The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, meeting the meat man. We wake up in Harvest and have no clue what to do next. In this episode, we discuss our journey through the experience of Harvester and the nature of using guides when playing adventure games.

This week on The Free Cheese, text message job interviews. We find a phone and try to locate its owner, discovering more about those close and not so close to her along the way. Where will Simulacra land on The List? Tune in to find out!

This week on The Free Cheese, the dungeon rises. We return to the dungeon with a new format, combining some influences together for 100 rounds of thrilling video game trivia.

This week on The Free Cheese, you are the wind. Journey with us back to 2009 to the heyday of PlayStation Network and the burgeoning world of indie video games. We discuss the significance of thatgamecompany's Flower and how it led to the creation of this podcast.

This week on The Free Cheese, that's David's mark. We travel through time and fight dinosaurs as we add another Capcom survival horror game to the list. This time, we look at the more action-oriented sequel to Dino Crisis and reflect on the strength of its upgrade system.

This week on The Free Cheese, you search and you action. Sega may be working toward its goal of transmedia takeover today, but the roots of the efforts follow back to 1987 on the Master System. In this episode, we look at Zillion and how Sega tried something different with a new property. It's also an opportunity for us to celebrate the unannounced Year of Metroid, so let's do that too.

This week on The Free Cheese, a good first-person shooter. We Return to Castle Wolfenstein, seeing what id's legacy becomes in another developer's hands while still using idtech to bring the game to life. We compare it a bit with its contemporaries and some other games on The List, and then we rank it.

This week on The Free Cheese, Halo ...killer? We turn the clocks back to 2004, as the video game world looked toward sequels to Grand Theft Auto and Halo, and PlayStation introduced its new first-person shooter, Killzone. We explore as much of the campaign as we can and spend some time this episode wondering what went wrong for us.

This week on The Free Cheese, mullets live on. We finally add a Mario Kart game to The List. Wait, right—We add our third Mario Kart game to The List this week, bringing the best-selling Nintendo Switch game into discussion. We talk about the changes made for the Switch release, how it became so dominant, and what we like about it so much.

This week on The Free Cheese, boulderrrrr PUNCH! It wouldn't be a season of The Free Cheese Podcast without a new Resident Evil game to add to The List. This time, we make it a cooperative experience and see how the fifth numbered game stays true to and defers from the Resident Evil formula.

This week on The Free Cheese, hello neighbor! We've just moved to town in time for the winter holidays and the total absence of bugs. We gather to recant our time spent in the first quarter of our year with Animal Crossing, sharing stories of villagers and tyrants.

This week on The Free Cheese, throw all your hands up. Six years after its initial release, we finally play through the Anthem campaign. We share our thoughts on our time with the game, what we think went wrong with Anthem, and what could have saved it. We also look back on our time with other live service games, pitch the ultimate Green Lantern live service game, and wonder what's next for BioWar...

This week on The Free Cheese, hear that? We discuss soundtracks that made an impact on us and on other video games. Rather than focus on the "best" soundtracks (although we save some time for that as well), we look at soundtracks that feel important.

This week on The Free Cheese, metroiDOOMvania? We look at how video games post-Doom tried to find their own niche and why expanding on item collection works well in a first person shooter. It's back to Egypt to investigate the alien invasion for us, all before another ranking on The List .

This week on The Free Cheese, we are not ninjas. What happens when a franchise reaches incredible heights and has nowhere to go but outward? A grand adventure to collect the icons of the elements, if you can survive controlling it. We take a look at one of Mortal Kombat's first experiments and see how it holds up.

This week on The Free Cheese, prepare for Titanfall. We return to Titanfall 2 this episode to check in on the multiplayer community and see the campaign through. We discuss how it holds up after eight years, and how much first-person shooters have changed since its release, then rank it on The List .

This week on The Free Cheese, welcome to the year of Metroid! We revisit the most divisive entry in the Metroid series ahead of the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond this year. We examine the unique controls, the emphasis on story, and action-oriented combat. Then, we rank it on The List as our first ranking in Season 13.

This week on The Free Cheese, let's predict 2025. For the debut of our thirteenth season, we look ahead at 2025. We see how we fared in predicting 2024 and then make our claims for the year ahead. We also give a taste of what to expect this season on the podcast and discuss some of the initial games we'll be playing.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's the end of Season 12 — Part Two. In our finale, we each share the games we played in 2024 that made an impression on us. We discuss some of the headlines from the year and bring things to a close with a peek ahead at Season 13.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's the end of Season 12 - Part One. As we bring Season 12 to a close in a two-part episode, we shake up The List with science and math. We also discuss the games we loved the most from this year's episodes and everything that surprised us along the way.

This week on The Free Cheese, making friends with old computers. In January , we each purchased a console we never owned before and have spent the year with it. Matt selected the PSP and Joe the Xbox. After twelve months with them, we reconvene to discuss the highs and lows of each. We discuss the games that we've played, what it's like to use the hardware today, and share the surprises that each...

This week on The Free Cheese, live in your world, listen in ours. We celebrate the 30th anniversary of PlayStation one generation at a time. We discuss the launch of the brand, how it has evolved, and where we hope it goes. Through each generation, we look at the best selling games and key innovations introduced.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's been a while. We return to the adventure and see how the year turned out for our fitness journeys. We discuss how to maintain momentum with a routine and what we think Ring Fit Adventure does to encourage returning to it each day. Then, we rank it as our final ranking for Season 12.

This week on The Free Cheese, who's on top? After four different, multi-part episodes and two post-mortem episodes, it's time we rank our Wii Sports Killers. We give our final word on Wii Sports and discuss why it has remained at the top of our list for this long. Then, we rank the games that propped up this season.

This week on The Free Cheese, guns and monsters. We continue our Wii Sports Killers discussion with our remaining thoughts on Halo: Combat Evolved and Pokémon Gold and Silver. We look a bit at them individually and what they represent historically, then compare them against one another.