Episode 76 - 2025 Year in Review

As we head into the last days of 2025, it's time for our traditional look back at our favorite games and game-related events of the last 12 months. Discussions include:

• The best game shipping wrapper we've ever seen.
• A really impressive deck-builder that you can't get for love or money...
  • ...or CAN you? 
• A game box even bigger than last month's!
• Blood on the Clocktower, but solitaire...and on a PC?
• Frank cheats and adds a computer game to his list, as usual...but so does Mike?!?

What have we missed? What was your favorite board game of 2025? Come visit our Discord server to chat with us and other like-minded game nerds!

As always, thank you for listening. Please consider writing us an iTunes review if you like what you hear! We'd also love to have you visit our website and let us know what kinds of games we should discuss next. You're also more than welcome to comment on the episode page, or our Discord, or our Facebook page, or tag @ascentofboardgames on Bluesky. Whatever way you prefer to share your opinions with us, we'd love to hear them.  As always, we appreciate your listening - stay safe out there, and happy gaming!

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