Episode 196: Cozy Stickerville! Plus Origins preview 2026!

Welcome yet again adventurers! King Scott makes a glorious return and tells tales of UKGE! We talk recent plays then get on with the 8-bit breakdown of King of Tokyo Godzilla!  This old gem has been updated with the IP it always wanted, plus a new mechanism or two.  We look back on Great Western Trail: El Paso, then finish things off with talk of one of the very best game days we've had in a long time! Share your thoughts, pics, and more in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Welcome adventurers! Join Explorer Josh for a review of Last Arc: Tactics Analog, a JRPG system! Interested in joining a one-shot RPG with Explorer Josh, Navigator Lana, and the rest of the gang?  Sign up for a game in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Its Just Patrick and Navigator Lana today talking a ton of games! We start with some recap of our Level Up Meetup at Ruckus Cafe. While the King was at UKGE, we had plenty on the table, including recent plays of Questline, Omens & Last Light. Today's review game is Cozy Stickerville: a legacy game packed with over 800 stickers in the box! We look back on Mistwind, then finish things off chatting about Origins 2026. Share your thoughts, memes, dad jokes, and more in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com  

Take two!  If you had to re-download the episode, its because we fixed the audio overlap in the intro.  I blame Wilford! The party convenes once again to tell tales of adventure! Today's episode starts with talk of upcoming gaming goodness, followed by several recent plays, such as Dungeon Universalis, 3-2-1 Countdown, Catan 3D and more! Our review game today is one that just finished late pledge and will be available to order again soon.  Dicequest tasks players with assembling a party to undertake quests and defeat boss monsters! We look back on Halo, then finish up with chatting about the Golden Geek Awards! As always, join the banter in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

You are a Beacon; an immortal guardian of humanity.  Light courses through you, granting you incredible power, and the ability to fight back the darkness that besets humanity from all sides. In volume two of our RPG sidequest episodes, Explorer Josh and Navigator Lana chat about Light! Want to join the next one-shot RPG with the hosts?  Sign up in our DISCORD!   www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Join King Scott, navigator Lana, and Just Patrick for an episode filled with gaming! We probably set the record for banter and news as there's just so much to talk about.  Then we get on with a few recent plays before doing the 8-bit breakdown of First Giants! We follow it up with our look back on last year's review game: Ring of Chaos. Share your thoughts in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Baseball Card GM Website! Join King Scott and Just Patrick for an adventure to the ballpark! Today's sidequest features Baseball Card GM, a tabletop dice game that turns your baseball cards into game pieces! We give it the 8-bit breakdown, then chat with the designers. Make key decisions and craft your lineup to come out on top in Baseball Card GM! Chat more about it in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Another grand adventure commences! Join King Scott and Just Patrick for another episode of gaming goodness.  We have all kinds of updates in the banter, including a couple of crowdfunding games that went absolutely wild! Recent plays include Digging for Dinos, Brass Birmingham, Excalibur, and Exchaton. The 8-bit breakdown goes to Wondrous Creatures, followed by a look back on last year's review game: Votes for Women. Finally, we've completed ten more feature reviews, which means its time to determine our top 5 from them! Click here and get yourself a bag of Aspen Coffee Co excellence! As always, the shenanigans continue in our DISCORD! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Click here to nominate Level Up for Best Podcast! Welcome to the very first sidequest with a focus on a role playing game!   Join Explorer Josh and Navigator Lana as they talk about their time with Old Gods of Appalachia! Want to get in on the next one-shot RPG session with the hosts of the show?  Join the Discord! www.levelupgamepodcast.com

Click here to go to the BGG Golden Geek Nomination page! Today's episode focuses heavily on Capstone Games!  Join Just Patrick, Navigator Lana, and Dung Merchant Will as they banter about Capstone hitting their tables, including in our feature review of Aquaria! As lucky timing would have it, our lookback is another Capstone game: Beyond the Horizon. We chat a bit about what we'd like to get to the table from Capstone but haven't, then round things off with a Capstone focused trivia game. Want to get in on the banter?  Ask a question? Share a pic of your favorite game? DO IT IN THE DISCORD!   www.levelupgamepodcast.com