It turns out we talk about a whole lot when we talk about competitive play. We ask what is competitive play and try to define it. We share our own histories in competitive gaming.

We discuss the super, mega-hit Terraforming Mars designed by Jacob Fryxelius and published by FryxGames. It's the 4th best game of all time according to the consensus of users on Boardgamegeek.com, and yet Brendan totally pans it.

We discuss the two-player trick-taking game The Fox in the Forest, designed by Joshua Buergel and published by Foxtrot Games. For the first time, Jake and Brendan significantly disagree on their rating for this game, but both agree that the game is a lot like basketball. No really.

In our second "What We Talk About" episode, we had the pleasure to speak with Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games about the "Value" of games.

We discuss a game that is definitively not about terraforming Mars. This game could literally not be any less about terraforming Mars if tried! That's right. We are talking, of course, about the wonderful Underwater Cities.

We discuss Res Arcana and boy are my arms tired!

This is our very first discussion topic show! We are calling these our "What We Talk About" episodes, which will pop up every third episode or so.

Today, Jake and Brendan tackle Carpe Diem, a 2018 board game where you try to get some grapes and then quickly realize you can't.

In this pilot episode, Jake and Brendan discuss the decisions in Kanagawa