Vole & Otter Gamecast

Werewolves? Vampires? The need to poo right after showering? What makes the critters scared when playing games? And which games have worked for them? A theme talk about the goosebumps, the heebie jeebies and the creeps. Not those ones. --- For comments, feedback, suggestions or polite corrections, send your emails here: podcast@voleandottergames.com If you want to watch us play games live, you can...

In this spoooooooooky edition of the Backlog Logs Buck Logan and Pyle O'Shamus are back to log two games and finish half of them. Guess who did not finish games again... Survival horror? And survival survival. Because one of the games had no horror. Because SOMEONE RECOMMENDED A NON-HORROR GAME FOR A HORROR ENTRY. Ahem. No. No, I am not mad. Just disappointed. Sigh... Maybe the real horror was...

Helsinki Almond! Helsinki Grapes! ... Is one of the many phrases you will find in the hit indie game 1000xRESIST! Some other phrases include "Sixty One", "Nail to Nail" and "I've come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I am illiterate." What is the game about, you say? Well... There is something about clones and a virus and a dystopia? It is mostly dialogue, it is...

As with any good condiment, our catch ups are needed to lubricate the rest of the episodes as they slide into your earholes! Suitably, this one is spicy. Loads of games we got to play outside of the podcast and some gems there. Also a big disagreement between the two critters, but they let it slide. You will have to wait a bit longer before they start throwing punches. Games discussed (in random o...

Arachnodude! Hyperman! Superfastboy! Mangnet! All your favourite superheroes have come and gone and left their mark. But can this indie game phenomenon blow these all out of the water? And no, I am not talking about Underwater Pal. I am talking about the Z team. A lovable(?) team of misfits out to solve crimes and violate HR regulations every opportunity they get. But it is also "mature",...

DO POLYGONS ART MAKETH OR DOES TASTE THE ARTSTH BE MADETH? THAT IS THE QUESTION! Gaemspear - 1771 As old philosophers always speculated, what is a tasteful visual? Does hyper-realism make a game beautiful? Can a pixel game look better than a """""AAA"""" game? The crits discuss what they find aesthetically pleasing with no background or training, so it is all ju...

We didn't choose the Dog's Life. It chose us! And we love it. It is potentially Autarr's caca-poopoo humour source. It is... something related to Vole in looser terms. It is something that shaped us. For better or worse. But the question is, is it good? What does the Dog's Life mean? Is it just about pee? Or is there something beneath the surface of the peepee pool? Goat fact: Did...

Oil wars, economic inequality, a society in shambles, and our future uncertain. But we need to talk about the most important pressing issue in the world. What's up with the videogames industry?! No more discs? Xbox falling apart? No Heavy Rain remake??????? "What's the deal with videogames?", as an unnamed disgraced comedian would say. We know what the deal is. THEY'RE OVER, MA...

War, what is it good for? CERTAINLY NOT FOR GAMES! ... Join this new section of our podcast where the critters get new personas and tackle their never ending backlog, with two super cheerful games! Happiness overload. Happy! Happy! Happy! We are happy boys playing with happy toys. Yum yum! Games discussed: Burly Men at Sea Tearaway Unfolded Gris Valiant Hearts --- For comments, feedback, suggestio...

This is a story about a man named James. James liked holes. If there was a hole, James wanted to go in it or stick his hand in it. Dirty holes, dark holes, big holes, small holes... No hole was safe from James's will to go in it. One day, James went in a rusty hole. The rusty hole was full of magical surprises, but also terrors unseen. James, after going in the hole, had to square himself with...

WOWEE! Weren't those some darn tootin' fine trailers, pardner? Sure they were! Now listen to 'em scallywags say what trailers stroke their fancy the mostest and the leastest. And do make sure that you check that list of highlighted games below. Now Imma go tend to mah cattle. Yeehaw! See, that's how it feels when people use stereotypical Greek slang and say "opa" a bunch. I...

It's time! Our top 30 games! Come, check them out, disagree with us, send us hate mail! Or just listen like a decent audience member and be like "cool, that's an opinion". Goat fun fact: Male goats actually evolved to have 6 horns, however, the buffalo committee got jealous and felt emasculated, so they used Article 6.66 to force them to remove four of them from their genetic linea...

On a directional twist for the podcast, and a decision that is bound to change the course of our podcast career, and, dare we say, the world, the mammals choose their goats. And I do not mean the animal. Or CM Punk. I mean their Greatest Of All Time. Games that is. Video games. 60 in total, a combined list of both their goats with some honourable mentions just for the hell of it. Goat fun fact: Go...

Not one, but TWO really, really, ridiculously disturbing games. Controversy! Drama! Survival! DONGS! HORSE DONGS, TOO! What else would you want? Special guest: Marksupplier (For legal purposes, Marksupplier did not reply to our emails and did not join the podcast. And Markiplier does not know we exist. Meow). --- For comments, feedback, suggestions or polite corrections, send your emails here: pod...

So, Vole once went online in one of them video games, tried to use a gun, and a 12 year old called him a poopoo head. Since then, he vowed to never play games online again. Or, like, for a bit. Maybe I was not even talking about Vole... A kid once shouted at me. I did not like it. I don't like people. Lemme play my games alone! The episode is about playing games online, by the way. Thanks. 23r...

Ah, it's been a long time, hasn't it? Vole has been busy solving the Riemann Hypothesis, Autarr has had his hands full conquering a small country in the Pacific. How could we find any time to just chat and catch up? Alongside condiments, we also go over what we've been playing the last few months and, for once, we embrace the tangents. Hot diggedy dawg, will this episode be sauced up a...

What if in the future all plants were extinct, and there were artificial human beings called duplicants that came from a colony in Venus? And the scissor sprinters were coppers running after them? With scissors!!! You get Blade Runner...I mean Scissor Sprinter! Spoiler warning: We discuss Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the two Blade Runner films and Blade Runner the game from 1997. We only f...

Space is a place in which we sometimes race. With cars! That fly? With ships in the sky? The thing is, game space has to convince you that it's a real place. So, what turns spaceness into placeness? The deformed children in Witcher 3? The location of your humble abode? Space species seeking peace speaking script pieces? Put on your space suits and listen to this episode, as we fill this space...

So, uhm... How do we put this? This is about religion. Also about a cosmic horror flooding upon a Scottish oil rig, but mostly about religion. And dogs. Did we ever mention we're Greek? Games discussed: Still Wakes the Deep Indika Spoiler warnings: Very light to no spoilers for Still Wakes the Deep. Indika discussion is very light in spoilers (setting, first 20-30 minutes events, and game them...

Yes, we played Anthem. Through the story at least. And we didn't just play it, we streamed it; and now we are even bringing you an episode on it. Plus, I (Autarr) had to read a bunch for this one and we did a farewell stream on it? This game is officially our biggest project so far. Why? Because life is meaningless. Enjoy. --- For comments, feedback, suggestions or polite corrections, send you...

2025 sure has been a year where only good things happened. Especially in the world of games, right? Right? This is a spoiler-free episode, but just so you have an idea what to expect, here's a bunch of lists. Games discussed or mentioned (in alphabetical order): Anthem Baby Steps Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 Consume me Dark Pictures Anthology Dead Space (re...

Wow! What a show, right? Unpredictable winners, non-intrusive ads, perfectly natural and affable hosts, zero cringe moments. Yeah, you are right, we are being sarcastic. --- For comments, feedback, suggestions or polite corrections, send your emails here: podcast@voleandottergames.com If you want to watch us play games live, you can find us here: Vole's Twitch Autarr's Twitch For stream VO...

After 17.4 centuries, Vole finally completed this game, so Autarr gets to be all "Whee" to talk about it. Unsurprisingly, we are here to mostly praise a game that so many before us have done, and for good reason. Hopefully, we bring something new to the conversation about something that seems to have affected us both deeply. Yes, this game is more "Whee" than "Whoo" for us!...

Hey, Buster. Sit! No, don't spin. Sit! GOOD BOY, HERE'S A TREATO! Do you like that? Do you like getting little treatos when you do the thing in the game well? So does Vole! And Autarr used to be addicted in that, so there is an intervention in this episode. How did Baby Steps lead Autarr to clarity? Why does Vole like the treatos? Is the sky really blue or was it painted by alien blood, wh...

Voles and otters. They live both on land and sea, right? They do not pull sick-ass tricks, though!  That's right, we are talking about Journey, Abzu and Sword of the Sea. I bet you guessed it from my little teaser there. No? Well too bad. It made sense to me.  So, 3 games, 2 of each we consider some of our peak gaming experiences. Come hear us gush about the climb and Autarr gush about fish, a...