Episode 596: October 2025 Bonus Round (Gift Guide)

Episode release date is October 29, 2025

Show Notes

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• Game Toppers

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Meeple Nation Gaming Highlights (Highlight-Thirty)

• Nathan

• Azure

• Duel for Cardia

• Five Three Five

• DC Forever

• Flash Point: Fire Rescue

• Railroad Tiles

• Moon Colony Bloodbath

• Caverna: The Cave Farmers

• Bomb Busters

• Cities of Venus: Lost Contact

• Zombicide White Death

• Zombicide Green Horde

• Line-It

• Flowers

• Flash Point: Fire Rescue

• New Frontiers

• Barrage

• Lorenzo il Magnifico

• Flaming Pyramids

• Fractured Sky

• Twinkle Twinkle

• Wondrous Creatures

• Tacta

• Douglas

• Concordia

• Andy

• INK

• Amberlee

• Stella: Dixit Universe

Gift Ideas for the Gamers in your World

Nathan

• Games

• INK

• Star Wars: Battle of Hoth

• Bomb Busters

• Moon Colony Bloodbath

• Goodies

• Metal Coins

• Nice addition Star Wars Outer Rim

• Iron Clays

• Universal Monies or Counters

• Game Topper Mats

• Thematic Mats

• Etsy Upgrades

• Battle of Hoth

• Card Sleeves

• Baggies

• Cloth Bags

Doug

• For Families

• Stella: Dixit Universe

• Star Wars: Battle of Hoth

• Reef

• For Gamers

• SETI

• Vantage

• Other Goodies

• Metal coins, poker chips (iron clays)

• Generic markers (tube of stones)

• Baggies, sleeves, trays

• Dice (lots of choices out there - know your recipient)

• Clothing

• Etsy

Andy

• Amazon.com: Ch ristmas Advent Calendar 2025, Mystery DND Dice Set

• Amazon.com: The Gamefather Board Games Board Games T-Shirt

• Amazon.com: D20 Dice Shaped DND Fantasy Whisky Ice Cube Mold - Roll for Refreshment, Level Up Your Drinks

• Other Goodies

• Dice Trays and Dice Towers

• Game bags

• Luxury Dice

• Game mats

• Amazon.com: The Ultimate Gamers Cookbook: Recipes for an Epic Game Night

• Pirates of Maracaibo

• Forest Shuffle

Amberlee

• Kingdomino

• Patchwork

• Flip 7

• Goodies

• Iron Clays

• Shelf Candy

Episode 595: October 2025 Turn Two

Episode release date is October 15, 2025

Show Notes

Intro of Meeple Nation The World's Most Okayest Podcast

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• Game Toppers

• SaltCON

Meeple Nation Gaming Highlights (Highlight-Thirty)

• Nathan

• Slide

• Dark Heist

• Douglas

• Altiplano

• Tribes of Wind

• Andy

• The Hunters A.D. 1492

• Foundations of Rome

New Game Radar

• Nathan

• Ofrenda

• Signal

• Spectral

• Infiltraitors

• Doug

• Wingspan, Finspan, Wyrmspan Expansions (Dragon Academy)

• Arctica

• Andy

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

• VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree

Episode 594: October 2025 Turn One

Episode release date is October 1, 2025

Show Notes

Intro of Meeple Nation The World's Most Okayest Podcast

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• Game Toppers

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Meeple Nation Gaming Highlights (Highlight-Thirty)

• Nathan

• Up or Down

• Emerald Skulls

• Black Orchestra

• Douglas

• Storm Raiders

• Vantage

• Andy

• Escape: The Curse of the Temple

• Patchwork

• Dead Reckoning

• Sword & Sorcery

New Game Radar

• Nathan

  • For the Emperor

• Doug

  • Cthulhu: Death May Die

  • Vantage

  • Scythe: Rise of Fenris

  • Everdell: Farshore

  • Everdell: Silverfrost

  • Film Fatal

• Andy

  • Don't Starve: The Board Game

  • Don't Starve: The Board Game

Episode 593: September 2025 Turn Two

Episode release date is September 17, 2025

Show Notes

Intro of Meeple Nation The World's Most Okayest Podcast

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Sponsorship

• Game Toppers

• SaltCON

Meeple Nation Gaming Highlights (Highlight-Thirty)

• Nathan

• Lying Pirates

• Star Wars: Outer Rim

• Douglas

• Battle of Hoth

• SETI

• Andy

• Project L

• Unstoppable

New Game Radar

Nathan

• Saltfjord

Doug

• • Brink

  • G.I. Joe Special Announcement

• Andy

  • Threshold

  • BattleTech: Gothic

Episode 592: September 2025 Turn One

Episode release date is September 03, 2025

Show Notes

Intro of Meeple Nation The World's Most Okayest Podcast

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• SaltPOD: A SaltCON Podcast

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• Game Toppers

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Meeple Nation Gaming Highlights (Highlight-Thirty)

• Nathan

  • Nathan's Notes

• Sagani

• Hutan: Life in the Rainforest

• Douglas

  • Pergola

  • And That's How I Died

• Andy

  • Shadows of Brimstone

  • Aeon Trespass: Odyssey

New Game Radar

• Nathan

  • Perch

  • Toriki

• Doug

  • • Forest Shuffle: Exploration Expansion

    • Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor

    • The Two Towers Trick Taking Game

• Andy

  • Galaxy Trucker: Do What?!

  • Thebai

Episode 591: August 2025 Turn Two

Episode release date is August 20, 2025

Show Notes

This week we kick off our new format.

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Meeple Nation Gaming Highlights (Highlight-Thirty)

• Nathan

• Chromino

• Bunny Kingdom

• Douglas

• TREOS

• Andy

• Inori

New Game Radar

• Nathan

• Pergola

• Up or Down

• Doug

• Song of Silveranth

• Brass: Pittsburgh

• Star Wars: Battle of Hoth!

• Andy

• Vantage

• The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

Episode 590: Meeple Nation August 2025 News

Show Notes

Episode release date is August 13, 2025

It is time again for our news episode. We will be talking about some gaming highlights, new games, new game announcements, and we may even manage to get to some crowdfunding games too. Come join us at the game table.

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• SaltCON

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• Andy

• Kids

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• Life Update

• Douglas

• Hawaii

This episode as with all of our news episodes is broken into three sections. New Game releases: games that can now be found in the wild, new game acquisitions, and games we are eager to try. Game announcements: This is a list of games that are fulfilling maybe and have not yet reached the store shelves, unless it is a CMON game then it is on the game shelf and backers are waiting disgruntled. New game announcements also include games that are in late production and will be released at a future time. Crowdfunding is games that have piqued our interest and maybe have even been backed by us. So with that, let's turn to the table and see what games we are talking about today.

• Zombicide Second Edition: Monty Python's Flying Circus: A Rather Silly Expansion

• Monty Python & The Holy Grail: The Game

• Army of Darkness: The Board Game

• Lost Ruins of Arnak: Adventure Chest (Twisted Paths)

• Above and Below: Haunted

• Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition

• The South Tigris Moonsaga

• Inventors of the South Tigris: Era of Experts

• Scholars of the South Tigris: Body of Books

• Wayfarers of the South Tigris: Tides of Trade

• Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 3

• Brick Like This

• Square One

• Chicken!

• Solar Gardens

• Frozen Frontier

• Spokes

• The White Castle: Duel

• Return to Dark Tower: Expeditions

• Thunder Road: Vendetta - Interstate of Decay (Campaign!!)

• Koinobori

• Pirates of Maracaibo: Bermuda Triangle

• Pirates of Maracaibo: Commanders

• Aqualuma

• Tea Garden

• DreamEscape

• Phoenix New Horizon

• DOOM: The Dark Ages - Arena Board Game

• DOOM: Arena Board Game

• Heroes of Might and Magic: The Card Game

• The Void Unveiled: Echoes of Arkham

• The Witcher: Legacy

• Ascension 15th Anniversary

• Teburu Dungeon: Sword and Sorcery:

• Unmatched: Stars and Stripes

Episode 589: Player Elimination Games

Episode release date is July 30, 2025

Show Notes

This week we are discussing Player Elimination Games. This is not a mechanic we all love, but we have a surprising amount of player elimination games.

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The Player Elimination mechanic is one where one or more players are removed from the game before it officially ends. This can happen with two players or 16. When a player is eliminated, they typically can no longer take actions, score points, or influence the outcome, and must simply observe the rest of the game unfold.

This mechanic can create tension and urgency, as players try to avoid being eliminated and race to stay in the game. However, it can also lead to long periods of downtime for eliminated players. So lets turn to the game table and see who gets eliminated.

Player Elimination Games

• Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion

• Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure Game

• Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure

• Clank! Catacombs

• Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated

• Nemesis

• Nemesis: Lockdown

• Shadows over Camelot

• Battlestar Galactica

• Arkham Horror: The Card Game

• Magic: The Gathering

• Star Wars: Customizable Card Game

• Star Trek: Customizable Card Game

• Overpower

• Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game

• Star Wars: X-Wing (Second Edition)

• Star Wars: Miniatures

• Memoir '44

• Twilight Imperium: Third Edition

• Mythic Battles: Pantheon

• The Castles of Burgandy

• Merchants of the Dark Road

• Cyclades: Legendary Edition

• Lords of Waterdeep

• Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game

• Tiny Towns

• Ankh: Gods of Egypt

• Skull

• Feed the Kraken

• Risk Legacy

• Betrayal Legacy

• Betrayal At House on a Hill

Episode 588: Pick-up and Delivery Games

Episode release date is July 23, 2025

Show Notes

This week we complete our discussion of Pick up and Delivery games. So, we are going to line up a bunch of games and choose some to discuss.

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• Gonza index

• Solar 175

• Douglas

• Marvel Zombies (X-Men)

• Andy

• Architects of the West Kingdom

Top Pickup and Delivery Games on BGG

• Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated

• Pandemic Legacy: Season 2

• Darwin's Journey

• Final Girl

• Age of Steam

• Istanbul

• Xia: Legends of a Drift System

• Star Wars: Outer Rim

• Railways of the World

• Horrified

• Western Legends

• Steam

• The Witcher: Old World

• Istanbul: Big Box

• Indonesia

• Merchants and Marauders

• Firefly: The Game

• Flash Point Fire Rescue

• Bus

• Macao

• Black Orchestra

• Forbidden Desert

• Mansions of Madness

• Freedom: The Underground Railroad

• In the Hall of the Mountain King

• Broom Service

• Roads and Boats

• High Frontier 4 All

• The Oracle of Delphi

• Railways of Europe

• Coal Baron

• Leaving Earth

• Century: Golem Edition - Eastern Mountains

• Stationfall

• My Little Scythe

• Deep Sea Adventure

• Vast: The Crystal Caverns

• Evacuation

• Panamax

• Clinic: Deluxe Edition

• Imperial Steam

• Lords of Xidit

• Forbidden Island

• Container

• Akrotiri

• Horrified: American Monsters

• Genoa

• Merchants of the Dark Road

• Wasteland Express Delivery Service

• Flick 'em Up!

• Container: 10th Anniversary Jumbo Edition

• Empires of the Void II

• Explores of the Empires of the Void II | Board Game | BoardGameGeekNorth Sea

• Wiz War

• Black Fleet

• Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters

• Islebound

• Cafe

• Via Nebula

• Merchant of Venus (Second Edition)

• Zombie Teenz Evolution

• Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game

• Dead Men Tell no Tales

• Tiny Epic Zombies

• Maglev Metro

• Maximum Apocalypse

• Hansa

• Whistle Stop

• Santiago de Cuba

• Ahoy

• Yukon Airways

• Thunderbirds

• Merchant of Venus

• Aftermath

• Fire and Axe: A Viking Saga

• Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar

• Merkator

• Solenia

• Curious Cargo

• Ride the Rails

• Empire Builder

• Alien: Fate of the Nostromo

• Pirates Cove

• Giants

• Himalaya

• Nuns on the Run