The Short Game

The Short Game
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Apr 29, 2024 • 57min

403: Gaming Slumps

Slumps. Ruts. Dulldrums. Whatever you want to call them, most of us have likely experienced times when you couldn’t play or enjoy games in the way you might want for one reason or another. In...
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Apr 22, 2024 • 1h 4min

402: Terra Nil

It’s the ultimate video game power fantasy: the power to clean up after ourselves. Terra Nil is a unique “city builder” in the lineage of Sim City, but with tasks you with revitalizing a wilderness...
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Apr 8, 2024 • 1h 17min

401: Open Roads

After an incredibly troubled development, we finally have the latest game from the team that brought you Gone Home and Tacoma… Sort of. Open Roads, from publisher Annapurna and the developers known here as The...
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Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 14min

400: Episode 400 Trivia Spectacular!

400 episodes. Nearly 10 years. I absolutely can not believe it. To celebrate, Laura put together an incredibly well produced trivia night game for us to play! Who knows the most about the last 10...
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Mar 25, 2024 • 27min

A Quick Word on Slice & Dice 3.0

Slice & Dice is a game that just keeps giving, and we don’t just mean incredible dice-rolling gameplay. Since we last covered Slice & Dice, it has received two major updates. As we prepare for...
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Mar 19, 2024 • 55min

398: Home Safety Hotline

As we close in on Episode 400 (where did the time go?) Shane and Raygan are talking about weird-horror phone bank simulator Home Safety Hotline. Is that caller suffering from bedbugs, or Bed Teeth? Tags...
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Mar 11, 2024 • 49min

398: Grab Bag! Mario and More

This week we go rogue and chat about a whole bunch of games — Super Mario Wonder (short to mid-length), Helldivers 2 (long!), and an assortment of “daily games” (seconds to minutes!).
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Mar 4, 2024 • 1h 10min

397: Balatro

A card based roguelike that is arguably related to Poker has been blowing up recently, so naturally we gave it a shot. Turns out, yeah, it’s good!
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Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 7min

396: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Debatably a short game, but indisputably a classic. Raygan has played SotN many times but the rest of the crew is experiencing it for the first time. What will they make of this revolutionary 1997...
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Feb 19, 2024 • 1h 12min

395: Subpar Pool

Golf + pool + the developer behind holedown? Be still our hearts. Subpar Pool brings polish and charm to the (pool) table, with tons of variations and challenges to keep it fresh — we highly...

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