Coming to us from Ringstrue Games (thank you!), we're coming back to you with our reviews of Dungeon Squared and Wetworks! Both are fun, easy to pick up and play, and work well for two players! There's deckbuilding, dungeon crawling, espionage, set collection, hand management, and more across the two games. Give a listen!

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Dungeon Squared and Wetworks!

Over the Tabletop tears right into 2020 with a game that's truly EPIC .... because that's part of the title. It's Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Annihilageddon and it's got 100 percent more deckbuilding, 100 percent more two-player capabilities, and probably 75 percent more poop jokes than all previous Epic Spell Wars. Join your friendly neighborhood Battle Wizards for a full run-down of the game and way fewer spicy takes than usual because, well, it's winter. We're tired.

Epic Spell Wars: Annihilageddon!

We'll be honest, this episode is way late, but trust us, it's been a Month. At some point BEFORE the Month, we played All Manor of Evil, the product of a successful Kickstarter! A Lovecraftian card game with a neat trick of working well for two players, give a listen to see what we think! (Because we don't actually remember, other than our review being quite positive!)

All Manor of Evil

Like rolling? Like writing? You'll love this week's games! Join Over the Tabletop as we discuss Imperial Settlers, Brikks, and That's So Clever, three games that let you toss some dice, press your luck, and keep track of your gaming destiny with those tiny little mini-golf pencils!

Roll and Writes!

Welcome to Season 3 of Over the Tabletop! We're kicking off things with an adventuresome journey to rapidly expanding local-to-us indie game festival, BostonFIG! Come for our reviews of some brand-new two-player games, stay for those trademark Over the Tabletop shenanigrams!

Boston Festival of Indie Games, 2019 edition!

The jig is up, the news is out, we've finally found ... a game that is well-crafted and great for solo play but not quite as flavorful for two players. It's Renegade, from Victory Point Games, a game that James and Erin appreciate many aspects of and are excited to play NOT with each other! We also discuss what makes for a good solo game and appreciate the attention paid to proofreading Renegade's instruction booklet!

Renegade!

We're back and Erin is TIRED this episode, but it's a lively discussion regardless of our newest cooperative deckbuilder, Aeon's End Legacy! We're fans of the story aspect of the game, which pits us, a couple of scrappy Breach Mages against villains daring to destroy the probably picturesque village of Gravehold!

Aeon's End Legacy!

It's the biggest ... well, certainly the heaviest ... game we've played yet! Gloomhaven from Cephalofair Games offers a meaty gameplay experience to go along with weighing some 20 pounds or nearly one and a half stones! James and Erin also discuss the utility of house rules for a more enjoyable gaming experience, as well as a SHIFT IN POWER on Over the Tabletop's Twitter account!

Gloomhaven!

The name is a mouthful, but luckily we here at Over the Tabletop find this biweek's game quite delicious! Exorcism at the House of Monkton Falls from The Screaming Brain is one we playtested last year and Kickstarted. It scratches that cooperative, race-against-time, spooky mystery itch without feeling like it's impossible to ever get that house clear! Also this week: Erin REALLY wants to copyedit your game's instruction manuals and James celebrates Galentine's Day.

Exorcism at the House of Monkton Falls!

Come hear the audible sighs of relief as Erin realizes she doesn't need to know *anything* about anime to play -- and enjoy -- Death Note: Confrontation! This two-player deduction game pits super-sleuth L against the mysterious Kira as both race the clock (there's no clock, but it's a fairly quick game) to win!

Death Note: Confrontation!

James makes a baseball joke and we choose our own adventure with Legacy of Dragonholt, a roleplaying game that doesn't require a GM or lots of fiddly math to play or even other people to play! That ticks all of Erin's boxes and it's a fun, accessible adventure that seems like it'd be ideal to get young people or new-to-gaming folks interested in roleplaying games and THEN THEY'LL BE TRAPPED AHAHAHAHAHA.

Legacy of Dragonholt!

We spent so much time thinking about whether we COULD play Duelosaur Island, we didn't .... no, actually, we did spend a lot of time thinking about whether we should -- and we agree that we AND YOU should play it! A purely two-player game from Pandasaurus Games, Duelosaur Island blends dice drafting, resource management, a little bit of take that!-style action, and comes up with an enjoyable visit to the world of dino DNA, risk management, and excitement!

Duelosaur Island!

Over the Tabletop went on the road to see some stuff and play some games! Join us for a chat about The Uncommons, a board game cafe in NYC and the games we played there, including InBetween, a fun, quick battle between the forces of good and evil!

InBetween!

Over the Tabletop returns with an update of an older deckbuilder, Thunderstone Quest! The game, which has an expansion set running on Kickstarter now, streamlines the play in a very effective way, eliminating a lot of the unnecessary math from the old game, much to Erin's approval!  

Thunderstone Quest!

This week, we're on the cutting edge with our review of a super-new game, Direwild from Iron Horde Games! This one was our Game of the Con at GenCon and we're excited to take a more comprehensive look at a fun, tricky, and rewarding twist on game mechanics! Join us as we build our decks (some of us more successfully than others) and crawl cooperatively through a dungeon, all with the help of puppies and kittens!

Direwild!

Two people. Many, many games. One very good cat. Over the Tabletop is a podcast dedicated to discussing board games, card games, and dice games that play well (or not!) with two people. Because scheduling game days with more than two is hard, frankly. Join James and Erin as they travel through their games collection, go on theoretically-related tangents, and pat their very good cat, Solstice.

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