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Episode 96 - Midnight Scenes: The Nanny and Among the Woods Oct 14, 2026

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Roses and Matt attempt to scare each other by turning mundane stories into SpooOOOooOOooky stories.

After briefly discussing a few games they’ve been enjoying, Matt and Roses then deep dive into the next two installments of the Midnight Scenes, short episode games inspired by The Twilight Zone.

Games Mentioned:
Graveyard Keeper 2
Servant of the Lake
Final Fantasy: Resonance
The Dark Dome Studios Games
Cube Escape
Midnight Scenes: The Highway
Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note
Midnight Scenes: The Nanny
Midnight: Among the Woods

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Episode 95 - The End of The Ultimate Recommendations Eleganza Extravaganza and the Beginning of Spooky Month Oct 07, 2026

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After what could be the most alluring intro ever recorded, Matt and Roses discuss what they’ve been enjoying, promptly followed by finishing up the ULTIMATE RECOMMENDATION ELEGANZA EXTRAVAGANZA list. Roses gets too heated about Gone Home.

They then segue right in to spooky month with two lovely games from the Midnight Scenes series, horror games inspired by The Twilight Zone.

Fields of Mistria
Pilot Wings 64
Desktop Explorer
Librarian: Tidy Up The Arcane Library
Mouthwashing
Firewatch
Gone Home
What Remains of Edith Finch
Night in the Woods
Still Wakes the Deep
Midnight Scenes: The Highway
Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note

Episode 94 - The Ultimate Recommendations Eleganza Extravaganza 3 Oct 01, 2026

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Roses got a Switch 2! So she can play Banjo-Kazooie again! Matt played an adorable, wholesome Metroidvania called The Merlies!

Then, we recommend a ton more games in a few more Adventure Game categories, and we WAYYYYYY overshoot for times and SPOILER: WE DON'T EVEN FINISH. But it's a hell of a fun time.

Games Mentioned:

Banjo-Kazooie
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Donkey Kong Bananza
The Merlies
Nighthawks
Clock Tower
Scratches
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Slender: The Last 8 Pages
At Dead of Night
Nightmare Frames
Burnhouse Lane
Phantasmagoria
The Last Door
The Quarry
Death of the Reprobate
The Procession to Calvary
Thank Goodness, You're Here
Untitled Goose Game
The Stanley Parable
There is No Game
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Danganronpa
Doki Doki Literature Club
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
The Wolf Among Us
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Overboard!
Murder She Wrote
My Brother Rabbit
Family Mysteries
Enigmatis
Haunted Hotel
Tower Full Of Cats

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Episode 93 - The Ultimate Recommendations Eleganza Extravaganza 2 Sep 23, 2026

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Roses informs Matt about the strangest Mascot of all time before they both get into the next set of recommendations. Roses is confused about Banjo Kazooie and Matt isn't quite sure what a puzzle adventure game is.

Games Mentioned:

Fields of Mistria
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Banjo Kazooie
Psychonauts
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Lair of the Clockwork God
Final Fantasy VII
Tunic
Disco Elysium
Esoteric Ebb
The Quest for Glory Games
Pokemon
Citizen Sleeper 1 & 2
Myst
Blue Prince
Outer Wilds
Call of the Sea
The Room
Little Nightmares
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
The Witness
Creaks
Strange Jigsaws
Limbo
The Room VR
I Expect you to Die
Cube Escape Collection
Is This Game Trying to Kill Me?
Rusty Lake: Roots

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Episode 92 - Ultimate Recommendations Eleganza Extravaganza 1 Sep 16, 2026

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Not only are there so many adventure games out there, there are so many TYPES of adventure games out there! How do you know whether you're looking at a Deduction Game vs a Horror Game? A Puzzle Adventure Game vs an Escape Room Game? A Point and Click Game vs a Text Parser Game? Well, okay, you should probably be able to figure that last one out for yourself... but for everything ELSE, your old pals Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses are here!

In the first of a 3-part series, we not only set straight the different subgenres of "Adventure Game," we also reccomend our favorites of each.

And Matt played Wavetale finally.

Games Mentioned:

WaveTale
Curse of Monkey Island
Nightmare Frames
King's Quest (2015)
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
Dropsy
Unavowed
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
The Crimson Diamond
Colonel's Bequest
Trilby's Notes
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Enclosure
The Seance of Blake Manor
L.A. Noire
Tangle Tower
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
The Forgotten City
Chicken Police
Paradise Killer
Case of the Golden Idol
The Return of the Obra Dinn
Contradiction
The Incident at Galley House
Duck Detective: The Salami Boiz
Chants of Senaarr
Strange Horticulture
Strange Antiquities
Hatoful Boyfriend
No I'm Not A Human
Papers Please
NUTS

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Episode 91 - Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Sep 09, 2026

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Roses is obsessed with Master Chef and Matt can't decide on whether he likes a new indie game or not.

After some failed attempts at negging, Roses and Matt discuss Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father in honor of the beloved Tim Curry, who played the titular character. Rest in Power, Legend.

Games Mentioned:

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster

Toonstruck

Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick

Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity

Celestial Return

Aerial Knight's McFreezy

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within

Gabriel Knight: The Vampire One

Episode 90 - The Mermaid Mask Aug 26, 2026

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Anything can happen, you guys. Even a new episode of Save Your Game! Matt and Roses go back into their detective kits, grab their sidekicks with the cool hair, and dive into an incredible mystery in the new Detective Grimoire game, The Mermaid Mask! Our SECOND amazing game with "mermaid" in the title this year! So we sit in our 2,000-mile-long room and record this incredible episode. Enjoy!

Games Mentioned:

Fields of Mistria
Stardew Valley
Pokopia
Animal Crossing
The Mermaid Mask
Tangle Tower
Detective Grimoire
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Duck Detective

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Episode 89.mp3 Aug 12, 2026

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PushingUpRoses and Special Boy Matt Aukamp overcome clicking bugs and sadness to bring you this absolute grab-bag of an episode! We talk about games! We talk about movies! We talk about palette knives! We answer emails! We rank games!

Come have fun with us in this mp3 file.

Games Mentioned:

The Mermaid Mask
Pokémon Scarlet
Fields of Mistria
Rainbow Billy and the Curse of the Leviathan
The Life and Suffering of Sir Bronte
King's Quest/Space Quest
Jazz & Faust
Dark Coolman
Dark Earth
The Chzos Mythos; Siberia; Grey Matter; Samarost; The Longest Journey; Enclosure; Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator; Apprentice; Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; Danganronpa; The Walking Dead; Firewatch; Broken Age; The Cave; Life is Strange; Braid; World of Goo; Hollow Knight; Shovel Knight
Loom
Crushed in Time
Citizen Sleeper
Gilbert Goodmate and the something of Phungoria
David Slade Mysteries: Case Files
Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required
The Shattering
Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

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Episode 88 - The Incident at Galley House and Letter Lost Jul 29, 2026

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Roses has the vapors over a man who left her life after being yelled at in a pottery studio. After she mourns this loss, she and Matt discuss the fun (but flawed) Letter Lost and the innovative mechanics of The Incident at Galley House

Games Mentioned:

Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
Pokopia
Pokemon Sun/Moon
Buncha Other Pokemon Games
Super Mario Odyssey
Banjo Kazooie
Letter Lost
Forbidden Solitaire
The Roottrees are Dead
Type Help
The Incident at Galley House
The Colonel’s Bequest
Life is Short

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Episode 87 - Letter Lost and Crushed in Time Jul 01, 2026

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We've got for you, dear listeners, a DOUBLE FEATURE! Matt and Roses played a bizarre game about being trapped in a spooky, mysterious post office. AND THEN they played a point and click (and stretch) game about a Sherlock Holmes and Watson actively destroying the game they're starring in.

Also, the malls are closing :(

Games Mentioned:

Gilbert Goodmate
Krabat and the Secret of the Sorbian King
Mina the Hollower
Shovel Knight
Letter Lost
Strange Horticulture/Antiquities
Papers Please
Scratches
Blue Prince
There Is No Game
Crushed in Time

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