LukeWarmGames Podcast

This week your favorite co-op couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss video game related Reddit stories! From broken PS5s to beans and Baldur's Gate, settle in for quite a ride. Topics also include recent indie game releases and the upcoming Indie Game Awards. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other week!

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This week your favorite co-op couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their favorite titles from the October 2024 Steam Next Fest! Topics also include discussion of the the recent release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the closure of Firewalk Studios. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday at 9am PST.

Games discussed during today’s episode: Wishlist to support the devs!

• Spilled! - Lente
• Symphonia - Sunny Peak
• Undead West - Deathless Games
• Windblown - Motion Twin
• Keep Driving- YCJY Games
• Ballionaire - newobject
• Scarlet Deer Inn - Attu Games
• Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) - Unreliable Narrators
• Jin & Jan - Reference Games
• Stunt Granny - teledev

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This week your favorite co-op couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their most anticipated games of the holiday season and how they plan to tackle their backlog! Topics also include discussion of the recent Halo news and the formation of new development studio Day 4 Night. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday at 9am PST.

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Black Tabby Games Interview

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This week your favorite co-op couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their favorite indie games of this generation! Topics also include discussion of the recent reveal of the PS5 Pro. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday at 9am PST.

Games Discussed in this Episode:

• Balatro - LocalThunk
• Immortality - Sam Barlow
• Dredge - Black Salt Games
• Neon White - Angel Matrix
• Hades - Super Giant Games
• Jusant- Don’t Nod
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Greg Lobanov, Alexis Dean-Jones and Wishes Ultd
• Cult of the Lamb - Massive Monster
• Stray - BlueTwelve Studio
• Before Your Eyes - Goodbye World Games
• Venba - Visai Games
• Vampire Survivors -  Poncile Games
• Tinykin - Splashteam
• Inscryption - Daniel Mullens Games

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This week your favorite co-op couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their time at PAX West 2024 in Seattle and their favorite games that they played. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday at 9am PST.

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Wishlist the Games Discussing During This Episode:

• Sulfur - Perfect Random
• Croak - WoodRunner Games
• Herdling - Okomotive
• Winter Burrow - Pine Creek Games
• Tears of Metal - Paper Cult
• Symphonia - Sunny Peak 
• Echoes of Elysium - Loric Games, Inc.
• Ascent Rivals - GENUN Games
• Usual June - Finji
• Wilmot Works it Out - Hollow Ponds, Richard Hogg
• Despelote - Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena
• Whisper of the House - Yuanqi bomb studio
• Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland
• Rooster - Sticky Brain Studios
• Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch
• The Chronos Event
• While Waiting - Optillusion
• What the Car? - Triband
•  Feltopia - Wooly Games
• GHOSTS - Visible_Games
• ANTONBLAST - Summitsphere
• Honeycomb: The World Beyond - Frozen Way
• All Systems Dance - Mighty Yell
• Fowl Damage - May Gardens and Red Nexus Games Inc.
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Nintendo
• Mario Party Jamboree

This week your favorite Co-op Couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss recent announcements and trailers from Gamescom 2024! New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday morning at 9am PST.

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Luke’s Picks

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Mafia: The Old Country
• Secret Level
• The Berlin Apartment
• Herdling

Claire’s Picks:

• Hela
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Dune Awakening
• Barkour
• Goat simulator remaster

Listen to Luke and Claire on the Life is Strange: True Colors Left Behind Game Club Series!

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This week your favorite Co-op Couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their time playing Paper Trail developed by Newfangled Games, Clickolding developed by Strange Scaffold, Thank Goodness You're Here! developed by Coal Supper and SUMMERHOUSE developed by Friedemann. Thank you to Popagenda for providing review code for Thank Goodness You're Here! New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday morning at 9am PST.

Resources:

• Wired Article: A Chaotic History of Clickolding, the Year’s Most Disturbing Game by Megan Farokhmanesh

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• SUMMERHOUSE - Friedemann

This week your favorite Co-op Couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their time playing new indie platformer SCHiM developed by Ewoud van der Werf and Nils Slijkerman. Thank you to Pirate PR for providing early review code for our coverage. Topics also include discussion of the recent Xbox Game Pass price increase and a survey of the upcoming games of 2024. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday morning at 9am PST.

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This week your favorite Co-op Couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger discuss their time playing Still Wakes the Deep developed by The Chinese Room. Topics also include impressions of the recent Starfield update and Dead Rising Remaster news. New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday morning at 9am PST.

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Your favorite Co-Op Couple Luke Lewis and Claire Helmberger run through their favorite demos from Steam Next Fest and recap news from SGF! New episodes of the LukeWarmGames Podcast launch every other Monday morning at 9am PST.

Steam Page Links:

• I Am Your Beast- Strange Scaffold
• Parcel Core- Billy Goat Entertainment
• SCHiM- Ewoud Van Der Werf, Nils Slijkerman
• Caravan SandWitch- Studio Plane Toast
• Golden Lap- Funselektor Labs Inc., Strelka Games
• Arranger: A Role-playing Puzzle Adventure- Furniture & Mattress LLC
• Dungeons of Hinterberg- Microbird Games
• Aloft- Astrolabe Interactive Inc.
• Preserve- Bitmap Galaxy

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