Stealth games! We've been trying to figure out how to make games anti-action for a long time, and before we ever got to Sekiro, we had a little game called Tenchu Stealth Assassins. My, how the genre has evolved.

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Can you feel life moving through your mind? Looks like it came back for more. Can you feel time slipping down your spine? You try and try to ignore.

Gary's note: We need to know you can hang before you listen to this. Can you hang? Are you going to be cool?

Important: Here's the Guess Who? board so you can play along: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QYAAAOSw7IpdJR0s/s-l1600.webp

Once you’ve played Lemonade Stand, you start seeing Lemonade Stand everywhere. This week’s game is like that, but the Lemonade is trucks. And the rainy day is a drunk driver careening into you for no reason, ending your cross country haul. Which inspires us to rank vehicles by how scary they would be to drive.

This week we go tour the many parking garages of the Ancient Ruins of Rauh, a beautiful area that we wish had more narrative and gameplay interest. It’s a pileup of a number of civilizations, all searching for the truth of the Crucible, but ultimately overwritten by the Scarlet Rot and its saint, Romina.

In this episode we stage a daring rescue attempt.

Other Segments:

• Legends and Lore: this Iron Throne

• Deities and Demigods: Gond

• Complete Artificier's Handbook: Technology

Kole, Ben, and Jala talk about Heroes of Hammerwatch II, Citizen Sleeper 2, Rimworld: Anomaly, and much more!

The Grind:

• Ben: Heroes of Hammerwatch II. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector.

• Jala: Be Like a Crow. Mad Father. El Hijo: A Wild West Tale.

• Kole: Rimworld.

The Multiplayer:

• What video game trope will you never get tired of?

The End Boss:

• Treyarch cofounder pleads guilty to crashing a drone into an LA firefighting plane.

• The Sims and The Sims 2 get anniversary re-release.

• Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 hit GoG.

How can a movie also be a game? The sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror tries to answer that with the experimental Bandersnatch, which weirdly feels archaic in many ways even as it tries to break storytelling boundaries. There is some neat stuff in here, but does it add up to anything more than cheap twists?

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One monster but a lot of Night Court talk

Everyone’s seen the warning they put on cans of soda: Don’t photograph this or it will ejaculate all over the place. That universally acknowledged fact is the basis for the joke of OnlyCans: Thirst Date, a free comedy game where you take pictures of sexualized pop cans and are graded on how good they cum.