Recommendations!

These (non-book) things were recommended by convention members during the group discussion today. Come back tomorrow for book recs!

  • Stellar Horizons, board game, made by an astrophycisict, realistic, complex, kind of worker placement
  • The Grizzled, boardgame, co-op, survival during WWI
  • Updated version of Witcher 3, computer game, better visual, new missions
  • Cinema Therapy, YouTube channel, a film maker and a therapist analyze films, interesting and fun
  • Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders: Our Opinions Are Correct, podcast, authors talk about life, publishing and cats
  • Dandelion, boardgame, idea is to spread your petals around the board, for three players
  • Ms. Davis, TV series, AI runs the world, main character is a nun who hates the AI and gets a mission from it to find the Grail
  • Amalias lemonades!
  • Lost Girl, TV series, early 2000s, main character discovers they are not human and that there is another world of fey, fun, fluff
  • Root, boardgame, asymmetrical, complex, nice woodland graphics
  • Terraforming Mars and TM Mars Expedition, boardgames
  • In Depth Geek, YouTube channel, Tolkien and other stuff
  • Yakuza computer games, strong narrative, lots of side charcters and side missions, some absurdity
  • Nemesis and its sequals, board game, basically Alien films as boardgame, really fun if suddenly dying is not a problem
  • Re-released Blood Bowl, boardgame and computer game, american foorball but more bloody and with fantasy races
  • Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Switch game, exploration, open world, well made fantasy world, multiple options to solve problems and handle situations
  • This War of Mine, war simulator, Kosovo, every playthrough is different, harsh stories, you play as a civilian
  • Ms. Marvel, TV series, good actors, good story, one of the better Marvel series
  • Star Trek!
  • Divinity: Original Sin 2, co-op, couch go-op 2 players, online 4 players, excellent story, players choices change the story
  • Le Trois Mousquetaires: D’artagnan, French film series (2 films), pretty true to the original 
  • It Takes Two, couch go-op 2 players, just about divorced parents get transformed to small ragdolls and must find a way to work together to survive and transform back
  • Lockwood & Co, British TV series, unfortunately cancelled after just one season
  • Wednesday, TV series

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