Breakup Gaming Society

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100 episodes

1 day ago

An interview with Cave Evil co-designer Nate Hayden about the game's resurrection and its ever-expanding warren of tunnels, items and ideas.

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An interview with Cave Evil co-designer Nate Hayden about the game's resurrection and its ever-expanding warren of tunnels, items and ideas.

Episodes (20/100)

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Cave Evil Reprint: The Resurrection of the Pedal-to-the-Metal Cult Hit

An interview with Cave Evil co-designer Nate Hayden about the game's resurrection and its ever-expanding warren of tunnels, items and ideas.

1 day ago

46 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 102: Cocktail Naming Contest + I Crown My Top Lightweight Game of 2025

Win a bit of Breakup Gaming Society swag when you help name our Chief Mixologist's whiskey and homemade plum liqueur thing. Also, Faraway rules.

2 weeks ago

19 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 101: Resist! First Play Caps off a Very David Thompson Summer

Resist! — a solo game about the guerrillas who fought on after the Spanish Civil War — caps a summer of playing David Thompson designs.

1 month ago

25 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 100: Pyrotechnics Review, Playing With Dystopia, Surrendering Secret Wars

A delightful indie 2p card game that plays in no time flat, plus two dystopian TTRPGs that will flatten you.

1 month ago

38 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 99: Battle Card Review + Meet The Lads of “War With a Mate”

My first belt of Kansas City Whiskey from West Bottoms, a review of the accessible Battle Card Print-and-Play WWII solo series, an interview with two guys trying the hardest-to-finish wargame ever, and Kurtis Mantronix shows off on "Megamix '88."

2 months ago

35 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 98: Light and Get Away, It’s the Fall Small Games Preview

Hear about all the indie tabletop games I just got from small designers, including merciless roleplaying games with mercifully light rules, a few easy-to-learn solo historical wargames, and a disarming two-player small-box design about fireworks.

2 months ago

34 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 97: Sykes-Picot Plays With Colonial History (And Dry-Erase Markers)

My first hands of the card game, Sykes-Picot: The Secret Treaty to Partition the Ottoman Empire from Hollandspiele Games.

3 months ago

25 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 96: Carolina Death Crawl RPG (Lemonade Beer Punch Sold Separately)

Guest RPG maven Walt and I get tipsy on beer-lemonade punch and talk Carolina Death Crawl, a desperate RPG set in the Civil War.

3 months ago

39 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 95: Vijayanagara Review or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bahmani

The stimulating futility of trying to stop the Bahmani and Vijayanagara from gobbling up your shrinking Sultanate.

3 months ago

22 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 94: Avalon Hill Squad Leader - Shots Fired After Owning This for 40 Years

First blood in the cardboard Shangri-La of 1977's Squad Leader by Avalon Hill.

4 months ago

19 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 93: Dwelling Solo Journaling RPG aka The Human Heart is Spooky AF

I'm only a few rooms into Good Luck Press' Dwelling solo RPG and I've already written thousands of words. Hear the first few encounters with spectral exes and others!

5 months ago

25 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 92: Faraway Review + My First Time on Board Game Arena

Learning the ropes on Board Game Arena with the hit card game, Faraway, plus a Starkville debauch with an old pal.

5 months ago

18 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 91: Pavlov’s House Puts the “Fun” in “You’re Fundamentally Screwed”

A sweet White Russian variation, a bitter winter in Stalingrad, and a serious house track from a rapper.

6 months ago

22 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 90: Hadrian’s Wall Has a Spankin’ New Pict-Fil-A

Rome comes alive — in all its cupidity and sprawl — under your magic marker in Hadrian's Wall by Garphill Games.

6 months ago

22 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 89: Escape the Dark Sector + New D&D NPCs for GMs

The stark tang of sweat on a space station, a whiff of Sinatra Select, and D&D rappers.

7 months ago

18 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 88: Project L Review and More Seductive Stouts

Knock back two beguiling Colorado stouts, learn about why Project L is a game that you are foolish for not owning, and listen along to 1985's powerhouse "King Kut" by Word of Mouth.

7 months ago

19 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 87: Brian of The Bridge Teachers Puts Me Up on Game

Brian Reynolds of TheBridgeTeachers.com tells us how he fell in love with bridge, the woman who taught it to him, and how they became bridge-teaching pros in L.A.

8 months ago

41 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 86: I Review Storm Above the Reich and My Seasonal Depression

Hot chocolate against the cold. Introspection against the gloom. Fighters against bombers. Plus Sadat X, you lucky bastards.

9 months ago

36 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 85: 2024 Top Board Game Moments: 10 Indelible Scenes

A highlight reel of my favorite 10 scenes from tabletop play in 2024, plus a cocktail recipe and a Craig Mack track.