Hey kids!! What’s cooler than distilling brine and harnessing geothermal energy… FOR POINTS! This week’s review is a slightly complicated love letter to the beautiful mundanity of crunchy economic games. Devir have put a huge amount of game into such a small box with Salton Sea, but can it stand up to the microscope of scrutiny?
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Welcome to 2025! We’re starting off the year with something special – a video piloted entirely by our newest hire!
It’s a toaster. A toaster does the review. Thank you for watching.
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December 12, 2024 Specials Thank you so much, everyone, for your continuing support over the years! We deeply appreciate being allowed to do this silly little job, and it’s everyone’s generosity and enthusiasm that keeps the lights on. 2024 has been a crazy year for us, with a whole bunch of change both behind the … Read more
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Following on from last week’s gift guide – a video designed for small gifts and simpler games – this week it’s time to get CHUNKY! Matt and Tom combine forces to take you on a whirlwind tour of the very best games that they’ve played this year. Enjoy!
This is also available as a PODCAST – so just choose your poison and dive in!
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A simple and silly one for you folks this time! As part of our team’s work on Wilmot’s Warehouse, we handled all of the VIDEO BITS, on account of that being a thing that we can DO. We originally just filmed this playthrough as a means of having snippets we could then use to illustrate the game being played, but the session was so fun that Matt decided to jazz it up and post the whole thing as a playthrough. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
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We’ve covered a lot of cars on Shut Up & Sit Down – but two stick out in recent memory. Tom reviewed Heat: Pedal to the Metal back in 2022 and Matt took a peek at Thunder Road: Vendetta earlier this year and both lads came away thrilled with their silly little vehicles.
But now, it’s 2024. Joyride is here.
And it’s ready to race.Is this the best of both worlds? Does it screech round the corners of hearts and turbo-boost to the loftiest honours of the kallax? Find out right here.
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SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence was a game that really wowed both Matt and Tom back when they covered it in Episode 261 of the podcast – but since then, we’ve played it a good chunk more and developed a couple extra thoughts! So many thoughts that we put them into a whole video that you can watch on You Tube Dot Com.
In this week’s video review, Tom is taking another look at the big eurogame of finding aliens. Is it as good as the hype suggests? Find out right here…
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It’s November! You know what that means! It’s the time of year to finally get into the spooky spirit! What better way than to take a quick peek at a lovely little spooky hidden information game about hunting witches.
Curses & Covens is dramatic and unruly, providing your table with all manner of highs and lows – but is there such a thing as too much chaos? Watch the video to find out…
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