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The TBR Pile Episode

EPISODE · Sep 17, 2025 · 1H 3M

The TBR Pile Episode

from Unwritten Earths Symposium · host Unwritten Earths Symposium

In this episode we tackle our to-be-read piles of recent game acquisitions for our homework, highlighting more recent work that we've both been digging and finding some common themes across different genres and types of game. We then talk about "instructional" and "non-instructional" text in games, what that divide even means, and pursue some questions that that brings up for our own work. Show Notes: Check out the Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025 The latest Possible Worlds Games Kickstarter funding 3 new games runs through Friday, 9/26 Games Mentioned: Knight Forlorn (Blackfisk Publishing) Usagi Yojimbo (2nd Edition) (Sanguine Productions - it looks like it's no longer available for purchase) The Price of Coal (Jennifer Adcock) The Crawling Chaos (Plant Smasher Games) Tacklebox/Better Strangers (Possible Worlds Games) 5-Star Match (Leafy Dragon Games) Growing Thylacine (Pidg Sorensen) Necronautilus (World Champ Game Co) Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants (from the Far Horizons Co-Op) Tide Breaker (Nick Butler) God's Gonna Cut You Down (Keith Stetson) And there's more: Unwritten Earths Symposium Our Patreon Join the Discord Nathan's games Eppy's games Music by Will Jobst

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