#283 - The Grumpy to Cosy Pipeline

Shut Up & Sit Down

Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Usually the moniker of ‘Cosy Game’ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box that’s pleasant enough, but doesn’t tickle us for more than a couple plays. But this week on the podcast? Matt and Tom are chatting about a whole bunch of cosy games that surprised them, with a bit more pep than might have been expected…

We’re talking Frogs and Rabbits and Crows in ‘A Wild Venture’, Trains and Cars and Passengers in ‘Railroad Tiles’, and Lakes and Lakes and Lakes and LAKES in Cascadia…. Alpine Lakes!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Timestamps:
02:54 - A Wild Venture
16:20 - Railroad Tiles
27:43 - Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the very 283rd episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games, board games, and the people who love board games, I'm joined by
0:21.9	Matt Lee's. Hello. And I am Tom Brewster, and we're going to talk about some cozy games,
0:28.2	or just board games. Well, we're always talking about board games or another. What we talk about
0:34.2	when we talk about board games. On this episode, we're going to talk about three different, kind of chill, cozy, nice feeling games, although one of these already breaks the rule, I think, which we'll get to. Yeah, you said that the first game we're going to talk about is actually, like, weirdly crunchy. But does that mean, is it cozy? We can talk about the cozy, crunchy dichotomy as we get into this podcast.
0:55.1	Like, I feel like knitting is inherently like cozy. And that's basically like coding with
1:00.7	your hands. You'd say that knitting is a crunchy activity. I think so. Let's sit down to a nice
1:05.8	crunchy bit of knitting. Like, when you finish knitting, like, and you want to set it down,
1:10.2	as I so often do. You have to leave
1:11.6	yourself like a numerical code to remind you of where you're up to with cross stitching and stuff.
1:17.5	Yeah, yeah. Thanks, yarn. Knitting. On this podcast, we're going to talk about three different games.
1:24.1	Firstly, we're going to talk about a wild venture, a game about being a frog or a bird or a bunny,
1:29.1	going on a little journey together. We're going to talk about railroad tiles, a game that I will call
1:34.8	Railroad Inc. or Railroad Inc. tiles so many times on this podcast. Just you wait. Can you just call it
1:41.6	Railroad Inc too? Railroad Twink. Railroad Twink.
1:44.9	That's a different game.
1:46.2	And I backed it on GameFound.
1:48.4	We're going to talk about Cascadia Alpine, a game that's like Cascadia, but it's going vertical.
1:54.9	Oh.
1:58.4	Before we start this cozy journey, we should mention up front that all of these games were featured in our board games direct preview series.
2:07.3	Yes, they were.
2:08.0	And we should be upfront by the fact that we were paid by these publishers to cover their games in that preview series.
2:13.4	Yep.
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