Hello and welcome to a very special episode of The Shadow of Sitdown podcast. I guess this

is less special than the last time we did that, but that's right. Today's Shadow of Sitdown

is just me, just little old Ava Foxfort sitting in her house and talking to you about games.

Now, today I want to be talking a little bit about some solo games. Now, this might not be as

in-depth as would normally be on the podcast, but I kind of want to give you a flavor of some of the

reasons why people do like playing solo games and some of the things that I've genuinely been

quite excited about when playing these games. Now, we're going to be looking at three games today,

at least a little bit on each. We've got Marquis by Sideroom Games, which is a little game about

French resistance worker placement in World War II. We're going to be talking about Aranienberger

Canal, which is not a canal made of burgers, but a canal in Aranienberger, which is

Orangey Town. I don't know, I probably should look that up. I'm probably also going to pronounce it

wrong repeatedly, sorry. This is the new Uve Rosenberg. It's a yellow box of canals and

cards and buildings and some surprisingly smooth solo play. Finally, I will want to touch a little

bit on the big daddy as far as I am concerned. For a very long time, the only game that I would play

solo was Mage Knight by Vladyshev Atel. Now, this is a beast of a game and there's reasons,

but I love it and I never recommend it to anybody apart from me. Solo games have been interesting

one. It's very easy to be sniffy about solo gaming because it often feels like it's missing

a very important element. When I talk to people about how special board games are, one of the things

that I'm likely to be saying most is, well, you're sat at a table with your friends and you're

talking and you're playing and you're pushing buttons and moving things and making all of the game

happen. And because of that table top-y gather roundiness, there's a real, real special

something like whatever happens in the game you're going to be spending time with people who you

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