Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!

Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape. 

It’s the fourth season of Cult of the Old and we have a new 10 episode arc for you covering games, big and small, but all interesting.

We begin this season with a game that defined a genre, the point salad. A heady mix of random chance, manipulated fate, and multiple paths to glorious points heaven gave us one of the classics of the 2010s. It may be as dry as the desert, but it carved a path through the next couple of decades with remakes, upgrades, reissues, and spinoffs. Come and sip a glass of fine wine with us as we construct the Castles of Burgundy. 

Show Links

Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mention during the course of the cast.  We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.

Games Mentioned

Battlestar Galactica - Episode Link

Nexus Ops

Cosmic Encounter - Episode Link

Puerto Rico - Episode Link

Alien Frontiers

Kingsburg

Lords of Vegas

Catan - Episode Link

Wingspan

In the Year of the Dragon

Notre Dame 

Power Grid - Episode Link

Ark Nova

Sanctuary

Agricola - Episode Link

Other Mentions

Fortress Ameritrash

Branson Board Game Cafe

Awaken Realms

BGA version

Team Links

Iain

The Giant Brain

Bluesky

Matt

BlueSky

Nate

Bluesky

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