Should I Play This Game Podcast

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...

Graham and Steve return to a seated and upright position to talk about the upcoming games of note for August, a return to the (whisper) Wildlands, games breaking and the bummer that becomes, word games that 'borrow' some Balatro elements, and plenty more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 01:03 - Graham's Games 09:36 - Steve's Games 43:40 - Upcoming Games for August 2025 55:14 - Beginning of the End Ga...

Graham and Steve batten down the hatches for some more video game-related talky-talk, including the use of 'AI' in the new Everybody's Golf (and the 'nature' of this whole 'AI' malarky), the peaks and valleys of Deliver At All Costs, the interesting new XCOM-like Early Access title Every Day We Fight, and much more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 5:44 - Graham's Games 40:00 - Steve's Games 1:12:38 -...

Graham and Steve take time out of dimensional (and generical!)-hopping, bring tales of Microsoft's most recent layoffs, the upcoming games of July, the implications of 'artificial intelligence', and plenty more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro & News 19:30 - Steve's Games 51:30 - Graham's Games 58:00 - Upcoming Games for July 2025 1:11:15 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Split Fiction Sacre Bl...

Graham and Steve countdown to blast off by running through some of the highlights of Not-E3 and the recent Steam Next Fest, the problem with game discoverability, and the played games of the last few weeks as well! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 3:38 - Graham's Games 49:39 - Steve's Games 1:23:33 - Summer Games Fest 2025 Review 1:53:56 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Hell Clock Life Below St...

Steve and Graham hop back in the saddle, after a few weeks of real-lifin', to look at the incoming games of June, Steve's PC 'fun times', contrasting Deliver At All Costs and The Precinct, and plenty more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 09:07 - Steve's Games 41:38 - Graham's Games 1:26:54 - Upcoming Games for June 2025 1:33:04 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glam...

Off the back of trips of different kinds, Graham and Steve see fit to talk about a number of games, being wrong about games of the past, and more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 4:45 - Graham's Games 39:50 - Steve's Games 55:15 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Satisfactory South of Midnight Nice Day for Fishing Spilled! Revenge of the Savage Planet AI Limit Assassin's Creed Shadows Peglin Cal...

Graham and Steve are right back at it again, this time to talk about the upcoming games of note for May, the dangers of hidden origami butterflies, and a whole heap more! Show Segments: 00:00 - Intro 2:38 - Steve's Games 29:17 - Graham's Games 32:55 - Upcoming Games for May 2025 59:31 - Beginning of the End Games Mentioned: Satisfactory Wanderstop Assassin's Creed Shadows Citizen Sleeper 2: Starwa...