Infinite Cities

Your travels take you to a crossing. To the east, a narrow path cuts through tangled brush and snarling thorns. The road north is clear, but you heard rumor horrific goblins wait in ambush. The west is open plains - clear, but in the distance you can make out the most horrific animal of all: packs of terrifying beasts known as "horses". Better chance the goblins and the thorns. In this episode: ho...

"Walking Sim" as a genre is a bit of a perjorative, but really - that's what we have here. You walk places, and things happen! That's the game. But even in that, there's a ton to talk about. Why is this game about being alone, so full of chatter? Can you find yourself in those dark woods? And perhaps most importantly, why is this walking sim so bad at walking? In this episode: f lapjack , game of...

Pow! Bang! Bop! This week we're FIGHTING! Or, well, we're talking about the potential of fighting, but really we're mostly commiserating about the state of Guilty Gear's story mode. Fighting games are hard and have a high barrier for entry, which is why we basically dance around the idea of it for an hour before throwing in the towel. If any sickos really wanna talk to Feather about fighting games...

Podcast goes round and round. Why? It does not matter. Numbers go up. Hero goes around. In this cold black space, you can only smell the acidity of Salt. Can you remember samsara? In this episode: bad hooks, how do we explain this, "fortnite" style colors!??, what are we doing here, cheese strats, idle game comparisons, come before Feather for judgement, this chair gives me health, breakdowns, eve...

The city might not be very big, but wow did they really kitty this kitty!   In this episode: a short hike-alike, feather's list of bugs and grievances, ducklings, the absolute conksuckiest map of all time (positive), genuinely how does this game have such a bad photo mode, TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS, is this a kids game, is being a kids game a cope, wayfinding via lizard, spelling maieaou, a very special...

Hello Daniel Mullins. I know you are reading this. You have fallen into my trap, the trap of episode descriptions. Here, you will.. uh... one second. I'm getting from my producer that I've done a fourth-wall-break ep description before? And it's, quote, "not nearly as fun the third time". Hmm. I'm sure that's not relevant to my favorite fantastically balanced horror roguelike deckbuilder set in a...

We're playing Inscryption this week, and before we get into it, Big Thanks to everyone who never spoiled this game for anyone playing. If you haven't played Inscryption before, what are you doing here? Go play and come back, seriously, we're spoiling stuff that you're better off not knowing when you go into the game!   in this episode: not the whole onion, roguelike deckbuilders, creating cards, b...

We finally return to Spiritfarer to send off every last animal on this boat, whether we want to or not. WARNING: Full Spoilers Ahead! In this episode: Will disappears - will you notice it?, I cant believe Atul would do this, is a basilisk just a lizard, The Character Door, perfectly timed Wilhelm Scream, the only thing that makes Karp sad, Feather rants/gushes about Eve Online ~~~ Our theme music...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Taco De Mayo 4ever after! If you missed it, we took a second run down King of the Castle, a very excellent stream / party / role-playing(?) game where one person (Feather) got to rule a kingdom with an iron throne while a bunch of wretched losers (Karp, Gary, Will, and friends) all tried to harsh her vibes and ruin her chance at wonderful tyranny. Anyway, it...

[click] Mr Coo gestures towards a strange play button [click] Mr Coo pushes the button; chaos ensues   in this episode: hoping for more pieces, point and click, freddi fish and pajama sam, leaning into weirdness, driving mr coo, menus, bugs, a wiggly boy, distinct personalities of pieces, hints, goblin guy is cool, distilling it down, the plunger bike seat, cw alcohol: the wine pairing, mr coo: th...

TERMINAL IC39 - RESTRICTED ACCESS [SECURITY LEVEL 1] >>QUERY(COGMIND) Hot dang, Feather's writing the episode description and that means she gets to talk about how great this game is. So great, she procrastinated editing this episode to  play more cogmind . Nevermind she procrastinated editing the last episode to play cogmind.  What other game makes sensors so fun? How is rolling up on some dudes...

Spiritfarer is an adorable little game, that on first inspection, looks like a fun, cozy little friend-em-up like Stardew Valley and friends. This is a lie. Spiritfarer is actually a coldly calculated trap, designed to lure you into making friends with friendly, interesting, deep characters explicitly so it can take them away from you, and then remind you what you've lost. The hug button isn't a c...

This week we're still in the mid-aughts, and this one's a real doozy. Generally considered to be the best movie tie-in game ever, we've got opinions. In this episode: King Kong Points, Feather doesn't know her own age, the Worst Shotgun In a Videogame, Megapedes and V-Rexes, JAAACK! ~Shoutout zone~ How to install a PS2 emulator and King Kong circa 2005 Random video that Will shared in the postpod...

April fool's is Shrek season. I'm not sure why, I didn't make the rules. It came to me in a dream. April first is when you Shrek, ok? You Shrek. Tradition is important. This is an April fool's episode. The episode is not the April fool's prank. It's a relatively unhinged, but still ICB, minisode with Will and Feather. The April fools are Will and Feather, who played this game, and especially Feath...

ITS PEGGLE In this episode : "I do not like peggle " , spoilers for peggle , the secret fith element of peggle , fandomwiki for peggle , imaginary peggle is incredible , pyramid peggle slander , what happened to peggle ? ~shoutouts zone~ Peggle... 2! Peggle patent How to install a PS2 and run King Kong on your PC (2005 edition) (big ups to Will) ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incred...

This is it - the high water mark of a once-great franchise, the twenty-second game out of twenty-two Mega Men, not counting the many , many , many , many spin-offs. Past this point, just about everything got packed up and cancelled. What happened? Did Keiji Inafune sleep with someone's wife? Or did it just play out the same old tricks over and over, until a few half-hearted attempts to shake thing...

We're the second-best detectives in town, and we're gonna help you with whatever random errand you need. We're also gonna laugh a whole lot. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. In this episode: Just... so much giggling, Being a sticker-person, I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that, Lobster Cop, Happy bugs, Real-life animals, Spoiler egg, The mouse is the correct option, Pirate hooks, Books are, witho...

The gang's all here this week, and we're finishing up our discussion of the zippiest, swooshiest, grapplyest indie of last year, Sanabi! in this episode: please imagine airhorns, landing the mystery, so much talking, high jank tolerance, fuck that car, cool speech bubble effects, endgame theories, heaven and hell, the john wick of robots, flashbacks galore, harmonica questions, somehow pedro pasca...

Nyooom whoosh zoop zwaam zoop woooop woosh woosh woop Nyoooooooom zoop woosh wow wow zooop... It's SANABI! A totally hidden gem that's delivering enough beautiful movement and incredible pixel art to make up for some seriously long dialogues.  Eventually, we'll know what happened in Mago City. in this episode: spiderman should have a mid swing boost, the joy of intertia, instagibbing robots, speed...

We're back for another short little indie game, it's Chicory! Feather and Gary have a delight coloring in the world, while will finds himself stuck painting stars everywhere.  in this episode: art, painting, it's on the map, feather's square era, spooky trees, dad hints, magenta paint bucket, chicory the welder, oops, all hats,  you shouldn't be so hard on yourselfa ~shoutouts zone~ explorable, in...

Is this it? Did we find a game that everyone enjoyed (minus Gary, who wasn't present for the recording)? Or is it just that building a town is fun for the first 2 hours, every time? Join us as we untangle why Against the Storm might be the perfect cozy game for three of us. In this episode: Warcraft 3 is retro, it's (not) Rain World, Mario Kart rubberbanding, 3x speed vs 1x speed, sucking up brick...

Maybe it's because Feather's PC is nearly old enough to qualify as retro, or maybe it's because Against The Storm reminds us of PCs classics like Warcraft 3, or maybe it's just because Will, Karp, and Feather are all retro hardware nerds, but whatever the case - we're talking through the history of video game consoles, starting from the very beginning! In this episode: play pitfall I guess, more b...

HEY ITS REKKA HERE TO WRITE THE EPISODE DESCRIPTION HI FI RUSH IS A MONSTER OF A GAME! YOU WANT MECHANICS? ITS GOT TWICE AS MUCH MECHANICS AS THE NEXT GAME! YOU WANT STORY! YEAH THERES A STORY! YOU WANT MUSIC? WELL FUCKIN' GOD DAMN THERES MUSIC. YOU WANT  PLATFORMING? WE MADE THE PLATFORMING SO BAD YOU GET TWICE AS MUCH PLATFORMING PER PLATFORM! THE ONLY PODCAST THAT CAN HANDLE THIS MUCH GAME IS T...

Old-school roguelikes have a long and rich history of being some of the earliest games that are updated  to this day , so there's some things to talk about. Join Karp and Feather in this mini episode! In this episode: The Berlin Interpretation (is a meme), the potato chips of conversations, don't spend $3 on Rogue, Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, the schoolyard-rumour-game of the 80's computer science sc...

Fall of Porcupine is a story about being a doctor that hits all the beats you might expect. The angry jaded old mentor, the competent and hardworking nurse, the first death on your watch, the finding a place in a small town. It's not humerous (like Scrubs), or charming (like Scrubs) or even super compelling (like Scrubs), but maybe there is something in its gentleness? It is also, notably definite...