So Very Wrong About Games
A podcast about all manner of hobby games by Mike Walker and Mark Bigney. Bad games don't go easy on you, so we don't go easy on them. Thorough analysis via reviews, news, and discussion of topics in gaming. We take context seriously, we value your time, and we're not into hype. Just because games are fun doesn't mean we can't take them seriously, and just because we take them seriously doesn't mean we can't have fun.
Episodes
March 3, 2026 • 55 mins
This weeks guest Chris from Liege of Games
https://www.youtube.com/c/Li%C3%A8geofGames
00:00 Intro
00:48 Torchlit (David Spalinski Allplay 2024)
03:51 The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Reiner Knizia Office Dog 2025)
06:31 Soar (Max Anderson, Zac Dixon, Austin Harrison IV Studio 2026)
12:08 Riftforce (Carlo Bortolini 1 More Time Games 2021)
13:57 Penguin Party (Reiner Knizia AMIGO 2008) NOT a dexterty game....
16:28 Winnie...
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February 24, 2026 • 76 mins
This weeks special guest Efka from No Pun Included
https://www.youtube.com/c/NoPunIncluded/videos
00:00 Intro
Games we played last week
01:11 Cena (A.I. Lab 2025)
04:40 Wine Cellar (Andrew Stiles 25th Century Games 2025)
05:29 Movie Tricks (Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Eilif Svensson, Åsmund Svensson Chilifox Games 2025)
08:09 Sweet Takes (Hisashi Hayashi Hasbro 2023)
10:40 Inis: Nemed (Christian Martinez Matagot 2026...
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February 17, 2026 • 64 mins
This week's guest Don from The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast
00:00 INTRO
Games We Played Last Week
01:52 Soothsayers (Jeff Grisenthwaite, Play to Z 2026)
05:45 Orléans (Reiner Stockhausen, DLP games 2014)
08:56 Xenology (Dan Manfredini, Play to Z 2025)
13:16 XenoShyft: Onslaught (Keren Philosophales, Michael Shinall, Cool Mini Or Not 2015)
16:30 Puerto Rico 1897: Special Edition (Andreas Seyfarth, Awaken Realms 2025)
...
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February 16, 2026 • 43 mins
This week I welcome the Hungry Gamer
00:00 INTRO
Games We Played Last Week
01:08 Conquest Princess: Fashion Is Power (Seppy Yoon, Peter Yang Fight in a Box 2024)
03:44 War Chest (Trevor Benjamin, David Thompson AEG 2018)
06:08 Lands of Galzyr (Seppo Kuukasjärvi, Sami Laakso Snowdale Design 2022)
09:27 OffShoots (Dan Linden, Self-Published 2024)
12:20 Flamecraft Duals (Manny Vega Cardboard Alchemy 2025)
15:17 Yokohama (His...
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February 3, 2026 • 75 mins
Today's episode is brought to you by the letter T
T stands for tracks, tedium, Tiny mini games and sometimes Torturous
00:00 Intro
AYURIS
01:08 Captain Flip (Remo Conzadori, Paolo Mori, PlayPunk 2024)
Games We Played Last Week
04:06 Fields of Arle (Uwe Rosenberg, Feuerland Spiele 2014)
08:16 Lunar Rush (Steven "Skippy" Brown, Dead Alive Games 2023)
10:08 Clans of Caledonia: Industria (Juma Al-JouJou, Karma Ga...
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January 27, 2026 • 53 mins
A viking fighting for Olav the Holy at Stiklestad gets an arrow in the eye. The man pulls the arrow out, his eyeball still on out it, and says: "Det jaggu nærme nasen! (That was damn close the my nose)"
Another viking fighting for Olav at Stiklestad gets an arrow through his heart. He manages to pull the arrow out and study it. With his dying breath he says: "Eg har fettslintrat kring hjartet. Kongen har fødd meg vel. (I have fat ...
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January 20, 2026 • 58 mins
On today's episode we have Sam from Board Game Dual Podcast
https://boardgameduel.podbean.com/
00:00 INTRO
Games we played this week.
01:09 Yokohama Duel (Hisashi Hayashi, OKAZU Brand 2018)
05:19 Airlines Europe (Alan R. Moon, Rio Grande Games 2011)
07:45 I Made You a Mixtape (Mike DiLisio, Dan Hughes, Massive Asterisk 2025)
11:12 Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel (Richard Borg, Pressman Toy Corp. 1993)
14:49 Marve...
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January 13, 2026 • 68 mins
https://boardgamebarrage.com/
Well here it is Walker's all alone now.....
Today I am joined by Mark from Board Game Barrage
00:00 Intro
01:08 Games we played last week.
01:12 Bomb Busters (Hisashi Hayashi,Cocktail Games,2024)
05:00 Let's Go Japan (Josh Wood,AEG,2024)
08:28 Taj Mahal (Reiner Knizia,Ravensburger,2000)
11:55 Lone Wolves (Yasuyuki Nakamura,Anthony Perone, Wonderful World Board Games,2024)
15:33 Subjective(...
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January 6, 2026 • 49 mins
This guy just won't leave... Mark and I in our last, last episode together for a bit. Not to worry I will be rambling ever forward.
In this shorter episode we talk about just the games we played last week, some news and scene.
01.29 -AYURIS: Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)
Games Played Last Week:
05:05 -Tidal Blades 2: Rise of the Unfolders (Tim ...
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December 30, 2025 • 92 mins
In some ways, the origin story of the podcast can be traced back to Sentinels of the Multiverse. Upon arriving in Kingston, Mark was at a games event at someone's home, and he saw that someone had brought a then-complete set (this was a few expansions ago) of Sentinels. He knew that this person, namely Walker, was a person worth knowing. It therefore seemed fitting that on one of Mark's last days in Kingston that he, Walker, Huey, ...
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December 23, 2025 • 68 mins
"One day I was sitting in a gazebo, and there was a plaque on the gazebo and it said, 'This gazebo was built by the town in 1863.' That is in the middle of the Civil War. And the whole town built a gazebo. What was that town meeting like? 'All right, everyone, first order of business, we have all the telegrams from Gettysburg with the war dead. Let’s see here. Okay, everyone’s husband and brother and… everyone died. Okay. Josiah, y...
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December 16, 2025 • 70 mins
"I thought the Rococo was the name of the ship in Aliens."
"No, that's Sulaco. Rococo is the statute targeting organized crime."
"No, that's RICO. Rococo is the hot beverage made with chocolate."
"No, that's cocoa. Rococo is what you put on walls to give them texture."
"No, that's stucco. Rococo is a kind of shortened note in music."
"No, that's staccato..."
1:10 AYURIS: Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan (Gordon Calleja, Mighty...
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December 9, 2025 • 67 mins
You gotta read the fine print, always. Anyone dealing with a supernatural entity--whether a djinn or deity, gremlin or god--has to be conscious of the exceptions. It's simple enough--if the wizard handing you a fantastical creature tells you not to feed it, you just don't feed it. Similarly, if someone promises not to kill you *in a certain way*, MacBeth can tell you that's more of a threat than a guarantee.
Games Played Last We...
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December 2, 2025 • 65 mins
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Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Tapple.
Caution: Tapple may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Tapple contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
If Tapple begins to smoke, get away imme...
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November 25, 2025 • 66 mins
Before Dr. Reiner Knizia invented areas, everyone and everything was simultaneously co-located and yet distant all at the same time. It was primordial chaos. Movement was effectively impossible, as Xeno demonstrated; then Knizia did don his Bow-Tie of Delineation of Time and Space and constrained and liberated us all at once with his invention of areas.
Games Played Last Week:
00:53 -Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gat...
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November 18, 2025 • 78 mins
While Mark is perhaps disappointed at the typical tragic dearth of questions related to Macross and Terry Bogard, and Walker secretly yearns to be granted naming rights to a listener's offspring (protip: don't let him), SVWAG answers all* of your questions!
*by which we mean some.
01:21 AYURIS: Cascadero (Reiner Knizia, Bitewing Games, 2024)
Games Played Last Week:
03:09 -Cerebria: The Inside World (Richard Amann, Viktor...
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November 11, 2025 • 89 mins
In our effort to answer all of your Omnibus Questions, sadly we cannot enlist the assistance of notable Canadian Keanu Reeves. In an interview with Stephen Colbert--as a joke after Keanu said something profound--he was asked, "What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves?" After a pause, and the audience's laughter, Keanu said, "I know that that the ones who love us will miss us."
I SAY DAYUM, KEANU
Games Played Last Wee...
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November 4, 2025 • 94 mins
We deliver this episode despite the officially mandated period of public mourning due to Toronto's setbacks in basesball. In Canada, public mourning is characterized by donning black jean jackets and swapping our Tragically Hip for the more down-tempo Blue Rodeo, to say nothing of abstaining from boardgaming.
Please don't turn us in for violating federal law. We might get banned from Tim Horton's.
01:44 AYURIS: An Age Contrived...
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October 28, 2025 • 88 mins
"'Frederick Chopin was a Polish composer in the Romantic style who wrote primarily for the piano.'
I guess this is sort of interesting, as most facts are. But history has shown us that *facts are not what most humans believe.* They are not that which motivates most men and women to love to or to crime.
Now COMPARE this statement:
'Frederick Chopin was a Polish composer in the Romantic style who was obsessed with ladybugs, often ...
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October 21, 2025 • 77 mins
As ever, we do not acknowledge one of the most pernicious false dichotomies in the rulebook space; whether rules should be strictly permissive (you can only do what the rules say you can) or strictly restrictive (you can do anything unless the rules say otherwise). I have never seen a rulebook forbid me from choking an opponent, nor have I see a rulebook give me permission to breathe. I will thus reject both models as being rather ...
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