The Last Standee

Welcome to Episode 36 of The Last Standee, Where No Man Has Gone Before! After the usual Standee Catch-up, Alexis breaks the ice (and throws the nets) with Fleet: the Dice Game. Then, we have a true giant of procedural sandbox space exploration games with Xia: Legends of a Drift System, presented by Fen. And to close the episode, just when you thought we would never dare to mix Star Trek quotes an...

Welcome, most excellent guests, to the 35th episode of this fine publication! Let us entertaining you with master Alexis, who will talk at lengths about CoraQuest, a handcrafted masterpiece reminiscing the days of yore, while not forgetting proper etiquette in serving tea (well, there's a kettle involved!). Following this entree, there's Fen with Obsession, featuring a main course of Victorian hau...

Love is in the air, but here at The Last Standee it's Gelatinous Cubes time again! Marcin Welnicki from Into the Unknown is joining us this episode to talk about their upcoming, imminent, Kingdoms Forlorn Kickstarter! Check out with us what the authors have to say about their newest project!

Welcome to escapes and other diversions in episode 33 of The Last Standee podcast! After our conventional Standee catch-up (1:18), Alexis gives us precious insight about the "Escape the Dark *" series, with the Dark Castle and the Dark Sector (10:52). Next, Alessio talks about dwarves trying to escape a besieged mine in The Siege of Runedar (22:39) and Audrey talks about It's a Wonderful Kingdom (...

THE CLAP RETURNS (0:00)!!! Welcome to Episode 32 of The Last Standee Podcast! We begin as usual with the Standee Catch-up (0:43), then Audrey (finally!) deep dives into Marvel Crisis Protocol (14:44). Then, it's Cara's turn to talk about Paleo (38:49), a.k.a. 2020's Kennerspiel Des Jahres and an all-round excellent co-op. Finally, Fen gets to talk about another cardinal point trilogy, or at least...

And here we are, 2022! After a 2021 of technical problems, great interviews and interesting games, we are back at the mics in 2022 to bring you some old acquaintances coming back (the technical problems) and some new pleasant experiences (new games!). After the Standee Catch-up, Alexis talks about a great solo-game-which-can-be-played-with-higher-counts: Nemo's War! Later, Fen makes a recap about...

Welcome to episode 30, and last episode of 2021, of The Last Standee podcast! In this episode, the team discusses 1 Player Guild's top 200 solo boardgames... or, well, they go over a lot of them, because 200 are really **a lot** (and episode editing always does its magic!). Enjoy our overly long ramblings about stuff. if you want have a chat with us on our Discord server over the holidays, or just...

Oh boy! It's Super Mega Special Fun Time - BECAUSE IT'S EPISODE #29! Yes, I am 100% determined to leave it like this, now. In this episode, we play a game: each one of us picks their "Best of 2021" boardgame in various categories! Which categories? Which games? No spoilers! Just stay tuned until the end for some extra ramblings, and WE ARE NOT DONE YET! Enjoy this very special episode, we'll be ba...

Welcome to this impossibly long named episode 28 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, Audrey tells us about one of the rare deckbuilding co-op games (go ahead, check!) with Aeon's End (10:06), then Fen brings us inside the smart scoring mechanics of Between Two Cities and its late successor, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig (32:36), and finally Alessio takes us out for a(n exhaustin...

Welcome everyone to Episode 27 of The Last Standee! In this episode, right after the Standee Catch-up (0:58), Fen talks about was definitely not thought as a cautionary tale about climate change: Atlantis Rising (9:35), then Cara flocks in aid to introduce us to the wonderful world of birb-watching with Wingspan (23:00). one of the most relaxing engine building games out there. David makes RPGs re...

Welcome to episode 26 of The Last Standee Podcast! After the Standee Catchup, Alexis brings us into the fray of galactic space battles with Deep Space D6. After that, it's Audrey's turn to introduce us to the issues of feeding a cumbersome gift with Takenoko. Fen closes the episode comparing two very different approach to the "roll a RPG character sheet" theme by comparing Roll Player and Call to...

Welcome to Episode 25 of The Last Standee Podcast! Brace yourselves, because it's interview time again: this time the team interviews Felix Mertikat from King Racoon Games about Tsukuyumi: Full Moon Down! Tsukuyumi: Full Moon Down is a clever asymmetrical 2018 game (with a lot going on for it, but listen to the interview to know more!) for which the second edition recently went live for everyone t...

Welcome to episode 24 of The Last Standee Podcast! After the usual catch-up, where we learn about the uprising from Cara and her "trusted students" (0:56), Fen tries the (impossible) feat of reviewing six very cool Oink games in six minutes (11:08), and right after that (23:59, not exactly six minutes) the team has a brief chat about the nefarious events that keep popping up this Summer. To contin...

Welcome to a new episode of The Last Standee podcast! This episode, after a lengthy Standee Catchup (0:31) which also goes a bit over recent news, Alexis and the group talk about Shablam! (16:09), aka Drag Queen Lip Sync Racing Contest - what's not to dig! To stay in the theme of shinies, Audrey then talks about Fist of Dragonstones (33:25) and Chakra (41:06), while Cara recounts her adventures wi...

Welcome to Episode 22 of The Last Standee Podcast! Yes, this was kind of unexpected, but y'know, last episode was cut short, so we felt the urge to talk about boardgames a bit more this month! After a bit of post-, pre- and during- vacations chat in The Last Standee catchup (0:50), Alexis talks about a classic from Chip Theory Games: Too Many Bones (11:38)! After that, it's Alessio's turn to intro...

Welcome to the mangled remains of Episode 21 of The Last Standee Podcast! For this episode, we sadly sacrificed Fen's speech track to the Podcasting Gods who, always hungry as they are, left us with a few precious bits of conversation which still made sense - so we salvaged this mini-episode, in which we talk about Abyss! Tech monkeys at work, we will back with next episode in full swing! Follow u...

Welcome to Episode 20 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this Episode, right after the Standee Catch-up (0:38) Audrey introduces us to the world of Arzium with Above and Below (17:09), then Cara pushes us onward on our journey with Near and Far (35:03, but check it out 10 seconds earlier for a memorable transition), the second game in the series. To wrap up things while we wait for the upcoming Now o...

Welcome to Episode 19 of The Last Standee Podcast! It's summertime and our droning and passionate staff won't put timestamps to the episode this time (sorry about that!) The episode starts with the usual Standee Catch-up, then Alessio will bring us in the Norse Mythology (and a good bidding game, by the way) with Nidavellir. After that, Audrey introduces us to Everdell, the other game in the other...

Welcome to Episode 18 of The Last Standee Podcast! We begin with the usual Standee Catchup (0:50), where we learn about the gifts of mother earth and Rule 34 of boardgaming (DON'T google "rule 34". Just. Don't). When conversation gets to devolve into talking about the weather (that really happened), we move on to talk about The Networks (9:52) and by comparison about its streamlined two-player ver...

Please join us welcoming our last Standee - Cara from CaraPlayingStuff! First, we tackle an important matter with David (1:44) with a short announcement, from which we go on with the Last Standee Catch-up (10:02), followed by a news bit about the so-labelled Global Container Crisis (22:30), which sadly is not a cool name for a worker placement/polyomino game - dibs on that, by the way. Cara then t...

Hey, sorry we're late! We had the craziest three weeks as a team, but we are all here (hopefully, David will survive The Great Flood, but we're getting ahead of ourselves). In this episode, after the Standee Catch-up (1:11), the team tackles Golden Geek 2020 winners with a round of very unrehearsed opinions (17:00), then Alessio introduces us to the wonderful world of trick-taking with The Crew: T...

Welcome to this very special episode of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, the team interviews Francesco and Enrica, a.k.a. Axis Mundi Games, in an EXCLUSIVE interview about their upcoming Kickstarter project, Sankokushin: Five Sacrifices! Follow us on Patreon and on Discord!

Technical difficulties, please stand by! This episode we got a bad track (not pointing fingers, Alessio) and the editing was super long, but we were not alone: after the Last Standee Catch-up (0:38), we discuss what kind of technical difficulty could have Games Workshop had with the botched launch of Warhammer Quest: Cursed City (7:24). After that, Alexis reviews Monster Hunter: World Kickstarter...

Welcome to this timepiece episode! In the Last Standee Catch-up (1:05) we learn about incoming kickstarters, fulfillments, news and their absence, then Audrey brings us the LOOP (13:35), a game about foiling the plans of Evil Dr. Faux, time traveler and bad guy extraordinaire. After that, Alexis brings us through the different epochs of the "grimdark" saga of Avalon, talking about Tainted Grail: T...

From tech trees to actual, very wooden trees! We start by talking about an exceptional new "first game of a designer" with Beyond the Sun, then we go to the industrialization economy masterpieces of Martin Wallace falling under the hat of Brass (but especially Brass: Birmingham), and finally we get stranded in a struggle for survival with Robinson Crusoe, and its brand new collectors edition on Ga...