On this machiavellian episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have a chatter about even more curiosities picked up from Essen! First up is Power Vacuum - a diplomatic trick-taker where you play as fascist toasters - followed by Beyond The Horizon, a reimagining of 2020’s Beyond The Sun. Finally, a little beachfront chat about Seaside - a game that’s got Matt’s favourite component of all: “A Bag”

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Timestamps:

2:18 - Power Vacuum

18:49 - Beyond the Horizon

31:37 - Seaside

It's a chunky extra special feature from Matt and Tom, sat FACE TO FACE on the very same table! Let us drag you through a rolling discussion about the games we've enjoyed most in 2024. This is also available as a VIDEO - so just choose your poison and dive in!

Timestamps:

2:59 - Earthborne Rangers

10:35 - Daybreak

18:25 - Arcs

24:22 - COMPILE

28:47 - Tichu

33:51 - Spectral

36:59 - Leviathan Wilds

43:36 - Eternal Decks

49:46 - SPECIAL MENTIONS

50:14 - Dune Imperium: Uprising

52:03 - Slay The Spire

56:41 - Vale of Eternity

59:18 - How To Make Friends at Conventions

On this slowly sinking episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about a cluster of small games they’ve played recently! Tom’s got the cosy, tile-laying pairing of Middle Ages and Flower Fields, whilst Matt brings novel Oink releases Deep Sea Adventures: Boost and Souvenirs From Venice to the table.

Have a great weekend! 

Timestamps:

03:33 - Middle Ages

10:59 - Souvenirs from Venice

20:21 - Flower Fields

26:49 - Deep Sea Adventures: Boost

36:23 - Lord of the Rings: Duel

On this eclectic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking LOGISTICS in Minecart Town, CURRENCY in Pax Penning, and CONCEPTS THAT ARE AS LARGE AS DEATH in Compile!

Have a great weekend! 

Timestamps:

02:22 - Minecart Town

15:31 - Pax Penning

32:13 - Compile

On this rock-and-rolling episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about three very different games. First up is Rock Hard 1977, a euro-ish game of being a ROCK STAR that had one of the funniest arcs of any game we’ve played this year. We also chat about Tom’s most recent BGA obsession, Newton. It’s a game of cards and efficiency! What more could you want? Finally, the gang chat about The Gang - a game that asks ‘what if poker was co-operative?’ Makes u think, don’t it.

Have a great weekend! 

Timestamps:

01:57 - Rock Hard 1977

21:40 - Newton

31:13 - The Gang

This week on the inimitable Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt showcase their survival skills by going to Germany and then RETURNING from Germany, having played such a very large quantity of games.

Our Essen 2024 special is a quickfire spectacular, running through a bunch of the notable games we got our hands on during the show.

Many pints of sweet sweat have been pumped into the world in order to bring you this episode of the podcast, so you're morally obliged to at least TRY and enjoy it.

Timestamps:

1:26 - Fischen
4:43 - Power Vacuum
9:19 - Gibberers
The Word Game of Language Invention and Civilization Development
11:47 - Da Da Da
13:43 - Bomb Busters
17:06 - Saltfjord
20:11 - Duck & Cover
24:51 - Altay: Dawn of Civilization
28:28 - Packen Wir's!
31:58 - Bauernschlau
34:52 - Draft & Write Records
39:31 - Lords of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth
44:36 - Captain Flip
49:03 - Oinky Bits

On this out-of-this-world episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have played two incredibly spicy space games that have got them all excited. First up is SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; a game of discovering aliens and working out ‘what their deal is’ that’s absolutely fascinating and packed with CGE’s specific, odd tendencies. Following that tall act is Sol: Last Days of a Star, a game that sits on the complete OTHER end of the spectrum. Pilot your ‘sundivers’ away from a dying star, as you desperately eke out turns before everything is gone forever? The perfect way to spend a Thursday evening.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Timestamps:

01:44 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

20:37 - Sol: Last Days of a Star

On this… seedy… episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are talking about two bucolic farm-em-ups in Windmill Valley and Harvest, as well as the utterly innocent Courtisans. Emily decided the theme on this one after the fact and I’m still reeling. Seedy? It’s a family show, come on now We also end up spending a weird amount of time getting into the particulars of how the two very pleasant and agricultural games listed are not entirely to each other's aesthetic tastes. Strange!

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Timestamps:

02:16 - Courtisans

13:40 - Windmill Valley

27:09 - Harvest

39:33 - Recent Reviews: Defenders of the Wild

On this gritty episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are chatting about a whole dune’s worth of sandy, sandy games! Well, two of them are sandy. The other two are just games. In fact one of the two sandy games is mostly water. Listen, it’s Friday afternoon and I’m ready to stop working and start playing Deadlock, which I am hopelessly addicted to. Truth be told, the new fortnightly podcast schedule only exists to fuel my addiction to losing roughly four games in a row every evening until the end of time. I will die ignorant, and I will die angry. You can’t stop me! YOU CAN’T STOP ME!!

This episode, we’re talking about Sand, Surf’s Up, Sumo, and Tokkuri Taking! Enjoy!

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Timestamps:

01:41 - Sand

15:26 - Surf’s Up

27:46 - Sumo

33:24 - Tokkuri Taking

Thanks to our amazing community podcast transcripts are available here https://bit.ly/SUSDPodTranscripts and are usually completed within a few weeks of the podcast's release.

On this solitary episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom ALONE is checking out a whole cluster of games he played in one big week of boards! Enter… if you dare…

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Timestamps:

02:28 - Life in Reterra

06:44 - Belratti

11:49 - 23 Knives

16:35 - Festival

20:56 - Joyride: Survival of the Fastest

30:16 - Arcs

33:52 - Pampero