#320: Slay the Spire

Our next guest host during Michael Walker's recovery is Efka Bladukas, half of No Pun Included! Efka is an internationally-renowned board game critic and dog enthusiast, known for his detestation of whimsy and tireless tolerance of Mark's yammerings. He once split a mountain in twain with his bare hands while simultaneously inventing cold fusion, but he's so humble he'll probably deny it--which is proof positive that it's all true.

Games Played Last Week:
01:37 -Captain Flip (Remo Conzadori and Paolo Mori, PlayPunk, 2024)
08:30 -In the Footsteps of Darwin (Grégory Grard and Matthieu Verdier, Sorry We Are French, 2023)
13:31 -It’s a Wonderful World: Corruption & Ascension (Frédéric Guérard, La Boîte de Jeu, 2020)
17:34 -Cascadero (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2024)
22:03 -Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers--Heroes of Waterdeep (Vangelis Bagiartakis and Konstantinos Karagiannis, WizKids, 2023)
27:27 -Power Vacuum (Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher, Keen Bean Studio, 2024)
39:03 -Leviathan Wilds (Justin Kemppainen, Moon Crab Games, 2024)
43:32 -Primal: The Awakening (Tommaso Mondadori and Alberto Parisi, Reggie Games, 2024)
53:38 -Dune: Imperium (Paul Dennen, Dire Wolf, 2020)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
57:55 Walker continues to recover and is doing well
58:32 Leviathan Wilds expansion and reprint soon on Gamefound; uncertainty as to possible fixes
59:22 Flickering Stars by Matt Leacock and Josh Cappel; another sci-fi flicking boardgame

1:00:34 Feature Game: Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)