Decision Space

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 66 - Downforce Buckle your safety belts because this one gets a little bit bumpy. This week we cover Downforce , a Restoration Games remake of Wolfgang Kramer's original design with design work by Kramer, Rob D...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 65 - Sushi Go! Sushi Go! by Phil Walker-Harding is our feature game in this week's episode. As card-carrying members of the PWH fan club, we're excited to sink our teeth into this super-light game. We'll explor...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games!   Call to Action Please nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek award!   Episode 64 - Audience Q&A You asked, and in this episode, we answer. We take on tons of great questions submitted by our audience (thank you so much to everyone who submitted a question) that range from seriously thought-provoking to seriously silly. More than ev...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 63 - Tigris and Euphrates Part Two Interdecisional Spaceship recalibrating. Charting return course to Tigris and Euphrates. Read Message: "Please join us for the exciting conclusion of our two-part series on th...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 62 - Tigris and Euphrates Part One This is a bit of a doozy. In the first part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake spar about the merits of Tigris and Euphrates. Is this a great game? Would you...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 61 - Great Western Trail Howdy! Today, we cover a game that, fittingly, Brendan and I have both had our own long and winding journeys with. And wouldn't you know it, it appears we hit a fork in the road and end...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 60 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Play This episode is all about the way we play board games digitally and what we've learned from the experience. Our show would not be what is without the lear...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 59 - A Feast for Odin An extravagant menu, satisfying options, and playing out over 7 courses, A Feast for Odin by Uwe Rosenberg delivers on the promise of a decadent gaming experience and then some. In this we...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 58 - What We Talk About When We Talk About A New Way To Talk About Objectives In Games Holy S***! It's a new way to talk about type episode after long last. In this one, Brendan presents his new framework for d...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 57 - Broom Service Imagine if to fold in poker you had to say, "I'm a cowardly hill witch." Well, that is basically Broom Service in a nutshell, and I don't need to say more than that to tell you that Broom Ser...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 56 - Our Board Game Biases and Affinities Today's show topic is arguably the first one we should have ever done. In this What We Talk About episode, we dive into our board gaming biases and affinities. It is ou...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 55 - Cartographers In this week's episode of Decision Space, we chart a course (heh) for the flip-n-write game Cartographers , designed by Jordy Aidan and published by Thunderworks Games, where players get to,...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 54 - Cascadia Sorry to all previous guests on Decision Space, but it must be said that on today's episode of Decision Space we welcome our most special guest to date. For our deep-dive discussion of the decisio...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 53 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn't This game has a great tempo! That move just gained you so much tempo! I have tempo in this situation! All of these phrases can s...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 52 - Evolution: Climate This week we begin with a brief "What's on Your Mind" discussion. Brendan has been playing Calico, and Jake recaps an epic birthday game day. After that, we hop right into our signature...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 51 - Palaces of Carrara 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. Find out what we say as wee discuss this sleek desi...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 50 - Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to Explore in 2022, Podcast Aspiration, Book Club, and a Big Announcement 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 also share our podcast aspirations for 2022. If that...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 49 - Splendor The week we change things up. No, really! It's the return of the "What's on Your Mind" segment where Jake and Brendan each share one game that we've been playing lately. Then we take off for Splendor's decision space in our interdecisional spaceship. We ask if this mega-hit is truly an engine building g...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 48 - End of Year Special where We Rank Every Game Featured on Decision Space in 2021 In the end of year special edition of Decision Space, we rank every game featured on the show this year from 30 to 1. Thank you for making this first year of Decision Space such a wonderful experience. Here's to even bigger things in...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !  Click on this link to participate in our end of the year community top 10 poll .    Episode 47 - Azul 2018 Spiel Des Jahres winner, the 58th best game of all time on Board Game Geek, and designed by the esteemed Michael Kiesling, you don't need our podcast to tell you that Azul is a good game. So today on Decision Space, we di...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 46 - Raiders of the North Sea If you've been playing hobby board games over the past six years, then you likely have at least a passing awareness of the output of Garphill games and designer Shem Phillips. (If you are new to hobby board games, then welcome!) In today's episode we cover the Garphill Game that first pu...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 45 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Irrational Actors with Special Guest Tony Faber Is a new player pretty much the same thing as a drunk player? This is just one of the many hard-hitting questions we'll dig into (seriously) on this week's episode of Decision Space. The topic of irrational actors at the board...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 44 - Kingdom Builder Back with yet another classic game and yet another Spiel De Jahres winner, this week on Decision Space it is Kingdom Builder . We bring out our magnifying glasses to explore the decisions in this game, and it is a good thing we did because is the smallest decision space we've come across yet. But...

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 43 - Patchwork 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 . This is a game that hides a lot (of negative points) under its adorable (or gruesome - hello Halloween edition) exterior....

Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community !    Episode 42 - Objective Versus Subjective Decision Space (WWTA) For the first time, we revisit a topic discussed on our 3rd ever episode, decision space. (Yeah, like the name of the show.) Specifically, we try to add nuance to the original discussion with something that has been coming up a lot in our game discussions, the su...