Weekly Episodes, Launched Every Wednesday.
Episode 156: Player Interaction (What We Talk About)
An exploration of player interaction in games.
Episode 155: The Resistance - You Should Play this Game
A deep dive of a classic social deduction game.
Episode 154: Roll and Write Games
An exploration of the decisions in roll and write games!
Episode 153: Jake Played 19 Games at Geekway Mini (Mini Reviews)
19 mini-reviews from Jake’s 2024 Geekway Mini experience!
Episode 152: Planet Unknown - More Is More?
A deep dive of a polyomino tile playing game, Planet Unknown
Episode 150: We Rank Every Game - 2023 Year End Special
We rank every game covered on Decision Space in 2023!
Episode 149: Paradigm Shifting Games
An episode on games that changed the way we think about games!
Episode 148: Heat: Pedal to the Metal - But, Is It a Board Game?
A deep dive of one of the hottest games around
Episode 147: 2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide
We bring you our best insights on what games will make good gifts to the people in your life (we hope) by answering prompts shared in our discord.
Episode 146: Top 5 Knizia Hidden Gems with Jared Ingersoll
These picks come straight out of his personal collection of *checks notes* over 100 Knizia games. Enjoy!
Episode 145: Something Old, Something New, & Something Never Getting Reprinted (7 Mini-Reviews)
Mini-reviews of 7 games!
Episode 144: Replayability and Why It Doesn’t Matter (What We Talk About)
A classic what we talk about episode on replayability!
Episode 143: Santa Monica - Dreams of Variabilityication
A deep dive of Josh Wood’s Santa Monica
Episode 142: What Do Our Most Played Games Tell Us About Replayability?
Brendan and Jake share their top 5 most played games digitally and physically and think about what these lists mean through a lens focused on replayability.
Episode 141: Catching Up on Jake’s Vacation, Stonemaier Design Day, & Recent Plays
We didn't prepare for this episode at all!
Episode 140: The Decision Space Spooktacular (Can Games Be Scary and Scary Game Recommendations)
Can Games Be Scary and Scary Game Recommendations
Episode 139: Torres - Streamlined Area Control with a Sleek Card System, but Y’all Keep Sleeping
An exploration of a classic?
Episode 138: Balance, Pt. 2 (What We Talk About)
This time we dive into questions of perceived balance vs. objective balance, and do we really want an objectively balanced game? If so, who is that really serving?
Episode 137: Balance, Pt. 1 (What We Talk About)
Today, we deliver the first part of our topical episode on balance in board games.