The Staying In Podcast - four pals talk video games, board games, and movies

Fading fast? Pop on the latest episode for some high energy geek culture chat; it’s better than coffee!!! (?) We talk The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth from Fantasy Flight Games, Bamboo from Devir, Hungry Monkey from HeidelBÄR Games, Ghost of Tsushima from Sucker Punch, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 , and Extraordinary by Emma Moran. Plus, a hog. 00:00 - Keeping Kris awake...

Fellow humans, we welcome you to the Staying In Podcast. In this episode we have a good time discussing Lok , a game by Blaž Urban Gracar; BEEF , a series by A24; Mr Inbetween , a series by FX; and PowerWash Simulator , a game by FuturLab. Plus, a pleasant discussion about a useful new tool called ChatGPT. 00:00 - ChatGPT presents the Staying In Podcast. 09:10 - Puzzle books and handsome women. 12...

Keeping it Zen-like with a Rolife Book Nook Shelf Insert , staying focused in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy , nodding along gently to Hi-Fi RUSH , relaxing with Thorolf with Catan: The Helpers , and running around terrified fighting for our lives against the gibbering zombie horde with Resident Evil 3: The Board Game . Plus, McDonald’s milkshake? 00:00 - The Spray 06:16 - Rolife Book Nook Shelf...

Movies and television? Yes. Video games? Yes. Board games? Yes. This episode of the podcast has it all. Movie and TV reviews include Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (it’s very very good) and The Last of Us (it is also very very good), tabletop-wise we dig into the excellent Kingdomino Origins from Coiledspring Games, and head out to explore Pikmin Bloom from Niantic. Plus, cordial. 00:00 -...

Airecon was absolutely amazing, and we have many gifts we’ve brought back for you, including Nidhoggr Mead , uh, mead, and Honey Badger Games tea, accessible character sheets and Roll Table for 2 from Fights and Fancy , and the short, strategic, simple, and sneaky Ominoes from YAY Games . But that’s not it, oh no! There’s also jumping aboard the space bus and tearing through the universe in Wormho...

Over on Netflix, Wednesday is straight out of the mind of Tim Burton and some of the team behind Smallville and it’s great, Gavin Inglis and Glen Rahman’s Alone Against the Frost from Chaosium is well-written, super challenging solo roleplaying for Call of Cthulhu, Resident Evil 2: The Board Game from Steamforged Games is an ace adaptation of a classic video game onto the tabletop, and Paperback A...

Ghibli-esque slice of life Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation The Endless Seven-Day Journey is Millennium Kitchen’s nostalgic return to Boku no Natsuyasumi, and Mada is all about discovering the hidden game within just as much as it’s about hand management, risk taking, and prickly pears. Kids go hunting for ghosts in Joe Cornish’s very bingeable Lockwood & Co. that has sharply-wri...

Our Flag Means Death is a romantic comedy (with emphasis on the romance) of pirates and gentlemanliness, hot off our RRR kick we’ve fallen hard for Eega , and we have thoughts on modern horror Barbarian . We get investing in property with Rebuilding Seattle by WizKids, scope out just how much love has gone into Sniper Elite: The Board Game by Rebellion Unplugged - a hidden movement board game base...

The best board games to play remotely, how Back 4 Blood is a modern Left 4 Dead with deck building, we head to a Welsh village Chasing Static , you’ve got to love That Old Wallpaper ’s strangely compelling theme, and The Decagon House Murders uses the howdunit format to great effect. Plus, a rich vein of stuff. 00:00 - A “job lot”. 06:06 - A question from our pal Ben Tucker: what are the best boar...

The butt-clenchingly moreish Vampire Survivors from poncle, the really lovely and dead quaint comedy Ghosts, and the lovingly adapted video game brought to life Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game from Steamforged Games. Plus pillows, and ripping music in 2023. 00:00 - Getting in the Groove and streaming dreams. 08:57 - Sam's V pillow. 12:12 - Vampire Survivors . 35:11 - Ghosts . 43:50 - Horizon Zer...

Andor is Disney+’s new Star Wars series and it’s a fantastic Brechtian political spy drama that doesn’t rely on lightsabers, K3 from Helvetiq is an abstract game that’s a cross of Chess, Connect 4, and programming, and Akropolis from Gigamic is a very quick tile laying boardgame we just love. Plus New Year’s resolutions and predictions for 2023 based on movies. 00:00 - What will 2023 bring? Let’s...

Marvel’s Star Wars homage / Kevin Bacon delivery vehicle The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special gets dissected, boardgame reviews of Luna Capital (place tiles, build an engine, reach the Moon) and Lacrimosa (Mozart’s dead, figure out his legacy), and going back to a genre-definer with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Plus we enter The Christmas Zone, and give each other our traditional Sec...

00:00 - Kris's birthday, celebrated not with a song, but a goldfish. 10:09 - Just to be clear, The Bear is not for kids; it’s an intense black comedy drama, shot on a small budget, all about the pressures of running a sandwich shop. 27:27 - Coffee Talk is from Toge Productions and has you brewing up hot beverages for fantasy creatures. It’s a pretty laid back visual novel, and it’s perfect for bed...

00:00 - True crime. 08:47 - Marvel Snap from Second Dinner and Nuverse doesn’t necessarily reinvent the genre’s mechanics, but what it does with card battlers, it does better (and faster) than pretty much all the others. 22:50 - A slower-paced, smaller-scale movie that’s ghoulish, perhaps even Shakespearean, The Banshees of Inisherin is a dark and funny and profound film you should go out of your...

00:00 - Alexa, play Staying In Podcast! 07:11 - Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is… just completely out there! We explain why, even if you don’t care all that much about flying games, you need to invest some time in Bandai Namco’s latest entry in the series. 16:44 - Learning, adapting, and trying again is the order of the day in foxy isometric adventure Tunic from Tunic Team and Finji. Like Zelda? Lik...

00:00 - DIY, Oodies, a birthday, and an aversion to wool. 05:51 - PlayStation 4 corker The Order: 1886 (as discussed in Ep156 ) continues to impress. 10:24 - Everdale (last chatted about in Ep136 ) is closing down its servers, and now we’re in a sentimental mood, discussing games experiences now gone forever. 17:10 - A special early look at the asymmetrical, pirate-themed board game Ahoy from Lede...

00:00 - Listener pal Ben asks us for some gaming recommendations for new parents; exactly which games CAN you play with one hand?  10:27 - Manchester played host to Tabletop Gaming Live 2022, so naturally we were in attendance too. What a great event! 17:56 - We only get to speak about Quarto from Hachette for a little bit, but that’s fine because our feelings about it are simple: you should for s...

00:00 - Shoot for the Stars : Round 1. 05:04 - justfortherunofit asks us a very important question. Crumbs… 13:34 - Shoot for the Stars : Round 2. 14:18 - RRR has the best bromance, has the best disclaimer, and just might have the best set of abs. 25:49 - Shoot for the Stars : Round 3. 27:44 - Oceans uses the world of science in conjunction with cardboard fishies to create a lightly educational en...

00:00 - Case. Closed. (thanks, McVitie’s ) 07:13 - Kris rides a horse. 10:13 - An arctic whatnow? Thoughts on completing Tough Mudder . 15:34 - War Boys VI kicks off with V-Commandos . 17:56 - More drama, strategy, and conflict, with the Undaunted Series (especially Undaunted: Normandy ). 21:16 - And yet more War, with the Boys, as we take to the battlefield with Hogs of War The Miniatures Game ....

00:12 - The creation of “Bubble Boyz presents The Staying In Podcast presents Hot Tub the game”... or something... we should probably come up with a better name at some point. 12:10 - Going ape at Go Ape . 19:24 - Oink Games’ In a Grove is all about solving a murder using deduction, prediction, and a spot of luck, in a tiny little box with wonderful component quality. 27:00 - Need more murder? In...

00:00 - Pogs are back, maybe? 05:20 - Ready at Dawn’s The Order: 1886 was an early title on the PlayStation 4 that lots of people seem to have slept on… but they shouldn’t have, as gorgeous-looking steampunk shooty bang bangs are the order of the day. 20:08 - Having a hair cut in the same way a cake is iced. 21:44 - War Boys VI: The Road to Valhalla; it’s that time of the year again, when we play...

00:00 - A letter to DEFRA. 03:56 - Thor: Love and Thunder is Taika Waititi second go with the Asgardian and while it’s lost a bit of the danger felt in Ragnarok it’s still distinctive and well worth watching. 23:32 - FUT! We dip our football-booted toe into the wonderful world of perfect chemistry, aka FIFA Ultimate Team, thanks to Mr. Jones. 43:45 - Eating biscuits the right way… or was it the wr...

00:00 – It’s time to investigate. 05:06 – Ms. Marvel is wonderful. It’s a celebration of cultural identity, with nuance, laughter, wisdom, community… we love it. 28:30 – Lifting the curse with shuffleboard at the Bristol Craft Beer Festival . 32:36 – Disney Villainous from Prospero Hall and Ravensburger is genuinely kind of incredible. The art and component quality is staggering, the asymmetrical...

00:00 - What crisp are you? 03:36 - Top Gun: Maverick is really good. Really REALLY good. And it’s not just a simple nostalgia trip, it’s a well-told story with incredible action scenes, that everyone needs to watch. 26:03 - We’ve loved them since we first saw them, and now the Jackass folks are back with Jackass Forever . And again, while nostalgia plays a big factor, it’s really the bond between...

00:00 - The worst place to stage a stag do . 02:49 - Everything but the act of reading. 05:25 - Gran Turismo 7 is the sequel to… Gran Turismo 2? It’s an expectedly gorgeous simulation racer that goes back to one of its earliest entries for its inspirations. Is this the perfect audiobook game? 21:20 - “Do you think anybody will notice?” 26:00 - Everything Everywhere All at Once is the greatest mult...