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| 444: Deltarune Chapter 4 | 15 Sep 2025 | 01:17:32 | |
After a somewhat unplanned summer break, the Short Game crew is returning to talk about the fourth chapter of Deltarune! | |||
| 443: Fan Games on Steam Deck | 15 Jul 2025 | 01:33:13 | |
The Steam Deck is the number one console(ish) platform for playing ILLEGAL GAMES that Nintendo doesn’t want you to play! This week we’re talking about games that STEAL intellectual property from the RICH FAT CATS... | |||
| 442: Deltarune Chapter 3 | 26 Jun 2025 | 00:59:40 | |
Toby Fox is back, and it’s TV TIME! Previously: | |||
| 441: ENA: Dream BBQ | 11 Jun 2025 | 00:54:39 | |
From the depths of Steam and YouTube comes ENA, a strange polygonal girl in a surreal hypercapitalist dreamscape. Your hosts were left wondering what the hell this was all about, and why is it so... | |||
| 440: Skin Deep | 30 May 2025 | 01:01:28 | |
Indie game royalty Blendo aka Brendan Chung, creator of Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy among others has come out of his cicada-like 7 year dev cycle with another instant classic. Skin Deep is... | |||
| 439: Despelote | 17 May 2025 | 00:54:08 | |
A video game memoir by Ecuadorian indie developers Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, and published by Panic, Despelote takes you back to a childhood in 2001 Ecuador, and the magical grip soccer held over the... | |||
| 438: Many Nights a Whisper | 06 May 2025 | 00:57:49 | |
We’re talking about Many Nights a Whisper, a short, meditative archery (kinda!) game from Red Strings Club developer Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour. The Dreamer has prepared their entire life for one impossible shot that will... | |||
| 437: Expelled! Spoilers! | 11 Apr 2025 | 01:08:21 | |
We spent this week playing a bit more of Inkle’s follow up to Overboard!, and made some shocking discoveries! | |||
| 436: Trash the Planet | 01 Apr 2025 | 00:46:58 | |
This week, Laura and Nate dive into Trash the Planet, a free, browser-based resource-management game that subverts clicker mechanics to serve its narrative. You play as a group of raccoons who start out collecting trash... | |||
| 435: FlyKnight | 26 Mar 2025 | 01:03:13 | |
Shane and Nate were buzzing about FlyKnight, a $5 indie dungeon crawler that surprised us with its humor and depth. In this episode, we break down what makes this tiny first-person RPG so fun, from... | |||
| 434: Expelled! An Overboard! Game | 12 Mar 2025 | 00:55:39 | |
Expelled! is the latest game from all-star narrative design studio Inkle. It’s a follow up to our 2021 Game of the Year winner Overboard!, and it builds on that game’s strengths in every conceivable area.... | |||
| 433: A Huge Year for Small Games | 04 Mar 2025 | 01:05:10 | |
Steam Next Fest just concluded and the Short Game team searched through the mountain of demos to discuss some of the most exciting games with short game energy coming out this year. 00:00 Intro04:09 WYRMHALL: Brush... | |||
| 432: Sheepy: A Short Adventure | 10 Feb 2025 | 01:04:58 | |
All four co-hosts are present and accounted for as we talk about ultra-short platformer, Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It’s right there in the name! Sheepy is a FREE game on Steam and itch.io, and it’ll... | |||
| 431: Fight’N Rage | 03 Feb 2025 | 00:56:28 | |
Rats with Knives! It’s time to finally talk about Fight’N Rage! This has been on the back burner for a while; it was first suggested to us nearly 4 years ago as a modern, mechanically... | |||
| 430: Steam Deck Chat | 27 Jan 2025 | 01:17:23 | |
This week we are welcoming long time friend of the show Jason McIntosh (aka Jmac, aka Halstrick) who’s joining us to talk about the Valve Steam Deck. It’s been about three years since the Steam... | |||
| 429: Grunn | 20 Jan 2025 | 00:59:41 | |
How has it taken us ten years to get around to covering a Sokpop game? The venerable but very weird indie collective has put out a fascinating perfectly normal gardening game. Ahem. OK fine, Grunn is a... | |||
| 428: Parking Garage Rally Circuit | 13 Jan 2025 | 01:05:26 | |
🎶️ I’M ON ANOTHER… ON ANOTHER LEVEL 🎶️ This week we are talking about the retro-inspired, Ska-infused rally car racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Race through the most iconic parking structures of the US! It’s... | |||
| 427: Game of the Year 2024 | 16 Dec 2024 | 01:10:04 | |
It’s Game of the Year time again! This week we’re looking back at 2024 to pick the best short video game of the year, and recognize some other great games as well. 00:00 Intro04:52 Game... | |||
| 426: Game Mixology | 02 Dec 2024 | 00:54:59 | |
This Thanksgiving week the hosts gathered to play a bit of a game, trying to match short games to randomly chosen genres and adjectives. What’s a David Lynchian Platformer, or an “I Want To Go... | |||
| 425: Neva | 19 Nov 2024 | 01:09:19 | |
Press Y to Neva There’s a certain sector of our listenership that loves it when we talk about games that don’t work for us. If that’s you, then please enjoy our discussion of Neva, the latest... | |||
| 424: 1000xRESIST | 05 Nov 2024 | 01:06:09 | |
What a story. 1000xRESIST is one of the best works of science fiction we’ve seen in a game, and it opens new territory at the intersection of visual novels, adventure games, and interactive fiction while... | |||
| 423: Miscellaneous | 28 Oct 2024 | 01:04:45 | |
This is a show nominally about video games. | |||
| 422: Mouthwashing | 21 Oct 2024 | 01:05:46 | |
An unsettling game for the tail end of spooky season. Mouthwashing is a non-linear narrative horror game about a doomed space freighter and her crew. Please enjoy Dragonsbreath X mouthwash. | |||
| 421: IFComp 2024 Part 3 | 14 Oct 2024 | 00:56:32 | |
We cover a few more games before the close of the comp. Get those votes in! | |||
| 420: A Little to the Left | 07 Oct 2024 | 00:58:54 | |
This has been recommended to us a lot, so we finally decided to clean out those drawers and organize those bookshelves. A surprisingly fun series of tiny organization puzzles which added up to an interesting... | |||
| 419: IFComp 2024 Part 2 | 23 Sep 2024 | 00:52:29 | |
Laura and Raygan talk about another handful of games from this year’s interactive fiction competition. Thanks to the authors, and to all our patrons who are sharing their IFComp experiences on the Discord! | |||
| 418: I Am Your Beast | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:40:58 | |
A quick episode about a very fast game. I Am Your Beast is the latest game from Strange Scaffold and Xalavier Nelson Jr. Even more “boomer shooter”-y than previous Short Game favorite El Paso, Elsewhere,... | |||
| 417: IFComp 2024 Part 1 | 09 Sep 2024 | 01:15:11 | |
Surprise! The comp started early! Well we were surprised anyway. We’re kicking off our coverage of this year’s IFComp with impressions of the following games: As with all our IFComp coverage, we need your help to... | |||
| 416: Valley Peaks | 21 Aug 2024 | 00:59:57 | |
Frog Fatigue and Frog Enthusiasm abound in this discussion of open world first person mountain climbing game Valley Peaks. | |||
| 415: Video Game Books | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:59:03 | |
In this topic episode, Laura and Raygan go through their bookshelves to talk about the video game books they have enjoyed. Art books, game design books, history, and even novels. | |||
| 414: Thank Goodness You’re Here! | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:28:33 | |
A surreal comedy “slapformer” about a little guy who goes around. | |||
| 413: Clickolding | 29 Jul 2024 | 00:49:56 | |
You click it real good. | |||
| 412: Felvidek | 22 Jul 2024 | 01:03:47 | |
Doth these nitwits hast what it takes to properly divine the qualities of this absolutely bizarre JRPG? | |||
| Favorite Gaming Moments | 15 Jul 2024 | 01:12:26 | |
Let’s dig into the memory hole and try to remember why we love games. What are some of your favorite gaming moments? | |||
| 410: Doom (1993) | 04 Jul 2024 | 01:09:20 | |
Can this podcast run Doom? | |||
| 409: Cobalt Core | 24 Jun 2024 | 00:47:04 | |
It’s a Nate Game this week, as we’re talking about Cobalt Core, a card-based roguelike deckbuilder about a space ship full of furries stuck in a time loop. | |||
| 408: Animal Well | 17 Jun 2024 | 01:09:28 | |
I’ve finally pushed my co-hosts down the Animal Well. This uneasy, mysterious, combat free take on the Metroidvania genre asks you to live in a hole and be terrified of kangaroos. It is both shorter,... | |||
| 407: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami | 11 Jun 2024 | 00:45:07 | |
Sure, this game about a duck detective solving an office lunch theft is cute, but did you know it’s also an introduction to Cold-war era Berlin for children? Duck Detective is a deducktion/adventure game that... | |||
| 406: Children of the Sun | 03 Jun 2024 | 01:00:20 | |
A single bullet to kill a whole bunch of cultists. Children of the Sun is a puzzle sniping game, where THE GIRL is out to kill THE LEADER of THE CULT. Telekinetically redirect your single bullet... | |||
| 405: INDIKA | 20 May 2024 | 01:50:49 | |
Indika is a young nun in 19th century Russia, suffering from a crisis of faith, delusions, and puzzles. It’s one of the most cinematically interesting games we’ve played in a long time, and ended up... | |||
| 404: El Paso, Elsewhere | 07 May 2024 | 01:10:08 | |
Your ex-girlfriend, queen of the vampires, has holed up in an El Paso motel to perform a ritual that will bring about the end of the world. As John Savage, veteran monster hunter and bullet-time... | |||
| 403: Gaming Slumps | 29 Apr 2024 | 00:56:46 | |
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... | |||
| 402: Terra Nil | 22 Apr 2024 | 01:04:27 | |
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... | |||
| 401: Open Roads | 08 Apr 2024 | 01:16:33 | |
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... | |||
| 400: Episode 400 Trivia Spectacular! | 01 Apr 2024 | 01:13:45 | |
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... | |||
| A Quick Word on Slice & Dice 3.0 | 25 Mar 2024 | 00:26:35 | |
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... | |||
| 398: Home Safety Hotline | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:55:17 | |
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... | |||
| 398: Grab Bag! Mario and More | 11 Mar 2024 | 00:49:26 | |
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!). | |||
| 397: Balatro | 04 Mar 2024 | 01:09:55 | |
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! | |||
| 396: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | 26 Feb 2024 | 01:07:21 | |
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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