Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, originally released in 2013 to critical and fan acclaim, transformed the way many people thought about what games could be and laid the groundwork for director Josef Fares' later explorations in cooperative mechani

Love, Death + Ghosties in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Mar 12th, 2024 1h 41m

Join us as we break down DON'T NOD's spiritual Vampyr successor, the doomed love story of ghost hunters Red and Antea in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. 0:45 - Patreon shoutouts3:05 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin9:10 -

Story Craft: A Conversation with In Stars and Time's Adrienne Bazir

Feb 6th, 2024 1h 25m

This week, we're so excited to welcome cartoonist, animator, and game developer Adrienne Bazir (she/they) into the studio to talk about their 2023 timeloop RPG, In Stars and Time!In Stars and Time is a turn-based RPG that follows a group of adv

Pixel Therapy's Games of the Year 2023

Jan 9th, 2024 2h 2m

Welcome to our third annual totally unserious end of year review! Let's dive into some of the games that we were especially delighted, transported, and inspired by in 2023. 3:27 - thank you!7:14 - 2023 in games - great games vs. terrible layoff

In Jusant and Chants of Sennaar, It's the Climb

Jan 2nd, 2024 1h 18m

As we close out a difficult year, two great games with interesting parallels remind us to keep it pushing -- with profound meditations on what happens when we look away from the world and from each other. In Rundisc's Chants of Sennaar, a hoode

In Thirsty Suitors, Maximalism Meets Emotional Maturity

Nov 28th, 2023 1h 10m

Jala Jayaratne is a bisexual mess! In Outerloop Games' Thirsty Suitors (published by Annapurna Interactive), she skates, cooks, and battles her way through emotionally intense psychodrama encounters with her exes on the path towards accountabil

Sailing Towards Utopia in Saltsea Chronicles

Oct 31st, 2023 1h 27m

Nautical nonsense is absolutely something we wish -- and we never want it to end. Especially when it comes to Die Gute Fabrik's latest narrative adventure masterpiece, Saltsea Chronicles! Join us as we dive into a game full of riches to share,

It's a Megagame Extravaganza! Baldur's Gate 3 vs Starfield!

Oct 3rd, 2023 1h 55m

It's a beefy one this week, bois and gworls! Join us as we dive into the year's biggest RPGs -- Larian Studios' long-awaited Dungeons and Dragons adventure Baldur's Gate 3, and Bethesda's much-hyped interstellar action installment Starfield, it

In Stray Gods and Goodbye Volcano High, a Spectrum of Queer Musical Adventures

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 22m

An end-of-summer extravaganza of queer coming-of-age narrative adventure musicals was not on my bingo card for 2023, but here we are and we're not complaining about it! Join us as we explore two games that could not be more different in their t

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals is a Same Same (But Different) Sequel

Aug 15th, 2023 1h 21m

Thanks for your patience on our slightly-longer than usual episode break! We're so happy to be back with each other and all of you for a deep dive into Night School Studio's Netflix-produced Oxenfree II: Lost Signals! Who doesn't love a good en

A Vivid Sense of Place in Dordogne's Hand-Painted Escape

Jul 18th, 2023 1h 13m

Cannes Award-winning director and animator Cedric Babouche crafts a cinematic feast for the senses in sun-soaked Dordogne, a bite-sized narrative adventure from his studio Un Je Ne Sais Quoi and Umanimation and published by Focus Entertainment.

Wandering Alone, Linked Together in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Jun 27th, 2023 1h 26m

There's no better way to close out Pride Month than crying about The Legend of Zelda, in our opinion. Join us as we dive into Tears of the Kingdom, the latest entry in Nintendo's storied, cyclical, ever-endearing saga starring a princess, a her

More Like Horizon Forbidden West: Slow-Burning Shores, Amirite?

Jun 6th, 2023 1h 45m

Join us as we soar upon a Sunwing into Guerilla Games' long-awaited epilogue to 2022's Horizon Forbidden West, among the sun-soaked Burning Shores of post-post-apocalyptic Los Angeles! It's both a bittersweet final adventure with the late, grea

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is the Horny Card Battler We All Need

May 16th, 2023 1h 28m

I was an agender explorer in a polycule with a hot alien and a goth loner. I was a lesbian scientist who betrayed my lover to save our home, my relationship torn apart by regret and shame. I was a queer botanist who saved our space colony from

Persona 3 Portable is 14 Years Old and Still Serving

Apr 11th, 2023 1h 26m

CONTENT WARNING: Persona 3 Portable contains themes and imagery of death and suicide that are discussed in this episode. Break out your eyeliner, let your hair down (preferably over one eye), and dust off your PSP (RIP) -- it's time to dive int

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HBO's The Last of Us Spoilercast!

Mar 23rd, 2023 1h 21m

Let's get into it! This episode contains spoilers for both Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part I and HBO's television adaptation starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal. This episode brought to you by Dunkin' oat milk macchiatos and Jamie's slow d

SEASON: A Letter to the Future is Everything, and to Everything There is a Season

Mar 14th, 2023 1h 30m

This week we're covering Scavengers Studio's SEASON: A Letter to the Future, where a bike riding journey to make an apocalyptic scrapbook had us examining the connectedness of all things and turning to the teachings of Octavia Butler, Grace Lee

Love at the End of the World in A Space for the Unbound

Feb 21st, 2023 1h 15m

This week we're all about Mojiken Studio and Toge Productions' A Space for the Unbound: a slice-of-life adventure game with beautifully detailed pixel art set in rural Indonesia in the late 1990s - following high school sweethearts Atma and Ray

Peeling Back the Layers of Pentiment's 16th-Century Onion

Jan 31st, 2023 1h 13m

Yes, the horrors are indescribable, but you've got to serve. Join us as we dive into Obsidian Entertainment's Pentiment, a painstakingly detailed medieval murder mystery that reminds us that time is a flat circle (and what we know of history is

Marvel's Midnight Suns is a Queerplatonic Polycule

Jan 10th, 2023 1h 10m

New year, still queer! Spencer and Jamie kick off 2023 with some new directions for the show. Then Spencer tries to communicate the life-changing magic of FuturLab's PowerWash Simulator, which is cheaper than therapy and basically just as effec

Pixel Therapy's Games of the Year 2022

Dec 20th, 2022 1h 23m

It's somehow that time again...for our completely unofficial end-of-year reflection and round-up of all the games that made us laugh, cry, and obsess over for weeks! Join us as we close out another great year of sharing our favorite pastime wit

Growing Up and Getting Better in God of War Ragnarök

Nov 29th, 2022 1h 35m

Heellloooooooo! We're back from our fall break and you KNOW we had to bring y'all up to speed on everything God of War Ragnarök, the latest installment in the storied series and the direct sequel to Sony Santa Monica Studios' 2018 soft reboot o

Embedding Values into AI and Finding Focus in Gaming with Wells Santo

Aug 30th, 2022 1h 21m

Welcome to our 50th episode! Whaaaaat? Thanks for spending two years and countless hours talking games and being gay with us. This week, Spencer and Jamie dive into the delightfully devilish Cult of the Lamb from Massive Monster and Devolver Di

Indigenous Cyber Noir in Hill Agency: PURITYdecay with Achimostawinan Games

Aug 9th, 2022 1h 47m

Hey gamers! This week, Spencer and Jamie play everyone's favorite kitty cat game -- BlueTwelve and Annapurrna Interactive's blockbuster cat adventure platformer, STRAY! Also, because she's an overachiever, Jamie somehow finds some time to chat

Stories as Safe Havens and Jet Set Radio Future with YA Thriller Author K. Ancrum

Jul 19th, 2022 1h 39m

Hey gamers! It's grab the Nintendo Switch and flop on the bed by the air conditioner weather, and we're ready to get in our feelings! After 90+ hours with just ONE storyline in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Spencer is left with a new appreciation