We love a lot of things here at Stonemaier Games–not just our own products! On this page we’ll post a few forms of media each of us are enjoying (updated every few months).
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Dune Imperium: Uprising
- tabletop game (older): Ito
- gaming media: Virtually Analog
- podcast/audiobook (non-tabletop): You’re Wrong About
- book: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- movie: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
- television: The Great (Hulu) and Survivor (Paramount Plus)
- chocolate/food: deviled eggs
St. Louis recommendations (mostly food)
Joe Aubrey
Alex Schmidt
Alan Stone
- Tabletop game (newer): Parks
- Tabletop game (older): Trading on the Tigris
- Digital game: Terraforming Mars
- Movie: The Mitchell’s vs the Machines
- Television: Loki &Rick and Morty Season 5
- Music: Phosphorescent and Nathaniel Rateliff
Susannah Eisenbraun
- tabletop game: Concordia
- Stonemaier game: Wyrmspan
- replayable game: Innovation
- delightfully quick game: Bag of Chips
- board game podcast: Board Game Hot Takes
- non-board game podcast: Hanging Out with the Dream King: A Neil Gaiman Podcast
- album: Healing is a Miracle, Julianna Barwick
Dave Deenik
- tabletop game: Root by Leder Games
- movie: Prey
- television series: The Last of Us
- video game: Marvel Snap
- album: Fits of Laughter by Bendigo Fletcher
- fiction: Star Wars Doctor Aphra (2020-present) comic series
Erica Sanders
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Joe Aubrey
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): MLEM
- tabletop game (older): Splendor Duel
- digital game: Balatro
- gaming media: Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast
- podcast/audiobook (non-tabletop): On Fire with Jeff Probst
- book: Beartown trilogy by Fredrik Backman
- movie: Anyone But You
- television: Animal Control (Hulu) and Death and Other Details (Hulu)
- chocolate/food: homemade almond flour chocolate chip cookies
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Bag of Chips
- tabletop game (older): Eight-Minute Empire
- tabletop game I’m excited to play very soon: The 7th Citadel
- gaming media: One Stop Co-Op Shop
- podcast/audiobook (non-tabletop): Unreasonable Hospitality
- book: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- movie: Queenpins
- television: Ghosted (Hulu) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Prime Video)
- chocolate/food: homemade almond flour chocolate chip cookies
Joe Aubrey
- non-fiction book: Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
- memoir: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- tv: Fargo season 5 (Hulu)
- throwback album: Swoon by Silversun Pickups
Erica Sanders
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies
- tabletop game (older): Linx
- tabletop game I’m excited to play very soon: Mythwind
- gaming media: Board Game Hot Takes
- podcast (non-tabletop): Office Ladies
- book: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- movie: Gran Turismo
- television: Fisk (Netflix) and Monarch (Apple TV)
- chocolate/food: homemade almond flour chocolate chip cookies
Erica Sanders
Joe Aubrey
Jamey Stegmaier
Joe Aubrey
- October’s wildflower: Phacelia bicolor (Phacelia bicolor)
- non-fiction book: The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown
- tv: Scavenger’s Reign (HBO)
- album: Grow by Soars
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Joe Aubrey
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- June’s wildflower: Oleander (Nerium oleander)
- tabletop game: Oranienburger Kanal
- album: Hymn to the Immortal Wind by Mono
- non-fiction book: Personal Writings (Albert Camus)
- fiction book: The Stranger (Albert Camus)
- Dodecanese island: Kalymnos
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Challengers
- tabletop game (older) St. Patrick
- tabletop game (digital):The Last Campfire (Steam)
- gaming media: Pixelated Playgrounds
- podcast (non-gaming): Office Ladies
- book: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
- movie: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- television: Silo (Apple TV) and Top Chef (Peacock)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Challengers
- tabletop game (digital): A Short Hike (Steam)
- gaming media: Gaming in the Wild
- podcast (non-gaming): Bad Dates
- book: The Ferryman
- movie: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
- television: Beef (Netflix)
Susannah Eisenbraun
- tabletop game (new): Earth (Jamey is totally copying me)
- tabletop game (older): Ginkgopolis, both because it’s a great game and because ginkgo trees are so cool
- fiction: The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
- non-fiction: The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell
- book of poetry: Consolations, David Whyte
- place: the granite-boulder shore of Lake Tahoe
- music: Communicating, Hundred Waters (sounds a bit like Bjork plus Sufjan Stevens)
Joe Aubrey
- fiction book: The Last Graduate (Naomi Novak)
- tea: Taiwan Sanxia Qing Xin ‘Bi Luo Chun’ available from What-Cha
- non-fiction book: Ejaculate Responsibly (Gabriell Blair)
- tabletop game: Terra Mystica
- album: Final Quiet by Flies Are Spies From Hell
- wildflower of the month: Wallflower Phoenicaulis (Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Earth
- tabletop game (sequel): Ra
- tabletop game (digital): Boop (Board Game Arena)
- gaming media: Decision Space
- podcast (non-gaming): On Fire with Jeff Probst (Survivor)
- book: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
- movie: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- television: Dollhouse
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): Bullet
- tabletop game (sequel): Clank Catacombs
- tabletop game (digital): Vaalbara (Board Game Arena)
- gaming media: Pixelated Playgrounds
- podcast (non-gaming): If Books Could Kill
- book: In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan
- movie: The Menu
- television: Mythic Quest season 3
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game (new): First Ascent
- tabletop game (sequel): Terra Nova
- tabletop game (digital): Can’t Stop Express (Board Game Arena)
- gaming media: Triple Click
- podcast (non-gaming): Office Ladies
- book: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
- movie: Wakanda Forever
- television: the World Cup, For All Mankind season 4, The White Lotus season 2
- music: Anna of the North
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game: The Guild of Merchant Explorers
- tabletop game (digital): Living Forest (Board Game Arena)
- tabletop expansion: Cold Waters (Aquatica)
- video game: Dicey Dungeons
- gaming media: Covenant Cast
- book: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- movie: Prey (Hulu)
- television: God’s Favorite Idiot (Netflix) and The Sandman (Netflix)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game: Cat in the Box
- tabletop game (digital): Living Forest (Board Game Arena)
- tabletop expansion: Cold Waters (Aquatica)
- video game: Inscryption
- gaming media: Triple Click podcast
- book: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- movie: Honor Society (Paramount Plus)
- television: The Rehearsal (HBO Max) and American Ninja Warrior (Peacock)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game: Dead Reckoning
- tabletop game (digital): Century: Spice Road (Board Game Arena)
- tabletop expansion: The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts (The City of Kings)
- gaming media: The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast
- book: Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- movie: Top Gun: Maverick
- television: The Afterparty (Apple TV) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (DisneyPlus)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game: Ark Nova
- tabletop game (digital): El Grande (Board Game Arena)
- tabletop expansion: The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts (The City of Kings)
- gaming media: The Covenant Cast
- book: The Hunger of the Gods (John Gwynne)
- movie: Everything Everywhere All at Once
- television: Girls5Eva (Peacock) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount Plus)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game: Namiji
- tabletop game (digital): Space Base (Board Game Arena)
- tabletop expansion: The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts (The City of Kings)
- gaming media: The Covenant Cast
- book: The Kaiju Preservation Society (John Scalzi)
- movie: CODA (Apple TV)
- television: Upload (Amazon Prime) and Survivor (Paramount Plus)
Jamey Stegmaier
- tabletop game: Ark Nova (Feuerland/Capstone), Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (Wizards of the Coast)
- tabletop game (digital): A Feast for Odin, Tranquility (Board Game Arena)
- campaign game: The Adventures of Robin Hood (Kosmos Games)
- tabletop expansion: Expedition Leaders (CGE), The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts (The City of Kings)
- gaming media: Decision Space
- book: Leviathan Falls (James A. Corey), All the Young Dudes (MsKingBean89)
- movie: Together Together (Hulu), The Croods (Peacock)
- television: Cowboy Bebop (Netflix) and Search Party (HBO), Space Force (Netflix) and Peacemaker (HBO)
I’ve been to St. Louis for a few different weeklong trips over the last few years while I’m in school. I somehow just found the recommendation list, but I’m happy to see that I’ve made some good choices while I’ve been here. Just had Dewey’s for the first time last night, and it was great!
That’s great! I’m glad you enjoyed Dewey’s. :)
I can attest that the Shaved Duck is really delicious. Only been to St. Louis once for a long enough period of time to eat there and that was one location I wanted to seek out.
That’s great, Derek! I had a tasty brunch there earlier this year.
Curious what you are enjoying about Earthborne Rangers. I love the Sadlers yet am cautious because of its totally open sandbox. Thoughts?
I have a video coming out soon about Earthborne Rangers. :) I don’t think the Sadlers are involved in it.
Just a friendly note from a subscriber —- I would love….LOVE (!!) if the items on each person’s list were links to the referenced item.
Thanks for all your do for the gaming community — I subscribe not because I need the info, but because I just love your friendly demeanor and open encouragement you readily supply to gamers, creators, and aspiring creators, alike! All the best to you!
Thanks Katie! I’ll try to do that more often. I found that I was updating my list less when I added links, and I’d rather update it monthly. But it means a lot that you’re looking at our lists, though, so I’ll try to do a better job of adding links.
Jamey – thank you for responding and I totally understand!
FWIW, before I scrolled down and re-read my comment (and now saw your reply), I already had clicked all the links above :) Seriously, appreciated!
Thanks! I’ve started adding links thanks to your comment. Did I add them in the right places? I’ll add one for the podcast too.
I thought Beef was fantastic. A quirky intelligent show.
Ordered my nesting box!
So great to learn a bit about the team. Alan, I love your music choices. Both artists are on most of my playlists. Phosphorescent holds a special place in my life. Jamey, I’m thinking of buying Dog Park, great looking game designed by a cool couple.
Thanks for sharing and doing all that you do! Hats off to all of you.
Thanks Justin! I need to remember to post music picks more often. :)
I highly recommend the movie “Vengeance” if you can find it on a streaming service soon. My highest-rated movie of the year so far!
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
Loving star trek strange new worlds good choice.
Yes on the Covenant Cast, Jamey! I’m sure you’ve heard about the power of 7 series they are starting. Super exciting to hear designers are going to share there thoughts on potentially dangerous mechanics and of course get Zach and Stevens thoughts on it all.
I’m definitely excited about that! I listened to their introduction to that series a few days ago.
Thanks a lot for playing Conspiracy (Bombyx)! Glad you like it! :D
Thanks for making it! My YouTube video today was about my favorite mechanisms in it: https://youtu.be/9Qi9DGuTsiM
If you like Me Like Bees check out Desert Noises, Motherfolk or Wild Adriatic.
Weve got a local festival that brings in Me Like Bees often and a bunch of other bands in that indie rock genre.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendations! I’ll check them out.
I am with you guys on Dune Imperium – that game is incredible! Also, I think it’s important to note how good some people and organizations are a spreading the love. The board gaming industry is large and growing but there seems to be a real sense of togetherness and humanity among the community I meet at the tabletop! At least for myself, I can always use a little more love in my life – so keep spreading the good word, Jamey! :)
i know literally none of the things listed here, awesome! time to jump in the rabbit hole
For me, the only boardgame I’ve played more than once since Covid hit is Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, with Gloomhaven having dethroned Battlestar Galactica as my personal favourite boardgame.
TV I’d recommend: She Ra and the Princesses of Power (the Netflix She Ra).
Video games: I’ve gone back to Terraria, which I first played most of a decade ago, and come back to from time to time. I’ve also got around to Tell Me Why, the latest game from DONTNOD, the studio behind Life Is Strange, which it has a lot in common with.
Books: I’ve returned to a favourite from my past, long out of print and almost impossible to find in physical form at an affordable price, but now increasingly available in ebook format (though individual titles have a habit of disappearing from the Amazon listings): the Abbey series from Elsie J Oxenham – which started out with schoolgirl adventures full of country dancing and school spirit, with a sprinkling of secret passages, secret heiresses, hidden treasures, and other adventures, then moved on to more adult themes about social responsibility, finding your role in life, and some very genteel romances as the characters grew up – except the publishers wanted more school stories, so half a dozen books got retconned in, introducing an older girl who could disappear off and return with a school-age daughter who could bring the series back to school.