Save Your Game

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Episode 7 - Comedy and Alasdair Beckett-King Mar 20, 2024

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This episode contains the terribly charming, hilarious, and otherwise multi-talented Alasdair Beckett-King. We talk about comedy in adventure games and a million other things.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Discussed:

Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator
Pentiment
Disco Elysium
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Dagger of Amon RA
A Short Hike
A Night in the Woods
The Longest Journey
Discworld
The Adventures of the Black Hawk
The Secret of Monkey Island
Unforeseen Incidents
Grim Fandango
Deponia
Return to Monkey Island
Uncharted 4: Thief's End
Curse of Monkey Island
Fran Bow
Little Misfortune
Trilby's Notes
Homebody
Four Last Things
Procession to Cavalry
Portal
Psychonauts
Lair of the Clockwork God
Zork
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Bureaucracy

Don't tweet at Matt about his embarrassing gaffe.

Episode 6 - Failure, Death, and Losing Mar 13, 2024

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Rose and Matt talk about the most fun games they've ever played before they launch into a long, philosophical discussion about how various adventure games have handled failure, game overs, unwinnable states, and death over the years.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Discussed:
Stardew Valley (SORRY!)
The Curse of Monkey Island
Animal Crossing
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Pokemon Sun/Moon
A Short Hike
Untitled Goose Game
Banjo Kazooey
Just Ignore Them
Red Bow
Kings Quest VI
Kings Quest V
Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
The Dagger of Amon Ra
BROK The Investigator
The Colonel's Bequest
Space Quest III
Clock Tower
Disco Elysium
Citizen Sleeper
I Expect You To Die
The Forgotten City
The Outer Wilds
Kings Quest III

Episode 5 - Q & A: Pillow Fort Edition Mar 06, 2024

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Our first Q&A episode! Matt is recording in a pillow fort from the floor of a hotel room in New Orleans. PUR is ignoring medical advice. We talk about walkthroughs, games for different types of intelligence, console games, modern VS traditional, the perils of nostalgia,

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games DIscussed (or just mentioned):

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Just Ignore them
Red Bow
The Sexy Brutale
The Forgotten City
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Sanitarium
The Witness
Return of the Obra Dinn
Plague Doctor of Wippra
Chicken Police
Contradiction
The Case of the Golden Idol
Night in the Woods
Beacon Pines
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Firewatch
Jenny LeClue: Detetivu
Backbone (Tails)
Book of Unwritten Tales 2
Thimbleweed Park
Randall's Monday
Stray
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
It Takes Two
Limbo
Inside
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Murderous Muses
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Danganronpa
Crash Bandicoot
Leisure Suit Larry
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Paradise Killer
Uncharted
Animal Crossing
Return to Monkey Island
7th Guest
Myst
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Below the Root
Her Story
The Last Door

Episode 4 - The Excavation of Hob's Barrow Feb 28, 2024

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Roses and Matt talk in depth about the Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Cloak and Dagger Games and Wadjet Eye, invent a new and incredible type of escape room, and then go on and on about their terribly millennial musical tastes.

Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Discussed:

Just Ignore Them
Red Bow
Blood Nova
Islands of Insight
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Kings Quest

Episode 3 - Next Fest and Julia Minamata Feb 21, 2024

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After we successfully avoid talking about Stardew Valley, Roses and Matt talk about a megaton of Steam Next Fest demos that they played. Then, we talk to Julia Minamata about her upcoming game, The Crimson Diamond, and 1990s software piracy rings.

Find Julia here: https://twitter.com/JuliaMinamata and wishlist The Crimson Diamond now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/

Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Discussed (THERE ARE A LOT):

Death of the Reprobate
Islands of Insight
Lies of P
Botany Manor
The M/S Cornelia II Incident
Please Touch the Artwork 2
Chicken Police: Into the Hive
Indika
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Turlock Holmes
Prim
Queer Quest: All in a Gay’s Work
Back to Hearth
Exit: A Biodelic Adventure
Mutants Ate My Carrots
Gloomy Juncture
An English Haunting
Death Trick: Double Blind
Daemon Masquerade
The Crimson Diamond
The Colonel's Bequest
Denarius Avaricius Sextus
Personal Nightmare
Rome: Pathway to Power
The 7th Guest
Armed and Delirious
Myst
Dagger of Amon Ra

Episode 2 - 10 Essential Adventure Games Feb 14, 2024

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Roses is playing Stardew and put the shorts in the soup! Also, Excavation of Hob's Barrow rules. Matt played Blood Nova and too many Next Fext demos (see next week). We list our Top 10 Most Essential Adventure games!

Email us: MattandRoses@gmail.com

Games Discussed:

Stardew Valley
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Blood Nova
Kings Quest 1
Secret of Monkey Island
Curse of Monkey Island
Return of the Obra Dinn
Firewatch
Unavowed
The Walking Dead
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Colonel's Bequest
The Sexy Brutale
Botany Manor
Cabernet
Sky of Tides
Disco Elysium
Islands of Insight

Episode 1 - Hello! and Perfect Tides Feb 07, 2024

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PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp introduce you to their brand new podcast: Save Your Game! We talk about how we got into adventure games, some of our favorites, and Quest For Glory V: Dragon Fire. Then, we dig in deep on 2022's Perfect Tides.

Email us: MattandRoses@gmail.com

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