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Episode 66 - Rosewater Sep 17, 2025

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This week, Roses's Google Home becomes possessed and Matt cannot stop talking about Little Problems. The game, not his PERSONAL little problems.

Then, Matt and Roses discuss a much-anticipated title from Grundislav Games - Rosewater! And well I'll be, it sure was a fun romp in the American Frontier.

Games mentioned:

Hollow Knight: Silksong
Little Problems
The Golden Idol games
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
Rosewater

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Episode 65 - Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Sep 10, 2025

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Ok, let's address the spider in the room: We could not find a way to play the Naked Gun game BUT we do come to you this week with stories of black jelly beans aand Roses dumping a scooter. Also, Matt is playing Hollow Knight: Silksong and has a lot to say about it.

Then, Matt recently got to play a PushingUpRoses favorite, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon! Some come on a journey with us and Jake Stonebender through time and space and a cozy little bar while we SAVE THE UNIVERSE!

Games Mentioned:

Hollow Knight: Silksong
Blasphemous
Unbound: Worlds Apart
Lone Fungus
Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus
Nine Sols
Rosewater
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Jezzball
The Journeyman Project
The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P.

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Episode 64 - Toonstruck Sep 03, 2025

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WHY DON’T THEY HAVE WRESTLING MATCHES IN PUMPKIN PATCHES!? This isn’t the set-up to a street joke, this is a genuine question that Matt has. Roses watched a fake movie starring Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson. Matt played a “stealth team tactics game” with ghost pirates.

BUT the real story here is that PushingUpRoses and Matt replayed a classic game from their youths that features a live-acted Christopher Lloyd in a fully cartoon world. It’s called Toonstruck and it rules and the only bad thing about it is that they never released a sequel.

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GAMES MENTIONED:

The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P.
Rusty Lake Series
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Sword Game
Toonstruck
Grim Fandango
Torin’s Passage

Episode 63 - Ranking Even More Every Adventure Game Ever Again! Aug 27, 2025

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We begin by answering the BIG question: What happened to Sobe?

And then we talk about video games, I guess. Because that’s what you demand of us.

THIS WEEK we rank a bunch more adventure games – WHETHER WE’VE PLAYED THEM OR NOT. After Matt tells everyone about a free Rusty Lake game, we dive into the List ™ and throw 10 new games on our DEFINITIVE list!

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Games Mentioned:

The Beekeeper’s Picnic
The Drifter
The Dagger of Amon Ra
The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show
Rusty Lake Series
Turlock Holmes
Toska
Rosewater
Reviver
Quantum Witch
Session
Neon Hearts City
Expelled
Canteloupe Chronicles
New Mage
Urban Myth Resolution Center
Slender Threads
Time Paradox
Helheim Hassle
Forgotten Hill Tales
Softporn Adventure
Saint Kotar
The Shine of a Star
Love: A Puzzle Box Filled With Stories
American Arcadia
Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb
The Labyrinth of Time

Episode 62 - The Drifter Aug 20, 2025

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Deep down under, Roses and Matt cast off their possessions and hop a freight train car into a world of HIGH OCTANE EXCITEMENT and POINT AND CLICK PUZZLES. We're talking about the Drifter. And we played a couple of other very good games. Lot of hyped-up energy this episode!

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Games Mentioned:

The Beekeeper's Picnic: A Sherlockian Adventure
Öoo
Bomberman
The Drifter
Sanitarium
Return of the Obra Dinn
Myst

Episode 61 - Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Aug 13, 2025

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GOOD ARTIST.

We're back again to give you a dive so deep on Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer that MAYBE one of us cries! Who's to tell? Matt played a straight-up action/arcade game and a weird little puzzle game. Roses went to the circus! And what's that? We get to move one of our rankings??

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Games Mentioned:
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Isoland Pumpkin Town
Sunset Hills
Checkers
Space Quest IV
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Pine Hearts

Episode 60 - R.I.P. AdventureGamers Jul 11, 2025

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We have a bit of a different episode for you today. This is the story of Adventure Gamers: A decades-old website dedicated to Adventure Games and their fans that was recently bought out by a mysterious compaany and hollowed out for the promotion of online gambling and cryptocurrency.

Matt and Roses chat with John Walker, Timothy Malmros, Jack Allin, and Emily Morganti to help to provide insights into what Adventure Gamers meant to them, what the hell happened to it, why it happened, and what the future is for Adventure Game fans looking for a home.

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You can read John Walker’s article here: https://kotaku.com/adventure-gamers-forums-gambling-ads-jack-allin-1851784764

You can read Timothy Malmros’s coverage of Click Out Media here: https://recleudo.com/under-googles-blind-eye-a-growing-parasite-ecosystem-is-flourishing/

In case you haven’t heard of it, Jack Allin’s new website: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/

Game Boomers: https://www.gameboomers.com/

The infamous Old Man Murray article: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

Emily Morganti’s website: http://emilymorganti.com/

And here is some other coverage we used to prepare for this episode:

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/developers-saddened-by-beloved-adventure-game-sites-pivot-into-world-of-online-gambling

https://aftermath.site/adventure-gamers-online-casino-gambling-website-sale-parasite-seo

Games Mentioned:

Beekeeper’s Picnic
Baldur’s Gate II
Dune Awakening
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Frostpunk
Ixion
Keeper
Shadow of Destiny
Peasants Quest
Universal Paperclips

Episode 59 - Ranking Every Adventure Game Ever Again Jun 25, 2025

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Uh oh, everyone. We’re BACK! And we have a pretty strange episode for you all. You’ll just have to hear what happened for yourself. Matt also finished Clair Obscur, and Roses finished her move and little clay worm, so… We talk about that.

Regardless, wish Matt luck on his last week of college and wish Roses luck on her vacating the black mold from her lungs.

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Games Mentioned:

Fall Guys
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Abyssal Zone
The Abyssal Zone
Chop Suey
Magnus Imago
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Lunar Axe
Sleuthhounds: The Halloween Deception
Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
The Room VR: A Dark Matter

Episode 58 - Clair Obscur and Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping May 21, 2025

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There’s an important moment in every podcast’s life where they finally have to broach that inevitable conversation… The chomping/champing at the bit conversation. And Matt and Roses finally get there as Matt discusses his favorite new French RPG, CLAIR OBSCUR.

Then the gang discuss a hilarious, cozy new detective game DUCK DETECTIVE: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING.

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