Vole & Otter Gamecast

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...

Some would say that mountains are like a canvas, smeared with red paint exhumed from climbers' bodies after they make a wrong jump.  Or some would say that a canvas is like a mountain, as in it is hard to climb on one.  Deep right? Well you're in luck because our conversation on Concrete Genie and Celeste is equally deep.  Care about deep art? Listen to our deep podcast! Shove your earbuds...

Do you like stories? Do you like stories being told at you? Do you like cut-scenes or witty dialogue? Or do you prefer all the lore to be dumped on you in a 10-minute long unnatural dialogue between two characters who should already know everything they are telling each other? Whatever your style is, we are here to discuss it and offer some semi-constructive criticism on what makes good and bad ex...

What is natural for two village kids with social anxiety? To go to the city, of course. And not just one, but two! In this chapter of our sorry lives we get to visit two cities plagued by different curses (and mechanical insufficiencies, in the case of one) and we fumble our way through them as we always do.  Which city is the best? Which is the worst? Which one has the best mayor? Which one is be...

The game gents decide to reject the present day nightmare-scape and warp back to the times they were game boys struggling to find games. Are you curious about what the prelude to our current ruin was? Here is the episode in which we cover just that! We also touched on a couple of more serious things you may want to do something about. Here are a couple of starting points: Save games from censorshi...

In this episode the gents/critters learn how to do parenting and how to do prison breaking. Neither lesson is helpful and neither of the gents appreciated it much.  Are the gents falling apart? Should they start talking to a magical book with an accent and start doing more of that "Collaboration" thing? We don't know, we are just two neckbeards with fedoras playing games sometimes ques...

As we stray away (see what we did there) from the fresh episodes path, we dive into an adventure of the future feline sort. Purrs, scratches, meows, naps; this one was made for us. This comes from our time capsule of episodes recorded pre-going live and from a time our podcast had a different name and an extra member (who had sat out this recording, because he's a dog person; thus, shall remai...

We blundered through Resident Evil 5 and cringed with some... decisions that were made in it. Now let's talk about what makes this historic game stand out; for better or for worse.  Mostly for worse... 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 A...

From a rock 'n' roll space adventure about discovering your creative voice to a small picturesque town in the French countryside, this episode's got it all!  ...Maybe not racing this time, but who's missing that? 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 he...

Vole and Autarr. They have jobs, despite the noobiness; and they are adults, despite what their humour suggests.  So they both wanna rant about why them games be so dang long! 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...