2025 is "The Year of the 2-Player Game" -- at least according to our guest, professional comedian and board game content creator Grant Lyon of Grant's Game Recs. There have been so many good ones that came out over the past yeart that it's hard to refute that statement. So hard that, rather than refute, we'll just create a two-part podcast special covering all the great 2P games we've been playing. This is part one!

Timeline:

• 2:00 - Going Analog's game pick: Origin Story.
• 9:38 - Grant's game pick: Pinched!.
  
  Great 2-player games, part one:
  
  
• 16:50 - The White Castle Duel.
• 19:59 - Madcala.
• 25:35 - Enthrone.
• 29:19 - Compile: Main 2.
• 35:33 - Scales of Fate.
• 39:17 - Bombastic.

Our favorite "just playing games" convention is behind us now, and...we did spend a lot of time just playing games. A LOT. BGG.CON features BoardGameGeek's legendary library plus the latest hotness from the king of board game shows, Essen Spiel, so we had no shortage of options.

Listen in to see what our highlights were and to get a tease of what we have in store for Season 6 of The Board Game Quiz Show.

A lot of drafting games have been hitting our table lately, and they're all putting their own twists on the genre. We've been enjoying them so much that we're dedicating this whole episode to our top picks.

Plus, the sequel to Yomi, is here. Shoe's played a lot of fighting (video) games, so what does he think about probably the most pure card-game interpretation around?

Timeline

• 0:53 - Going Analog's game pick: Yomi 2.
• 7:54 - 6 new drafting games worth checking out.