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Shut Up & Sit Down Menu Videos Games Podcastle Articles SHUX AwSHUX Games Donate Menu Videos Games Podcastle Articles SHUX AwSHUX Games Donate CHESS MONTH – Go Review two cool originals, a forest full of snares, what’s wrong with pearls Oh dear. SU&SD is trying to review a 4,000 year old cultural institution? There are days where we struggle to review dexterity games aimed at drunks. This can’t end well. In all seriousness, Go is easily among the most magnificent works of design that we’ve ever review. The only question that remains is… is it fun? Huge thanks to online shop Masters of Games for lending us some of their Go stuff for this video. Quinns says he’ll mail it back shortly, and Sorry for the Dorito dust.” Read More Leave a comment GAMES NEWS! 27/07/20 Natty News, Warsch-kisser, Terrible Toad Tiles, Sonic De Jahres, carbs gone wild Tom: Hello Ava! How is your day so far? I indulged in having a rare THREE slices of toast this morning, 33% more than my usual breakfast. Ava: Oh dear. Returning to the homestead has lowered your standards for excitement? Tom: I’m gearing up to film a review in a garage, Ava. It’s all downhill from here. Ava: I got a bit dazzled last Monday when I found myself accidentally watching Reiner Knizia wearing a hard hat and matching bow tie . He was there to not win the biggest award in board games, the Spiel Des Jahres. I’m a bit sad he dressed up for nothing, but he also looked like he was having a whale of a time. Tom: He also looks like a rogue trader pretending to be a magician. Ava: The winners were in fact Daniela and Christian Stöhr designers of Pictures , a game of drawing things without pens. Instead you’re recreating photos using building blocks, pixelated cubes and bits of shoelace. I’ve not found myself particularly intrigued, if I’m honest, but often the details are what makes a party game sing and I’d like to give it a pop. Read more GAMES NEWS! 27/07/20 Categories News 52 Comments 52 Comments CHESS MONTH – Cairn Wrestling A shrubbery, bad times with twigs Our celebration of head-to-head games continues! This week Matt stacks up his opinions about the fabulous Cairn . Blue druids in hats versus brown druids with sticks – it’s a tale as old as time, but what new magic have they cooked up with this natty new formula? Read more CHESS MONTH – Cairn Leave a comment GAMES NEWS! 20/07/20 Kemet: Tory Edition, Stefan Feld’s Euro-Teasing, Mincemeat Geodude, The Newscopter has Landed Tom: I’m doing it! I’m finally piloting the newscopter! I can see so many games from my perch in the sky! I’ve dialed down the whimsy-ometer, and the daftosphere has been calibrated. All the news is trickling out the newspipes – I can see my NEWS from here! Matt: OK Tom, gosh. Fine – you can keep flying the newscopter for a COUPLE OF MINUTES, but for heaven’s sake – crank the Reprint-Rotor before we have a terrible accident? Tom: Yessir! Queen Games’ delirious Twitter teasing has finally led us to its natural conclusion. The cities have been revealed, the mystery is gone, you can all go home now thank you very much that’s quite enough. The first of the City Collection is Hamburg , a reimplementation of 2013’s Bruges – which, as you can tell, is not Hamburg. It’s Bruges. Matt: Yeah, switching from Bruges to Hamburg isn’t exactly the most enthralling re-theme? Read more GAMES NEWS! 20/07/20 Categories News 53 Comments 53 Comments Podcast #114: The Ocean Grasps a Van the domain of vans, the superior bake-off, nuclear fission, and a crying cat It’s a full house, baby! In this episode of the podcast Ava and Quinns discuss FIVE games, each and every one of which they are IMPRESSED BY. Has that ever happened on the podcast before? We’re not going back to check. That could take *minutes*. Quinns can offer some early impressions of Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 (04:15), Ava’s been dueling a stranger in Innovation (19:36) (and you can read Ava’s splendid roundup of Chudyk’s games here ), there’s a lovely drawing game called Geometric Art (34:12), a revisit of Spirit Island (41:12) and we close the show with some impressions of the hot new card game Spicy (57:35). Thanks to our amazing community, podcast transcripts are available here , and are usually completed within a week of the podcast’s release. Read More Leave a comment CHESS MONTH – Targi (and Expansion) Review It takes two to tango! But it also takes two to Targi. Our second review of chess month is a snug little box, and a welcome reminder that eurogames don’t have to be big to be clever. (It’s not the first dedicated two player eurogame we’ve reviewed, mind you. That honour belongs to the excellent … Read more Read More Leave a comment GAMES NEWS! 13/07/20 Optimised Digital Betrayal, Head Empty: Brain Smooth, A Not-So-Secret Pandemic, Tired of the Tweets Tom: Fictional scenario with humorous implications! Ava: Harmless pre-amble with light twists of jokery! Tom: Slight pun, sensible query? Ava: Query resolved, questionable segue into the news! Ava: I can’t not talk about that teaser trailer for Pandemic Legacy Season 0 . My understanding is that if I’d tuned into the stream last tuesday, I would’ve been able to watch Matt complete a teaser jigsaw with a secret code on the back. I’m really hoping Tom was watching and knows if we’ve gleaned any exciting spoilers. Tom: I was not present for the assembly, though I did pop in to quickly clip Matt looking his daftest . Matt: In my defence, I am incredibly daft. It turns out I’d vastly underestimated both the time and energy required to ‘Do A Jigsaw’ – five hours of live-streaming a muddy brown puzzle left me shamefully too wiped out to actually solve the mystery behind the clues I’d uncovered. I still don’t know exactly what I missed, but I gather I missed *something* quite vital – the next day I even went so far as to heat up the accompanying note in a wok in the hope that a heat-sensitive message would reveal itself. You can’t mark me down for effort, I guess? Read more GAMES NEWS! 13/07/20 Categories News 48 Comments 48 Comments CHESS MONTH – Ice Team Review Bear Chess, terrible mystica, hashtag scarf goals It’s the 8th of July baby, you know what THAT means! It’s time for Shut Up & Sit Down’s inaugural Chess Month – a season dedicated to the joy of fantastic two-player games, literally none of which are going to be chess. To kick us off with an introduction and a little look at a … Read more Read More Leave a comment GAMES NEWS! 06/07/20 Disintegrate After Reading, Moose-and-Write, Horrible Horrible Time, There was an ‘R’ i swear officer Tom: HIKING UP THE NEWSTRAIL / SINGIN’ MY NEWSTRAIL SOOONG! / GONNA FIND SOME NEWSES / OH WON’T YOU SING ALONG?” Ava: No. Today’s news will be presented in a bland monotone with absolutely no musical interludes whatsoever. Tom: Sad. Ava: . Don’t be sad Tom, I’m obviously lying. Have you met Shut Up and Sit Down? Pretty much everything we say ends up sung to the tune of some soft rock classic or another. Tom: We did a musical count in last week too, didn’t we. Ava: There’s a pandemic and a climate crisis going on, we’re allowed to recycle. One! Two! Many! Lots! Stonemaier games haven’t quite landed a perfect hit with the review squad here at Shut Up and Sit Down, but they’ve knocked out some beautiful shots, and it’s hard to ignore when they announce something new. Their latest game evolved out of one of their open design days, apparently their highest ever rating prototype, and is now getting the full Stonemaier treatment. Read more GAMES NEWS! 06/07/20 Categories News 68 Comments 68 Comments Podcast #113: The Double-Monster Solo-Roleplay Small-Box TeamBuilder 8000 Small-And-Dense-Haven, Kenneth’s Bistro Bed & Breakfast, The Shirt Off and Sit Down Podcast, DisserSPACEions (eugh) Shut Up & Sit Down · 113: The Double-Monster Solo-Roleplay Small-Box TeamBuilder 8000 In this positively 113th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, Tom and Quinns have a totally normal...