building game where you get right into the thick of it being really really cool right away yeah but then yeah you get to change up these cards and it really did make a difference and you can actually just like buy essentially sticker sheets and make kind of your own because you could reset you can you can you can basically play the stickers and stuff or you can get this kind of thing where what we played with where if you're gonna buy and upgrade a card they have a pre-printed card that has that upgrade on it so if you do that you don't have to actually stick or anything and you can just reset your game over and over which is really cool which is what I would probably vote to do it was very good if you like Star Realms it's a very cool version of that because it's just a legacy version where you kind of just get cooler and cooler and cooler and cooler it's good right for sure um it's all right yeah really fun liked it a lot yeah uh we played title blades rise of the unfolders this is the second title blade this is the dungeon call version of tidal blade title blade title Blade Two tidal blade Banner festival or all set and title blades very different games yeah student plays indeed this is a Dungeon Crawl game that kind of takes place around promo exactly that's right um and so it's got this interesting kind of um Norman Reedus in that film Kris Kristofferson sure pretty sweet sure so um but this is game where you're putting out cards into a row and you're activating like rows and columns are your car it's kind of this interesting deck building we've really only ever seen it similarly in like Monumental um yeah but in this one what you're doing is you're adding cards to your rows and columns it's the way I look at it's like you're building up a combo yes you really have like a combo attack and if you ever fill up your row you get to do like all sorts of stuff that road goes that row goes away so you kind of like are building up your Combos and then doing a major thing and then like resetting so it's a really fun way to kind of go about doing yeah it's cool and because you're doing different scenarios again it's a campaign game and dungeon crawling and so it's like you're trying to do stuff and trying to do these big things and going around and trying to like Crisis management it's really really fun I like it a lot again it's nothing like the other title blades but the world is like one of the best probably the best board game world ever look at it it's so cool I really really like um the puzzle in it it was really good and yeah it was awesome yep it was awesome uh Tom Blaze better Festival another game we played in the title of bladeaverse and this one is a game where you are um playing cards and stuff and now you're in the perspective of like these Merchants that are basically like the events of title blades that kind of like more of the events that are happening the first title blades where you're watching people do challenges we're all now selling stuff in the seats as people watching me in the stands yeah we're selling like literally like meat and smoothies and stuff yeah to these people who are watching the the events and uh it's really fun because it's it it feels like a trick taking game while being different where you're all going to play a card simultaneously and based on where this trade gate is a certain suit is gonna be the most valuable suit and then kind of working counterclockwise or clockwise it'll be you know orange is the most valuable than purple then yellow then blue are kind of less and less powerful as you go and depending on how you play you'll get different effects if you win the race you get to move your jet ski to wherever the trade gate is if you're one of the most the middle cards the second or third most powerful card you get to put a little discount on and do some area control stuff and if you have the least powerful card each card comes with an ability you get to do the card's ability the only way to do it is to have the least to lose the trick essentially that's really interesting where depending on where you are in the game what's going on where the trade gate is where you're trading I might want to sort of win this round or I really want to win this hand or I really don't want to win this hand and of course we might all be gunning for these things there's a lot of that cheeky like I'm gonna play this so it feels kind of trick takingy but there's no like have to follow suit there's just like the suits and the value of cards is ever changing and based on that you might change your strategy yeah it's really really fun really cool I I think it's absolutely outstanding I really do I think it's so much fun and I want more people to play we played teletube another born dice game this is um this is a great game um it's really really fun it's got a great action dice selection system where you roll out dice they go out onto this little wheel in order one through six and then basically wherever you grab a die from it will be attached to an action whatever the die is you'll get that many resources because the dice are different color but then whatever the opposite side of the die is that's how many actions of that type you get to take so there's a four down there four like food one of the pink dice you'll get four food and then you get three action points so it's a situation where you're like oh do I want six Stone but then I only get to do one action which is like nothing or do I only want one gold but I get to do six of this thing so interesting in terms of the the um the choices in that yeah and on top of it you get these tiles that you can turn in which essentially give me like two action points for this kind of action so you turned into these crazy combos yeah and every time you play this game you'll have one turn that's just like Bonkers you basically do like three turns worth of stuff in one absolutely awesome and it's but the resource Management's really tight it's very very fun I wish it looked better the cover looks great the board I think looks yeah it's incredibly bad all look like this cover it'd be great cool I'm definitely more forgiving of it while being completely I think it's one of the worst looking games that it's not pretty it's not pretty but it's so good it's very fun though yeah the the um the mechanics are crazy good yeah uh Savvy or Savvy says Great Western trailer which version to buy that's really up to you we prefer Argentina but it's a little heavier so maybe I'll go original uh it has maybe that's our father Nick what's your number now pop it out online I'm not gonna tell you my number okay here online hasn't changed hi that's our dad Jazz Murphy um hi pops uh we played Twilight inscription this is one of my biggest surprises of the year I was oh man flabbergasted how much I liked this game I picked up this game at uh geeky teas a great game shop shout out South Burbank um and then I I sold it I learned it and then I taught it to you we learned it like we played it super late at night in our hotel series of board game yeah we started it like I don't know right before midnight really fun place nothing like Twilight Imperium but it's this big giant like two hour rolling right where you have these four different areas that you're working in super fun it's really fun it's just you're rolling these dice which allow you to mark off stuff and you're marking off stuff and then trying to build these things you can really focus on like one or two areas or try to do a little bit of everything yeah all the ways you can play the game are pretty valid you'll also have some kind of faction which will give you some kind of ability it's really really fun we've kind of been looking for these big heavy rolling rights and the couple that have come out they're like okay um but this one is really really fun and I I like it quite a bit I'm glad that you liked it too you played it a couple times I was like yo this is tight yeah I had to play Bora Bora Bora Bora I played with um play with Naveen um before you play you know we're best friends um and so you know is a um Stephen fell game that I thought was fine um this is a game you weren't enamored it was okay it's kind of got a um it's kind of got the old yes it felt old in my opinion yes it felt old it's got kind of a uh great wrist Knuckles Trail um Grand Austria Hotel die selection system um popsicles what's your what's your name oh you can see my scar very very good next I'm at a 0.5 not even a one taking it all the way down did you lose my number Dad okay yes I have appointment and you took it down for this video I could see it says this is for the trash um but nonetheless it's kind of got this kind of like brutal uh Grand Oscar Hotel dice drafting kind of thing where when you're putting dice out you have to put a dice I think that's either large or bid yeah the outbid and so if you put down a six basically no one could really outbid you and you can just get really really stuck in the game I thought it was pretty good but I thought it was fine um I don't need to play it again I would it kind of felt old honestly I do think it kind of felt old um it was okay I thought it was okay having that played this this feels like a game that would come out today would flop just be like nah we've kind of moved on from this this you know not an open flop I don't think it would get any kind of I've declared definition Mike has declared swapped the game's a flop folks uh Village rails uh this is a fantastic uh uh very contained size wise we played this it packs unplugged most recently with lynnae and chat uh uh compact size wise game where you are building out these little tracks uh uh of trains and stuff and when they reach the end of your edge of your grid because it'll only be a three by four grid of cards you'll have 12 turns in the game that track is now complete and what you can do is put trip cards on those tracks which basically give you scoring conditions like if you have for every Forest uh landscape that you have on this track you'll get a point or two points or whatever so you're trying to like Lay It All Out in such a way that uh works for your trip cards and then you have these Terminus cards which are basically the people's needs and based on how well you meet those needs you'll get some money which is very important to get those strip cards you got to pay for them if you want cards that are not the first one in the in the order of drafting things you have to pay money and stuff kind of like small world so it's a really fun tight resource a little puzzly game that fits in a box like Yay big and I love how small it is in a world where games are sprawling more and more and more which is fun and exciting it's fun to have something that just lives right here in front of you it does what it is and you don't have to be like that's true you know it's so nice to not have to do that Village rails is outstanding outstanding game that I think we will probably bring pretty much anywhere anytime we're traveling whatever one day voyages you played voyages I don't play voyages this is a pretty princess I backed and uh well thank you Father it was Mike's birthday by the way yesterday thank you Daddy um uh this is a game where you are rolling Dice and you're kind of building out like a uh a trail as you're going around Waters and stuff and you're encountering different things that are on the map that will uh give you stuff to do it was honestly really fun it's one that I think with the kickstarter will be back we got like three maps and they all feel a little different there's ones that are a little bit more kind of straightforward a little bit more fun a little more combat heavy and stuff but you're kind of just going around and trying to maximize what you do really fun rolling right honestly it was like I don't know 10 bucks for the print and play it was great so I enjoyed it Great Value yeah absolutely great value yeah I really want to try it yeah I think so maybe played wild style wild style is a game of panosaurus games this is a game where you are tagging you are graffiting around town you're you're a delinquent and you're tagging around town and you're trying to tag different tagging around town you're tagging different places a different place will be worth more points tagging a park or the train tracks is very easy tagging a police station is very hard but you can do it um and you're it's a real-time game where you have these four different discard piles and you are putting things into this car pile or picking them up and you're trying to make sets of three if you make a set of three like Park cards boom you put them down and then you could take one of your tags and you put it on a part and then this is my tagging character oh okay you do look like a scoundrel get cigarettes in your in your right here in Greece like real talk but nonetheless um every game you'll have different objectives out and the objectives will really change up the game because now you might want to connect these three things like hey connect the three plate um train stations with your tags or have big groups of tags or have a lot of small groups you'll definitely have to refocus based on what those are going on and stuff but it's ultimately like a really quick real-time kind of playing card try to get sets of cards going and I think each round you're trying to get like five or six tags on that one yeah you know so I do even get Audrey's out first you also like deny other people uh the chance to play now they can try to play them in a future round but now it's just more to do and stuff I thought it was good it was a real-time game that was not too too stressful for a real-time game but I thought was really fun yeah great for like a great appeal for like families you can explain it they played Uno you can be like yeah it's kind of like this yeah to it yeah really good Dimitri have a great day uh play with stone good Paul how did this happen uh which though is a writer can I see a game about Witchcraft and you're brewing a uh a lot of people in that movie oh dude that movie is stacked sorry The Flintstones probably anybody with Halle Berry Rosie O'Donnell uh oh God there's so Elizabeth Perkins a lot of people in that movie uh Rick Moranis uh John Cleese no uh John Goodman so good that movies that movie's dope which stone is basically the same game where you are uh putting these little poly not polyamino uh hexamino these little dual hex uh tiles down into your cauldron and based on what actions are there you're gonna get to do those I think you choose one of the two actions to do and what's really cool is if I do this one that's like the Wand Action and I place it down in my cauldron such a way that's that's touching this like unbroken group of Wands however many wands you see in that now group that you've attitude you need to do that action that many times and so you get these like bigger and bigger versions of actions you're moving witches out onto the board you're working down this wand thing which gives you a bunch of bonuses this is a game where again you get these like crazy ramped up turns and also you're doing a ton of stuff on an action versus just like one thing at the beginning of the game so it's this kind of spatial element you don't want to make it so that you block off a group and now we can't add to it anymore that'd be bad which I do all the time yeah it's really really fun great for kind of Halloween um it's really fun kind of fun and thematic in terms of like just in terms of the art like just paste it on but like it's much more kind of like boisterous than a typical writer konitzia game in a great way so like wow this is a fun world crazy combos it's great super cool crazy combos um Wonderland's War um this is a great uh trash Druid City game uh for many people's favorite game of the year people love Wonderland we like it quite a bit as well this is a kind of a battle quack quacks equivalent kind of thing but you're battling every different parts called battle quacks first Wonderland I mean your bag building you're putting these chips in there you're pulling them out while you're battling they'll have different strengths and different abilities it's really really fun got the deluxe version is like awesome because it's got these incredible Miniatures it's just a very fun game that I always say like it kind of feels like it would be coasting on its production value but it really isn't it's really exciting as well I think it's absolutely outstanding what stone why Stone which Stone it's good that's good um that's good we played yeah this is a super light uh game that is produced to the Stars to the Stars uh this one I think does Coast a little bit more on his toy factory in like a Wonderland's War however it's very appealing this Yak is amazing uh this game uh is really fun it's ultimately uh you're building out the stone pyramid that's that's the main thing that you're doing and you want to have groups of the same color Stones you also want to have like a bunch of different groups of different color Stones so you're getting pulled in different directions these kind of objectives and stuff but there's these carts ultimately moving around the board that are carrying these stones and also carrying resources and when a cart comes in front of you that's your car to deal with whatever cards in front of Nick that's his cart to deal with and you can basically do like one of three actions you can swap some Stones I believe you can grab some resources or you can turn in resources to buy stones and then add to your your pyramid your pyramid um and uh it's just really kind of fun and light and there's like a couple things to think about because like man I want to turn in meat to buy these carts but this cart in particular does not take meat only takes bread and milk so you're like okay well I gotta like wait to get the right resources in front of me at the right time based on like how these Jacks Are Moving they can turn around and go the other way it's really fun it's a really fun light game that I think is great for families and the toy kind of factor because they're the actual Yaks with carts behind them they put the little stones in I mean like I could just give that to Logan not now but like to play with yeah just as a pure toy the first player is like a little baby yak and so it's really this would be another great game kind of like a chai yeah where it's like if you're gonna get getting into board games I might bust this out because you can be like whoa this is so cool looking and there's some fun decisions ultimately very light yes yeah really good yeah good game to make board gamers indeed good game for you wait Aiden so like that I think is the end of all the games we played more than once I think so so these are now starting someone asked earlier these are starting the games we played once this year for the most part yes but Asian civilization which was a little kind of like Civ building Civ building game and a little card game so it's very contained and stuff it has a lot of the civilization uh flavorings to it I wouldn't do that it's not aliens not alien touch it was okay that was okay uh I like that you're changing kind of Nations really often and depending on which nation you are you're going to get a boost it's kind of like got some small worldness to it where you will basically whatever resources you get from being like Rome or whatever it is uh you will kind of like run out of stuff to do with them and you'll need to like freshen up with a new nation so like that's something I enjoyed about that was it has like a little bit of that small world Vibe um and it has like a lithium games which I do enjoy uh it was supposed I liked how contained it was I feel like I liked it up on a style probably but alien Nostromo this is a Cooperative uh game about alien um and it's a game where you are fulfilling some kind of mission there are different missions of the game you are different characters different characters will have different abilities um and there is a big old xenomorph one wandering around trying to get you and popping out of Vents and stuff like that it was a final game this is a game that I thought was a good Cooperative game I think this game would be elevated significantly if you love Alien yeah I like think alien is fine um I just I didn't grow up on it or something like that I think it's good but it's just like it's not part of our normal our Zeitgeist thing like that so I thought it was good I thought it was okay um but I think if you love Alien this is like a Smash Hit so if you know someone who loves alien knockout park because it was a good game kind of like a lot of Robin's Burgers games where they're very family way they're all well designed and they're all good uh and this kind of falls into that yeah yeah not our favorite just simply because of the theme but it's a solid game undoubtedly yeah played alma mater jury's very much still out on this game because I feel like probably we're gonna like it more but my I think bailing memory from playing this game a few months ago was that like it was so incredibly tight yes I was like I can't I can't get anything done man I don't have the books I don't have the money I had nothing this is a game where you're I don't know how you get resources you're running a college a university and you're trying to get different teachers to put on lectures you're trying to get the borrowing books from neighboring universities and every University produces their own books your color of books yeah and certain like contracts certain things you're doing are going to take different colors of books and so you're going to need to buy books from the other player it's very interesting yeah we both were kind of like huh that wasn't quite as much fun as I thought it was going to be didn't dislike it but I think we need to play it more because I think once we get the engine going or get we get to work the game better I think we will like it more some games that are tight resource-wise like that you have to get over the hump and figure out what this game can you actually have something to use and then you're okay I think this will fall in that category but I remember being like Oh I didn't like that that much I was thinking like a lot more cool it's got a good look I like the theme hopefully we get there God bag of chips is good um it's it it just doesn't have a right to be as fun as it is it's so it's just silly because it's definitely a gimmick that works because this is in a bag that looks like a bag of chips the little tokens you pull out are gonna be like shaped like a little chip and they're just different colors and stuff that represent different flavors of chips Teriyaki chips and yeah and it's sort of like a perspect you know like you get these objective cards you're like I'm gonna have more potato chips than salt and vinegar chips okay there's many more basic chips in this bag there's a breakdown there's like only three of the chicken and like seven of the potato chips so like the likelihood that this objective will be scored is much higher but as you pull out chips you might see that you know what a bunch of salt vinegars come out and no potato chips like maybe maybe it's not as likely that this will score and you're gonna be getting rid of objectives from your hand to start with six you're ultimately only gonna have three So based on how the game is progressing you are going to then change maybe what you decide to keep and what to go for it's really fun and it's and it's tough and it's funny because like like the one where it's a potato you'll have more potato chips than chicken chips that will be worth like Five Points yeah that is very likely to happen but the opposite the scoring card that you'll have more chicken chips than potato chips is literally worth like 250 points because this could be so hard so you have this wild range of these cards and you're and you're constantly throwing away being like Oh do we think it's gonna happen it's so much fun it comes in a bag you keep a little bag put in your pocket it's such a great travel game I think it's one of the best pusher luck games out there I think I think this game is so good and I just want to pull the little chips out of the bag it's just like and then everything goes back in the bag at the end of it it's outstanding it's just adorable it's just adorable second Ube you can't design this yeah you're great you're the best thank you ever um I love bag of chips it's great uh paired beer and bread two player games well beer and bread uh in a couple weeks we'll have a playthrough of this on our channel so keep an eye out for adaptation really like beer bread there's a two player only game uh where you are so good two families and you have a yearly competition who can make the best beer in bread and so you are using these cards these cards are try use cards because in our cowards only do W's cards um the top of the card you can Harvest them for their different Goods we like wheat barley rye bread and beer stuff the middle of the card will be some kind of order so if you turn into certain things to make this kind of recipe yeah and the bottom is gonna be an upgrade for essentially your game and so you're playing out these cards the first the first rounds you're going to be drafting them the second rounds you're going to be just using the cards your hand because you're going through fruitful years and dry years where there's more or less resources really fun game that I feel like this game you can get into it pretty easily because it's a pretty simple game but as you go you can just start working that engine and you're like oh man and as we play it more and more I think we're gonna get better and better and better at work in that engine and it's really fun yeah I agree it's really really fun uh it's interesting it's just great anytime there's multi-use cards you're just left with like really tricky decisions of like oh do I forgo this to get that um love this game yeah really really I'm super excited to keep on playing it with a bunch of people online no I think you were doing something else maybe I was I'm confused now yeah now I'm thinking about it I don't think you were there we got this game it's over there I don't know this is a game about bird watching where you are trying to um observe Birds based on you're going to play a bird with a certain like symbol around color and stuff and if someone else is played that kind of bird around you will then get to be like I've observed this bird and then those cards will move into the inner rung and then we'll play another and so now you know some information about like oh I can observe this part because I know this card's over here there's predator birds in my scare off other birds and mess some stuff that's right yeah but you're trying to like basically get as many things observed as you can and I think for each suit or something the more birds you see of that you get points and stuff and then you're also trying to see all the different types very light very easy to play um I actually enjoyed it a lot it was good I do remember this now yeah the whole nice light kind of like party adjacent game it was good good little idea very easy um play batoku played this at the beginning of the year at dystar West with um Dwayne from Blackboard Amy and Mick from um late at night played it um a long game of it really fun game uh really big lots of stuff going on humongous game where you're doing essentially dice place meant you're you're having your dice and you're trying to constantly trying to like unlock your dice you can constantly use them and you move them to like one side of the river and then you can like push them to the other side of the river but they'll lose value it's a whole bunch of different stuff you can do in this game it's a really big complicated but not it is complicated but it's kind of nice there's just a lot of stuff and so the game looks really overwhelming but like nonetheless the specific parts are that complicated but there are a lot of them so it kind of adds up into like what do you focus on I think you can get like really scary going down these different paths yeah you really can do a whole bunch of yourself I really really liked we don't have I'd love to play it again at some point I'd love to pick it up um I think we want we want to play with Paula Paula wants to play so I think we're going to try and play with Paula Apollo Deming soon but yeah I really like the toku a lot I mean shout out to Dwayne for teaching us play burn cycle this is my favorite game of the year I really like burnt cycle it's a chip Theory game uh where you are robots stage robot Uprising but you're doing it through sleuthing and stealthing rather than killing and murdering and harvesting of organs yeah exactly but it's a cool game uh it's it's a big chip Theory game so it's it's complicated there's a lot of little rules a lot of these kinds of games I tend to not like as much because they just kind of be hard to play because there's a lot of like edge cases like well in this situation what do we do but for some reason burnt cycle really grabbed a hold of me and just never really let go yeah I love playing bird cycle solo I actually have it at my place it's not even here because I play it mostly solo but I really really like it all the robots you play are different they do different stuff they're good at different things you can go into three different corporations those corporations each have like eight different scenarios so there's a whole bunch of stuff you can play with I really like Burns cycle a lot yeah um yeah I thought it was good it's my favorite game of the year I really enjoy it yeah it's cool it's great production because of Chip Theory obviously I think big games like this really are best solo because like they are they was a little fiddly it's a little this it's like I don't mind that if I'm by myself like whatever I got all the time just cheat when I'm solo I'm like whatever like honest this you know it's not gonna do that it's great cares oh yeah Burnside I really liked a lot yeah I put capery Europe yeah it's another two-player game is that a two-player game where you are on on either side of the table and stuff and you have this kind of band between you that's gonna have three locations at it they're like and what you're doing is playing on the corner uh playing some Bluegrass in Paris uh and based on what city you're in like Paris you are going to have three locations and you're gonna be trying to put like a crew and have the most kind of strength I'll say at each of the locations if there's more strength on your side this little Caper uh like influence token or whatever on your side is a bit of a tug of war between that and you can get points that way you're also stealing these artifacts which is simple set collection of like or I guess anti-set collection you want to have a set of all the different icons to get points and stuff and then whatever City you're in will provide a few different items or a few different crew or a few different scoring opportunities that are specifics like Paris you got extra points for all those artifacts against steel um it's really really really fun great back and forth for a car drafting game where in odd number rounds you're doing Drafting and getting crew uh and even number rounds you're going to be in this crew will give you money and the even number rounds you'll be getting gear which you can put on to your crew members and stuff that cost you money really really fun quick I like it a lot yeah it's great great production Key Master does not mess around with crushes like Carson hunters and gatherers this is actually a pretty old game it's like from 2002. I didn't realize it was quite that old very old version of carcass this is a great it's kind of one of the there's many versions of the car because it's like South Seas and gold West and also this is one of those where it's still very very carcassoni except for now you have a couple different things since you're finishing out forests instead of cities you're finishing out we love roads um but you have like rivers and stuff like that also it's Rivers instead of Roads um yeah it's really really fun I actually liked this more than normal carboxyl one because it's prettier the normal car sounds like pretty boring looking at least the older version of it yeah I guess there's newer version I don't know but yeah but like I really like this one I also like I hate playing with farmers and carcasson with like every fiber of my being I think they're way too annoying and complicated but this one has the weaker it said like hunting animals on the on the thing and you can put a hunter down I just think it's way more intuitive than what the farmers are in carcassone so I actually really like playing with like the hunters in this one but it's just normal carcassum for the most part the slight changes are pretty cool you're getting like fish out of the river really really fun it's kind of nice nice have a little twist on Carson that looks a lot better so like honestly if I was playing Carcassonne I would probably just play this one rather than normal carcassone because it's still mostly the same yeah I agree because they're being said it's fantastic boom done next thing you see is another Kirk so standby it's carcass in the castle boom I would say two-player Reiner can you see a design version of carcassone yes where you are in this you build out this castle that has all these different kind of like little cuts and wider spots and narrower parts and stuff and then you are going to play carcassum within the castle walls and building and this one is uh much more different than like hunters and gatherers is the carcassone where now you don't always have to match stuff and you're kind of building out because it's a two-player game you're trying to build out things that are really beneficial to you and kind of block your opponent uh it was really interesting and fun the way it works trying to build out these kind of like matching rooftops and stuff but I remember playing this was like man this is definitely thinkier than a typical Carcassonne game but I enjoyed it a lot cool yeah um alrighty you play Katana the dice I did I know he bought this I was waiting for a prescription I had like 20 minutes and I got into Starbucks and I was in a Target right so I was like well I'm gonna go get your 10 in the dice game and play it yeah it's fun you're rolling out dices up you're building out little roads and your settlements and stuff like that and it was uh as you can see you roll out like the resource the Katan so it gives you some of the flavoring and Katan without all the this butt part that I don't like so I enjoyed it yeah cool you played whatever this horrible game clever forever man it's the latest in the clever series it's it's the fourth collaboration they made more than one of these they're rolling right a pure puzzle rolling right we have basically those different colored dice as you roll them will pertain to different areas of the uh game sheet that you're Crossing off you're trying to get basically as you want to fill up as much of each area as you can they all have different rules for how they work this one is fun because it's more flexible than the other ones more boxes in this one there's about to say about a foxes yeah uh what other boxes because you're clever like a fox whatever I don't know uh German folks you know they'd be thinking of stuff but this one I really enjoyed it was just definitely more flexible these are games I play completely on the phone I will probably never get them physically done with that but I'll play them over and over on the phone and I like this one it's a great addition to the series feels a little bit different than like two and three to me uh and I like it sure I'm sure it feels different yeah repair real different ish probably real different while being very much the same play Creature Comforts shout out to Foster meeple um Jamie who loves some Creature Comforts this is a game where you are trying to get cozy this is kind of a We're In It cozy Renaissance right now on board games so there's a lot of cozy games this one might be the coziest because you're literally making cozy points yeah there's points but this is a uh maybe as comfortable as you can a dice worker placement game um where you are drafting well you're rolling out dinosaurs kind of like communal dice in your own like family Dice and you're putting these dice out on different spots and certain spots will require certain amounts of dies there are different people coming into town but most of what you're trying to do is trying to prepare for winter and you are getting as much cozy stuff if you're trying to pair stuff up so you can get like some bread bread is cozy everyone loves bread but if you also get soup you can put bread and soup together you get even more cozy because bread and soup is great together oh yeah so it's really really cute but it's it's a game that looks like it's oh it's gonna be a very cute very light kind of game right yeah but it's actually got a lot going on again it's not like a heavy game yeah but um it's it's definitely got some some choices and there's different people coming into town essentially for that round to be a different spot you can go to it's a great little game um I don't know like how much I love it but I do like it I'll play it again though I really want to play it again because I love the world I love that they made another game that's in the same world in Maple Valley and so I'm like this is cool let's just keep this going stable board game crushes it yeah they really do yeah it's really fun though um and I want to keep playing it and especially like during the win winter just it's it's a very cozy game I agree with that I agree with that very much I played Dark Ages Holy Roman Empire it's from born dice this is a uh kind of a folks on a map game uh that has a bunch of Euro game elements in it because it's from board and dice uh and so this game was interesting uh you're putting folks on a map you can fight we can also get like buildings out and get little things and basically uncover a bunch of stuff on your board which gives you Powers abilities and points so I play this game where I didn't fight anybody ever never got into a scrap I just laid low and I basically uncovered my entire board and I just like rolled everyone at the table by playing a pure Euro game I was like no I'm not gonna do any of that mirror thrash I'll I'll not be needing dice today uh and Away with you crushed everybody so I love that I have the ability to do that uh it was interesting I didn't mind it there's a game where you get um these cards and you can basically like almost anti-aquatically where you like raise them up and get texts almost like and so there's interesting stuff I wouldn't mind playing this again but it's never going to be the game I'm going to be drawn to because it is kind of an area control conflict kind of game yeah but I was like you know what I got to play the game I wanted to play Within this and I like that you have the option to do that yeah so yeah that's great yeah I want to try at least once yeah it's not bad we played the dot cool so this was on uh uh Kickstarter this is by Lucky Duck who sponsor our Channel thank you lucky enough um this is in their kind of very story driven game where you are scanning QR codes on cards and you're going to different places in this one you're trying to solve you're in kind of like a really dark New Orleans kind of like very Supernatural areas for that and it's really really cool again I'm not really into story driven games I don't really need a story in my games just give me hot mechanics and Hot Art and I'm there yeah um I don't really that's why I don't love like Campaign games a lot of times they're big story driven games these games are like really really storage let's break in for like Paula Paula loves story driven games all those watching our stream she's like yeah yeah this game again it's not my I thought it was super cool for what it was because I'm like this is cool and some people are gonna love this it's not for me because I just it's just a story driven game you're definitely doing stuff you're you're playing the game you're scanning stuff in as you're seeing things there's a mystery to unfold yeah it's very cool for that but it's just these really heavy story looking games are just not for me personally but I I this one's games where I'm like I don't press this game it's like one sister like I can say this game is not for me but this game is going to be super for a lot of people it was very cool yeah and they were cinematic like each game's like two hours it's like it's like a movie in front of you and I thought the structure of it was cool really cool really cool yeah uh we played Dark Souls I want to let this one roll because I'm guessing there's gonna be two of them no that was the one because it's two different games so yeah we played uh the Dark Souls games we did a Dark Souls race there's this one the uh tomb of Giants and then the world of Ariana and these are essentially the same game with like different bosses slightly different counters but we played a head-to-head version of this game we did a whole video about it you can check out it really really uh raced against each other and we raced against each other see who could beat their big boss first this game is not really for us because I didn't hate the game in terms of like the way it played the problem with this game is it comes down to your rolling dice both of us suck at rolling dice so there's gonna be multiple turns where you just like roll nothing and you're like well cool that didn't do anything right there yeah and the items you equip and stuff will give you like better dice to roll and things like that and it's not that you're missing so much you might not have done enough damage so to kill them so I enjoy like the way you get your dice and all that but it's just like ultimately like I always constantly would roll one hit one Health Point and then I get like whacked and I'm like cool yeah did I do it again and they have one Health left I'm like me I might use a whole other turn to hit them for one you're like this is great so I got frustrated for sharing that for sure and there's like a lot of situations with games like this where there's like a lot of scenarios we're like what do I do in this situation how does this work and it's just not really it could have been better yeah they're not I've heard they're a big improvement from the old Dark Souls rule book it's just not our kind of game I think they kind of like you go and you die and you have to kind of reset you're kind of doing that grinding I think it's an interesting concept and I didn't hate these games but we didn't love them they make for like a long night because I'm like okay I went through all these eight things now I have to go through them again I'm just like I know it's coming I'm not that interested in doing that I'd much rather do that in a video game so this one for me did not work great I don't need to play it I mean I liked it more than you but like I thought it was fine I mean I think it did what it was trying to do well yeah it makes me happy the Elden ring game they did not do I guess yeah we said it was on card base was like tight yeah it's cool I played pipeline I really really want you to play pipeline I think you would learn pipeline pipeline is game kind of a logistics game where you are building out pipelines oil pipelines and you are getting oil and you're trying to upgrade that oil to different things to do like contract stuff it was really fun it wasn't quite as the puzzle was tough in this game but the game itself wasn't as uh rules heavy as I thought it was gonna be for some reason I had it in my mind that pipeline was like this was super crazy apparently it's not and it but maybe when it first came out we were we weren't as expert Gamers as we are now boom um but I really really liked it I thought you I think you were like if you're building out this network of pipes the pipes are different colors which give you different different colors of oil essentially and you're building out a big Network you have to build out in all these different ways and you want longer pipelines and it's it's very fun puzzle and you're drafting of this house I thought it was outstanding I think you will really really like it this is a game where if I found it for cheap somewhere I would just buy it immediately I think I think you'll really want to try it yeah I liked it a lot I thought it was great I'm Keen Deja Vu that's what good little it's a good little spotted kind of game spotted kind of game where you're gonna flip over cars you have a bunch of items these little different cardboard tokens around that will depict uh like a rubber duck in a traffic cone a whole bunch of stuff and a lot of them look kind of similar to other things that are out there you can flip over a car that's going to show one or more of those items that are in the middle of the table and then you're gonna flip over another card that might show some items as well you're gonna flip over another card and the thing is that you have to pay attention because the second time the second time a certain item shows up on a card you can snatch that item and pop it down in front of you uh and you are hoping that you are correct and that you saw that correct I think you can call each other out and say like ah check that no or is it at the end I think at the end of the round is when they find out yeah and so you're always looking for the second time something appears and the thing is that certain things like there's a vest that's like red white stripes but the co the traffic cone also has red and white stripes there might be a third thing as like red and white stripes it's a shirt the the kind of vest and the shirt are going to look really similar at a glance you're like did I see a shirt was it the vet which one was that it's a really fun game and it just gets in your brain of where you're like I don't know what I've seen I haven't seen you're just going off it's good especially playing back to back to back it's very good that way because you're getting the meta game really fun really light and the end of the night kind of game I'm gonna play Dax who I play this with our good friend Matthew Jude Dax who is an interesting game by Jack's Jacks Kevin where it's kind of a Honda makoji push and pull game where you you essentially are you have markets out there and you're essentially trying to have more people in your side of that market than them but it's interesting because you don't want you want to barely win the market you don't want to crush it because if you have too many too big of a difference I believe you either get no points or the other person gets points so you're constantly trying to manually thread the needle perfectly yeah and you're trying to win by one basically what you're trying to do and then you have this like action selection system where simultaneous selection and you're just getting into each other's heads trying to think like okay what do I what do I think Mike's gonna play okay I'm gonna play this because I think he's gonna play this and this is gonna counteract that and stuff really really fun game um that I thought was really really good and and we both liked it quite a bit really good game uh this is the wandering Tower this is a uh I think Kramer and kiesling game Wolfgang Cromer and kissing released Michael Kingsley anyway uh this is a game where you have all these like sections of towers that are 3D and stuff and you're putting your little Wizards you're kind of walking them around this board in a clockwise fashion putting them on top of towers and then you can move towers and put them on top of that and stack them together to move the entire stack of towers which now has your Wizards inside it and things like that and you're ultimately trying to I think drop off your Wizards into this uh this Ravens Nest uh to get points and things like that and so it's this interesting fun puzzle of like uh you want to get your Wizards covered up because if you cover up Wizards you get like certain like potions unlocked you can then use those so it's just this interesting kind of fun puzzle and I think if you play a card you can either move Towers a certain distance or witches your little Wizards or witches and so you and you have to move that full amount so it's actually difficult to make sure you get your person dropped off in the right spot so maybe you want to have them Rider round in a tower but then if they're covered up how do you get them exposed you can get them out and drop them in there's a bit of memory with that you're like where where are my people I don't actually know they're all covered up and and so it's a fun kind of family weight game that was really just interesting it has some kind of fun toy factor to it interesting but ultimately light cool cool yeah we'll keep on I gotta play Oh Grande El Grande is kind of one of the first area control games um kind of classically thought as like one of the Godfather's air control games I thought it was good I think there's way better area control games out there now but I really respect this game because again it brought in this kind of new genre of games and it's still very good um as an area control game it's still good where you're choosing out cards those cards will give you like supporters and some kind of actions like that and you're doing basically area control and it's it's cool it's good I'm glad I finally played it because it's a classic I don't need to play it again because I think there are better games board game arena and had no idea what was happening the entire time it's cool again it's a good it's a classic for a reason but I think they're a better game so I'm like oh I'm so happy I've got to play this now I understand what this game is what this game did for the Hops respect it again because it is supreme [Music] oh wait no Awakening Awakening is a sequel um this is a 3D game where you have a kind of 3D City and you are doing some kind of scenario you are the Gargoyles from the Gargoyles TV show dope rip out shout out to the Gargoyles grew up on indeed he would love gargoyles as kids um and it's a Cooperative game that was fine yeah you can play three different scenarios which are like different episodes using some of the characters you know that you loved from the show it's got cool stuff where you're running around you're playing these cards out and like whacking people and you can get up on a building and glide downstairs but to me I'm like I don't need to play a board game about gargoyles it takes a lot to set up this like 3D because you have to be alone every time yeah because they take it all down I'm like oh it's a lot but it is cool again great great and glad that these ex these games exist because it's a fun game it is a solidly designed game it does work just fine um but you know it's not gonna be our cup of tea but I'm glad it's cool glad it exists though really glad it exists uh we played dungeons ice in danger this is a Richard Garfield rolling right game that was you like you don't like it near I like it more than you did I like it it's a game where you're kind of it's a kind of a number game where you were putting in numbers building out these different paths in these dungeons yeah yeah as you go through and make numbers you can basically go into the room it has that matching number and it's you're doing a dungeon delve I think for me you like I I liked it way more than you I enjoyed like I felt like I just I just feel like I should have enjoyed it more and maybe you should try some of the different Maps there's like four of them and they're like really well rendered and colorful and cool um I just like I just wasn't in grabbed by it or intrigued at all that's okay I liked it more than mine it's a little wrong I don't think it's the best rolling right but it was cool um and yeah we got to we got to meet Richard Garfield for this candle he was a very nice man that was good I thought it was a good one um the thing is at this point there's so many rolling rights that it's got to be really outstanding to kind of stand out I think this is a fine rolling right yeah at this point it doesn't if this came out five years ago I think it'd be a huge hit yeah at this point I think it's fine and I know I'm kind of in the minority I know a lot of people really like this man yeah probably gonna play Fantasy Realms fantasy Realms uh is a great kind of hand management game where you are gonna have a hand seven cards and by the end of the game you're gonna have a hand of seven cards you are going to draw a card and then you are going to discard a card to the kind of open market on the board when you draw a card you draw from the deck or from one of the face-up cards here and then end your turn you will draw discard a card the cards are gonna have a whole bunch of different stuff on they're all going to score in different ways and then a lot of times you want certain cards with other ones it'd be like if you have this kind of like wildfire you want this like other fire dragon card because wildfires so fire is not good with water so I didn't want to fire and you're just trying to make the best hand you possibly can we had valuable seven card hand possible I think it's so dang good it's super good outstanding perfect filler game yeah you can play it so fast you can play it multiple times in a row and it's just fun to yeah try to like really combo cards together yeah and it does it does it in such a way it's like it's just streamlined there's nothing else going on it's just pure and wonderful and uh really like this game a lot really yeah really really good classic for a reason yeah we played feudum we played feudum uh I'm so glad I didn't play feudum yeah it was okay I watched it here's the thing it looks so great like the art and stuff I love the look The Board is beautiful uh there's just like this game feels like a million different things going on and I was like when was when when was the meeting they didn't yeah there was just like so many things and it's like oh there's like all this movement around and you can be in a submarine but they can only go on Spaces that are connected with bubbles because you're underwater and there's like two of those spaces on the board I'm like what do I need a submarine for then like where am I gonna go there's just so many things like that where I'm like this is just you did not like this game why I showed up too late we were they're having a game I had something going on I showed up late so I didn't get a chance to get into this game yeah so I mostly watched everyone play and I am so happy it's a wonderful production of just like um I got to hang out with my friends and puppies playing musical we're like look at this hot mess and it's like pretty and interesting but also I'm like what is going on it was wild and I didn't know how to score points at all did not like that game fair but I love the company the day was great the game was now I played get the Tulips I played this with Paula and Matthew um and this is a game it's kind of a stock kind of game where you're getting you're gifting out tulips and you're doing manipulation yeah your different tools will be worth a certain amount of points and you give tubes away but you're kind of like whatever value the tube is when you give it away you'll get points you actually do want to one thing I like about this game is like sharing with people a lot of games when you're giving cards to other people you're trying to give them not great cards in this case you actually do because you're gifting them good cards so you want to give um points from that I thought it was a cool little game a good little spinner but like it's beautiful it's a good little filler that falls into a lot of good little fillers so I don't think it was like outstanding okay um but solid yeah that's not outstanding but solid but very very pretty chase them got himself uh that got themselves from uh uh Tales of Glory hoping to play it rip added it to Shakespeare history Pagoda that we've suggested you're welcome last indeed we played Franza we played this with before you play we played this with moment I feel like I like this game more than you because I we've discussed this Monique and Naveen on their Channel discussed this Monique and Nick experienced a certain game Naveen and I experienced a very different game Monique we're here we're here Monique and Nick got off to a lead we had like double your score and then Naveen and I were sitting there like halfway through the game like there's no way we can come back there was no way Nick got off to such a quick start and we're like oh we're hoes this is a game where you have to get up and get some points going fast because there's basically these towers you're helping build up and if you get high up on the tower they're worth more points and then once that section is taken it's gone so by the time Naveen and I got our little pieces of brick together to build something they're only like worth like three points there's no way to catch up this is brutal yeah the game itself is brutal like you can like steal some from each other but there's like not that much of it it's just a game it's like hard if you don't uh add on to a tower that you're building in front of you every route it crumbles and you lose half yourself I'm like that's cool an event just happened where it's like hey do you have any white towers no they all crumble then I'm like cool this game is terrible I hated this game this game is trash this game trash I thought it was fine it was out of print forever where it should have stayed and they're like let's bring this back I'm like why ruin my day it was it was okay I thought it was fine this game at least for us had such a there was I had so much fun you know you're sitting back there like dude our life is yeah it was a fight between I think I think it beat her by like one point but it was like three turns in you're like I'm not winning there's no way there's no way to catch up Mike and Naveen were run away it was rough it was very trash I hate it okay hot thanks you play first class I like that game this was not on your new to me games I was surprised it wasn't on your top 10 new to me games it was it was on the short list and I can't remember I think it was my like 11. no it's really good but I only played it once you know so uh this is a game that's made by uh at least one of the designers that did Russian railroads there's definitely some Russian railroads in this too where you are it's all card based and you're playing out these cards on around your player board uh and depending on which card you're drafting it's just pure card drafting game but there's like I think 16 18 cards and you're pulling a card down uh and then like half the sack goes to rest goes so it's kind of like Carpe Diem where it's just like oh I needed that other car but now those cars are gone right and depending on what you get you might get additional cars for your train that are like level zeros are not worth anything but you can then upgrade them with these action cards you can draft there's these cars you can draft which add track which go on the left side of your player board you can move your little choo choo train down those to get a bunch of bonuses every round there's a lot of fun stuff to explore but it has that ramp up feel from like Russian railroads where uh where you will upgrade your cars that are now worth like four and five and seven and so in the last round you might get a ton of points and everything's been built up all of a sudden so yeah really really I do want to play it really enjoyed that yeah I do want to try I know you really liked a lot I played Rumble Nation honestly like I was always when I put this on the list I was trying to remember I distinctly remember playing this game because we were at Johnny Claire's house um and I was playing I was playing the panda and um yeah it was it was really fun and at this point I can't it's an area controlled game control game it's an area control game where you are oh let me guess let's see it's exactly it's it's about uh outsider's theme no it's not but it's a really interesting game with me a knife for the knife every spot on the board it has a number and it's like one through I think 12 maybe and they're going to go they're going to activate in order so you're putting out area control stuff but then as you activate when you win something you then get to move your troops to like adjacent places so it's this tough game where you're trying to win things so that you can then influence other places maybe try to win those and you're playing out these cards and it was really really fun and I remember right after I played it I messaged Matthew because I was like have you heard this game because I think you will really like this game because it's like yeah he's like oh yeah I had that game but I was like yeah it was really really fun I like it again I do want to try it again um because we kind of played it quick um yeah and it was it was a good time though and I do want to try it again Revelation was awesome and I agree I agree runaway leaders it's a bummer you're like why play first rat first rats game where you're rats trying to get to the cheese Moon yeah it's a fun little game that I feel like kind of went under the radar a little bit despite having a really fun song about it tomorrow but you are moving up a a I said I'm working your way through the board there's like a path that winds through the board yeah exactly and throughout that path you're gonna be getting different resources which you can use to build rockets and stuff you can stop at like little shops and stuff you're going up this ideas track you can get like a little bit of the kind of player Powers going but you can do a couple different things in the game and one of the main things you can do of course is build rocket Parts because again you're trying to get the cheese moon but your rats so you're doing it all with trash and it's great it's literally like baking soda and vinegar bottles because that makes the propulsion you're getting like bottle caps it's adorable the game itself is like fine I thought I thought it was a good game but not like a great game but the theme is just so it's adorable and silly that I love it there's some fun decisions so this one is like it's a game that feels like a little bit like adjacent to a mass Market game where there's some familiarity with like you're moving down this pathway and stuff but it gives you more interesting choices to make so it's like a board gamer version of those kinds of games which I think is super dope and the the the the rat I think they're rat or knots like you know rat astronauts there's like player Powers you can get if you want to do like modules and add stuff onto the game it is really adorable it probably won't stick around for us forever because it is kind of adjacent to those games it's much better than those kinds of games yes but um yeah I really liked what it did I was like Kudos it's like one of the best themes of all time ever done yeah play fit to print this is that on Kickstarter uh this is a real time well I guess you don't have to play real time but Real Time game where you're building out a column of a of a newspaper page for cute factor and that's all that's it yeah um but you're building out the front page of a newspaper you want certain things next to other things you have articles you have photographs you have like headlines and stuff like that and you're trying to build out a well-balanced newspaper and all these articles all this kind of stuff will have certain things like this picture is like a blue picture so you want blue articles around it you also can't have pictures next to pictures that kind of stuff ads next to ads and then as you do a you do three rounds Friday Saturday and Sunday every round your newspaper gets bigger because you're going into the weekend it's a really fun game that I liked a lot I think personally for me I don't know how much staying power it's going to have um I'm really really excited to play it more though because I thought it was a very fun game I just worry that it'll get samey uh I think it will but I mean you know I think it's I think it's going to be great for uh just like the real-time aspect of like grabbing yourself and putting together so it's like I don't need it to be that different for game to game but I don't think you're wrong about that yeah I think it'll be great with newer Gamers but I thought 504 was great it's obviously got you know tool art they're cute animals it was awesome Yep it's great solo and stuff there's lots of ways to play this game yeah lots of ways to play this game I still haven't played flamecraft Nick how dare you I know blamecraft is an adorable little game uh where you are in this little town and there's all these dragons around helping out and you're going from like shop to shop and getting resources and you can turn in resources to enchant those shops which will make them more valuable more powerful you'll get more and more stuff out of them uh and that's really the kind of cadence of the game is like you can either gather uh or you can enchant those are the two actions you can do if you're going to gather you go to a certain store if there's someone there might have to pay you a resource or a little good day to you uh and then uh once you have your resources you can turn them in each shop will have these little dragons that will get put at them and stuff that will give you if you're going to gather stuff you get to make use of one of the dragons that say it might allow you to draw a card get an extra resource do things like that if you go to enchantment shop you get to make use of all the dragons there which is really fun and then the there's a nice ramp up because these buildings get more and more mobetta and then you'll add more buildings as things start to fill up so interesting stuff it's produced out the Wazoo it's really adorable really well rendered yeah beautiful again in that era of like cozy games this fits right in perfectly with that yeah yeah really want to try it seems super cute enjoyed it um we have Fork Fork Fork uh was a trick taking game we just talked about it last month um but it's food chain trick taking game four stands for Fox owl uh rabbit and kale kale and so you're playing out tricks and then the tricks will essentially eat each other because uh rabbits will eat kale uh uh yeah owls would eat rabbits and then foxes can eat basically anything yeah and so you're playing out um cards and then they will eat each other so you're kind of basically trying to have your thing be not eaten and you're playing in different like biomes you're like okay we're gonna play in desert so there's different like desert owls suits of cards you're having a play out I thought it was fine um I didn't think I thought it was it's one of these we played it we were like okay that was good and then the more I thought about I was like I don't know actually know how much I liked it I thought it was okay yeah um I want to play it again it was kind of frustrating because it felt like you didn't have much control over what happened yeah kind of like I put this out well I have nothing like we're gonna do in the mountains now like well I only have kale so I have to play a kale oh Mike had a rabbit cool my Kayla eat it just felt like you didn't have control over anything that's that's where I kind of felt I felt a little stuck but like I just it sort of game just sort of plays out in front of you it's like you're gonna play these things obviously if you have an owl you're gonna play an owl I mean there is a little bit like Nick might play now that I can't eat that so there's like some thought there but there it is grabbed by it very well I think I was buoyed by the fact that we're playing with Paul and Matthew like two of our best friends I was having a really good time yeah and I would like I've reflected more on the game myself I'm kind of like I don't think I really liked it that much uh unfortunately it's cool though you have like a you know it's not just trick taking but it's like oh some of the cards got eaten and everything it's interesting but yeah I watched you you and many other people including Foster people in chat uh play Fuji flush they they're the ones who taught it uh Fuji flush is really awesome Friedman freeze card game where you are trying to uh uh play a higher card than what's been played originally were you and if you do that you're gonna flush all those other cards out and what you're trying to do ultimately is play a card or a set of cards that's so powerful that no one around the table can beat it and then if that happens you get to get rid of your card and you're trying to get rid of all your cards if you get flushed out you have to draw a new card to replace the one that got flushed and now you're still at eight cards or however many uh and the cool thing is that you can get on is like there's like numbers like two through twenty two is obviously very low but there's a lot of twos in the deck and so you can get on a two-shoe train or a four chew train or whatever and the reason you do that is if I play a two that's not very strong but if someone after me plays a two as well we get to now combine our forces now we have four then a third jumps in we have six and eight and so if you do that you might be able to get to a point where you do overcome a 13 or 14 and then and then everyone gets to throw their card away and stuff so it's really fun to try to be like I'm gonna throw down a six and like come on play six let's hop on this and of course maybe they do or don't have a six to hop on but there's this cool way of like combining your efforts it looks really cool yeah yeah and so you get into like the whole chant of like yeah whatever it was it was a really cool game I want to pick it up once we find it somewhere yeah it was really fun um I play ping Yao I also play this at John declare's house different day at Johnny Claire's house um look at the humble breaks from this guy John declared I know Johnny Claire just name dropping I played this with Candace and Amanda Panda again yes um and uh ping Yao is First Chinese Banks this is it everyone describes it it's a weird economic game Shea has played this game yeah um he's like it's a weird economic game then I was sitting down with Amanda and Candace to play it they're like it's this weird economic game I'm like okay this is and here's the thing it's a weird economic gameplay yeah you're like it's dice placement and you're placing out dice to do these actions and you're opening up these different banks but there's this whole like you're like taking out loans but then like paying back loans and you're trying to get silver in your Banks because silver is kind of like always it's like gold gold is it's a silver standard it's going to hold its value right so you're trying to get silver in these Banks but each Bank Can Only Hold so much and then you can have like special acts on your bank you have to put like workers in them it's hard to describe but it was very fun I thought it was very cool I'm intrigued to try it we do have it over here we do have it because Shea gave it to us because I think you guys would like this game and so um I do want to try it again I want to teach you it but it was really really fun but again it's just kind of Economic and it's hard to describe so everyone's just kind of like I don't know it's just like this weird economic game but it's really fun but being out the first Chinese Banks is uh it's a cool one but yeah you're trying to have just a stand of silver in there and kind of to hold down your bank basically and uh it was cool though I did enjoy it a lot Foster people uh says I chanted choo choo train with us you're the one who taught us the chant of course you got to participate we played fun fair which is kind of an easier quicker game version of us mean than unfair yes indeed but this is kind of just a tableau building game where you're building a theme park I love it and so you're building out a ride and then you can add stuff to that right you can add like a photo place and you can add like a big old flag to it and so people can see it and essentially the more stuff you add to these things the more points the more points it's gonna be worth it you're going for objectives which would be like you want to have a certain amount of pirate themes you want a certain amount of like space themes you can get employees which will give you special powers and stuff like that you're trying to score points it's ultimately like pretty light pretty easy yeah I actually liked it a lot I thought it was a cool little game a little Tableau game not quite a filler but a filler plus filler plus filler plus but it's got great art and stuff for Mr cuttington so like really appealing looking and I love like the theme of like a theme park is just great cool like oh this now this this ride's got a loop yeah that makes the ride better it's exciting yeah I love theme parks and so theme parks is the thing cool I played a game with Nate our good friend Nate we've brought multiple times uh bandana is a apparently it's a lot like biblios I've ever played biblios but I hear it's a lot of dice manipulation game ultimately you're trying to flip dice rotate dice yeah flip dice rotate dice it's a dice manipulation game I thought it was cool um with birds and it's got uh cool like public domain like kind of art like nature art um but it's it's a cool little game I liked it I thought it was fine um I don't think I need to have it um but it was a good little dice manipulation game um that I'm I would play again gladly but you don't need to have but I thought that was good gotcha gotcha uh we put get on board we did New York and London this is a uh rolling right uh kind of game or flip and fill I should say a game uh based on let's make a bus route the main thing that changes is just sort of something quality of life stuff yeah and let's make a bus route you're gonna flip over a car that's gonna give you a sort of like shape that you must draw and that's your bus going through town and you would actually draw on the center board yeah so this game does the same exact thing so instead of drawing on centerboard you're gonna put down these like little wooden sections that are showing where you're driving so it's a little nicer and easier and then based on what you're passing through at all these intersections you will cross off things on your little sheet you're trying to uh pick up old people sell them off later you're you're picking up tourists and taking them past sites and stuff you're taking I think think students you're like basically picking up people and taking them past things often to cross off and work your way down these kind of little tracks very kind of classic rolling right type of things we loved let's make a bus run we played it way back when and this one I'm just glad to a have it more easily accessible and uh to be able to you know have just like the little wooden uh quality livestock is great yeah and if you go over the same thing that if I drive where Nick drove now we're adding pollution so that's hurting so you're trying to go away from each other and stuff like that really fun game that's good let's go look at me I I like let's say Russell a lot and this was good I played Star Wars the Clone Wars this is a pandemic system game this is like Star Wars pandemic kind of um in the same vein of like fall of Rome or any of these other games where they're very pandemicy but kind of have something different going on um this one feels more pandemicy than like the Wrath of the Lich King the the World of Warcraft one sure but it's cool you have all these different planets on the board and the planets will have Droids those are kind of like your disease cubes you're going there as Jedi and you are fighting them and trying to kill them and get them out of there who are also going to have some kind of big bad like General Grievous or something like that and they're gonna be messing stuff up and they're gonna be increasing the I think I think this might be called the threat tracker it's whatever the threat track is supposed to be called but uh um essentially in that you can like time out it can end the game for you and stuff like that and eventually you will you're trying to do these missions and these missions are gonna have you turn in different sets of cards um so that's kind of pandemic but the missions will be different so it's gonna be different it's not always like you turn in five blue yeah I like it's more Dynamic yeah and so you're fighting all these Droids and you're using your cards to get these missions and once you finish these three missions then you go into like the fight and then you actually have to fight this kind of boss and you're going to play the planet and fighting for that I thought it was really really fun I liked a lot I like Star Wars a lot um it's weird it's kind of a mix between like the movie Star Wars and then like the show the Star Wars Clone Wars um but I thought it was really fun I thought it was really good um I enjoy it it's nice because I really love pandemic but it's nice to have kind of a Twist on it and the game changed a decent depending on what kind of big boss you're playing against and so I was like oh this is kind of nice because it makes each game of it even more different than the normal game is with just like how the cards come out yeah I thought it was really really cool if we found it somewhere for cheaper I'd definitely pick it up I thought it'd be it's a great if you like Star Wars you like pandemic give it a shot it's I thought it was really fun nice what do we got next what what do we got Glasgow this is a two-player um only game um where you are kind of uh going uh hi Pippin you're going around you have your little architecture going around this stuff stopping different spots that spots are almost always going to give you resources you're going to use those resources to put buildings in the middle of the table and you want to have certain buildings you want to have buildings pointing towards you chemistry they're your buildings we need to play it again we both played it we're kind of like we didn't get to finish the game and so we were yeah we were like yeah I think we need to play a couple more times finish it out because I like the idea that you're kind of like working your way around and if you go way forward it's kind of like Patchwork it's not your turn until your opponent passes you so it might take a bunch of turns in a row yeah um yeah I didn't it didn't like snag us at that play but maybe it will a little bit more the buildings and the factories we put in the middle didn't feel that impactful and I was like Oh I thought these were gonna be like that's what you were doing in the game that's kind of like what you're doing yeah so I'm not it's really just you're going around getting resources so I don't know we'll play it again we'll see we'll see we'll see um green team wins we also played with like Foster meeple and Reina and Phil and and Jenna and a whole bunch of other people friends uh just know we were if we weren't on screen we were playing this or Fuji flush pretty much yeah this is a game where you want to be on the Green Team it's kind of like just one or any of those kind of like mind you kind of come together infinitely better and I like those games this game is amazing this uh game I think is honestly one of the best party games ever I think it's absolutely incredible basically there's gonna be some kind of prompt like something cake might be a fill in the blank it might be like a multiple choice or this or that yeah and so basically if it's like a fill in the blank like something cake and so then everyone think writes down what they think is what they want to put down so birthday cake chocolate cake you know whatever kind of carrot cake and then everyone shows it and whoever whatever the majority answer is that is the Green Team you want to be on the Green Team because the green team wins green team scores points if you move from the orange team which is the crap team to the Green Team you get a point if you were on the Green Team and you stay on the Green Team you get two points you're just trying to stay on the Green Team it's so fun because you get to be so smug when you're on the Green Team you're like how's it feel on this team you feel like you're not on the Green Team it's great and so it's all about trying to like guess not the thing is you ultimately will go through feelings about yes blank mustard and you get so upset that's not where you need to go with what the group is going to say but you get so like no but I'm right and you're like no you clearly aren't because you're not on the Green Team you're wrong you know and it's so fantastic so much fun so much and this game is crazy rips a bit of a hobby and important it's a two-player version of La hav although it doesn't play anything really like lahav uh this is a game where you kind of have a warehouse of goods and you're kind of moving those goods around as you go up into the right you're getting more of those goods but then you're spending those goods by going down into the left it's a really interesting way to do like Resource Management yeah that I thought was very there's a whole spatial aspect to it now where you if you yeah you go all the way to the right then you have to find ways to move up because yeah that's the only way to do it and if you move up a row that counts as three of that resource you move to the right it's one of that resource so it's actually very interesting to try to get the brick and stuff you need and then you're spending those things to buy buildings and doing laundry yeah really fun um I liked it a lot it's super out of print but it does have an app uh it has a online version on Steam really well yeah um and yeah I thought it was great if we ever found it somewhere I'd totally pick it up but it's like a hundred dollars because you know someone asked a while ago if we ever played heat we did yeah we have played heat we played this with Fox for teaching us uh that's a really fun racing game um that I liked quite a bit where you're doing your racing you're racing around trying to take tight Corners slower yeah Formula One race where you are shifting up and down gears and whatever gear you're in one through four or whatever it is that's how many cards you must play and those cards will have certain amount of value and that's how many spaces you're gonna move forward and that's great on straightaway you want to play five fives or whatever as much as you possibly can and really rip ahead forward but the problem is if you hit a turn there's a maximum amount of speed basically a maximum amount of number that you can go through that turn on without having to pay heat in the excess of whatever that turn is the tighter the turn the slower you should go but if you're still in fourth gear you still have to play four cards now some cards you have a couple that are zeros which is great because I can play a card but it doesn't add to my total value but then if I'm like kind of stuck with my hand I have like a four and then a three now I have seven this turn can only handle three I have to pay heat in expect excess of that with four that I built up on my engine if you can't pay that you spin out so there's this kind of heat mechanism where it's like you need it in your engine to be able to spend it how do you then kind of slow things down to get heat back into your hair and spend all that to to manage the turns and then you want to be like open and burning up when you're going straight and play all those High cards that you can to really hit it so it's all about shifting up and down and stuff like that does some interesting stuff it's cool just the base most version of the game which is like a more easy map to navigate there's four maps in the box and there's all sorts of modules there's AI Racers you can add in to make the game more competitive there are like weather effects and all sorts of different things that I would really want to add in because I think that would really ramp up the Xbox has a ton of stuff and you know they're going to expand it yeah I'm happy but hey yo this is a little oink games by the way we're two hours in my computer hey yo is a game where you are trying to play stuff down in a sequence a Cooperative game but it's done through this little song that's called hey yo and then it's you're saying things and then on the downbeat is when you have to play a card and you're trying to play them in order yeah you're trying to essentially finish the song and it's a really fun little game that like you can pull out and play it's got a tiny little speaker in it it's a cool little game where you can play there's you know a YouTube video just with that song it's fun yeah the banishing the banishing uh I played with uh Legends and slackfish from the our twitch chat what up Rosie oh hi Rosie our sister and our father have been here one of our other brothers gonna come in um be better so I played this game this is a uh I'm trying to remember this is dysar West and we played it I'm trying to think of exactly how it works but this is a game where there's like it's got this really cool like black and white art and there's like devils and demons and stuff like that and I'm trying to remember gosh it's like it was so long ago now there's like some colors and you're trying to like get rid of certain colors it's a Cooperative game you have different abilities and I honestly don't quite remember much else I remember you enjoying it though I do remember enjoying it um but gosh I can't remember I just remember now it's kind of a crisis management I do know that it's like Crisis management where you're essentially trying to get overrun by like Undead and stuff like that but and everyone was different and everyone was really different like you did feel different I remember liking it I don't quite remember much else about it but I remember questions don't ask questions Nick liked it I liked it it's hard we're playing a lot of games this year Papa La Marcus remastered another this is another chip Theory games uh this is an old chipped area game that they're bringing back and because Spruce yeah from the 70s and stuff pretty cool uh this is a game where you're doing gladiatorial battle uh using your little chips and stuff and running around uh this game is cool because it can be played competitively cooperatively solo of course and there's different modes of play so we played one of the The Cooperative modes where you're basically going up against these Immortals which are interesting because you can't actually hurt the Immortals directly if you go and swing a sword on them it won't damage them but it gets the crowd riled up and you're trying to deal with like Arena animals and stuff like a tiger is gonna get introduced you have to fight the tiger and all sorts of stuff like that uh it was interesting because I enjoyed uh what you're kind of doing but we just definitely didn't have like the best strategy for like these Immortals and you're trying to knock out like six of them ultimately trying to go through like waves they say it's very difficult to do that all it was cool halfway through and then we died and I was like I'm happy with that it was fun it was cool it would be one of the things we could just like pull out one random order try to beat it and then that could be that people out of the game either I like playing this game competitively because it's just like nah I was kind of like I don't care about that what's fun is that you have like a different faction and stuff so like I think I was like the Amazons or something and you were like you were like a Minotaur and a bunch of different creatures and they all kind of different styles and keywords and things so I really love that there's all these factions to it yeah it was cooler if you like chip three games and stuff I think you'll enjoy this one um and I like that you can play co-op or Solo or competitive never need to play competitive ever yeah but uh the co-ops was interesting there's two modes of Co-op too yeah it was cool yeah played horrified American monster the first time this year yeah wow great game we love orange this is with kind of like American Cryptids uh like Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil and stuff like that yeah it's still just horrified where you're playing against one of these monsters and you were trying to all the monsters work differently you're trying to essentially research them kind of and then defeat them I really like American monsters I think I like it more than normal ones just because I think the monsters themselves the way they work is more interesting a little more funky horrified it's great horrified American monsters yeah is also great yep it's fantastic you can get up and I like the green yellow aesthetic of this one yeah this is a game that's like super old and our buddy brought it up and stuff and it's like probably like not the most sensitive depictions it is a super old game but the game itself what you're doing is you actually have a bunch of these igloos that have like a little bead in them or certain rather a certain amount of beads and what you're doing is you're picking them up and you're shaking them and you are trying to get like I think uh there's cards and stuff that will have different numbers like the seven eight and two or something uh or seven eight and nine or one might have the 12 and you're trying to get the igloo that has that many of those bees on on the bottom it'll tell you and so it's one of those things that like if you have the the lightest one and the heaviest one you can hear the difference there but like 11 6 12 you're kind of like tell the difference like I don't know and so cards that have like three options it's much easier to get it right because you have a range and if you have one where it's like you need specifically the five it's worth more points but it's like it's so hard to get it right and you're trying to get like you're just shaking up things like randomly and of course everyone's doing that around you yeah and stuff it's really fun it's just a really adorable like kids game I would love to see someone else reprint this um yeah because it could be any yeah anything and it's like it was a super fun little game yeah it was funny like I think this is that too many is that too many it was fun oh girl we're not even through the new games we played Jaws another game by Robins Brothers so one first all game that neither of us really liked um I like the first half I like the first half the second half got repetitive and I was like oh it's so different but this takes you through the movie Jaws which is cool one person plays a shark everyone everyone else plays the like talents folk and stuff like that like hoopa and stuff like that and um you're going around the first half of the game the shark who's kind of going around eating people and then you're going around trying to like find them and stuff like that and spot them spot them and then the second they have the game you're on the boat you're on the what's the book called the Orca the Orca that's what it doesn't say the Beagle that's Darwin's boat um you're on the Orca and the shark is eating the boat and you're trying to like you're trying to get those big buoys on them yeah so still hit movement like where's the shark gonna pop up but it just felt a little more and the shark's eating sections of the boat so it was all fun stuff but I really loved the first half where you're going around the island and you're trying to go out on different types of boats and different types of movement stuff that part was just so much more interesting to me than like the second half is sponge you flip over the board and you set up the boat and stuff but it was just sort of like up and Chomp a part of the boat and go back down oh I got hit up and Chomp apart the boat and like it was just too samey for the second half of the game so for me like it was like a tale of two games I was I was like the town's folk and it felt impossible like it felt like there was no way you could win sure and maybe with more players would be different I like the concept of it because I think it's a really cool game and I think the way it works oh this is actually pretty darn interesting but yeah the first half at least for us was so much more interesting in the second half and so I thought it was okay yeah it's all right but yeah halfway there uh indeed king of 12. this is a a great game by a lucky duck games um where you are essentially are trying to have the highest die in the in each round You're Gonna Roll Out the die and say I have a seven like well I got a seven you can play off these cards and that can manipulate The Vow the virtual value of your diet can add a mouse it can actually decrease amounts and essentially at the end of that little round you want to have the highest die so if I have a die that's 12 everyone else is lower than that I win that one and you're trying to essentially win I think two rounds yeah um and then and but the is everyone has these cards but everyone has the same cards so you play them out you're constantly trying to keep track being like okay I know Mike has already played this card so I know he can't beat me in that way but having this though yeah there's one card that's always this is the card that like drives everyone crazy because it's like this is the one where now this round the lowest die is the one that wins so everyone's constantly like when when they're playing it when are they playing it when they playing it and it's so much more fun this is one of the biggest surprises for me ever in a game where I thought the game would be fine and then we played and I thought it was so much dang fun yeah it's cool because yeah it's like if anyone plays the same action card you eliminate each other yes if you have the same value of die those eliminate each other in the next highest I will win so there's all these things you do not want to be the same as anybody else yeah it's super fun it's really fun it's the meta is Bonkers yeah it's kind of like the libertalia feel where you're like oh what's been played what are people hanging on to I bet kareeba plays with um uh Matthew when I was in when I was in Manchester and um this is a runner kanitzi game but you're a bunch of animals at a watering hole there's one Watering Hole there's a mouse and there's a big old elephant's got this really cute um art style I love the style and essentially you are animals you're trying to put sets of animals at the watering hole that different animals have different values so like elephants are like eight mice are one but basically because you're at a watering hole everyone's at the same Watering Hole you're constantly scaring away other animals so once you have three of an animal it'll scare away the next lowest animal so if you have three which if you have like six which I think was cheetahs you have three cheetahs whatever five was which say it's zebra they will then scare away and then you get to collect those cards you want those cards almost a few and so you're constantly trying to put them there but you don't want to set something like I don't want to put something with two down somewhere because then Mike can come in and put a third down and scare someone and get it and so there's all this kind of manipulation going on and I thought it was a really fun it's a little filler game comes in a tilo box yeah um um and I thought it was good it's maybe the same company makes like bandito and stuff like that yeah yeah it's a very cute little game I actually liked a lot if we ever saw it tomorrow I'd probably snack it because it was a good little filler game yeah yeah uh this game there's a robber's building digging a bunch of tunnels trying to escape what you're trying to do is just desperately cut off all possible exits from the center of the board where this jail is so you're playing a card but oftentimes the cards are just going to have like three or four sides that have exits and stuff and so as you're connecting these tunnels you have to make the tunnels make sense kind of like a carcass Stone you are constantly getting close to covering you know closing off all things and opening them back up because you have a hand of three cards but you might have three cards that are all horrible to play and he has to play one so it's kind of this constant like sorry y'all I'm gonna ruin our day now everyone's like why would you do that you're like I have to uh and if you get everything closed off you win yeah so this is a game that's really fun despite like you're beholden to the cards you're either going to win or not because the cards are lucky or not but I don't care it's fine I don't care who cares it's great I love Bandido it's awesome for the first time this is not a new game no rothensberger where you are um trying to get to certain Treasures that are in this Labyrinth and you are um taking tiles and pushing them and you're sliding a whole row of them you're sliding a whole row of them and that is going to change how the paths make up and you're trying to move your person to this like oh there's like this gold crowd you need to get this you're pushing them around trying to move them down to get to there and then you draw another treasure card and then you're trying to get to that treasure card this game's been around for a long time and I'm like we played it we're both like wow this is a classic for a reason yeah it was really super fun it's super fun super fun perfect family weight game but it's actually puzzly where sometimes you're like how do I get how do I what do I have to shift to get down here it's like it's it's true you're trying to shift this and then someone moves it you're like oh I needed that there to go over here it was great yeah it's really great what happens with a good time very good time like remote basically this is a game where uh Mozart's is dead we don't know why probably killed him we probably killed him and you are trying to kind of like remember your times with Mozart and prove that you were sort of the most influential person on Mozart's life on Mozart's works and stuff and the journeys that Mozart and you all went on and you're trying to do this all through memories and stuff and you're also trying to complete uh the the Requiem de lacrimosa the final uh piece that Mozart passed away before completing so you're hiring additional composers and working on different movements of that piece this is a great action selection system game where you're gonna play two cards one on top one on the bottom the bottom is good at the end around gonna produce resources for you the top will give you an action you can do uh and that action might be going on a journey or working on the uh the thing getting an opus or performing an opus or uh getting upgraded cards as you go through the game the cards get kind of more and more powerful so they might do multiple actions really smooth gameplay really fun and it does beige prettily it is possible you can't do maybe an old-timey game look good this game does that I've done it it's I really like lacrimosa I cannot wait to keep playing it yeah I played round with the world series of board gaming I played this with uh with Paula I think said he was there um and then uh city was there uh a gentleman whose name just left my head but we played robust Orion Lockett game um where you essentially are oh gosh what are you doing in this game I remember not really liking it very much um dice stuff no cards cards you're doing card stuff and I think you're trying to put stuff in a grid of cards and I remember being like you're getting people to kind of Ryan lock it above below people and they're doing stuff God I don't remember doing card stuff I remember not liking it though but it's Ryan Lockett it's very very pretty I remember after was being like so sorry about Rome what the heck are you doing this game again if you can't remember it didn't leave that big that's the thing it really did but I probably played a lot of games it's hard to remember them all I don't really remember how Rome plays but I remember not liking it so boo there you go yeah we're at the high Watermark wait land versus a hexagonal tile laying game that are going to have some amounts of land and sea and if you're the land player's a two player you can play it in teams away but I would consider two players we can play three players I'd consider two players if you're the land player you're gonna try to complete big areas of land kind of carcasso initiative will be completed when it's fully enclosed uh by water pinched off and stuff and you can get points and stuff that way don't worry about it uh there's different uh scoring things you can add like mountains and coral reefs and now not only are you trying to get your land areas complete you want to get a big old mountain range or a big old contiguous coral reef dunce there's a lot of things to explore but it's this game where it's just like a bunch of like I don't know quite how to do this because you have two tiles you can flip over either sides there's a lot of options yeah there really is it's a really fun game and as you inevitably every car is going to have or tiles can have land and sea so if I do this I might just complete a c thing for you now you get some points well try not to give points away one of the super interesting to Lambert see in my opinion is like most these kinds of games you want to have like giant areas and this one you actually usually want like a lot of smaller areas which is kind of a nice change too yeah I thought Lamborghini was a great little two-player game really fun yeah uh Alexander you're here just in time hang on out I played legendary uh the James Bond one this is the legend encounter system that I think started with the alien one yeah where it's kind of more um the cards don't come out the The Narrative don't come out randomly they come out again kind of more narratively which actually makes the game better because then it scales up you don't get like hit with a huge villain but it's still just legendary neither one of us are like Bond fans no but like the legendary encounter system is very fun I think legendary is very fun so we still enjoy playing this game the slight changes they made for this one which was was cool um the keywords were cool if you like Bond if you like legendary this will be a Smash Hit I think I think it's a really solid game and a better version of legendary than marble legendary we like Marvel more and so that gets away but I wish there's something where you kind of like the game sort of all of that but then somehow transferred into the encounter system yeah it was a fun game we're just not huge Bond fans but it was still legendary which means I still enjoy the game I'm curious what the Matrix one that's coming out yeah because I like the Matrix stats and so yeah why not uh you got to play the new Liberty wins of Gail crash a crush so hard uh game that's based on libertalia it's just kind of more of a thematic change than a couple cards are different and stuff but you are given kind of like it's on my king of 12 the same hand of cards uh the same type of action cards it's all about like hanging on because certain cards you want to be played when none of that other card is played out and stuff when you're trying to kind of time up when you play cards to get the most kind of uh these little booty tokens that'll give you things that might be good or bad uh you've only been trying to get as much money as you can because from round around whatever money you manage to get you'll get to then kind of sock away and it's safe and it's and you get to keep it but in round any money you gain might be coming and going based on what's going on uh so it's all about trying to read the minds of your opponents and do pirate stuff indeed yeah I like the only time I want to try this new one that's Yoda you've not missed party planning yet it'll come up uh longboard this is a little Runner konitzia game where you're essentially building you're building out very long surfboards yeah kind of doing like a lost cities thing where you're trying to build like numbers that are very lost ascending format and you're building out longboards you want to build them as kind of as long as you can ultimately they're going to stickers on those longboard stickers or sweet stickers but you might want to go for an objective that you want to have us uh you know certain colors certain colors uh certain boards you have to be a certain lengthy like five cards long before you can consider it to be complete but then you can choose to kind of have it be complete uh this game was okay I don't think it was anything special I'd rather play like lost cities um if I was going to do that so it was just kind of like a I like the theme was cool it was fine yeah right can you see a recycles his ideas a lot and this is one like you didn't need to re this was a worse this is a copy of a copy yeah it's a little fuzzy you know it's getting a little fuzzy not bad but you're like yeah that's fine good don't eat it it was fine I played a game of Lord of the Rings card game who like our buddy Jimmy loves Marvel Champions so he's like I want to play Lord of these card game you kind of see like you know the game that kind of sparked Arkham you know Arkham Horror and stuff and and all that so we played a game of this I was very Rusty on it I kind of like quickly got back up to speed with it and we played a scenario and it was fun yeah I like driving locations I love the theme of course but I'd probably rather play like journeys of Middle Earth or something at this point there's obviously a newer version of this game coming now um but uh yeah it's still fun it's still good it's still good yeah we finally got rid of our copy because we're like we'll just never play this wasn't truly a new game it was the first time in a very long time that we might as well be new at this might as well marble dice Throne um we put a couple games of this uh and yeah this is Dice Throne which is a kind of Yahtzee Style game where you have a character you have all different abilities all the characters are very very different battle Yeah so you're rolling out uh dice kind of Yahtzee style you're trying to make matches once you make a match of a thing you then get to do that ability and you're trying to take out your other person I really like die throne I feel like I like dice Throne less than seemingly everyone else on the planet me too like there's many many people the dinosaur is like their favorite game that's great I don't get that I like dice throne but I like like dye's Throne that's pretty much it though I I like dice Throne is fun I think it's great for a lot of people but I think you and me are weirdly in the minority where we both like this game but don't like love love love dice throw it's ultimately like a super light game and stuff and and so yeah it's just interesting that yeah I just it's not it's not our favorite thing yeah it's good still like it it's objectively good would gladly play it but like we just don't see them feel like it as much as everyone else what's up Spike and ziv yeah Scott was the first game we mentioned and we love it it's outstanding Amazon what'd it do uh we played mobile markets we played this with uh we played this with Brandon jar uh Miguel and uh Bonita yeah at Dice Tower West this is a this is the kind of um and I actually liked it more than smartphone in smartphone is a game where you're trying to make a big old you're selling smartphones you're trying to make a big industry of them and stuff and this one was super interesting where there was like bidding in terms of like when you were going to get to go and get stuff and I just thought it was a really I thought it was just better than smartphone Inc yeah the markets and the values of types of phones go up and down really wildly and it gets rid of the whole kind of board where you're trying to go into different regions of the world it just kind of deals with more like the types of phones and you can play out cards except to sell them and everything getting technology on the phone like this phone's got really great gaming on it and this phone's got this and it's like it's like do you sell a bunch of cheap phones where you get them like a bunch of them sold everybody yeah yeah or you try to sell like really high-end phones we can probably sell fewer of them yeah it's a lot of fun decisions to make I really want to pick this one up and play it again me too yeah but yeah I definitely was like it's like I'll play this over smartphone yeah it was fine but I thought this was really really good you see a lot of the same yeah stuff that you do I'm gonna play Endeavor deep C attacks unplugged this is coming out I'm not it's gonna come out on Kickstart at some point this year I'm not entirely sure when sure yeah but um this is uh equal to Endeavor where it's a lot of the same system but it has a different theme which is good for us we just want to deep sea where you're exploring the deep sea um and you are you have like different Specialists essentially people and they have discs on them and they will get to they essentially can all do different actions there's like five different actions and this specially can do like this action and this action this special can be like this actually this action and you're putting out these discs and you're exploring to see you're like doing research you're like publishing papers you're doing a whole bunch of different stuff to get points but basically once you run out of discs on a specialist you're done for the round your specialist you can then upgrade to their better sides which means they can usually do more actions they might have more discs on them but the cool thing is like every single round you're gonna get a specialist so every single round you're going to get to do more stuff you get to go cooler and cooler yeah and it's and it's cool I really really enjoyed it I want to play this so bad yeah you were I think you were taking a nap and being shame absolutely it was open so me and Shane were like we're gonna play this game and it was it was really really fun I have no regrets but I am bummed I missed it we've learned it and played it in like 45 minutes to an hour crazy to me man it was really really fast I really liked it I think you're gonna really really like it and I'm very excited for that campaign very excited for this game yeah it was it was quite good quite good what was your favorite grocery they got board game Garden hit us with it moonrakers we played moonraker's Cooperative uh there is a way to play cooperative using the materials of moonrakers and stuff is something that uh uh Ivy Studios that they release and stuff you play it like on a browser I think on your phone and stuff and so it turns into Cooperative thing where now you're playing out like a moon records you're playing like a card pyramid yeah with your thrusters and you're this is and you're that and uh you're trying to kind of play out some as many things you can to like overcome these challenges that are being presented to you similar to like moonrakers but now in moonrakers you might be like hey you want to go in with me on this thing split the loot and blah blah and then you just end up screwing them over which I could not be less interested in playing this game competitively yeah but cooperatively we're all trying to like you know work together to overcome these challenges and you're kind of working your way slay the spire-ish through a pathway there's different branching points and like this one's gonna require a little bit more of this color of car this one's require a little bit more of that color of card based on what we have you're like you know what I can do purple a lot better maybe let's go with a purple route you're getting rewards and and upgrades and cars it was really fun really tough to play cooperative but I actually really enjoyed that game that is again a way that I will play this big shout out to Ivy Studios because they made moonrakers and then they just released this whole Cooperative expansion for free for free like it doesn't require anything you need to have the game but you don't need like extra stuff for the game you don't have to purchase anything it's just a new way to play you could have charged for that I don't want to play competitively this game at all but I will play that that's fantastic so great by the way my heat Jenny got ingredients for creamy chicken quesadillas I want that we play Mosaic a story of civilization uh this is by Glenn drover and forbidden games this is a civilization game with all the civilization same stuff where you are moving troops around you want Technology Building Technology but it's very the game is not fast it could be a long game but the game the actions are crazy quick you're just like cool I'm gonna get this card this technology boom you're going to get tags tags will give you points and stuff like that yeah you're like I'm gonna run my production run my stone production you go now I'm doing that yeah I'm gonna take this card cool you gotta return this game should take eight seconds or less yeah like literally make your decision and go and it'll be it'll be back around to you in 45 seconds take another turn the game can take a while smooth is better like it can be like an hour and a half out game but you are your turns are so we're so often like oh God it's my turn again okay I'm gonna do this boom Oh God it's my turning turn to five ideas and get another technology I really like it we we played the kind of Kickstarter version of this game which is very very big it's not almost The Minis but it's the same size board and all that I kind of want a smaller version because this game is very large and you end up getting like 50 cards by the end at least in a two-player game you get a thousand cards it was really fun yeah I liked Mosaic a lot but I had a really pretty look to it with that and I like Civilization themes but it's very abstracted like you're you have like troops on the board but you're just like you like who has the most influence that's like who has the most troops there but you're not actually like fighting you're not kicking anybody out you're not rolling dice or anything like that I thought it was really really good yeah yeah I enjoyed it but this is one where it's like I think there's like a more paired down smaller version of the game and I'm like I want that version of this game and that version only yeah yeah because otherwise it's just too humongous yeah Grant said uh this game my only issue of the game is the length he's like even two player games like three hours it can go long for us it was like two hours but the turns are quick but it's just you know yeah but it's still a big game right but I do like I would I think I'd only ever want to play two before the length alone yeah play numiji the miji is a follow-up to uh yeah uh where now you are going around on a little boat and stuff and you are doing similar things you're getting clean pleading panoramas and doing some set collections here's the thing it's Dakota it's takaido if you like takaido you'll probably like this if you don't it won't change your mind um and we are fine with cicaido and we were fine with namiji yeah I thought it was very beautiful thought it was fine thought was good but it was it's there was slightly more important it wasn't the same game yeah if you have a boat and you can like build out your little thing and so you're trying to capture different fish and different colors stuff so it was all the things were fun it was kind of like takaido plus yeah yeah it was good it was just yeah put the nightmare Cathedral which is a uh a game by what's this what's his name the the artist something yes bashinsky bashinski that's what it is uh who makes this very creepy art makes you very uncomfortable existential dread just like that's not what Notre Dame is supposed to look like um and so you are uh this is kind of an area control game where you have these action cards and you are putting out like your followers out and you're trying to build the nightmare Cathedral yeah and then the second half of the game that kind of like one like essentially like the old ones kind of they're not they're nightmares that are based on this art come out and then you kind of want your followers to get devoured by them which is kind of interesting I feel like I like this game a lot more than anything yeah you didn't really like it I thought it was interesting your cards that have the access on them you can upgrade throughout the game and then you can upgrade them where like they actually start doing different stuff it's not like we all have the same upgrades I actually despite the theme didn't really do much for me I'm not really into like horror themes like this yeah I actually liked it a decent amount you didn't really like it that much I think I think this game you know because we were playing a prototype and stuff and it's probably gonna get more polished it even got Polished in the time that we had and we got upgraded versions of the nightmares it just wasn't complete yet it wasn't Kickstarter stuff so of course it's not complete so I'd be curious to try the fully complete game and see what's going on I think some of the people out here got it what's that I think someone some of the crew out here got it okay cool cool so then we'll get a chance to try it yeah because like I mean the art and stuff was like really interesting and all that and so I'm just I'm just curious to see like what it's done when it's finished and how yeah they kind of round out so the cool thing is like they can tell you like have this nightmare in this nightmare playing because it'll be this kind of game which is really cool I actually liked it much more than I was expecting to yeah that's all right yeah Mike's wrong I can be wrong Mike no thanks no thanks great it's an anti-bidding game we're gonna have cards like 33 that'd be 33 points you do not want points and so if a very high card like that I think 35 is the highest card you have these little black uh like little resources and what you can do is if you don't want that card you can throw a resource on and say no thanks and it passes to the player to your left no thanks if they don't want it they'll throw a little chit down and if and then pass it the player on their left eventually someone might decide I'm going to take this card because we take the card you get all the resources on it which are basically negative points for you which are good and they also help you avoid taking other high cards but if you have something like a 33 you now have 33 points but if a 32 comes out and you get that you get to cover your 33 and now 33 is 32 and you can run that all the way down if you make a successful run of cards and you can reduce the harm that there is and stuff but if someone ever doesn't have resources they have to take a card so you're just kind of messing with people it's just gonna great anti-bidding game you're bidding so not take a thing it's beautiful and simple this game is wonderful classic for a reason yeah it's really the classical reason it's super good it's very very it's so fun it's so fun the game of why I played the game of why this is a game that Matthew brought out when he came out here during the summer and uh uh it was this interesting game where you can see this board it's like this triangular board and you basically board it's kind of those games where they have this board and you can play like a couple different games on this board okay so we played the game of why we're basically you're trying to make a why because you want a line of your pieces either black or white to touch all three sides of the board I see so here here and then there and The Unbroken line it can whine yes if you touch a corner you're touching both those sides and so you're constantly just trying to block each other and get in each other's way and there's it was really really fun because there were so many times where I was like oh I'm screwed there's no way I can stop Matthew and then oh I can put this here and I was able to stop and then he got the point where he was like oh crap I can't stop Nick and then we kind of go this back and forth and um is that this is such a Matthew game very much so 100 really fun again it's very simple you put down a piece that's what you do in your turn that's the whole game try and touch three sides it's one of those crazy simple abstract games that was really fun the boards are very cool it comes like a cloth bag it's like a very pretty game really fun but you're just trying to get your pieces to touch all three sides in an unbroken chain that's how you win the game it's really fun Boom game of wide shout out to Matthew here we go right there whoa paleo we played that copy of paleo this is a game as a Cooperative kind of Survival game got some uh it's got some Robinson Crusoe Vibes but less less brutal you're kind of dealing with things here what you're doing is you're uncovering cards on your turn we're all sort of playing and uncovering our own uh different cards and what you can see on the back will give you like an idea of what you might be run into but you don't know what's on the other side so you're kind of like trying to make sure you have a crew ready to like fight if it's like an animal or something uh and dealing stuff gaining resources you're trying to ultimately complete these five sections of a painting and based on which scenario you're playing you will have different ways you achieve that you're trying to do that before you die out this is really fun I really enjoyed it me too The Cooperative survival there's a little bit of kind of like kind of storiness to it where it's like you have a choice to do this or that and we did like one thing we're like oh man we're bad people we're monsters we got punished by the game I was like good we should be punished uh you know because we're hunting mammoths and stuff like that so uh I really enjoy this game and I want to play more because there's a bunch of scenarios yeah things to explore that's cool hi Matthew hi Matthew um okay play the oh I'd be lying Nick if I said I didn't need to pee I'd be lying we could take a break for a second let's take a break for a second you want to do it let's have a paradox station okay Paradox initiative then we're gonna take a quick break because I also need this is a game that uh you are trying to collect kind of sets of of cards these three cards where like different planets and stuff and you have this like grid of tokens and you're trying to arrange it it was a very interesting ultimately difficult spatial puzzle to get the right things lined up to allow you to take these cards and this game was Ultimate I think it's a redo of I think a paradox um a review of the game where they basically got a bunch of different board game artists like every kind of known board game artists contributed to this game pretty much yeah in a way and my main thing with it was like the art was like so in within when you're playing like an afterthought like you don't get to see it very much you're not focusing on it because you're focusing on this grid and I was like why have all these artists I don't even get to look at their art in the game so I was like I was bummed out by it I was like dude yeah they the guy like the game was fun but the whole please do the thing that's the point the whole gimmick is like each planet a different artist had and it was really it was every artist kind of take off buttons and stuff it didn't matter at all and it was it was just kind of the game itself was fun but like that whole part I was just like man I feel like they were really banking on that part of it yeah and like it just didn't matter at all but the game itself was fun I'm like I kind of wish they'd focused more on like the game than like this whole art because they had all these art reveals every day a new artist got revealed I was like this is a cool concert which was a more impactful part of the game yeah like literally when you get a tech collect you flip it face down I'm like I can't even like look at the art yeah but it was just made a panorama of but it was fun honestly but yeah the the fun game that missed the Markham what I was trying the part was very odd okay fam we are two and a half hours in one minute gosh hopefully we're close to halfway we will start speeding up especially in the second half we're gonna go to the bathroom real real quick um because uh it's we're doing this live and we have to go to the bathroom so um give a thumb up while you wait we'll be right back smack in the chat to us [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign listen party planner prepare for happiness is from Dutch Yoda who's I think was popped up in chat earlier this is a roller flip and Phil I should say uh game where you are trying to Kickstarter is what this was successful Kickstarter it's a little print and play Kickstarter yes I was so stoked that Dutch Yoda did this uh it's a game where you're preparing for a uh party and you are trying to build out routes as you can see right there between the different uh houses and stuff like that uh there's different maps and stuff that will produce uh different challenges with navigating the map even going on to that Moon the Moon and you're trying to get resources party on the moon guys is a great little flip and fill we're getting resources and things like that to use and uh and it's fun yeah yeah I love the content you're you're forever party yeah shouts out to death for making I think it's so cool and I'm glad that you ran a little Kickstarter and uh has some success with that Dutch if it's anywhere I think you were gonna put it on like Penny or cares for that put in the chat if you can go get it yeah we've been playing it by praise be it's only seven praise B I guess you didn't have to tell you the second new praise uh praise be by uh praise be by planted yep um so planted is uh praisby's version of a drafting game he did this a summer camp it was kind of like an intro to deck building games playing this kind of intro to drafting games where you are drafting out house plants and you are trying to give them like food and sun and Waters like resources that you will get that are like yeah that you'll feed to those plants you can go once around and add a plant to your little Tableau trying to grow that plant again there's like little tool cars that will give you like two water if you ever get a water so there's a little bit of engine building there and then some decorations which will be end game scoring based on types of plants you have really fun really beautiful art and an appealing one thanks a lot praise be praised me to feel next we have it's coming right now I'm supposed to be from neanderthals this is a fun game where you are basically going to have a card and you're going to try to get people to guess what the word is we can only use single syllable words uh so me hit ball far bat might be baseball there you go shape run fast field close catch first base Third Base yeah it might be like baseball diamond or something oh I got you and so you get that you get this little stick so you can whack people with it if they use a multi-syllable word it's just a really fun part again yeah it's a good look at yeah I thought it was great yeah like power Corey was a Kickstarter that went to Kickstarter and they won that uh the campaign did not cancel it unfortunately uh this is a game uh it they want to make multiple assets this one is based off called Cthulhu but it's this game where you have these cards they have power cores and power cores essentially like how many times you can like use the card yeah um and the thing is like I actually liked this system we don't really care about Cthulhu and this is specifically Call of Cthulhu so they have this like Cthulhu base and I think they expected that to be like a really big thing that grabbed people and it didn't did not seem to do so so I I do hope they bring this back maybe with the Call of Cthulhu or not I don't really care about that but it's like they were planning on doing multiple different sets with like different IPS and different themes or whatever um and I thought it was a cool system that like at least for the because of the thing didn't matter to us but I thought it was a cool card playing game I thought it was good it was like almost like a smash-up quality where I think the idea would be that you could eventually smash up two things from different sets together to create this cool like synergistic combo of things I think it'd be cool uh for us just could not care less about the Cthulhu theme but it was wondering if there was just like I don't know myths and legends yeah characters the the the game itself was fine though but yeah they have pulled the kickstarter unfortunately yeah we played Pulsar 2049 finally we're playing this again in a couple weeks as well yeah and this is a glamor tsuki game that we've heard so much good stuff about we had it forever for years and years and years we had this game and just uh had not played it and then I got like really like built up in my head about it like oh I don't know it's gonna be this big super heavy game it's gonna be hard to learn and blah blah blah and then it was ultimately like Vladimir Suki game is not a light game but uh it was ultimately like not that hard to understand it was really enjoyable and like man why didn't we play this before we build these pulsars and using energy and stuff really fun um we need to play it again to really kind of sink in like all the stuff you're doing and certainly get better at the game yeah but if you like live masuki games and stuff like underwater cities or Woodcraft which we talked about earlier you'll probably like this one it certainly at least for us we're like yep it's another game that we enjoyed by Vladimir it's really good really really fun I liked it a lot yeah put rad lands and again this is again that we need to play some more because I feel like we just don't get this game I think so but we were talking about this on the stream the other day and then some people were saying that like no everything we're saying about the game because we always feel like you're really restricted for how many cards you can have and the resources are tight people are saying like no that's just that game and they're saying like I don't think it's gonna be your game and I think I'm now at the conclusion I'm still going to play it some more I think about the conclusion like I just don't think this is my it's possible I just don't like it that much I like it though it's too hard to get cards into your hand I'm like I want to play the cards and do the cool stuff and the water and the resources are so tight that I'm often I feel limited I'm like well I'm here to like blow stuff up so I want to be able to do more of that and I feel like the game just makes it too hard yeah I love the theme we got jealous dogs out here look at the Rival networks this is the two but the two-player version of uh the networks which is one of our favorite games I love the networks um and this one is similar in theme but actually plays quite differently where you're drafting you're getting these uh shows out and you're putting them in different time slots you're trying to get viewers viewers are going to be your points in this game and uh you are getting different stars to put onto those shows which will give you more viewers you're getting ads ads will give you money which will give you network cards it's a good little two-player version of it it plays very very fast which is nice if you're kind of like oh man I want to play the networks but I don't want to have to have like a full game we can play with rival networks of two players I think it's a good little game yeah it's a cool little game yeah I still like the networks much more it's a full game but um but yeah yeah it's not bad not bad at all uh Rumble nation's here twice we already talked about that oh my God oh my Lord Russian railroad so uh I don't literally don't know how that happened Uh Russian railroads the game we finally got to place a worker placement game uh with this like insane ramp up that they talk about where in the first round you might score like four points in the last round you might score like 85 or 90 or over 100 points and it's true it's nuts you basically have these three tracks and you're building up trains on them and working your way down the track to be able to ship more and more valuable materials down and uh based on how far you kind of move down those tracks and how much your train cannot kind of like hold I think or how far it can go you will produce uh more and more kind of points there's kind of a track along the bottom that you can get points on and add things to to get different bonuses and stuff there's these like Specialists you can get these Engineers a whole bunch of stuff it's super duper fun yeah I want to play it again really bad it ramps up uh so hard we did not play The Ultimate Edition ultimate railroads but we probably will pick it up someday but it's like 120 it's very good it's expensive we played a skull and uh we'll give you a better birthday present uh yeah me too it was uh Scoville was okay it was fine I know some people we broke Hearts when we talked about this yeah I know because I really like this game I love this game I do none of us I don't get it maybe we just missed maybe we missed the window on playing it maybe we played it when we first saw it like four years ago this is a game where you're making peppers and you're trying to make hotter and hotter patterns Scoville units are how they measure the heat of peppers um and you were trying to make bigger Peppers bigger hotter Peppers to fulfill these wine orders and Mary is trying to lick my hand as I'm talking fill these thought why not as guys Mary you distract me you're trying to fulfill these contracts and you're gonna want like one red pepper one yellow pepper and one purple pepper and then you have this field where you're planting these peppers and then you're moving your your person around you're Gathering Peppers as you go already in the same field yeah but then if you have like a green a red and a yellow pepper when you walk past that one you'll grab an orange pepper because yellow and red the color mixer is neat yeah it's a very cool concept that we just none of us really like it's also super not colorblind friendly one of our good friends crook is very color blind and he had a very difficult time playing this game it was very hard for him it just feels like a game was made eight years ago because it was it felt old it felt like this needs a second version that I think needs to have some updated and maybe let's just there's no end to the amount that they will lick yes yeah but it was just one that I'm like uh nah we're cool yeah it was it just went and it went on too long like by the end of the game all of us were like please can someone complete any contract so we can get out of this game and they're like then the game went like four more rounds yeah it was not good I was like sea salt and paper this is a game that uses awesome origami art and to do set collection stuff uh you're ultimately going to want to collect sets of like two crabs or like a shark and a swimmer and fun things like that or like I think clams just want to get as many clams as you can the more the better uh but those there's a few different types where if you collect a pair of them they're worth one point they're not that valuable but they give you a special action you can do we can steal simple players take a second turn uh things like that and what's really fun is you're trying to assemble a hand of points of stuff that's in front of you and in your hand if you have seven or more you could choose to end the round but when you choose matters and how you choose matters because you can do a risky version where you get maybe High reward but if people beat you you get punished and you're trying to score points that way it's really fun with beautiful art yes people are really cool the tongue has to come out yeah Mary just licks the air in front of your face um yeah very very cool uh the search Planet X we finally played this is on our Shelf of Shame for a long time uh this has become just one of my favorite games this is a deduction game where you're trying to find Planet X you have this big circular board that has a bunch of different areas of space and in the space there's going to be for the most part something it could be like asteroids or comets and basically everything works around a series of rules like asteroids have to be next to at least one other asteroid comets can only be in these certain sectors gas clouds have to be next to an open area with nothing in it yeah Planet X cannot be nuts to a dwarf planet and so you are getting this information of like hey this sector has this has a comet they're like okay cool well that's means if they come it's there that means it can't be over here and so that means this has to be this and so you're just deducing where it is it's really really fun um I really like to play this game solo I really only have any interest in playing it solo because otherwise you're kind of having a race element and I like the race element the solo game because you're playing against like the the app essentially and it works really well but I don't feel like the same pressure I feel if I'm playing against like normal human opponents I really like search Planet X I think it's so freaking outstanding it's so satisfying when you start to put together the puzzle there's just like that thing is so delicious so good search for Planet X was worth the wait for sure love that game yeah so good my gosh yeah I played set of watch with slivers who's been in chat off and on this is a game where you are collectively trying to fight through like a line of Monsters uh using your skills and then there must be someone that stay back at camp and you can do kind of a couple like work replacement uh spot things to to kind of keep things going this is a tough Co-op game and it's fun to kind of work through this line of you kind of get to like your people in a line the other people and they're going to kind of attack the first person in front of them or they might be able to tackle the range and attack something back behind that person so it works really well it's kind of fun and interesting you're rolling dice ultimately so you're a little bit behold until like what you roll and everything but I did enjoy uh uh what you were doing in the game and you sort of play in the Box a little bit as well for some of those work replacement spots it was interesting yeah it's interesting game um we played Sherlock Holmes case connection it's my lucky duck game this is a game uh that's not great it's not good it's not good but it's a it's a mass Market kind of uh you're ultimately trying to make put down cards and stuff to make these little connections which give you these generate these resources which are you like putting together the mystery the case it's just very much like a uh you know you're slapping on the IP people like Sherlock they'll get this game they'll play like times as we've said at least it's a game like it's a real game the game itself is not like horrible it's just like it's just not great but it's an actual game it's like a lot of mass Market games in the past were just like Candyland where there's no choices you're just doing whatever and that's nothing at least you're actually doing some stuff with strategy I just don't think it's great and I wish they had taken like the Sherlock theme and done more and more Dynamic with it but it's a game that's easy to get into and understand uh and it's just just not yeah it's not anything oh see people mentioned that Nick was wearing a beanie but called it a tuke and therefore the two has come on refused you took the two of this stream we played the slightest fire the board game uh yeah which yeah if you don't know is a video game that's basically it's just a deck builder it's kind of already a deck building board game but they made a board game out of it that we both really really enjoyed we both really love slay the Spire I do think if you like slave Sparrow this is gonna help I don't think you necessarily have to um but this is a game where you're doing slightest spiders off your deck building you're all different characters like the silent or the Ironclad or something like that and you're going up the spiers it's very very similar to slay this fire the video they're working collectively but now you're working in a co-op game and it really does feel Co-op where you're like I'm gonna hit this and put vulnerable on this enemy now you hit it and okay cool and you just kind of go through I really enjoyed it I really want to keep playing this game I want to play this game with our other friends who love slate Aspire as much as we do we both we only have the First Act to play with but after we play the first half we're both like oh my God it's going I want to keep going I like what's going on here got built up a little bit it's super fun I like it a lot um I'm really excited to get it um get it eventually because I I really enjoyed it quite a bit I fully agree yeah yeah really fun really really fun I play a game of small Islands from Lucky Duck uh and mushroom games there uh uh this is a game where it's kind of got some carcasso in this where you're gonna be putting out tiles and building out uh kind of like islands and uh water between them you have to make the landscape make sense and then the islands will have different kind of resources and things that you can basically claim to achieve certain objectives and stuff I played against an AI uh opponent and there's all these different levels of difficulty in the solo and I got like whooped on or I think barely won and I was on like the easy level so like okay that's interesting but it's really fun to kind of put together different Islands to try to acquire these different icons these different kind of like flowers and stuff so if you like that kind of game I think this one's fun it feels like kind of carcassone Plus in a really good way cool yeah yeah I want to try that one I haven't had a chance to play yet I would play Disney Smash Up Smash Up is one of our least favorite games it just is um I don't think any smash up anything is ever as much as I love like Lord of the Rings I don't think that would change it just this Con here's the thing Smash Up is not the worst game I've ever played but the thing about Smash Up is I love the concept of Smash up so so much and the the game itself is always just been a disappoint where you take one faction of anything take another faction of anything and you smash them together and that's your deck of cards and just I just do not like this game I we've played it so many different times we played a different player accounts play different versions different factions I've really disliked it every single time and this one did not change it yeah this game does the thing where it's like it's definitely aimed at like something like this is Disney Smash Up is aimed at like Mass markets and it's too convoluted it's too confusing and there's way too many things that are not clear based on the cards and it's just like who's this for like I struggle with understanding like how's this card supposed to work what is someone gonna do is never played a board game before how are they gonna possibly understand I'm not saying like all that genius or whatever but there's just too many things that are left unclear too many edge cases and stuff I'm like it's just does not work for us maybe that's been so successful for so long but like I just there's this world that would make this game good foreign people who like it because they keep getting more and more content for that's so great it is one of my least favorite games if not my least favorite game I really dislike smash I want to like it so badly but I think that's why I like it so little is because I want to like it too and I just not happening don't yeah so yeah just just really don't yeah but stay cool this is my Scorpion mask this is a a fun very chaotic very stressful game where you are doing stuff and you are having two questions and two things happening to you you're having to multitask you're having a multitask you're having to do something physical where you are selling the little puzzle stuff while you're doing that people are asking you questions so you're happy to do something physical while trying to answer verbally and it just breaks there's a question that you have to answer using dice with letters on them say the spell it's a four-letter word yes and you have to answer verbally the other questions but they're all getting fired at you at the same time and you're trying to get through as much stuff as you can in a very short period of time it's super fun super fun and then with each level that you go through it gets harder and harder more restrictive and stuff it's really it's just a really silly unique game of just like do all this at the same time good luck yeah it's it's silly fun like it I don't even play it too often but every once while it's great yeah it's wild fireworks is rarely be standing on a desert island with smash up Nick or the original terraform of Mars without expansions tough I love terraforming Mars I I like I like Aries Expeditions significantly more but I still really like terraforming Mars got him we put stockpile shout out to Howie we got to play this with our good friend Howie um board game day board game Dave and uh Pax unplugged always want to play stock pile this is a game where you are buying up stocks and the stocks are going up and down you have some some Insider information so you're going to buy this stock because I know it's about to go up and you are bidding for like essentially kind of like stacks of cars which are gonna be like stocks it might have some actions on them and stuff like that and uh it was really really fun we played um we played more or less just the base game and it made me really excited like hopefully get the game someday get some of the expansions because there's just like so many different ways to play this game I thought it was just as a stock market game which are generally not my favorite kinds of games this one was absolutely outstanding and we've always heard that it's outstanding and I'm like oh it's good because this is a soccer game that doesn't get into all the math and stuff of like an 18xx game or whatever so buying stocks if you have the internet information like oh this one this one's about to crash I'm gonna start selling up this this awesome steal because I'm gonna be good yeah and it's really really fun game really fun uh we played sink or swim one of the most surprising games I've ever played it was because you look at this I'm not gonna lie look at this cover and it does not Inspire any kind of confidence at all in that like oh it's gonna be great this game about synchronized swimming but really it's about uh what do we compare it to um doesn't matter point is you're gonna have like a real time uh you're gonna have timers and stuff and you're gonna have to play certain cards like certain colors uh and different kind of features and the rules that you have to follow the rules that you must follow and you're going to go through and that's completing a part of the routine yes and if you get that done great and they'll go on to the next round we're gonna have to do all that and more stuff and it kind of keeps getting more and more so you have to do more and more and more in the same amount of time and if you fail you get a little bit more time to complete that challenge and stuff like that and this is one that the one that was just really fun because based on your cards you're sort of saying like I'm gonna handle this you can handle that and then you have to like click it and you have to go and try to do all these things it was rock hard it's really fun very frantic and stuff we play the four player game it was really actually quite a good time trying to like complete these things actually completing a synchronized swimming routine completely abstract and stuff but it was actually a really fun really fun it was shocking shocked I was like this is gonna be okay you played I'm like no this is actually we're like laughing our butts off yeah this is really great you play tap with purple popular game on the play Planet Temple yeah apparently yeah one person on Tick Tock does it feels love chapel good for the op they're like cool we just made 10 million dollars by selling to Apple of all yeah the old game for 2012 or whatever so tapple's a game where you're gonna have like a prompt of like office supplies and as you can see on that little thing there's a bunch of letters and if something's not flipped down that letter is available you have to name an office supply that starts with one letters that has not been chosen before so if s is available I could like stapler and you click down S no one else can use S now and it's gonna have a hot potato where you can push the little button in the center and that resets the timer but if ever it's your turn the timer runs out you're out of the game and you move on and on so it's just a really fun kind of party word association kind of think of something quick on your feet game uh I really enjoyed it it's really fun for like a big group and we're at a an office an office but like a holiday party that the op was putting on we played it there with a bunch of people I was like this is the exact perfect setting for this game because you're just yelling out different things we were saying like that's not that or whatever yeah right really fun game yeah I want to play it sounds great I liked it sounds great like Terra Nova it's kind of like the intro to Terra mystica more I feel like more more games are doing this which I kind of like there's like the new intro to uh uh spirit Island now with the Horizon Spirit out uh Terra Nova again it's kind of a lighter version of Terra mystica where you essentially are trying to terraform your whatever your faction wants it only exists on one type of land exactly so you're trying to terraform the area to do that and you are kind of unlocking stuff on your board and there's a whole bunch of different factions which is cool and they all work a little bit differently special powers it's also nice because all of them have kind of like an a side and a b side so you can kind of start off on the a side I thought it was really really fun and maybe we I've always wanted to play Tera mystica and this made me want to play Terror Miska even more yeah because it very much tells you like this is like daramisco in this way and this is how it changes so it's getting you ready for Tara Mexico it's cool so one thing we're planning on doing this year is we've already played Terra Nova then we're gonna play Tera Miska and Gaia project and we're gonna do a video comparing the three and kind of talking about them from people who have never played any of them so turnover was cool though I liked it quiet a bit I think it set the stage well yeah Thunder Road Vendetta yes awesome I love it so much oh my God this is on Kickstarter this last year we played a prototype this from restoration games OG sponsor daddy uh this again where you're racing ultimately you want to win in the race but you're also able to shoot at each other and blow each other up and have helicopters come in and do damage and stuff like that there's ways you can crash and fly off the edge of the map and your car just explodes and you have like a small medium and large car and what's kind of fun is you're rolling this dice to do combat if you're a large vehicle it's there's more faces on the dice that will hit a large car because it's a bigger Target a small car is harder to hit yeah but it's usually less powerful in terms of doing attacks and stuff like that so you are uh rolling out dice to give yourself a certain amount of movement you can stack on top of each other uh which then it causes a collision and then someone based on that either the top car or the bomb car is going to go off to the side or go backwards so it's just chaos things can Cascade into each other it's really fun a really fun way to do a racing game where you're just like shooting at each other I thought it was so much it's really fun I had such a good time playing it I loved it loved it loved it loved it uh we play times of title recall uh this is this game has been made a billion different times uh sometimes recall is you have a big group of people and everyone has a partner that drives directly across from them and there's going to be all sorts of titles maybe books movies songs TV shows all this favorite kind of stuff and uh at first you're trying to get them to guess it be like you give them Clues and they guess it and then you move on to the next one and then once all the cards have gone through you will review the cards and then you go to the second round where you can only say one word so you say one word and then that's all they get and then you kind of go through once you go through all again then we go to the third round where now you can only do charades charades and maybe like sounds yeah you can hum you can hum and that's it and it's just a classic game that you've probably played before um and it's so much fun and it's so good because you get so much so many inside jokes within the game itself that happen because someone messes something up and it becomes this ongoing joke throughout the game where we had one where the clue was Jetsons but I think I actually said Jefferson The Jeffersons and so then all the clues for Jetsons became about the the show The Jeffersons even though that's not what we were talking about but that's what was the inside joke and it was just so guessing to the answer yeah it's very very good times the title recalls a classic for a reason this game is so stressful to me it's very group dependent I think it's fantastic yeah takato Duo two-player version of takaito that's okay it's okay it's definitely it's definitely it's very different than takaido because you have these like three characters and you're gonna choose one of them to move uh based on their die and you can draft that die and they have to move a certain way in a certain amount and they all want to do different things uh it's okay it's okay yeah we've never been too um in general but too many cooks uh this is a game but Matthew brought High Piven uh it's again that Matthew brought out this is a runner kinesia trick taking game we bring stuff into a soup putting stuff into it and you're trying to not put chilies in there because chilies will ruin the soup and you're essentially trying your every round you're choosing basically like what you're going to score like onion soup or mushroom soup or like pea soup and um and everyone can score essentially each one once and so it's kind of one of the things we're like okay I think I think I'm the only one scoring mushroom soup so I'm gonna try and collect these tricks with a bunch of mushroom cards but then people can like throw chilies in there they're messing up your whole soup it was really really fun it's finally getting a reprint now yeah because it's been like out of print for like a decade or so it'll be cool because this art is okay but it definitely needs better art but it's just old right yeah it's just old and so I think it'll be really cool because this whole thing of like you want to be the person to bring the collective value of what you played above 10 yes to be able to collect all the cards that are in there but you can play boil down which basically brings it back down to zero is so many cards yeah but that might be good or bad because if you're doing mushroom people through Chili's in and ruin the flavor profile of the soup now you're like oh that's kind of unless you played the chili soup but then you wanted to have it yeah so it's really fun it's so good it's really really fun I'm really glad it's getting a a reprint yeah play Tales tucana this is a a rolling right game where you're trying to you're making like past you're trying to connect things yeah you're basically have like cards that will show like different Landscapes and you have to like connect those two things with a like a little pathway and you're kind of trying to get to the various Villages around the town uh and and and kind of encounter like the birds and monsters and stuff like that it's really fun kind of like standard like rolling right kind of yeah it's just very it's like it's a very roll righty very roll right kind of game and it's good it's a good one I don't think it's outstanding because it's been kind of just done before we're gonna be at a point now with like rolling rights where it's like if you're gonna do something you better do something like really interesting this is like very much a day like it's like pretty standard it's not the difference from like explorers or a lot of other games like this so it's like it's good all new but it's good yeah it's good it's not not um new we played Treasure Island a game that I have wanted to play for so long man oh man did was this game not great not great no we had heard that we'd heard when it first came out they're like some people are saying like yeah it's okay it's such a cool con it's a super gimmicky because you have like basically you're trying to find like where this treasure is and one person is is uh whoever they hid the treasure somewhere on these maps on this on this island some apple these islands and stuff and uh you can use like all sorts of things to put like a compass down you can draw a big circle with markers you're drawing onto the board and saying like is it here and it's like yes or no or something like bluffing to it and everything it's cool because you're all drawing on the map but it's just really it's that gimmick is really what it is and there's nothing else to it it's kind of just like oh there's not really much of a game here or a great game the gimmicks are fun but like we we played it like four years after it came out I was like oh man yeah like this would have been great to have played when it first came out who were like this is such a cool you see the cover is like absolutely gorgeous it's very cool it's a cool concept but it just I really didn't like that that's not a good um but Trek in the world uh and then I'm guessing traction National Park is right yeah so we have trekking the world you can let this play a little bit trekking the world Trek national parks and trekking the world and national parks trivia are these four games so all these games here uh so trekking the world and tracking national parks are are similar where you're basically kind of playing cards out to route your way around uh to different kind of like famous locations on earth like the Eiffel Tower and things like that and you're sort of you sort of kind of like ticket to riding it in terms of like moving around you're sort of collecting uh I think cards and stuff or these tokens that are like showing you have you having visited these places there's some Sac collection element with certain things you can pick up while you're going around the board checking the national parks is also similar where you're trying to go to different national parks around you're collecting this like little Stones along the way um and they're interesting like really light family weight games and tracking the world in particular is super beautiful really well produced and now it's like trekking through time which is seems even cooler and I believe like really good things I was talking about to at was here in chat last night about it it's like actually seemed like a really great game yeah these are super solid like family weight games where you can you can say like it's ticket to ride-ish In terms like how you play your cards to allow you to move and things and they each kind of have a tribute game that you can also get which is just trivia about National Park about the world they're really fun family games they were great absolutely great for family games yeah shout out to those games uh turing machine Mike loves Jersey so do I I like it a lot Mikey freaking loves Turing machines pure deduction you're trying to find a three number sequence like five two one I like it um and you have these modifiers around that are basically going to tell you um they're they're gonna give you like rules that the the the code follows so like basically uh you have one that says like blue is either going to be more or less than yellow and in your sequence if blue is like two and yellow is one that means blue is more than yellow so when you test that what do they call not modifiers what are they called verifiers you test that verify you were testing if blue is more than yellow it'll either tell you yes or no if it says yes you're like okay so blue is more than yellow that means blue cannot be one because that means there'll be no way for blue to be more than yellow and so you're testing these different verifiers and deducing what this sequence of three numbers is and it is so freaking good kind of like black snotter which we talked about like three hours ago I don't know how the game works but it's really freaking cool it super nice it's so good great peer deduction oh my gosh it's good yeah it's really weird you can play solo this is a game where like you're technically trying to get it for anyone else I don't care I just want to get the puzzle done I like playing this game solo we have in our Discord Channel which I think is linked on our Discord we have a daily challenge because there's a daily challenge for this kind of like the world people talk about how they did every day people are putting how quickly they got in the daily call the turtle the turtle machine turtle um it's so much fun touring machine if you like pure deduction this game search Planet X we talked about a little bit ago absolutely outstanding game's incredible absolutely outstanding love it so much so amazing yeah Turtle Splash things kids games from the lucky duck kids line uh where you kind of get three sequence of animals you have verifiers you test the animals is the is it the hippo yeah you are trying to basically find all your friends uh and he's like a crocodile thing where you have a turtle's lace at the party so they're trying to find all their friends for the for the swimming party that they have and they're going to come down this little ramp you're going to flick the turtle disc down the ramp and hopefully land in the lake and depending on how close the center you get you can flip over up to uh one two or three animals and then you have to flip them face down and you have to try to find the next one in the sequence you need you need to find them in a certain order essentially and so you need to find them and get them in the right order and all that jazz so it has a little bit dexterity a little bit of memory great for kids because there's a few things to enjoy it's kind of a toy Factor if you have little kids this would be a fun one it's not like meant for us but it's not made for us it's a kids game so yeah very cute the kids will freaking love it but unconscious mind uh this is a a big game by Fantasia games and you can see this beautiful Army I've been to trade art kind of in the real world and then in the dream world there is Andrew Bosley art who does very good kind of dreamy art and you essentially are a therapist and you are trying to heal people of their grief which I think is a cool ass concept I said ass deal with it butts why not um and you are trying to um uh uh like Freedom passion that's what it is yeah and you have your your kind of bored your insights board and you're essentially moving these uh kind of glass beads up there and you have different strength of like insights you're turning those in to again heal them of their grief which is gonna be like a big hit of points it's really really fun it's like a big pretty heavy Euro game our only knock with it is is there's kind of a lot of different stuff in the game and it feels like it could have like one or two less things in it because you're like publishing papers as well you're doing that kind of stuff and it's like I just feel like that could have been like maybe an expansion or maybe like a module that you could choose if you want to play this thing I'm like I just could not be less interested in that it's just like so like why yeah you know there's plenty of other really fun things doing really do not need that thing over there super fun though I really really liked unconscious minds even with a little nitpick of there's just kind of too much it's a nitpick because you could also just like not do that you'll probably be fine but I think it's so cool the art is like Bonkers good and it's just so cool having these like you're just you're healing people are grief it's just so I think it's absolutely outstanding yeah it's really really cool game really cool game fun subscribe we played uh Disney sorcerer's Arena epic Alliance this is a skirmish game where you're gonna play uh as we played as like three characters a piece from these uh this menageria folks right there that you see uh and they're gonna give you uh cards you're gonna smash together deck so it's kind of a smash-upy thing where you have a different cards with abilities and stuff they all kind of are like sensible to who they are like a lad you can move around really quickly and kind of shift yeah yeah so Sully and gas aren't just like punch really hard and do a lot of damage you're trying to knock out your opponents and and every time you knock them out they'll spring back up later but you'll get kind of uh victory points that way you're trying to get like 10 or 12 points at first I think it's great for like it's kind of unmatched but Disney style and I'm like honestly cool like one thing that's cool with the game is as you go through it us the beginner game that you start with one that we played on our channel is like pretty Bare Bones but then you get to add a lot more and I think once you get the review Point you're playing the full game I think there's actually like a lot of stuff every character has like a special ability they can be really cool and then on top of that they're gonna expand it to the stars and I really enjoy it too the uh the characters they chose for this one because you have like characters like the Gargoyles TV show you have like some Pixar stuff you have some classic Disney stuff yeah and yeah you I'm like what I'm glad that they're they're really like making it a very diverse cast in terms of like diverse through Disney like like yeah like the gargoyle show it's like wow I'm surprised you chose that one yeah no they got a great mix a cool game and if you're really into Disney you kind of want that I'm actually I think it's cool and especially like once you get to the full game I think it's great I hope they keep expanding I hope they keep supporting you because I think it's a cool concept yeah I think it's really neat to see like it's why we love unmatched and stuff so there's a similar thing with Disney so I'm like I'm all in I think it's dope yeah super fiddly dials with the health yeah the dials are fiddly but other than that all right so unmatched I just put these all together because we played a bunch of different types of a match this year we played Deadpool for the first time Redemption row Hell's Kitchen those are the two marble three pack sets we played battle Legends Volume 2 and Houdini versus the genie they're all good they're all outstanding they're all dope they're all great because which one is your favorite of these I mean I'm gonna go battle Legends volume two because there's four characters they're all super cool yeah they're very cool Houdini versus G was very fun too we're great on Match is outstanding still is outstanding can't wait for more yeah um and uh the versus the system this is uh this is also my upper deck who makes like Marvel this is instead of being a Cooperative game this is like a one verse one it's a versus game yeah uh in this case like Civil War you're like one of us was Iron Man and their team the young person was Captain America and their team right this is a game where you have like rows of cards and you're trying to kind of like radlands you have like kind of two rows and you're trying to like take out the other person's like main hero we didn't really like it this kind of like head-to-head card games are not really our thing it just was again there's so many keywords this is one of those games where again like they've supported this game to the Stars I'm super hyped for the people who love this game because like they have so much content for it there's gonna be a lot of people who love this game we just super do not it's just so not our kind of game did not work for us at all yeah we're just like if I'm gonna do card doing stuff I'd rather play like unmatched or something totally like this just straight up cards you're fine you're this card does this and it's just not our kind of game so didn't really like it but again this crime stopped for us but other people love this game and I'm glad they're supported it because they've gotten a ton of content out of it absolutely so much verses out there werthering card game this was a disappointment well you liked it more than I did I did but it was still a distance I flat out didn't like it which is such a bummer because I wanted to like it so bad this game is interesting so it's taking War of the Ring a massive uh troops on a map game that has Lord of the Rings in a box and they made a card game version of it where you're gonna play as uh ideally I think probably is a 2v2 game yeah that's what it's supposed to be played yeah and so and so if you're the shadow armies like we were like me and Shay were on a team we're gonna have certain factions from that Army from those armies various armies and stuff that we can play as and there's you're going to be fighting over kind of different Battlegrounds every round it helps deep like Helm's Deep and stuff yeah the thing that's really cool is if you're in Helms Deep uh and I'm the the Mordor and Nazgul characters like guess what I can't play cards there why I wasn't there at Helms Deep that's super cool in a way yeah but also really restrictive because on this turn I can't do a lot I'm just kind of sitting around literally can't do anything now I think the key to the game what I managed to do quite well is like okay I can't play this battle so what I'm gonna do is you can play certain cards in reserve and the nazco in particular are very much the best when they're in reserve and so I was able to do that and sort of you kind of like get ready for when it's your turn to do your stuff and I think it's something to explain to people it's just like if you can't contribute to a balance stuff get ready because eventually you will but it just felt like everyone at some point in this game felt like stuck you're like well I can't do anything Shea I hope you got it and Jay's like I don't have any Isengard people either because I have Isengard and this and this I don't have Isengard so like there's just nothing to be done about this battle yeah it just it just wasn't great I really it just honestly isn't great but a couple different times at different player counts and it's not every single player guy who played it out I thought there were so many turns where I was like well I can't do anything yeah you in particular I suck a lot hate I really didn't like it I really disliked it I thought it was so much of the game was spent going like cool can't do anything yeah guess I'm losing this bag and I thought it was I thought it was straight up bad I did not like it and of course this game is never going to be as good as War of the Ring it's impossible but I was hoping that it would just be a little better maybe that's just me but ice wasn't really didn't like it I thought it was yeah which is such a bummer I wanted like it's so bad didn't live uh you played wingspan Asia to play wingspan Asia uh this was really cool I played it with just the stuff from wingspan Asia I played the two-player duet mode uh with my wife and it was really fun if you like wingspan this is a great addition some of the cards are like kind of push your luck elements and the duet board the two-player version where you're kind of every time you play a bird get to put a little token down on the board is a fun little addition all the end of round goals had to do with that board I like this a lot yeah I'm really I'm really excited but we're gonna play it here we're gonna do a playthrough of it soon hopefully in the next month or two but uh probably really excited to play this one yeah it's really great I would put the wizard of Ozzy Adventure book game there's a couple of these there's like a princess bride when I think maybe one other one um um this is a game we were going through different scenarios the different scenarios would be different parts of Wizard of Oz you're going in order so you're starting off in Kansas um and then you go to Oz and stuff like that you're with the munchkins and stuff um and this is a game where you are again going through the story and you're you're going through in every scenario doing different stuff based on the movie so like what was it the the one where you're in Kansas you have to get like the farmers in certain places and you have to like make all the animals happy like there's a pig and a horse you have to make them happy make sure they're not sad instead of that and I remember tornadoes coming tornadoes coming all this kind of stuff and man we really liked it and we're both like I like Wizard of Oz but like we didn't grow up on Wizard of Oz we did grow up on Princess Bride which I do still want to try that one at some point but the system itself was actually really really fun and I was like wow this is cool because if this is a theme you like or if you do like The Princess Bride one more something like that it's so really really fun and I was like wow this is actually pretty darn cool yeah I actually really enjoyed Wizard of Oz I was like wow that transcended because I'm like it was very cool throughout that I'm like these are cool yeah it was very cool I was very surprised at how much fun that was um uh this is a game where you um well actually I haven't played this game you play this game this game you're matching colors right yeah you're playing you're trying to feed a monster you're trying to feed it different things and based on the uh it basically wants how is it you want to get to a certain color and so you have a bunch of things in hand that you could feed it like different kinds of candy and whatnot and all the cards are going to be slightly different colors of like blues and things like that and you're going to try to kind of play the color that you think will get the closest to that but if you play like a red and I play a blue and we both piece of the monster the monster's gonna turn purple yeah and so maybe they want to be like a light purple so it's like how do I do that so it makes you think about color it's a kitchen it's supposed to be fast for kids and stuff it's a really great thing for kids this app is so cool yeah the monster actually like changes color in the app and depending on how close you got they're happier or less happy and you feed it like like vitamins it gets all bummed out because it wants to eat candy and stuff and like fire hoses and this game is super popular people love this it's really cute what a cool concept really great kids again this is lucky duck kids great great way to think and talk about color yeah I mean really really cool and that's the noodles oh we're through the noodles fam that is the bigger of the two lists uh we're only three and a half hours we're only three and a half hours in so the second half list here we are gonna go fast very fast you know we talk about we're only like one sentence and out this we mean it for now we wax poetic about most of those games we really shouldn't have it but nonetheless now we know the old thrust games we have like 172 new to us games and like a 130 or something like that yeah it's much less much less here but here's the thing we're gonna go through them fast we'll probably let this play for the most part because they're each like five seconds longer so yeah we're gonna try and keep them in there hover over the button only push if we need to stop yeah I'll sit here but fam let's start moving thanks for being here everybody appreciate you got through that you're a champion yeah we love it so these are games we've played before but we're gonna talk about again crocodile it's amazing it's so good best dexterity game of all time no doubt about it a wonderful it's true strike this is a game where your Gladiators dice you're trying to hit him and uh you don't you're trying to keep Dynasty you're trying to have all the dice dice if you can't play have fun playing that game you can't have fun dice minor is a dice drafting game you want to have various different colors of dice and stuff really great filler game Bobby Knight is a really really fun Cooperative game that I am collecting because I really want to paint it but it's a great game where you have a villain everyone has their own Marvel character great minis yeah absolutely paint the rose is a fantastic deduction game where you are trying to complete the Queen's Garden before you get your head chopped off following the whims of the queen amazing indeed space space we played with John declare which is very fun he's very good at that game mostly because he made it yeah great game engine builder game wonderful don't play with Johnny Clare he will beat you yeah absolutely we'll destroy you terraform Mars I played it on the app that's the only way I want to play this game and with Prelude still but it's still a great game classic for a reason still very very good to everyone's Aries Expedition is the only way I want to play unless I'm playing it digitally I like terraform Mars Aries Exposition significantly better it took out all the stuff I didn't like about Jennifer Mars and added stuff I do like to it it's great yeah uh abandon our chokes the game we're trying to get rid of all the artichokes in your hand and draw a hand of no artichokes using other vegetables as a deck wrecking game it's amazing it's amazing can't stop again you can't stop it you can't stop me trying to roll dice and move up tracks and stuff but if you ever bust out and you can't add to a track you lose your progress which I always do it's a great pressure luck game Cascadia is also a pressure luck game where you're building out Pacific Northwest and putting animals on certain spots versus scoring conditions very very fun game very chill game beautiful explorers there's a Phil Walker Harding praise probably a game where you were kind of Crossing off things and making routes through different types of Landscapes trying to collect as many like gems and things as you can yeah lahob is a great game in my number two game I absolutely love it this is a game where you are you are a Fisher person you're either using a building or getting a whole big bunch of resources so good amazing game amazing Ube game last women's really fun game so deck building worker placement game into discovering new dig sites and stuff like that kind of Indiana jonesing it really wonderful game the expansion is fantastic that's right project L is a great kind of like polynomial Tetra scene game where you have a card you're trying to fill it in with these different shapes when you do that you get that card that card's worth point you get another card to fill it in it's really good I think one of the best Gateway Games if not the best Gateway game out there uh uh indeed tapestry fantastic game Nick agrees uh it's a game where you're bumping tracks and doing save stuff I love it so fun it's flawed but I don't care about the West Kingdom this is the third in the west Kingdom Trilogy uh really really good this one's based off of rondelle and kind of a as Mike calls it a deck builder in slow motion your deck building but very slowly really really great it's just very good yeah so smooth brass Birmingham amazing game that Nick likes uh this is a game where you're doing Industrial Revolution stuff in Britain and trading things and beer and you're trying to flip over tiles I'm trying to mooch off what you're doing and you're trying to mooch off what I'm doing great game great game cast of burgundy trash no it's great Casper is a classic for a reason it's a game where you're building out a duchy uh you have dice you're getting tiles put them in your duchy it's great it's a classic for reason if you haven't played it played it's great so good so so much stuff thanks to Caledonia one of the best games of all time such a slim wonderful box you're doing a scotch Island it's a pure economic stuff trying to spread your dollar as far as you can doing things producing Goods completing contracts so good I'm trying to shout out all right I love you but I do not love this game that's true we're both kind of the same boat don't really like villainous leave it pause for a second if also the same problem with smashed up yes aimed at people who do not play board games and there's so many things for every character that are unclear yes every game every time I try to do a character I'm just like how do they work what do I do am I I'm syndrome are the of the machines against me are they forming like I sort of both I'm like when and they're like you figure that out I'm like no design the game better it's such a poorly designed it's kind of with with it's smashed by the way where it like I like the concept of villainous so so much but I don't love the gifts so short of its concept yeah unfortunately for us it does with the actual heck you got it we need to play with you I don't know teach me what we're missing this game Falls so short of its idea that I I just bums me out yeah it really bumps me out draposaurus is a great game when you're drafting dinosaurs you're putting a little pen then pens want different stuff so I want the same dinosaurs someone different dinosaurs some wanna be a couple dinosaurs it's great so good it's so good I was just helping you out Foundation this is a game where you're doing tile placement stuff in the kind of teotiwa conniverse uh and it's okay it's okay such a good game this is a game where it's a very simple very elegant game almost whenever one Mikey loves gang apples there's not a game that does more with less that is more elegant than this game there's no game that's done something more important right here hammer time it's a game where you have gems on top of a box and you are rolling a dive the dictates how you have to hit the Box might have to punch it might have to hit the hill hammer and you're trying to fulfill contracts by hitting gems off the box it's a cute little game I'll show you the way young grasshoppers Foster People we would love it I don't really missing but Disney villainous is like why is it so hard to understand what your character does I think always I'm going to coach a great two-player gameplay with my wife uh uh I know we're trying to incur the most favor of the Geisha in front of you uh and get as many on your side as possible say come perform at your restaurant it's a fantastic tight tactical very tough game it's wonderful world we'll talk about this a little bit early it's one of those that's a wonderful this is a drafting game this is a quick engine builder game and it is one of my favorite games of all time I freaking love this game this is my go-to quick engine builder it's stupid to build their car drafting game so good I can't score points in them I don't care Corey Wiseman Empire you like tracks it's such a good game we're doing action selection stuff bumping tracks getting up that way doing things and and the card plays fantastic I totally enjoy the cards two base uh the loop is a really great really too hard Co-op game I still love it despite how hard it is but God dang this game is hard you're going through time to trying to find Dr foe I think it's a really cool theme really really fun game but that is a teeny bit too hard but I still really like it I like it more than you I think it's too limiting and does not work at two-player micro microcomp City that's great it's amazing murder mystery and where's Waldo World lovers it's all for adults it's so fun it's really fun activities super mega Lucky Box praise be the Phil Walker Harding this is a bingo game we're gonna flip over four if you have a four you can cross off a four if you complete rows and columns you get bonuses and if you complete all nine things in a box you get to score points for it the earlier you complete those things the better great game India borrows a lot of other Phil Walker hiring stuff uh really witchcraft this is a great game where you're trying to overflow your opponent by giving them cubes and the more cubes to get them they have to put on their board if they can't put on the board they have to give them back to you if you get five of them you get points boom nailed it so good Seven Wonders Architects a really fun game it's a very simplified version of Seven Wonders the most simplified version out there it's whether you're building a wonder of the world I like it Amazon animal you're putting animals on top of animals cute little hobby game this one's the Christmas edition fantastic uh you're trying to stack them if you roll a dice tells you what you did Stack it's great great kids game great kids game Ascension deck building game it's a pure deck builder where you're gonna get money and and damage and you can either damage to get monsters to get a boon and get points or you can get your money or influence whatever to buy a better cards so it's a deck builder get some cards get better cards get better better cards combo those cards and get stuff fun game the bloody end this is a game where you are uh French in owners and you realize it's more powerful for you to kill some of your guests and so you're trying to get other guests to kill your guests and those kids you're gonna take that money and you better understand right yeah yeah and it bums me out yeah weird everybody's helping me do murder because I'm like they do but that didn't age so well but here we pay them good Hard Cash we do Carnegie is a great game where you are building out kind of uh Industries and stuff Across America and we are romanticizing Carnegie's contributions to the world uh no you're doing charitable things that's how you get emotional you can't do that you know he did do that at times but you know but at the beginning this is the new version of carpe diem Carpe Diem is a great game where you're building out a little step and tell stuff a little duchy area trying to make buildings this up it's a really really game I'm glad you got a slight upgrade it's still not a pretty game but it's not unplayable like it was it's very very fun though I think Harper games outstanding really fun castle is asking another seven fellow game it's really fun it's uh Castle burgundy goes Ticket to Ride we're now using card based stuff it's really fun all the flavor of Castle burgundy but really quick and easy to play this is chai of Tuscany where you are making chai anywhere orders and you're you need certain kinds of tea maybe some milk maybe some sugar fulfill orders get points it's great yeah it's really fun chai tea see who's coming up I know it because I made this it's a two-player version of chai It's very different than chai it's definitely heavier than Chase on a heavy game but it's a 10 minute Step Up From China if you're interested in that very different game beautiful I like this game more for sure it's very good for sure um uh Clank could definitely finally played Clank again it had been a while this is a game where you're a deck building and going down into a dungeon trying to steal treasure but there's no dragon down another Dragon does not like you stealing her treasure and so she is trying to hunt you down by hearing for you you are making noise the more noise you make the more likely it is you're gonna get hit it's great first ever ranking this is my number one game it's great game color it's a hobby game where your color we get rolling dice out which will give you certain areas where you can color in stuff really great for young kids take away all the rules or add as many rules as you want and uh just have a good time coming for kids this is crazy structured coloring Crown is so dry it's dry like a block of the sand it's so good uh this is a game where you have two different rondelles you're going around the two rondelles you're getting resources on this side you're spending resources over on this side it's absolutely outstanding it's a really tight resource game so good so dry so zero themed it's great oh my God foreign taking game that Nick played on his trip this is a game where you have different factions that they all do different things you're trying to set up in the first half of the game you're trying to win cards to then play in the second half of the game to win cards to collect the most majority of factions really great fantastic dancer Allen roaring right this is the wrong right version of Dinosaur Island it's kind of a mix between Dinosaur Island and dinosaur world that we think it's the best of all of the different dinosaur games although we do like them all but this one is just really really fun you're getting Specialists you're giving tours you're getting dinosaurs it's great it's definitely the easiest one to table which is very important because dinosaur world is not very so stable uh uh it really good if you like Dinosaur Island I do think this game is better but I wanted it to be slightly sleeker than Dinosaur Island and it is the same level of just kind of bloaty chunky yeah it's better but I'm like somehow bigger I wanted you to be some the tiles are this big it's so huge why are they so big why is it all so big it's so hard to play but it's very fun we're on a game table we can't fit it yeah I played Miyabi I played this with Matthew game where you are putting tiles but you have to put them in certain rows and columns it's a very restrictive game but it's a good restrictive where the Restriction creates really tough choices really fun choices very very good social fun games such a such a fun game uh dragon cast was a beautiful game where you're putting down these tiles kind of borrows a lot from Mahjong and as you get these little tiles up you get groups of colors you get to flip them face down the bigger groups you can kind of flip it once the more points you get it's all good is a weird deck programming game where you're playing out these cards and they go into your discard pie which you never ever ever Shuffle because then you do an administrative phase and you get those the top three cards your discount back and you can pay to get more so you get those cards back in so you're trying to bury cards you don't need anymore but keep cards you really want to play again it's good deck building without shuffling that's so good oh my God it's really it's really great feast Road best game of all time what Anita I say more there's Vikings there's polyaminos there's work replacement they're moving on feels about a great two-player eBay game hidden it's good it's a two-way game two big it's a two-way it's too big game this is duet we have to have this weird German one because every time we have fun fact uh the English cover it corrupts when we try to every time it's a two-player Cooperative yes and you are trying to uh win tricks in such a way that you move this little marker in a force to collect gems it's very fun cooperative uh Friday I still never played Friday it's a solo game where you are helping out Robinson cruso is quite dumb and you're trying to help them overcome challenges and stuff and get better cards so it's a deck building kind of game as you go really fantastic it's a great song borrow it Gloom Haven Gloom Haven is Grace the number one game of all time according to BGG uh we played it digitally I think digitally it's absolutely outstanding because it takes care of all the um like the upkeep for you and stuff like that if there's a ton of it on there I think it's really good I think I'll only ever play digitally though absolutely Grand Oster would tell a fantastic game about running a hotel trying to feed people what they wanted convince them to stay in your hotel and it's fantastic it's a game that hurts so good yeah it hurts so good that's the accurate one Nova Luna I played Nova Luna um and this is a game we talk about framework earlier this is a game we were trying to make uh color through a J's and see you're trying to fulfill these tasks it's got kind of like a patchwork way of gaining tiles I don't think it needs that play framework I think framework is better framework's better But no balloon does the same thing it's another Ube game such a good Ube game about doing Farm Stuff a Wild and uh it's just it's great and beautiful and it's really fun it's so good so good it's got a progressive worker placement uh is a game where you are building out a herb herbaceous and you are trying to pot those herbs you can take you'll get a card you can put in your private Garden put in the public garden the other card you have to put in the other one we'll push your luck because you can only pot once per type of pot so how long do you let it wait because someone might take it's one different stuff it's super good that's so good super super good is a great cute game where you are busy little beeples and you are trying to build out Honeycombs and produce honey and then sell that honey because all the woodland animals are stealing your auntie you might as well sell it to make a buck it's great absolutely so fantastic Illusions all about uh seeing shapes and how much color of red is showing on thinking you're trying to put them in the right order from least amount of red to most amount of red or green or blue or whatever the most one of the easiest games to get people to play really fun super not colorblind friendly yeah really really fun uh Empire's the north this is again we each take a faction of the north um and you you take a faction you you are playing out cards they all are very very different and you're basically you first want to get 25 points it's really a race game um I really like Empires North I will basically always buy everything for because I think it's absolutely shoot standing it's so good it's so so good key flow is a fantastic car drafting version of key flower where you're building out a village uh in the spring and summer and getting a bunch of production able so you can start running your buildings and produce stuff for the fall and winter we're ultimately going to want to move your resources to certain areas to score the most points possible super excited so King Domino Kingdom who won the spillage yard for a dang reason it's great it's again we have a domino tile with two different train Types on there and you're trying to place it down and uh it's good Keanu Origins it's a better version King Dominion because now there's a little bit more different ways to play it's still great it's really fantastic llama land praise be to Phil Walker Harding you're using polyamino tiles to build out and then up and as you stack things on top of each other whatever you cover up you'll produce resources and things as you turn in cocoa and corn and stuff you can uh visit llamas put them out onto your board to complete objectives and stuff like that there's player Powers lots of fun stuff to explore really fun puzzly game for football this with Paula and City and this is a game where you are a scene a garment maker you're trying to make pretty dresses and cool coats and put in the king's ball for points and it's really really good it's really really really really really good maglev Metro is a game where you are building out routes and stuff and doing pickup and deliver to get people to work and stuff it's really really fun you can build up and wreck and change your engine throughout the game indeed Merv the heart of the Silk Roads again we played a lot I really like you kind of focus on a couple different things you can go up the most trap go to the Caravan track do all these different things really good we've played it enough now but it's still a very good but it's beautiful and a really fun game really fun game New Frontiers the race for the Galaxy game is a really fun game it's really really fun love it so much want to play it again finally got it physically I'm so excited is a kind of an engine building game uh where you're at collection set collection is that collection game that we both like we both cooled on pretty hardcore it's also just very fiddly if I'm playing like on BGA I'm down because it kind of takes all the fitness out of it but it's a good game that's just a little too fiddly yeah a little too much to set up and stuff for how long it is or yeah that mean how short it is number nine fantastic game where you're trying to lay out different things and stack your tiles that are funky shapes based on numbers as high as you can to get as many points as possible so good [ __ ] shapes uh crisscross crisscross is so good Rhino can you see game where you're trying you roll dice you have to put those dice in kind of they kind of essentially make a little Domino put them in your thing you're trying to have a lot of the same in the same row and column and stuff like that score points it's really fun tough little game you can play with literally anybody yep I I uh news Fjord uh Rosenberg game is super duper fun it's kind of a quick Uber Rosenberg game about fish and stock market stuff a lot of uber stuff yeah fish in the stock market class oceans also a game about fish where this is a next Evolution game where you are um building out different evolutionary animals and making them cooler and cooling traits I really like oceans I think it's the best of the of the evolution games we just got to try the new expansion new expansion is really fun it's good it's a really fun game telestrations one of the best party games ever is telephone withdrawing it's fantastic that's true um on tour it's a game where you are touring around a little tour bus and you are kind of building a route hopefully of ascending numbers um and very tough game it's a very tough game because you're beholding to certain regions where you have to add your numbers and you'll roll two dice you don't have to be like 39 and then 93 so it's hard to to do but it's really fun yeah really cool but going it's a two-player game they're building up pagodas which are these wonderful beautiful buildings here um I really really love Pagoda it's a great two-player only game uh where again you're building these up trying to not set up your opponent for a lot of points it's really good really good uh Forbidden Desert it's a game where you are going around trying to assemble these pieces of a kind of a a space uh like a steampunk machine really fun because it has this moving storm which puts up on the sand down so it's very pandemicy game is made by the same designer that's very cool very awesome Patchwork this is a two-player only get a two-way game as a two-way where you are building out a patchwork quilt you're drafting these tiles it's a very tough game because you're trying to make them work in the small area it's very good the first you know polyaminal game that a lot of us played yeah it was very very good look at that point south is a fantastic set collection game where you're trying to get the right vegetables and the scoring cards that will give you points for having certain uh pairs of vegetables or certain type of vegetables might give you negative points you have lettuce and things like that really fun easy one of the most playable games on the planet so playable so very playable X this is the new version of Metro X but it's ultimately the same game we were building out a train route a rolling right version but you're trying to build them out kind of efficiently and you don't want to like block other routes from being made very very difficult game but very feel so brutal when you play it very fun hurts your feelings targeting to play the expansion uh it's a fantastic expansion two target two player worker placement game that I love the expansion so much would only want to play the expansion yeah it really opens up the game it's nice so fantastic uh probably could put ragne that's another Vladimir souvenir that we enjoy we were kind of building up Prague you're building up the big fancy bridge to your um uh building out the wall of it you're building up the cathedral it's really really good you can kind of get pretty comboy it's absolutely outstanding we also just got an insert for it which made playing it even easier so much better yeah it's real good all right we play lots of these they're rolling right uh this is a rolling right version of lost cities where I like it more than Lost Cities the same things you're trying to go on different Expeditions but as soon as you go invest in one you have to go down a certain point or else you're going to lose points and stuff like that yeah just really like I like it a lot we played QE actually played the new expansion for Q the Commodities it's a game where you are bidding to win different different stuff different Industries and stuff like that but you can bid literally anything and it just gets Bonkers and it's really really Commodities expansion makes you gotta get into it don't be big 10 bucks Ben 10 billion trillion dollars if you gotta print money print a lot of it yeah question Queen Elizabeth is a great game bag building game where you're pushing your luck trying to put stuff into a cauldron trying to get as far as you possibly can Into The Cauldron all the different ships are different stuff it's a really great game I love it so much still still a classic at this point uh the Quest for El Dorado is a fantastic racing game intro to deck building game that we will talk about forever writer kinesi did a great job we were trying to play it out cards to move through jungles and markets and stuff and I can't wait for the new version with the new always a close game too which is always really nice but camel up we played uh camo the new version and the old version actually this year really good racing game new version is so much better with the crazy animals we are basically trying to bet on which camera you think is going to win but the camels are doing all this kind of crazy stuff it's really good quirky circus is great uh this is a robot programming game a Cooperative program a game where you're putting out a program uh this Roblox will go this way then turn but you're all putting down cards in but you can't talk about what you're putting down because your robots if you can't speak and uh it's really really fun yeah really fun you gotta talking beep boops and stuff like that it's a good line code names he played I played it on um I did uh Tim Tim's uh code names the code names we played it with uh Ray from CG too yeah and we played uh code names it's a classic party game it's so it's really it's such a it's really popular for a reason yeah I played Dominion uh which is a deck building game it's the first time I think they're way way way better games out there but people still like this one for something I like Dominion but yeah I like Ascension probably better out of pure deck builders another racing game kind of like candle up where you are betting on who you think is going to win the race much more so than trying to win the race to yourself yeah a lot of times you're playing out these cards those move cars it's really really fun I still love downforce the problem is I always want to play it at six yeah and as a result of this actually when I logged it was logged as a new play because we haven't played it obviously since before the pandemic yeah because we've actually been years since we played it but still great it's still good still really good razor North C fantastic worker placement game where you are kind of down uh in your village Gathering resources and you go out on raids and you go and plunder and stuff like that and take back treasures and you can turn them in for contracts or keep them for straight up points uh and you're trying to work on various things nice nice flow to that game Roger God is one of the greatest games ever made it's so good you have a Fame track you have a money track you're trying to cross those tracks for Arc Nova um and you it's a work replacement game dice is your currency it's super super good beautiful chunk dum dum thicky thick chunk dice so good they're beautiful and you're building on Pathways and stuff as you are the dice Charmers his dice rolling right version of that we're trying to do all this combo tastic maybe the best rolling right of all time certainly the best one that's based on a parent game for sure yeah without a doubt Shakespeare you got to play Shakespeare again we got to introduce in a long time it was so much fun Shakespeare is so good where you're making a Shakespearean play you're working on all three acts to play you're getting different actors and actresses in it it's a really really fun tough game but so good absolutely absolutely getting there so Clover is a fantastic clue giving game uh where you are putting together a clover you get a bunch of different two-word combinations you have to write a clue that points to those two words you have to disassemble the uh Clover has a bunch of each card has four words on it and you have to hopefully have people reassemble the Clover correctly really fun you can actually get to the answer which seems impossible it seems impossible you can always do it which is nice yeah stop thesis again where you're trying to uh we always play it cooperatively we were trying to collect catch these thieves or go around Steelers Just Killer you're doing everything just through audio crew so you don't know where they're moving but you can do use it through the audio Clues it's so much fun it's great it's great super skill Pinball it's fantastic little I should say this it's a rolling right game where your symbolic synth you it's simple signifying for wrong you are um I mean you're you're pretending to play the pinball game no I can't think of it it doesn't matter no you're simulating thank you pinball game thank you you're simulating a pinball game uh and you're kind of going up to different areas and bumping things I think it's such a cool idea that's just super fiddly and for me like does it work and it's like so hard to track yourself because they love these games I think they love the idea of it so much we have it all yeah we do and I'm not gonna get rid of it I don't think but I'm like always I was like why is this like it's two people move your little ball around it just scrapes and just like erases stuff behind him like oh what yeah I know I want to like it more than I do I know it falls into the category of too many things are unclear yeah sushi roll is a great version It's a dice drafting version of sushi go we like it we talk about it all the time say praise be praise be Praises we like sushi roll more than Sushi go um it's just great it's a dice drafting version of sushi goes great nice so good it's so fun uh we got tamanusi Builders of ER I solo this game I do not recommend the solo mode because I don't like board and dice's solo modes but I am interested to play this game again it's really interesting feels very tight resource wise it's hard but I I want to play it again to try to get it somewhere in my brain because it just seems so hard to understand which both of our favorite Tea Games someone asked earlier what's best tea game [ __ ] this for us at least love to watch and see you it's a big T game where you're putting out meatballs and stuff and it's really really it's so fast too much to explain it's so fantastic you're launching a monkey has a spring-loaded hands you're launching coconuts hopefully into cups in the middle of the table to collect those cups if you get six cups collected you win this game is so stinking fun it's the greatest game it's so fun because those coconuts do not bounce how you think they will and it's actually really difficult so unironically love crazy coconuts I know like strike if you can't have fun playing coconuts I like worry about your ability Your Capacity to have 10 is a game a push luck game where you're trying to get uh cards are trying to get a series of cards like one through nine hopefully but when you're pushing your luck bring these cards out if you get over 10 you're dead um and yeah really really fun game I like a lot yeah it's really fun little push-up game Toyota con fantastic tea game uh former number one game my second favorite board and dice game it's really great yokohama's also a fantastic game yes it's really rad you're doing kind of like route building almost with how you kind of sequence your turns and it's not as crazy as it looks it looks super overwhelming but it's not yes the actions are actually much simpler than the team indeed uh potatoes of the reef this is the first title blade still like this kind of a dice a dice upgrading game really is and it's really really fun I like it a lot the more we've played the more I like it each time I like it more and more and more it can takes a couple games to get into it learn how to work the engine but once you do I think it's really really fun yeah it's really it's really awesome I've enjoyed them one more zulkin such a good game probably the most unique game of all time uses time in these gears and stuff and you're putting workers on those gears when you bring them off depending on where they are how long they've been on the gear they get better and better actions very tight resources but I can't think of a game that's more like ingenious than zulkin yeah just yeah it's wild Valley of the Vikings basically the same game uh this is a game where you're Vikings and you're bowling and you're trying to knock over these pins and that moves people down the stock you're trying to throw people off the dock and they're trying to collect coins while you're doing it it's great absolutely uh we've got wave length trying to get on the same wavelength of people had a really fun game of this at Dice Tower West uh I'm still sorry about that game yeah you're gonna get something between like as we had valuable and not valuable and uh no no it was Quality quality and not quality or something like that doesn't matter doesn't matter the point is is like you might get a six so one to ten so like what's a middle of the pack quality not quality you think you give a word and it turns to this great discussion it's such a good party game such so salty about that game still yeah because you'll you'll be like you're wrong you're wrong about this so wingspan wingspan's great it's about birds bird watching and it's fun I like orange juice it was Pirates indeed I love wingspan I think it's fun to build just crazy weird broken bird engines I think it's great yeah it's so fun it's so fun we're nearly there friends in fact we are here zapatec this is a board and dice game that I I like it more than you I don't like it you don't really like it that much I like it more than you for sure I need there's a thing that you can get kind of basically a jump start a little Prelude a little mini mini thing for this game I need that for this game I need it yeah that's fair because it's just the first round feels it's I mean it ramps up as you go but the first round feels so like hamstrung you're like okay and it's a five round game it's a quick five round game so I'm like I need the first round to do a little bit more that's fair I like it more than you but yeah but it's solid we did it we did it let it loop around let's start again Scout um that is our everything we played in 2022 it's 285 games many of them new to us 100 and change are repeats that you just saw us rip through really fast uh what's our final time we're just four hours pretty good queer than last week there's a lot of games to talk about yeah go sure how quickly we can go if we're really just booking it through that I know I wonder should we ever do like one where we just go that pace the whole time no I don't think it's fair watchable probably not yeah like could anyone can any of you understand what we're I think he's gonna do the back half because like yeah they've heard us talk about these games oh they know we like to want and see you uh but thank you so much for joining us for that Dutch yeah this says uh favorite uh t-game isn't by tichini it's not it's not by teresi it's on the tea turkey uh my favorites are probably like Terracotta Army and that so neither of them are brought to Cheney actually I say if I love carcasson Iowa Sky big box is a no-brainer right I'd probably say so yeah yeah go for it um also is there room for Miss over Carcassonne and Isle Sky big box probably they're not similar yeah very different um uh what do you think is a big hit at my work as an icebreaker yeah it's a great way to learn how people think it's really fantastic uh if you've been in this chat this whole time or if you're watching this after that and you're like and honestly congrats this is quite a waste last year when we did this people would watch it in chunks and stuff throughout time let us know though and especially if you're watching us live right when this video ends give a comment and let us know your favorite game new to you whether or not from 2022 or not new to you game that you played or if it's a classic that you just still love the most of all listen on your Facebook thank you later 2022 we'd love that if you've enjoyed this please give this video a thumbs up if you're new to us I'm Mike that is Nick we are the brothers Murphy we would love for you to consider subscribing and uh I think that's all we got man we've taken up plenty of your time today we have been here I'm happy how quickly we went about hey I think we do it's a long it's a lot of games to get through thank you all for being here um we will see you all later again put down the comments below let us know your favorite game of the year yeah drop a like if you haven't already um and we will see you all a little bit later all right

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Length: 228min 20sec (13700 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 13 2023