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Anthony and Jason are back with Episode 12 this week, featuring our 2016 solo gaming gift guide. As a companion to our big BGA gift guide, this week’s Table for One episode will focus on 10 games we feel are sufficiently under the radar, off the beaten path, or not necessarily dedicated solo games that you may not have heard of or realized fit the mold. To start, we’ll introduce our Mt Rushmore of solo games – the five games you hear us talk about all the time and that we want to mention, but not clog up all of…

The end of the year is upon us and that means a long list of gifts to buy for the people in your life this holiday season. To help you find the right gifts (assuming they like games!), we’ve compiled our annual list of top gifts to consider this year. Chris takes the reins this week and provides a rundown of 25 games you might consider if you’re interested in finding the perfect game gift for your friends and family. Plus recent plays and upcoming acquisition disorders. Acquisition Disorder Corner To kick things off, Chris talks about four games on…

This week Anthony and Jason sit down to discuss the newest, and hottest, solo game on the market – Arkham Horror: The Card game. Designed by Nate French (of Lord of the Rings LCG fame) and Matthew Newman, the new living card game from Fantasy Flight Games offers a true solo experience for the first time, taking some familiar mechanics from Lord of the Rings and reworking them in the Cthulhu mythos, complete with a unique and interesting take on storytelling in a card game. We’ll dig into this new one and offer our preliminary thoughts on the core set…

This week is a special week because Jason is flying solo! While Anthony claws his wake back to health after a length battle with the flu, Jason steps in to share some recent games he’s been playing and some very timely advice for the holidays. Huge thanks to Jason, who saved the podcast this week (Thanksgiving miracle!) and offers up some awesome advice for anyone who feels like we do this time of year. First up on the podcast this week is a review of The Pursuit of Happiness, a solo-able Game of Life for adults strategy euro from Artipia…

Two years ago, Eagle Gryphon Games relaunched one of the great (and first) worker placement games with Empires: Age of Discovery. Without the Age of Empires license but with a boat load of bling in the Kickstarter, it was a beautiful project, and is one of my favorite games, displayed prominently on top of my game shelf. Fast forward a bit and they announced Empires: Galactic Rebellion – a reimagining of the mechanics that made Age of Discovery a modern classic in the confines of a space opera. Designed by Glenn Drover and borrowing heavily from many of the mechanics…

There are a lot of werewolf style games on the market these days. And for good reason. The genre is immensely popular for a late night, cool down game that lots of people can join in on. Nosferatu is just such a game – tasking players with to take the sides of Renfield and Nosferatu against vampire hunters. It’s both immediately familiar and a bit unique in its take on the genre, and one that will fit in nicely for anyone who has been playing these types of games for a while and wants a new one that doesn’t require…

This week, we tackle one of the most ubiquitous tabletop series to come out of Kickstarter to date – Tiny Epic from Gamelyn Games and designer, Scott Almes. The series, which started in a 2013 Kickstarter campaign for Tiny Epic Kingdoms has spawned four games to date and a fifth is in the works, and they’ve only managed to get better over time. Jason and Anthony sit down to look at not only how the Tiny Epic series has evolved, but how the games have been shaped and adjusted to fit the core mechanics and ideals of the genres they…

Table for One is back for another week and another round of games hitting Anthony’s table. Joined again this week by Jason, we’re digging into two BIG games that hit our table in the last week, along with a common question we all ask ourselves and the process we go through and in determining how to tackle this ongoing question. First up we’ll be talking about The Daedalus Sentence, a big box game with a hefty price tag recently released after a successful Kickstarter earlier this year from Eagle-Gryphon Games. The game is a unique mix of programming, hand management…

The Daedalus Sentence is one of those games that you’ll have an opinion on before you ever crack the box. The massive 16.5” x 16.5” box is the only box this size I’ve seen on the market. The healthy $150 MSRP is another eye popping number. For most gamers, these will be enough to make Daedalus Sentence a pass out of the gate. And that’s fine. This is very much a niche within a niche within a niche type of product. A unique production that is supposed to look and feel different from most other cooperative games on the market.…

We’ve reached a point in this hobby where certain names evoke excitement on their own, without knowing a thing about what they are working on. Uwe Rosenberg is one of those designers and his newest game, A Feast for Odin, shows exactly why. Somehow his largest box to date, A Feast for Odin is a clever blend of several familiar mechanics into a package that feels at once familiar and yet wholly unique in the annals of worker placement games. Released at Essen, A Feast for Odin reached gamers’ tables around the world about the same time thanks to a…