Infinite Cities

After spending three weeks climbing (or failing to climb) that mountain, the Infinite Cities crew is back with a game that is short and dumb. It's Betrayal At Club Low! Enter self-named protag, a spy sent in to help rescue a fellow undercover agent through the power of pizza dice! Make stew, steal a car, take over a DJ booth, and make your escape!    In this episode:  pizzaiolo, deadly dice rolls,...

After a brief hiatus (sorry! Feather crashed her car and then also had to go see Streetlight Manifesto) we're returning to the mountain to finish our discussion of Celeste! Although only one of us might be actually done with it? This game does a magic trick, in that the difficulty curve is one impossibly long mountain, where the next challenge is always just barely not impossible. It's good!  In t...

On the way up a mountain, it's important to take breaks! In keeping with this message from Celeste itself, we're deviating from our normal format a bit - partly because we're busy, partly because we're still just getting started on our climbs, and mostly because we keep getting distracted by several new and exciting releases (or in feather's case, a jank puzzle game collection from 2004.) So join...

What happens when a company disintegrates? What happens when that company owns your house and/or body? What kindness can you find from strangers? Most importantly, is today a bones day, or a no bones day ? Gary and Feather team up to hold down the station just the two of them, because Will and Karp are off being besties in the far off fantasy land of Sweden. This one gets real big thonk! In this e...

Umurangi Generation manages to be a lot of things for its miniscule budget and tight runtime. It's a reflection of early 2020s fear and pressure. It's a photography simulator with PS1 era graphics. It's a bit of a puzzle game. It's a "first person point-and-shooter". It's a perspective of what it is like to slowly die. Like any scene, it really depends on how you frame it. Also, we spend a ton of...

We've finished tunic - at least, by some measure of finished! Gary's gone completely tunic-mad, pinning things to a corkboard and tying them with red yarn, and was rewarded for his efforts. Karp stays winning and breezed through the final fight, Feather was a baby and got hardstuck, and Will was busy being a good friend. Not that you'd be expected to finish - this game goes and goes, and it goes *...

We've got another new game this week, and this time, we're giving in to our astonishment and playing Tunic! It's a lovely little slice of zelda exploration with some dark souls mechanics and some pretty difficult combat for the unprepared, but it's the delight of discovery that really carries the game forward for all of our hosts this week. If you don't want things spoiled, we'd suggest you play t...

Our last game, Slayers X, was faux-retro, with all the edginess and jank of the 90s despite coming out in 2023. This game is real-retro, but is cute, colorful, and in surprisingly good shape for its age! Except for maybe some of the literal (3d) shapes? We must have just had lower standards back then! It's Mode 7!  No wait...  It's Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island! In this episode:  MODE 7 , th...

For this week, we've decided to pick up our first boomer shooter of the podcast, and what a hell of a game this turned out to be. Slayers X is a spin-off/follow-up to 2019's Hypnospace Outlaw, and is a game created by the fictional character of Zane Lofton. It's full of 90s nostalgia, hackblood charges, and just so, so many poop jokes.  In this episode: we've got new intro music (thanks cliff!), n...

We're finally putting Outer Wilds (mostly) behind us, as four of the the five of us have finished - and all five of us have some  really big thoughts . Mostly praise! This was a game truely like no other, and while Feather from the future really wants you to know the game is like an 8.5 / 10 (even if it's a 5/5 hole score) it's still a special gem that we're all glad to have gotten to experience....

Outer Wilds is an absolute joy of a game, capturing wonder and exploration and puzzles in a near-perfect  little solar system. It's so good, that we're recommending you hold off on this episode (or at least all of the episode after about 20 minutes in) until you've started it. Not finished it, mind you - we haven't finished it either! (Except Gary, who doesn't count.) This episode is just part 1....

Hello Listener.  This episode talks about the 2014/2016/2022 puzzle adventure RPG game OneShot - but you knew that already. You also know how this episode ends. We've been here before. This is not the first Episode 2. This is just the first Episode 2 you can still change. Do be careful though, because you only have One Shot - and if you close this podcast, Gary dies. (he does not actually die he i...

We begin with a game about life changes, finding yourself in a new place, and making yourself a home out of a space. We think this is a good fit for our beginning, although Feather still doesn't know where to put all the little towels and Karp is still unpacking even more socks.  Content warnings: full unpacking spoilers from 0:16:00. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse spoilers in the postpod, fr...

Thank you so much for joining us! It doesn't matter you've been with Infinite Cities Blaseball for a hundred episodes, or if you're finding us for the first time, we're glad you're here. In the shortest possible terms, Infinite Cities is a podcast about friends playing good games, together.  In a longer explaination, you have this epsiode, where we're talking about our plans for Infinite Cities, a...