Welcome to the latest episode of Cult of the Old!
Each episode your hosts Iain McAllister, Matt Thrower, and Nate Owens are going to turn back the clock to look at games that are at least 10 years old. They’ll give their own critical impressions, tell you about the history of the game and its impact, and what relevance these games still have in the modern hobby landscape.
This episode the team is turning to their first small box game of the season. A game with a mean streak that brought the mechanism of role selection to the modern hobby audience and made a name for its designer. Citadels from designer Bruno Faidutti and publisher Hans im Glück was a staple of every backpack. Across the various versions it has art from Cyrille Daujean, Julien Delval, Jesper Ejsing, Bruno Faidutti, Didier Graffet, Bjarne Hansen, Darrell Hardy, Florence Magnin, Jean-Louis Mourier, Scott Nicely, Hassan Nozadian, Christian T. Petersen, Brian Schomburg, and Richard Spicer.
Show Links
Below are links to the games and anything else that the team mentions during the course of the cast. We will be linking to BGG for games, designers, artists, and publishers as that is a good place to start for raw information about the game in question.
Games Mentioned
Castle (Castel)
Verräter
Meuterer
Werewolf
Five Tribes
7 Wonders Duel
Lords of Vegas
Blood on the Clocktower
Puerto Rico
Mission: Red Planet
El Grande
Mascarade
Survive/ Escape from Atlantis
Cockroach Poker
Carta Impera Victoria
Other Mentions
Faiduttis perfect game library
Complexity and Depth article from Iain
Iain’s Collection
Team Links
Websites you can find the cast on
There Will Be Games
The Cult of the Old
Iain
The Giant Brain
Twitter
Matt
Twitter
Nate
Twitter
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