406: Children of the Sun

This week on The Short Game, we're toodling around bicycle Valhalla in Wheel World, the open-world cycling game from the developers of Nidhogg. Laura and Shane explore beautiful Italian landscapes, customize bikes, and discuss why this might be the most relaxing racing game we've ...  Show more

In this episode of The Short Game, Nate, Laura, and Shane dive into BALL x PIT, a roguelite block breaker published by Devolver Digital. Recorded a couple of months ago, the episode comes out in time for the release of a free DLC adding new content to the game. The discussion cov ...  Show more

This week's game idea theme is cookies and in that spirit Isaac brings us the aptly named Cookie Shooter! It's a first person shooter... with a cookie theme. Yup. Claire's game is a Battletech-inspired Gingerbread man game! Then we discuss savescumming and building it into gam ...

Claire's idea brings us on an adventure to discover pieces of a secret code to find big treasure!

Isaac's idea has us scavenging a post-apocalyptic wasteland for... laserdiscs? And VHSes! That's right, an alternate history post-apocalypse game where Bloc ...

Quest Questingson conquers all of the continents of Continentia in this foundational strategy game. The king's sceptre has gone missing, and as a result both he and the kingdom itself are falling into ruin. It's up to you to track down all of the villains who conspired to ...  Show more

This week's episode sees us tackling AMC's The Terror, a show about an Arctic expedition that goes wrong in all the most glorious ways. But could this version of events be just one of many possibilities? Is the cruel god toying with the lives of these men just a person doing a mu ...  Show more