Mate! Let's Play

Steven Chivers
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A Podcast about board games hosted by Australian gamers, Shane and Steve. 

  1. 01/12/2025

    Episode 24: Top 12 games for the Holidays

    Shane is absent due to recovering from sickness, so Steve signs off the pod for the year with his top 12 games to play in the holidays. Have a great holiday everyone, we will be back in late January 2026.

    25 min

  2. 24/11/2025

    Episode 23: Top 10 games of All Time with Ingrid

    Ingrid joins us to count down the greatest games of all time!

    1h 34m

  3. 17/11/2025

    Episode 22: Our top 20-11 of all time

    Shane and Steve take a break from their regular format to bring you their top 20 games of all time. In this episode they count down 20-11, with a few surprises in the countdown already.

    47 min

  4. 11/11/2025

    Episode 21: 2020 was a good year, and Heat is amazing

    Shane (finally) falls in love with Heat: Pedal to the Metal, and Steve rekindles an old flame in Return to Dark Tower. The boys discuss the year 2020, with some interesting choices made in the annual top 10.

    1h 4m

  5. 16/10/2025

    Episode 20: Steve froths over Battle of Hoth, and we check out 2019 games

    Steve discusses the Star Wars branded version of Memoir '44 - Battle of Hoth. Spoilers, he likes it a little. Shane's been getting his sheep herding gear on again for GWT New Zealand, and Steve reminds Shane about how great Obsession is, to which he disagrees. Then it's on to 2019 games - another outstanding year of games!

    1h 3m

  6. 11/10/2025

    Episode 19: Games, new version of a classic party game and the 2018 challenge

    Shane and Steve have had a full plate recently, which has led to a long hiatus. The good news is, a lot of games were played during that time. Hear them chat about big, small and all games in between. There's even a horror story in there. Steve has gone a bit nuts on Kickstarter, and there's a bit of other news, including our standard Garphil games mention. Finally, we sew it all up with there results from the 2017 BGG challenge and get straight into our 2018.

    1h 13m

  7. 04/09/2025

    Episode 18: The games of 2017 face-off

    Steve and Shane are at it again as they compare 10 games from 2017.

    1h 4m

  8. 31/08/2025

    Episode 17: Crafting the Cosmos and carfting a new topic

    Shane and Steve do their usual chatter about games they've played recently, then move into their review of Crafting the Cosmos. Afterward, Shane easily confuses Steve with a basic concept for a new topic. This week is all about games from 2016.

    1h 6m
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A Podcast about board games hosted by Australian gamers, Shane and Steve. 

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  • Creator
    Steven Chivers
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Mate! Let's Play