This week I talk with Mike & Olga Rimer of Caravel games. They have been making video game content for years and years in the excellent D.R.O.D. series (Deadly Rooms of Death). A few years ago, they released a solo puzzle game called Twisty Little Passages. Now they have Time Fenix coming to Kickstarter in a month or so. We talk about all their games and then have a bit of a chat about tariffs and how they are trying to deal with so much uncertainty.
01:30 Caravel Games
05:00 D.R.O.D.: King Dugan's Dungeon (Caravel Games, G.O.G.)
12:05 Twisty Little Passages (Kickstarter)
20:15 Time Fenix (Kickstarter)
41:27 Tariffs
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1:00:26
1P 375 - Popular Mechanics: Dexterity Games
This week Julius and I talk about dexterity games. It's not a category you see often when talking about solo games, but there are a few fun ones we've tried (mostly).
02:04 Flip Ships (BGG)
05:47 Nekojima (BGG)
09:50 What Lies Beneath (BGG)
12:30 Hunted: Mining Colony 415 (BGG)
15:43 Slide Quest (BGG)
21:20 Hoverkraft (BGG)
25:36 Menara (BGG)
31:14 Jenga (BGG) & Clever Girl (RPG Geek)
34:55 For Science! (BGG)
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40:05
1P 374 - Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
This week Julius and I talk about the smaller version of Terraforming Mars. Well, one of the smaller versions. The game is the very lovely love-child of Terraforming Mars & Race for the Galaxy, Ares Expedition. In this game, you are working to make Mars a habitable planet by managing the temperature & oxygen levels while raising oceans. The theme is straight out of Terraforming Mars. However, you do it by choosing actions and playing cards simultaneously, just like Race for the Galaxy.
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (BGG)
Terraforming Mars (BGG, Fryx Games)
Race for the Galaxy (BGG)
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34:00
1P 373 - Harvest
This week, we talk about Harvest, the farming game from Keymaster Games, publishers of PARKS. In this game, you are trying to farm and harvest your fields as often as possible. It's a worker placement that can be soloed by playing against Gairy, the Dairy cow.
Harvest (BGG, Keymaster Games)
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30:47
1P 372 - Back to the Table: Lewis & Clark: The Expedition
This week Julius takes us back to the table with Lewis & Clark. Go on a slow boat ride accoss the North American continent to explore lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase and explore the yet unclaimed Pacific Northwest. That is, not yet taken from the native populations of the are.
Australia