This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Thoughts on Games on Wil Wheaton's TableTop (Snowed In 2025)

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

Part of our Snowed In 2025 series. Mike credits Wil Wheaton's TableTop for helping to get him into the board gaming hobby.  Today, we go over all of the games played on the show, whether or not Mike has played them, and which games from the list he likes.

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of the podcast 10 inches of snow and yeah we're stuck here for at least the rest of today so

I'm not seeing anyone trying to join this chat although people are welcome to not seeing that happens so let's go ahead to some little on the fun side of things

and yeah so of course as you're probably aware if you're a regular listener to the podcast I'm a board gamer and one of the things that influenced me into board gaming is

the tabletop series with Will Wheaton So So let's go over the Games that were reviewed on Tabletop. It played on Tabletop. This one's just Review. They actually

played the games. So let's take a look at the games. I'll tell you why I think of each game if if i have thoughts on that game so all right here we go season one small world this is a game i don't like definitively i've played a couple of times but uh yeah not a fan i'm especially not a fan of the idea that you have to at well at some point uh kill your own guys

not a fan of that mechanic at all so uh so that's one i would say pass on uh so as a catan uh definitely play it uh if you haven't all right it's just called katan now um but uh definitely give a shot at least once yeah embrace the uh joys of trading wood for sheep is a pretty good one it's a very simple gameplay is very quick I do like that uh zombie dice

I don't remember I think I have played that one but uh meh I don't know meh on that one and uh get bit that's a that's a fun one

uh where you're swimming to a avoid a shark and uh if you get caught you get bit and uh and your uh little figurine it's kind of like the uh black knight in my python he starts losing all his lambs come over here i'll buy your legs off um do we have a ticket to ride uh i highly recommends tickets to ride, especially for newer gamers. Very simple stuff, playing cards, and you're laying down trains to mark your rats, try to get the longest rats, and all that fun times when I was doing the singles game

nights, and I might resume that. will see that is the game i went with just because it is a simple game to teach a simple game to understand so to get uh munchkin uh i recently played munchkin with my brother and uh definitely a fun long game we start off as a level one human with no class so michigan is a definitely i'm going to read that later um castle panic it's a nice uh cooperative game and uh you should play you should uh play at least one uh gloom i own gloom very funny little game at which is trying to get get your characters all depressed

And you can't make them too happy. You got to give them to suppress and then you kill them to get your points. So funny stuff, very dark humor. Fiasco have not played, so I can't say anything about that. But say anything, fun little party game and everything. Yeah. Not much to say about that one, but elder sign. Elder sign, this is a Cthulhu game, is a Cthulhu dice game.

And I do highly recommend this. It's great. I've played it a couple times a solo. It's a great, especially for a fan of Cthulhu and don't want to spend four to six hours playing Arkham War or another. game that's on this list so so very good one uh dix is another good one um uh the conceits with a disc dixit say right there is uh you uh play a card say what the what do you think the theme of the card is everyone has to play a similar card and

votes on which one is the original card so very fun I do highly recommend that one with some wagers also a fun one also a fun one a moral party games

but definitely recommend pandemic we've actually played pandemic on the pot yes all right during pandemic times is the great co-op game, the

quintessential Leacock game Matt Leacock, the guy that designed it. And do highly recommend you want to be real

balzy go for one of the legacy versions of this game. So, yeah, so that's a pandemic. Last night on Earth, I have not played, but that is the Dr. Hanna, endlessly wandering around.

Starflux, I am not fan flux, like, at all. So if that one way for me. Alambra, I do own a copy of Alambra. Sitting around here somewhere, but a very fun little game. We're basically building an Alambra. a walled city set around a fountain

I recommend Chegeek is a another game I highly highly recommends and I have expansions for that one but really funny the whole goal of the game is to slack off

so recommend so that's Season 1, Season 2, we certainly Formula D have not played the resistance. I have played and got away with murder. It's,

if you ever played the game, secret Hitler, I mean, Hiltor, it's basically the same concepts. Some of you are traitors and trying to

sabotagey. Everything. uh once upon time nice little storytelling uh game uh do recommend at least once king of tokyo uh very fun a little game uh we're all playing as a kaiju monsters trying to take over to uh it is a dice rolling game so if you suffer from dice curse not a good game to uh get into another Leacock co-op game and this is one of the better ones so I do recommend this one. Smash up of course it is my favorite game. We have played it on the podcast. I am I have been playtesting expansions for this and I do still

I recommend it and yeah Star Trek Catan This is basically So there's a Catan button with Star Trek theming. Still pretty good. X-Wing! X-Wing! This is a game I demoed for Fantasy Flights

during the 2016 convention. Med-Americon to when I was working with Fantasy Flight. And this was one of the games we were demonstrating. So pretty good. I do recommend, especially if you're Star Wars fan. Well, it's a water deep.

I own this. This is the game that got me really seriously into the gaming hobby. It's worker placements, D&D themed. And, yeah, get to Miss Kate Al Bears. I do not recommend the expansion for this called the Scalciles of Sculptort but base game has been of replayability as it is Shadows over Camelot

I have not played Betrayal and House on the Hill We have played on the podcasts And do I recommend that one Funnall game, especially around Halloween time Takenoko, that's a fun little game with pandas and eating bamboo and farming bamboo. So it's a fun little one. I do recommend unspeakable words.

Don't think I've played this one, but another Cthulhu game. We have to spell words and roll die to try and not go insane. Once you are insane, you can make up words. Quarkle That's a fun Little That's a fun Long game

Porkel So I recommend that one Twelve days I can't recommend Because I haven't played it Caucasong I highly recommend I especially live this

As a solitaire Okay So Carcason A lazy Farmers out of the field Just Lazy

stay around lying on their back the whole game doing nothing and then the sea I don't think I've played this one tickets to ride Europe

basically ticket to arrive on a map of Europe the original ticket to rise a map of the US this one's a map of Europe and they include a couple of other mechanics like stations so

I do recommend the Fortune and Glory have not played Lords of Vegas have not played Moving on to Tokaido I own Tokido with its two expansions, the crossroads and the Matsuri

to say that's a Zen game I don't know about that but it is a very simple game to play and there's no need to roll dice and stuff for Ben Deserts is a little more complex than

for Ben Island but still a fun little game. Catane Jr. I'm not played. I don't have kids so random for me to play that one. Heron the Tortoise Yeah, I have played

Heron the Tortoise. That's That's an interesting one. Council of Verona have not played. Stone Age, I've only played online. Stone Age. But make sure you feed your people. That's key concepts of the game. Feed you people.

Key Cat, I own. There's a lot of trivia-based game. I do highly recommend. Shepard Nottingham I also own. And highly recommend, especially if you're really good at lying to people. Or to quote, Jason Kelsey's oldest child. A good game if you're being naughty and sneaky. did a winner

do recommend I have played that I don't own Nitz but I have played it I do recommend that Epic Spell Lords of the Battle of Wizards

Jewelette Mount Skullsfire have not played doesn't really feel to me Cards Against Humanity I have played I still feel dirty

just thinking about playing it so ugh just uh five tribes have not played uh concept i have played it's a board game version of uh charades to your argument uh dread have not played i understand there's a jing guitar involved with that one uh lebitalia i've played online

fun and very easy to learn the same is true of a coup universe universe wise same universe as the resistance uh and uh with a little more

a little more strategy and no one's actually a traitor or anything you're just going after one another so I do I do recommend that one Kingdom Builder I have not played

Legendary I have played It's It's a deck builder I'm not a fan of deck builders Usually But this one It's okay

For deck builders So Roll for it I own Dice game To try and match The dice two It's on the card

Sushi Go own it. In fact, just recently, but the Sushi Go party which takes Sushi Go up to the next level.

I recommend either those Sushigo or Sushgo party. And my sense of mystics I have not played. And then their crowd-funded fourth and final season.

Lanterns, I played Alright Jameson Midgard had not played Martin have not played Tiny Epic Galaxies have not played Frate of Dracula have not played Harbor have not played

Dragon Farkel have not played Star Realms have played Don't like it Fates Core RPG, I have not played. Star Trek five-year mission. I have played, and I do recommend. Um, Mysterium. I played, believe it or not, the Polish version of this.

Uh, it plays a blending of Dixit and Clue. It's okay. It's okay. I don't say it's a good or bad, but not my thing. Steam Park, I've not played Miss Spent Youth. I've not played Flashpoint Fire Rescue.

Have not played. Welcome to the Dungeon. Have not played. Codemes I own. Do highly recommend. First time I've played it, that was a funny thing I think the clue

was Mexico no what the clue is taco or something no Mexico Mexico and tacos were in false but I got the right word and you told me you told me the wrong words or what the

F and this is a good game to confuse people with sports references like Buck would come up and you say Milwaukee won Milwaukee's the clue

One word matches it And Buck is right there The Buck's our Milwaukee's basketball team And people And some people Just again

That's fine And that That kind of has to humor And then Eldred Shore The last game They were played on that Show I do own It takes four hours to play

Period Can't really Speed that one Up and it is a Cthulu game so

Hey Cthoo What's up Of course International Tabletop Day was the thing And this is That's really what got me Started in

Tabletop Gaming Was going to Tabletop Day And then finding out But game days After that I believe that was Uh 20 15, yeah, 2015

was when I went to, so, wow, I've been gaming it for 10 years. It's, all right. I don't think anyone's going to be showing up here. That's fine. Got one more of these. I think we might actually play a tabletop game for the last one, if someone

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