Overboard

Gather 'round ladies and gentlemen, for the premiere of our brand new tabletop board game show, Overboard! Today we're playing Mountains of Madness, a party game twist on the classic H.P. Lovecraft novel, from the co-designer of Pandemic: Legacy. Jesus, take the wheel.

It's the day of ~love~, so what better game to highlight on today's episode of Overboard than Fog of Love, a hilarious and sweet romantic comedy game? Join the cast of The Polygon Show as they serenade you with their smooth, smooth jazz.

Secret Hitler, from the makers of Cards Against Humanity, is a hidden role game that simulates pre-World War II Germany's fragile government. Two players are secretly fascists, and the rest of the players have to figure out who they are... if they want to win, that is.

Join us as we explore a haunted mansion in Betrayal at the House on the Hill, a horror adventure game that turns friends into enemies and enemies into saboteurs!

Party games have one job: to be as entertaining as possible. And Monikers may very be one of the most entertaining party games out there.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is the perfect game for those curious about hidden role games. It's fun, fast, and a less stressful because, as the name suggests, it only takes one round!

On this spooky Halloween episode of Overboard, we play the... mysterious... Mysterium... a game where a group of psychic detectives must solve clues to determine a ghost's murderer.

What happens when you add a hidden role mechanic to a drawing challenge? You get A Fake Artist Goes to New York, an artsy game where one person doesn't even know what they're trying to draw!

Oy guv'nuh, we 'ere at ye olde Polygon put on a new Overboard show about ye olde Sheriff of Nottingham!

Mister police you could have won the game I gave you all the clues. We played Deception: Murder in Hong Kong and did just about as good a job at being detectives as you'd think we would.

Jacob Batalon, who portrays friend of Spider-Man Ned in Spider-Man: Far From Home, joined us for Superfight, a creativity game all about making absurd arguments with your friends.

For this Overboard with Brennan Lee Mulligan, we played a bunch of small games — so many, in fact, that we couldn't fit them all in one episode (yes, we know that's ironic). In part one, special guest Brennan Lee Mulligan of CollegeHumor joins us for a heated game of Coup.

On part two of our small games episode we play two short but sweet games that couldn't be more different, Anomia and Skull.

Polygon's first table top role play is a one shot campaign, written by Jenna Stoeber, using the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit. This game is the latest edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG, the game Cyberpunk 2077 is based on.

Fresh off of their heist, our gang of banana-armed robbers are ready to split up the loot... but who gets first dibs? In Cash 'n Guns, you have to bluff and blast your way to the top of the criminal food chain.

What happens when you mix Mysterium with Deception: Murder in Hong Kong? A perfect game for Overboard! Watch to find out if our wise wizards (and scheming traitor) will be able to escape from a magical library full of traps and mysterious clues!

We played the party game sensation Wavelength and it got really meta.

Werewords is like 20 questions except there are sneaky werewolves around trying to mess up your word game. Don't let them!

It's a hidden role game... IN SPACE!

Cosmic Encounter is like putting poker and a cheesy sci-fi movie into a blender and then using that slurry to play Calvinball.

On this week's Overboard we're joined by Mari Takahashi, AKA AtomicMari. She's a correspondent on our Quibi show SPEEDRUN, and she's going to tackle Codenames with us — a game that's easy to play online, and great for quarantine!

Matt Mercer joins us to play Spyfall, a game us the chance to roleplay AND lie to each other at the same time!

While Overboard is typically our board and card game show, today we wanted to try something a little different and play one of our favorite party games, Quiplash 3. New video producer Josh Ríos also gets put through the Fibbage Enough About You wringer as we try to learn something, anything about our new coworker the only way we know how.

Only one of us gets sent to the Uno shadow realm in this episode. Join the Polygon video crew as they attempt to maintain healthy work relationships while playing UNO, the most contentious game known to humankind (after Monopoly, that is).

We would love to sell you some [PRODUCT] on the latest episode of Overboard, featuring special guest Niki Grayson!

We played the Jackbox Party Pack 7 game Champ'd Up with special guest Dami Lee and used it as an excuse to make a ton of OC's. Champ'd Up is a drawing game that pits everyone's OCs against each other... can Dami still use her art skills to her advantage??

Watch as we rub our two brain cells together playing the code breaking, clue giving game Decrypto, with special guess Alanah Pearce! Alanah is a longtime host and streamer, and now developing games with Sony's Santa Monica studio!

We're joined Jarvis Johnson (the good) But-Regal in a quest to find out who's fighting for Merlin and who's a miserable pile of secrets in a game of The Resistance: Avalon!

The Green Knight, a David Lowery-directed Dev Patel photoshoot, is in theaters. But WE have the next best thing at home: the official Green Knight roleplaying game from A24. It's a funky little system where honor and dishonor are quite literally life and death. So today we're playing an adventure from The Green Knight with Dave Schilling and Jonah Ray, the hosts of Vox Media's GALAXY BRAINS podcast!

The fine people at Jackbox Games gave us a sneak peak at Weapons Drawn, a murder mystery mashup of hidden roll mechanics and drawing game. Everyone's a murderer AND detective, it's very efficient. In Weapons Drawn, we're trying to hide our secret calling cards in the weapons we draw, and then use those weapons to... well. Watch on!

Patrick Rothfuss joins the Polygon video crew to play FIASCO, the roleplaying game that emulates the capers, hijinks, and disasters of Coen brothers movies. Join us as we explore the Poppleton Mall, which may or may not be on the Moon, and try to figure out what is going on with those danged Satanists.

In Herd Mentality you want to be just like everybody else!! Players have to answer questions like "What's the tastiest meat?" or "What's the best thing to come out of France?" and they're given points if they get the same, generic, middle-of-the-road answers. That's why you'll find us fighting over who's the best Muppet, what day of the work week is The Worst (there's a right answer to this), and what it ACTUALLY means to "fit" a "fruit" "in your mouth." It's Herd Mentality!

Joey Batey, who plays Jaskier on Netflix's The Witcher, joins the Polygon crew for a rousing game of DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, in a custom campaign we're calling... "Oops, All Bards!"

Welcome to Overboard Summer Camp! For the next 3 weeks we'll be exploring beyond our normal realm of tabletop games, and up first is Arts & Crafts! Today we're playing Clay-O-Rama, a D&D supplement from 1987 where the characters are made of — you guessed it — clay.

Today in Camp Overboard, we're playin KAN JAM. It's a team-based FLYING DISC game. One person throws a disc, their teammate tries to JAM it into a can. Kan? Anyway! Polygon Video is joined today by special guest Kofie from @SecretBaseSBN as well as Petrana and Sadie from Polygon!

It's the final installment of Polygon Summer Camp! We're had rainy day crafts, we've done an outdoor sport, and now... we're telling a spooky story around the campfire. Last Friday is an asymmetrical game where four of our players (Pat Gill, Simone de Rochefort, XTina GG, and Clayton Ashley) will play as happy campers. But the fifth player, Jenna Stoeber, is... a MURDERER. As the "maniac," Jenna will try to hunt down the campers, who can work together to evade her... and maybe even fight back, as dawn breaks on Camp Overboard.

SungWon "ProZD" Cho has been transported to a mysterious realm and must defeat three champions in a special Overboard tournament, presented by Battle Spirits Saga. Will he emerge victorious? Or will he be doomed to spend the rest of eternity in a realm that closely resembles (but is not exactly) Earth? There's only one way to find out...

On this episode of Overboard, Polygon's tabletop and board game show, we're playing CONCEPT. It's sort of like Charades, except instead of movements we're using tokens on a board to indicate what kind of word or phrase the players are trying to guess. Guesses range from the easy — like bumblebee! — to more complicated phrases and uh, concepts! NOW, WARNING. I'M ABOUT TO POST SPOILERS FOR THE ANSWERS TO EACH ROUND. If you'd rather play along with the video, stop reading here! But if you want to see how bad we're doing, well. Read on.

On this episode of Overboard we're playing the BEETLE-WRESTING tabletop game Kabuto Sumo! In teams, we'll try to push our opponents' beetles out of the ring. Special beetle powers give each player an edge — but are they worth the cost it takes to activate them? Watch Pat Gill, Simone de Rochefort, XTina GG, and Polygon entertainment reporter Petrana Radulovic duke it out in the ring. Or dooky it out. Dung beetle.