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Podcast #289 - Standard Box, Kallax Nightmare - Shut Up & Sit Down On this post-apocalyptic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’ve got the last remaining swigs of game in this here canteen - don’t gulp it all to yourself, now! Share nicely…Tap below for ful...

Podcast! Tom and Matt chat tricksy-worker-placer in ‘Phoenix New Horizon’, followed with step-by-step instructions on how to bump off an entire lineage of royals in ‘Regicide Legacy’. There’s even time for some leftover tug-of-wars in ‘Zenith’! What a pod!

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Podcast#288 - The Memory Tub - Shut Up & Sit Down On this gloopy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are donning their Memory Marigolds and getting elbow-deep in the past; recalling titles played all the way back in November 2025 ...

Podcast! Tom and Matt are chatting about an avalanche of games of various quality, and YOU’RE INVITED! It’s horse breeding in Epona, it’s worm catching in Wriggle Roulette, and it’s definitely Not A Game About A Pipe. Enjoy!

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Review: Railroad Tiles - Shut Up & Sit Down In this video, Tom tries to shoo away the January blues in the only way he knows how; by relentlessly over-playing a gentle game about trains, cars, and people. Railroad Tiles is a fabulous spritz of ...

Video! Tom’s fallen head-over-heels for Railroad Tiles, a delightful box of trains and cars that’ll chase away the greys of January…

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Review: Wroth - Shut Up & Sit Down We're kicking off the year with a video that we're hoping might just be colourful enough to wash away a layer of that cold January grey. Wroth - a recent release from Chip Theory Games is simple, tact...

Watch Matt review Wroth: an unbelievably snappy game of dice-drafting, area control, and harassing your friends with the hands of an Orc.

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Podcast #287 -Tending Time - Shut Up & Sit Down On this ticked-off episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are rambling about the box-ticking bonanza ‘Tend’ as well as the chronologically questionable ‘Take Time’! Tap below for full...

Podcast! This week, Tom and Matt are chatting about the final boss of flip-and-writes, as well as a tantalising new co-op game for fans of The Crew AND The Mind! The Crind. The Mrew. Something like that.

Enjoy!

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SU&SD Reviews: 2025 - Shut Up & Sit Down Thank you so, so much to the kind folks who keep this daft little site pottering along every year. You’re the absolute best. The bees knees! Shut Up & Sit Down literally wouldn’t exist without kind fo...

This site wouldn't exist without the continued generosity of people who want it to succeed and grow. Thank you, so so much, for taking the time to watch this video, and/or chuck us a couple quid!

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Kind folks! Lovely people! Help keep SU&SD truckin’ this winter, and get yourself a BUNDLE OF BONUS BITS to watch next week!

Preferably sprawled on the sofa, packed with cheese(s) and wine(s). Just a little suggestion from ‘Doctor Christmas’

Shelf Stable: A Board Gaming Podcast: #47 ft. Tom Brewster, Iteration and Innovation Lesser Tom is joined by the Tomb Rewster of Shut Up & Sit Down fame this week to talk board games (shock) and video/podcast creation. Listen in on some Type III fun as we get into the nitty gritty...

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BIG OL PEAR HANGIN' OUT WITH THE SHELF STABLE CAST

HELLO! If you're looking for an extra squeeze of SU&SD, then both Tom and Emily have recently guested on the fabulous @shelfstablecast.bsky.social !

It's a fantastic, laid-back, and highly tangential approach to board games - and we're big fans. Go take a listen! Right now!

Links below!

2025's Best Board Game Gifts! - Shut Up & Sit Down ‘Tis the season! We’re back with a bumper stack of great board games to recommend you buy for your best pals, your arch enemies, or perhaps even… yourself? That’s right! It’s the Annual Shut Up & Sit ...

IT’S THE ANNUAL SHUT UP & SIT DOWN BOARD GAME GIFT GUIDE! Your one-stop shop for all manner of gift material for literally any person you could think of… so long as they have at least a passing interest in board games. That’s probably important. Enjoy!

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Podcast #286 - THE BIG WET SPRINT - Shut Up & Sit Down On this free-flowing episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about competitive marble-pilfering simulator 12 Rivers, as well as a double-bill of absurd racing games in Hot...

Podcast! This week, Tom and Matt are finally tackling the dynamic duo of Hot Streak and Magical Athlete! Spoilers; they’re both absolutely fabulous. The games. Though the lads do have their moments.

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down Galactic Cruise: Epic Journey, or a Waste of SPACE?

This week's video sees Matt truly haunted by a gigantic box of cogs and space-travel fiddling. Is Galactic Cruise a holiday worth pursuing?

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down Returning to Slay the Spire - ACT 1

Back by popular demand, Matt returns with special guest Dani to delve once more into Slay the Spire. Cozy up: It's time to get DEFECTIVE.

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Hope you have a lot of fun! Drink water!

Find us at PAXU:

Fri, Nov 21 • 5:30-6:30pm • Main Theatre (Grand Ballroom B)
Sat, Nov 22 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Mothman Theatre (Grand Ballroom A)
Sat, Nov 22 • 12:30 - 1:30pm • Autographing Area (Queue Hall)

Drop by the Play to Z booth #3335 to check out Animal Rescue Team!

Podcast #285 - Second Servings - Shut Up & Sit Down On this subsequent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are returning to a couple of the games they were excited about in the Essen Special, as well as covering one that was missed ...

Podcast! Tom and Matt are circling back to a couple of the games they picked up at Essen, as well as shining a light on one particular game that’s got a special place in Matt’s heart forever and ever. Why? It’s horses, again.

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Review: Vantage - Shut Up & Sit Down In this week’s video review, Tom’s having a poke around in Vantage - one of the biggest games this year - literally! Over 1,000 cards are packed into this massive box that promises a truly open world…...

Vantage might be one of the most talked about board games this year - but do all its promises of open world wandering have us hungry for more?

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Our Top 22 Games of Essen 2025! - Shut Up & Sit Down On this FULL CAPS CHUNKY episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about all of the games they played at Essen 2025! This is an audio-only reupload of the video we just put o...

Podcast! If you’d like to have our ‘Games of Essen’ video in an audio-only format, then we’ve done and gone whacked it into the podfeed.

Twenty Two of the very shiniest Essen releases covered in just under two hours. Phew! That’s a lot of cardboard!

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down Games of Essen 2025 - RANKED

A HUGE video this week! Join Matt and Tom as they rank THE GAMES OF ESSEN 2025.

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Podcast #284 - Exponential Cards - Shut Up & Sit Down On this flexibly numerical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are, you guessed it, talking once again about games with CARDS, BOARDS, and DICE! In exactly that order - each game p...

Podcast! This week, Tom and Matt are talking about games that get exponentially larger and larger until they threaten to explode all over the table in a big mess that’ll take AGES to clean up. WE WARNED YOU ABOUT THIS!

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down 5 MORE Great Small Games!

SMALL GAMES ARE THE BEST, PLAY CARDS ALL THE TIME.

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Podcast #283 - The Grumpy to Cosy Pipeline - Shut Up & Sit Down Usually the moniker of ‘Cosy Game’ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box that’s pleasant enough, but doesn’t tickle us for more than a couple plays. But this week on the p...

Podcast! In this episode, Tom and Matt are having their prickly outer shells soothed by a veritable bubble bath of cosy games! We’re talking Wild Ventures, Railroad Tiles, and Alpine Lakes on the most RELAXING episode of a podcast EVER RECORDED!

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YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down This Tiny Box of Fairytales Packs a Mean Punch | 3 Chapters Review

It's time for Hansel and Gretel to get SOUPED - this week's review is a delightful card game

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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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