The Level Up Board Game Podcast

Draw your arrows and take aim!  Recent adventures include Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition, Northern Pacific and more!  Legends battle and the heroes cast their best spell: the 8-bit breakdown, on Unmatched, Battle of Legends with brand new Deadpool Expansion!  Gather 'round the campfire as adventurers discuss when the "hype" let them down.  Finally, our adventure on the horizon features a narrat...

The heroes find themselves in the land of Zanziar, traveling to the mountains of the Dwarven Collective, and aiding in the disposal of Orcs in an old village to the East!  That's right! We're diving into currently live kickstarter, Beyond the Rift: A Perdition's Mouth Card Game!  Hear our thoughts on this dungeon delving card driven campaign, then stick around as we are joined by the game's design...

Welcome adventurer!  Join us for our feature quest: Yedo!  Recent adventures include Street Masters, Gloomholdin' and Parks.  Pour a tankard and join the discussion about cinematic experiences in board gaming.  Finally, we share our thoughts on an upcoming quest, a currently live kickstarter: Top Pop!

The campaign continues as the heroes tell tales of the first Level Up meetup!  Recent adventures include Chakra, Solar Storm, and more.  Black Orchestra gets the 8-bit breakdown treatment.  The community discussion is about what to expect at a board game meetup!  Finally, as we will do every ten episodes, we list our top 5 games of the last ten we reviewed.  Join the adventure and level up!

Join King Scott and Patrick as they discuss Lonely Undead, a game with an interesting twist on the zombie genre.  We give it an 8-bit breakdown before being joined by the designer himself, Shelby Matussak of Dead Lemon Games!

The heroes try out their sea legs in this quest in the north!  Recent adventures include Maximum Apocalypse, Axis and Allies 1914 and more!  Raiders of the North Sea is tackled in the 8-bit breakdown, then we discuss some community topics, including our poll on vacation gaming!

Ready your swords 'cause you're going to need them!  The heroes are joined by Andrew Lowan, designer of Deliverance!  Spoiler: this game is epic!

Back to the tavern to speak of recent adventures, the heroes tell tales of Altar Quest, Battletech, Stronghold 2nd edition and Call to Adventure.  Find out how they fared in their epic quest: Red Rising!  A new hero joins the party, Keith Matejka, of Thunderworks games, to talk about all the gaming greatness they have in store for you, from Lockup: Breakout to Cape May!  Join the adventure and LEV...

Tighten those boots! Recent adventures include Tranquility and Twilight Imperium: Prophecy of Kings, as well as our solo thoughts on both Proving Grounds and Warp's Edge.  Our feature quest takes us to the far reaches of space as we review Beyond the Sun.  To round things out, we have a community poll discussion and the winners of current kickstarter games!

Welcome adventurers!  Today we're joined by Adam, Scotty, and Abbie to take on our feature quest: Brass Birmingham!  Hear our thoughts on the 2020 Golden Geek Awards.  We talk recent adventures as well as some solo games that have been hitting our tables.  Then we got to talk with Chris Loizou about upcoming kickstarter game, Cursed Empire!  Finally, we add ANOTHER game to our giveaway!  Join us!...

The heroes find themselves in a quest filled with retro adventures including our feature review: Puerto Rico.  We reached out to the community to learn about some common gaming pet peeves.  Finally, our adventure on the horizon is Hidden Leaders!  Hear all about the game, and enter to win our copy!

A new quest is afoot!  Join the heroes as they are joined by Thuergy designers Oliver Josiah and Charlotte Dowling to discuss their funded kickstarter board game: Thuergy, including an 8-bit breakdown of the game!

The heroes discuss recent adventures before taking on a giant killer quest: GKR Heavy Hitters!  Then its time to visit the study as we answer questions from the adventurers!

Episode 11 is a quest like no other!  Our party grows in number as MartinG joins us to discuss all things solo gaming before we adventure to Martin's print-and-play hideaway.  After the 8-bit breakdown we share our top 5 games of those we have reviewed so far.  The episode concludes with an adventure on the horizon that you don't want to miss: Territory, the Card Game.  

Make up camp and start the fire because episode ten is our biggest quest yet!  Games discussed include Alien: Another Glorious Day in the Corps, Brass Lancashire, Tainted Grail, Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion and more!  The adventuring party grows larger as we are joined by Wade Hayes, the designer of Poetic License! 

The heroes share recent adventures and in a Level Up first, our feature review is a game that has not yet launched on Kickstarter!  Then our adventuring party doubles in size as we have a discussion with the game's creators!  

Join our next quest! We discuss several games this episode, including Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Palm Island, Airlines Europe and Nanty Narking!  Our feature review is the popular Century Spice Road.  Then we check in on the community as we break down a poll concerning board game expansions.

Join our adventure for episode 7! Scott and Patrick share their recent adventures including Spirit Island, Red Outpost, Downforce and more! Our quest for episode 7 is a classic: Power Grid.  Finally we talk about sharpening your skills to enjoy both competitive and casual gaming!

In our first side quest episode, Patrick and Scott talk all things solo for Terraforming Mars.  We go over how to approach the solo mode, present our favorite corporations, and even provide what we feel are our ten favorite / best cards for solo play!

Gather 'round adventurers! In episode 5 we discuss recent plays including Sagrada, Space Hulk Death Angel, Camel Up, Wits n Wagers, Sentinels of the Multiverse and more!  Our community poll is centered around the psychology of point salad games.  Finally, today's quest is a game that most gamers may be unfamiliar with: Eschaton!  

Join Scott and Patrick as we discuss recent adventures and examine our poll on dexterity games.  Our feature review this episode is Everdell! Finally, we have a look at some box art covers that really made us wonder WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Join us as we provide our walkthrough and review of Tapestry!  We also look at community topics in our "around the geek" segment.

Join us as we review Awkward Guests.  We answer some questions as to what the show is all about, and we take on the "hundred dollar buying challenge!"

Join the adventure!  In episode one we review Shadows over Camelot and give you an idea of who we are.