Decision Space

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 188 - Top 10 Games of the '90s In this episode 3 copilots take on a tall task - rank the top 10 best euro-style board games of the '90s. We try out a wacky new format, it is kind of...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 187 - EGO On this historic day, the Decision Space co-pilots have finally been talked into accepting a review copy of EGO from Bitewing games. While we couldn't play as many times a...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 186 - What We Talk About When We Talk About the Sweet Spot Mechanic In this game we talk about the sweet spot mechanic, which is kind of but not quite a jackpot mechanic and an effi...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 185 - Five Tribes We return to a classic deep dive, covering Bruno Cathala's Five Tribes, a 2014 hit by Days of Wonder that remains on the BGG top 100. Five Tribes features unique,...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 184 - What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting with Paul Salomon  In this episode Jake and Paul reflect on Stonemaier Design Day 2024, recording just one day after the ev...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 183 - Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays) In this interlude episode, Jake and Brendan quickly discuss some games that have hit our ta...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 182 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Playing on Hard Mode This week, we discuss Dr. Richard Garfield's (Magic: The Gathering, Bunny Kingdom) blog post about playing games on...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 181 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Games We Love To Lose It's our first WWTA episode since April! In this one, we discuss the games we love to lose but then go deeper as we...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 180 - Azul Summer Pavillion We discuss Azul Summer Pavillion and make the obvious comparison to the original Azul. We also consider board game implementations and ask the question i...

Episode 18 of Decision Space, originally published May 26, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion.  "In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan discuss signposts in board games. We ask important questions like what are they even? And further, what do they do? To this end, Jake becomes increasingly more confused. Fortunately, we eventually come to som...

Episode 22 of Decision Space, originally published June 23, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion.  "Today, friends, feast your ears on one of tastiest point-salad morsels ever served up by the master chef himself, Mr. Stefan Feld. The Castles of Burgundy is a great, great game. Quite possibly the best board game ever made by the tastes of one of our hosts. Bu...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 179 - The Ultimate Stefan Feld Tier List with Tyler Hackmann This week we undertake a voyage that we have never dared to attempt before -- to create an ultimate, near-comprehensive...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 178 - More Design Problems and Games that Solve Them with Jamey Stegmaier We bring back the design problems and games that solve 'em format, and we've brought in a ringer to help us...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 177 - Tikal Tikal, designed by Decision Space favorites Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, is back on the menu. Boosted by a great implementation on Board Game Arena, we have got...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 176 - Recent Plays Arcs, Food Chain, and the $%@! List It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and...

Episode 10 of Decision Space, originally published in April 7, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion.  "Welcome to... episode eleven! (See what I did there?) Today, we talk about the famous roll and write/Roland Wright/flip and write board game Welcome To...  designed by  Benoit Turpin  and published by  Blue Cocker Games . Hop on into our interdecisional spac...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 175 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Progression It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 174 - Art Awards Stop! Attention! Before you go any further, you must know that we have outlawed talking about decision spaces on board the Interdecisional Spaceship. This is not a...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 173 - Captain Flip Ahoy! We are not on ye old Interdecisional Spaceship this here be the Interdecisional Pirate Ship! Today we cover Captain Flip a game featuring many of our crewma...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 172 - Hidden Gem Connections Welcome to Hidden Gem Connections, a new game show right here on the Decision Space podcast. In this episode, joined by designer Paul Salomon (Honey Buz...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 171 - "Puzzly" Games I played a game recently that was sooo puzzly. Listener, you may have heard a sentence like this before. You may even understand what that means, but have you e...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 170 - Geekway Plays This week we have 10 Freshies and 5 Refreshies, mini-impressions and reviews, that Jake is sharing from his weekend at Geekway to the West 2024. If I saw you the...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 169 -...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 168 -...

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 167 -...