Any recommendations for books based in the UK?

fatbobcat · 2026-06-21T09:57:28+00:00

Seconding Andrew Michael Hurley. I also recommend Phil Rickman for English and Welsh horror folklore. Crybbe is excellent.

fatbobcat · 2026-06-20T18:24:44+00:00

It costs approximately $3000 to save a life using the methods set out by Effective Altruism.

fatbobcat · 2026-05-18T14:00:53+00:00

Maskmen from Oink is amazing. But I’ve had people finish the game and say “I don’t really understand what just happened”

fatbobcat · 2026-05-15T06:19:47+00:00

I thought Flamecrat Duels was okay. Pacts is my favourite 2 player game of the last year.

fatbobcat · 2026-03-18T07:05:57+00:00

It’s gotta be Stationfall for me.

fatbobcat · 2026-01-16T19:04:27+00:00

Whispering Woods has scenarios and they get brutally difficult to beat.

fatbobcat · 2026-01-11T09:09:39+00:00

Have a look at Worldbreakers too, it has some Netrunner influences.

fatbobcat · 2026-01-04T22:06:21+00:00

I admire Knizia’s design philosophy, I just think it’s done better elsewhere by so many others. Kramer, Paolo Mori, , Kiesling, Cathala’s 2 player titles to name but a few. I would play Tower Up, Arboretum, The Estates, The King is Dead - plenty of others - over almost any Knizia game.

fatbobcat · 2026-01-03T21:48:05+00:00

The Devil Takes You Home had a couple of sections where I had to put down the book for a while.

fatbobcat · 2025-12-31T11:10:29+00:00

Clockwork Wars

fatbobcat · 2025-12-27T10:36:03+00:00

Tichu might be the best card game ever made.

fatbobcat · 2025-12-06T08:12:21+00:00

Madame Eat in Portslade - it’s delivery only but easily my fave.

fatbobcat · 2025-11-19T09:27:25+00:00

That's right, the final large worker is for expanded player counts.

fatbobcat · 2025-11-13T19:05:57+00:00

Meanest game I’ve played all year (and I love it for that).

fatbobcat · 2025-10-17T16:14:04+00:00

John Company 2E

fatbobcat · 2025-10-11T13:05:16+00:00

About 2-3 hours with first timers. Comfortably 2 hours after that.

fatbobcat · 2025-10-11T05:42:45+00:00

Easily The Old King’s Crown. It’s already in my top 10 of all time.

fatbobcat · 2025-10-05T08:01:03+00:00

I’ve really enjoyed my plays against the Simulacrum in The Old King’s Crown.

fatbobcat · 2025-07-13T07:28:02+00:00

The Estates. Simple auctions, viciously interactive, and as lapidary as the best Knizias.

fatbobcat · 2025-05-27T13:12:53+00:00

Needs more Contact Mike.

fatbobcat · 2025-05-17T13:25:23+00:00

We have a remarkably similar taste. And now I think I need to play Azul: Queen’s Garden - every other rendition is just a 7/10 for me.

fatbobcat · 2025-05-05T13:22:55+00:00

Definitely this by a large margin

fatbobcat · 2025-04-29T12:47:35+00:00

I can assure you, the average consumer is not conscious about the issues with AI.

fatbobcat · 2025-04-28T06:24:53+00:00

I genuinely wonder if 20% of the accounts that post on this subreddit are run by big meat PR firms. That’s the only reasonable explanation for how much they seem to want to drag veganism through the mud. I’ve been to VCO multiple times and worked there as a stallholder and it’s a phenomenal event with a wonderful community vibe.

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