What is it like to be part of a brand new colony on an unknown planet? We dive into how life worked out in each of our playthroughs of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, sharing our highlights and critiques of this ambitious narrative RPG!

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00:00 Welcome to Geeks & Grounds

03:35 Stuff We're Enjoying

21:31 I Was A Teenage Exocolonist - Non-Spoiler

41:32 I Was A Teenage Exocolonist - Spoiler

01:47:30 Housekeeping + September's Brew: Chants of Sennaar!

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Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Time to test out our new(ish) format where we spend a bit more time talking about upcoming indie games for the month of August, and introducing this month's selection: I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (celebrating it's third anniversary at the end of the month!) #indiegame #IWasATeenageExocolonist #gamingpodcast #podcast 00:00 Welcome to Geeks & Grounds04:00 Q&A w/ Joel26:31 This Week's News: Payment processing problems!38:13 Stuff We're Enjoying56:00 Indiescovery: August 202501:06:50 Introducing I Was A Teenage Exocolonist1:30:00 Housekeeping & See you next time!✅Share Your Thoughts! Want to share your thoughts on the game we're playing this month? Be sure to email [email protected] OR leave a voicemail at https://telbee.io/channel/eowez0wm6ydpa4gf0amj5a/---------------------------------------------------------------✅Visit Geeks & Grounds' website for our newsletter sign-up, list of games for 2025, Bluesky link, and more: https://www.geeksandgrounds.com ---------------------------------------------------------------✅Play I Was A Teenage Exocolonist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148760/I_Was_a_Teenage_Exocolonist/Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

In the deepest dive we've done (4 hours?!?) Josh returns to the Geeks & Grounds discussion to dig into Deltarune's Chapter 4! Buckle up folks: there's a LOT to chat about!

1:44 - The Pastry Case: LONESTAR, Open Mike Eagle, Curiosmos, and more!

20:32 - This Month’s Brew: DELTARUNE

24:11 - High Level Thoughts on Chapter 4

35:50 - Deeeeeeep dive on Chapter 4

03:55:41 - Schedule change announcement + See you August 5 to kick off "I Was A Teenage Exocolonist"!---------------------------------------------------------------✅Visit Geeks & Grounds' website for our newsletter sign-up, list of games for 2025, Bluesky link, and more: https://www.geeksandgrounds.com ✅Play DELTARUNE on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671210/DELTARUNE/Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!

It's TV Tiiiiiiiiiiiiime! We being the discussion around Deltarune: Chapter 3 -- an episode filled with TV nostalgia, escapism...and more suspicious Ralsei moments? Dive back into this dark world with us!

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Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!

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We close out the month with a short and sweet game that was absolutely delightful to play: Serre, A visual novel about a girl and an alien drinking tea and falling in love.See you on July 15th after the break with Deltarune: Chapter 3! WAHOO!---------------------------------------------------------------✅Visit Geeks & Grounds' website for our newsletter sign-up, list of games for 2025, Bluesky link, and more: https://www.geeksandgrounds.com ✅Play SERRE on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/35...A visual novel about a girl and an alien drinking tea and falling in love!

Fight facism in Extreme Meatpunks Forever! Today we discuss our third one-shot for the month (Extreme Meatpunks Forever) and discuss demos from Steam NextFest.---------------------------------------------------------------✅Visit Geeks & Grounds' website for our newsletter sign-up, list of games for 2025, Bluesky link, and more: https://www.geeksandgrounds.com ✅Play Extreme Meatpunks Forever on Itch.io: https://hthr.itch.io/extreme-meatpunks-foreverA serial visual novel/mech brawler about four gay disasters beating up neonazis in giant robots made of meat. Get ready for the worst road trip of all time.

Our second week of June one-shots for Pride, and we are in total rom-com mode! Butterfly Soup 2 does NOT disappoint, and we can't wait to share why ~

00:00 Welcome to Geeks & Grounds!

03:46 The Pastry Case: SGF standouts, Xbox handheld thoughts, and Switch 2 FOMO?

39:31 This Week's Brew: Butterfly Soup 2 (Non-Spoiler)

46:00 This Week's Brew: Butterfly Soup 2 (Deep Dive)

01:22:13 See you next week with Extreme Meatpunks Forever!

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If you want to be a butterfly, you need to be butterfly soup first! We're kicking off our June of one-shots with Butterfly Soup, and what a DELIGHT this game is to talk about!

00:00 Welcome to Geeks & Grounds

3:55 The Pastry Case: Reiterating the Summer Showcases, Consume Me, Dropout Live Show, and more!

32:36 This Week's Brew: Butterfly Soup (Non-Spoiler Overview)

41:40 Diya

01:27:42 Noelle

01:33:16 Akarsha

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Our final foray around the Obra Dinn reveals the answers to MANY questions we have about what really happened all those years ago. Time to discuss the finale of this mystery, and figure out just what's behind that locked lazarette door...00:00 Welcome to Geeks & Grounds 04:00 The Pastry Case: SGF showcase news, Steam Next Fest approaches, Expedition 33 (we're still obsessed), and more!38:34 The Monthly Brew: Our current thoughts and today's chapters43:10 Chapter 2: A Bitter Cold47:28 Chapter 5: Unholy Captives53:05 Chapter 4: The Calling01:03:28 Chapter 1: Loose Cargo01:08:03 Delivering the Book / Chapter 8: Bargain01:18:31 Overall thoughts on Obra Dinn01:22:55 Let's organize the timeline: our retelling of the Obra Dinn's journey01:27: 19 June's Brews ~ What games are we're percolating over? 01:29:34 Thanks for listening / Housekeeping / See you next time!Leave a voicemail to share your thoughts on the game, and get featured in a future episode!https://telbee.io/channel/eowez0wm6ydpa4gf0amj5a/---------------------------------------------------------------✅Visit Geeks & Grounds' website for our newsletter sign-up, list of games for 2025, Bluesky link, and more: https://www.geeksandgrounds.com ✅Play Return of the Obra Dinn on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn/In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn't met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea.Early this morning of October 14th, 1807, the Obra Dinn drifted into port at Falmouth with damaged sails and no visible crew. As insurance investigator for the East India Company's London Office, dispatch immediately to Falmouth, find means to board the ship, and prepare an assessment of damages.Return of the Obra Dinn is a first-person mystery adventure based on exploration and logical deduction.

The work of an insurance collector is never done! Today's episode covers Chapters IX (Escape), III (Murder), and VI (Soldiers of the Sea), three of the most intense scenes I think we'll be encountering in this game! You also get a listen at my attempt at pirate accents...I apologize in advance 😆

00:00 Welcome to Geeks & Grounds

03:38 The Pastry Case: Expedition 33 (more! more!), Lazarus, The Antidote, and more.

19:18 The Monthly Brew: Our current thoughts, today's chapters, and some of the community's discussion

38:13 Chapter 9: Escape

54:00 Chapter 3: Murder

01:08:29 Chapter 6: Soldiers of the Sea01:21:34 Thanks for listening / Housekeeping / See you next time!

Leave a voicemail to share your thoughts on the game, and get featured in a future episode!

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In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn't met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea.---------------------------------------------------------------