Not only are there so many adventure games out there, there are so many TYPES of adventure games out there! How do you know whether you're looking at a Deduction Game vs a Horror Game? A Puzzle Adventure Game vs an Escape Room Game? A Point and Click Game vs a Text Parser Game? Well, okay, you should probably be able to figure that last one out for yourself... but for everything ELSE, your old pals Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses are here! 

In the first of a 3-part series, we not only set straight the different subgenres of "Adventure Game," we also reccomend our favorites of each.

And Matt played Wavetale finally.

Games Mentioned:

• WaveTale
• Curse of Monkey Island
• Nightmare Frames
• King's Quest (2015)
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Dropsy
• Unavowed
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
• The Crimson Diamond
• Colonel's Bequest
• Trilby's Notes
• The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
• Enclosure
• The Seance of Blake Manor
• L.A. Noire
• Tangle Tower
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• The Forgotten City
• Chicken Police
• Paradise Killer
• Case of the Golden Idol
• The Return of the Obra Dinn
• Contradiction
• The Incident at Galley House
• Duck Detective: The Salami Boiz
• Chants of Senaarr
• Strange Horticulture
• Strange Antiquities
• Hatoful Boyfriend
• No I'm Not A Human
• Papers Please
• NUTS

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Roses is obsessed with Master Chef and Matt can't decide on whether he likes a new indie game or not. 

After some failed attempts at negging, Roses and Matt discuss Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father in honor of the beloved Tim Curry, who played the titular character. Rest in Power, Legend.

Games Mentioned: 

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster

Toonstruck

Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick

Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity

Celestial Return

Aerial Knight's McFreezy

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within

Gabriel Knight: The Vampire One

Anything can happen, you guys. Even a new episode of Save Your Game! Matt and Roses go back into their detective kits, grab their sidekicks with the cool hair, and dive into an incredible mystery in the new Detective Grimoire game, The Mermaid Mask! Our SECOND amazing game with "mermaid" in the title this year! So we sit in our 2,000-mile-long room and record this incredible episode. Enjoy!

Games Mentioned:

• Fields of Mistria
• Stardew Valley
• Pokopia
• Animal Crossing
• The Mermaid Mask
• Tangle Tower
• Detective Grimoire
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Duck Detective

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PushingUpRoses and Special Boy Matt Aukamp overcome clicking bugs and sadness to bring you this absolute grab-bag of an episode! We talk about games! We talk about movies! We talk about palette knives! We answer emails! We rank games! 

Come have fun with us in this mp3 file.

Games Mentioned:

• The Mermaid Mask
• Pokémon Scarlet
• Fields of Mistria
• Rainbow Billy and the Curse of the Leviathan
• The Life and Suffering of Sir Bronte
• King's Quest/Space Quest
• Jazz & Faust
• Dark Coolman
• Dark Earth
• The Chzos Mythos; Siberia; Grey Matter; Samarost; The Longest Journey; Enclosure; Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator; Apprentice; Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; Danganronpa; The Walking Dead; Firewatch; Broken Age; The Cave; Life is Strange; Braid; World of Goo; Hollow Knight; Shovel Knight
• Loom
• Crushed in Time
• Citizen Sleeper
• Gilbert Goodmate and the something of Phungoria
• David Slade Mysteries: Case Files
• Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
• Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required
• The Shattering
• Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

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Roses has the vapors over a man who left her life after being yelled at in a pottery studio. After she mourns this loss, she and Matt discuss the fun (but flawed) Letter Lost and the innovative mechanics of The Incident at Galley House

Games Mentioned:

• Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
• Pokopia
• Pokemon Sun/Moon
• Buncha Other Pokemon Games
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Banjo Kazooie
• Letter Lost
• Forbidden Solitaire
• The Roottrees are Dead
• Type Help
• The Incident at Galley House
• The Colonel’s Bequest
• Life is Short

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We've got for you, dear listeners, a DOUBLE FEATURE! Matt and Roses played a bizarre game about being trapped in a spooky, mysterious post office. AND THEN they played a point and click (and stretch) game about a Sherlock Holmes and Watson actively destroying the game they're starring in.

Also, the malls are closing :(

Games Mentioned:

• Gilbert Goodmate
• Krabat and the Secret of the Sorbian King
• Mina the Hollower
• Shovel Knight
• Letter Lost
• Strange Horticulture/Antiquities
• Papers Please
• Scratches
• Blue Prince
• There Is No Game
• Crushed in Time

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Matt and Roses BOTH play games from their ranking list that they both dislike, though one is grumpier about it than the other. See if you can tell which one.

After much rambling about classic point n clicks, Matt and Roses finally discuss (and gush over) the wonderfully written Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

Games Mentioned:

• Order of the Sinking Star
• The Witness
• Braid
• Boxl
• Sokoban
• Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria
• Jazz and Faust
• Dark Earth
• The Tragedy at Deer Creek
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station

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Roses and Matt reflect on things they may or may not be experts on, then chit chat about a game and a new show they've been enjoying.

While ranking every adventure game ever, Roses witnesses Matt, in real time, fall in love with two horrendous looking games. 

Games Mentioned: 

• If On A Winters Night, Four Travelers
• Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Fungoria
• My Brother Rabbit
• Portrait of a Torn
• Victor: A Steampunk Adventure
• Samudra
• Greyhat: A Digital Detective Adventure
• Dark Earth
• Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil
• Transylvania
• Jazz and Faust
• The Uncertainty: Last Quiet Day
• The Lure of the Temptress
• Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir
• Born Punk
• Muscarine AKA Erica's Trip

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There are two Matts on this show! But only for a second, then one Matt turns back into PushingUpRoses. We talk about a ridiculous YouTuber-inspired creationist movie, Improvised Shakespeare, and trying to manifest a meet-cute. 

But, settle in folks, because the bulk of this episode is a break-down and basically gush-fest about the new(ish) adventure from Postmodern Games, The Dark Rites of Arkham. And now, we're both huge HP Lovecraft fans. Sorry...

Games Discussed:

• Mina the Hollower
• Shovel Knight
• Banjo Kazooey
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Nightmare Frames
• An English Haunting
• The Dark Rites of Arkham
• Dreams in the Witch House
• Darkside Detective
• Call of the Sea
• Call of the Elder Gods
• Shadow of the Comet
• Chronicle of Innsmouth
• The Terrible Old Man
• Dredge

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Lots of talk about drinks and convenience stores up top but I promise we talk about video games eventually!  But if you're not here for talk about coffee, Wawa, and Food Truck driving/cooking game pitches, then why are you here at all??

Games Mentioned:

• Mina the Hollower
• The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
• Tunic
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Subversive Memories
• Cult Vacui
• Dreams in the Witch
• The Last Door
• Excavation of Hob's Barrow

SPOILER SECTION: 1:14:30 - 1:21:24

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