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This week, we take a look at Blue Prince, the exploratory pick-3 roguelite puzzle game by Tonda Ros/Dogubomb.

This week, we take a look at Berry Bury Berry by Get(Color) Games, an active incremental game that blends other unique elements not generally found in its contemporaries like puzzles and narrative.

This week, we take a look at Project Songbird, a First Person Survival Horror Game by Conner Rush and Fyre Games, but mostly Conner Rush.

This week, we take a look at Pyre, the lesser known entry in the Supergiant Games catalogue alongside Bastion, Transistor, and Hades.

This week, we take a look at this free retro arcade styled twin stick shooter Evil Egg by Ivy Sly.

This week, we take a look at a retro JRPG/ARPG classic from SquareSoft and the same mind behind Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story.

This week, we take a look at the hopecore visual novel, Control, I'm Not Coming Back by Desborde Games.

This week, we take a look at the auteur developed top-down action adventure game with a very striking visual style 15 years in the making, Radio the Universe by sixesixesixe.

This week, we take a look at the top down mech shooter that had a very influential multiplayer mode called Future Cop LAPD.

This week, we take a look at Prey 2017, an immersive sim by Arkane Studios.

This week, we briefly take a look at Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk and then move into rating various video gaming communities in our very first tier list episode.

This week, we take a look at a lesbian romance visual novel, Set Yourself on Fire by Denhop.

This week, we play our lowest rated game yet, Replaced.

This week, we take a look at an M.C. Escher inspired non-Euclidean puzzle platformer by William Chyr, Manifold Garden.

This week, we take a look at Love Eternal, a precision platformer in the vein of IWBTG (I Wanna Be The Guy), Celeste, Super Meat Boy, etc. combined with an extremely obtuse plot and narrative.

Yes, I know it's not exactly one year yet but it's close enough so deal with it.

This week, we take a look at the Vampire Survivors spinoff heading into DRPG/Blobber/Roguelite Deckbuilderslop territory, Vampire Crawlers.

This week, we take a look at a super creative and charming RPGMaker Shiren the Wanderer/Mystery Dungeon style game where you can use literally anything as a weapon, The World is Your Weapon.

This week, we review and discuss Makai Agito, an SMT/Persona-like RPG dungeon crawler.

This week, we check out the lifesim horror by Coldblood Inc with music by Disasterpeace and art from the pixel artist of Celeste.

This week, we take a look at one of the most popular games in the incremental/idle/clicker genre, Nodebuster.

This week, we play Hyper Light Hollow Knight, MIO: Memories in Orbit.

This week, we take a look at the Early Access for the sequel to one of the greatest games ever made, Slay the Spire 2.

This week, we look at the preservation of a Bioware classic isometric CRPG that pioneered real-time with pause combat, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition by Beamdog.

This week, we play a short-form puzzle game by the creator of Patrick's Parabox, Linelith.

This week, we check out the IWBTG-styled Bullet Hell, Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, the 15th game in the Touhou mainline series.

This week, we look at Nihohe Soft's new roguelite deckbuilder, Lethal Dungeon.

This week, we look at House of Ashes, part of the Dark Pictures Anthology by Supermassive Games.

This week, we take a look at the Pick 3 Turn-Based Galaga-esque Roguelite, StarVaders.

This week, we look at the avant garde Barkleymaxxed Survivor Horror JRPG with multiple DSP references, Look Outside.

This week, we take a look at the roguelite twin stick shooter, SYNTHETIK.

This week, we played the Dark Queen of Mortholme, a shortform experience where you play AS the Dark Souls boss.

This week, we look at the frenetic time trial John Wick-like, I AM YOUR BEAST by Strange Scaffold.

This week, we take a look at the roguelite brick-breaker/shmup hybrid, BALL x PIT.

This week, we look at Remedy's SCP inspired third person shooter, Control Ultimate Edition.

This week, we take a look at the puzzle platformer Öoo by Nama Takahashi.

This week, we look at the superhero workplace comedy choose your own adventure game, Dispatch.

This week, we play the Forgotten City, a Skyrim mod made full game.

This week, we look at the first person open world murder mystery game, Paradise Killer.

This week, we discuss Dead Estate, a roguelike... isaac-like... by Milkbar Lads!

This week, we play Unsighted, a time-sensitive metroidvania filled with cyborg lesbians!

The 2025 TGA nominations are out, and we discuss snubs, who we think will win, and our personal picks!

This week, we look at the extremely influential origin of the Fate franchise, the visual novel Fate/Stay Night REMASTERED (the first route only).

This week for an intermezzo, we play Sense of the Seasons, a free itch.io schmup!

This week, we take a look at the quirky classic RPG Maker game remade in 2025, OFF the Game.

Just in time for Spooktober, Seth picked Signalis, a sci-fi horror filled with... cyborg lesbians?

For this week, Jordan chose Who's Lila, a peculiar game about a peculiar guy with a peculiar face.

The early access for Supergiant's hit series is over and 1.0 released. Somehow we made it through the entire episode without a "hey deez nuts" joke.

This week we discuss Team Cherry's sequel to its hit metroidvania Hollow Knight - the long wait for Silksong is over.

Larian's masterpiece is wrapped up this week - where will CRPGs go from here?