Our Favourite Games of 2024

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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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GHOSTS ON THE MOON: SU&SD Play Wilmot’s Warehouse

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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“Shut Up & Sit Down Presents” Incredible New Games with Play to Z

Shut Up & Sit Down is delighted to announce a partnership with Play to Z to hunt down the board game treasures that we think belong in every collection.

SU&SD Presents” is a brand new line of titles that places a spotlight on some of the very best titles in modern board games. We’ve hand selected a fresh crop of exciting designs, helped to polish them to perfection, and P2Z will publish these incredible games for worldwide distribution.

It’s our goal that every game in the line could be your new favourite game.

We’ve got our first two games arriving next year, with a new title releasing annually thereafter!

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Podcast #265 – Shallow Sea Shoppers

Plbeeasing Episode, Shallow Sea Shoppers, Drowning Faster Than Ever Before

On this slowly sinking episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about a cluster of small games they’ve played recently! Tom’s got the cosy, tile-laying pairing of Middle Ages and Flower Fields, whilst Matt brings novel Oink releases Deep Sea Adventures: Boost and Souvenirs From Venice to the table.

Have a great weekend!

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Review: Joyride: Survival of the Fastest

Johnny Chance, You Loveable Bastard, I'll Let You Roll My Bones Any Time

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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Review: The Gang

A special and juicy treat for you this week – it’s MATTHEW LEES IN A ROOM THAT’S SLIGHTLY PINK. Also: a review of The Gang, a co-operative poker game that’s simultaneously essential AND something you really might not need? Get watchin’!

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Podcast #264 – The Big Sheep BBQ

A Logistical Feast, A Perplexing Penning, A Mysterious Package

On this eclectic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking LOGISTICS in Minecart Town, CURRENCY in Pax Penning, and CONCEPTS THAT ARE AS LARGE AS DEATH in Compile!

Have a great weekend!

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Review: SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Little Grey Men That Go “Weugh”

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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Review: Curses & Covens

help, Help me, Help I’m scared, Emily is too spooky and I’m scared

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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