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The Hit The Silk Kickstarter is LIVE NOW! 🪂

12. Februar 2026 um 21:43

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Plus we've also developed some limited edition cards for the game too; just another exciting piece of our partnership with Brendan and the team at Escape Plan Board Games! 🧡

There's 18 days left to go on the campaign, so what are you waiting for?! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brendanmills/hit-the-silk-2nd-edition

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John Company: A Game of Administering Atrocities

12. Februar 2026 um 16:30

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Cole Wehrle’s John Company has players taking on the roles of powerful English families utilizing the East India Company for personal gain, using its state sponsored monopoly to secure power to further their own greed. This extensively revised 2nd edition has new rules and components to better represent the Company’s insidious growth into the Indian subcontinent, and its highly dysfunctional modes of operation, requiring heavy amounts of negotiation and bribes. To get victory points, players retire family member pieces from their office cards, paying exorbitant amounts of money gained from unscrupulous exploitation. This satirical yet frank portrayal of British imperialism and globalization explores a deep involvement in horrific structures by making the players understand the processes of how the English involvement worked and why such pillaging was so blatantly done by these powerful interests.

Articles:
Luke Winkie’s “Board but Not Boring”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/01/best-board-games-root-cole-wehrle-john-company-molly-house.html
Cole Wehrle’s “Going into Empire”
https://wehrlegig.com/blogs/essays/going-into-empire
Cole Wehrle’s “Affective Networks At Play: Catan, COIN, And The Quiet Year”
https://analoggamestudies.org/2016/05/affective-networks-at-play-catan-coin-and-the-quiet-year/

Table of Contents:
Preamble (0:00)
How to Play (4:31)
An Empire’s Historical Process (11:19)
Not Really a Review (32:15)

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Is Castles of Burgundy Still Relevant After 15 Years?

12. Februar 2026 um 15:36

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Welcome to our new series — Classic Reviews. This time, we’re taking a look at the 2011 game Castles of Burgundy. Is it still worth your time and money? If so, which version should you choose? And most importantly, what do we actually like or dislike about it? Watch the video to find out!

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Quietly Exceptional | Discovering a Card Game of Remarkable Elegance

10. Februar 2026 um 21:23

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Let's Play HIT THE SILK: SECOND EDITION! | Board Game Club

10. Februar 2026 um 19:00

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Dewan Review | Quick to Play, Hard to Master

10. Februar 2026 um 18:30

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Dewan is one of those rare strategy games that plays fast but still feels genuinely clever. On your turn you’re drafting terrain cards or spending them to move across a shared map, place Camps, grab Berries, and complete Story objectives for points. It’s simple to teach, quick to play, and surprisingly deep once you start planning routes, timing your objectives, and deciding when (or whether) to cross other players’ paths.

In this review, I’ll cover how Dewan plays, what makes it so satisfying, who it’s best for, and the biggest pros and cons after multiple plays.

If you like quick strategy games with meaningful decisions, route planning, hand management, and tactical interaction, this one is worth a look.


00:00 Intro
00:27 Complexity & Play Count
01:16 Victory Conditions & How It Plays
07:56 Skills
10:25 Final Thoughts
17:42 Contact & Socials

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Top 10 Post Apocalyptic Board Games

09. Februar 2026 um 19:41

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🔥 Top 10 Post Apocalyptic Board Games 🔥

The world has ended… but the games have just begun! In this video, we count down the Top 10 Post Apocalyptic Board Games, featuring brutal survival, savage combat, harsh wastelands, and desperate choices. From nuclear fallout to zombie-infested ruins, these games capture the tension, chaos, and strategy of life after the apocalypse.

Whether you love deep strategy, intense storytelling, or cinematic tabletop experiences, this list has something for every board gamer who enjoys dark, gritty, end-of-the-world themes.

💥 In this video you’ll find:

Survival & exploration games

Resource management in hostile worlds

Story-driven adventures

Competitive & cooperative gameplay

If you’re looking for your next epic post-apocalyptic board game, this countdown will help you find the perfect addition to your collection.

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We Ranked The Best Board Games of The Month

08. Februar 2026 um 16:55

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🔥 We ranked the best board games we played last month!
In this video, we take all the board games we played past 30 days and rank them from “good” to absolutely must-play. Whether you’re looking for your next great game night pick or curious about what stood out this month — this list has you covered!

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0:00 Intro
0:12 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game
1:59 The Druids of Edora
3:01 Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game
4:36 Legendary: Game of Thrones Deck Building Game
6:43 Endeavor: Deep Sea
8:24 A Bridge Too Far
10:32 Tend
12:34 Explorers of Navoria
14:13 Forgeflame
16:12 The Bloody Inn
17:47 Game of the Month
19:02 Outro

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The Board Games I Wasn't Ready For

08. Februar 2026 um 14:25

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Some of the best board games don't rush to meet you. They find you at their own pace.

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Detective City Of Angels Board Game Review

06. Februar 2026 um 19:05

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🕵️ Detective: City of Angels – Board Game Review & Gameplay Overview

Step into the dark, gritty streets of 1940s Los Angeles in Detective: City of Angels, the noir-inspired board game where deception, deduction, and bluffing collide. In this video, we dive deep into the gameplay, mechanics, and player experience to see if this cinematic investigation game deserves a spot on your gaming table.

We’ll cover:

Core gameplay mechanics & rules overview

What makes it unique compared to other detective board games

Player interaction, bluffing, and strategy

Who this game is best suited for

Whether you’re a fan of mystery games, deduction challenges, or immersive storytelling, this review will help you decide if Detective: City of Angels is the right game for you.

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AYCB Podcast: Episode #2 - Your Favourite Games Are Flawed

06. Februar 2026 um 13:20

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This week, our main course is Your Favourite Games Are Flawed. We've each picked three games that are favourites of the other person's and we've prepared the aspect of each of these games we think is the worst thing about them. And as will always be the case, each host comes with a little appetizer to talk about ahead of that main course topic.

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"Bad Times at Shady Acres" Final Girl Season 4 Mash Up! #sponsored by Van Ryder Games

06. Februar 2026 um 09:00

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Use the Chapter Markers to skip around in the Playthrough!

Let's mash up the Killer and Locations from Bad Times at Buddyland & Rotten Harvest and see if we can survive! Billy the Bear terrorizes Shady Acres.

Season 4 of Final Girl is on Kickstarter right now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanrydergames/final-girl-series-4
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00:00 Starting
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36:21 Game Play Starts
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Things Get WINE-y

05. Februar 2026 um 17:35

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Games AND Wine - could there be anything more on-brand for me? Find out how it went and if you'd like your own game, you can use BVDICEY for 10% off - order by February 9th to get it in time for Valentine's Day! Thanks to Blind Vine for sponsoring this and making my Girl's Night possible! GetBlindVine.com #sponsored

Best Solo Board Games of All Time (G Edition)

05. Februar 2026 um 15:23

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🎲 Looking for the best solo board games of all time?
In this video, we’re sharing our all-time favorite solo board gaming experiences in this special Jānis G. Edition of solo games of all time! Whether you love deep strategic choices, immersive themes, or epic adventures, these solo games deliver incredible experiences when you’re flying solo.

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0:11 10th
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7:25 5th
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10:25 3rd
11:39 2nd
13:08 1st
14:35 Outro

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How Instagram Changed Board Gaming

03. Februar 2026 um 20:29

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Social media has had a real impact on board game design! We’ve been 3 major trends throughout the last decade or so, whether or not a game has been kickstarted or not. From feels good outcomes, to drawing a lot of cards and seeing new information, instagram has definitely made things have better accuracy, or better first impressions. We can see this in many popular BGG games, whether or not they’re Euros, as this applies to campaign and Ameritrash games too! Even the 4x genre is left changed. But this isn’t a bad thing, it just means that the tabletop experience is changing, with the cream of the crop strategy gaming tending to rise to the top.

Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
Insta-Plussing - (1:05)
Feels Good Gaming - (8:19)
Design Considerations - (15:03)
Discovery vs. Mastery Discussion w/BrotherMing - (17:01)
Aesthetics over Depth? - (20:32)
Final Thoughts - (22:08)
Quick word about TCGs - (26:18)

Games featured: Earth, Wingspan, Root, War of the Ring, Twilight Struggle, Thunder’s Edge, Twilight Imperium, Dune Imperium, Everdell, Wyrmspan, Finspan, Chess, Boop, Lords of Waterdeep, Splendor, Carcassone, El Grande, Yugioh, Sid Meier’s 2010 Civilization Revolution, Re;ACT, Dead of Winter, Hive, Shogu, Scythe, Puerto Rico, Nemesis Retaliation, Fate of the Fellowship, Terraforming Mars

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Speculation — How to Play 🎲 and Is It a Gem? 💎

03. Februar 2026 um 19:15

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Line goes up! In Speculation from Dirk Henn & Queen Games, stocks in eight companies will rise and fall relative to each other. Players are poor traders with limited starting capital, trying to make their fortunes by buying low, selling high, rinsing and repeating.

The original self-published game from 1992 used dice to determine how far stocks rise and what actions players can do. In this 2013 re-edition, the die faces are moved onto tokens pulled from a bag. Dice are bad, or so I'm told, but the bags aren't an improvement. Find a way to use dice instead for an easy, breezy stock market experience.

00:00 Intro ▶️
02:48 How to Play 🎲
16:27 Is It a Gem? 💎

Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten!

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Toy Battle Review: Paolo Mori’s Best Game Yet?

03. Februar 2026 um 18:30

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Would adults enjoy a quick strategy game that looks like it’s for kids?

In this video, we answer that exact question. While Toy Battle (by legendary designers Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini) might look like a childhood fever dream, underneath the fire-breathing T-Rexes lies a surprisingly cutthroat tactical experience. We dive into whether this 15-minute clash has enough "crunch" for the hobbyist table. 

Paolo also designed Ethnos , Libertalia , and Fall of Rome!

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THE ADULT PERSPECTIVE:
Don't let the 8+ age rating fool you. We break down why the mechanics are more "Chess" than "Candy Land":
• The Connection Rule: Why your entire strategy can collapse if you don't maintain a path from your H.Q. 
• Tactical Overtaking: Using Troop Strength (1–7 and Jokers) to bury your opponent's units. 
• Region Control: The spatial puzzle of surrounding closed zones to snatch Medals. 


CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Complexity & Play Count
01:04 Victory Conditions & How It Plays
02:46 Skills
04:00 Final Thoughts: Does it belong on an adult's shelf?
07:38 Contact & Socials

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