Hello everybody and welcome to the very 287th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast. We're back.

We've had a Christmas and a new year. What the hell is that about? That was me bursting from

the wrapping paper that had been surrounding me. I'm an unopened present under the tree, a ball,

a large heaving ball. I did wonder when this when this large moving sack of wrapping paper

arrived at my door today, parked it on the sofa and then I unwrapped it. Oh my God. Yeah. It's Matt. I've been sitting outside your doorstep for a month in the rain, getting soggy, dressed up like an elf, as you can now see. But I didn't arrive in time for Christmas, so I'm here now. Emerging, covered in tatters of wet paper. Excellent. It's me. Your Christmas surprise. Your commitment to the bit is astounding.

Thank you. On this episode of the podcast, we're going to be talking about just two games.

We're going to be talking about tend, an absolutely massive Rollin-write game of doing farming and

hurting your brain. I'm going to talk about Take Time, a cooperative puzzle game about not communicating and making numbers go up.

Clocks.

First up on this podcast, we're going to talk about a big old game called Tend.

This is a game designed by Max Anderson, Zach Dixon, Austin Harrison, and Toby Sarnel,

with art by Kelly Nakamura, published by IV Games. And it's a flipping right game.

It's a flipping Phil. It's a flipping Phil. I mean, honestly, it's a flip and get and think and

and then Phil game. Like, without without bearing the lead this is like the largest

roll and right flip and right filling in grids and doing pencils and paper type game that has

maybe ever existed yes it's bigger than twilight inscription which is the twilight

imperium roll and right game which remember that that's crazy no uh but they never got to play that. The fact when it's bigger than the Twilight Imperium Roll and Right kind of speaks to how big this game is and how many boxes you have to fit in. Sorry, I just need to roll back a second. I said, I never got to play Twilight Inscription as if I'm like not allowed. I haven't played it. I just want to

make it clear I'm not being held here under duress. You're not barred from fantasy five games. No,

no, no. If I want to play it, I can play it. Yeah, that's a me problem. Okay. Yeah, this thing is

gigantic. It's huge. And IV studios now like now Ivy games, they tend to make games that are

large, beautiful and extraordinarily well

produced yes uh but sometimes games that that we feel mixed about yeah they're they're really

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