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Its time for adventure! Join King Scott and Just Patrick as they banter a bit about the Golden Geek Awards and some games they're looking forward to. Recent plays include unlock, Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, and Terraforming Mars the Dice Game. Then we get an exclusive look at an excellent two player deduction game: Classified Information! Today's 8-bit breakdown goes to board game / miniatures game hybrid, Halo Flashpoint, then we time warp to last year's review: Fractal, Beyond the Void. Finally, Origins is right around the corner, so we asked the contributors to share what they're excited for, and chat a bit ourselves about some of the fun and games to be had at the con! You're still reading this? Well then, you have time on your hands.... probably enough time to take a moment and JOIN THE DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild X Instagram Facebook
The adventure continues! Join King Scott, Just Patrick & Navigator Lana as they chat about recent plays, upcoming games & more! The 8-bit breakdown goes to Ring of Chaos, then we've got a double time warp: Distilled & Slay the Spire! Stick around til the end as we've finished another batch of ten reviews and as always, we each select our top 5 of the bunch! Want to share your favorites? Maybe share a ridiculous meme? Find out when Navigator Lana's birthday is so you can send her a bag of Toblerones? Al this and more in the DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com
Welcome adventurers! While Scott is off on kingly duties, Just Patrick, Navigator Lana, and Explorer Josh join forces for an epic adventure! This episode has a ton of banter, including tier lists for candy bars. The 8-bit breakdown goes to Votes for Women: a two player card driven war game centered around the 19th amendment to the constitution of the United States. Finally, we go down the list of nominees for the 2024 Golden Geek Awards! Chat about this episode, the games you've been playing, tabletop questions, and more on our discord! www.levelupgamepodcast.com
Welcome adventurers! For the past several weeks Just Patrick has played through Arydia The Paths We Dare Tread from FarOffGames and today he shares tales of the experience! Hear about the ups and downs, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and ultimately, whether Arydia might just be the next campaign for your group! Join our discord and share your thoughts on this episode, and much more. www.levelupgamepodcast.com
*Hey adventurers, we'd sure love to have your nomination for best board game podcast! Click here and give us your vote!* A pestilence has befallen the kingdom as Scott has taken ill. Nevertheless he trudges on! Teacher Ryan joins us for an 8-bit breakdown of Beyond the Horizon, but first we're talking Nippon, Elder Scrolls, Betrayal of the Second Era, and Star Trek Into the Unknown. Today's time warp features Last Light before closing things out with a visit to THUNDERDOME! Chat about this episode, gaming, questions of the week, and more in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com
Its a grand adventure today as King Scott and Just Patrick tell tales of many a game! But first, we challenged each other to watch a movie we've never seen before and share our thoughts. The games start with one that is currently live on kickstarter: Zeroday.exe. This cyberpunk dungeon crawler stands out for its unique programming mechanism, and tons of character customization. We've got a bunch of recent plays to talk about, then its on to the 8-bit breakdown of Moon Colony Bloodbath! After looking back on Dawn of Ulos, Explorer Josh tells us of some lost loot that we've probably ALL played in its original form, then wrap it up with a good ol level up! GET YOUR ADVENTURIN' ASS IN THIS DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com
Welcome adventurers! Today its Just Patrick and King Scott, with a couple of visitors throughout! King tells us all about his time at GAMA, then its on to game talk. Namely A Gest of Robinhood, Cover your Assets, and Floristry. The 8-bit breakdown goes to a tense two player duel game called Super Snipers! We look back on Rats of Wistar, then do a little game-trotting with Navigator Lana! Finally, don't miss out on a chance to win a copy of today's review game... just click here and join the discord, then click the contest topic! www.levelupgamepodcast.com X Facebook Instagram
Adventure takes to the seas as King Scott, Navigator Lana, and Just Patrick give the 8-bit breakdown to Finspan! But first, we have a TON of games to chat about, including Rear Window, Nemesis, Root, DnD Onslaught & Dyonisia! Our lookback goes to a favorite from last year: Roll Player Adventures. Explorer Josh joins to chat about CakePie game's maiden voyage into crowdfunding: Beach Day, then we finish off with a quick chat about how we react when we're not enjoying a game. Don't forget, every episode this year has a retro commercial in it. Write em down somewhere because at the end of the year, we're gonna ask adventurers what commercials were played. Thats how you enter our drawing for a mega prize! Just make sure youre in the DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com X Instagram Facebook BGG Guild
This is a very special episode as Navigator Lana gears up with an editor's headphones, taking the episode under her wings, joined by Hungry Gamer, Will Brown! The heroes chat about some great games from Fight in a Box, designed by Seppy Yoon, before doing a bit of a breakdown of the small-box Kinfire Delve games, based on the larger campaign of Kinfire Chronicles! Let em know your thoughts in THE OFFICIAL LEVEL UP DISCORD! Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
A gang of four today as King Scott & Just Patrick are joined by Teacher Ryan and Navigator Lana! As always we start with some banter, including the BGG Awards, then a ton of game talk! The 8-bit breakdown goes to Middle Ages, followed by the time warp, where we revisit last year's review game: World Wonders. Hey, what's up with the retro commercials? Keep note of them adventurers, because we are putting a prize package together for the end of the year, and the way to enter to win is going to be telling us all of the retro commercials! To do it, you've gotta be in our discord, so click here and join now!!! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Gather 'round adventurers! First of all, JOIN THE DISCORD! We're having a blast chatting with everyone, playing games on BGA, hearing your answers to the question of the week. Level Up and get in the fun! Today's a big one as King Scott and Just Patrick have Navigator Lana in studio yet again! Recent adventures include Mistborn the Deckbuilding Game, Lord of the Rings trick-taking Game, and Maracaibo! The 8-bit breakdown goes to a pretty complex euro with asymetric factions... Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory! The time warp takes us back to Ticket to Ride Legacy, then finally we wrap things up with a "two games enter, one game leaves" segment. www.levelupgamepodcast.com Discord X Instagram Facebook BGG Guild
Some present their single favorite, or top 5, maybe even top ten... Today we present the FORTY best games of 2024! We checked out a TON of content reviewers' top lists and mashed em all up to present this mega list of the very best games from last year! Join King Scott, Just Patrick, Teacher Ryan, Exporer Josh, Dung Merchant Will, and Navigator Lana for an episode chock full of gaming goodness! Oh hey guess what? We play games with listeners. We share ideas, photos, meetup dates, convention plans and a TON more in our discord! Seriously... level up your adventurer status and join the our discord! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram BGG Guild X
The adventure continues! Today Navigator Lana joins us for an episode chock-full of gaming goodness! We start with some recent plays, then we give the 8-bit breakdown to Video Game Champion from Arcane Wonders! We look back on last year's review game: The Vale of Eternity, then wrap things up with creating our own expansions for Unmatched! Hey adventurers, get in on the chat, the questions, the shenanigans... join the discord! www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild X Facebook Instagram
A bit of a milestone today as we hit episode 150! First thing first: PLEASE JOIN THE DISCORD! We would love nothing more than to have a vibrant, thriving gaming community of show listeners! To celebrate the milestone, we're listing our top ten games out of EVERY review game we've done so far! Plus, we're chatting a bit about how we've changed as gamers during the life of the podcast. Recent Plays include Harmonies, Doomlings & more, while the 8-bit breakdown goes to Path of Civilization! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Discord X Facebook Instagram BGG Guild
Welcome adventurers to the last episode of our fourth year! As such, we take a look at our top ten games that we've reviewed this year, but first... we've done another batch of ten review games, so we have a top 5 as well! We still have some recent plays to chat about, plus our 8-bit breakdown goes to the narrative boss-battler: Oathsworn Into the Deepwood! www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild Facebook X Instagram
Join our party of FIVE as King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Teacher Ryan, Explorer Josh & Navigator Lana in this off-the-cuff episode all about PAX Unplugged 2024! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Instagram X Facebook BGG Guild
King Scott and Just Patrick tell tales of gaming galore! Recent plays include Aqua, Lord of the Rings Duel, Aqua & Catherine. Then we feature Galileo Galilei; a medium-heavy euro all about utilizing your telescope to observe celestial bodies while persuading the inquisition of your findings. We look back on Frostpunk before being joined by Navigator Lana for a little game-trotting! Finally, we tackle some questions from listeners! www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild Facebook Instagram X
The King has returned! King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Teacher Ryan to talk all kinds of games, like Naishi, Carnegie, Descent & more! We chat about a couple games each that we're excited to check out at PAX 2024, then give the 8-bit breakdown to Botanicus! Stick around after the time warp as today's discussion is all about when gaming gets us through hard times. Tell a friend about Level Up! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Today its Just Patrick and Explorer Josh talking a ton of games. Namely, we each talk about one we've gotten back to, a new game on the table, and one upcoming! Teacher Ryan stops by to chat about upcoming release: Everstone: Discovering Ignis. We wrap things up with a chat about the progress of CakePie Games! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
This episode is all about Estate: Raise the Realm, which is currently live on kickstarter! Click here to check out the kickstarter!
Today features a different gruesome twosome as Just Patrick is joined by Navigator Lana for all kinds of tabletop chatter. The 8-bit breakdown feature is Windmill Valley; an amazing euro game with several strategic paths and some of those big turns where everything chains together! Before wrapping up the episode, we get a visit from explorer Josh for a lost loot segment! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
Hey adventurers! King Scott is off to Essen while the rest of the party is at PGX! Before gearing up for these board gamey great weekends though, we had the chance to play a bunch of great games to talk about on the show, including the 8-bit breakdown of Age of Innovation! www.levelupgamepodcast.com
Adventure is afoot! King Scott and Just Patrick have yet another episode jam packed with gaming goodness! We talk about several games, including Blazon, DVONN, Its a Wonderful World & Great Wall before getting on to the 8-bit breakdown: Invincible: The Hero-Building Game! Then, after a look-back at Neotopia, Navigator Lana joins us for some wonderful sights and sounds of Russia, and some chat about Red Cathedral. Finally, we hear about two upcoming kickstarters: Vrahode: Age of Prophecy and The Shadow of Nokizaru www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild Facebook X Instagram
A sidequest through and through, today Just Patrick and King Scott team up with Brian to preview all the excitement, vendors, games, guests, and more at the 2024 Pittsburgh Gaming Expo! Video Games, Tabletop Games, RPGs and more, this is one of our favorite weekends of the whole year! Pittsburgh Gaming Expo 2024 Website www.levelupgamepodcast.com
It's Just Patrick and King Scott recounting tales of many a game played this episode. Coming off of a big Level Up meetup, we chat a bit about what hit the table, and revisit a favorite: Dinogenics! The 8-bit breakdown goes to River of Gold: a mid-weight resource collection euro set in the Legend of the 5 Rings universe. We look back on the Princes of Florence and finish things up with a chat about when its time to get rid of some games. www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
Today Just Patrick is joined by Hungry Gamer Will Brown to talk about Pandora Celeste; a sci-fi horror game that draws comparisons to Nemesis, though lighter. Click here to check out the campaign! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Welcome adventurers! What a huge title for an episode: this one's all about games! King Scott and Just Patrick are once again joined by Navigator Lana to talk about a ton of recent plays, one which isn't even out yet, before a bit of a unique 8-bit breakdown. Today's feature review is for a role-playing game called One More Quest. This comes from the folks who created Dungeon Fighter, and just like the board game, encounters are resolved by tossing a die onto a target! Finally, PGX is right around the corner. Hope to see you there! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Welcome back adventurers! Today King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Navigator Lana to give the 8-bit breakdwon to Tir na Nog: a game that positions players as Celtic storytellers weaving their tales! Tons of recent plays and things we're excited about, plus a lookback at last year's review: Ultimate Railroads. Finally, its gametime as Scott and Lana have to work together to determine if some unusual titles are ACTUALLY board games or not! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
We've got a ton of adventure packed into this one! Today the 8-bit breakdown goes to Metrorunner from Thunderworks Games. Other games include Star Wars Outer Rim, Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype, and the brand new Palm Laboratory. Hungry Gamer Will Brown joins us to talk about a game that gets better with the expansion: Reckoners! Finally, we discuss some of the games we're most excited for that are going to be at Gencon 2024. As always, we kindly ask for your 5 star rating on iTunes. We don't really even know how or why it helps, but it does! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
A party of four sets out for adventure today! King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Navigator Lana and Teacher Ryan for an episode full of gaming goodness! Recent plays include Defrag, Ezra and Nehemiah, Defrag, and Beacon Patrol. The 8-bit breakdown goes to Voidfall, followed by a time warp, where we look at last year's review game: Rauha. We had the pleasure of previewing End of the Line with Seppy Yoon! Hear our thoughts, then check it out on kickstarter! Finally, King & Patrick look at the most recent 10 review games, and decide which ones are their top 5! As always, we hope you enjoy the show! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Welcome adventurers! Today King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Navigator Lana to do an 8-bit breakdown for Captain Flip: a quick hitting game that was just nominated for spiel! We chat about a ton of other games, plus look into the other spiel nominees, as well as the Dice Tower award nominees, including some notable snubs. Show us some love with that 5 star rating on iTunes! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
Join Scott and Patrick as they recall tales of Origins 2024! Instagram Facebook X BGG Guild www.levelupgamepodcast.com
It's about time we level back! This episode features games that are at least 5 years old. Sometimes the best games aren't the newest, but tried and true hits. Today's 8-bit breakdown goes to Expeditions Around the World, a recent re-release from Super Meeple, of a game originally from 1996! We chat about what we're looking forward to at Origins, and Explorer Josh tells us about some of the things you can do at the convention aside from board gaming. We finish it off with a retro trivia game! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
Welcome adventurers! Just Patrick & King Scott chat about the golden geek awards 2023, then recent plays of Battlefields and Lord of the Rings the card game. Hungry Gamer Will Brown joins us for the 8-bit breakdown of Fractal: Beyond the Void, an epic space 4X! We've got a double time warp this week as we look back one year later on both War of the Ring the card game, and Marvel Damage Control. Finally, we compare some of our favorite Space 4X games across multiple categories! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
A great time was had by the whole party at Fun-K Town Convention: Knoxville's grooviest board game con! King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Teacher Ryan and Explorer Josh to recount tales of the weekend! Recent plays include Tales from the Red Dragon Inn, Klask, Carson City, Tidal Blades, Dune, and many many more! The 8-bit breakdown goes to video game turned board game, Slay the Spire. This rogue like video game incorporates randomness in all the right ways, to make each play exciting and different. Does the board game live up to the hype? Next week we'll do a double lookback as we wanted to keep this episode focused on Knoxville. A special thank you to Mike for inviting the podcast, and to AllPlay for providing several copies of Kabuto Sumo for demo! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Teacher Ryan joins King Scott and Just Patrick to chat about whats been on the table, including Ankh, Carson City & Space Lion! Navigator Lana takes us to Kentucky, telling tales of the history and scenery, as well as a thematic game in her Gametrotting segment! This episode's 8-bit breakdown goes to Distilled from Paverson games, then we look back on Marvel Age of Heroes from last year. Finally, we wrap things up with boardgamegeek's 2024 golden geek nominees! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
Today we revisit the intra-apocalyptic world of San Lazaro, but in much smaller fashion as we discuss Cyber Pet Quest, which is live on kickstarter! Hear our thoughts, and listen in as we chat with designers Bernie Lin and Brendan Kendrick! Click here to go right to the kickstarter page! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
An adventure that takes us to the outer depths of space in search of the last light in the universe! Today Navigator Lana joins Just Patrick for the 8-bit breakdown of Last Light; a 4X game set in a universe where the light is dying. Touting a quick playtime for the genre, find out if it packs enough punch to find a spot on your shelf! Recent plays include Can't Stop, 51st State, Battle of Lits, and a fresh take on an old game, as Steven Jackson Games has released Pathfinder Revolution; an update on Revolution set in the Pathfinder world! Dragon Dawn Productions has a copy of Beyond the Rift that they want to get in the hands of an adventurer! Simply join our BGG guild and tell us who your favorite movie baddie is! Link to the guild right here: BGG Guild www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram
Join the adventure! Today we chat about recent plays including the (recently finished kickstarter) Massive Verse Fighting card game, The Artemis Project, Brass & Carnegie! The 8-bit breakdown goes to stock-trading-ish game, Dawn of Ulos! We look back on Brazil Imperial, then get a visit from Explorer Josh to learn about hidden gen: Eila and Something Shiny. To wrap up this quest, we chat about giving your gameday some theme consistency, with games that pair well together! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Instagram X Facebook BGG Guild
Just Patrick and King Scott are joined yet again by Navigator Lana! Today we talk Solstis and Wyrmspan before the 8-bit breakdown of Rats of Wistar! After looking back at Khora, Rise of an Empire, we venture to solo-land to chat about not one, not two, but THREE fantastic games for those of us who play with ourselves... hehe. www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
What an adventure we have today! Just Patrick & King Scott are joined by Navigator Lana & "Dung Merchant" Will Brown! We've got a ton of recent plays followed by an 8-bit breakdown of narrative adventure game, Roll Player Adventures! We look back on GI Joe the Deckbuilding Game, then finish it up with a chat about quitting as part of "in-game negotiation! Hungry Gamer's famous cheesecake recipe! Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild www.levelupgamepodcast.com Wha? You're still reading this?
Teacher Ryan and Just Patrick share their thoughts on Galactic Cruise! We're joined by the designers as well and hear about the process of creating the game, as well as what we can expect from the kickstarter! https://www.kinsonkeygames.com/ www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild Facebook X Instagram
Welcome adventurers! King Scott and Just Patrick reconvene at headquarters to talk a bunch of gaming. Recent plays include Groo the Game, Killer Mystery, Space Hulk Death Angel & more! The 8-bit breakdown goes to World Wonders; a tile placement game with a creative mechanism for acquiring wonders. We do the time warp and revisit Lacrimosa before concluding the episode with our top 5 games from our most recent ten reviews! BGG Guild Facebook Instagram X www.levelupgamepodcast.com
It's a party of three as Navigator Lana joins us for an entire episode! Recent plays include MLEM, Lacrimosa, and Sonic Roll. The 8-bit breakdown is one that we've been working on for some time: Ticket to Ride Legacy, Legends of the West! Then we do the Time Warp and look back on Obsession, before closing out the episode with a co-op trivia game! (oh, and that music mashup is from "There I Ruined It" www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
A true adventure today as Teacher Ryan joins us and we take to a mystical land to summon strange creatures in The Vale of Eternity! That's not all: Navigator Lana joins us for a Gametrotting segment, where she describes the rich background for the setting of Azul. Recent plays include Masters of the Universe, Clash for Eternia, GI Joe deckbuilding game expansion: Raise the Flagg, and the campaign for Scythe, Rise of Fenris! As always thanks for coming along for the adventure! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
A quest so grand we needed to add to the party to undertake it! King Scott and Just Patrick are joined by Will, Ryan, and Josh to run the gauntlet of the top 50 games (well, like, 47 really) of 2023! We then each share one that we felt was under the radar, one that we're excited to play but haven't yet, and our personal favorite game of 2023! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Instagram X Facebook BGG Guild
The kingdom is in peril! King Scott had official royal duties to attend to, so this episode is mostly Just Patrick. Fear not though, as we get visits from Josh and Will! Recent plays include a sleeper hit: Project Eos Rise, as well as the new hotness: The White Castle. The 8-bit breakdown goes to Dune Imperium: Uprising! Then we visit solo land for a small footprint game called Dustrunner. www.levelupgamepodcast.com BGG Guild Facebook X Instagram
A strange land that needs to be regenerated to entice the flora and fauna to return, today's adventure takes us to Arborea! Get the scoop on this brand new game in the 8-bit breakdown. Join King Scott & Just Patrick for this episode chock full of games! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook X Instagram BGG Guild
Its a packed guild house today! The gang talks about all the fun and excitement of PAX 2023, including games played, memorable moments, and general shenanigans! Don't forget, we want to hear your top 3 games that got the 8-bit breakdown last year, and we're giving away games for it! Get in the guild and let us know: BGG Guild Facebook X Instagram
Its officially season 4! In this premiere, King Scott and Just Patrick chat about Dice Manor, Kiri-Ai, and 20 Strong. The 8-bit breakdown is for the extremely thematic cooperative game, Frostpunk! Then stick around for some season 3 recap, including our top ten games of the season! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
Welcome yet again adventurers! Today we focus on two player games... mostly.... Recent Plays include The Mirroring of Mary King, Forest Shuffle, Dracula vs. Van Helsing & more! Today we take to the skies for the 80bit breakdown of Sky Team! Then stick around for our look ahead to PAX 2023 and some of the games that we're all fired up for! www.levelupgamepodcast.com Facebook Instagram X BGG Guild
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