Infinite Cities

Turn back your internal clock to when you were ~6 years old, and your sister played impressively built imaginary adventures with you. Time to get the gang back together to do it one more time. In this ep: trampoline skipping, talking in small letters only, breaking kayfabe, sibling age gaps, big scary whale, every game needs a ragdoll button. ~shoutout zone~ Wikipedia page for The Floor Is Lava ~~...

"minit fun racer is a game where you have a lil two stroke and then you die" In this episode: Hades comparisons, shooting-things-off-a-ramp-alikes, Karp knows truck hitboxes and these - boss, these just ain't it, flame decals, what is going on in this world, the minit minute, speedrunning (it takes about a minute to beat minit fun racer actually). Also in this episode: WHEELJAM, prequels, failing...

It's time to set these birds straight. Sometimes sideways. Or upside-down. Also, look at all the succulents. Join us for a short but sweet time in Birds Organized Neatly! In this ep: bird in the bookstore, Computerparts Organized Neatly, setpiece birds, plant noises, stolen bird-valour, Counseling, pandas were designed to die. ~shoutout zone~ Theremin's band, Counseling Bird in Gary's bookstore ~~...

The team is crashing out this week! It's sort of a nostalgia pick, but it's a remake of an almost 30 year old game and somehow it's worse now??  in this episode: daylight savings, 3d platforming, blunderdome time, slapping the bandicoot, one hundred percent charm, this is a pro gex podcast, a lizard platformer,  in this house you commit to the bit, joe piscopo, crash is fragile, the remake deserve...

You have to admire and respect games that are willing to be themselves so strongly that they turn people off. Nine Sols is willing to give you just a little bit of a hand (amazing difficulty sliders), but if that can't get you over the hump - all of its worldbuilding and art and laser-tight combat just aren't for you. Nine Sols' purity of will is so strong, it can even parry  you .  In this episod...

Karp got rolled up in a katamari and is now a star in the sky, but the rest of us are still trapped here in the Select Plaza trying to help a dog roll up the Sun!   in this episode: you roll stuff up, getting bigger faster, under the sea, the judgement of the king, shit on purpose, pole-vaulting with the katamari, hoping you go the right direction, the worst bird of all time, rolling the sun up fo...

Strange Scaffold's I Am Your Beast made several of our GOTY lists, with good reason. This game feels like a prototype to that, trading Beast 's frenetic relentless energy for a drawn out character study. It's not a very good trade, but seeing the strange scaffolding built up in El Paso Elsewhere to later enable Beast is at the very least fascinating. At the very least, you have to respect the art...

(haven't we been here before?) (why are we doing this again?) (will we really finish this time . . .) in this episode: repeating bits, learning to talk to your friends, not a Click-alike, spospoiler onionon, just attack, friendquests, so many mysteries, sidequests, loop, wishes, shared trauma, big rock bottom, dark siffrin, no hat siffrin, poke a bird   ~shoutouts zone~ Get Ready, Everyone! (Battl...

A BRIEF ACCOUNTING OF (SOME) OF INDIANA JONES CRIMES FROM THE GREAT CIRCLE AFFAIR, AS COMPILED BY WILL: Desecration of Bodies Destruction of Sacred Artifacts Grave Robbing Public/Civilian Endangerment Honestly Anyone who willingly uses a loaded gun as a club should go to jail bad barrel management Destruction of Cultural Sites (Given the number of nazis i've shot in the face im calling this an arm...

[Stardust, you know you can skip the postpod, right?] In this episode: Adam Sandler's seminal work Click, Earthbound, Nosferatu (all of them), Undertale, your amazing companions, JRPGs gonna JRPG, just run away lol, you jerk ass mf how dare you play the game, skill issues, looping mechanics, wild speculation, Bill Murphy's Groundhog Day. ~shoutouts zone~ Be Careful, Everyone! (Boss Theme) The Lang...

In this Episode: The loudest AC in the world, Pennsylvania Winter, Kickflip dimension, how to buy a grappling hook, Cookie Dinner, Double Barrell 1911, Dragonfly nightmare boss, MLG, Getting over it, Splatoon, and The Straights ~shoutouts zone~ Grappling Hook from Brute Magnetics: https://brutemagnetics.com/products/grappling-hook Sonic Air Riders: https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_Riders_series...

STAY WILD, WILD HEART! Content warnings: this episode contains non-explicit discussions of drugs and sex toys. In this episode: best game of all time, ice age voice actors, rez, Gita come on our podcast, the perfect chorus, horoscope AND tarot, Indiana Jones. ~shoutouts zone~ Rez, just like in general PC Gamer: Ultrakill now has official sex toy support ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by th...

We are all so eternally grateful that so many of you have stuck with us through the past year, despite the end of blaseball and the shift from ICB to Infinite Cities, it's thanks to listeners like y'all that we keep doing this. And yeah, sure, we'd probably still be friends and we'd probably still keep playing games if the podcast didn't exist, but it's all because of your suggestions and recommen...

For the final game of 2024 we are completing a promise both in game and in real life by playing The Return of the Obra Dinn (2018). Tied with Ghost Trick for Episode 50 we are finally playing the other game about a time travelling detective. With Feather and Karp enjoying a break this week we invite Hen on to talk about this game with us.   In this Episode: Flubbing intros, Hen is here, Feather an...

It's holiday season and we decided to be festive and play a holiday game. Unfortunately, The Grinch showed up to steal away all of our joy for the holiday season with this rather miserable movie tie in game!   in this episode: the grink, defining christmas games, stealth pacman, christmas cars, sexy grinch   ~shoutouts zone~  the grink know your meme   ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the...

Just finished editing this episode! Time to switch from my editing outfit (stylish cyan and blue headphones, soft hoodie with waveform motif, loose cargo pants, audio cables worn as loose necklaces, audio mixer worn on my belt as an accessory, laptop bag, color-coordinated athletic shoes, cropped but fluffy hair) to my copywriting outfit (thick glasses, woven cardigan, quill pin hairclip, cursive-...

Headshot x4 [-0.5s] Banger Soundtrack [-0.8s] Sweet Hitmarkers [-0.5s] Solid VO [-0.4s] Neat 2 Hour Runtime [-1.0s] Final Rank: S I Am Your Beast slaps you in your face and doesn't really stop. It's a perfect two hour shooter, contained perfectly in its runtime. All the speed of Neon White, with none of the anime. It's great. You gotta play it. In this episode: strange scaffold, cinematic typograp...

We decided to prove everyone wrong by showing that Netflix Games actually has good games in its library. This is a short and sweet puzzle game that you should download right now because we know that you have a Netflix account anyway. Seriously, Don't sleep on this one. In this episode: moving the grid, can't pick up anything, stealing Gary's last name, game so demanding it crashes your phone /j, c...

Prepare yourselves to the spoiler onion of a lifetime! We're back to finish our coverage of Prey (2017) and oh boy, the way our predictions turned out was a shock to all of us!   in this episode: will's disatisfaction, the mod tree, accidental hacking, passive aggressive turrets, smacking shit with a wrench, the big fluffy midgame, alex yu's plan, this bad boy can fit so much fucked up in it, the...

In space, no one can tell you how your wrenches should look... Except for Feather, who hates wrenches /j We're tackling an excellent immersive sim that got overlooked by many when it came out, and we recommend that you do too. It's Prey (2017) (no relation to Prey (2006) (other than it was supposed to be a sequel)). CW: there's some food talk in the postpod In this episode: designer wrenches, push...

sometimes it's nice to just like, tune out and organize shit. or stress about deadlines and organize shit. or be overwhelmed with deliveries and still have to organize shit. It's Wilmot's Warehouse!   in this episode: so many boxes, this is just gary's job, genre catagorization, stock take, the phases of the game, vestibulization, fog of war(ehouse), so many finches, endless mode speculation, the...

Is it enough to be quietly good? If a game drops no notes and has no flaws, how can you hate it? Perhaps more importantly: you play as a bird, how the eff does Feather hate this one? (One: I promise it's strictly coincidence all the bird games are also the best games. I have no bias here. Also: I disliked fall of porcupine, so nyeh) (Two: I don't even hate this one! This is a perfectly fine game!...

It's Halloween week, and in an attempt to be spooky, we chose to play a spooky game about a man on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea in the 70s. Some spooky shit happens. And everyone except Gary noped out at the first stealth section. Of course, instead of being scared, I cried, so y'know, you win some, you lose some.    in this episode: spooky vibes, oil rigs, walking sims, yellow paint,...

vivid/stasis mentionnnnnnnnnnnn For a game that was recommended in the comments of a mostly/unrelated meme, this was actually a pretty/banger game. Kind/of. It's definitely a peak rhythm game, with great tracks, great maps, and simple mechanics used extremely interestingly. Unfortunately, that's not all that's here. Also: this one's more of a sickos mode than anything because feather hogged the en...

HELP, the Seethe is approaching!  Was this made in 2024 or 2004? Feather doesn't know. It sure is pretty, though. And the music's great. And the gameplay feels just like it did in the early oughts (in a good way). Join us in looking at overly detailed traditional japanese sweets and read all about their history while tensely awaiting the arrival of Gary's groceries. In this episode: Taiko, Good tu...