Uh oh, everyone. We're BACK! And we have a pretty strange episode for you all. You'll just have to hear what happened for yourself. Matt also finished Clair Obscur, and Roses finished her move and little clay worm, so… We talk about that. Regardless, wish Matt luck on his last week of college and wish Roses luck on her vacating the black mold from her lungs. Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Instagram: @saveyourgamepodcast Games Mentioned: * Fall Guys * Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 * The Abyssal Zone * The Abyssal Zone * Chop Suey * Magnus Imago * The Suicide of Rachel Foster * Corpse Party: Book of Shadows * Lunar Axe * Sleuthhounds: The Halloween Deception * Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower * Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy * The Room VR: A Dark Matter

There's an important moment in every podcast's life where they finally have to broach that inevitable conversation… The chomping/champing at the bit conversation. And Matt and Roses finally get there as Matt discusses his favorite new French RPG, CLAIR OBSCUR. Then the gang discuss a hilarious, cozy new detective game DUCK DETECTIVE: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Blue Prince * Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 * Chrono Trigger * Thank Goodness You're Here * Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping * Duck Detective: The Secret Salami * Rosewater * Expelled! * Neon Hearts City * Near-Mage * Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer * Rue Valley * Strange Antiquities * The Mermaid Mask * Foolish Mortals * Perfect Tides: Station to Station * Greenhearth Necromancer

Matt's been digging into some old RPGs on his Retroid Pocket, but this pales in comparison to PushingUpRoses' excitement for a CHICAGO POPE! Also, we do a deep dive into Wadjet Eye's new epic point-and-click adventure OLD SKIES, which somehow devolves into a long discussion of cake. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess * Chrono Trigger * X-Men: Legends * Old Skies * Wanderstop

Oh, what? They're talking about Zelda AGAIN!? Yes. And if you listened to the last episode, you'd know that. Stop playing dumb. We left you with half of the Zelda's to go and in this ep, we finish 'em off.  Plus, Roses and Matt both played games by former guests of the show. Matt played some of the new* Indiana Jones. And a game that falls short of its demo? Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned * Old Skies * Rosewater * Blue Prince * Indiana Jones and the Great Circle  * Deck of Haunts * Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping * Final Fantasy VIII * Zelda: Four Swords Adventures * Zelda: The Minish Cap * Zelda: Twilight Princess * Zelda: Phantom Hourglass * Zelda: Spirit Tracks * Zelda: Skyward Sword * Zelda: A Link Between Worlds * Zelda: Breath of the Wilds * Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Zelda is the story of a little blonde elf boy named Zelda who go on adventure and kill a big green pig man to save the princess who is named Princess. Join us as we, Zeldo expert, talk about the boy Zeldo and his big mighty sword and all the Princess he save with him boom-o-rang. Join us as we seek the Triforce and scour some dungeons with our main man Tingle I mean Zelbo I mean Zelda. PLUS: Roses is back from Mexico! Matt, your next Pope(??), played a weird game about pimping out mascots. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * "Christ Fighter" * Bibleman * Promise Mascot Agency * Blue Prince * The Legend of Zelda * Zelda II: The Adventures of Link * A Link to the Past * Link's Awakening * Ocarina of Time * Majora's Mask * Oracle of Seasons* * Oracle of Ages* * Four Swords* * Wind Waker

On this podcast, we're not afraid to venture the bravest, boldest opinions. The opinions THEY don't want you to hear. Opinions like: Myst should have a jump button. A LOT of Chicago talk in this one, because Roses had a birthday and Matt went out to celebrate. We talk about pizza, Malort, a weird collectibles store... you know, Chicago stuff! But the TRUE STAR of this episode is our now-infamous list of EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER where we pull games up at random and rank them whether we've played them or not! In this episode, we reach 100 games! Enjoy and feel free to email us to argue if we get something wrong! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned - Look, it's way too many to list, so this time? I'm just gonna list the three we talk about that don't have to do with our ranking list: * Myst * Blue Prince * Rosewater

Listen, the first 15 minutes of this podcast are about hair. We understand the inconvenience this may cause you. You expect a certain level of non-hair content from us, and we have failed to fulfill this responsibility. We will take accountability and reflect on our actions (and our hair) and, while we cannot promise that we won't do it again, we can promise that we had fun when we did it. In addition to this, Matt has more to say about Blue Prince, and both hosts have more to say about Wanderstop. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Myst * Blue Prince * Animal Well * Wanderstop * Stardew Valley

A very sleepy Matt and a very inspired PushingUpRoses welcome an incredible guest onto the show to talk about one of the weirder games we've ever played. Musician, video producer and hella talented dude Neil Cicierega is on the show to talk about playing adventure games as 90's kid -- your dad bringing home shareware adventure games to install on your Windows 3.1 PC and the entire family puzzling over it over weeks, months, and years -- and how to pass that experience on to your kids. We also do a surprisingly DEEP dive into a bizarre 1993 game Cliff Bleszinski designed in Visual Basic when he was 17, called Dare to Dream. It goes... places. Like literal Hell. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * King Quest VI * Icon Architect 1.0 * Dare to Dream * Hugo's House of Horrors * Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist * There Is No Game * Unforeseen Incidents * Day of the Tentacle * The Dig * Wanderstop * Blue Prince * Palace of Deceit * Jazz Jackrabbit * Curse of Monkey Island * Monster Breeder

This week, Matt and Roses are joined by the first developer we ever talked about on this show, MEREDITH GRAN, the creative force behind Perfect Tides and the upcoming Perfect Tides: Station to Station. We take some time to discuss our feet before discussing art, nostalgia, and the creative decisions by – let's face it – one of our favorite frickin' games. Then, we spend a LOT of time talking about a game that is FAR from our favorite: Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist. And we're sorry*. *we aren't Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Perfect Tides * Perfect Tides: Station to Station * The Dig * Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

It's been a wild (sic) since we've done a Q & A, so we address topics like our favorite references in games, games that we liked as kids but disliked as adults, Roses' favorite Carmen Sandiego, and what franchises we'd like to see as adventure games! But first, we talk about our thoughts on Wanderstop, which is an incredibly unique and interesting game. And Matt drinks a lot of tea. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Fields of Mistria * Wanderstop * Hugo's House of Horrors * Conker's Bad Fur Day * Spyro the Dragon * Sonic the Hedgehog * Grim Fandango * Curse of Monkey Island * Dreams in the Witch House * Callahan's Crosstime Saloon * Discworld * Batman: Arkham Asylum * Spider-Man * Marvel Midnight Suns * The Abbey of Crime * The Abbey * Daria's Inferno * An English Haunting * Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? * Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? * Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? * Excavation of Hob's Barrow * Scarlet Hollow * Backfirewall * Smile for Me * Roadwarden * Legend of Kyrandia II: Hand of Fate * UFO 50 * Indiana Jones and the Great Circle * Atomfall * Avowed * Wayward Strand * Torin's Passage * Star Trek adventure games * Heaven's Vault * Blazing Dragons * Pentiment * Hypnospace Outlaw * Kentucky Route Zero * Silent Hill 2 * Cat Café Manager

R. Floppy K., Jr. can't keep Matt and PushingUpRoses down. These two are gonna push through all the colds, the tiny guacabowli bowls, the loneliness, and the fork-and-knife taco crowd to play some Next Fest Demos! We warmed you up last week, but this week we dive FULLY IN to some cool demos. But first, we have a long talk about player choice in games and the merits of seeing "everything" in a game, all because Matt misses his ancient robot. Plus, Matt is sick and WILL HE SURVIVE TIL THE END OF THE EPISODE?! Listen to find out! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Night Trap * Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer * Rise of the Golden Idols: The Sins of New Wells * Heaven's Vault * Fran Bow * The Alpinist * Deck of Haunts * Do No Harm * Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping * Return of the Obra Dinn * Promise Mascot Agency * Deliver At All Costs * Wanderstop * Isle of Reveries * Blue Prince * Disney Dreamlight Valley * Elroy and the Aliens * Orion Burger * Brassheart * Dr. Priori's Time Escape * INAYAH: Life After Gods * Little Problems Communal Actions: * Amazon      Boycott March 7-14. * Nestle      Boycott March 21-28. * Walmart      Boycott April 7-14 * Economic      Blackout 2 April 18

You know him, you love him; The one and only Dave Gilbert is on the show this week to talk about our relationships to gaming as we all get older. Is nostalgia inherently good or bad? Is ET for Atari as artistic a feat as Perfect Tides? We get really really deep into it. Also, Roses and Matt each played a few Next Fext demos (maybe more to come next week?) and Dave Gilbert played Obsidian's answer to Unavowed, Avowed! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Old Skies * Avowed * Unavowed * Indiana Jones and the Great Circle * Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping * Do No Harm * The Alpinist * Getting Over It w/ Bennett Foddy * Deck of Haunts * Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer * Horizon Zero Dawn * Assassin's Creed: Oddysey/Valhalla * Sonic the Hedgehog * Curse of Monkey Island * Blackwell series * Perfect Tides * Dragon's Dogma II * Citizen Sleeper * Cloudpunk * Quest for Glory series * Knights of the Old Republic * Hypnospace Outlaw * Crow Country * Sanitarium Communal Actions: * Amazon Boycott March 7-14. * Nestle Boycott March 21-28. * Walmart Boycott April 7-14

Look, you all knew this was coming eventually. Matt put it off as long as he possibly could, but the time has finally arrived. Despite it having practically every element that PushingUpRoses hates in adventure games, we play one of her favorites of all time: Sanitarium! Roses is still playing Cabernet, trying to get the good ending. Matt is Playing Heaven's Vault and it's incredible. And the less said about the intro, the better. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Cabernet * The Crimson Diamond * Heaven's Vault * Overboard! * Sanitarium * Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier * Ninja Gaiden Economic Blackout Day is Friday, February 28th. Don't buy anything! Amazon Boycott March 7-14. Nestle Boycott March 21-28.

Roses and Matt roll up their characters and embark on an adventure, avoiding Killer Tomatoes and sadistic oral surgeons, leveling up their scratching skills with Itch Simulator VR 4000, and making their way to becoming full-fledged blood-drinking vampires! This week, we discuss the new vampire game Cabernet, an adventure/RPG hybrid in which you live two months as a vampire in a small eastern European town in the 1800's. We review the game and talk about the differences in our playthroughs. Then, we discuss the intersection between RPGs and Adventure Games, and what makes a game lean more heavily to either side. Also, we rank some adventure games we've never heard of and wonder what the word "Cabernet" means. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: * Cabernet * Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector * Final Fantasies 1-8 * Flat Stanley RPG * RPG Maker VX 8 * Stardew Valley * Heaven's Vault * I Was A Teenage Exocolonist * Disco Elysium * The Thaumaturge * Planescape: Torment * Grim Fandango * Itch Simulator VR 4000 * Skyrim * Morrowind * Fallout: New Vegas * Through Abandoned: The Underground City * Super Jazz Man * Apprentice * Enola

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