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How do we really define a vehicle, anyway? Can a swivel chair be a vehicle? Are our legs not vehicles? No. No they're not. That's silly. (Games featured: Last Man Kicking, Hovership Havoc, Road to Your City, Atlas: Groundbreaking Adventures, Musical Chairs with Bulldozers, Wavey the Rocket)

Games are great for friendships! So of course games about friendships can be great too. But games can also be terrible for your friendships too, if they want to be. (Games featured: Arrow and Zary, Gumgem, Evan's Remains, Fling to the Finish, Marie's Room, Tower Princess)

It's hard to overstate how important it was when video games started scrolling the screen. My, how far we've come. (Games featured: Dreamscape, Forsaken Castle, Rubi: The Wayward Mira, Magical Monster Land, Powerglove Reloaded, Charlie II)

An obligation, a compulsion, a competition. Sometimes you just have to be quick. (Games featured: Spaceport Babel, Kyle & Lucy Wonderworld, Horizon Chase Turbo, Plaque, Tunche, ΔV: Rings of Saturn)

Ludum Dare is one of the world's largest game jams. In this episode, we look at six games from Ludum Dare 43: Sacrifices Must Be Made. (Games featured: Super Sellout, Jlim, Omelettes, Expendibots, Fixin' to Die, Total Party Kill)

There are a lot of scary things out there. Dark forests. Mafia thugs. Late-stage capitalism. Stuff like that. (Games featured: Perfection, The Cursed Forest, Orphan Age, These Monsters, Eternal Home Floristry, Rainforest)

It's a lot of tomatoes. A whole town of them. It seems to go on infinitely, looping around in the dark, unless someone steps forward and does something about it. (Games featured: Infinite: Beyond the Mind, OuroBound, One Step from Eden, Long Live the Axe, I'll Take You to Tomato Town, Blackout: The Darkest Night)

Sure, some of us have to work, but for many the new year means party time! Just be careful not to go too hard, or you'll meet all sorts of unusual or undead characters. (Games featured: Misshapen, Reaper Boy, Rock Robin, Double Kick Heroes, To Hell With Dave, Suits: Absolute Power)

To make sure the best games don't get overlooked, every few months I'm going back through and picking out my personal favourites. Here are six of them. (Games featured: well, you'll just have to listen to the episode!)

Okay, I'd be mad too if "safety" meant super-fast driving or pushing around a backhoe. But you need to be careful when zombies rise, aliens invade, evolution goes awry, or you walk into a heavy metal album cover. (Games featured: Dead Pixels II, Stay Safe, Miscreation, Divenia Episode One, Valfaris, BH Trials)