I said don't just stand there. Come in!

The Zone is a strange place with wondrous promises. It's full of atmosphere and lead, as bands of Stalkers and mutants fight over its strange artifacts, hoping they don't get torn apart by pockets of anomalous physics. Loosely based off of a famous Russian novel and film, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl caps off our Desperation month. Though you quickly get over the resource curve and find your Zone-legs, it remains a demanding shooter throughout... until it gets too demanding, but you probably expected that from a PC game of this vintage.

We continue Desperation Month with Frostpunk, a city building sim where things start bad and only get worse. It's the late 19th century and the world is quickly freezing. Humanity's last chance is to huddle around generators in the north, making moral compromises to survive the cold and the scarcity it brings. Frostpunk is an amazing strategy sim game with A+ theming, and it's sure to make you feel like garbage.

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Quite literally Bayou Billy.

We're sorry about how sporadic the show has been! It might continue to be sporadic! We're sorry!

Pallid dancers, dancing for tanning money.

Bringing back some of that Big Robot Magic.

Jeremy Greer joins us to talk about broad thoughts on Immortal: Unchained, and the future we desire for its creators. Then we read your thoughts and opinions on the game itself.