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Episode 76 - The Seance of Blake Manor Dec 24, 2025

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Merry Christmas everyone! And, as it's Christmas, we're here giving you the traditional holiday experience of a ghost-related detective mystery in a haunted mansion on Samhain! Ok... So... maybe we're a little late with this. BUT, as Roses and Matt are catching up on 2025 games, we both played the EXCELLENT Seance of Blake Manor and we want to talk to you about it!

Plus, a lil' bit of Christmas, too!

Games Mentioned:

Strange Jigsaws
Bye, Sweet Carole
Foolish Mortals
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Seance of Blake Manor
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
The Colonel's Bequest
The Dagger of Amon Ra
The Roottrees Are Dead

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Episode 75 - DuskPunk and Adventure Game Trivia Dec 17, 2025

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Roses has been busy watching Amish Holiday Films, but Matt is able to tell us about a new game called DuskPunk (not to be confused with DustPunk). Then Roses "surprises" Matt with an array of adventure game trivia games, including our famed segment "How Much Do My Pants Weigh?"

Games Mentioned:

DuskPunk

Pokemon

Disco Elysium

King's Quest 5 and 6

The Monkey Island Games

Zak McKracken

Myst

Gabriel Knight

Sam and Max Hit the Road

Dagger of Amon Ra

Animal Well

Firewatch

Police Quest 3

Grim Fandango

Sanitarium

Trivia Game Screen Caps:

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Episode 74 - We're Back from Adventure X! Dec 12, 2025

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We're back from London! And we haven't changed a bit. Nope, not us. We sound and act exactly the same as before we spent some time on the British Isles. So come join us for a spot of tea as we talk about ADVENTURE X, THE GREATEST GAMING CONVENTION ON EARTH.

Matt and Roses discuss their trip, the con, the demos they played, and then take YOUR LISTENER QUESTIONS until they're sick to their frickin' stomachs!

Games Mentioned:

Winter Burrow
Strange Jigsaws
Baba is You
There Is No Game
Foolish Mortals
Pippistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo
Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores
The Dark Room with John Robertson
Blue Prince
Contradiction
The Roottrees are Dead
Her Story
Immortality
Mouthwashing
Sanitorium
The Chzos Mythos (Trilby Games)
7 Days a Flumpy
Broken Age

Adventure X Demos:

Asocial Giraffe*
Ashwood Conspiracy
Behind the Hydra's Eyes
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror REFORGED
Chance's Lucky Escape*
City of Voices*
Contact Protocol
DEAD HAND: RED STAR
Dark Tides
Dolos: Your Best Future
Duskpunk*
Esoteric Ebb*
Expelled
Freida is Changing*
Ghost Haunting
In Their Shoes*
Legends of Castille *
MAW
Minddiver
Mithra
Mops & Mobs
Panthalassa*
Spirits of the Afterland
Sleepytime Village
The Beekeeper's Picnic*
The Dark Queen of Mortholme*
The Midnight Barber
The RATLINE
The Seance of Blake Manor*
The Tragedy at Deer Creek*
Trance Theft Horso
Truer Than You
Vice Undercover*
We Stay Behind
Your Crown is Mine

* - games we highlight in the episode

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Episode 73 - Another Ranking Even More Every Adventure Game Ever Again Nov 12, 2025

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It's early in the morning and PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp have woken up specifically to do the duty that no one else is brave enough to do -- They rank every adventure game ever. BUT FIRST, believe it or not, they've BOTH played a ton of games! Matt's got some spooky new mystery games to tell you about and Roses has plunged face first into some cozy sims!!

Then, of course, we do what we must.

Games Mentioned:

Winter Burrow
The Séance of Blake Manor
Fields of Mistria
My Time at Portia
Foolish Mortals
War of the Western Deep
Strange Jigsaws
Baba is You
Astrologaster
Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise
Sender Unknown: The Woods
SIMULACRUM
Emily is Away
The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
Biohazard: Escape Room
Machinika: Museum
Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence.

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OFFICIAL RANKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bDfPsY0tpw6m3b3EZZiY3xWuCYz4CMlMaOHST44yTA/edit?usp=sharing

Roses' video on Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence with YakWaxLips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3zV8RY9NI

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Episode 72 - No I'm Not A Human & Clock Tower Oct 29, 2025

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Velcome everyone. Earth is Purgatory!

For our FINAL EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH, we start off with a spooky folk story, and then a TON of Next Fest demos! Then we talk about a disturbing horror game about answering your door in the apocalypse, and a game about a naughty boy who runs with scissors.

Games Mentioned:

No I’m Not a Human
The Berlin Apartment
Nighthawks
Servant of the Lake
Earth Must Die!
Séance of Blake Manor
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club
Cult Vacui
The Dark Rites of Arkham
The Last Case of John Morley
Father
Winter Burrow
Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
The Tragedy at Deer Creek
Papers Please
Myst
Clock Tower

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Episode 71 - CARIMARA & Mouthwashing Oct 22, 2025

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SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES! With Roses really wanting a coffee and Matt wanting to figure out how to make baths less hot. After a quick discussion about spookycute game CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs, they dive headfirst into the horrifying waters of Mouthwashing!

Games Mentioned:

Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Inscryption
No, I'm Not Human
Mouthwashing

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Episode 70 - Bye Sweet Carole & Nine Witches: Family Disruption Oct 15, 2025

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We journey deeper into SPOOKY MONTH, past the thorny brambles, through the crumbling graveyard, over the alien’s house, into the haunted church where we find our two heroes, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses, cowering in the corner, hiding from the goblins and playing video games.

This week, Roses played a harrowing psychological horror game (MORE ON THIS NEXT WEEK), Matt played a cute retro platformer, and then we dive into two spooky games!

First, NINE WITCHES: FAMILY DISRUPTION, a spooky/wacky point-and-click about witches and aliens and curses and Nazis.

Then, BYE SWEET CAROLE, a masterfully animated mesh of adventure genres, that’s like a playable dark fantasy Disney movie.

Games Mentioned:

Mouthwashing
Crow Country
Lust from Beyond
Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Nine Witches: Family Disruption
Bye Sweet Carole
Clock Tower

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Episode 69 - Lust from Beyond Oct 08, 2025

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Take your pants off and run and hide, folks, because EPISODE SIXTY-NINE IS FALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF SPOOKY MONTH! It’s time to hump a dracula, french a skelerton, jack off with a swamp creature, and yell BOO at your partner when you climax.

In this episode, we’re going to get really fucking gross because we’re talking about the erotic horror adventure game Lust From Beyond. And, spoilers folks: We’re not fans!

So go grab your condom that you drew little ghost eyes on and lean back and enjoy Matt and Roses console themselves from playing this goddamn game.

Games Mentioned:

Quest for Glory
Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Centum
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Lust from Beyond
Silent Hill

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Episode 68 - Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness Oct 01, 2025

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It's time for SPOOKY MONTH once again! Mwahahaha!! Matt has been raptured but don't worry, he still has access to the internet and can play games when he's not being harassed by St. Peter.

Matt and Roses then discuss the spooky nature of Quest for Glory 4, an adventure RPG hybrid with questionable choices, but amazing world building.

Games mentioned:

Eulogy for Nonno
Dad’s Monster House 2
Hollow Night: Silksong
Quest for Glory 1-3
Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
Quest for Glory 5
King’s Quest
Dagger of Amon Ra
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father

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Episode 67 - Strange Antiquities Sep 24, 2025

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Very weird cold open this week (aren't they all?), and then Roses and Matt get some gripes about GAMING CULTURE™ off of their chests before talking about some really amazing games!

Matt played a promising demo for War of the Western Deep and an amazing short indie game called The Dark Queen of Mortholme. Roses and Matt both get excited about games that are either discovered or released during the recording of the show.

And then, after a brief recollection of Strange Horticulture, we go in deep to talk about all the things we loved (and it’s pretty much all the things) about Strange Antiquities!

Games Mentioned:

Leisure Suit Larry
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
Cabernet
War of the Western Deep
Brok the InvestiGator
Date Everything
The Dark Queen of Mortholme
Dad's Monster House 2: Medal
Strange Horticulture
Strange Antiquities
Stardew Valley
Papers Please

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