The Crate and Crowbar

Episode 221: Horses Don’t Roll

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Both Toms join Chris to discuss Recursed, Bridge Constructor Portal, Gorogoa, GTA Online, PUBG, and the games we’re looking forward to in 2018.

Plus: a games-from-books jam idea that actually works, things horses don’t do, a bit of Mad Max, a whole lot of boats, and more. Boats.

  • Here’s the IGF shortlist! Congrats, Tom!
  • Baba Is You has a good trailer.
  • Tom F has been playing the mind-bending Recursed.
  • Chris has been playing Bridge Constructor Portal. He calls it ‘Bridge Simulator Portal’ for the duration of this episode, because he’s an idiot.
  • Awesome Games Done Quick starts this weekend!
  • Tom F and Chris have played Gorogoa.
  • Tom S has been enjoying Mad Max, which is inexplicably a fiver.
  • He’s also been working through GTA Online‘s excellent new heist.
  • Chris has, like apparently everybody, been spending time in now-actually-out Plunkbag.
  • Here are the games we discuss in our look forward to 2018:
    • Into The Breach
    • Spelunky 2
    • Death Stranding (maybe)
    • Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
    • BattleTech
    • Frozen Synapse 2
    • Wandersong
    • Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
    • Nimbatus
    • Untitled Goose Game
    • Sea of Thieves
    • HK (Untitled Cyberpunk Cat Game)
    • Ooblets
    • Skull & Bones
    • Abandon Ship
    • Pillars of Eternity II: D(r)eadfire
    • Sunless Skies
    • Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
    • Kingdom Come: Deliverance
    • Project Tingler
    • Museum of Simulation Technology
    • #Wargames
    • Far Cry 5 (and the associated owning of James Davenport)
    • A Place for the Unwilling
    • A Way Out
    • No Truce With The Furies
    • Hunt: Showdown

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