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#295 - Flip and Mix
4w ago00:37:07Tap to summarizeOn this constantly revolving episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are perusing a gargantuan grocery store of games. This one stocks four whole games! Can you believe it?First up is Market Fresh - a Kramer and Kiesling reimplementation that Matt’s played, and Tom is chomping to. We follow that with a quick spritz of Echoes of Emperors - a game that crunches the computer strategy genre into cardboard form, and close out the podcast with a double bill of flippers; Fliptoons and Flip Pick Towers.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:03 - Market Fresh11:20 - Echoes of Emperors17:46 - Fliptoons26:39 - Flip Pick Towers
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#294 - Clandestine Vocabulary
Apr 1700:38:33Tap to summarizeOn this adjective-riddled* episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are sorting through approximately one standard carry-on worth of cardboard luggage!Matt brings The Great Sea to the table - the latest Garphill excursion into ancient history. What’s in this bit of history? Mostly water, it seems. With boats on it! They’re like houses that float? You’ll get the hang of it.Dark Pact is our second game, and feels like a deckbuilder broke free of containment, and has been growing all manner of new limbs whilst we’re not looking. Essentially a race to break the game as fast as humanly possible, it’s gotten Tom rather perplexed.And finally - Typeset - a game designed by the monstrously talented folks at DVC Games. Just when you think you’ve seen everything in a word game, one comes along and gets you spelling ‘TOGWOF’.Have a great week, everybody!*Only some adjectives are present in this episode - and indeed all episodes - of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast.Timestamps:02:01 - The Great Sea17:35 - Dark Pact28:24 - Typeset
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#293 - ENDLESS VIOLENCE
Apr 300:38:02Tap to summarizeOn this VIOLENT episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom engage in gladiatorial combat to finally decide who is the ULTIMATE BOARD-BOY!We begin our gauntlet with a bout of ‘Neko Syndicate’ - a BLOODY game of cats making sushi deliveries in a sort of tableau-building pyramid! It’s nasty stuff.Round 2 threatens an EXPLOSIVE END in ‘Bombusters’ - a co-operative family game where various anthropomorphised rabbits deal with increasingly complicated explosives. Red wire? Yellow wire? Either way? Prepare for an absolutely brutal listening experience.Then, the knockout punch! ‘Off With Their Heads!’ is our grand finale, and has you rolling* (punches), writing (wills)... and playing (cards)? Sounds peaceful, yeah? Well it’s only got a flippin’ GUILLOTINE in the title!! It’s going to be an utter casserole.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:02:06 - Neko Syndicate14:34 - Bombusters24:12 - Off With Their Heads!*There’s no actual rolling, but that can be our little secret.
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#292 - The Natural Special
Mar 2000:38:20Tap to summarizeOn this Edenic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom strip down to their bare cheeks to chat about games wot are all about “Outside, like birds and that”.First up is Nature; a game that takes 2014’s Evolution and 2020’s Oceans, and hydraulically compacts them into one biodegradable box. Not just one box, mind, but a whole ecosystem of modules and traits that’ll get your neighbourhood zoologist all hot under the collar.That’s then followed by a slice of Perch - a surprisingly lethal “pigeon control game” in which you stack birds atop a vicious fountain. I’d imagine it’s what those pesky sky rats would be doing with their spare time too, if they weren’t so busy defecatingFinally we hitch a ride on the great grey car of the savanna in Tembo - an elephant road trip that’s way more cruel than it has any right to be. Tom’s taken great pains to crack this one open, and feast on all the delicious game-goo contained therein.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:46 - Nature16:58 - Perch24:41 - TEMBO: Survival on the Savanna
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#291- Wet Famous
Mar 600:29:41Tap to summarizeOn this absolutely soaked episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are getting drenched in two positively sopping releases.First up, our intrepid explorers plunge into the depths of Thesauros! It’s got scubas, it’s got sharks, it’s got sunken treasures! All wrapped up in a slate-grey layer of project management and fund allocation.And following the adventurous land of ‘The Ocean(s)’, our lads point at a few seagulls, bins, and plant pots in the cosy Welsh town and game: Tenby! Who will have the most porches?! Who will find the most relevant landmarks? It’s all to play for in the quaintest Tenby-builder on the market today.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:16 - Thesauros17:30 - Tenby
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#290 - The Turnips of Wroth
Feb 2000:39:13Tap to summarizeOn this slippy ol’ episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about Emberleaf; a game of woodland creatures amassing honey and battering bandits! “Like Pooh gone all vigilante on them asses”.Our dynamic duo then seek to area control eachother in a WORTH WRESTLE! Whose critical opinion on this luminous box will come out on top? Neither, really. They’re both pretty chill about the whole thing. Everyone’s allowed opinions - even YOU!Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:19 - Emberleaf16:20 - Wroth
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#289 - Standard Box, Kallax Nightmare
Feb 600:45:31Tap to summarizeOn this post-apocalyptic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’ve got the last remaining swigs of game in this here canteen - don’t gulp it all to yourself, now! Share nicely…First up is Phoenix New Horizon, a game of building post-apocalyptic power networks and trying to get a promotion. That’s followed by a slightly spoilery chat about Regicide Legacy - a game that asks the bold question; “What If Regicide, But Legacy?”. The pod’s rounded off with a quick chat about Zenith’s standard two-player mode, and spicy four player variant! Just like… never mind.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:49 - Phoenix New Horizon17:57 - Regicide Legacy27:13 - Regicide Legacy Spoilers33:31 - Zenith
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#288 - The Memory Tub
Jan 2300:37:44Tap to summarizeOn this gloopy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are donning their Memory Marigolds and getting elbow-deep in the past; recalling titles played all the way back in November 2025 (imagine!).Expect rambling thoughts about a whole cluster of games played at PAXU 2025, and a few other sneaky additions to the lineup last-minute.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:14 - Epona10:19 - Joyride: Full Throttle13:42 - Petiquette17:32 - Wiggle Roulette20:34 - Pick ‘n Packers28:31 - This Is Not A Game About A Pipe34:43 - No Loose Ends
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#287 - Tending Time
Jan 900:37:30Tap to summarizeOn this ticked-off episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are rambling about the box-ticking bonanza ‘Tend’ as well as the chronologically questionable ‘Take Time’!Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps:01:19 - Tend23:31 - Take Time
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#286 - THE BIG WET SPRINT
Nov 2800:41:14Tap to summarizeWebsite Copy: On this free-flowing episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about competitive marble-pilfering simulator 12 Rivers, as well as a double-bill of absurd racing games in Hot Streak and Magical Athlete!You may be expecting that this podcast thumbnail would show the promised board of 12 Rivers (which you can find here) and instead shows a picture of Hurley - the not-a-hotdog from Hot Streak. This is intentional, and important.Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps:01:14 - 12 Rivers12:43 - Hot Streak26:41 - Magical Athlete
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