Off the Shelf is an interview format where we bring a guest on the show to talk about the following scenario: “Imagine you have a library full of books that represent to you the greatest video game narratives. If I were to pull 5 books at random off of those shelves, what would I find? How did each book earn a spot on your shelf?”

This week, I was joined by Rick from the Pixel Project Radio podcast. Below you will find the linktree for that show.

Pixel Project Radio Linktree

The discussion of each game contains spoilers, so please refer to the timestamps below to avoid those as needed.

(00:00 ) Introduction & Spoiler Policy

(06:51 ) Disco Elysium

(24:21 ) Lisa the Painful

(35:20 ) Outer Wilds

(50:39 ) Xenosaga

(01:05:41 ) Pentiment

(01:21:14 ) Closing Comments

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