Location:
United States
Genres:
Sports & Recreation Podcasts
Description:
A podcast about video games that respect your time
Language:
English
Episodes
403: Gaming Slumps
4/29/2024
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...
Duration:00:56:46
402: Terra Nil
4/22/2024
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...
Duration:01:04:27
401: Open Roads
4/8/2024
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...
Duration:01:16:33
400: Episode 400 Trivia Spectacular!
4/1/2024
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...
Duration:01:13:45
A Quick Word on Slice & Dice 3.0
3/25/2024
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...
Duration:00:26:35
398: Home Safety Hotline
3/19/2024
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...
Duration:00:55:17
398: Grab Bag! Mario and More
3/11/2024
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!).
Duration:00:49:26
397: Balatro
3/4/2024
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!
Duration:01:09:55
396: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
2/26/2024
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...
Duration:01:07:21
395: Subpar Pool
2/19/2024
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...
Duration:01:11:34
394: The Forever Labyrinth
2/14/2024
When inkle drops a surprise release, we dive in — and this time, we dove into a maze of art from museums around the world. The Forever Labyrinth is a totally free, browser-based “replayable narrative...
Duration:01:16:34
393: Gravity Circuit
2/5/2024
Turns out all of us skipped the tutorial and (whaddayaknow!?) had a really hard time with the early hours of this retro action platformer. Don’t be like us! In the end though we all had...
Duration:01:11:13
392: Playdate Update
1/29/2024
I can’t believe it’s been almost two years since we last talked about the Playdate, the cute little console with a crank. We start with an update on if/how we’re still playing out Playdates, and...
Duration:01:11:15
391: The Roottrees Are Dead
1/22/2024
The famous Roottree sisters and their parents, heirs to a billion dollar candy empire, have suddenly died in a plane crash. The inheritance is in question, with a massive family tree full of potential beneficiaries. ...
Duration:01:02:49
390: Jusant
1/15/2024
This week Nate and Laura cover Jusant, somehow our second 2023 tower game and our second 2023 climbing game — but micro-genres aside, Jusant’s got plenty of charms of its own. Don’t Nod, the creators...
Duration:00:52:03
389: Game of the Year 2023
1/8/2024
We’re a little late, but it’s time to talk about The Short Game’s Game of the Year! As with previous years we’re also handing out many superlatives, including returning awards like Dirtbag of the Year....
Duration:01:17:26
388: Chants of Sennaar
12/20/2023
Laura and Raygan manage to shift one small shovel of their pile of shame before the holidays. We’re so glad to have made time for Chants of Sennaar, an incredible puzzle adventure game in which...
Duration:01:02:44
387: A Highland Song
12/7/2023
The latest game from Short Game favorite Inkle has proved to be a bit divisive. Laura enjoyed it, but Raygan hit some major issues that spoiled the experience. It made for an interesting conversation!
Duration:01:18:06
386: Short Game Gift Guide
11/27/2023
Oh dang it’s a holiday weekend and we don’t have time to prep for an episode… Let me see what everybody else on the internet is doing right now… … So here’s the Short Game...
Duration:00:56:31
385: Slay the Princess
11/20/2023
You’re here to slay the princess. Don’t believe her lies. This horror adventure (visual novel?) sets you a simple if trope-reversing task right in the title, then blows the doors off with an extraordinarily wide...
Duration:01:36:10