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.
Come take a train ride with Matt and Roses and help us solve the murder of Lady Untervald. If only Matt still played adventure games, instead of SGG (Shoot-Gun Games). First, though, some orders of business: We have a surprising TEETH UPDATE. Roses got a new toy! Matt's new favorite game was finally release. And two cool games got release dates. And now, the main event: A retro-styled murder mystery adventure game set on a train that HONESTLY WE SWEAR WE'RE NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE IT GETS SAID ABOUT EVERY POINT-AND-CLICK GAME has major Lucasarts vibes. And, by popular demand, Ranking Every Adventure Game Ever makes its triumphant return. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Blake Stone * Stardew Valley * Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector * Kings Quest V * Cabernet * Rosewater * Loco Motive * Pine Hearts * Orion Burger * Valiant Hearts: The Great War * Puzzles in Motion: Backstreet Boys * Backstreet Boys Save Christmas
Matt and Roses are in a terrible struggle against the new villain of the podcast, but only a little bit. Mostly, we're talking about all the games we're looking forward to in 2025. There's a ton. Also, Roses started making salsa dishes and Matt played a deduction game about a very complicated family tree! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * The Roottrees are Dead * Obsession * The Last Door * Mythargia * Cabernet * Disco Elysium * Mermaid Mask * Foolish Mortals * Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector * Perfect Tides: Station to Station * Rosewater * Old Skies * The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 * The Shapeshifting Detective * Strange Antiquities * Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game * Case of the Golden Idol * The M/S Cornelia II Incident * Pony Island 2: Panda Circus * Inscryption * Baby Steps * Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy * Duck Detective: Ghost of Glamping * Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone * The Drifter * Subnautica 2 * Atomfall * Fields of Mistria
It's our 2024 Wrap-Up episode! We talk about our BEST GAMES OF 2024, including some runners-up and some older games that we played this year and fell in love with. Also, about this intro, all we can say is we're sorry. The views and opinions of Elmo do not represent those of your hosts, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses. We do not endorse Elmo and we're sorry for platforming him in this way. You can read all three of our full Notes App apologies on Hanson Swansen's Xanga page. Hanson Swansen wrote one, too, but we're not sure why. He mostly just uses it to talk about S.E.O. and AI-driven engagement metrics. Games Mentioned: * Nightmare Frames * PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo * Dave the Diver * Strange Horticulture * Disco Elysium * The Last Door * Hobb's Barrow * Dreams in the Witch House * The Abandoned Planet * Lorelei and the Laser Eyes * Tactical Breach Wizards * Is This Game Trying to Kill Me? * INDIKA * The Operator * Lil Guardsman * Death of the Reprobate * Duck Detective: The Secret Salami * Phantom Fellows * Loco Motive * Prim * Crow Country * English Haunting * Thank Goodness You're Here! * Fields of Mistria * Crimson Diamond * Botany Manor * Loco Motive * The Rise of the Golden Idol * 1000xResist * ANIMAL WELL
PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp welcome you into their trans-dimensional Christmas cabin to play a bunch of holiday-themed games with them and their amazing guests. We play a cat game with Crimson Diamond's Julia Minamata! We play an obnoxious boy game with Alasdair Beckett-King. We play a creepy depressing game with Francisco "Grundislav" Gonzalez. And wrap it all up by playing a demon game with Party of One's Jeff Stormer. There's also talk of nog, window-jumping, wassail, and much much more fun! Happy Holidays, everyone! We hope you had fun and enjoyed this extra-long episode and we'll be back early 2025! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Julia: https://www.juliaminamata.com/ Alasdair: https://www.abeckettking.com/ Francisco: https://www.grundislav.games/ Jeff: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/ Games Mentioned: * Christmas Nightmare * Lonely Christmas * Crimson Diamond * Milo and the Christmas Gift * Milo and the Magpies * Watch Over Christmas * Scribblenauts * Rosewater * Last Christmas * Still Life
This week, we're playing a game that made us so angry, we had to yell about it. And to do this, we brought in the internet's best angry yeller: Pearlmania500. Comedian Alex Pearlman hangs out to tell us a bit about politic and then the 1994 "edutainment" game Wrath of the Gods. Matt talks a bit about Loco Motive, Roses talks a bit about Kings Quest 8, and we rank a few adventure games. Pearlmania500 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/pearlmania500 Wrath of the Gods: https://www.wrathgame.com/ Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * · Stardew Valley * · Minecraft * · Skyrim * · Outer Worlds * · Vampire Survivors * · Kings Quest VII * · Hoyle Card Games * · Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? * · Oregon Trail * · Loco Motive * · Wrath of the Gods * · Legend of Zelda * · Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator – Case 1: In Search of the Skunk Ape * · Tangle Tower * · Madness of the Architect * · Lifeless Moon * · Secret Doctrine
We've got a high-energy, Smirnoff Ice-fueled shorter episode here for you to kick off the month of December. There is some good news and bad news about the December schedule you won't want to miss. Roses played a terrible mobile game out of spite. Matt played a rad PS1 throwback game. Then, we get some really good rolls on the Ranking segment. * Games Mentioned: * Virgin River the Mobile Game * Crow Country * Spider-Man: Miles Morales * Curse of Monkey Island * Prim * Escape from Monkey Island * The Dark Crystal * The Cat Lady * Erica
Happy American Thanksgiving, everyone! This is absolutely our yuckiest, most disturbing intro ever. And in the last episode, we talked about piss-proof toilet decals! And we are thankful you let us into your lives with this filth. This week Matt and Roses talk about two of the best Storiented™ mystery-puzzle games ever made, Case of the Golden Idol and Rise of the Golden Idol, by Color Gray Games. We use our ancient, magical artifacts (microphones) to find all the words and put them in the exact right order and make this podcast for your ears to listen to. Then we continue ranking every adventure game ever and try very hard to forget that we ever came up with a movie called Yucky Princess Swap. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned (*BRIEFLY): * Case of the Golden Idol * Rise of the Golden Idol * Crypt Custodian* * Tactical Breach Wizard* * Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus* * Chicken Police: Into the Hive* * Crow Country* * Arco* * Nine Sols* * Loco Motive* * The Journey Down * Grim Fandango * The Sexy Brutale * Myst * Return of the Obra Dinn * Duck Detective: The Secret Salami * The Slaughter: Act One * SSTR * Dallas Quest * The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles * Long Count * Missing Since January * Chants of Sennaar
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
Riccardo Leone
Having a game that remembers your choices even if you reload the save file sounds like toxic gamer bro mentality about savescums
Riccardo Leone
I guess you got confused with Spyro when it comes to almost-mascots of the PSX hard to control. Crash was simple to control. Its problems whre the camera too zoomed in on the character so you could never see a surprise hazard because it was out of sight, and evaluating the actual position during a jump. But I get the point