Happy New Year to all our lovely listeners! Whether you've been with us since the old days of [REDACTED PODCAST] or are joining us for the first time today, we hope you'll be adding plenty of new recommendations to your wishlist over the course of this episode, where we discuss our most-anticipated new indies coming up in 2024.

First though, a quick chat about what we all played over our Christmas break. Rachel's been enjoying eco-fiction visual novel South Scrimshaw, Part One; Rebecca was pleasantly surprised by 2023's latest video game adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express; and Liam may have finally found his true simulated calling in House Flipper 2.

Onto our most anticipated indies of the year, and we're keen to highlight a few games in particular. Settle in as we extol the upcoming virtues of 1000xRESIST, Demonschool, The Mermaid's Tongue, Pacific Drive, Sucker For Love: Date To Die For, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and Tiny Bookshop.

But obviously, there's way more than just those seven indie and AA titles on the horizon that we're excited for. Our particular honourable mentions go to Anger Foot, Creepshow, Crow Country, Europa, Loco Motive, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Rise of the Golden Idol, and Synergy. And given how much angsting we went through to narrow it down even that far, we're pretty confident that we're going to have plenty to talk about throughout 2024.

This week's hyperfixations are The Traitors: Series 2, Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways DLC, and DC's Harley Quinn adult animated series. (We'll leave you to guess whose is whose, since long-time listeners will probably be able to puzzle it out.)

Music is Cigarette Boat by Marc Torch.

And as always, thank you for listening!