#288: Raising Robots and The Shelf of Shame Challenge

Happy New Year Cabalists! We're sorry the show is a few days behind schedule but better late than never! Today the gang talks about some of the crap they got for Christmas and a bunch of the games they've been playing including The Thing: The Boardgame, Stationfall, Kutna Hora City of Silver, The Stifling Dark, Go, and a feature review of Raising Robots from Nauvoo Games. Then Tony T makes sure you're up to date on all the most important chess anal bead news. Then finally the Founders present some of their most shameful shelf of shame games and the others vote on which ones they commit to playing!

Timecodes

• Raising Robots Review 00:58:43

• News with Tony T 01:27:18

• The Shelf of Shame Challenge 02:31:20

Opening Banter and Reviews

• The Thing: The Boardgame

• Stationfall

• Kutna Hora: City of Silver

• The Stifling Dark

• Go

Feature Review: Raising Robots

Raising Robots is a competitive, simultaneously played, engine-building game. In Raising Robots, you are a famous inventor seeking to assemble the greatest collection of robots. Each round, you simultaneously choose and perform two or more actions: upgrade, assemble, design, fabricate, recycle. Every action will be performed with a variable amount of power to make the action better or worse. However, the most powerful actions will also help your opponents.

Designed by Brett Sobol and Seth Van Orden

Published by Nauvoo Games

BoardGameGeek.com Entry

Gaming News by Tony T

Community Info

• Carlsen Not Guilty On 3/4 Counts In Niemann Ruling, Fined €10,000 For Withdrawal

• Chinese Chess Grandmaster Using Anal Beads

• Amazon Acquires Rights to Create Warhammer 40,000 Movie and TV Series

• Nemesis Retaliation Breaks Gamefound Record

• Hasbro Layoffs Impact D&D and Magic: the Gathering Teams

• Industry Veterans Launch Play to Z Games

• Ascending Empires

Crowd Funded Projects

• Votes for Women

• Fief England - Alliances, Treachery, And Power

• Clash for Eternia Back on Gamefound

Founder's Froth

• The Fox Experiment

• The Ghost in the Attic

Upcoming Product

• Ducktales Coming to Lorcana

• Images for Warhammer: The Old World Emerge

• Tiny Epic Game of Thrones

• New Agricola Expansion

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