

The Short Game
The Short Game
A podcast about video games that respect your time
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Sep 7, 2021 • 1h 41min
287: Twelve Minutes
The Twelve Minutes Defender (Shane) and the Twelve Minutes Hater (Raygan) are locked in an endless cycle of discourse. This time loop thriller adventure game has garnered some really mixed reviews, and we can’t give...

Aug 30, 2021 • 1h 33min
286: Boyfriend Dungeon
We’re taking a romantic dip into the “dunj” this week and playing Boyfriend Dungeon from Kitfox Games! We talk about the smooching, the slashing and talk about our favorite Baeblades. Boyfriend Dungeon is available on...

Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 20min
285: The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction, and a re-imagining of an award winning Skyrim mod. Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman...

Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 10min
284: Button City
Button City is a cute (you might even say wholesome) adventure game about an adorable fox and his animal friends in a dayglow 90’s nostalgia infused world, trying to protect their local arcade from an...

Aug 9, 2021 • 1h 10min
Short Game Classic – 02: The Stanley Parable
This week I was thinking about The Stanley Parable, which had a great recent episode on Watch Out For Fireballs and is also probably, finally getting its updated re-release this year, The Stanley Parable: Ultra...

Aug 2, 2021 • 1h 31min
283: Metroid Fusion
Our patrons voted for it, and we played it! It’s Metroid Fusion! A 5-7 hour Metroid game for the Game Boy Advance. This was Samus Aran’s first game in 8 years following Super Metroid, but...

Jul 26, 2021 • 49min
282: Death’s Door
Play as a tiny crow with a huge sword, tasked with reaping souls in a world in which no one has died for hundreds of years. Death’s Door is a top-down exploration and combat focused action...

Jul 19, 2021 • 1h 21min
281: Griftlands
This week we are talking about the long in Early Access roguelike deck-building RPG Griftlands, and if you just heard a sound it was Nate vibrating in his seat. This isn’t that short a game,...

Jul 8, 2021 • 1h 7min
280: Boomerang X
This week we played Boomerang X, a new first person shooter boomeranger from developer DANG! published by Devolver Digital. Fling your boomerang (and yourself) through the air in a series of increasingly insane combat arenas...

Jul 5, 2021 • 43min
279: Ynglet
This week we are covering Ynglet, a weird little anti-platformer for PC/Mac. Enjoy us trying mightily to describe the abstract main character creature (betasseled space squid?), and stick around for Shane’s What’s Making Me Happy...