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Listen, the first 15 minutes of this podcast are about hair. We understand the inconvenience this may cause you. You expect a certain level of non-hair content from us, and we have failed to fulfill this responsibility. We will take accountability and reflect on our actions (and our hair) and, while we cannot promise that we won't do it again, we can promise that we had fun when we did it.
In addition to this, Matt has more to say about Blue Prince, and both hosts have more to say about Wanderstop.
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Games Mentioned:
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A very sleepy Matt and a very inspired PushingUpRoses welcome an incredible guest onto the show to talk about one of the weirder games we've ever played. Musician, video producer and hella talented dude Neil Cicierega is on the show to talk about playing adventure games as 90's kid -- your dad bringing home shareware adventure games to install on your Windows 3.1 PC and the entire family puzzling over it over weeks, months, and years -- and how to pass that experience on to your kids.
We also do a surprisingly DEEP dive into a bizarre 1993 game Cliff Bleszinski designed in Visual Basic when he was 17, called Dare to Dream. It goes... places. Like literal Hell.
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Games Mentioned:
King Quest VI Icon Architect 1.0 Dare to Dream Hugo’s House of Horrors Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist There Is No Game Unforeseen Incidents Day of the Tentacle The Dig Wanderstop Blue Prince Palace of Deceit Jazz Jackrabbit Curse of Monkey Island Monster Breeder -
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This week, Matt and Roses are joined by the first developer we ever talked about on this show, MEREDITH GRAN, the creative force behind Perfect Tides and the upcoming Perfect Tides: Station to Station. We take some time to discuss our feet before discussing art, nostalgia, and the creative decisions by – let’s face it – one of our favorite frickin’ games.
Then, we spend a LOT of time talking about a game that is FAR from our favorite: Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist. And we’re sorry*.
*we aren't
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Games Mentioned:
Perfect Tides Perfect Tides: Station to Station The Dig Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist -
It’s been a wild (sic) since we’ve done a Q & A, so we address topics like our favorite references in games, games that we liked as kids but disliked as adults, Roses’ favorite Carmen Sandiego, and what franchises we’d like to see as adventure games!
But first, we talk about our thoughts on Wanderstop, which is an incredibly unique and interesting game.
And Matt drinks a lot of tea.
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Games Mentioned:
Fields of Mistria Wanderstop Hugo’s House of Horrors Conker’s Bad Fur Day Spyro the Dragon Sonic the Hedgehog Grim Fandango Curse of Monkey Island Dreams in the Witch House Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon Discworld Batman: Arkham Asylum Spider-Man Marvel Midnight Suns The Abbey of Crime The Abbey Daria’s Inferno An English Haunting Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Excavation of Hob’s Barrow Scarlet Hollow Backfirewall Smile for Me Roadwarden Legend of Kyrandia II: Hand of Fate UFO 50 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Atomfall Avowed Wayward Strand Torin’s Passage Star Trek adventure games Heaven’s Vault Blazing Dragons Pentiment Hypnospace Outlaw Kentucky Route Zero Silent Hill 2 Cat Café Manager -
R. Floppy K., Jr. can’t keep Matt and PushingUpRoses down. These two are gonna push through all the colds, the tiny guacabowli bowls, the loneliness, and the fork-and-knife taco crowd to play some Next Fest Demos!
We warmed you up last week, but this week we dive FULLY IN to some cool demos. But first, we have a long talk about player choice in games and the merits of seeing “everything” in a game, all because Matt misses his ancient robot.
Plus, Matt is sick and WILL HE SURVIVE TIL THE END OF THE EPISODE?! Listen to find out!
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Games Mentioned:
Night Trap Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Rise of the Golden Idols: The Sins of New Wells Heaven’s Vault Fran Bow The Alpinist Deck of Haunts Do No Harm Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping Return of the Obra Dinn Promise Mascot Agency Deliver At All Costs Wanderstop Isle of Reveries Blue Prince Disney Dreamlight Valley Elroy and the Aliens Orion Burger Brassheart Dr. Priori’s Time Escape INAYAH: Life After Gods Little ProblemsCommunal Actions:
Amazon Boycott March 7-14. Nestle Boycott March 21-28. Walmart Boycott April 7-14 Economic Blackout 2 April 18 -
You know him, you love him; The one and only Dave Gilbert is on the show this week to talk about our relationships to gaming as we all get older. Is nostalgia inherently good or bad? Is ET for Atari as artistic a feat as Perfect Tides? We get really really deep into it.
Also, Roses and Matt each played a few Next Fext demos (maybe more to come next week?) and Dave Gilbert played Obsidian’s answer to Unavowed, Avowed!
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Games Mentioned:
Old Skies Avowed Unavowed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping Do No Harm The Alpinist Getting Over It w/ Bennett Foddy Deck of Haunts Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Horizon Zero Dawn Assassin’s Creed: Oddysey/Valhalla Sonic the Hedgehog Curse of Monkey Island Blackwell series Perfect Tides Dragon’s Dogma II Citizen Sleeper Cloudpunk Quest for Glory series Knights of the Old Republic Hypnospace Outlaw Crow Country SanitariumCommunal Actions:
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Look, you all knew this was coming eventually. Matt put it off as long as he possibly could, but the time has finally arrived. Despite it having practically every element that PushingUpRoses hates in adventure games, we play one of her favorites of all time: Sanitarium!
Roses is still playing Cabernet, trying to get the good ending. Matt is Playing Heaven's Vault and it's incredible.
And the less said about the intro, the better.
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Games Mentioned:
Cabernet The Crimson Diamond Heaven’s Vault Overboard! Sanitarium Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier Ninja GaidenEconomic Blackout Day is Friday, February 28th. Don't buy anything!
Amazon Boycott March 7-14. Nestle Boycott March 21-28.
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Roses and Matt roll up their characters and embark on an adventure, avoiding Killer Tomatoes and sadistic oral surgeons, leveling up their scratching skills with Itch Simulator VR 4000, and making their way to becoming full-fledged blood-drinking vampires!
This week, we discuss the new vampire game Cabernet, an adventure/RPG hybrid in which you live two months as a vampire in a small eastern European town in the 1800’s. We review the game and talk about the differences in our playthroughs. Then, we discuss the intersection between RPGs and Adventure Games, and what makes a game lean more heavily to either side.
Also, we rank some adventure games we’ve never heard of and wonder what the word “Cabernet” means.
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Games Mentioned:
Cabernet Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Final Fantasies 1-8 Flat Stanley RPG RPG Maker VX 8 Stardew Valley Heaven’s Vault I Was A Teenage Exocolonist Disco Elysium The Thaumaturge Planescape: Torment Grim Fandango Itch Simulator VR 4000 Skyrim Morrowind Fallout: New Vegas Through Abandoned: The Underground City Super Jazz Man Apprentice Enola -
Come take a train ride with Matt and Roses and help us solve the murder of Lady Untervald. If only Matt still played adventure games, instead of SGG (Shoot-Gun Games). First, though, some orders of business: We have a surprising TEETH UPDATE. Roses got a new toy! Matt's new favorite game was finally release. And two cool games got release dates.
And now, the main event: A retro-styled murder mystery adventure game set on a train that HONESTLY WE SWEAR WE'RE NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE IT GETS SAID ABOUT EVERY POINT-AND-CLICK GAME has major Lucasarts vibes.
And, by popular demand, Ranking Every Adventure Game Ever makes its triumphant return.
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Games Mentioned:
Blake Stone Stardew Valley Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Kings Quest V Cabernet Rosewater Loco Motive Pine Hearts Orion Burger Valiant Hearts: The Great War Puzzles in Motion: Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys Save Christmas -
Matt and Roses are in a terrible struggle against the new villain of the podcast, but only a little bit. Mostly, we're talking about all the games we're looking forward to in 2025. There's a ton.
Also, Roses started making salsa dishes and Matt played a deduction game about a very complicated family tree!
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Games Mentioned:
The Roottrees are Dead Obsession The Last Door Mythargia Cabernet Disco Elysium Mermaid Mask Foolish Mortals Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Perfect Tides: Station to Station Rosewater Old Skies The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 The Shapeshifting Detective Strange Antiquities Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game Case of the Golden Idol The M/S Cornelia II Incident Pony Island 2: Panda Circus Inscryption Baby Steps Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Duck Detective: Ghost of Glamping Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone The Drifter Subnautica 2 Atomfall Fields of Mistria -
It’s our 2024 Wrap-Up episode! We talk about our BEST GAMES OF 2024, including some runners-up and some older games that we played this year and fell in love with.
Also, about this intro, all we can say is we’re sorry. The views and opinions of Elmo do not represent those of your hosts, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses. We do not endorse Elmo and we’re sorry for platforming him in this way. You can read all three of our full Notes App apologies on Hanson Swansen’s Xanga page. Hanson Swansen wrote one, too, but we’re not sure why. He mostly just uses it to talk about S.E.O. and AI-driven engagement metrics.
Games Mentioned:
Nightmare Frames PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo Dave the Diver Strange Horticulture Disco Elysium The Last Door Hobb’s Barrow Dreams in the Witch House The Abandoned Planet Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Tactical Breach Wizards Is This Game Trying to Kill Me? INDIKA The Operator Lil Guardsman Death of the Reprobate Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Phantom Fellows Loco Motive Prim Crow Country English Haunting Thank Goodness You’re Here! Fields of Mistria Crimson Diamond Botany Manor Loco Motive The Rise of the Golden Idol 1000xResist ANIMAL WELL -
PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp welcome you into their trans-dimensional Christmas cabin to play a bunch of holiday-themed games with them and their amazing guests. We play a cat game with Crimson Diamond's Julia Minamata! We play an obnoxious boy game with Alasdair Beckett-King. We play a creepy depressing game with Francisco "Grundislav" Gonzalez. And wrap it all up by playing a demon game with Party of One's Jeff Stormer. There's also talk of nog, window-jumping, wassail, and much much more fun!
Happy Holidays, everyone! We hope you had fun and enjoyed this extra-long episode and we'll be back early 2025!
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Julia: https://www.juliaminamata.com/
Alasdair: https://www.abeckettking.com/
Francisco: https://www.grundislav.games/
Jeff: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/
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Christmas Nightmare Lonely Christmas Crimson Diamond Milo and the Christmas Gift Milo and the Magpies Watch Over Christmas Scribblenauts Rosewater Last Christmas Still Life -
This week, we’re playing a game that made us so angry, we had to yell about it. And to do this, we brought in the internet’s best angry yeller: Pearlmania500.
Comedian Alex Pearlman hangs out to tell us a bit about politic and then the 1994 “edutainment” game Wrath of the Gods. Matt talks a bit about Loco Motive, Roses talks a bit about Kings Quest 8, and we rank a few adventure games.
Pearlmania500 Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/pearlmania500
Wrath of the Gods:
https://www.wrathgame.com/
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Games Mentioned:
· Stardew Valley · Minecraft · Skyrim · Outer Worlds · Vampire Survivors · Kings Quest VII · Hoyle Card Games · Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? · Oregon Trail · Loco Motive · Wrath of the Gods · Legend of Zelda · Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator – Case 1: In Search of the Skunk Ape · Tangle Tower · Madness of the Architect · Lifeless Moon · Secret Doctrine -
We’ve got a high-energy, Smirnoff Ice-fueled shorter episode here for you to kick off the month of December. There is some good news and bad news about the December schedule you won’t want to miss. Roses played a terrible mobile game out of spite. Matt played a rad PS1 throwback game.
Then, we get some really good rolls on the Ranking segment.
Games Mentioned: Virgin River the Mobile Game Crow Country Spider-Man: Miles Morales Curse of Monkey Island Prim Escape from Monkey Island The Dark Crystal The Cat Lady Erica -
Happy American Thanksgiving, everyone! This is absolutely our yuckiest, most disturbing intro ever. And in the last episode, we talked about piss-proof toilet decals! And we are thankful you let us into your lives with this filth.
This week Matt and Roses talk about two of the best Storiented™ mystery-puzzle games ever made, Case of the Golden Idol and Rise of the Golden Idol, by Color Gray Games. We use our ancient, magical artifacts (microphones) to find all the words and put them in the exact right order and make this podcast for your ears to listen to.
Then we continue ranking every adventure game ever and try very hard to forget that we ever came up with a movie called Yucky Princess Swap.
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Games Mentioned (*BRIEFLY):
Case of the Golden Idol Rise of the Golden Idol Crypt Custodian* Tactical Breach Wizard* Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus* Chicken Police: Into the Hive* Crow Country* Arco* Nine Sols* Loco Motive* The Journey Down Grim Fandango The Sexy Brutale Myst Return of the Obra Dinn Duck Detective: The Secret Salami The Slaughter: Act One SSTR Dallas Quest The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles Long Count Missing Since January Chants of Sennaar -
So. We had already decided we were going to spend the entire episode ranking Adventure Games – many of which, we've never played – but then, we decided to start out by talking about piss for 15 minutes.
Matt and Roses bring a bizarre, chaotic energy and a true EXPERTISE on Adventure Games to this ALL-RANKING episode! Plus, we talk about some games we've been playing and some newly released games!
Please don't give this one The Flush ™
TOILET DECALS COMING SOON (or not. idfk)
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Games Mentioned:
Death of the Reprobate Chicken Police: Into the Hive Rise of the Golden Idol Mythargia The Abandoned Planet Another World Myst Blasphemous 2: Mea Culpa DLC Case of the Golden Idol Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening We Were Here Forever Cosmonavtes: Escape Reality Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne The Crystal Key Embracelet To The Moon Baker Street Breakout: A Sherlockian Escape Adventure Ankh: Heart of Osiris The Slaughter Mission: Critical The Pawn Five Magical Amulets James Peris: The Fountain of Eternal Drunkenness Lily Looking Through Limbo of the Lost Doctor DuMont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. Portal 2 -
This episode was recorded on November 5th… Yeah.
There’s a manic, ignoring-the-news energy to this episode where we take your listener questions! We also talk about Joe Richardson’s new game Death of the Reprobate and talk to our guest expert Joshua Cleveland of Adventure Game Hotspot about the requirements for “adventure game” status.
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Games Mentioned:
Death of the Reprobate Eyeland Blackwell series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Eagle Eye Mysteries Eagle Eye Mysteries in London Math Blaster Grim Fandango Dagger of Amon Ra Return of the Obra Dinn The Room VR Mechanica Museum The Adventures of Fatman The Excavation of Hobb’s Barrow The Plague Doctor of Wippra Mystery House Kings Quest I Doom Duke Nukem Wolfenstein 3D Uncharted series Legend of Zelda Portal L.A. Noire Deponia series Root Bear Stardew Valley Lorelei and the Laser Eyes The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo The Darkside Detective Lydia Isles of Sea and Sky Box Boy Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure Tactical Breach Wizards Silent Hill 2 remake Cat Café Manager Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge The Demon’s Forge Normality Muppet Treasure Island Discworld Noir The Hex Inscryption Pony Island Heroine's Quest Quest for Infamy A Tale of Two Kingdoms Murders on the Yangtze River Ripper Panic in the Park Blasphemous Toejam & Earl - Back in the Groove Gobliiins The Prophecy (aka Ween: The Prophecy) Capsule Silence XXIV Bad Day on the Midway Ghost Trick The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav The Dark Eye - Memoria -
IT'S THE LAST EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH!
We hope you all have a great Halloween.
To help you one last time with your spooky mood, we talk about the SCARIEST GAMES WE'VE EVER PLAYED. WOOOOOO. And we talk about the new gothic point-and-click adventure game Prim. We love Deep Plots(TM).
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Games mentioned (some of them for only like a second, though):
Case of the Golden Idol Rise of the Golden Idol AI: The Somnium Files Huniepop Prim Curse of Monkey Island Chzos Mythos (Trilby Series) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth The Last Door Sanitarium Phantasmagoria Gabriel Knight and the Sins of the Father Scratches Phantom of the Opera Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo At Dead of Night Slender: All Eight Pages Dreams in the Witch House 7th Guest/11th Hour Myst Dagger of Amon Ra Indika Nightmare Frames An English Haunting Burnhouse Lane Lorelei The Cat Lady A Hand With Many Fingers Hans Christian Anderson: The Ugly Prince Duckling Mazovian Adventures Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Related: Chapter One – Everything is back Lamplight City -
TEETH UPDATE! For the teeth enthusiasts and teeth curious, we unveil a brand new chapter in the PushingUpRoses Teeth Saga ™. Roses discovered a detective game that Matt’s been telling her about since day one and Matt played some demos!
Then, we dig deep into a world of horror, mystery, intrigue, and Japanese folklore in the Japanese ADV game Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. We have A LOT to say about this one, folks. So much in fact, that we skip our ranking segment this ep. Sorry everyone, but this game left us feeling inspired, frustrated, enamored, curious, and ready to pontificate like mad.
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Bowl of Lentils - The Origins of Visual Novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOtv-J7tOI
The Seven Wonders of Honjo: https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/01/02/the-seven-wonders-of-honjo/
Games Mentioned:
Rise of the Golden Idol Loco Motive Proverbs The Haunting of Joni Evers The Suicide of Rachel Foster The Fading of Nicole Wilson What Remains of Edith Finch The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Disco Elysium Cabernet Fields of Mistria Hatoful Boyfriend Huniepop Danganronpa Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Mystery House Deja Vu Final Fantasy Paranormansight: The 13 Ghosts of Florida State University (Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo) -
The first episode of the brand-new medical/dental advice podcast: Save Your Teeth! Call your Endodontist. Eat your allergy medicine. And don’t tell anyone we exist!
The spookiest thing about this installment of spooky month is that we played these games at all. Matt and Roses review the Hugo’s House of Horror trilogy and a 1990’s 3D shoot ‘em up??? Also we talk about Phantom Fellows, some random 1990’s platform games, have a quick PlayDate with Matt, and some cool games pop up on our REVIEW EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment!
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Games Mentioned:
The Phantom Fellows Mythargia Death’s Door Tunic The Simorgh The Hugo’s House of Horrors Trilogy Skunny: Save Our Pizzas (????) Jazz Jackrabbit Halloween Harry Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures Commander Keen Maniac Mansion Nitemare 3D Blakestone 3-D Castle Wolfenstein 3-D The Will of Arthur Flabbington Blackwell Chronicles Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy Lost Forest The Last Door: Season One Sentient Ann Achronist: Many Happy Returns - Laat meer zien
