Dan Thurot

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They Survived One of the big questions in wargame design is how one ought to simulate the range of possible outcomes. Take the Battle of the Bulge. Should a designer concede to playability by pretending that the…

ENDURANCE. I love this game for multiple reasons: its argument against the inevitability of history, its willingness to be strange, but most of all its dedication to fortitude. Everything about it is chilly. spacebiff.com/2023/03/23/e...

Syke! In 1916, at the height of WWI, two diplomats met in secret to outline the future partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Those diplomats, the United Kingdom’s Mark Sykes and France’s Franço…

SYKES-PICOT. A bitter historical artifact and trick-taker area-control... thing, which evokes the insouciance of distant imperial governance. spacebiff.com/2025/06/16/s...

Three Phases of Six Moons The past is not a foreign country but an act of imagination, one that can have greater or lesser fidelity to something that once happened, but one that also remains forever out of reach. The best w…

CITY OF SIX MOONS. Perhaps this translation game needs to introduction... but then again, maybe it needs more introductions, because I'm not convinced anyone has actually learned how to play it. As an Actual Translator, I dug this one. spacebiff.com/2024/10/25/c...

Going to Bed Angry I occasionally think back on the mudslide of advice I received when Somerset and I got married. There was so much, and we were so inexperienced, that at the time it was impossible to sort into good…

PERSUASION. I haven't played this version of Xoe Allred's relationship game, but I did play the original edition. And it's super cool! Complicated relationships, one-sided relationships, bitter marriages, happy marriages, joyous and miserable singles. spacebiff.com/2022/11/03/p...

Hollandspiele European and UK customers: our games are available exclusively at Second Chance Games. We no longer sell to Europe through our own site. We are a small weird publisher that specializes in small weird ...

With one day left in the Hollandspiele Hollandsays Sale, here are a few of the titles I have recommended that are currently available. hollandspiele.com

✨ Reminder!! ✨

Indie Games Night Market is tonight @ 7pm!!

When the Expo Hall closes, come down to Hall C to buy the freshest indie games!!

“More even than last year, these games seem like they’re pushing boundaries. They capture the spirit of what it means to be ‘indie.‘“ @danthurot.bsky.social

True.

Three great reviews here; I'm very excited for both of these other games! They'll all be available at the Indie Games Night Market this Saturday evening.

And Crownfell (regular paper edition) can be purchased at the link in my pinned post. 🧡

Thanks, Andrew! It was great getting in a session with you. Even if that session was five minutes in the parking lot.

Playing a couple of rounds of Medusa's Garden in the parking lot was a very surprising highlight of SDHistCon for me. I'm not usually a social deduction fan, but that one was a delightful distillation of the genre. Great writing on it (and two more games) from Dan here.

it's either pajamas or lederhosen. no middle ground.

LOL totally

would smash

Gosh, I hope so. When I die, I want a dapper awesome dude living his best life to be like, "Come with me, bud, time to party at this sick aquarium."

look at that awesome sexboy

Dan Thurot in lederhosen and a vest and a hat, perched on a turtle, looking dapper and fuckable.

Reskeet with a time I looked cool? Um, right now, baby. Right fucking now.

O.O

Seems it was deleted, but I'm still morbidly curious to take a look. Do you know if it's still floating around somewhere?

Have fun out there!

It felt like the clouds parted when I typed that instead of the whole damn name.

(Designed by @bbornmueller.bsky.social)

Trick-Taking’s Back on the Menu, Boys! The problem with sequels, especially in board games where sequels are mechanical artifacts first and narrative artifacts a distant second if at all, is that there isn’t necessarily more to sa…

The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game follows up on last year's Fellowship trick-taker, and like that inaugural release it's an innovative and excellent adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy novel. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/11/20/t...

Heck of a joke, though!

That's very kind of you! I think I'll wait for the PGC reprint this next summer. But thank you!

I think I'm okay, but thank you!

I try to be the pleasant surprise in somebody's life. When I receive a trade offers from someone who seems like they can't quite afford a "fair" trade, I'll often send them the game for free. I know not everybody can do that! But it bums me out when somebody approaches it like a profiteer.

Yeah. His proposed trade was bonkers.

yeah, the one guy wanted like $600 in games

and I'm sure it's amazing but

Thanks!

I keep trying to get my grubby mitts on Eternal Decks, but to no avail. Reached out to someone on BGG who had it listed for trade, and they wanted like five games in exchange. Five full games! New games! Hotness games!

Anybody have a lead? I'm bad at this, haha.