It's early in the morning and PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp have woken up specifically to do the duty that no one else is brave enough to do -- They rank every adventure game ever. BUT FIRST, believe it or not, they've BOTH played a ton of games! Matt's got some spooky new mystery games to tell you about and Roses has plunged face first into some cozy sims!! 

Then, of course, we do what we must.

Games Mentioned:

• Winter Burrow
• The Séance of Blake Manor
• Fields of Mistria
• My Time at Portia
• Foolish Mortals
• War of the Western Deep
• Strange Jigsaws
• Baba is You
• Astrologaster
• Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise
• Sender Unknown: The Woods
• SIMULACRUM
• Emily is Away
• The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
• Biohazard: Escape Room
• Machinika: Museum
• Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence.

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OFFICIAL RANKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bDfPsY0tpw6m3b3EZZiY3xWuCYz4CMlMaOHST44yTA/edit?usp=sharing

Roses' video on Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence with YakWaxLips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3zV8RY9NI

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Velcome everyone. Earth is Purgatory!

For our FINAL EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH, we start off with a spooky folk story, and then a TON of Next Fest demos! Then we talk about a disturbing horror game about answering your door in the apocalypse, and a game about a naughty boy who runs with scissors.

Games Mentioned:

• No I’m Not a Human
• The Berlin Apartment
• Nighthawks
• Servant of the Lake
• Earth Must Die!
• Séance of Blake Manor
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club
• Cult Vacui
• The Dark Rites of Arkham
• The Last Case of John Morley
• Father
• Winter Burrow
• Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
• The Tragedy at Deer Creek
• Papers Please
• Myst
• Clock Tower

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SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES! With Roses really wanting a coffee and Matt wanting to figure out how to make baths less hot. After a quick discussion about spookycute game CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs, they dive headfirst into the horrifying waters of Mouthwashing!

Games Mentioned: 

• Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs
• Inscryption
• No, I'm Not Human
• Mouthwashing

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We journey deeper into SPOOKY MONTH, past the thorny brambles, through the crumbling graveyard, over the alien’s house, into the haunted church where we find our two heroes, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses, cowering in the corner, hiding from the goblins and playing video games.

This week, Roses played a harrowing psychological horror game (MORE ON THIS NEXT WEEK), Matt played a cute retro platformer, and then we dive into two spooky games!

First, NINE WITCHES: FAMILY DISRUPTION, a spooky/wacky point-and-click about witches and aliens and curses and Nazis.

Then, BYE SWEET CAROLE, a masterfully animated mesh of adventure genres, that’s like a playable dark fantasy Disney movie.

Games Mentioned:

• Mouthwashing
• Crow Country
• Lust from Beyond
• Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
• Nine Witches: Family Disruption
• Bye Sweet Carole
• Clock Tower

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Take your pants off and run and hide, folks, because EPISODE SIXTY-NINE IS FALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF SPOOKY MONTH! It’s time to hump a dracula, french a skelerton, jack off with a swamp creature, and yell BOO at your partner when you climax.

In this episode, we’re going to get really fucking gross because we’re talking about the erotic horror adventure game Lust From Beyond. And, spoilers folks: We’re not fans!

So go grab your condom that you drew little ghost eyes on and lean back and enjoy Matt and Roses console themselves from playing this goddamn game.

Games Mentioned:

• Quest for Glory
• Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
• Centum
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Lust from Beyond
• Silent Hill

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It's time for SPOOKY MONTH once again! Mwahahaha!! Matt has been raptured but don't worry, he still has access to the internet and can play games when he's not being harassed by St. Peter. 

Matt and Roses then discuss the spooky nature of Quest for Glory 4, an adventure RPG hybrid with questionable choices, but amazing world building.

Games mentioned:

• Eulogy for Nonno
• Dad’s Monster House 2
• Hollow Night: Silksong
• Quest for Glory 1-3
• Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness
• Quest for Glory 5
• King’s Quest
• Dagger of Amon Ra
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father

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Very weird cold open this week (aren't they all?), and then Roses and Matt get some gripes about GAMING CULTURE™ off of their chests before talking about some really amazing games!

Matt played a promising demo for War of the Western Deep and an amazing short indie game called The Dark Queen of Mortholme. Roses and Matt both get excited about games that are either discovered or released during the recording of the show.

And then, after a brief recollection of Strange Horticulture, we go in deep to talk about all the things we loved (and it’s pretty much all the things) about Strange Antiquities!

Games Mentioned:

• Leisure Suit Larry
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
• Cabernet
• War of the Western Deep
• Brok the InvestiGator
• Date Everything
• The Dark Queen of Mortholme
• Dad's Monster House 2: Medal
• Strange Horticulture
• Strange Antiquities
• Stardew Valley
• Papers Please

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This week, Roses's Google Home becomes possessed and Matt cannot stop talking about Little Problems. The game, not his PERSONAL little problems.

Then, Matt and Roses discuss a much-anticipated title from Grundislav Games - Rosewater! And well I'll be, it sure was a fun romp in the American Frontier. 

Games mentioned:

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Little Problems
• The Golden Idol games
• Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
• Rosewater

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Ok, let's address the spider in the room: We could not find a way to play the Naked Gun game BUT we do come to you this week with stories of black jelly beans aand Roses dumping a scooter. Also, Matt is playing Hollow Knight: Silksong and has a lot to say about it.

Then, Matt recently got to play a PushingUpRoses favorite, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon! Some come on a journey with us and Jake Stonebender through time and space and a cozy little bar while we SAVE THE UNIVERSE!

Games Mentioned:

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Blasphemous
• Unbound: Worlds Apart
• Lone Fungus
• Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus
• Nine Sols
• Rosewater
• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
• Jezzball
• The Journeyman Project
• The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P.

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WHY DON’T THEY HAVE WRESTLING MATCHES IN PUMPKIN PATCHES!? This isn’t the set-up to a street joke, this is a genuine question that Matt has. Roses watched a fake movie starring Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson. Matt played a “stealth team tactics game” with ghost pirates.

BUT the real story here is that PushingUpRoses and Matt replayed a classic game from their youths that features a live-acted Christopher Lloyd in a fully cartoon world.  It’s called Toonstruck and it rules and the only bad thing about it is that they never released a sequel.

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GAMES MENTIONED:

• The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P.
• Rusty Lake Series
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
• Sword Game
• Toonstruck
• Grim Fandango
• Torin’s Passage