What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Ark Nova

• Twice as Clever

Harrison

• Pixies

• Carnegie

Featured Topic

Our sequels wishlist!

First player rule: Trivia Question (Corey has)

Corey's List 

• The Gang / Kosmos (campaign)

• Scythe: Rise of Fenris / Stonemaier

• Five Tribes / Days of Wonder (coop or duel)

Harrison's List

• Bunny Kingdom / IELLO

• Spaceteam / Stellar Factory

• The Isle of Cats / The City of Games

Other Links

• Hellcard

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This week we're talking about our favorite sequels in board gaming - either a game created in the universe of another or a game that iterates on the first.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Harmonies

• Reef Project

• Castle Combo

Harrison

• Roll Player Adventures: Gulpax’s Secret

Featured Topic

Our favorite sequels!

First player rule: Trivia Question (Corey has)

Corey's List 

• Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan / Hans im Glück

• 51st State / Portal Games

• Empires of the Void II / Red Raven Games

Harrison's List

• Clank! In! Space! / Dire Wolf

• Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers / Hans im Glück

• Expeditions / Stonemaier Games

Other Links

• Aethermancer

• Humble Bundle - Co-op Adventures 

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Love is in the air! That’s right: board gamers everywhere are getting ready to celebrate with the most board gamer-y holiday: Valentine’s Day? Let’s talk about red games, love games, and more!

What We've Been Playing

Corey

• Grand Austria Hotel

• Pirates of Maracaibo

Harrison

• Clank Legacy 2 (no spoilers!)

• Dawn of Ulos

Featured Topic

Games featuring the color red or love

First player rule: The player who most recently hand-wrote a letter takes the first turn. (Love Letter)

Corey's List

• Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition / Stronghold Games

• Patchwork: Valentine’s Day Edition /  Lookout Games 

• Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition / CGE

Harrison's List

• Red7 / Asmadi Games

• Marrying Mr. Darcy / Evensen Creative (self-published)

• Cutthroat Kingdoms / AEG

Other Links

• Dwarf Fortress (Steam Game)

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This week we find ourselves stranded on a deserted island.  Don’t worry, we’ve brought some board games to last us until we get rescued.  It could be a long time so let’s hope we can cover a lot of our bases in just three games.  This week’s list is our best attempt at that…

What We've Been Playing

Corey

Harrison

Featured Topic

Three games to play on a deserted island.First player rule: The player with the highest speed (Sonic Speed Battle)

Corey's List

Harrison's List

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We're breaking form for a moment and talking about our favorite digital board game implementations and what they do best. Seems a bit ironic for a podcast named "Adamantly Analog", right? We'll be back to the cardboard next week...

What We've Been Playing

Corey

Harrison

Featured Topic

Digital games that explore something new.

Corey's List

Harrison's List

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This week, we're discussing six games that would be fun, interesting, or exiting to get "jumanji'd" into. Are you game!?

Also, we'll talk about the upcoming co-operative Mahjong game, Vesta.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

Harrison

Featured Topic

Interesting game worlds to get "jumanji'd" into.

Corey

Harrison

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This week, Corey and Harrison talk about games that we hope to play in 2025. This includes our own personal "shelf of opportunity" and upcoming 2025 releases that we're psyched for.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

Harrison

Featured Topic

Games we hope to play in 2025

Our "Shelf of Opportunity"

2024 Games to Catch up On

2025 Games

Other Links

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We're back to our regularly scheduled programming following five weeks of counting down the top 50. Well...sort of! This week we're looking back at our stats for 2024 and awarding some coveted awards (a broken stapler, empty pint glass, lego Pokeball) to our favorites of the year. Also, we spent some time with Botany by Dux Somnium Games this week and will cover that at the start of the episode.

What We've Been Playing

Corey

Harrison

Featured Topic

2024 in Review and "Awards"

Biggest Surprise of 2024

Favorite Expansion 2024

Favorite "New to Me Game" 2024

Favorite Reprint 2024

2024 Game of the Year

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We've reached the end! This week we share our top ten games of the last fifty years. For previous lists (#40-11), please check in with our last four episodes in this series. In each episode, we share 10 games each and highlighting them with a brief 'logline' explanation of how they work and what they do.

Featured Topic

Our #10-1

So that we don't spoil our picks, we're not including links here as we usually do. We will provide a link to the entire list when we reach #1 in four more weeks.

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This week we continue our five-part series in which we count down our top 50 board games in the last 50 years. We'll spend each episode sharing 10 games each and highlighting them with a brief 'logline' explanation of how they work and what they do.

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Our #20-11

So that we don't spoil our picks, we're not including links here as we usually do. We will provide a link to the entire list when we reach #1 in four more weeks.

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