I didn't see any mention of this board game here. I just played it with my brother and subsequently picked it up and played it with my wife, and I have to say, this is a great co-op board game. They've really nailed the fun of this where you get new things and meaningful decisions while the difficulty ratchets up nicely. It's hard for any one player to dominate because each character works differently, everyone is forced to work together.

Wondering what other fun new co-op board games people are playing these days? What have you not been able to put down?

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The May 2025 Backlog Burner event is officially over!

Over the month of May, 13 participants moved 170 games out of their backlogs.

There were 4 standard bingo wins from:

• u/Durinthal
• u/Eidolon
• u/kfwyre
• u/SingedFrostLantern

There was 1 anti-bingo win from:

• u/aphoenix

There was 1 traditional bingo blackout from:

• u/J-Chiptunator

There was 1 golf bingo win from:

• u/CannibalisticApple

There were 31 daily posts(!!!) made by:

• u/1338

A big thank you to ALL who participated in the event, whether that was by playing games, joining in conversations, or reading people's posts here.

It has been an absolute blast doing this with everyone. I truly love this event. Thank you all.

Use this topic to post your final bingo cards, give recaps of your games, and share any thoughts you have on the event itself.

See you again for the next Backlog Burner in November 2025!

Statistics

• We averaged 13.1 games per person and 38.4 games per week.
• There were 293 comments posted across 5 different topics.
• We played games that started with every letter of the alphabet except X
• Not a single game played had "Super" anywhere in its title.

Platforms

Games were played on at least 31 different platforms

• Arcade
• Bandai Wonderswan
• Microsoft Xbox
• Microsoft Xbox 360
• Mobile
• NEC Turbografx-CD
• Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo DS
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo Famicom Disk System
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Nintendo Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo Game Boy Color
• Nintendo Gamecube
• Nintendo Switch
• Nintendo Virtual Boy
• Nintendo Wii
• Nintendo Wii U
• Panasonic 3DO
• PC (Windows)
• PC (Linux)
• Playdate
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Master System
• Sega Saturn
• Sony PlayStation 2
• Sony PlayStation 4
• Sony Playstation Move
• Steam Deck
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Tabletop

Animals and more

Players played as at least 38 non-human protagonists:

• 1 AI (ctrl.alt.DEAL)
• 1 badger (Shelter)
• 1 bird (A Short Hike)
• 5 cats (I and Me (x2), MLEM: Space Agency, Tales of the Neon Sea (x2))
• Cthulhu (Cthulhu Saves the World)
• 2 dogs (Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Recommendation Dog)
• 1 dolphin (Ecco the Dolphin)
• 1 dung beetle (Yoku's Island Express)
• 1 fox (TUNIC)
• 1 frog (Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition)
• 1 goat (Goat Simulator 3)
• 1 god (Hades)
• 1 golf ball (Golfing Over It with Alva Majo)
• 1 grimp (PixelJunk Eden)
• 1 pillow Kirby (Kirby's Block Ball)
• 1 lynx (Shelter 2)
• 1 monster (Monster Prom)
• 1 Nightmaren (NiGHTS Into Dreams...)
• 1 pawn (Questy Chess)
• 1 pool ball (Pool Panic)
• 1 rabbit (Lugaru HD)
• 2 rats (Propeller Rat, SpaceRat Miner)
• 1 Rythulian (Journey)
• 6 robots (BEEP, Choice of Robots, Core Fault, Joy Mech Fight, Machinarium, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech)
• 1 squirrel with a gun (Squirrel With a Gun)
• 1 tapeworm (Tapeworm Disco Puzzle)

Also, this doesn't technically count but I'm including it anyway:

• 1 IRL human (JoustMania)

Highlights

The following highlights were aggregated from participants and focus on the whole event or other participants. Thank you to those of you who wrote in! I'm sharing these as written and randomized, though I did make some minor edits: for flow and consistency, to maintain anonymity, to add usernames, and to link to specific comments when needed.

• Shout out @J-Chiptunator who played on more consoles than I played games this month

• I think one or two people came back to games after a decade, which is really cool to see (u/Wes: Grand Theft Auto V and u/CannibalisticApple: Animal Crossing)

• I really enjoyed the heartfelt Animal Crossing write-up by @CannibalisticApple, which made me feel ten years old again.

• I thought it was sweet that aphoenix played a game recommended by someone else on the site

• @1338's daily recap of the event. While I love the Bingo cards that we've done for the last few, I also really just enjoyed the love of the game and sticking to it every day like a blog.

• I want to mention @J-Chiptunator for writing a full novella every other week, in alphabetical order.

• u/aphoenix's deception

• There were a couple of callbacks to games played in previous events. I think it's neat that some games are getting shared play over time in these.

• @kfwyre choosing a non-Steam/non-PC gaming platform was very cool.

• The big one was of course @aphoenix's anti-bingo. That was super clever and well-delivered.

• Games given away during the giveaway threads showing up in the Backlog Burner

• Fantastic write-ups from so many people. There were so many thoughtful posts about games, and they helped me to structure my own backlog when there was overlap.

• I very much enjoyed Wes' post for Golfing Over It with Alva Majo regarding game design, games that defy familiar rules to engage the player, and making improvements after losing progress.

• Durinthal @ PAX East

• I respect 1338 for playing and posting daily. What a way to burn through the backlog!

• aphoenix delivering on his devious plan

• Awesome that Wes made the site for this event

• @1338 for being the most consistent poster, contributing a new game every single day. Crazy dedication.

• @Durinthal playing at PAX East was super cool

• Wes doubling up on Archipelago and Backlog Burner

• 1338 signing off from the event with the Oblivion Remaster

Personal Highlights

These were highlights that were shared from players that focused on themselves. For these, I have included their names:

u/Eidolon: I want to say that this has been my most successful Backlog Burner yet, because I actually got a couple of games to 100% completion. So the bingo was just a bonus!

u/aphoenix: To anyone else who reads, thank you for participating in an event like this. It's nice to feel connected to people. It's easy to feel splintered and disconnected today, and things like this is exactly what I hoped to get from the internet when I was first playing The 7th Guest years ago. <3 for everyone here!

u/CannibalisticApple:

• Finishing The Letter to say goodbye to my Wii U as part of leaving my old house
• Playing the original Animal Crossing for the first time in just over eleven years to greet my new house
• Getting a chance to chat with people about games I've also played, and see all these other games that could also be fun
• Seeing the sheer number of games with cats. And then realizing how many games I own that star cats.

u/Wes: I moved The Swapper from own library into my backlog based on @aphoenix's write-up here, and @1338 put Sea of Stars on my radar.

There's some moral issues about big publishers' business practices. Somehow, almost all racing games for example are EA. Like it's actually crazy lol - so despite wanting to play them, we do not wish to do that. Similarly, a lot of other co-op games are Ubisoft.

So looking for recommendations! Almost any genre and type are appreciated - only exception is games with pixel graphics (just really unpleasant to look at for me).

Edit: I've set up a Discord and have sent invites out to any folks who have commented below. If you're interested and didn't comment below, feel free to ping me directly and I'll share an invite link!

Disclaimer: aside from a somewhat recent Helldivers 2 thread, there hasn't been a full-on "LFG" topic on Tildes in several years, so if this isn't well-received, I'd be happy to delete this and repost it as a parent-level comment in the "What are you playing" topic instead.

I initially thought about posting this in the appropriate subreddit(s) over on The Other Site^TM, but after giving it some thought, I figured I'd much rather garner interest from my fellow Tildes users before opening myself up to all the extra noise there.

Purpose

This is an LFG post for those of us who may only have a couple of very specific hours to play any given day, who also may have unforeseen hard stops mid-session, and who might go for long stretches of time without playing. The kind of LFG for folks who might enjoy multiplayer games, but rarely choose to engage in them because (a) you can't find the time, or (b), when you do find the time, the last thing you'd want to do is let folks down because you might have to step away mid-game. In my case, we have an infant at home and I'm really only ever available to play for a couple hours after he goes to bed... but if he wakes up, I'm going to leave mid-match to take care of him, no exceptions. This LFG is for folks who wouldn't mind that happening to them mid-game, because I certainly wouldn't mind extending the same grace to them in return! I originally was going to call this "An LFG for parents," but I'm sure there are other folks who find themselves in similar situations but don't have children, and didn't want to exclude them :)

I'll start with my own time windows and gaming preferences, and I invite others to post their own parent LFGs in the comments if they are so inclined.

Availability

North America (CDT, UTC-5), I tend to play from 8:30-10:30pm. Could be any day of the week. Weeknights are usually more consistent but it really just depends how the little guy is sleeping.

Choice of system

PC (not opposed to PS5 or Switch in the future, just don't have any games slated on them at the moment)

Games

1. Elden Ring Nightreign - I just picked this up and am most interested in this
2. Helldivers 2 - I haven't touched it in months but would love to check out all the new content
3. Deep Rock Galactic - same situation as Helldivers 2, only difference being that I consider myself actually halfway decent at DRG :)

If it would sweeten the pot, I'd also be happy to team up with folks in Elden Ring, including DLC, in exchange for somewhat competent teammates in Nightreign. Well, more competent than randos, which, bar is pretty low.

Looking forward to the discussion and hope we can bring some folks together!

EDIT (posting down here for added visibility) - Please PM me if you're interested but don't want to comment, and I'll send you an invite link to the Discord! Thanks!

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I’m starting a new 5e campaign with some friends, and I think I have some performance anxiety. I’m not the most creative person, and the last thing I want to do is kill the fun. The only other time I've played a ttrpg was years ago in high school.

I’m curious what you all have found detracts from a session as well as any advice that enhances the experience for everyone.

I sometimes feel like I am the only person who loses interest in a video game as soon as I have to spend any amount of time consulting an online guide or wiki to figure out how to progress.

Maybe it’s because I grew up playing games like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, along with their equivalents and sequels on the Gamecube, and later the Wii. I got either to 100% completion or close to on those, without getting any outside help.

The games themselves made it very clear what the objectives were and what collectibles and unlockables were available.

But at some point in recent years, it just became impossible to play a video game without having to consult a guide or a wiki to figure out not just how to progress in it, but sometimes even how to play it. 💀

And a good year ago or so, I began to subconsciously fight against this, because it annoyed me to no end. I began to just take breaks from a game if I couldn’t figure out how to progress, rather than go online and read some guide or wiki, because it was making me feel like I was wasting my time reading about the game, rather than just playing it, taking me out of the immersion in the process.

You know what? I’m making this a resolution. If I can’t figure out how to progress in a game on my own, then I just won’t. I’ll go play something else.

I have recently played some indie games where I needed zero assistance, and boy did it feel good to figure those games out on my own. Those are the best games (for me), games that “explain themselves”.

Anyone else feel similarly?

Tangentially related side note: I hate, hate, hate “Fandom” wikis. They’re probably a big part of the reason why I began to hate consulting online guides. They’re impossible to navigate, are riddled with ads, and link to unrelated content, everywhere on their pages. There is a good alternative to these for some Nintendo franchises, which are independent wikis, in case anyone is as frustrated by the Fandom slop as I am.