Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
dkennewell.bsky.social
Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
@dkennewell.bsky.social
Videogamer, tabletop gamer, animator, daydreamer, general idiot. AI art/artists are dog shit 🇦🇺
Enemy Action: Kharkov. From my favourite designer - John Butterfield. This and the first game in the series EA: Ardennes are hands down the greatest solo wargames ever made. The game comes with three rulebooks - currently playing Soviet solo.

#boardgames #boardgamesky
April 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This War Of Mine. Not the most thematically fun game on the planet, but I pull this one out at least a couple of times a year due to it's excellent solo narrative. Easy to run but punishingly difficult - I've only ever won this once.

#boardgames #boardgamesky
March 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Labyrinth w/ expansions solo. Designed by the legendary @volko.bsky.social. I return to this game at least a few times a year and love it every time. Having witnessed the events in the timeline makes it all the more fascinating. It'll never leave my collection.

#boardgames #boardgamesky
March 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Reposted by Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
We are far from winning but Trump's erratic behavior is a reminder that he is 78, wholly ignorant, and mentally decomposing and it is a lot harder to establish your united Reich when your Fuhrer is Hitler in the bunker model 1945 rather than Hitler model 1933.
March 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
And that's a win! Came down to the wire as Georgia would have steamrolled through the second fort and claimed their final victory card unless I attacked it first. Luckily I'd invented flight on my previous turn, so flying over the water to attack the fort was no issue. Love this game.

#boardgames
March 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Civ: A New Dawn + Terra Incognita expansion with the official/unofficial solo mode. This game is the ultimate underrated gem in all of boardgaming. The base game deserves it's 7.2 bgg ranking, but the expansion fixes all of it and elevates it to an 8.5 IMO.

#boardgames #boardgamesky
February 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Playing AFFO + Norwegians solo for the first time in a long time. No real strategy because it's been so long, but man this game just feels so nice to play. Highly recommend Norwegians for anyone playing this solo or 2-player.

#boardgames #boardgamesky
February 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
How could you possibly fuck up a Civilization game when you're the same studio that literally invented the genre and created six successful iterations? All of the data you need for success is RIGHT THERE!

#videogames #videogamesky
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Feeling sorry for all of the American's who didn't vote for Tronald Dump now having to witness their economy tank in slow motion as their cost of living skyrockets in fast forward. What an absolute shit show.
February 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Been hunting this for a while, primarily for solo. Last played the OG version of this way back when it released. Planning on printing off the "official" fan made solo mode based on the new Special Edition solo system 🎲

#boardgames #boardgamesky
January 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Currently playing David Turczi's "Tawantinsuyu" solo. Opinion so far = Highly strategic with plenty of planning and minimal luck. Biggest downside is the case specific micro-rules that could easily be pushed from the rulebook to a player board. Still enjoying it though!

#boardgames #boardgamesky
January 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reposted by Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
January 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Hear me out - a game like Papers, Please! Except it's called Pardon, Please! and you play the role of a shitty president of a corrupt, slowly decaying superpower, deciding who to spare and who to save on your journey to destroying democracy.

#videogames #videogamesky #indiegames
January 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
America just handed the keys over to the same guys their grandparents fought against 80 years ago. They played you like the fiddliest fiddle that ever fiddled. It's absolutely insane.
January 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Is anyone actually aware that this game:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/kno...

Is being co-designed by an incredibly racist, sexist, homophobic, conspiracy theorist by the name of Mike Hill? He's been banned from Insta numerous times for his incredibly offensive posts.

#boardgames #boardgamesky
Know Thyself - The Game of Self Discovery
A 2-to-4 player psychological and reflective board game that combines introspection, strategy, and deep social connection
www.kickstarter.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This whole Elon Musk videogame conspiracy is just so bizarrely fascinating. Like, wtf happened to this guy where he gradually became some a weird piece of shit?

#videogames

www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExil...
From the PathOfExile2 community on Reddit: Documenting the Saga of "Elon Musk's" Account
Explore this post and more from the PathOfExile2 community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The Astro Bot teams shoutout to Nintendo during their GOTY acceptance speech was great. That team took Nintendo's DNA and made it into their own thing - something that Sony as a company could really learn a lot from.

#videogames
December 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Occasionally while playing Indy and the Great Circle I'll be crawling around in some Indy tomb and the light will cast my Indy shadow across this Indy wall in front of me and I'll be like, yeah, I'm motherfucking Indiana Jones.
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Reposted by Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
Many people do not understand game design. Let me explain: game design is when attacking with your primary attack builds stacks of zorp, and your secondary consumes zorp stacks to add additional slow and lifesteal when you plurk
December 10, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle isn't doing anything incredibly new at the moment, but it's a motherfucken Indiana Jones walking sim where you just Indiana Jones your way through everything with a permanent smile on your face. This and Alien: Isolation are easily the two greatest movie games ever
December 9, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Hey America, this is how you democracy.
Great news coming out of South Korea where the leader of the President's own party showed up at the National Assembly to shake hands with the head of the opposition party after its unanimous vote to revoke Yoon's martial law declaration.
국회 본회의장서 만난 한동훈·이재명… 악수 장면 포착
국회 본회의장서 만난 한동훈·이재명 악수 장면 포착
www.chosun.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Just a centimetre of glass separating that wattle bird from this bloodthirsty hellspawn.
November 29, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Reposted by Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
We just launched the first ever demo for Exo Rally Championship

- 2 hours+ playtime
- 1 planet
- 1 rover
- 10-stage rally campaign
- 3 ever-changing Daily races inc. leaderboards
- Training mode
- Free Roam

By Exbleative (Exo One) & published by us @futurefriendsgames.com

Please do share! 🙏
November 27, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
Hey Bluesky, I don't think I've specifically mentioned it yet, but I put out a cozy indie sci fi game this year called Starstruck Vagabond and it's on sale again for the Steam autumn event. I know Twitter got sick of me banging on about it. store.steampowered.com/app/2448930/...
Save 20% on Starstruck Vagabond on Steam
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
store.steampowered.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Drew Kennewell and the Chamber of Echoes
SEASON FINALE: Joe Schmidt and I discuss co-designing In the Shadows, his Levy & Campaign game Henry, solo design for Weimar Republic and more. www.buzzsprout.com/1993070/epis...
Interview with Joe Schmidt - Game Design Deep Dive
SEASON FINALE: We welcome designer and developer Joe Schmidt to discuss In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943-1944 (a game we designed together), his Levy & Campaign game Henry, solitaire desi...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM