Psitanium Mine

We don't usually discuss demos on this show, but Critter Cove has such a long and robust one that you can play it longer than some other games we have covered in Seacember. So, choose your furry and head of to the islands in your bathtub to build a vacation getaway.

We finally get to talk about a student project on Seacember! Lake Minnewaska is a short narrative game based around fishing. And all you need is a mouse and about 20 minutes to play it.

Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands might not feel very cursed, but what happens if you play it? Perhaps you will feel cursed too.

Sure, I don't enjoy dealing with sharks in video games, but what if you could PLAY the shark? Maneater is the game that answers such a question. Let's get our Jaws on. #shark #maneater #psitaniummine

Let's visit Stardew... Coral Island. A game that is completely unique to a game set in a valley. How does Coral Island set itself apart from other cozy games? Let's dive in and find out.

Dredge takes a Lovecraftian view of fishing as you traverse the abominable waters around Greater Marrow. Meet odd characters with even odder requests. Get attacked by sea monsters. Learn to panic. The possibilities are as endless as the sea.

Dave the Diver is a game about diving... but also sushi. Also, mini-games and farming. There's also management sim elements later on. Sometimes Godzilla shows up. Anyway, let's discuss all the diving Dave does in this first episode of Sea-Cember.

Psitanium Mine is back just in time for Sea-Cember.

Botany Manor is a game about being in a 19th century English manor while learning how to grow strange plants. But this is slightly different than other puzzle games as it is more detective game than logic problem. Let's look at how it implements these mechanics and the big issue that holds it back.

Steam Next Fest recently happened and so many game demos were available to play. Psitanium was able to get his hands on 12 and decided to talk about them on this episode. So, let's jet around a canyon at 1,000 mph, load a flintlock pistol, open a blacksmith shop, survive as a Viking, clean up a dungeon and figure out what Once Human is trying to be.

Wall World is a vertical rogue-lite game where you pilot a giant mech and dig into a giant wall to collect crystals. Also, you occasionally fight monsters. Eventually a large ink monster will try to kill you with a laser beam. Let's take revenge on it.

Quinn Hicks is having a very bad day. Welcome to the world of Beyond Contact, a survival game on an alien planet where you have to avoid getting killed by vicious creatures, the locals and exposure to the elements. So, let's build a base, grow some fruit and seek out oxygen deposits on Ketern. #BeyondContact #PsitaniumMine #survival

Little Witch in the Woods was Psitanium's worst ranked game of 2022, due to it being so mind-numbingly slow and boring. But, it was rather cute and really felt like a shame that it wasn't better. So, on this Second Chances episode, we are returning to the woods to brew some potions and talk to our hat in the hopes that it has improved. Emphasis on the word "hopes".

Finally, a farming sim on the show... for the 20th time. Lightyear Frontier tasks you with growing crops on an alien world while you are riding around in the giant mech. This sounds like an easy win, but it did not start out that way.

Hey, remember Vampire Survivors? The indie game scene sure does, because we have been swamped with bullet heaven games since it's release in 2022. Today on the show, we go into levels of hell in Halls of Torment, give a potato some guns in Brotato and help a frog defend his farm in Pesticide Not Required.

Stop. Zombie time. Many years have past since Psitanium played Dying Light and Dead Island. It's even been a couple years since he played them a second time. And all the while, there was a certain impression of the games burned into his head. Now we look at their sequels and, boy, the structural changes they make really changed his perception of the series. Let's discuss what changes, what...

And so we travel back to the metro to look at post-apocalyptic Russia. Good times. Once upon a time, Nathan tried playing Metro Exodus and then stopped suddenly before completing the first chapter. Now, he goes back to finish the game in it's entirety. Was it worth it? We explore the winter wasteland to find out.

Avast ye hardies. We are about to set sail with 2 naval games about the high seas and looting booty. First, we have the "Quadruple A" game from Ubisoft that finally saw the light of day, Skull and Bones. Does it stack up to the lineage of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag or somehow prove a worse version a whole decade after it started development? Second, we have Sail Forth, a smaller in...

There are some games I pick up for a moment and then put down, never to return to again. Many games I simply fall asleep while playing. These are not games that deserve to be on a best to worst list for how little I can evaluate them. But, on this episode of Psitanium Mine, we will be discussing those titles from 2023 and why they weren't on the list.

There are some games I pick up for a moment and then put down, never to return to again. Many games I simply fall asleep while playing. These are not games that deserve to be on a best to worst list for how little I can evaluate them. But, on this episode of Psitanium Mine, we will be discussing those titles from 2023 and why they weren't on the list.

It’s that time of year when we do the best to worst list and boy, there are so many big titles we need to discuss. There were some truly great games that came out and also… less good ones. This year’s list has 31 games on it and it’s quite a marathon. Enjoy.

It’s finally time. We need to discuss the Mass Effect trilogy. Not only did I have a reluctance to finish the series, but apparently I had a reluctance to do an episode about it. So, let us look at the Legendary Edition, which updates and synergizes the three installments into a cohesive product. Does that help with the experience as opposed to the first time I played it many years ago? And should...

Strange that we never talked about No Man’s Sky on this show before. Since it’s Spacember, I guess we can rectify that. So, let’s go into the infinite universe to collect carbon.

Time to discuss Breathedge for the first… second time! We did a Psitanium Mine episode on the game back in 2021, but it’s time to revisit the exploded ship and minimal gravity of this game world. Will we find our dead grandfather before it’s too late? Well, no, because he’s already dead.

Prey will make you question reality itself. You will never pick up a mug without smacking it with a wrench ever again. Arkane was in peak shape when they made this reboot and it holds up to this day. So dust off your neuromods and fire up the q-beam, we’re going to fight the Typhon one more time.