June 13, 2025

Episode 448: Découpage That Worm!

1 hour 9 minutes

Jamie and Marsh get pumped, pepped and revved up for the summer games marketing onslaught, and then enjoy the more tangible pleasures of demos in the Steam Next Fest, including: Ball X Pit, Morsels, Bits & Bops, Consume Me, Dispatch and Baby Steps.

In this episode, I, Marsh, misremember Peggle’s mascot as Bookworm Adventures’ mascot, which is a bookworm, despite the fact that only one of these titles has “bookworm” in the name. This is an error for which I do not deserve, and will never earn, your forgiveness—but I acknowledge it now to prepare you for the boiling rage my failure will induce.

Lies of P and The Last Berserker – the best off-brand Soulslikes?

Shout out to Ollie

The games of Summer Game Fest:

Mortal Shell 2

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Chronicles: Medieval

End of Abyss

Mouse: P.I. for Hire

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros

Atomic Heart 2 & The Cube

Felt That: Boxing

Out of Words

Mafia: The Old Country

Resident Evil Requiem

LEGO Voyagers (LEGO Builders, from the same team, and LEGO 2K Drive, by not the same team, suggest that the LEGO brand has a stable of solid talent at their disposal.)

Deadpool VR. So much great work going on in VR. This isn’t it. (Ghost Town, a VR puzzle game by Fireproof Games, developers of The Room series, might be brilliant, though.)

Dying Light: The Beast

Mixtape (the studio’s previous game was The Artful Escape)

Acts of Blood

MindsEye

ILL

Splitgate 2

Games not from Summer Game Fest:

Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement

Lumines Arise (by the developers of people-herding puzzle game Humanity)

Silent Hill F

Militsioner

Sleep Awake

Mewgenics (the Other One Who Isn’t Edmund McMillen is in fact called Tommy Refenes, and is making Super Meatboy 3D)

Games from Steam Next Fest:

Ball X Pit

Morsels

Dispatch

Bits & Bops

Consume Me

Baby Steps

Mina The Hollower

All Living Things

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound

Absolum (the Streets Of Rage 4 people doing fantasy)

Jupiter Hell Classic

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

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