This week we look back to one of the most unique games of 2009, Zeno Clash. From Chilean developer ACE Team comes an extremely unique punk fantasy first person fighter. It's tough to be creative in this space, to break out of the Tolkein-verse, to...
This week we take a run at running a slower life, the life of a modern day farmer. Will this simulator give us the pure unadulterated farming experience? Or is it another one of those farming sims that give you a manufactured bells and whistles...
In 2003 our favorite Slovokian Republic game developer, Cauldron, created a massive epic story that might have slightly been based on Total Recall. You are Chaser, or are you? and you are trying to figure out why you're being hunted, or are you? We try...
In 1992 (or maybe 1993) Mario-mania was sweeping the nation. The educators wanted to get kids interested in learning again, and what better way to trick them then using the Mario Brothers. But enough spotlight on Mario, why don't we make Luigi the star? The...
In a special Valentines Day episode, Carley hosts our second dating sim, targeting the most dangerous animal, dad. We play through the first couple hours of the game reading characters and learning about the creation of this...
Marco Polo? The guy barely traveled. Give us a real historical figure like Ibn Battuta to base a game on. The Saudi developer Semaphoor takes on their first full-fledged game using an episodic approach in 2013's Unearthed: The Trail of Ibn Battuta. The gang tries...
Things get furry as we explore the abandoned early access game Fur-Fun. Was there something tapped into with this game that was misunderstood? In the vein of Banjo-Kazooie it attempts to be the spiritual successor, was the internet wrong in considering Yooka-Layle the true successor?...
For our 30th episode extravaganza we go big utilizing our skills from super seducer to try and seduce the biggest dreamboat of them all. Colonel Sanders himself. In this bizarre marketing campaign of a game, you are a student at an anime culinary school with...
Frank hosts a double header of kart racing games. Starting with the mysterious Calvin Tucker, we race the tracks with a series of 'redneck' animals. Collecting horseshoes, spitting milk and being sucked up by aliens? The PDF manual explains more than the game does, but...
Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is the officially licensed video game of the Netflix hit, Narcos. Taking more than just notes from X-Com 2, this game makes some strange tweaks to the genre of tactical turnbased shooter and shows just how important it is to...