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With the recent news of a new Monkey Island sequel from the original creator, Ron Gilbert, Ben and Trevor delve into the world of adventure games for every game this week.

• Escape from an alien zoo, with the help of your trusty Hills Hoist crank
• Drive passengers to their destinations and learn a little about their lives.
• A modern retro game set in an 80's mall, built around an alien spaceship.

Reviews galore this week as Ben and Trevor reflect on some new games they've played this week, including:

Revenge of the Spatula;

Grimy Mountain Climber Wars;

Scooby Doo and the Burger From Hell;

College Karate Chronicles;

and more!

Ben and Trev continue in their series of game reviews with more undiscovered gems such as:

• Excruciating Pinball Underground
• Mupppet Dungeon: Limited Edition
• Pixelated Driving Siege
• Geriatric Shock

Review, reviews, reviews! Trevor and Ben drawl the dark web and dive into Steam's dumpster to find some obscure games to review for you, including:

Orbital Mummy Patrol,

Everybody Loves the Blood Munchers,

Cloud Impact,

Rescue of Heroes,

and more!

Ben and Trev continue to dive deep into reviews of little known games, such as

• Intense Bungee World
• Jedi Funk Academy
• Spirit Command
• Psycho Guitar

and many more

It's a review episode! Ben and Trevor take a break from game design to discuss some of the real world games they've been playing lately, such as:

the cooking/survival hybrid game Underwater Kitchen Battle;

the 'modern retro' spiritual successor to Superman 64, Depressing Underwear 64;

the mobile fad of the month, Mech With Friends;

the massively popular entry in a series everyone is talking about, Masters of Spelling: Dystopia;

and more!

Ben and Trev return to the classic formula of Ramped Up Click Pitch, discussing game ideas such as:

Hunting kaiju across the seven seas;

Racing against fellow mad scientists in crazy contraptions;

Cultivate new crops on the back of a giant creature, while exploring strange new lands;

and many more.

Ben and Trevor riff on some randomly generated prompts to come up with game designs - this week the ideas tended towards relationships and small narrative segments, with games like:

• a cross between X-Com and The Sims where your soldiers relationships are tied deeply into the combat mechanics
• a simulated road house with extensible stories that play out night after night
• a Satisfactory style automation game where all of your tools and machines are plants that you must keep alive
• a retired programmer is asked to go to space so she can fight a rogue AI
• and more!

Continuing our classic prompts from last week, Ben and Trevor make random game designs from https://what3words.com/ and random movies. Games such as:

A platforming game with Gameshark/Gamegenie mechanics;

Cats playing tennis with beatem up mechanics;

Escape from your AI controlled house;

Alien bounty hunting in a Narnia/Last Starfighter inspired mashup.

and more!

Jumping back into some old games this week, Ben and Trevor make random game designs from https://what3words.com/ and random movies. Games such as:

rival chocolate worshipping churches;

a sequel set after Dorothy has left the Land of Oz, and the political machinations she left behind;

exploring a mysterious maze with a bunch of survivors;

discovering the real world outside the Metaverse;

and more!