Save Your Game

So. We had already decided we were going to spend the entire episode ranking Adventure Games – many of which, we've never played – but then, we decided to start out by talking about piss for 15 minutes. Matt and Roses bring a bizarre, chaotic energy and a true EXPERTISE on Adventure Games to this ALL-RANKING episode! Plus, we talk about some games we've been playing and some newly released games! Please don't give this one The Flush ™ TOILET DECALS COMING SOON (or not. idfk) Email us mattandroses@gmail.com PFLAG Resources: https://pflag.org/find-resources/ Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860 LGBT National Hotline: 1-888-843-4564 Games Mentioned: * Death of the Reprobate * Chicken Police: Into the Hive * Rise of the Golden Idol * Mythargia * The Abandoned Planet * Another World * Myst * Blasphemous 2: Mea Culpa DLC * Case of the Golden Idol * Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening * We Were Here Forever * Cosmonavtes: Escape Reality * Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne * The Crystal Key * Embracelet * To The Moon * Baker Street Breakout: A Sherlockian Escape Adventure * Ankh: Heart of Osiris * The Slaughter * Mission: Critical * The Pawn * Five Magical Amulets * James Peris: The Fountain of Eternal Drunkenness * Lily Looking Through * Limbo of the Lost * Doctor DuMont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. * Portal 2

Hey everyone, we're not doing an episode this week, so we just thought we'd throw you a quick episode to tell you how we're not doing an episode. So, sorry there is no episode, but here's an episode about that. And, while we were here, we thought, to apologize for not having an episode, we'd answer a few listener questions. In conclusion, there is no episode. So here is your episode about how there is, in fact, not an episode this week. Episode.

This episode was recorded on November 5th… Yeah. There's a manic, ignoring-the-news energy to this episode where we take your listener questions! We also talk about Joe Richardson's new game Death of the Reprobate and talk to our guest expert Joshua Cleveland of Adventure Game Hotspot about the requirements for "adventure game" status. Visit www.adventuregamehotspot.com Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Death of the Reprobate * Eyeland * Blackwell series * Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? * Eagle Eye Mysteries * Eagle Eye Mysteries in London * Math Blaster * Grim Fandango * Dagger of Amon Ra * Return of the Obra Dinn * The Room VR * Mechanica Museum * The Adventures of Fatman * The Excavation of Hobb's Barrow * The Plague Doctor of Wippra * Mystery House * Kings Quest I * Doom * Duke Nukem * Wolfenstein 3D * Uncharted series * Legend of Zelda * Portal * L.A. Noire * Deponia series * Root Bear * Stardew Valley * Lorelei and the Laser Eyes * The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo * The Darkside Detective * Lydia * Isles of Sea and Sky * Box Boy * Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure * Tactical Breach Wizards * Silent Hill 2 remake * Cat Café Manager * Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge * The Demon's Forge * Normality * Muppet Treasure Island * Discworld Noir * The Hex * Inscryption * Pony Island * Heroine's Quest * Quest for Infamy * A Tale of Two Kingdoms * Murders on the Yangtze River * Ripper * Panic in the Park * Blasphemous * Toejam & Earl - Back in the Groove * Gobliiins * The Prophecy (aka Ween: The Prophecy) * Capsule Silence XXIV * Bad Day on the Midway * Ghost Trick * The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav * The Dark Eye - Memoria

IT'S THE LAST EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH! We hope you all have a great Halloween. To help you one last time with your spooky mood, we talk about the SCARIEST GAMES WE'VE EVER PLAYED. WOOOOOO. And we talk about the new gothic point-and-click adventure game Prim. We love Deep Plots(TM). Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @SaveYourGamePodcast Games mentioned (some of them for only like a second, though): * Case of the Golden Idol * Rise of the Golden Idol * AI: The Somnium Files * Huniepop * Prim * Curse of Monkey Island * Chzos Mythos (Trilby Series) * Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth * The Last Door * Sanitarium * Phantasmagoria * Gabriel Knight and the Sins of the Father * Scratches * Phantom of the Opera * Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo * At Dead of Night * Slender: All Eight Pages * Dreams in the Witch House * 7th Guest/11th Hour * Myst * Dagger of Amon Ra * Indika * Nightmare Frames * An English Haunting * Burnhouse Lane * Lorelei * The Cat Lady * A Hand With Many Fingers * Hans Christian Anderson: The Ugly Prince Duckling * Mazovian Adventures * Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None * Related: Chapter One – Everything is back * Lamplight City

TEETH UPDATE! For the teeth enthusiasts and teeth curious, we unveil a brand new chapter in the PushingUpRoses Teeth Saga ™. Roses discovered a detective game that Matt's been telling her about since day one and Matt played some demos! Then, we dig deep into a world of horror, mystery, intrigue, and Japanese folklore in the Japanese ADV game Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. We have A LOT to say about this one, folks. So much in fact, that we skip our ranking segment this ep. Sorry everyone, but this game left us feeling inspired, frustrated, enamored, curious, and ready to pontificate like mad. Follow us on Instagram @SaveYourGamePodcast [https://www.instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast/] Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Bowl of Lentils - The Origins of Visual Novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOtv-J7tOI The Seven Wonders of Honjo: https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/01/02/the-seven-wonders-of-honjo/ Games Mentioned: * Rise of the Golden Idol * Loco Motive * Proverbs  * The Haunting of Joni Evers * The Suicide of Rachel Foster * The Fading of Nicole Wilson * What Remains of Edith Finch * The Vanishing of Ethan Carter * Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector * Disco Elysium * Cabernet * Fields of Mistria * Hatoful Boyfriend * Huniepop * Danganronpa * Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney * Mystery House * Deja Vu * Final Fantasy * Paranormansight: The 13 Ghosts of Florida State University * (Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo)

The first episode of the brand-new medical/dental advice podcast: Save Your Teeth! Call your Endodontist. Eat your allergy medicine. And don't tell anyone we exist! The spookiest thing about this installment of spooky month is that we played these games at all. Matt and Roses review the Hugo's House of Horror trilogy and a 1990's 3D shoot 'em up??? Also we talk about Phantom Fellows, some random 1990's platform games, have a quick PlayDate with Matt, and some cool games pop up on our REVIEW EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment! Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * The Phantom Fellows * Mythargia * Death's Door * Tunic * The Simorgh * The Hugo's House of Horrors Trilogy * Skunny: Save Our Pizzas (????) * Jazz Jackrabbit * Halloween Harry * Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures * Commander Keen * Maniac Mansion * Nitemare 3D * Blakestone 3-D * Castle Wolfenstein 3-D * The Will of Arthur Flabbington * Blackwell Chronicles * Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy * Lost Forest * The Last Door: Season One * Sentient * Ann Achronist: Many Happy Returns

Spooky Month takes a turn for the sad as we tackle a game about trauma, growing up, mental illness, and murder. Matt and Roses do a deep dive into Fran Bow. We also talk about some upcoming episodes and... a BOOK?! What are we, frickin nerds? Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Phantom Fellows * Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo * The Ghost Stories of M.R. James (A BOOK, NOT A GAME) * Fran Bow * Banjo Kazooey * Moons of Madness * Dreamfall Chapters * The Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny * Mystery of the Nautilus * Phantasmagoria

Guess what folks? The season of spookiness is upon us, and your spooky queen PushingUpRoses reins it in with Matt Aukamp, the real-life inspiration for Jack Skellington and their terrifying guest, Paul Korman – The Phantom Fellow himself. Paul talks to us about his newly-released game The Phantom Fellows (available on Steam  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1581490/The_Phantom_Fellows/and GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_phantom_fellows) and other various things about adventure games in general. Then, we dive into the spooky-adjacent classic Sierra adventure Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella Plus, PlayDate with Matt and ranking every adventure game ever! Absconded. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Uno * Devil's Hideout * The Heist of the Argonaut Limited * Post Hero * Bloom * SIMULACRA * Tender: Creature Comforts * Fields of Mistria * The Phantom Fellows * Strange Horticulture * King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella * Miasmata * Violett * Free D.C.! * And Then There Were None * Clam Man

Paris in the fall holds many memories for Matt and Roses. Memories of pushing their "woke" propaganda. Memories of pickles and olives. Before we do our DEEP DIVE into the classic GRAND ADVENTURE from Revolution Software, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, we talk about our new Stardew-like obsession with Fields of Mistria. Who is your new romance? Marsh? Celine? Well don't touch!! Because they're ours. And then, go f*** your selfie, because Matt has some more to say about Life is Strange. Then, we add 5 games to the ranked list of every adventure game ever. (Also, we learn some important and not at all silly things about Dark Grim Mariupolis. If anyone has any info, btw, let us know. https://donate.khpg.org/en/ ) Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Fields of Mistria * Life is Strange * Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Circle of Blood) * Beneath a Steel Sky * Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers * Cube Escape: The Lake * Midnight Girl  * The 7th Guest (ew) * Dark Grim Mariupolis * Randal's Monday  * The Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit's Eye

Welcome in! PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp take your recommendations seriously! And they prove it by playing four of them and reviewing them in this episode: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, The Journey Down, Voodoo Detective, and Life is Strange. We also bring back some SPECIAL GUESTS for our RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment. Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Muppets: Chaos at the Carnival or something * Fallout: New Vegas * The Abandoned Planet * Myst * Mars After Midnight * Pulpergeist * There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension * The Journey Down * The Dream Machine * Grim Fandango * Voodoo Detective * Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father * Curse of Monkey Island * Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars * The Slaughter: Act One * Life is Strange * Codename: ICEMAN * Deponia: Doomsday * Wavetale * A Whisper in the Twilight: Ch. 1 * Ben There Dan That * Astronomica: The Quest for the Edge of the Universe

We're not here to fuck spiders, we're here to talk about Adventure Games with our brilliant and charming friends Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and the upcoming Rise of the Golden Idol! We talk about nostalgia and the way it colors – or does not color – our views of games, and just goof the hell around. So, I guess we were here to fuck spiders, after all. Find Escape This Podcast and Solve This Murder at https://www.consumethismedia.com/ The episode with Roses and Matt is here: https://www.escapethispodcast.com/e/big-top-trouble-ft-save-your-game/ Wishlist Rise of the Golden Idol on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/The_Rise_of_the_Golden_Idol/ And finally, email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree * Horizon Forbidden West * Crusader Kings * Tunic * Death's Door * Animal Well * Nancy Drew series * Rise of the Golden Idol * Case of the Golden Idol * A Case of Mistrust * Little Witch in the Woods * Final Fantasy VIII, VI, VII, X * Fields of Mistria * Stardew Valley * Myst * Riven * Grim Fandango * Sam & Max Hit the Road * Kings Quest VII * The Realm Online * Quest 64 * Quest for Glory I * Granny's Garden * Tex Murphy: Mean Streets * Pokemon Gold & Silver * 7th Guest VR * 11th Hour * The 13th Doll * Kessen II * CLUE * Murderous Muses * Telling Lies * The Infections Madness of Doctor Dekker * Science Sleuths Vol. 1 * Déjà Vu * Normality

This week we talk about a spooky cozy casual mystery plant game called Strange Horticulture that rules. Also, Matt raves about Fallout: New Vegas, Roses has a stylish mystery game to talk about and we rank a bunch of adventure games, ridiculously. Email us!  mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * A Case of Mistrust * Fallout: New Vegas * Zelda: Breath of the Wild * Strange Horticulture * Botany Manor * Assemble With Care * Unpacking * Return to the Obra Dinn * Case of the Golden Idol * Papers, Please * In Other Waters * Dredge * Strange Antiquities * Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7: The Cardinal Sins * Batman: Partners in Peril * Amnesia: Rebirth * Portal * Again

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk about dialogue trees in adventure games; What makes them good? What makes them bad? Do you skip them? Matt says some stuff that's likely to get him cancelled by Sierra-heads. Plus, PlayDate with Matt and RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER. We don't know. Whatever makes sense. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * The Crimson Diamond * King's Quest IV * Fallout: New Vegas * The Keyper * Mars After Midnight * Papers, Please * Grim Fandango * Disco Elysium * The Curse of Monkey Island * Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis * Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack * The Dagger of Amon Ra * Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town * The Adventures of the Black Hawk * Legend of Skye * King's Quest V and VI * Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers * Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars * Danganronpa series * Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series * Hatoful Boyfriend * HuniePop * Murder, She Wrote (The Game!) * Dark Grim Mariupolis * Byzantine: The Betrayal * Minecraft: Story Mode

Stay hydrated, everyone! No matter the cost.  Matt and Roses talk about their favorite non-adventure games, plus PlayDate with Matt!, ranking every adventure game ever, and other silliness. Matt also pitches a weird game idea he had about Machiavelli and he's sorry (but also don't steal it!) Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * The Crimson Diamond * Lamplight City * ToeJam & Earl * Life's Too Short * Life's Too Short: On Reflection * Tetris * Banjo Kazooey * Dr. Mario * Wave Race * Jet Moto * Sonic the Hedgehog 2 * Warcraft 2 * Stardew Valley * Civilization (V & II) * Lords of the Realm II * Final Fantasy (V, VI, VII & VIII) * Pokemon (entire series) * Clock Tower * Skyrim * Morrowind * Hollow Knight * Ori & the Will o' the Wisps and the Blind Forest, too * Yoku's Island Express * Lone Fungus * Unbound: Worlds Apart * Monster Sanctuary * Graveyard Keeper * Animal Crossing: New Horizons * Terraria * Dreams in the Witch House * Quest for Glory (entire series) * Mortal Kombat * Fallout: New Vegas * Legend of Hand * Scratches * Blue Force * Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller * Elena: Displaced Reality

Hey everyone, we're so sorry about the two-week break, but we're back with ENERGY! Matt has two new segments to present. One that's very normal, and one that's utterly bizarre. Roses went to England and played some arcade games. Matt went to the Adventure Game Fan Fair and we talk about a bunch of demos. The rest, you're just gonna have to hear for yourself. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Die Hard: The Arcade Game * "Dynamo Cops or something" * Mario Kart * House of the Dead * Typing of the Dead * Track and Field * ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron * Mortal Kombat II * Tapper * Baby Pac-Man * Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures * Mario Party * Super Mario World * Lamplight City * Casual Birder * Resonant Tale * The Crimson Diamond * Heir of the Dog * Home: A Story of Light * Phantom Fellows * War of the Western Deep * President Rocket * Fogtown * Quest for Glory V * Liesure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards * Freddy Pharkus: Frontier Pharmacist * The Fan * Carol Reed: Amos Green's Final Repose * Fran Bow * Weird: Truth is Stranger than Fiction * Krabat and the Sorbian King * Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin * Dust: A Tale of the Wired West

IT'S BAKING TIME! Matt makes bad cookies and then Roses and Matt plan some really cool Stardew-themed Macarons. We briefly revisit the Detective Grimoire series and talk about Rise of the Golden Idol. Then we do a deep-dive into a game that captured the hell out of our imaginations: Dreams in the Witch House! PLUS A RETURN OF A BELOVED SEGMENT!!! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Tangle Tower * Detective Grimoire (THE ORIGINAL FLASH GAME) * Rise of the Golden Idol * Quest For Glory * Dreams in the Witch House * The Dunwich Horror (Upcoming Sequel)

Lets talk about guinea pigs for a while then too many Lorelais before we DEEP DIVE into TANGLE TOWER - a fun mystery game! And we talk about its predecessor Detective Grimoire and the demo for the third game in the series, The Mermaid Mask. It's, honestly?, just a good episode. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Lorelai * Lorelei and the Laser Eyes * Detective Grimoire * The Mermaid Mask * Tangle Tower * The Dagger of Amon Ra * Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney * Callahan's Crosstime Saloon * The Duck Detective

Roses has new teeth and can't eat no potatoes, but she DID learn about a lot of games with an overwhelming number of cats. We take your questions about achievements, non-adventure game mechanics, console gaming, genre distinctions, Andrew Plotkin's Cruelty Scale, and much more! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Lorelei and the Laser Eyes * A Castle Full of Cats (and the others in the series) * The Blue Cat * Tunic * Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers/The Beast Within * Dropsy * Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra * Riven * Warcraft Adventure Game * Hive Swap * The Tex Murphy Series * Arcane: Online Mystery Serial * Disco Elysium * Monkey Island II * Harvester * A Space for the Unbound * Zelda (just a bunch of em) * Brok the Invesigator * Lair of the Clockwork God * Bulb Boy * Clock Tower * The Neverhood * Soma * Banjo Kazooie * Mario 64 * Scooby Doo (Genesis) * Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom * Deja Vu * Cosmic Spacehead * A Boy and his Blob * ToeJam & Earl * Quest For Glory * Space Quest III

Healthcare! World Hunger! Capitalism! Unfinished Games! Get ready for some R-A-N-T-S! "Aw, Man..." coming soon to NBC Also, we talk about Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra for an hour. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned:  * A Space for the Unbound * Stardew Valley * The Haunted Chocolatier * Lorelai * Lorelei and the Laser Eyes * Journeyman Project * The Sexy Brutale * Mystery House * The Colonel's Bequest * The Dagger of Amon Ra

After a week off, Matt and Roses are back fresh as... roses, I guess. After the contractually obligated Stardew Valley talk, we discuss four of YOUR AUDIENCE RECCOMENDATIONS! A Space for the Unbound, The Invincible, The Journeyman Project, and The Cat Lady! This leads to a deep discussion of the entire Harvester Games catalogue. YOUR TAKEAWAYS: 1) If you recommend us a game, guess which one of us it will appeal to more!  2) Email us your opinions on Harvester Games games.  3) Games: They're not just Pac-Man anymore. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Stardew Valley * Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney * The Excavation of Hob's Barrow * A Space for the Unbound * Persona series * The Invincible * Firewatch * The Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time * The Journeyman Project: Project Pegasus * The Cat Lady * Downfall * Burnhouse Lane * Lorelai * The Dagger of Amon Ra * Pac-Man