The Staying In Podcast - four pals talk video games, board games, and movies

For video game reviews this episode we’re talking Sunderfolk by Secret Door, a tabletop tactical RPG-like experience on your big screen at home, and TOEM 2 by Something We Made, a stylish photography puzzle game filled with nice little challenges and a cute collection to fill.

Plus, Pim Thunborg, Bonedust, and the consistently excellent Osprey Games give us CRAB RAGE!, a bombastically colourful, lore-filled wrestling board game that isn’t what it first appears.

All that, and other lowkenuinely interesting things, on Ep258.

00:00 - Is this normal?

07:53 - TOEM 2

25:38 - Sunderfolk

44:48 - CRAB RAGE!

58:52 - Lowkenuinely

On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Kris (@DigitalStrider), and Sam (@MrSamTurner).

Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we’ve ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you’d like to see what we’re up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page.

Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com

Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.

In the world of games we’re talking about CMYK’s Grabble, which is a lovely box of random things that make for one heck of a fast-playing tabletop game, and Shredders from I-Illusions, which manages to be the Skate of snowboarding. Resident Evil is what we’re watching in the cinema, and over on Apple TV there’s post-apocalyptic thriller Silo.

All that, and a professor with a crap job, on Ep257.

00:00 - Hemlock update

03:35 - Shredders

19:12 - Resident Evil

36:38 - Grabble

46:08 - Silo

On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Kris (@DigitalStrider), Peter (@XeroXeroXero), and Sam (@MrSamTurner).

Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we’ve ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you’d like to see what we’re up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page.

Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com

Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.

Peter got a cat and named it after a “food”, as well as slapping plastic on his phone screen to play modern Game Boy games via Playtiles Season 2. Sam became the best dad in the world by playing a lot of Hot Wheels for his son, and wrangling words with The Fridge Game from Big Potato Games. Dan coincidentally also became the best dad in the world by buying himself a game and going back in time to play Halo: Campaign Evolved.

All that, and car cricket, on Ep256.

00:00 - Hemlock and Hot Wheels

10:39 - Halo: Campaign Evolved

26:19 - Playtiles Season 2

41:28 - The Fridge Game

On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Peter (@XeroXeroXero), and Sam (@MrSamTurner).

Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we’ve ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you’d like to see what we’re up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page.

Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com

Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.

Are you ready to head to the woods? We hope so, because that’s what we’re off to in this latest episode of our silly little podcast about games and movies and that.

We’re joined by special guest Rob Trounce from Zatu, who tells us all about Strange Games Festival, including an incredible-sounding game of Werewolf in the Dark from Alan Gerding and Andy Patton. There’s also much chat about import darling Create Camp from Sky Huang via Travel-Games and Richard Garfield and Christian Kudahl’s draft battler Final Titan.

Plus we go on a big walk with, uh, Big Walk from House House, and swing about the city with Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

All that, and a pair of well-meaning gifts, on Ep255.

00:00 - New boxers

06:14 - Strange Games Festival

10:36 - Werewolf in the Dark

21:27 - Create Camp

24:57 - Final Titan

29:29 - Big Walk

47:13 - Spider-Man: Brand New Day

On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Kris (@DigitalStrider), Peter (@XeroXeroXero), Sam (@MrSamTurner), and Rob (@ZatuGames).

Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we’ve ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you’d like to see what we’re up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page.

Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com

Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.

Surely Big Potato’s most popular game, The Chameleon is the perfect entry for new board gamers, but also for big groups in a more casual, lighthearted setting. While on the other side of the spectrum, Gregg Jewell’s latest, Galdor's Grip, is unlike anything you’ve ever played: it’s an ultra indie solo game of deck manipulation, it’s pay what you want and print and play, and you don’t need a table to run it (which is fine, because we cannot put it down).

The Ticket Booth from Grandpa Beck's Games, picked up at Gen Con, is half an hour of open set collection, hate drafting, annoying your friends, nice little twists on mechanics that keep things fresh, and… cows?

In video game land, Stray Fawn’s Dungeon Clawler is an audiobook/podcast game par excellence, combining the fundamental mechanics of arcade claw machines with the “one more go” and item combination of roguelike dungeon crawling.

All that, and the next big title based on carnival games, on Ep254.

00:00 - Innies and outies

06:52 - The Chameleon

17:38 - Dungeon Clawler

32:22 - Galdor's Grip

46:37 - The Ticket Booth

On this episode were Peter (@XeroXeroXero), Sam (@MrSamTurner), and super special guests Benji (@RebellionUnplugged) and Emily (@OspreyGames).

Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we’ve ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you’d like to see what we’re up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page.

Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com

Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.