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Harvest Phase

Harvest Phase is a podcast about modern board games. Hosted by David and Marissa, we have off the cuff, one take discussions about the games we are playing, contemporary classics, and interesting game mechanisms, before focusing on a featured theme or game. Stick around after the game discussion for the patented Off Brand segment, where we dive into other mediums, hobbies, interests or things that bring us joy.

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On Quilts No One Can Hear You Purr

August 25, 2021 • Marissa Misura & David McGregor • Episode 4

While playing Calico, Riverboat, Impact, and Alien, we discover that courting cats to take naps on lovely quilts is far more anxiety inducing than, managing a farm on the Mississippi, wrestling a Xenomorph on a derelict spacecraft, and creating the entire cosmos. We then theorize that the cat on the cover of Calico is, in fact, the untold fate of Jonesy, the Nostromo’s ship cat. Finally, in Off Brand we discuss how we feel some games “respect” the player through design decisions, and I rant about my love-hate relationship with Returnal, while coming to terms with the fact I’ll never “get gud.”

Cover: Our ship cat, Freyja, doing her best Xenomorph impression. Seriously, who sits like that?

Fresh Plays:
07:06 Calico (Kevin Russ, Flat Out Games, Renegade Games)
21:00 Riverboat (Micheal Kiesling, Lookout Games)
31:35 Impact: Battle of the Elements (Dieter Nüßle, Ravensberger)

Featured Game:
41:06 Alien: Fate of the Nostromo (Scott Rogers, Ravensberger)

Off Brand - Can a Game Disrespect the Player?
1:08:05 Alien: Fate of the Nostromo addendum
1:10:40 Returnal (Housemarque, PlayStation 5)
1:42:32 A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu, Nintendo Switch)