We dive into our board gaming biases and affinities

We chart a course (heh) for the flip-n-write game Cartographers, designed by Jordy Aidan and published by Thunderworks Games!

Does this 2021 tile-laying puzzle game enough decisional variety to keep it hitting the table fifty plays onwards?

We talk about tempo, pacing, and initiative in games…

A Decision Space deep dive into Evolution: Climate…will we survive?

Jake and Brendan are back in the interdecisional spaceship and - look out! - we're heading straight for Kramer and Kiesling's 2012 game Palaces of Carrara—a decision space some call ungrokable.

Our biggest milestone yet—episode 50! In this episode, we do a little pre-planning of our own and discuss 10 we want to cover imminently in 2022.

We ask if this mega-hit is truly an engine building game, and, returning to Splendor after some time away, we ask if these gems still shine as brightly as they once did.

In the end of year special edition of Decision Space, we rank every game featured on the show this year from 30 to 1.

We dive deep into the decision space that emerges from Azul's simple set of mechanisms as players tussle over tile supremacy

We cover the Garphill Game that first put Shem on ther radar for many of us, Raiders of the North Sea

The topic of irrational actors at the board game table, an unwieldy topic that spans social contracts, sobriety, siding with spies, and so much more.

Back with yet another classic game and yet another Spiel De Jahres winner, this week on Decision Space it is Kingdom Builder

We may have topped ourselves and put out our giggliest episode ever! It's true, we laughed a lot and had a great time exploring the decisions in Uwe Rosenberg's classic Patchwork.

We look at what parts of a decision space are objective, what parts are subjective (most of it), and whatever the heck the platonic ideal of a decision space is.

Jake, Brendan, and Jamey Stegmaier hop in the Interdecisional Spaceship to talk 7 Wonders Duel on this week's episode

This perennial classic offers a fascinating decision space but what really sets those decisions apart? Tune in to find out.

For the first time, we discuss games we haven't played. That's right. We are trying out a brand new type of episode that we are tentatively titling Mission Planning.

This week is Spirit Island by designer R. Eric Reuss. A serious game for serious gamers that defies expectations in the best possible way.

We discuss designer Vladimir Suchý's follow-up to Underwater Cities, Praga Caput Regni, where instead of building underwater cities, players will build one on land city!