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Not perturbed by Kellen’s trip to Germany, we’re all daydreaming about the motherlode of board game conventions, Essen SPIEL. There’s a lot of games coming to the show, and because we’re not going, and presumably you aren’t either, we’ll just tell you what’s going to be there instead! The good stuff, anyway. Before we Germinate, we talk about Calimala, Tír na nÓg, and Typewriter.

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Timecodes:

02:42 – Calimala
09:42 – Tír na nÓg
16:15 – Typewriter
26:15 – Essen SPIEL 2025 Preview
28:49 – Mission: Red Planet (Third Edition)
31:18 – The Other Side of the Hill
33:29 – Severton
36:12 – Harvest Valley
38:11 – Pulitzer
39:26 – Echoes of Time
41:14 – Oopsie
42:55 – Feya’s Swamp
43:46 – Baghdad: The City of Peace
45:25 – Ghost Lift
48:07 – Coming of Age
49:33 – The Presence
51:50 – Carnival of Sins
53:37 – The Republic of Rome: Remastered
55:22 – Theocratia

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.