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To make sure the best games don't get overlooked, every few months I'm going back through and picking out my personal favourites. Here are six of them. Games featured: Mibibli's Quest Critters for Sale Small Saga Knuckle Sandwich Backbone Supraland

We end Season 1 with just another day at the office: functional programming, illogical animals, and really needing to take a nap. Games featured: Yet Another Exhausting Day Operation E.C.H.O. (Composition) Glitch Pets Orange Island Slime Research

This episode focuses on older games. As in "already out". Look, always talking about upcoming games messes with your sense of time. Games featured: Ascent: Crash Landing The Subject In Space No-one Can Hear You Jump Gorescript Lemma Wand Wars

"The bends" occurs when you quickly go from extremes of elevation. And with underwater exploration and mountaintop adventure, this episode certainly qualifies. Games featured: Verlet Swing Emergence Izel's Observatory Ribbiting Saga Skybolt Zack The Mystery of Woolley Mountain

Words are good. I use them a lot. So here are some games that are about words and communication, and some games that very much aren't. Games featured: The Word is Not the Thing Lab Assistant Bird By Example Small Saga Spiralagon Judged For Crime

Is there anything more important than water, in all its forms? Maybe air. Hard to say. Water's definitely in the top two, though. Games featured: Water's Fine Mibibli's Quest WaveCrash!! Ada Overflow Mist Hunter

Is magic real? That question is not addressed at all in this episode. But we do address things that are close to magic, and that's close enough. Games featured: Critters for Sale Out of the Hat Brownie Cove Cancelled Cavern of Illusions Gray Dawn Alchemist's Mountain

For this episode, we're going underground. And then above the ground. And then on the ground, but that ground's above other ground... it's all confusing. Games featured: Mineralph Down the Well Timothy and the Tower of Mu Phaeria's Mine Unbound: Worlds Apart Some Assembly Required

Naturally, a good game requires good gameplay. But the best games also offer interesting and compelling narrative experiences. Games featured: How Do You Know Mr. Blue? Tennis Story Genesis Noir Fumiko! Silent Night Heaven's Vault

Ludum Dare is one of the world's largest game jams. In this episode, we look at six games from Ludum Dare 44: Your Life is Currency. Games featured: 99 Hearts Hydrate and Annihilate Batclash Bloodletter Drytown Escape from Hell

Who needs human protagonists, anyway? We've got foxes and raccoons and... okay maybe one or two humans is fine too, whatever. Games featured: Foxhunt Zissi's Island Backbone Supraland Mute The World Begins With You

Look, all I'm going to say is: the session where I played through these games was on April 20th. Take that as you will. Games featured: Stone Cinnamon's Cooking Quest Knuckle Sandwich The Low Road Pieces Between Us Compass Rose

To make sure the best games don't get overlooked, every few months I'm going back through and picking out my personal favourites. Here are six of them. Games featured: Fling to the Finish Devil Engine Eternal Home Floristry Dusk Child Marie's Room It's Paper Guy!

The 2019 Global Game Jam asked teams: what does "home" mean to you? In this episode, we look at six of those answers. Games featured: Trash Splash Yellow Door Cons & Truct Heart of My Exploration Billed to Order (it's a bird pun!) Werewolves

A new life can mean many things. Maybe a new body, maybe a new chapter in your life. Or, just good old-fashioned zombies. Games featured: Inked M.A.S.S. Builder Tiaki Reincarnation 3D Maze of Adventures Mind Crosser

I spent four days in Boston this past weekend, checking out dozens of indie games at PAX East. This episode has my raw thoughts and recommendations. Games featured: What the Golf? Unannounced Title Feral Frontier Pacer AvariaVS Super Crush KO

Sometimes it's worth taking a step back and trying to be one with nature. Though, maybe not as much as some of these games. They go a little far. Games featured: Symbiosis Foxlight Journey Paw Paw Paw Yucatan Project Hedra How to Be a Tree

The annual Independent Games Festival looks to celebrate interesting, quality independent games. For this episode, we look at six of this year's finalists. Games featured: Nth Dimensional Hiking Forgotton Anne Black Room Sole Circle0 It's Paper Guy!

Look, naming things is hard. Especially when you cover a whole lot of different genres in one episode. Games featured: The Maze Of Mezzlarus Super Untitled Game Exorder Dusk Child Super Animal Royale Dungeon Drafters

What's cooler than punks or gun-toting cats? Ice, usually. Ice is fairly cold. Especially dry ice, that stuff is dangerous. Games featured: Black Ice Devil Engine Cool Kid Cody's Totally Unreal Radical Quest for Godhood Chester One Born Punk Gun-Toting Cats

How do we really define a vehicle, anyway? Can a swivel chair be a vehicle? Are our legs not vehicles? No. No they're not. That's silly. Games featured: Last Man Kicking Hovership Havoc Road to Your City Atlas: Groundbreaking Adventures Musical Chairs with Bulldozers Wavey the Rocket

Games are great for friendships! So of course games about friendships can be great too. But games can also be terrible for your friendships too, if they want to be. Games featured: Arrow and Zary Gumgem Evan's Remains Fling to the Finish Marie's Room Tower Princess

It's hard to overstate how important it was when video games started scrolling the screen. My, how far we've come. Games featured: Dreamscape Forsaken Castle Rubi: The Wayward Mira Magical Monster Land Powerglove Reloaded Charlie II

An obligation, a compulsion, a competition. Sometimes you just have to be quick. Games featured: Spaceport Babel Kyle & Lucy Wonderworld Horizon Chase Turbo Plaque Tunche ΔV: Rings of Saturn

Ludum Dare is one of the world's largest game jams. In this episode, we look at six games from Ludum Dare 43: Sacrifices Must Be Made. Games featured: Super Sellout Jlim Omelettes Expendibots Fixin' to Die Total Party Kill

There are a lot of scary things out there. Dark forests. Mafia thugs. Late-stage capitalism. Stuff like that. Games featured: Perfection The Cursed Forest Orphan Age These Monsters Eternal Home Floristry Rainforest

It's a lot of tomatoes. A whole town of them. It seems to go on infinitely, looping around in the dark, unless someone steps forward and does something about it. Games featured: Infinite: Beyond the Mind OuroBound One Step from Eden Long Live the Axe I'll Take You to Tomato Town Blackout: The Darkest Night

Sure, some of us have to work, but for many the new year means party time! Just be careful not to go too hard, or you'll meet all sorts of unusual or undead characters. Games featured: Misshapen Reaper Boy Rock Robin Double Kick Heroes To Hell With Dave Suits: Absolute Power

To make sure the best games don't get overlooked, every few months I'm going back through and picking out my personal favourites. Here are six of them. Games featured: well, you'll just have to listen to the episode!

Okay, I'd be mad too if "safety" meant super-fast driving or pushing around a backhoe. But you need to be careful when zombies rise, aliens invade, evolution goes awry, or you walk into a heavy metal album cover. Games featured: Dead Pixels II Stay Safe Miscreation Divenia Episode One Valfaris BH Trials

Sometimes, games are good for teaching you things, like history or geometry or robotics engineering. And sometimes you just doodle and dream about space adventures. Games featured: Gravity Breakers Super Bunny Kick Triforce Freja and the False Prophecy Letters Artificial Death

We've all got our jobs to do. Maybe you're "filing" documents. Or curating a museum. Maybe you're delivering mail, or equipment, or cultists. But sometimes, you just need to go play in the streets. Games featured: Neon Tail Department of Truth Correction Yoku's Island Express God's Gift After Hours Museum of the Saved Image

Duck season! Rabbit season! Penguin season! Rabbit season! Driving season! Tiny gardening alien season! Wait what? Games featured: The Rabbit and the Owl Fast Dust Duck Jam Heeey! Park-Boy Pocket Penguin Even the Rabbits

This week, it's educational! We learn how dogs rap, hedgehogs think, and Swedes raise children. Valuable information to have when your world is beset by robots and bugs, or under attack from varied unworldly horrors. Games featured: Fresh Pup MindSeize Bugs Must Die Knåddskogen Glitch Dog As It Is Lore Finder

After doing so much gardening and battling so many monsters and demons, we've earned a vacation! Grab your skateboard, come to Europe, and jump into a lizard's mouth! Games featured: The Lesser Known Cities of Europe Garden Paws Lizard Aeon's End The Textorcist SkateRide

What's scarier: a world full of monsters, a lifetime of damaged memories, or a broken fourth wall? Perhaps we need some minimalism and some unconventional weapons to chill out. Games featured: IIN Monster Sanctuary The Four-Eyed Creature Tape Glitched Deathroned