Themed or Grab Bag? Taylor and Christian discuss their demo picking strats while diving into Steam Next Fest once again to bring you the most interesting, intriguing, or weird demos available. WARNING: There may be some D&D, Battlestar Galactica talk included. Plus are we getting old or are the kids becoming more skilled? Surely it's the kids... right?

DEMOS COVERED

Tabletop Tavern, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, Ashes of the Singularity II, Saccharine Echo, Marathon, Ex Sanguis, GAME.exe 2 - Phantom Strike, ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, Esoteric Ebb

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High On Life 2 frustrates an otherwise perfect experience for Amanda, while Slay The Princess blows all our minds 3 years too late, and what do you do when a great game reminds you of a terrible job, anyways?

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Christian dives deep into the complicated and intense trenches of sci-fi war with MENACE while Amanda gets into a cozy little corner with her Town to City zen builder.

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Town to City, ⁠⁠Menace

OTHER TOPICS

Mewgenics, Mining Merchant, The Internet Used To Be A Place

To connect with us, visit dlgaming.net! Next episode…Amanda is going to get SO HIGH on life... 2.

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Amanda feels the gloom in Gloomhaven while Christian flows into Dwarves: Death, Glory, and Loot. Taylor tells us the surprising differences between Outer Worlds 1 and 2, and we gush about a small developer nobody has ever heard of named Obsidian Entertainment.

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Gloomhaven, Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot, Outer Worlds⭐

OTHER TOPICS

High On Life 2, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, DEAD LETTER DEPT.,

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Houses Zed Zed, Muad'Dib and Bene Tleilax come together to talk about the newly coined BGPs (Board Game Ports) and why you should be playing them. We also dive deep into Fallout 76, it's ridiculous key binds and how it compares from launch. Shout out to Bene and the Gesserits!

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Dune: Imperium, Fallout 76

OTHER TOPICS

Paralives, The Outer Worlds, MENACE

To connect with us, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠dlgaming.net⁠⁠⁠⁠! Next episode… Amanda gets gloomy and maybe even a bit of ennui with Gloomhaven

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Discoverygirl, Smokeman, and Pukiepie walk into a Dispatch room. What emerges is some of the best-ever moments in gaming. We touch on some others thing too, but really, this episode is going to suck if you haven't heard about Dispatch. Take the DLG Survey, will ya?

Sorry about the audio on this episode! Learning :)

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Forever Someday, Earth of Oryn, Dispatch

OTHER TOPICS

Plague Doctor: Life in Pestilence, Fallout 76, Calyx

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Taylor has returned from his theme park trip to Florida, Amanda is using tech to determine who is a zombie or smuggling grenades in their unmentionable areas while Christian is getting to the soul of gaming through poetry.

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⁠Quarantine Zone: The Last Check⁠, ⁠GamePoems.com

OTHER TOPICS

⁠Disney World ⁠&⁠ Universal Studios⁠, ⁠Dispatch⁠, Styx: Blades of Greed

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We're sharing our best Bobby memories in Discord! Come on down.

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What would happen if you mixed ARK: Survival Evolved with Sea of Thieves? You'd get ATLAS, the pirate-themed survival game with invisible rocks! Tempest Rising reaches for that nostalgic RTS feeling, but doesn't quite capture Christian's affection. Bobby underestimates Oxygen Not Included and shares some big news at the end of the show.

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⁠ATLAS⁠, ⁠Tempest Rising⁠, ⁠Oxygen Not Included⁠

OTHER TOPICS

⁠Bloodthief⁠, ⁠Subnautica 2⁠, ⁠Earth of Oryn⁠

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Happy 2026 Gamers!

We reflect back on a great 2025 for gaming! Reveal totally realistic and relatable nominations such as "Games That Don't Require a Graphics Card" and "Best Game to Play While Pooping" . Tune in to listen to each of our personal game of the year! What was yours?

Follow along with our BINGO CARD that also contains an end of the year survey!

Thank YOU for listening and keeping the dream alive!

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