The Gaming Backlog "Book Club"

Hosts Andrew and Alex chat about Death Stranding's Episode 4: Unger and Episode 5: Mama. After a quick journey to seemingly another dimension, we learn about Mama and why she can’t leave her own lab building. The engineer behind most of your gadgets has plenty to unveil and the cast of the story continues to grow. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. We bet you can’...

Hosts Andrew and Alex wrap up Death Stranding's Episode 3: Fragile and wonder what’s to come. Fragile finally shares her side of the story after another harrowing close call and side quest deliveries take over the mind. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. After the finale of Episode 3, the plot only thickens with the mysterious place we end up to start off Episode...

Hosts Alex and Andrew explore the land beyond Lake Knot City after crossing the crater lake while discussing their adventures so far in the first main missions of Death Stranding's Episode 3: Fragile. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. Everything is expected to start heating up from here. Mysteries abound in this unique sci-fi world and we can't wait to continue....

Join Andres and Alex as they discover more about the current stakes of the world of Death Stranding in Episode 2: Amelie. Compare your notes with their thoughts, opinions and analyses. Death Stranding only gets more unique than other video games from this point and everything in Episode 2 expands on that principle and then some. Will we learn more about what BTs are or what exactly is going on wit...

Alex and Andrew jump into the beginning of Death Stranding, discuss their thoughts, opinions and analyses of the Prologue and Episode 1 of the story, subtitled Porter and Bridget respectively. Death Stranding is a game that quickly sets up plenty of unique lore and introduces many key concepts and characters, but it will only accelerate from here. The intro was short but has us intrigued to learn...

Hosts Andrew and Alex invite users to join the "book club" style conversation group The Gaming Backlog "Book Club", where one video game from an extensive backlog will be chosen to play through as a group, with everyone advancing to a prespecified chapter breakpoint or section each week, meeting up to discuss anything and everything related to the game up until that point, and chatting about expec...

Welcome to the Gaming Backlog "Book Club," a video game podcast that gathers people to play video games together long after their release date and discuss like a traditional "book club." We select one game per season, break it up into manageable spoiler-free chunks of time with pre-defined stopping points that the average working or studying adult with plenty of other life responsibilities and hob...