Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!

Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape. 

Games come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. As consumers and critics of the form we try and categorise, quantify, and contemplate the flaws and virtues of these forms. We have tackled many games over the first two seasons of Cult of The Old from the heavier economic stylings of Brass, the negotiation heavy stylings of Cosmic Encounter, and the gentle , if grim, farming of Agricola. One category we haven’t touched on so far is that of the party game.

These games tend to take a large number of players and lie at the lighter end of the mechanical spectrum. Although not the originator of this style of game, the title we are covering today is arguably one of the most influential. Coming in a blockbuster year of titles it was the lightest of that crop to make a mark, and it didn’t really take off properly until a couple of years later. A game that allows the players to express themselves through art, interpretation and surreal imagery. Welcome to the dream world of Dixit. 

Show Links

Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mention during the course of the cast.  We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.

Games Mentioned

Stella on BGA

Apples to Apples

Cards Against Humanity 

Balderdash

Charades

Monopoly - Episode Link

Telestrations

Time’s Up

Fictionary

Mysterium

Dixit Journey

Dixit Odyssey 

Once Upon A Time

Old Hellfire Club

Scrawl

Medium

The Chameleon 

Spyfall

Pictionary

Codenames

So Clover

Decrypto

Concept

Other Mentions

Dixit online - Tixid 

Blankety Blank

Catchphrase

Call my Bluff

Team Links

Websites you can find the cast on

There Will Be Games

Iain

The Giant Brain

Bluesky

Matt

Twitter

Nate

Bluesky

Instagram

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