dary! And welcome to Episode 99 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, stars align and omens appear as we are about to kiss goodbye to two digits for good! The episode begins as usual, with a Standee Catchup with Fen and Cara, of dogs and humankind so to say. Then we begin with Freedom Five, a Defenders of the Realm game from Greater than Games: Fen does the honors here; fun fact: the game has four expansions and a promo which appear to be engulfed in a time paradox (see BGG stats!). The ...
Mar 23, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Welcome to Episode 98 of The Last Standee Podcast! This is one where we have to apologize in advance for making you listen to Alessio for a feature-length episode. No, the team is still there. It's just that it's a mess sometimes to put together speakers geographically distant, and when illnesses and shaky world situation interfere, that's a recipe for missed episodes. We pull through the best we can, though, thank you. ...It was way more informative than what I meant initially, but it's fine. T...
Mar 08, 2025•52 min
Hello and welcome to Episode 97 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, we TRAVEL! After the Standee Catch-up, Fen breaks ice by talking about a recently fulfilling pet project of ours from COVID times, aka Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread, from the same author as Xia: Legends of a Drift System. Then, Audrey recounts her experience with Faraway (not to be mistaken with Far Away, an entirely different game we also reviewed), a card game with an innovative scoring mechanism. Finally, Alessio ...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Welcome to 2025, and also to Episode 96 of The Last Standee Podcast! Moderation and sobriety mark the start of the year with the A Team (Alexis-Audrey-Alessio, cue '80s music), while we learn in the Standee catch-up what everyone has been up to (spoiler: it's flu, mostly. And dealing with job market. Yeah, moderation and sobriety). After that, we begin dabbling into games (I hope you will appreciate the effort put into finding a good name for the episode) - Alessio tells us about Steam Power, a ...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Hello, hello, hello! The storm went and passed through, and the team is back at work to provide you our best quality entertainment! ...which is an assessment of _our_ best quality, not best quality in general. Anyway! After the Standee Catch-up (guest star: Pamcha!), Cara leads the team into the raging 1995 to talk about the old titan in every gamer's room, Catan! And the team has STORIES. Then, Alessio leads two very different discussions: one about the last fatigue from Nerdlab Games, Agent Av...
Dec 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Welcome to Episode 94 of The Last Standee Podcast! From a certain perspective, this is a one-of-a-thing episode with fun twists and shenanigans. From another perspective, though, this is an episode where there's only Alessio. Feeling so alone that he added a text-to-speech track to keep him company! (No seriously, we had good reasons to have so few speakers these last episodes! This is one exceptional case!) Because this is TRUE SOLO, where a LONELY speaker will talk about a very appreciated SOL...
Nov 25, 2024•29 min
Welcome to Episode 93 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode we reach theatrical heights as we start up in comedy, trying to make an intro right; let's say that quickly turns into tragedy without pretty much of a warning. I mean, I hope you had fun listening at least half as much we had recording. Whatevs! In the Standee catch-up we get some notable excerpts from games presented at Essen SPIEL 2024 (heavy-heavy games left off on purpose) and an insight in our broken lives, then it's building ...
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Wouldn't "ensorcelled" be a good "second E" in the outro? But I digress. Welcome to Episode 92 of The Last Standee Podcast! The Standee Catch-up kicks off the episode, then it's news galore (yes, we sometimes take time to relay boardgaming news too), along with a few comments and impressions from the team and boardgame small talk. After the news segment, it's Cara's reviews time! This time, we tackle Witchcraft: Moonlight Magic, a game to wich/witch BGG community assigned a weight of 1 - but is ...
Oct 13, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Welcome to episode 91 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, after the usual Standee Catch-up and a bit of news, we have Fen discussing Bloomburrow for Magic: The Gathering and, more widely, having a chat about the Cube Format and its applications throughout the (T/L)CG panorama. After that, Alexis guides a review with the team for the Frogdog expansion.
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Episode 90 of The Last Standee Podcast! How are you, fellas? Refreshed from vacations? Tired from their lack thereof? Meh, as usual? (seriously, let's set the bar a bit higher than "meh") GenCon has come and gone, "closing" 2024 as far as releases that will be honestly reviewed for this year will go. Essen SPIEL is behind the corner, and a new year's worth of new releases is elbowing its way in (I mean, we'll have Unmatched Ninja Turtles!), but let's do things properly. This Standee C...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Simmer in the Summer! ...Feels like I wasted this intro that could have been a good title for another time. But anyway! Welcome to episode 89 of The Last Standee Podcast! Scorching hot July and Hailstorm Downpour July are hosting this beloved/belated episode with Alexis & Alessio. After the usual Standee Catch-Up (Old Man Yells at Clouds edition), we got Alexis discussing something falling out of traditional gaming categories: Vermis Book I - something someone from the '80s would call a "sou...
Jul 21, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Midsommer! And also to Episode 88 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, we'll enjoy near-synchronicity with current news, starting from the news during the Standee Catch-up! After it, Alexis gives us a synchronous look to a STILL BACKABLE RPG kickstarter project, The Hollows. After that, it's time to check the NOT-YET-RUNNER-UP for Spiel des Jahres - Captain Flip, with Alessio. Finally, it's Audrey's turn to give us a glimpse into the future with M.A.R.I. On Mars, an action pr...
Jun 23, 2024•52 min
Hi all, welcome to episode 87 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode we cover a bit of everything, starting from the Standee Catch-up with Cara, Alessio and Alexis. After catching up, it's time to decrypt cyphers with Alexis, who introduces us to Turing Machine, a very good "multiplayer solo" puzzle game with sort-of-programmable states (do you see the tech imprint in this intro? The game's good if you are into puzzles, don't worry). Next, there's a true solo game, with recent Unreliable Wiza...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Hi all, and welcome to episode 86 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, after the unmissable Standee Catch-up, Audrey talks about Dungeons & Dragons: Bedlam in Neverwinter, the investigation boardgame about the popular monster-hitting TTRPG. After that, Fen will review Leviathan Wilds, a production which brings back Shadow of the Colossus vibes with a bit of whimsy, and finally Alexis and the group will talk about Eat the Reich, the actual TTRPG.
May 26, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Welcome to Episode 85 of The Last Standee Podcast! This episode is dedicated to very confused introspection, as we follow with increased worry Alessio and Cara talk at length about boardgames and bureaucracy. But before we get to the latter, we have an inexplicably long Standee Catch-up where we discuss the former, along with the intricacies of time loops. After we are done, Cara recounts her experiences with a Fen-favourite (yes, spelling is right) game of yore: A Game of Thrones, Second Editio...
May 12, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Hi all and welcome to episode 84 of The Last Standee Podcast! And not just "any" episode - this is one episode from the A-Team (Alexis, Audrey and Alessio), or how we humbly call it, a triple-A episode (no seriously, why you keep following us?). After a catch-up with some news from the boardgaming world, Alessio talks us about Rebel Princess, aka the Hearts variant you didn't know you needed. Then, Audrey leads a team talk about MLEM: Space Agency, the game where cats go to outer space on their ...
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Hi all, ready to feel the groove with us? After the Standee Catch-up, Fen takes on the ouverture with the Gig. Now, I would really say that the Forest Shuffle, about which Audrey talks next, is a dance move, but I guess you'll have to listen to the episode to find out. The Finale is in the capable hands of our Cara, who brings us back in the world of Tidal Waves with the Banner Festival!
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Am I the only one feeling sleepy in Spring? Welcome to episode 82 of The Last Standee Podcast - early Spring edition! In this episode in the sign of egregiousness (I swear, this is not AI-generated!) we start egregiously drifting aimlessly in lazy recollections with the Standee Catch-up, at the end of which Alexis gives us an update on what is the current situation with Golden Bell Studio crowdfunding projects. Then it's time to start the Edventures with Audrey presenting Cartaventura games (tha...
Apr 03, 2024•46 min
Argh, we're late! Again! Welcome to Episode 81 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, our three chatty hosts/speakers have a long, winded Standee Catchup, then Fen leads the talk to the main course of the episode, ISS Vanguard - one of the latest fatigues from Awaken Realms, with the ambition to narrate an epic spacefaring campaign which starts and ends (or ends and starts?) with a mystery encoded in the DNA of all lifeforms. Was this ambition successful? Well, you'll have to listen to th...
Mar 18, 2024•54 min
At long last, episode 80! It always feels nice when we get to complete tens of episodes, doesn't it? Anyway (anyho), this episode begins with the usual catch-up, then we have Fen presenting The Plum Island Horror. Unsettling mysteries continue with Alexis talking about Pop-up Mystery Manor, until we can finally rest and relax with Cara, presenting us her list of relaxing games - Namiji, Tranquility and In Dreams (Cara reviews woo-hoo!)
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Welcome to episode 79 of The Last Standee Podcast! In our endless pursuit for aesthetical perfection, always striving for novelty, we bring you a... special? Is it the right word? Would it be better "weird"? Oh, it's yours to judge (definitely weird) episode, because that's a two-people recording, dedicated to two games, which are two-player games (not one, not three)! After all, it takes two to tango! ...And now that I wrote that, I can retire with a smile. Anyho, after the Standee Catch-up, we...
Feb 05, 2024•39 min
Three steps, as it has always been. First, a welcome: Welcome to Episode 78 of the Last Standee Podcast, and our first episode of 2024! How are the smoldering remains of society treating you at the beginning of the new calendar? Second, an intro: after long debate, we decided to kick off the year with an episode with the regular formula: three games, three speakers, some fil rouge to connect everything. Yet, this episode is special? Is it maybe because one speaker was recording from a van parked...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to Episode 77 of The Last Standee Podcast! This time, the content of the episode is a mystery. No, not because this is a mystery-themed episode (one day!), but because the francophones took over the episode! What will they be talking about? Are there even three people in the staff speaking French? Is THIS the way we spend Patrons' money? The answer to these questions, and maybe many others that will probably arise, lies within this very special track! Yes, with the end of the year we alw...
Dec 12, 2023•29 min
Welcome to Episode 76 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode we trade common sense and decency for a hearty laugh - and that shows right away from the Catch-ups! This episode will probably be remembered as "the one with the best transitions ever" - we feel so sure of it that we account even for future episodes. Cara begins the -no, not serious. Not even "more structured" - let's say the chat about crowdfunding - what has been, where we're at and future plans, for what are worth. After that...
Nov 26, 2023•1 hr 12 min
There were five or six speakers, a few more listeners, a lot of monsters, some designers in the darkness. Everybody knew nothing. Welcome to Episode 75 of The Last Standee Podcast! For this episode, we are back doing what we do best, and that's idly chatting about boss battlers (yeah, we could have done a bit earlier, but we wanted the entire crowd of speakers to be on the same page). In this episode, we begin discussing the Gambler's Chest Expansion of Kingdom Death: Monster! Yeah, thankfully t...
Oct 30, 2023•2 hr 10 min
Boardgamers ahoy! ...or not quite, because we got exactly ONE game not fitting the sailing theme! Oh well, as they say: sometimes you eat the bear... This episode, after a Standee Catch-up which doubles as a PSA for animal care, Cara sets sail to distant shores into EOS: Island of Angels (which was called once... nah, listen to the review :) ). Then, Fen starts what could very well be a series of articles with the very beginning of the Pathfinder LCG series: Rise of the Runelords. Last, Alessio ...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Welcome to episode 73 of The Last Standee podcast! Yes, there will be space, aliens and ancient Egypt, and no, it's not a Stargate Episode. But we are getting ahead of ourselves now. As usual, we begin with our Standee Catch-up among Alexis, Fen and Alessio. With that done, it's time to go through a couple news items that are floating around these days. After that, it's time to finally talk about boardgames! Alessio got Amun-Re: 20th Anniversary Edition and is eager to tell us how it aged since ...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Welcome to Episode 72 of The Last Standee Podcast! It has been a pretty egregious vacation, albeit a very belated one, but we are now here in full swing to bring to your table our opinions of what we brought to our table (an example of traditional Hobbit speech). We usually compose titles with some smart puns about the theme of the episode, so yeah, this episode's title is more wishful thinking than everything. After the usual Standee catch-up, we'll have Alessio talk about Keep the Heroes Out, ...
Sep 17, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Welcome to Episode 71 of The Last Standee podcast! This being the second part of our immense KDM retrospective, y'all already know what you are signing for! In this episode, Fen, Alexis and Audrey continue the chat about mechanics and talk about the hobby aspect and a few other topics.
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 39 min
Welcome to episode 70 of The Last Standee Podcast! In this episode, while the team waits for the King and, well, the rest of the stuff in the Gambler's Chest, we have the first part of our Kingdom Death retrospective! In part 1, Fen, Alexis and Alessio chat about the origins of the genre, KDM's own history and some mechanical insights. Stay tuned for part two!
Aug 06, 2023•2 hr 20 min
