Tom S, Jamie and Marsh gather, like a drift of dead leaves, to discuss some seasonally spooky games: Alan Wake 2 and Mouthwashing. Also mentioned: Arco and Grunn. * Painshill Park. The crystal grotto is closed on Mondays. * Alan Wake 2 * Remember Quantum Break? My sympathies. * Garth Marenghi is a better writer than Alan Wake, and he’s meant to be awful. * Mouthwashing * Arco * Grunn * Youtuber Lazy Game Reviews talks about The Sims You can hang out with us and...

Marsh, Jamie and Chris convene to navigate the bouncy balls of Peglin, the less bouncy but surprisingly solid shooty-bangs of Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2, before failing to enjoy UFO 50 as much as they probably should. Games Discussed: * Peglin* Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2* UFO 50 Back Gold Teeth here! You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected], or...

Jamie kindly permits Marsh to talk about Gold Teeth, the tabletop roleplaying game he’s Kickstarting, which is just an excuse to ramble at length about roleplaying games more broadly with excellent chums Jim Rossignol and Chris Lackey. * Gold Teeth! It’s a game of piracy and occult horror! * Strange Studies of Strange Stories – an excellent podcast that deftly unpicks literary tales of the sinister, supernatural or simply weird. Well worth a sub. Patton Oswalt thinks so! * Strange...

Chris, Jamie and Marsh return to explain where the hell they’ve been, before launching into discussions of effervescent pie-em-up comedy game Thank Goodness You’re Here, following that with some entirely unbiased discussion of glorious turn based tactics game Tactical Breach Wizards. We also discuss cosmetic etiquette in the grimdark future hellwarscape of Warhammer: Space Marine 2, as well as briefly wandering betwixt the fireboys, electro-crocs and Spidermans of Shunt: Hoedown Hunt...

Jamie and Marsh reel from Microsoft’s latest layoffs, mismanage time in Hades 2, paddle in the uncanny, chlorinated waters of Pools, devour the bite-sized city-building triumphs of Against the Storm, and indulge their flaws in The Thaumaturge. * The last lay offs of 2024. Thankfully there won’t be any more of those! Phew!! * Nathan Brown’s Hit Points newsletter which I incorrectly namechecked as Bullet Points. Look, there are only so many pithy game-related analogies to go around,...

Jamie and Alex show their cards in deck-builders Balatro and Cobalt Core (poker- and space-flavoured respectively), before descending into the chaotic, cavernous depths of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and finally wrangling Dead Red Redemption 2 into completion. * Balatro * Cobalt Core * Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor * Red Dead Redemption 2 You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at...

Chris and Marsh discuss disappointing children’s entertainment, disappointing sales figures, anti-mnemonic naming choices, the rulebreaking delight of card game Balatro, the dishonourable cheeses of Honor Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, and return once more to Night Country. * AI wrote cheques that Willy Wonker simply could not cash. * Immortals of Aveum may not have sold well, but it really opens up your pores. * Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is fine, probably, but it isn’t Balatro. *...

Jamie and Marsh discuss the latest seasons of Fargo and True Detective, two anthology shows about troubling crimes and the yet more troubled cops who investigate them. * Fargo was originally a film by the Coen Brothers, and was adapted to TV by Noah Hawley, who is also known for the show Legion. * Also mentioned: Happy Valley, a superb crime show of a similar form, set in Yorkshire. * The first season of True Detective was written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Joji...

Join Jamie and Chris as they join Past Jamie for a solo pod about train-sets and low-key terror in the demo deluge of Steam Next Fest. Then they return to the present, which is also now the past, to discuss smushing bugs in the name of Super Earth in Helldivers 2. * All aboard the Jamie solo-pod! Choo choo! * Brio Train Sets * Rolling Line * Tracks – The Train Set Game * Steam Next Fest is a periodic event that brings a deluge of time-limited demos. * Mouthwashing is a...

Tom F joins Marsh to make the biggest sticks in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, become the stick in Pacific island adventure Tchia, stick to walls in Jusant and stick it to space pirates in timeloop deckbuilder Cobalt Core. * Just forbidden enough: Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Tom’s game of 2023. * Tactical Breach Wizards is Tom’s forthcoming game about wizards who breach tactically. It’s very good! * Tchia is a joyous open world adventure in which you can possess any object. *...

Marsh and Chris celebrate the new year by poking the wound in our psychic gestalt. Also: are AI tools ethical? Yeah, we solve that one. 100%. Bosh. Done. Also also: space whale visual novel South Scrimshaw, team shooter The Finals, Robocop: Rogue City, mystery game This Bed We Made, Pentiment and Cocoon. * Alex’s COVID-recovery blogpost. He wouldn’t need to oxygenate his blood if he was a real man. * South Scrimshaw Part One: a sci-fi visual novel written in the style of a nature...

Chris, Jamie and Marsh reminisce on the year that was, the teeth they lost, oceans they regret leaving, algorithms that have failed them and, very eventually, the games they played. Bold takes on Baldur’s Gate, Dave the Diver, Cult of the Lamb [sexy], Witchfire and Chants of Sennaar. * Games of the year we give barely more than a namecheck to: Cocoon, Destiny 2, Jedi Survivor, Vampire Survivors, Hunt: Showdown * Baldur’s Gate 3: game of the year or… game of the decade?! * Cult of...

Jamie and Marsh voyage into their deepest nightmare – a metatextual commentary on the subjective nature of storytelling – and shine a light on Alan Wake 2, then decide to incarcerate their dying, plaque-filled brains in the philosophical puzzle islands of The Talos Principle 2. * Alan Wake 2 * Twin Peaks: The Return * The Simpson’s Steamed Hams sketch. * The Talos Principle 2 * It’s “Roboterhaus”. Thanks, Germans. * Free on the Epic Game Store if you’re an Amazon Prime...

Tom S and Jamie don spandex and fling themselves into the uncynical optimism of Spider-Man 2, recall Tom Hardy’s come-hither Mr Tumble, return to both an up-res’d and a remade Resident Evil 4, and finish with a snifter of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. * You don’t want to find yourself in that kind of posse. * It took every fibre of maturity and decency I possess not to title this episode “The Pussy Posse”. * BE EXCITED about the forthcoming Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of...

Tom S and Marsh switch their feet for tank tracks, and every other part of their body for bazookas, in Armored Core VI, suffer orb separation anxiety in Cocoon, enjoy to the janky return to Night City in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, and stab through Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed: Mirage. * It’s the rockets you don’t shoot that matter in robot xenoplanet hell, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. * Put an orb in your orb (inside your orb) in brilliantly chitinous puzzle game,...

Tom F, Jamie and Marsh pause time to queue up their synchronised takes on peerless piratical stealth game, Shadow Gambit, enjoy the sights of Baldur’s Gate biggest Big Town, curtly dismiss Starfield, and triumphantly reinvade Stroggos in a revamped Quake 2. * So, Unity absolutely shit the bed. * Godot and GameMaker are also available. * Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a superb real-time-with-pause stealth game by the sadly and abruptly shuttered studio Mimimi. * Baldur’s...

Tom S, Jamie and Marsh roll up to Baldur’s Gate 3, a distressingly horny roleplaying masterpiece, discover the cancel culture of The Wonderful 101, and use demons like yo-yos in Astral Chain. * Baldur’s Gate 3, a CRPG classic in the making, and one of the sluttiest games ever made * D&D roleplay podcasts: The Adventure Zone, Dungeons and Daddies, Rude Tales of Magic * The Monte Cook roleplaying game Jamie is trying to remember is Predation (though Numenera is also great!) *...

Chris, Tom S and Marsh immolate dogs in the fields and fields and fields of Final Fantasy 16, plunder the pseudo-Yarnhams and battle-Narnias of Remnant 2, and step into the frame of Viewfinder, but remain puzzlingly unpuzzled. * Final Fantasy 16’s coverage so far has hidden its kaijus beneath a very large bushel, and a very large Clive. * Souls-inspired shooter sequel Remnant 2 has striking Bloodbornisms and Anar Londo moments aplenty in its grab-bag of genres. Plus: a dog. *...

Chris, Alex and Marsh creak, rasp and seep from their respective tombs to bewail the passing of the years on this, the 10th anniversary of the podcast. Plus: fulton fun in Mr Sun’s Hatbox, killer crocs in Hunt: Showdown, démodé dipsticks in Max Payne 3 and a terrible quiz. * Best games of the last decade? The Outer Wilds Slay The Spire Hunt: Showdown Disco Elysium Bloodborne Hitman * Max Payne 3: from the time when real men were bald, drunk and sad, and games were...

Jamie and Marsh journey into the distant past in the hopes of forging an alternate timeline where the episode’s prologue makes sense. In doing so, they ponder the dark Drakes of Uncharted 4, the deranged doubts of LA Noire and the dream dogs of Bloodborne. * Outlander references clearly do not possess the anticipated levels of cultural resonance. * Uncharted 4 is a game about being frustratingly reasonable with friends and family, admiring broaches, and mowing down bazillions of...

Jamie, Tom S and Marsh emerge from a morass of pod-opposites to deliver belated takes on Not E3, chicken sandwiches, grimdark clicker game Diablo IV and the latest season of Chess. * Nick Cage has been turned into Dead by Daylight DLC * Assassin’s Creed: Mirage * Starfield * Citizen Sleeper 2 * Star Wars: Outlaws * Baby Steps * Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess * South of Midnight * World of Horror * Jusant * Cocoon * Oxenfree 2 * Fable * Lies of...

Jamie joins Marsh to discuss the imminent game glut, puzzlesome reverse dog-trial Humanity, super-stylish brawler Sifu and clever Counter-Strike-alike Veiled Experts. * Diablo, Street Fighter 6 and Amnesia: The Bunker are all poised for release, while Bungie’s Marathon jangles gaudily on the distant horizon. * Quirky puzzler Humanity has lots of bodies but perhaps fewer brains. * Flee the unfinished quest icon deluge in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. * Sifu is a...

Chris, Jamie and Marsh commit goblin puzzlecrimes in the high-altitude sandbox of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of a Kingdom, and exchange gems for beards in the thoroughly-explained yurts of Jedi: Survivor. * Surefire GOTY for some, intimidating possibility-space for others: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of a Kingdom. * Return me to the reassuring monkey-bars and slippery inclines of STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor. * You’ve never been to Bongar 12?! You can hang out with us and our...