Infinite Cities

2025 was absolute butts! Heck, even a lot of the games in 2025 were pretty butts! That doesn't mean there weren't some absolute masterpieces though, and we sit down in our annual look back to talk through the games that affected us the most: games that were wonderful, surprising, heartbreaking, and sometimes just stupid (positive). In this episode: movie of the year (it's kpop demon hunters OBVS),...

It's the end of the year and we (apparently) played so many bird games this year that we gotta finish on one too. Join us for a rhythm-dating sim with deceptively deep writing. In this episode: Bumbird, birdenize 'em, I'm not into birds but..., competitive dating, how to get Gary to play TF2, guller sac. ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!...

This week, we gotta go fast, because we're racing baby! From the snow banks of Finland to the mountainous curves of Japan, we're all over the map this week as we speed around in knockoff rally cars alongside many questionally stereotypical navigators! It's #DRIVE Rally! in this episode: making it salty, legally distinct cars, finishing the finnish campaign, sims vs arcades, problems with handling,...

Pentiment's existience feels like a miracle. It's a game that has the deep, super-niche obsession to a specific detail, created by an established double A studio with the backing of Microsoft. A game that wants, more than anything else, to be a portrait of a time. A desire to show an art form (illuminated manuscript) not as the flat, tattered, and dated museum piece but as representative of a livi...

Things are a little hectic, schedule-wise, so we're taking some time to chat through games that aren't podcast games! Gary has infinite stories from Outer Worlds 2 (plus Nikke: Goddess of Victory, although gachaslop gets exiled to the shoutouts zone), Karp's holding hands with Swordcraft Story 2 (and still playing Grandblue Fantasy) and Feather's lost in the Noita sauce while also getting absolute...

Get ready for a short but unhinged episode where we discuss clowns and their impact on the ecology /j. In this episode: clown-likes, clown-cil, clown music, James Franco's brother, paintbrush plush, "magic fights", Now You Don't See Me, top left ear: Redline ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the...

This title could easily have been "Where the Jigsaw?" because this puzzle game is doing mostly anything but jigsaws. It's quirky and delightful, and broken precisely where it needs to be.  in this episode:  define jigsaw, no spoilers, it's all spoilers, the hint system, the game is a physical space, everything on the table, this space intentionally left blank, two realizations in order, this part...

Absolum is a kinetic, weighty beat 'em up in which it feels so good to build combos and try out different characters. It's also a very delightful, Hades style roguelite, with lots of options for progression and some really cool routing choices across the map. I don't really think I've ever played anything quite like it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go play more right now.    in this episo...

Noita is amazingly singular. A game that is fractally deep, yet instantly understandable in its incomprehensibility. A game that is massively frustrating, something that relishes in how little it cares about you, while also letting you impact the entire world down to each precision-modeled grain of sand. There is nothing like it, and honestly, that's probably a good thing because god damn it's pas...

Happy 5 year anniversary, us! Do you like speedrunning? Do you like replaying stages until you get the platinum medal? Do you like Neon White (gameplay, not story)? Then you should take a listen to our thoughts on this fps-runner that chose to release on the same day as Silksong. In this episode: cool New York sewers, punching walls, Nina White, vaulting, apologizing, 35 minute silver, grappling h...

Baba Is You aba Is You B ba Is You Ba a Is You Bab Is You Baba s You Baba I You Baba Is ou Baba Is Y u Baba Is Yo Baba Is You In this episode: feather is defeat, horse-sized baba, mobile suit baba, the allure of physical media, feather's thesis, solution refinements, sokoban, the importance of waiting a beat, game as code, playing on other devices, fractally nested babas, Baba is Kaizo ~shoutout z...

Born too late to be a popcap brain rotter incremental. Born too early to reach "18.254 quattuordecillion". Just in time to be a perfect ipad game for the Wii U. In this episode: The Tomorrow Corporation, 6/10, retro-indie, flash comparison, feather is a genius who's brain is enormous and also she is cool and even very pretty and you can definitely trust this description which is written by someone...

Don't you just love driving in -15℃ and being incapable to see more than a few feet in front of your car? Will and Karp sure does, and they're doing their best to persuade Feather and Gary in this episode where we discuss Easy Delivery Co! In this episode: understanding winter, KK Slider, not understanding winter, cat.wav, VIDEO GAME, huge pizzas, consensual violence, doordashing flowerpots. ~~~ O...

Much like the absolutely horrendous evil killer sun robot at the end of stage 2-1, this game wants to be bigger than the tiny screen it's confined to. A full inventory of this game's design decisions takes about twenty minutes. A technical mastery of the GBA is on display, but as late as it came it - does it matter? Is there room in your life for a forgotten, obsolete, well-crafted retro game? Is...

In This episode: We played peak! Stamina, Passports, Feather getting shot by a blow dart, Trying to save feather from the blow dart, falling down a hole, cheeky guys, 20 player expedition. Shoutouts Zone:   Cozy Con online https://www.mixcloud.com/live/CozyConOnline/  

A little less than two years ago, the pod delved deep into the Hallownest, embracing the void in order to push back the Radiance. Now, we're returning to the bug life, weaving our thread of destiny throughout the kingdom of Pharloom. Will we accomplish our climb towards the Citadel, or fall prey to the innumerable bosses that stand in our way? Who knows! All we can really do is, in the words of ou...

This is a game that lives under a lot of very unkind shadows: the shadow of it's predecessor, What The Golf , a very fun and unique game and one that we played in the perfect environment (as a group, eighteen hours into a twenty four hour stream). What the car is in the shadow of the modern gaming environment, where a game that definitely has twenty dollars of work in it is still twenty whole doll...

CW: lots of food talk. As always. How many eggs have you cooked? How many stingrays? How many cigarettes? We're here to answer all these questions and more, but not the most important question of them all: is this game saying anything? In this episode: lukewarm icecubes, but I digress, stabbing fish, the She-Ra curse, friction pans, petting a chicken, snack scorpions, 2020's-Itch-house-style, boun...

We continue on our 80s crime adventure, even against insurmountable odds! (The odds are the fact that this game is like 100 hours long!) We'd have a better chance if we didn't keep getting distracted - still, it's always nice to return to Kamurochō. In this episode: Locked in the batting cages, the virtues of motorcycles as a melee weapon, the curse of the charismatic autobiography, please let me...

We're taking a break from beating up yakuza to play a quirky little game by the Katamari people. Can you guess who didn't like it and watched a Longplay instead? In this episode: eye boogers, giraffe cabal, Noby Noby Boy, pineapple juice day, easily befriendable bullies, The Looker, uninteresting jank. ~shoutout zone~ QWOP ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can fin...

After a week living Yakuza through baseball games and karaoke, the gang is playing Yakuza. Or, well, we're mostly watching it, so far? Most of us, anyway.  in this episode: a fiery game full of passionate men, so many cutscenes, how long to beat, aura plays, scummy but flashy vibes, sweet potater soju, hot and heavy, thicc drama, jingle all the way, bacchus, hallway fights, living yakuza, fatt oni...

You gotta love a roguelike deckbuilder. It's the peanutbutter and chocolate of genres. The randomness and run-to-run differentiation, with the short-loop tactics of building a deck. It's so good together! Except sometimes you get a peanutbutter guy and then spend  the next ten minutes looking for mr. chocolate until you hit the big ugly jelly boss and he blaps you back to the goddamn home screen ....

It's the summer, which means the clocks are ticking down and everyone's fucking busy. Except for me and Feather, who are here to yap, as always. It's Citizen Sleeper 2! If you haven't listened to our episode on the first game, you can do so here , but it is not required for this discussion! Join us as we talk about building safety nets, trusting others, transness, and bodies!   in this episode: cl...

It's episode 100! To celebrate, we're playing  all the games . Okay, not all the games. Just a lot of games. Just fifty of the games. And well, we each only played some of those. But MANG let me TELL you about a game I played! In this episode: 100 episodes, steelmanning the barbuta defense squad, retro jank, bouncing off bushido ball, what the hell is golfaria, the timelessness of puzzle games, mo...

Someone's taken our shell, and we're getting it back, no matter who's in the way. Gary and Karp chose to tackle some crabs this week. Hope you like Soulslikes, because we sure do, and this is a great one.  In this episode: Prawn shop, rubberbanded lobsters, Gary's gonna shoot someone, sea-mmer, shark-grabber, LAWBREAKER, hackey-sack, fish swearing. ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the inc...