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Tavern Watch Podcast: Are TTRPGs taking a turn away from crunchy to bring us more narrative-focused one-shots?
While there are still plenty of crunchy tabletop games out there, lately we're playing a lot of shorter TTRPGs that lean into narrative elements — and are easier to schedule than long form campaigns.
Close out March with some new game releases, from tower defense to a new soulslike
Two Souls-like games release in the same week and you thought I wasn't going to talk about at least one of them?
This week’s free games on the Epic Games Store are Cat Quest and Neko Ghost, Jump!
This week's Epic Games Store free offering is two games, both of which involve a ton of action, a send-up of a popular genre, and a cat protagonist.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions releases a new Cozy Kitchens DLC to help with your food preparation productivity
If you're already bought in to the concept of one of our most played games of 2024 (and secret productivity lifehack) Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, the new Cozy Kitchen DLC will offer you more of the same, and then some.
Moonshot Games reveals Wildgate, a crew-based PVP shooter that mixes vehicle combat and extraction elements, launching in 2025
Moonshot Games, a studio under the Dreamhaven company banner established by Mike Morhaime, announced Wildgate, a crew-based shooter set in a section of deep space called the Reach.
Begin your week with cuteness from nature’s very own Muppet, the quokka
It's just another manic Monday, and that means it's time for cute animals!
Tavern Watch Plays Triangle Agency 3: That’s fine, get in the briefcase
It's a tough day for the employees of Triangle Agency, but our skilled Agents are always ready to beat back any challenge — even when that challenge is a mass of anomalous electrical wires intent on their deaths!
Spring is here, as are some newly released games to explore this weekend
With the introduction of spring, we have some new releases to talk about this week as well, so let's just jump straight into it.
Epic Games Store’s free game this week is Jurassic World Evolution 2
When Michael Crichton initially wrote Jurassic Park as a modern allegory for the ethical quandary and potential implications of the overreach of science in re-creating extinct creatures, I doubt he thought that 35 years later the prevailing cultural thought would be "sad for them, but I'm built different." Jurassic World Evolution 2 Release Date: November 9, 2021 Game Type: Strategy, Management Sim POV: 3rd person Party: Single player DLC: Includes an upgrade to the base game, the Dominion Biosyn and Dominion Malta expansions, plus multiple smaller DLC packs.
Celebrate the end of winter with these cute foxes playing in the snow
Somehow we're on yet another Monday, but if you thought that the cuteness would be themed around Saint Patrick’s Day — joke’s on you!



