Episode 45: Filler Games We Love, with Matthew Jude

Matthew Jude from This Game is Broken and Watch It Played joins Candice to discuss their favorite filler games.

• 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:01:55 YesLand
• 00:05:42 Fresh Plays
  • 00:06:11 Skate Summer
  • 00:12:17 Merlin
    • 00:27:06 Some of Matthew's favorite Feld games (Trajan, Castles of Burgundy, Carpe Diem, Bora Bora, Macao, Amerigo, The Oracle of Delphi)
    • 00:29:04 Civolution
  • 00:31:02 Camino a Xibalba: Pitz
    • 00:40:06 Mythic Mischief, That Time You Killed Me
  • 00:41:21 Tragedy Looper: New Tragedies
    • 00:49:30 Alchemists
• 00:56:20 Filler Games We Love
  • 00:58:15 No Thanks!
  • 01:03:40 For Sale
  • 01:09:16 Qin
    • 01:14:36 Bullet♥︎
  • 01:15:16 Sea Salt & Paper
    • 01:20:19 Pixies
  • 01:21:58 Cabanga!
    • 01:26:32 Abandon All Artichokes
  • 01:27:59 Arboretum
    • 01:31:29 Lost Cities
  • 01:36:10 Null & Nichtig 
    • 01:40:24 Stick 'Em
  • 01:41:25 Schadenfreude
  • 01:46:16 Too Many Cooks (Foodie Forest)
  • 01:54:44 Biblios
  • 02:01:48 Matthew's Honorable Mentions (Fuji Flush, Newsboys, Captain Flip, Drop It)
  • 02:02:40 Biblios: Quill and Parchment 
  • 02:02:58 Candice's Honorable Mentions (Trick and Trade, Little Tavern, Spicy, Potato Man, Faraway, Eggs & Empires)
• 02:07:18 Sign-off

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