Board With Each Other
A podcast that looks at Board Games / Tabletop Gaming through the lens of playing as a couple or with a regular gaming partner. Hosted by Al & Hannah, We review a game each episode.
Board With Each Other
Special Episode 06 - 2025 In Review
Happy Holidays All!
In this special episode, we look back at the year that was, rank our top 5 games of those we reviewed this year as well as our biggest surprise and disappointment. We also give you a sneak peak at some of what's coming your way in 2026.
We hope you've had a great festive period and our normal monthly deep dives will return next week!
Hello everybody and welcome to a very special episode of Board with Each Other. But it's not Halloween. It's Christmas Halloween. For the first time ever this year, we have decided to do a recap show. On this episode, we're going to be talking a little bit about the year that we've had in review. And we are also going to be ranking the top five games that we have reviewed this year. So that's not all games of all time, etc. It's just off the games we've reviewed this year. As we've come to the end of the year and we've played them all, what are our personal top fives? We're also going to be calling out our biggest surprise of the year and our biggest disappointment. That's in board games. I'm not your biggest disappointment. That's not allowed. Jill ask is true. Um we are also going to be giving you a little bit of a sneak peek of some of the games that we're going to be doing deep dives on next year. So stay tuned to the end of the episode if you want to hear about that. For those of you joining us for the first time, why are you starting here? Go back. But if you do insist, we are a board gaming podcast that uh concentrates on how board games play at two players. So that's not two-player board games, but how board games play at two. My name's Al Simpson, and I'm joined as ever by my player two, my co-host and my lovely wife, Hannah Kelly.
SPEAKER_02:Hi guys.
SPEAKER_01:So I thought we had kick things off with how 2025 has gone in board gaming in general. I think it's fair to say that we've probably upped our board gaming this year. I think this has probably been the busiest board gaming year we've had. Definitely.
SPEAKER_02:Um is going from monthly podcasts to bite size, the introduction of bite size.
SPEAKER_01:More playing, more testing. Um, and we also have uh a family member who's growing up, becoming more interested in board games, so we are playing a little bit more with them. Yeah. Um, but no, it's been it's been a busy old year. The podcast has also grown. I'm just want to give a shout out to those of you that tune in every week. Um, we do this for our own enjoyment more than anything else. And to know that there's people out there like you that are listening to us uh on a monthly basis. We I'm I'm really, really grateful for that. And thank you for joining us. Humbled as well. Yeah, slightly humbled. So thank you for joining us. Um, I really like we see you. Thank you. So, how was uh 2025 for you, gaming wise? Did anything massively change in your tastes? Did you I think you finally got your head around aerial control this year?
SPEAKER_02:I did, but we haven't reviewed that yet, so I can't talk about it. Well, we haven't read very Hannah has finally mastered a great board gaming technique.
SPEAKER_01:Area control.
SPEAKER_02:We went to UK Games Expo for the We did, and my husband treated me to a world-class hotel.
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, don't go to the Birmingham Ibis, anybody who's listening in the UK. Oh, no. So he said to Ibis, don't do that.
SPEAKER_02:Don't do that, don't do that to yourself.
SPEAKER_01:Unless you like a prison.
SPEAKER_02:Um expense, guys. What a lucky Wi-Fi ass.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, uh no, what's the opposite of a shout out?
SPEAKER_02:Um, um, it was really cool.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we had a great time. It was the first time we've gone to a massive board gaming convention like that. And um, we had a great time. We played lots of games, we bought lots of games because consumerism, yay.
SPEAKER_02:Met lots of fellow nerds, it's great.
SPEAKER_01:Awesome, yeah. Met some of you lovely people. And um we picked up a lot of swag. We did pick up a lot of swag, yeah, and some some things that we really desperately wanted that soon soon became hard to find, which we'll we'll come to next year. Uh well come to this year, actually, with Captain's Chair, really hard to get hold of at the moment, but we're lucky enough to grab all the final copies.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's the first time I've done anything like that as well. I've never gone to a convention before or anything like that. So it was kind of really cool, and it was really lovely to see all the different publishers there and all the stuff that's coming in, being able to play test stuff. And actually, what I really valued is being able to obviously play test stuff and then realize that actually probably it's not worth us sinking money into because it's yeah, it's not gonna be for us.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it was almost that thing of finding what what was and what would work and what wouldn't, and it wasn't the case of everything we play test, we bought. We I think it was almost the opposite. Like we played quite a few games. Actually, that's probably not for us, which is which is great because it probably saved us a bit of money in that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um participated the bring and buy for the first time. Yes. God, uh the queues, the queue.
SPEAKER_02:Well, that was painful.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that was very painful.
SPEAKER_02:I think we spent the entirety of the first morning there in a queue.
SPEAKER_01:In the queue for the the bring and buy. So British. But it was it was worth it for us. I think we managed to shift quite a few games for quite a while, so it is worth doing, but uh, it's uh it's a bit painful. But the the event in in general was really well organized, I thought. I don't think it's something I go to every year, but perhaps every two years I'd probably give it a visit if I can. Um but yeah, highly recommended.
SPEAKER_02:We've also started frequenting a board game cafe.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, we have.
SPEAKER_02:Um, which we've never done before, despite the fact obviously we're huge board gamers. Yeah. Um but we've started, we found a nice little one not too far from us.
SPEAKER_01:You've got to give them a shout out?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Playopolis in Rochester. It's a great spot. Yeah, really, really good. And we we frequently quite quite often now, at least once a month, to try and get it down there.
SPEAKER_02:Um and so if you do have any local board game cafes in your area, definitely give them a sh like to try them.
SPEAKER_01:Support them. It's it's it's a really great way of being able to try new things. They've got a great library there.
SPEAKER_02:They have, they've got a really impressive library, including BSG.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, they've got some really hard to get hold of games, which you're probably not gonna be able to play unless you have mates that have them. Yep. So yeah, big shout out to them. But yeah, it's been it's been a good year, ball gaming-wise. Everything seems to have grown a bit. Um, but I think we probably reached capacity in terms of content for the podcast. I don't think we're we're looking to do any more than we're we're doing at the moment. I think we'll probably carry on with this pattern of uh deep dive every month and bite sizes. Not not every month, but most months we'll try and do a bite size. Yeah, okay. So shall we move on to the list? Because everybody loves a list.
SPEAKER_00:Love a list.
SPEAKER_01:I love the list. Everybody loves an end of the year list. So, as I said, we're this is not our favourite games of all time. This is not even our favourite games of the year. We're going to rank the games that we've reviewed this year, and we're going to do a top five for each.
SPEAKER_02:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:Um, in ascending order. And we'll talk a little bit about ascending order. Ascender. So we start with five and then go to one.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Because that's a bit more exciting than saying the top one, and then the also rounds afterwards.
SPEAKER_02:Ascending, you go with ascending. Yeah, yeah, okay, alright. I may have mastered area control. Clearly, numeracy still is gonna break.
SPEAKER_01:All right, strap in everybody. We're gonna have a 10-minute conversation on uh the difference between the sending and descending lists. Enjoy. Um would you like to start?
SPEAKER_02:So are we each gonna take a turn?
SPEAKER_01:Yep. So you do your number five, I'll do my number five, and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_02:All right, so in my number five position, I have skyting.
SPEAKER_01:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So I think this is probably one of my top recommended games as well. Um, Sky Team, because I think it works exceptionally. Well, it is only a two-player game, but I think one of the things that really makes this special for me is that it's almost better if you are a couple and if you know each other really well.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um, and there's something about that dance and that pattern that happens between you that I think is just really quite magic and quite special. And it makes it really stand out in a way that other co-op games don't.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. It's hit a I I agree. It's hit a um space in the the co-op sort of rule set that I've not quite seen before. And as we said in our review, it is like a dance, and I've never quite found another co-op that that that's like that to that that level.
SPEAKER_02:I also think one of the really cool things about Sky Team is again it hits this really sweet spot between not being too intense.
SPEAKER_01:Until it is.
SPEAKER_02:Until it is, but it's quite short and quite snappy. It is, yeah. Yeah, it is. And I think for us who tend to veer on the heavier side of things, it was really refreshing to have a game that was short and sharp, that you could play lots of games in one evening, um, but it still had that thinkiness.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it was it was weighty on the brain. Yeah. Okay, great. So I will move on to my number five then.
SPEAKER_02:Mm-hmm. Drum roll.
SPEAKER_01:Brass Birmingham. Ah it was uh I found number five much harder than the rest of my rankings. Obviously, it was what what what do I cut off? Where do I cut off? Sky Team almost made it into my number five. But brass Birmingham. Um, I was desperately excited to play Brass Birmingham, you know, the board game geek, top board game of all time.
SPEAKER_02:Well, anymore it's not.
SPEAKER_01:No, it still is. Is it? Yeah, I'll have it's catching up on it, but it still is. And um was I disappointed a tiny bit. I think my expectations were perhaps too high. Uh I was expecting something that's gonna completely change the game. And I I I don't think it's that, but it is a very, very good game. It is a wonderful cerebral puzzle when you're playing. Um, I find it really satisfying, and I think it plays really well at two. I I really enjoy the games that we play. I think it's obviously a better game with more players, which is what you know we talk about all the time. But it is something that I don't ever see myself getting rid of. I think there'll always be a an itch that I want to scratch with it.
SPEAKER_02:So I'm quite curious as to how we rated it under the two-player rating scale. Um, I can't really remember what you said.
SPEAKER_01:I think it was kind of the middle of the road. Was it it functions quite fine too? Um, but it desperately cries out for many people.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think it's definitely one of those games that sings at three plus.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but it is it it's a damn good game. And um, I I I couldn't quite bear to not have it in my top five of the year that that that we reviewed is very good. Is it as good as it's it's standing? No, I don't think so. I think there's other things that are much, much better than it. But of what we reviewed this year, it's my number five.
SPEAKER_02:I pause because in my number four slot happens to be brass Burmium.
SPEAKER_01:Off you go then. What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER_02:Um, so uh yeah, I I'd echo all of that really. I think it's quite strategic, it's quite complex, there's lots of different paths and routes to winning. I think there's a lot of opportunity to shift, which I quite like.
SPEAKER_01:Um every game's so different, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, very much so. And how I I win, because I usually do win, usually do win this, um, is is very, very different. And I definitely think that the reason why it's in top spot is because it's definitely better with more players. However, I also think there's something about finding four people to sit around a table who will have similar levels of experience with board games, it's also quite difficult.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's definitely a hobbyist game. It's not something I crack out with with casual friends and go, huh, let's play Bros, Bernard, or even people that like board games to a certain extent. Like we do have friends that like board games, but I think it might be a step too far for them, and they'd just be like, What is this?
SPEAKER_02:Um, I also spent a long time in the Midlands. So there is also a bit of an element of oh, it's Redditch, I've been there. I'm not going there now.
SPEAKER_01:No shades for those people, no shade.
SPEAKER_02:Um, but yeah, it's an absolute quack of a game, and I I would also agree with you, there's no way I'm ever getting rid of it. No.
SPEAKER_01:It's part of the collection permanently. I think they're all I've not found something else that is similar enough or and better at what it does that I want to move that on and keep that. So yeah. Alright. Yeah. Okay, my number four is Sea Salt and Paper. Tiny box, incredible game. Um, I just I can never get enough of sea salt and paper. It is Moorish, it is perfectly functional and enjoyable and playable at two, three, four, five. I've played it at all those player counts.
SPEAKER_02:Um it's see, we do have friends, guys.
SPEAKER_01:And it again it speaks to uh it's a game that you can introduce to pretty much any player group. Every game I've played plays a little bit differently. Um I think there's a lot of strategy involved now. Um it's it's it's a lot deeper than you would originally think, I find. And the we we've got the um extra salt expansion, which I think does genuinely add to the game, like it gives a bit more variety and a bit more strategic depth. Uh it's just an absolute cracker. And I know we only did a bite-size on it because it's such a small light game, but it weighs heavily this year. I have played it probably the most out of any game this year.
SPEAKER_02:Well, funnily enough, in my number three slobs.
SPEAKER_01:Stop shopping me.
SPEAKER_02:Clearly.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, true, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, um, is also sea salt and paper. Uh yeah, I think the artwork for me is particularly charming and is a huge part of the appeal. Yeah, I love the it's absolutely stunning to look at, and it's just really enjoyable to have such an aesthetic experience when you're playing a board game or a game. Again, I also think there's something about it's just a deck of cards.
SPEAKER_00:It is, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know, and again, you've got no language barrier or language dependence there. So again, it would be really good to travel with and play with people of different nationalities or people for whom you know the colour blind friendliness.
SPEAKER_01:I played with somebody who has trouble with colours for the first time a few weeks ago, and they were incredibly bold over that they put so much thought into putting the shapes instead of the colours. Like they were really, really impressed with that. Um, I don't suffer from myself, but I remember when I first saw it, I was like, Oh, that's very thoughtful. But then actually playing with somebody who does struggle a little bit with colour differences. I was like, that's really good.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, really well thought out.
SPEAKER_01:Well with a lot of thinking comments.
SPEAKER_02:It's just a really well-crafted game, and I just it's a definite must, I think, on any board gaming shelf.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, especially the price point, like I do not own this. I see sort of paper, like go buy it now. Um yeah, no, it's fantastic.
SPEAKER_02:And I would go so far to say it is not my surprise of the year. No, but um, it really did knock me for six how such a superficially simple game how good it keeps it just keeps you drawing drawing you back for more and more. It's an absolute quacker of a game, and I think everybody should own it.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, fully agreed. Yeah, yeah. Okay, my number three. My number three is uh The Witcher, the old world. This this game is just wonderful. Um it has its problems, which we talked about in the review, but one of the major problems we had was that we managed to house rule away quite effectively, and I've enjoying it a lot more since we house ruled it. Um not engaging with level three monsters, we made that uh requirement. Um it's just so thematic. Um, it captures the world so well, it's does all the geeky stuff that I wanted to, you know, this quest. And the battle system is blindingly good. The the the car battle and combo thing is just so enjoyable to play through.
SPEAKER_02:And I find really unique as well.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, so far it is quite unique. I've not seen anything like it.
SPEAKER_02:I'm sure there are some people that will be able to treat me otherwise, but I I've not come across anything like it.
SPEAKER_01:And I get way too into poker dice compared to how important it is in the game.
SPEAKER_02:Um with his dice rolls, the most lucky unlucky fucker that I've ever met. And yet he's belligerently. Better play poker dice play poker dice and win maybe like three games.
SPEAKER_01:Three dice rolls in the entire games.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, 20 games that you played.
SPEAKER_01:Um, but no, it's an absolute cracker. It's it it really nails what it's out to do. Um plays really well at two as well.
SPEAKER_02:Um so well, I think arguably better at two.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, well, we never played it with more, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no I know, it's a bit of a tragedy that, but I do think actually it probably leans more into a two-player game than before the game.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. My my my biggest strategy with the witch is I wanted several expansions and I slept on them and now I can't get them. And probably never will be able to, so please shed a tear for me. Um, but no, that's my number three. Brilliant game.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:USA number two, the witch, aren't you?
SPEAKER_02:No, I'm number two for me is Fast and the Furious.
SPEAKER_01:Of course it is. I'm I'm I'm kind of sad and relieved that it's not your number one.
SPEAKER_02:I did think about putting it as my number one by the side, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01:Diesel nerd.
SPEAKER_02:So there is nothing that I do not love about this game. It brought me so much childlike joy that I have not experienced watching Boss and Furious for the first time. Um, no.
SPEAKER_01:Rejectile Seatop cars.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's it's just uh I feel like it honoured the IP really well. It was a really fun game, it was also quite tough. Um, but yeah, I just fucking love it. And I think to be fair, when I reviewed it, I was saying, oh no, it is replayable. It is no, it's not replayable. I think it's it's not.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, we got some mileage out of it. I mean mileage.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, you're really funny. Yeah, um, I don't think it is replayable as replayable as I said that it was. I think that was maybe my not wanting to let it go and put it down. Um and it is kind of a shame because it still sits there on our shelf. Uh-huh. And I'm not entirely sure that we're ever gonna. Yeah, I'm never gonna let you get rid of it. No, you're gonna let me solve it. I don't think I'm ever gonna play it again, which is a bit of a shame. So it is a bit of a one and done.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure we will.
SPEAKER_02:For what it is, it's absolutely amazing.
SPEAKER_01:I can't disagree. I will talk about it a little in a bit. This is my number one, it's not my number one.
SPEAKER_02:Oh go on.
SPEAKER_01:Um, right, my number two, unmatched. I adore the unmatched system. I love everything about it. I think it is an incredibly deep tactical experience when you know what you're doing, and especially if you're playing somebody that knows what you're doing. I had the enormous privilege of being able to play in a tournament, a UK Games Expo, which I got my ass handed to me, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_02:Don't be surprised.
SPEAKER_01:No, don't be surprised. But I had such a great time, and I had some I'd have some great opponents, really enjoyed playing with them. It's just great. I love the variety in the IPs that they do. I just think every time they approach an IP, they approach it with so much care and love with what's on the cards. It just feels that they really understand these these properties and want to do the best at them. I love the miniatures, I love the gameplay, not much of what else to say. I I would never ever turn down a match of unmatched. I love it.
SPEAKER_02:So what's on my top spot? It is the Witcher. That doesn't surprise you. Oh, I didn't think it was gonna surprise you. I mean, uh I I will echo everything that you've said.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I do think it really lends itself to being a two-player game. I think one of the things that has since made it into the top spot for me is that I get lost playing it.
SPEAKER_01:You do, you have so much fun.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I have so much fun wandering off and doing side quests, doing this and that, that I kind of forget about the main object of the game. And I just have a wonderful experience. I don't care who wins or loses, I'm just enjoying the experience of playing it so much. A bit like I enjoy playing the video game or Skyrim or something like that.
SPEAKER_01:Or Arkham.
SPEAKER_02:Or Arkham.
SPEAKER_01:Arkham Horror.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, I suppose yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's a bit of that sort of feel isn't there where you just it's just for the joy of the narrative experience. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I think when we reviewed this, and I I disagreed I think at the time was you were a bit like, I feel like there is a lack of replayability around this, it's too constrained. I really want some of the expansions. And I think in hindsight I will probably agree with you.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's a big regret because I think a couple of expansions on that would make it just an ever-agreeable timer.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It just needs a couple more it just needs a couple of little more things. Which they they they bring. But hey.
SPEAKER_02:Um however if I think about the game that I have enjoyed playing the most this year, that would absolutely be it without a shadow of a doubt. I absolutely love it. And I always look at it on the shelf and I'm always like no I'm gonna play something different.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know it's always my goal. And the same with the June pulls you I think it's the Witcher Fair.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah yeah absolutely okay well that's a it's a good note I mean it's it was my number three so I I I I agree with everything you've said. You love it more than I do but it's not not by much. Also I like to fantasize and with Henry Cavill when I'm playing it so you like to fantasize you and Harry Carroll all the time which is when you're playing but we won't go into that um anyway my number one I'm sure the person sitting across from me can can guess it is Star Trek Captain's chair not Fast and the Furious. No I am colouring surprise I have wanted a deep complex Star Trek ball game experience for a very long time since I got into this hobby in fact I've always been on the lookout for one and this has finally delivered what I want it contains all the tricks which makes me very very happy so from a thematic basis I love it but looking at it from a purely sort of ball game point of view it is a monolithic brain bending experience and one that I am endlessly satisfied when playing does it run a little long yes but I have such a blast during those two and a half three hours have you ever sat through a full Star Trek season also runs a little long. Yeah exactly sorry no I I I adore this game I absolutely love it and I'm looking forward to where it goes in the future um there may be a little bit of recency bias there but we have been playing this for a lot longer than when our review came out just for reference.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah I mean it was very close to hitting my top five lists yeah I just don't think I have the same fundamental love for the IP and yeah yeah which makes a big difference.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah um and it is a game that just keeps revealing more depth and more layers every single time we crack it out. So yeah uh absolutely my game of the year Star Trek Episode show. What is your biggest surprise of the year?
SPEAKER_02:So my biggest surprise of this year was the Fast and the Furious mainly because we walked in to our local shop, saw it there and I got all excited because you know it's Fast and Furious and he doesn't love and Diesel and um I was like please can we buy this and we bought it knowing nothing about it. I mean it just be shameless cracking gagging.
SPEAKER_01:That's running running up to me with like shoot away eyes going yes yes manner we could buy the Fast and the Furious board game. This is probably going to be utter shit.
SPEAKER_02:But it wasn't and it was absolutely amazing and completely this hidden gem that I never knew existed and have so much fun with it and it will live in my memory forever as being this most amazing experience.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah that's my surprise game review surprise the yeah yeah well boring yeah my surprise of the yeah the fast and the furious I thought this was going to be utter shite I thought it was going to be terrible it looked like an IP cash grab um I was very wrong. Yeah um we had a blast with this and uh as we said at the time like it's so cheap you can get anyway go give it a go it it's it it it's great fun it really did it really surprised me how good it was um but yeah sorry to be boring and have the same one but there you go okay so what was your biggest disappointment then uh that's an easy one unfortunately Spirit Island yeah I thought you were gonna say that yeah I wanted my biggest disappointment about Spirit Island was you oh there you go you managed to shoehorn me being a disappointment into it I knew you were going to um I so desperately wanted to love this game it had me written all over it but it just did not click I tried really hard and I just didn't like it. I didn't enjoy it I didn't enjoy anything about it um and it was really disappointing because it was one of those things where a couple of things were different I probably would have loved it um and would have got a huge amount of joy out of it but I just I couldn't I I just did not like it which is really disappointing.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah no I can understand that how about yours so disappointing because I'm gonna explain some of my reasons for that before I say it um because I think it has all the recipe of things that I would love. Yeah however I just find myself a bit bored with it and never reaching for it and possibly some of that disappointment is because of how much you love it is unmatched. Oh really yeah it just doesn't do it for you it just doesn't do it for me. Now I've played several I just think it's all a bit samey even though I think you are right with the IP and stuff and how it treats it and like the way the cards play are all quite different. It's still fundamentally a skirmish that doesn't have that level of depth or perhaps intrigue that you won from a skirmish game. Interesting okay and I think there's also a big element of I know that you would want to play it a lot more and I'm always a bit like I don't want to play it. And so I think that also adds into it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah fair enough and you will find games I got that one doesn't disappointing you and my play traces. It's okay you don't disappoint me you are not my disappointment yeah um no that's that's that's interesting. Yeah no I thought you might find that interesting yeah okay um yeah it's not my it is what it is yeah okay so a little bit about next year we've got some heavy hitters coming your way the one that I'm most excited about is Cthulhu Death May Die. Call it Cthulhu Death May Die.
SPEAKER_02:Yes I mean Cthulhu fans of the Elder Gods um anything Cthulhu related I desperately want to get my hands on and give it a play. And I think this is one we've picked up from um UK Games Expo and I've been saying to you for years I'm like why don't we own Cthulhu Death May Die and you always say to me it's very expensive. And then we found a copy with a damaged box. Yeah and I was like is it really that expensive now?
SPEAKER_01:I was like no that's fine. Yeah that's that's that's a big one to come. Feast for Odin is a biggie um quite a classic as well and Castles of Burgundy which is a proper classic that should be coming next year. So that's our probably our big classic ones. Yeah the very ambitious one the very ambitious one if we manage to find the time and a large table which is on the cards War of the Ring. Yes I mean that might have to wait until next year because no I think we'll get well I don't think I can go a year without getting that out but yeah we'll finish it it'll be tail end of next year I imagine yeah we've got a few smaller ones coming your way uh mass vector ball game is going to be coming your way yes which I know is a little bit of a mini classic for some people in is going to be coming and um a great little one that you may not have heard of that we picked up uh a games expert Mycelia wait for for that review coming your way because it's that well known no it's not that well known there's a lot of there's there's two games called Mycelia this is the very strategic 2024 version. So some reason I thought it was really well known no it's it's a little bit uh there's a little bit out there so it's a bit niche um but that will be coming your way and I'd also really like to get into Sleeping Gods which is a bit of a a minor classic I think. Um so lots coming away next year. So we look forward to seeing you there. Merry Christmas happy new year all the rest of it happy holidays and remember board games are for life not just for Christmas until next time have fun be good to each other and play lots of board games
