Game Closet Chats

Welcome back, Everyone! This week we are starting a short series of chats about Legacy games. We. Love. These. Games. Betrayal at House on the Hill is an old favorite of ours, and Betrayal Legacy is a near perfect translation of the original game into a multi-play, story driven, card ripping, sticker applying great time!

This is the perfect time of year to curl up with a scary game where danger and betrayal (and madness) lurk in every tile and card!

Hello Everyone! Join us this week as we mine the mountains and cultivate the forests to let our dwarves live their best lives. We are discussing Caverna this week on Then and Now. Listen in as we chat  about how, and when, this game entered the collection, and how we feel about it after a fresh play through. Just shove the donkey over to make some room, and clean the ore dust out of your beard while you listen in!

Hello Everyone! This week we are chatting with our great friends, and fellow enthusiasts, Lauren and Larry. We are discussing how they entered the hobby, and also offer up some tips for those you are looking to get into the hobby as a new, or returning, gamer. Listen along as we dive deep into Larry's RPG past, and find out what pivotal thrift shop find landed Lauren into the maw of tabletop games!

Welcome to another episode of Then and Now! This week we are discussing the tile-laying, zoo tycoon-esque Barenpark. This is a great gateway game that entered the collection a number of years ago. Find out what we thought about it then, and what we think about it now after a fresh play through. Also, don't forget to go vote for your favorite Fat Bears!

This week we are chatting about the Kickstarting powerhouse staple publisher: CMON. Listen along as we discuss the CMON games in our collection: Masmorra, Rum and Bones, Blood Rage, Cthulu: Death May Die, Project ELITE, and Marvel United. We also wander into some fat bear discussions (https://www.livescience.com/fat-bear-week.html) and a preview of this week's Then and Now!

Welcome back to another episode of Then and Now! This week we are chatting about our experiences playing Oceans from Northstar Games. This is a relatively new addition to the closet, but we had played a previous iteration a few years ago: Evolution. Oceans is an engine/tableau building game that is gorgeous to look at, but is it as good (or bad) as we remember from our first play through? Listen in to find out as we talk about how we felt when this game entered the collection, pause to play it again, and come back with a fresh perspective.

Audio warning! We have a brand new setup that came together between the Then and Now segments, so when we come back from the play through we are quite a bit louder then when we ended the first segment.

Join us this week as we recall our adventures traveling through a land succumbing to the Wyrdness. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon published by Awaken Realms is a story driven exploration game in which you are following in the footsteps of Arthur himself. Listen in as we recall past mistakes and plan for future success!

Warning: light spoilers for first few chapters.

This week we are chatting about the deck building, colonizing, war-faring, producing, trading, researching, surveying game Eminent Domain! (I think I got them all in there)

Listen along as we talk about when we first played, take a break to play, and return with a fresh perspective.

This week as we reminisce about Geek Girl Con's amazingly fun event called Mystery Box Game! An engaging and thinky timed event where you and a group of strangers take on the task of making a game out of a bag of .... random stuff!

Listen along as we discuss the two every different experiences we had in 2018 and 2019. We'll talk about the things that went right and the things that went wrong. How hard or easy is it was to come up with a playable game in under two hours, and what it was like to collaborate with 3 random strangers! 

We topped 100 listens this week, and this is our 10th episode, and cats are cute, and games are good, and and and... a lot of excitement this week!!

Now that that is out of our system, this week we are chatting about Stone Age in our weekly Then and Now segment. This worker placement game published by Z-Man was our first introduction to the worker placement mechanic. Listen in as we discuss how this game entered the collection, what we thought about it when it did, and then we pause to play the game and come back to give you our fresh perspective.