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There are a lot of great games out there. Want to play a lot of them?

On The Short Game, we celebrate great game storytelling and craft, in games that you can play in an afternoon or three. From brief but brilliant indie games to thrilling but manageable triple-A games, these are great games that respect your time.
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444: Deltarune Chapter 4

444: Deltarune Chapter 4

2025-09-1501:17:32

After a somewhat unplanned summer break, the Short Game crew is returning to talk about the fourth chapter of Deltarune!
The Steam Deck is the number one console(ish) platform for playing ILLEGAL GAMES that Nintendo doesn’t want you to play! This week we’re talking about games that STEAL intellectual property from the RICH FAT CATS...
Toby Fox is back, and it’s TV TIME! Previously:
441: ENA: Dream BBQ

441: ENA: Dream BBQ

2025-06-1154:39

From the depths of Steam and YouTube comes ENA, a strange polygonal girl in a surreal hypercapitalist dreamscape. Your hosts were left wondering what the hell this was all about, and why is it so...
440: Skin Deep

440: Skin Deep

2025-05-3001:01:28

Indie game royalty Blendo aka Brendan Chung, creator of Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy among others has come out of his cicada-like 7 year dev cycle with another instant classic. Skin Deep is...
439: Despelote

439: Despelote

2025-05-1754:08

A video game memoir by Ecuadorian indie developers Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, and published by Panic, Despelote takes you back to a childhood in 2001 Ecuador, and the magical grip soccer held over the...
We’re talking about Many Nights a Whisper, a short, meditative archery (kinda!) game from Red Strings Club developer Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour. The Dreamer has prepared their entire life for one impossible shot that will...
437: Expelled! Spoilers!

437: Expelled! Spoilers!

2025-04-1101:08:21

We spent this week playing a bit more of Inkle’s follow up to Overboard!, and made some shocking discoveries!
436: Trash the Planet

436: Trash the Planet

2025-04-0146:58

This week, Laura and Nate dive into Trash the Planet, a free, browser-based resource-management game that subverts clicker mechanics to serve its narrative. You play as a group of raccoons who start out collecting trash...
435: FlyKnight

435: FlyKnight

2025-03-2601:03:13

Shane and Nate were buzzing about FlyKnight, a $5 indie dungeon crawler that surprised us with its humor and depth. In this episode, we break down what makes this tiny first-person RPG so fun, from...
Expelled! is the latest game from all-star narrative design studio Inkle. It’s a follow up to our 2021 Game of the Year winner Overboard!, and it builds on that game’s strengths in every conceivable area....
Steam Next Fest just concluded and the Short Game team searched through the mountain of demos to discuss some of the most exciting games with short game energy coming out this year. 00:00 Intro04:09 WYRMHALL: Brush...
All four co-hosts are present and accounted for as we talk about ultra-short platformer, Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It’s right there in the name! Sheepy is a FREE game on Steam and itch.io, and it’ll...
431: Fight’N Rage

431: Fight’N Rage

2025-02-0356:28

Rats with Knives! It’s time to finally talk about Fight’N Rage! This has been on the back burner for a while; it was first suggested to us nearly 4 years ago as a modern, mechanically...
430: Steam Deck Chat

430: Steam Deck Chat

2025-01-2701:17:23

This week we are welcoming long time friend of the show Jason McIntosh (aka Jmac, aka Halstrick) who’s joining us to talk about the Valve Steam Deck. It’s been about three years since the Steam...
429: Grunn

429: Grunn

2025-01-2059:41

How has it taken us ten years to get around to covering a Sokpop game? The venerable but very weird indie collective has put out a fascinating perfectly normal gardening game.  Ahem. OK fine, Grunn is a...
🎶️ I’M ON ANOTHER… ON ANOTHER LEVEL 🎶️ This week we are talking about the retro-inspired, Ska-infused rally car racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Race through the most iconic parking structures of the US! It’s...
427: Game of the Year 2024

427: Game of the Year 2024

2024-12-1601:10:04

It’s Game of the Year time again! This week we’re looking back at 2024 to pick the best short video game of the year, and recognize some other great games as well. 00:00 Intro04:52 Game...
426: Game Mixology

426: Game Mixology

2024-12-0254:59

This Thanksgiving week the hosts gathered to play a bit of a game, trying to match short games to randomly chosen genres and adjectives. What’s a David Lynchian Platformer, or an “I Want To Go...
425: Neva

425: Neva

2024-11-1901:09:19

Press Y to Neva There’s a certain sector of our listenership that loves it when we talk about games that don’t work for us. If that’s you, then please enjoy our discussion of Neva, the latest...
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