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Are Matt and Roses here to talk about what a dork Shane Gillis is? Are they here to talk about how dumb the Tesla "Flying" Car is? Are they here to talk about the Play Date? Or The Shadows That Could Hear? Or a Zombified Angela Lansbury? NO! They're here to talk about Midnight Scenes. And they will. And it'll spook the pants off of you. 

Put your pants back on, please!

GAMES MENTIONED:

• Root Bear
• The Whiteout
• Dig! Dig! Dino!
• Chance's Lucky Escape
• Gloom Gate
• HOUM
• Sound Mind
• Dimhaven - The Lost Source
• Myst
• Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place
• Midnight Scenes: Among Graves
• Rosewater
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• The Supper: New Blood
• Unwelcome
• The Librarian
• The Supper
• Tetris

TIMESTAMPS

09:39 - Play Date with Matt

13:11 - Gloom Gate

15:45 - HOUM

19:38 - Roses: Fields of Mistria

36:49 - Matt: Dimhaven - The Lost Source

43:55 - A Really Really Old Song

44:30 - Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

1:03:00 - A Safe Space - SPOILERS

1:10:20 - Midnight Scenes: Among Graves

1:35:26 - Goodbye

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Roses and Matt attempt to scare each other by turning mundane stories into SpooOOOooOOooky stories.

After briefly discussing a few games they’ve been enjoying, Matt and Roses then deep dive into the next two installments of the Midnight Scenes, short episode games inspired by The Twilight Zone.

• Games Mentioned:
• Graveyard Keeper 2
• Servant of the Lake
• Final Fantasy: Resonance
• The Dark Dome Studios Games
• Cube Escape
• Midnight Scenes: The Highway
• Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note
• Midnight Scenes: The Nanny
• Midnight: Among the Woods

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After what could be the most alluring intro ever recorded, Matt and Roses discuss what they’ve been enjoying, promptly followed by finishing up the ULTIMATE RECOMMENDATION ELEGANZA EXTRAVAGANZA list. Roses gets too heated about Gone Home.

They then segue right in to spooky month with two lovely games from the Midnight Scenes series, horror games inspired by The Twilight Zone.

• Fields of Mistria
• Pilot Wings 64
• Desktop Explorer
• Librarian: Tidy Up The Arcane Library
• Mouthwashing
• Firewatch
• Gone Home
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Night in the Woods
• Still Wakes the Deep
• Midnight Scenes: The Highway
• Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note

Roses got a Switch 2! So she can play Banjo-Kazooie again! Matt played an adorable, wholesome Metroidvania called The Merlies!

Then, we recommend a ton more games in a few more Adventure Game categories, and we WAYYYYYY overshoot for times and SPOILER: WE DON'T EVEN FINISH. But it's a hell of a fun time.

Games Mentioned:

• Banjo-Kazooie
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• The Merlies
• Nighthawks
• Clock Tower
• Scratches
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
• Slender: The Last 8 Pages
• At Dead of Night
• Nightmare Frames
• Burnhouse Lane
• Phantasmagoria
• The Last Door
• The Quarry
• Death of the Reprobate
• The Procession to Calvary
• Thank Goodness, You're Here
• Untitled Goose Game
• The Stanley Parable
• There is No Game
• Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
• Danganronpa
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
• The Wolf Among Us
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Overboard!
• Murder She Wrote
• My Brother Rabbit
• Family Mysteries
• Enigmatis
• Haunted Hotel
• Tower Full Of Cats

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Roses informs Matt about the strangest Mascot of all time before they both get into the next set of recommendations. Roses is confused about Banjo Kazooie and Matt isn't quite sure what a puzzle adventure game is.

Games Mentioned:

• Fields of Mistria
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
• Banjo Kazooie
• Psychonauts
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Final Fantasy VII
• Tunic
• Disco Elysium
• Esoteric Ebb
• The Quest for Glory Games
• Pokemon
• Citizen Sleeper 1 & 2
• Myst
• Blue Prince
• Outer Wilds
• Call of the Sea
• The Room
• Little Nightmares
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• The Witness
• Creaks
• Strange Jigsaws
• Limbo
• The Room VR
• I Expect you to Die
• Cube Escape Collection
• Is This Game Trying to Kill Me?
• Rusty Lake: Roots

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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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