Should I Play This Game Podcast

Graham and Steve gather in the fields to discuss the difficulty in balancing progression in an incremental game, balancing difficulty in difficult games, how beating people up makes sense in future racing, and much more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 3:00 - Steve's Games 50:22 - Graham's Games 1:12:17 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Fracture Field Gears of War: E-Day Dave the Diver Dragon Q...

Graham and Steve return from the farm to talk about My Chemical Romance famrbois, the only End Game that matters, the upcoming games of October, and plenty more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:42 - Graham's Games 30:15 - Steve's Games 1:09:49 - Upcoming Games for October 2026 1:22:47 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: My Time at Sandrock Transport Fever 3 Dave the Diver Nivalis Nights You Kno...

After a week's break for Melbourne business, the boys are back in town (ooooww-nnnn-owwwww-nnnnnnnnn) to break bread over Dive the Diver, the finishing of Pragmata, and the other games of note from the last three weeks! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:32 - Steve's Games 35:12 - Graham's Games 1:05:58 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Lou's Lagoon Midwest 90: Rapid City Dave the Diver Corsair...

Graham and a slightly sickly Steve get back from gachaing to talk about Gamescom Opening Night Live, the upcoming games of note for September, and some 20 plus games played in the last two weeks! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:02 - Graham's Games 51:12 - Steve's Games 1:28:38 - Gamescon 2026 Review 1:34:54 - Upcoming Games for September 2026 1:47:20 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Click th...

Graham and Steve incrementally upgrade their video game talking skills by talking about a bunch of incremental games, while also talking about some of the bigger 2026 games like Pragmata, Corsair Cove, that new Lego Batman, and more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - Steve's Games 55:05 - Graham's Games 1:16:59 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Pick Ball Factory Town 2: Paradise Farewells...

Law-manager Graham and a law-abiding Steve provide the most important of public services by talking about a rather voluminous number of games played, mostly watching numbers go up in various forms, and have a look at the start of the video game monsoon with the games of note scheduled to release in August! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:03 - Graham's Games 59:05 - Steve's Games 1:31:18 - Upcoming...

Graham and Steve explore the depths and puzzle out the last two weeks of games, including the discovery of wonderous abilities, genre similarity in the backloogging process, and way more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:57 - Steve's Games 39:04 - Graham's Games 1:02:14 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Mining Merchant Moss: The Forgotten Relic The Rusted G...

Graham and Steve dig their way out their holes for another SIPTG podcast, and try to sell the crafted jewelry of Mining Merchant, the continued appeal of Forza Horizon 6, and much, much more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro and News 10:26 - Graham's Games 45:38 - Steve's Games 1:10:38 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Mining Merchant Screenbound Lost in Tandem Normal Golf Game Mouse: P.I. For H...

Graham and Steve settle back in for some rebellious devil worship in the library, while at the same time talking about the games of the last 4 weeks and the upcoming games of note for July! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:22 - Steve's Games 31:06 - Graham's Games 1:10:10 - Upcoming Games for July 2026 1:19:14 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Ascenders: Beyond the Peak BioEden Star Trek: Outp...

Graham and Steve survey the aftermath of the 'Summer' of new game announcements, going over no less than 8 different showcases and the games of interest, and then casting a wistful eye over the last few months of the year to see just how intense the pre-GTA6 release period actual is! Show Segments: 0:00 - Intro 2:53 - Sony State of Play 14:30 - Summer Gast Fest 2026 29:22 - Frosty Games Fest 34:12...

Graham and Steve, fresh off of hooning around Japan, gather at the Festival site to decompress and digest the smaller suite of upcoming games of June, a spot of rapid-fire Should I Play This Game Actual, the comfort of numbers going up, and heaps more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:26 - Steve's Games 42:29 - Graham's Games 1:03:25 - Upcoming Games for June 2026 1:09:24 - Beginning of the End Game...

The boys are back in (their) town(s) to collaborate and listen about the upcoming games of May, the Satisfactory-al potential of Modulus, the goodness of digging holes and mining, and plenty more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:28 - Graham's Games 27:24 - Steve's Games 53:55 - Upcoming Games for May 2026 1:05:31 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Replaced Modulus: Factory Automation Keep on M...

Graham and Steve hoot and holler about Greek mythological dungeons, modularly automating factories, and more of the last couple of week's worth of game-playing! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:19 - Steve's Games 35:28 - Graham's Games 1:01:39 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Modulus: Factory Automation Minos Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Replaced Nioh 3 Temtem: Swarm Esoteric Ebb Deadline Deli...

Graham and Steve might actually be back to some semblance of a schedule now, as they command some microphone time to wax poetic on the potential for coziness with guns, how one should Keep on Mining, the upcoming games for April, and much more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:30 - Graham's Games 19:20 - Steve's Games 50:49 - Upcoming Games for April 2026 1:02:26 - Beginning of the End Games Mention...

After real-lifing it for the last few weeks, Graham and Steve are back are it to discuss, among other things, weird design decisions impacting on game enjoyment (in multiple ways!), Sid Meier's SimGolf (tangentially), and another, cooler video game Pig! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:12 - Steve's Games 40:44 - Graham's Games 56:26 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: The Outer Worlds 2 Generati...

Graham and Steve reconvene for the first time propers in 2026 to talk about the upcoming games of March, the use (or rather the questionable re-usage) of old PC game franchises, a bizarre number of Metroidvania and idle games, and a whole heap more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:55 - Graham's Games 28:42 - Steve's Games 1:01:09 - Upcoming Games for March 2026 1:08:44 - Beginning of the End Games...

In the second, and final, part of the Game of the Year series, Graham and Steve drill down the best stories, new characters/NPCs, campaigns, and overall games of 2025! Big ol' SPOILER warning for this part, so know that going in! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 3:01 - Best Story/Writing 33:25 - Best New Character/NPC 45:28 - Best Campaign 1:14:03 - Graham and Steve's Top Ten 1:56:51 - Overall Top Ten...

Graham and Steve are back at it for a new year, and are doing so by looking back at last year in the first part of the 2025 Game of the Year podcast! What were the best looking, sounding, playing, and most surprising games of last year? Only one way to find out! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:19 - Best Noise 35:03 - Best New Thing 55:54 - Best Surprise 1:08:34 - Best Looking Game 1:18:26 - Best Ga...

For the last episode of 2025, Graham and Steve talk about the games played since the last episode, which, as it turns out, are rather numerous! Anime AND non-anime card games, ninja games, and games with cool pigs are just some of the smorgasbord of game-type discussion had! Also, hey! Did you know that that Clair Obscur game is pretty great?! Weird, huh? Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:10 - Steve'...

Graham and Steve are back, like they never left, to talk about Graham's Melbourne trip and the games played within, the evolution of the Match-3 genre since the first Puzzle Quest, the games of note for December, and plenty more! Programming Note: Graham will be out for a couple of weekends coming up, so there won't be a podcast recorded - hence the games of December! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro...

Graham and Steve hold an executive summary meeting to explore the varying degrees of appeal of 2025's bigger Rogue-ish games, a scientist clone that sucks, the games of note for the month of November, and a bit of an overview/exploration of some of Microsoft's recent business decisions, and their implications on the business moving forward. Whoa, existential bro. Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:06...

Graham and Steve get futuristically historical this time around on the SIPTG podcast, with quite the number of games played to discuss - with 20 games in total! What a time to be hanging out! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:15 - Graham's Games 35:25 - Steve's Games 1:15:47 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Satisfactory The Alters Lighthaze World Metropolis 1998 Minos Barkour Keeper Tower Domi...

After completing the annual ritual sacrifice, Graham and Steve gather around the pyre for discussion of 'cozy' games, the games of note for October, and Steve's internet odyssey! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:47 - Steve's Games 34:00 - Graham's Games 36:55 - Upcoming Games for October 2025 45:40 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Tower Dominion Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wheel World Rekindl...

Graham and Steve step in from the cold to have a look at the substantial list of the games of September, just what the hell a game named 'DarkSwitch' could possibly be, accidental file deletions, and plenty more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 1:32 - Steve's Games 25:56 - Graham's Games 39:29 - Upcoming Games for September 2025 59:52 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Satisfactory Tom Clancy's...

The boys have convalesced enough for another episode of Australia's longest running amateur video game podcast (maybe?)! This time around, the difficult balance of difficulty in games, the even-greater difficulty in trying to balance fun and 'depth' in games, and the most-difficult of all: stepping into the job of sending the right superhero to the right crime-in-progress! Show Segments: 00:00 - I...