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but we're, we're sort of exiting what I sort of more my like, I quite liked this from the years and getting into the stuff I really liked. So after this, it's all, I'll say it's all gold, but it's all games I like genuinely love. So that's okay, Matthew. What's your number seven? My number seven is Thronebreaker. Oh, yeah. The Witcher card game. The Witcher card game. I absolutely love this. I thought this was such a lush production. You know, they took Gwent, the card game from the Witcher three, they actually…

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... This was an early access game in 2018. But that's all right, Sam, I tried putting in a game from 2017 that we had to cut out. Did you? I don't remember that happening, Matthew, because this edit is seamless. And no such scars remain on the episode. Okay, but we're, we're sort of exiting what I sort of more my like, I quite liked this from the years and getting into the stuff I really liked. So after this, it's all, I'll say it's all gold, but it's all games I like genuinely love. So that's okay, Matthew. What's your number seven? My number seven is Thronebreaker. Oh, yeah. The Witcher card game. The Witcher card game. I absolutely love this. I thought this was such a lush production. You know, they took Gwent, the card game from the Witcher three, they actually reinvented it. They sort of simplified it in certain ways, where it had like, three rows of cards in in Gwent in the Witcher three, they shifted it down to two, and they completely reimagined the rules of it. But it was a, you know, a narrative RPG played this queen called Meath, who was going around the Witcher universe, fighting other bastard kings and whatnot. I think it was a prequel to the Witcher two, I think is ...

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