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  1. Our Top 22 Games of Essen 2025!

    2 DAYS AGO

    Our Top 22 Games of Essen 2025!

    On this FULL CAPS CHUNKY episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about all of the games they played at Essen 2025! This is an audio-only reupload of the video we just put out on the main channel - so if you’d like to enjoy a physical tier list alongside these wobbly words? Then that’s where it is, and will be, forever and ever. Excuse the mildly iffy audio on this one! Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 01:00 - Chemical Overload 07:50 - Collect! 12:45 - Tolleno 19:05 - A Carnivore Did It! 21:40 - Echoes of Time 23:55 - Pyradice 29:07 - Tax The Rich 32:09 - 3 Witches 37:53 - Agent Avenue 43:33 - Recall 46:59 - Feya’s Swamp 54:43 - Wie Die Karnikel 58:20 - Milch Mit Abführmittel 1:03:34 - Big Shot 1:08:07 - Night Soil 1:11:24 - The White Castle: Duel 1:16:58 - National Economy 1:21:05 - Railway Boom 1:23:38 - Pulitzer 1:30:28 - Sanctuary 1:34:29 - River Rats 1:39:32 - Ghost Lift

    1h 44m
  2. #284 - Exponential Cards

    1 NOV

    #284 - Exponential Cards

    On this flexibly numerical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are, you guessed it, talking once again about games with CARDS, BOARDS, and DICE! In exactly that order - each game picking up a new component like a hungry Katamari. First up is Duel for Cardia - a perplexing little two-player dueller that lets you hop back in time to un-win your opponent - swiftly followed by 20 Strong, a solo-only game of clobbering a wolf. Or escaping a dream! Or becoming an alien. It’s a modular game system, you see. Finally, we’re chatting about Vantage - an open-world board game that’s one of 2025’s biggest! And Tom’s feeling all confused about it… Have a great weekend, everyone! Timestamps:  02:12 - Duel for Cardia 11:23 - 20 Strong 25:37 - Vantage

    44 min
  3. #283 - The Grumpy to Cosy Pipeline

    10 OCT

    #283 - The Grumpy to Cosy Pipeline

    Usually the moniker of ‘Cosy Game’ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box that’s pleasant enough, but doesn’t tickle us for more than a couple plays. But this week on the podcast? Matt and Tom are chatting about a whole bunch of cosy games that surprised them, with a bit more pep than might have been expected… We’re talking Frogs and Rabbits and Crows in ‘A Wild Venture’, Trains and Cars and Passengers in ‘Railroad Tiles’, and Lakes and Lakes and Lakes and LAKES in Cascadia…. Alpine Lakes! Have a great weekend, everyone! Timestamps:02:54 - A Wild Venture16:20 - Railroad Tiles27:43 - Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

    44 min
  4. #282 - Two Player Town (Population Two)

    11 SEPT

    #282 - Two Player Town (Population Two)

    This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking two players! Tag Team is a head-to-head brawler, and Suna Valo is exactly the same, but for farms! Finally, Matt waxes lyrical about General Orders’ Samurai Sequel: ‘Sengoku Jidai’ - and, within it, has perhaps found a game that’s too small for even our perma-shrunk noggins. Have a great weekend, everyone! Timestamps:  02:44 - Tag Team 15:09 - Suna Valo 23:54 - General Orders: Sengoku Jidai

    35 min
  5. #281 - Tom’s Game Gauntlet II: The Return of ‘Game Gauntlet’

    29 AUG

    #281 - Tom’s Game Gauntlet II: The Return of ‘Game Gauntlet’

    It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldn’t fit through the real floorboards. That’d be silly. And we don’t do silly, here. Let us know what you think of these episodes! They’re a little unusual, but quite fun to make in a pinch! Timestamps:  02:21 - Joraku 07:33 - Calimala 12:35 - Tofu Shifu 16:52 - March of the Ants 23:34 - Beaver House 26:24 - Naishi

    33 min
  6. #280 - The Firefighters of the Rainforest

    1 AUG

    #280 - The Firefighters of the Rainforest

    Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but it’s not coming naturally. ‘Beavertouille, he only does Dams this time?’. I don’t know. Get out of my restaurant. Timestamps: 01:52 - Hutan: Life in the Rainforest12:50 - Flash Point: Legacy of Flame32:27 - Timber Town

    44 min
  7. #279 - The Very Timely PAX East Episode

    18 JUL

    #279 - The Very Timely PAX East Episode

    PAX East! Truly the highlight of everyone’s July! For whatever reason, it’s taken us absolutely ages to get round to covering the board games that we played at PAX East - but better late than never! This is especially true in this pod right here, where we’ve got three hot servings of board game to ladle directly into the laps of our ravenous listenership. We’ve got a starter and dessert made of space - with Galileo Galilei and Moon Colony Bloodbath protecting a gooey fantasy center all made of Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship! Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps:  03:18 - Galileo Galilei 18:16 - Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship 31:18 - Moon Colony Bloodbath

    48 min
  8. #278 - Brewster's Board Game Buffet

    20 JUN

    #278 - Brewster's Board Game Buffet

    Come come, hungry diners - take a seat at the big table and have a little gander at this spread of delectable games! Oops, all good games on this one! This podcast features chat about a space tourism simulator (Galactic Cruise), a light-and-breezy turtle-based engine builder (Australis), and TWO entire TWO PLAYER games about being Greek and In Trouble (Iliad and Ichor). Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps:  01:46 Galactic Cruise  22:12 Australis 31:04 Illiad 40:41 Ichor

    52 min
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