Decision Space
by Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon
Last updated Oct 14, 2026Is this your podcast?Decision Space explores decisions in games across the board game hobby and beyond. By exploring tactics, strategy, and the subjective experiences of decisions in games, we hope to provide insights into the specific games...
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- Jon Perry1 ep
- Jared Ingersoll1 ep
- Analog Arnie1 ep
Also: C. Thi Nguyen, Cole Wehrle, Chris Yi, Jaffles, Phil Walker-Harding, Taylor Reiner, Pete Babakitis
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- 🇰🇷South Korea · Games#187K to 460K
- 🇺🇸United States · GamesHOME#4570K to 373K
- 🇲🇽Mexico · Games#217.1K to 38K
- 🇵🇹Portugal · Games#93.8K to 20K
- 🇧🇷Brazil · Games#523.4K to 18K
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187K to 988K🎙 ~2x weekly·284 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
373K to 2.0M🇰🇷47%🇺🇸38%🇲🇽4%+7 more - Active Followers
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205K to 1.1M
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| 10/14/26 | Medina and More: Fresh Hot Impressions of Dusty Old Games | Episode 287- Playing OGs Together All four hosts are together for a discussion of the Old School games they played together during Brendan's visit to St. Louis. That Stefan Dorra... so hot right now... Time Stamps4:50- BattleCON: War of Indines17:00- Hellas30:00- Big Shot48:15- Witch's Brew1:03:00- Medina Preplanners Next week is a deep dive of Modern Art and after that we'll be making a tier list of the best games by Taiki Shinzawa Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee! | 1h 31m 04s | ||||||
| 10/7/26 | Cole Wehrle on His Love of Economic Games and How They Inspired An Infamous Traffic | Episode 286- Cole Wehrle on Economic Games and An Infamous Traffic Pete chats with Cole Wehrle about his history with economic games like Container and how these nasty designs inspired An Infamous Traffic, which currently has a second edition in development for Wehrlegig Games. An Infamous Traffic on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colewehrle/an-infamous-traffic-second-edition Cole's design diaries: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/475323/an-infamous-traffic-second-edition/forums/0 Time Stamps3:10- economic games27:15- Container50:30- An Infamous Traffic Games Mentioned Modern Art, The Estates, 1817, Indonesia, Reef Encounter, Automobile, Neuland, Nippon: Zaibatsu, Sol: Last Days of a Star, Container, An Infamous Traffic, Brass, John Company Preplanners Next week we'll talk about games we played together as a group while Brendan was in town! Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee! | 1h 44m 16s | ||||||
| 9/30/26 | Our Designs in Development: Report from a Prototype Convention | Episode 285- Stonemaier Design Day 2026 All four hosts are together to share their experiences of hanging out together IN PERSON for Stonemaier Design Day. Paul talks about games he's working on for GameHead and Pete, Jake, and Brendan discuss the games they brought to showcase at the event. Time Stamps6:00- GameHead playtesting23:00- about Stonemaier Design Day29:45- Franchise Wars (Pete and Brendan's game)41:30- Kiuic (Jake's game)52:15- Among Mortals (Brendan's game)1:06:00- Teacher's Pest (Jake's game)1:12:15- other prototypes we played Preplanners Next week is the return of a special guest! Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee! | 1h 24m 32s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 | Lane Battlers: How Schotten Totten Created a Genre | Episode 284- Schotten Totten and Lane Battlers Pete and Brendan explore the card game genre known as lane battlers and deep dive the 1999 Knizia Classic Schotten Totten that gave birth to these dueling games. Time Stamps5:15- what is a lane battler?10:00- Schotten Totten deep dive44:30- other lane battlers Games Mentioned Battle Line, Lost Cities, Hanamikoji, Radlands, Riftforce, Air Land and Sea, Marvel Snap, Compile, Toy Battle, Brawl, Omen Reign of War, The Old King's Crown, Dracula vs Van Helsing Preplanners The hosts will be talking about their first 4 host meetup and Stonemaier Design day next week! Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee! | 1h 22m 52s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 | Our Favorite Splotter? Indonesia Roundtable Merge-a-Palooza | Episode 283- Indonesia Pete is joined by Arnie, Jared and Luke to discuss Splotter's 2005 economic masterpiece Indonesia. These 4 have played the game sixteen times together this year and have learned a lot. Listen to their tales of business blunder and triumph! Arnie's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analog_arnie Luke's Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/off-board-podcast/ Jared has nothing going on worth sharing. Preplanners Deep dive on Schotten Totten and an exploration of Lane Battlers is coming up next. Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee! | 1h 32m 56s | ||||||
| 9/9/26 | Gen Conboard games+3 | — | GreyluneJibber Jabble+14 | — | Gen Conboard games+3 | — | 1h 27m 25s | ||
| 9/2/26 | game editionsreimplementations+3 | — | Stonemaier GamesLibertalia+1 | — | LibertaliaWinds of Galecrest+3 | — | 1h 12m 30s | ||
| 8/26/26 | listener questionsgame design+4 | — | HembreeFlash Floods+1 | — | listener questionsgame design+4 | — | 1h 21m 35s | ||
| 8/19/26 | sandbox objectivespoint salad+4 | — | Frosted BloomsHembree+1 | — | sandbox objectivespoint salad+5 | — | 1h 12m 32s | ||
| 8/12/26 | game designplayer questions+3 | — | Magic the GatheringThe Resistance+13 | — | game questionsplayer strategy+3 | — | 1h 17m 33s | ||
| 8/5/26 | deckbuildingdigital card games+3 | Taylor Reiner | Slay the SpireBalatro+4 | — | deckbuildingSlay the Spire+3 | — | 1h 47m 01s | ||
| 7/29/26 | historical gamesgame conventions+3 | Pete Babakitis | Odd Candy GamesBuried Giant Studios+9 | — | historical gamesSD HistCon North+3 | — | 1h 35m 41s | ||
| 7/22/26 | card gamesdeck structures+4 | — | HembreeFlash Floods+13 | — | card gamesdeck design+4 | — | 1h 27m 34s | ||
| 7/15/26 | board gamesgame design+3 | — | BattleConKeyflower+14 | — | board gamesshowdown+3 | — | 1h 09m 40s | ||
| 7/8/26 | iterative game designgame design+3 | — | HembreeFlash Floods+3 | — | iterative designgame design+3 | — | 1h 11m 58s | ||
| 7/1/26 | player obsessiongame reviews+4 | Jaffles | HembreeFlash Floods+4 | — | The Old King's Crowngame obsession+5 | — | 1h 48m 23s | ||
| 6/24/26 | hand managementtabletop games+4 | — | love letterdominion+25 | — | hand managementtabletop games+4 | — | 1h 15m 27s | ||
| 6/17/26 | game designgame inspiration+3 | Phil Walker-Harding | HembreeFlash Floods+3 | — | game designPhil Walker-Harding+3 | — | 1h 32m 54s | ||
| 6/10/26 | Phil Walker Hardingboard games+3 | Chris Yi | Sushi GoSushi Go Party+35 | — | Phil Walker Hardingboard games+3 | — | 2h 08m 54s | ||
| 6/3/26 | board gamesconvention recap+3 | — | Feya's SwampDark Pact+19 | — | Geekway to the Westboard games+5 | — | 1h 25m 01s | ||
| 5/27/26 | shared infrastructure gameslogistics puzzles+3 | — | BusBarrage+6 | — | Busshared infrastructure+3 | — | 1h 17m 51s | ||
| 5/20/26 | player agencyemergent storytelling+3 | Cole Wehrle | OathRoot+3 | — | storytellinggame design+3 | — | 1h 29m 43s | ||
| 5/13/26 | Euro Gamesgame design+3 | — | BGGHembree+4 | — | Euro Gamesgame design+3 | — | 1h 14m 23s | ||
| 5/6/26 | top gamesgame reviews+3 | — | MedinaBig Top+17 | — | top gamesboard games+3 | — | 1h 32m 39s | ||
| 4/29/26 | top gamesgame countdown+3 | — | LunarchitectsPax Renaissance+17 | — | top 10 gamesboard games+3 | — | 1h 27m 33s | ||
| 4/22/26 | game depthcomplexity+4 | Jon Perry | Air Land and SeaHot Streak+9 | — | game depthcomplexity+5 | — | 1h 17m 40s | ||
| 4/15/26 | board gamesgame expansions+3 | Jared IngersollAnalog Arnie | Flash FloodsYouTube+6 | — | Blighted ReachArcs+3 | — | 1h 28m 40s | ||
| 4/8/26 | dueling gamesgameplay modules+3 | — | Duel for CardiaHembree+2 | — | Duel for Cardiagameplay modules+3 | — | 1h 15m 54s | ||
| 4/1/26 | game showApril Fool's+3 | — | HembreeFlash Floods+4 | YouTubeSpotify+1 | game showpodcast+3 | — | 1h 23m 15s | ||
| 3/25/26 | gamingboard games+3 | — | HembreeFlash Floods+14 | — | gaming marathonboard games+3 | — | 1h 24m 57s | ||
| 3/18/26 | game difficultycooperative games+4 | — | SailFinal Girl+11 | — | game difficultySail+6 | — | 1h 26m 03s | ||
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| 3/4/26 | artgames+4 | C. Thi Nguyen | HembreeFlash Floods+2 | — | artgames+5 | — | 1h 24m 55s | ||
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Chart history for Decision Space
Peaked at #1 in South Korea, top 10 in 2 of 37 tracked markets, currently #1 in South Korea.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| PT | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| AE | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| Ireland | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| BE | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| Mexico | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| HU | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| SG | — | #29 | #29 | — |
| CH | — | #32 | #32 | — |
| South Korea | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| Sweden | — | #44 | #44 | — |
| GR | — | #44 | #44 | — |
| United States | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| PT | — | #49 | #49 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| Brazil | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| India | — | #59 | #59 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #69 | #69 | — |
| TR | — | #75 | #75 | — |
| TH | — | #78 | #78 | — |
Chart Positions
37 placements across 31 markets.
Chart Positions
37 placements across 31 markets.