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This week we're taking a break from our typical review format to try a topical, conversational style instead. We're discussing crowdfunding like Kickstarter and how it's changed and affected the board game community over the years. Let's think together!

Atlantis Rising is the name of the game we're talking about this week. Can we stop it from sinking? Will it ever actually rise? If so, does it then become a mythic floating air city? Also, is the game any good? Hark, an episode!

This week we're covering Kyle's impressions of Marvel Dice Throne and checking in with Jason after he's played a couple more games of Akropolis and Wormholes. 3 games in one episode! What even is the podcast anymore?!

Today we're bringing you the State of the Imperium Address! We're discussing the Twilight Imperium expansion Prophecy of Kings, our overall feelings about Twilight Imperium in 2022, and also a few more thoughts about the new Twilight Imperium-themed Roll and Write game, Twilight Inscription. Open comms and prepare to transmit!

GenCon was last week and we're finally here to do a debrief! In this episode we talk about the following games: Mini Rogue, Unmatched, Lords of Vaala: Dragonbond, Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors, Kingdom Death: Monster, Guild of Merchant Explorers, Mall Hero: Paranormal Activity, Kill Team: Kill Zone Live, Atlantis Rising, Oath, Critical, Akropolis, Wormholes, Killer Queen, Tabletop Escape Room: To The Aid of Santa, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Blood on the Clocktower, Twilight Inscription, The Crew, and A Battle Through History.

It's our special GenCon 2022 preview episode! Jason and I have combed the Board Game Geek preview page and pulled out several games that caught our eye, so have a listen and find out if any of them are worth your attention and time at the show! Games discussed during this show include: Warhammer, Castles By the Sea, Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis, Twilight Inscription, My Father's Work, Dice Hunters of Therion, Akropolis, CoraQuest, Wormholes, Planet Unknown, Lords of Vaala: Dragonbond, Legends of Sleepy Hollow, Spaceship Unity, A Battle Through History, Evergreen, Maui, Forgotten Depths, Terracotta Army, and Distant Suns.

It's our very first LPT Cage Match! In one corner, weighing in at 2.30 out of 5, we have It's a Wonderful World! And in the other corner, weighing 2.16 out of 5, we have Fantastic Factories! Surely, one game is a better game than the other, right? RIGHT???

This week we're looking at Destinies, published by Lucky Duck Games! Is it Joan of Arc with exploration? Is it 7th Continent with QR codes? Maybe! We don't really discuss those exact points, so decide for yourself!

It's a special list episode! Today we're talking about our top 10 (between both Jason and Kyle) “Grail Games,” meaning board games that are difficult to acquire but still desirable. Specifically, the ones we don't already own but would like to, if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

This week we're talking about Photosynthesis. The board game, not the process you learned about in biology. It's all about growing trees, harvesting tress, and a Pac-Man-looking Sun that feeds instead of eats!

Behold the glory of Ra! Or whoever the alligator guy is. Dog heads! Cat heads! It's time for Egypt! Ankh: Gods of Egypt, in fact! Brought to you buy CMON and Eric M. Lang as the third of a trilogy of area control games!

This week we're looking at a record-breaking FOUR games, all from publisher Button Shy Games! We're talking about Agropolis, Liberation, Antinomy, and Hórreos! They're little, they're short, and they're affordable! A welcome change from most of the other types of games we usually talk about!

Put on your robe and wizard hat because this week we're finally reviewing Jason's favorite game of all time, War of the Ring: Second Edition! The Eye of Sauron gazes upon us while we discuss how the game plays, who might enjoy it, and who might want to throw it into the crater of Mt. Doom!

This week on Limited Play Time we're taking a look at one of the hottest game of the last couple… few? Couple-few years? I've lost track due to pandemic-time. But anyway, we're talking about Lost Ruins of Arnak! It worker placements, it deck builds, it resource managments, it research tracks! What CAN'T it do?! I guess… I guess we don't really go into that.

This week we're being transported to the high-fantasy, leather jacket-wearing, gun toting, demon-infested World of Middara! It's anime, it's dungeon crawling, it's narrative, narrative, narrative! All the best things, right? Listen on, and find out!

No, this is not our Nicolas Cage tangent episode, though that would have been fun. We're talking about the BOARD GAME, The Night Cage! We played it at GenCon and talked briefly about it on a GenCon episode, but now we're back to do a SLIGHTLY deeper dive into the dark, mysterious hole we have to crawl out of with nothing but a candle stick and some hope.

It's the holiday season, and you're frantically looking for ideas for your game-loving family and friends! Calm down! Put down the knife! LPT is here to help with suggestions for the best possible gifts for every type of gamer! That we thought of! Now drink some hard nog and take a nap!

This week we're flipping the script on our previous episode and talking about our 10 greatest surprises in board gaming! These are the games that had the widest gulf between expectations and pleasant outcomes! It's like a second helping of Limited Play Time top 10 lists during this festive Thanksgiving week!

We intended to do a recording of us playing an actual game that would've been actually entertaining, however we're disappointed to say we don't think it was going to work out. So instead we're bringing more disappointments! Our top 10 disappointments in board gaming! Some of these are good games, really! Just a swing and a miss or two that took the wind out of our sails.

This week we're travelling into THE COSMOS as we become 2-mile high frogs with a hunger that only planets can satisfy! How did we not realize these were frog-Galactuses before? Anyway, this week we're covering the one-of-a-kind board game, Cosmic Frog!

It's SPOoooooKY October, so we're incidentally bringing you The Hunger, a game about vampires racing to bring flowers back to their castle! And maybe a few human blood-bags too. We super didn't plan this for Halloween, but we'll enjoy the horror themed appropriateness anyway. Get your deck building boots on because you'll need ‘em to get through all the snow, swamps, hills, and graveyards in your way. By building a dope card deck.

Our galaxy has been reborn, again! This week we're reviewing Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, the second edition of the very popular Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy! Put on your space suit and charge your warp cores, it's an epic 4x space opera for the ultimate prize… Victory points!

It's our GenCon wrap-up episode as we're combining all of the RPG and board games we played on days 3 and 4 together in one episode! Games discussed in this episode include: Cosmic Frog by Deviant Weasel Games, Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors, Factory 42 by Dragon Dawn Productions, Kemet: Blood and Sand by Matagot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Change is Constant by IDW Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail by Burnt Island Games, and Furnace by Hobby World and Arcane Wonders!

We're still alive on GenCon 2021 Day 2. We've been surviving on pizza, donuts, and immune boosters and we're ready to talk (a little) about The Night Cage by Smirk & Laughter Games, Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy, and Cytosis: A Cell Biology Board Game by Genius Games!

It's day 1 of GenCon 2021 and we're masked, vaccinated, and ready to throw dice at zombies, vampires, and whatever else this convention can throw at us!

This week on Limited Play Time we're talking about how much of our souls we've lost to Bloodborne the Board Game, another game by CMON. Is it the next big thing in dungeon crawling co-operative games? Maybe, but probably not.

What do YOU want to do with $110 this weekend? The answer MIGHT be “play Cthulhu: Death May Die!” But you'll never know unless you listen to this review of the game! Set your sanity marker to 0 because we might drive you crazy with ANOTHER Cthulhu game!

This week we're talking about our experience with Marvel United, the co-op Marvel Superheroes game from Spin Masters and CMON! It's an EXPANSIVE game system with a LOT of content, and there's currently an X-Men version in Later Funding mode, so give us a listen and see if you think it might be for you!

This week we're going back and REVISING our personal Top Ten lists! Thing change, and they definitely have since 2018! It's an extra-long episode with extra-many games to discuss, so get comfy and buckle-in. Games discussed in this episode include: Root, Hive, For Sale, Unmatched, Marvel Champions, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Gloomhaven, The Castles of Burgundy, Power Grid, Kingdom Death: Monster, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, Spirit Island, Memoir ‘44, Too Many Bones, Cthulhu Wars, Magic the Gathering, and War of the Ring.

This week we're taking a look at another game from Bezier Games, Suburbia! Are you a fan of Sim City? Cities in general? Hexagons? Then Suburbia has something for you! We take a look at the game in general but also how it compares to its sibling game, The Castles of Mad King Ludwig.

This week we're taking a look at Pax Pamir 2nd Edition, a game from Cole Wehrle, designer of Root! Pax Pamir portrays the 19th century conflict in Afghanistan referred to “The Great Game.” Will we consider Pax Pamir a “Great Game” after playing it? It's complicated!

Gaze into the maw of madness and return to your terrestrial life prepared to… build… a castle. This week we're talking about 2014's Castles of Mad King Ludwig, a tile-laying, shape matching, set-collecting classic from Bezier Games!

This week we’re talking about Nemesis, the game where you try to evade lower case aliens who might try and fill your body with their eggs, or maybe just eat you! It’s a semi-cooperative romp through a playful spaceship full of horrors!

This week on Limited Play Time we’re talking about the Yahtzee-style battling game, Dice Throne! But wait, there’s also cards! And player boards! So much game in such a little package!

WE AWAKE FROM OUR SLUMBER DEEP BENEATH THE BLACK SURF AND BLOOD TINGED MOON TO BRING YOU TALES OF MAAAADNESSSSS! MANSIONS OF MADNESS, the co-op, app-driven board game from Fantasy Flight Games!

This week we’re taking a look at two digital adaptations of existing board games. Root and Roll for the Galaxy! Do they hold up as well as the physical games? Yes, it seems like they do. But listen to find out more!

This week we’re taking a look at the kickstarter for CMON’s Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape, the follow-up to 2017’s Massive Darkness. A game we reviewed a long time ago and felt good about with some caveats. We tried the demo out on Tabletop Simulator and are prepared to give you our VERY early impressions!

We discuss GenCon 2020, which was entirely online! 8 different games, 3 different gaming platforms, and how an online-only GenCon compared to the real thing!

It’s our 100th episode! To celebrate we’ve assembled a group to play Blood on the Clocktower! We’re giving it a second (and third) shot and hopefully giving our listeners some entertaining radio at the same time! Here’s to (hopefully?) the next 100!

Kyle had a baby, the Irish train we were still on went completely off the rails, and after two weeks we’re back on track with Marvel Champions! One of the hottest new games and definitely one that’s burning through wallets already, we’re excited to talk about WHY it’s worth the money to Kyle and whether or not it should be for you as well!

This week we’re talking about Wizard! Oops, I mean Sorcerer! A strategy card game! By White Wizard Games! But what KIND of a strategy card game? Listen and find out!

This week we’re talking about the newest and greatest in board game train technology! Irish Gauge! The train spreading, auction making, screwing-over-your-friends game from Capstone Games! All aboard!

This week we’re BOTH talking about Kyle’s favorite game of 2019, Street Masters by Blacklist Games! Fans of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat should pay special attention because the guy who kinda looks like Goro and Blanka’s lovechild has you in his sights!

This week we’re looking at the newest game from Stonemaier games, Tapestry! It’s a “Civilization game you can play in under two hours!” But really… Is it???

This week we tackle the MASSIVE board gaming phenomenon Kingdom Death: Monster! Or maybe it tackles us.

This week we address the tie-in game to the biggest movie of the holiday season! Star Wars: Rebellion! Fantasy Flight released this game three years ago, just in time for Rise of Skywalker! Now you can understand the backstory to Rise of Skywalker by experiencing it through board game mechanics!

This week we’re talking about Starling Games’ Everdell! One of Jason’s top 10 games of the year! It’s a little of everything! Action selection! Tableau building! Animals! Find out if it cast its spell on me as well!

We’re back! After a 2 1/2 week hiatus we’re back with our first impressions of Time of Legends: Joan of Arc! It’s a scenario based skirmish miniatures game of EPIC proportions! Too epic? Maybe. Maayyyyybeeeeee.

The end (of 2019) is nigh! We have assembled the ultimate list of games (that were new to us) from 2019! Get them as gifts for others! Ask for them as gifts for yourselves! Allow your opinions to be validated because you already own them!

This week we forget what month it is, make Halloween sounds, and then discuss Santorini, the tower building tic-tac-toe game. Is it good? It has plastic and gods! What does that tell you?!

Grab your wizard cloak and wand, because we’re flying into Imperial Assault at Warp 9 with Phasers set to FUN and you never know when the pop culture references are going to veer off path into Mordor! The game’s about a Star War.