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And our very own Matt Lees has done the latest pass on the icons, look at these lovely little guys!

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Dogs of War by Play to Z - Gamefound A shattered realm. Six feuding Houses. You, a Dog of War, shift battles, forge betrayals, and seize glory to rise as the ultimate victor.

Just 2 days left on the Dogs of War Gamefound! Updates during the campaign have revealed the new event cards mechanic, loads of Edu's insane art, and a TTS mod and TTS playthrough if you'd like to try before you buy.

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down Is ‘The Old King’s Crown’ 2025’s Best Board Game?

In this massive review, we take a look at The Old King’s Crown - a game that’s so up our alley it might buy a house and raise a family there. Enjoy!

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Oh boy, if it isn’t that time of year again! Tom’s gone and gotten himself addicted to a giant, knotty board game again. Please wish him a speedy recovery.

Dogs of War by Play to Z A shattered realm. Six feuding Houses. You, a Dog of War, shift battles, forge betrayals, and seize glory to rise as the ultimate victor.

FUN STUFF: We've been hard at work resurrecting a SU&SD favourite - Dogs of War! A game we fell in love with more than 15 years ago is finally coming back under our new inprint - SU&SD Presents. Check out the details and our video announcement below:

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Review: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship - Shut Up & Sit Down It feels like we've reviewed a cool HUNDRED of these games, but this week we've got something a little bit special - a Lord of the Rings co-op based on Pandemic, and one of the most comprehensive and ...

Lock up you hobbits, there's a new king in town: We've reviewed Fate of the Fellowship, and it absolutely rules.

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Podcast #282 - Two Player Town (Population Two) - Shut Up & Sit Down This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking two players! Tag Team is a head-to-head brawler, and Suna Valo is exactly the same, but for farms! Finally, Matt waxes lyrical about General ...

Two players ONLY! You are absolutely FORBIDDEN from listening to this episode of the podcast in the presence of more than one other person! If there’s three in the car right now, then Susan is going to need to take a HIKE!

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down Frontier Scum in 1 rule

Play as outlaws in the wild west that never was, replete with chain-smoking mules, eldritch revolvers and suspicious tonics.

Saddle up, rascal.

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Scum on the frontier; Frontier Scum.

Alfred Valley's back with a spitwad rules summary to get you hyped about this rootin' tootin' acid western roleplaying game.

YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down An Extremely Comprehensive* Review of Tic-Tac-Toe*

Listen, we know you’re certainly busy playing Silksong. Lord knows we are.

But if you’ve got 10 minutes spare for the ol’ analogue fun - the cardboard times? Well, Tom’s gone and made a video about noughts and crosses. It’s better than it sounds, honest!!

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Podcast #281 - Tom’s Game Gauntlet II: The Return of ‘Game Gauntlet’ - Shut Up & Sit Down It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical...

Podcast! This week, it’s what we’re calling a ‘Solo Tom Special’, for a nippy rundown of all the weird odds and ends recently played but scarcely covered!

Nary a single dud in the bunch, here; a spicy selection of recommendation!

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8 New Co-op and Solo Games │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #7 - Shut Up & Sit Down The finale of Board Games Direct is HERE! And we've got an interesting selection of boxed THINGS to show you! This episode focuses on games to play co-operatively or on your jolly lonesome - with an e...

...at the next game from the folks who made BEAST, an especially shiny game about Hercules, and an unexpected peek at Animal Rescue Team - the first of two games that we're co-publishing!

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The finale of Board Games Direct is HERE! And we've got an interesting selection of boxed THINGS to show you! This episode focuses on games to play co-operatively or on your jolly lonesome - with an exciting peek...

Peek at 7 Puzzles! │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #6 - Shut Up & Sit Down We're trundling towards the end of Board Games Direct, but we've STILL got a bunch of exciting new games to show you. A brand new version of Cascadia? Ooh! Gorgeous pond-management in Koi? Gazebo seem...

Ooh! Gorgeous pond-management in Koi? Gazebo seems just as mean as it is colorful, and gingham allows you to live out your fantasies of being HUNDREDS OF ANTS CRAWLING OVER A PICNIC.

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We're trundling towards the end of Board Games Direct, but we've STILL got a bunch of exciting new games to show you. A brand new version of Cascadia?

10 New Light Games │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #5 - Shut Up & Sit Down In today's episode of Board Games Direct, Matt and Tom are excited to present you with TEN games - all of which are on the lighter side! Explore the luscious landscapes of Parks, push a planet into a ...

Plenty here we'll be wanting to see more of - keep an eye out in the coming months!

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In today's episode of Board Games Direct, Matt and Tom are excited to present you with TEN games - all of which are on the lighter side! Explore the luscious landscapes of Parks, push a planet into a friend in ORBIT, or explore the megagame-in-a-box stylings of Coalition?

8 Games For Just Two Players! │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #4 - Shut Up & Sit Down “A DUEL TO THE DEATH, THEN!” I scream aloud in the cafe, as I throw a handful of playing cards at my bewildered partner. She’ll never beat me. I’m the master of my craft - The Schotten Totten World Wi...

It is fair, Philip. You’re going down!

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In today’s Board Games Direct, we’re taking it down to just TWO players!

This crop of games thrive on getting into your opponents’ head, and poking away at all that gray matter. Ooh! Ughh! Oww! My strategies!!! My tactics!!!! This isn’t fair!!!

A little one-off we made for our stand at UK Games Expo earlier this year.

8 CRUNCHY Board Games! │ BOARD GAMES DIRECT #3 - Shut Up & Sit Down Today’s installment of Board Games Direct is an absolute crunch fest - a smorgasbord of textural games! Read more

There’s some real treats in here - a veritable fountain of decadent design! Enjoy!

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After a gentle detour in the world of the humble card game, we’re back with a full-force VENTURE into the chunkiest genre of all. This third installment in our Board Games Direct preview series is peeking into the murky world of CHUNKY EUROGAMES.

We’re collecting chairs, fishing for monsters, and constructing quaint villages in Wales! What more could you want?!

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We’re back with the CARD GAMES installment of our Board Games Direct Series! All these games, big and small, have you clasping a cadre of cards in your clammy claws - and they’re all a bit QUIRKY.

All publishers taking part in BGD were required to confirm that they will not be using any AI art in their final production copies of their games. That includes SHUG, so our understanding is that the game does not contain any AI art.

12 Exciting Thematic Board Games!│BOARD GAMES DIRECT #1 - Shut Up & Sit Down It’s our first installment of Board Games Direct! In this CHUNKY video, we’re going to walk you through a whole bunch of newly released and upcoming games with something that folks in the business lik...

We’re kicking off Board Games Direct with a look at TWELVE (!) Thematic board games!

Taking monsters to the pub! Fighting centipedes with hordes of ants! Defending cities on the backs of giants! It’s all here!

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down NEXT WEEK: BOARD GAMES DIRECT!

This has been a truly heartening project. Year on year the industry delivers vast amounts of fascinating designs, and we’re so happy to show you even just a tiny slice of that pie.

We truly hope you find a whole bundle of games here to get excited about! We certainly did!

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NEXT WEEK, IT’S BOARD GAMES DIRECT!

Presenting over 50 new releases across a whole week of videos, Shut Up & Sit Down want to show YOU what publishers have been cooking with cardboard.

YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down Moon Colony: Bloodbath is a Bonkers Engine BUSTER

Our latest review is a DOOZY of a card game! Moon Colony Bloodbath is brilliant and MEAN. And as a special treat, we're joined by Matt's entirely safe and non-violent Robot Butler. BRING A TOWEL.

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Podcast #280 - The Firefighters of the Rainforest - Shut Up & Sit Down Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouill...

That’s right! It’s Hutan, Timber Town, and Flash Point: Legacy of Flame on this shiny new episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast Experience™

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