Save Your Game

Paris in the fall holds many memories for Matt and Roses. Memories of pushing their “woke” propaganda. Memories of pickles and olives.

Before we do our DEEP DIVE into the classic GRAND ADVENTURE from Revolution Software, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, we talk about our new Stardew-like obsession with Fields of Mistria. Who is your new romance? Marsh? Celine? Well don’t touch!! Because they’re ours. And then, go f*** your selfie, because Matt has some more to say about Life is Strange.

Then, we add 5 games to the ranked list of every adventure game ever.

(Also, we learn some important and not at all silly things about Dark Grim Mariupolis. If anyone has any info, btw, let us know. https://donate.khpg.org/en/ )

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Games Mentioned:

• Fields of Mistria
• Life is Strange
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Circle of Blood)
• Beneath a Steel Sky
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• Cube Escape: The Lake
• Midnight Girl 
• The 7th Guest (ew)
• Dark Grim Mariupolis
• Randal’s Monday 
• The Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit’s Eye

Welcome in!

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp take your recommendations seriously! And they prove it by playing four of them and reviewing them in this episode: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, The Journey Down, Voodoo Detective, and Life is Strange.

We also bring back some SPECIAL GUESTS for our RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment.

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Games Mentioned:

• Muppets: Chaos at the Carnival or something
• Fallout: New Vegas
• The Abandoned Planet
• Myst
• Mars After Midnight
• Pulpergeist
• There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
• The Journey Down
• The Dream Machine
• Grim Fandango
• Voodoo Detective
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
• Curse of Monkey Island
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
• The Slaughter: Act One
• Life is Strange
• Codename: ICEMAN
• Deponia: Doomsday
• Wavetale
• A Whisper in the Twilight: Ch. 1
• Ben There Dan That
• Astronomica: The Quest for the Edge of the Universe

We're not here to fuck spiders, we're here to talk about Adventure Games with our brilliant and charming friends Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and the upcoming Rise of the Golden Idol!

We talk about nostalgia and the way it colors – or does not color – our views of games, and just goof the hell around.

So, I guess we were here to fuck spiders, after all.

Find Escape This Podcast and Solve This Murder at https://www.consumethismedia.com/

The episode with Roses and Matt is here: https://www.escapethispodcast.com/e/big-top-trouble-ft-save-your-game/

Wishlist Rise of the Golden Idol on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/The_Rise_of_the_Golden_Idol/

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Games Mentioned:

• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Crusader Kings
• Tunic
• Death’s Door
• Animal Well
• Nancy Drew series
• Rise of the Golden Idol
• Case of the Golden Idol
• A Case of Mistrust
• Little Witch in the Woods
• Final Fantasy VIII, VI, VII, X
• Fields of Mistria
• Stardew Valley
• Myst
• Riven
• Grim Fandango
• Sam & Max Hit the Road
• Kings Quest VII
• The Realm Online
• Quest 64
• Quest for Glory I
• Granny’s Garden
• Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
• Pokemon Gold & Silver
• 7th Guest VR
• 11th Hour
• The 13th Doll
• Kessen II
• CLUE
• Murderous Muses
• Telling Lies
• The Infections Madness of Doctor Dekker
• Science Sleuths Vol. 1
• Déjà Vu
• Normality

This week we talk about a spooky cozy casual mystery plant game called Strange Horticulture that rules. Also, Matt raves about Fallout: New Vegas, Roses has a stylish mystery game to talk about and we rank a bunch of adventure games, ridiculously.

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Games Mentioned:

• A Case of Mistrust
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Strange Horticulture
• Botany Manor
• Assemble With Care
• Unpacking
• Return to the Obra Dinn
• Case of the Golden Idol
• Papers, Please
• In Other Waters
• Dredge
• Strange Antiquities
• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7: The Cardinal Sins
• Batman: Partners in Peril
• Amnesia: Rebirth
• Portal
• Again

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk about dialogue trees in adventure games; What makes them good? What makes them bad? Do you skip them? Matt says some stuff that's likely to get him cancelled by Sierra-heads. Plus, PlayDate with Matt and RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER.

We don't know. Whatever makes sense.

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Games Mentioned:

• The Crimson Diamond
• King’s Quest IV
• Fallout: New Vegas
• The Keyper
• Mars After Midnight
• Papers, Please
• Grim Fandango
• Disco Elysium
• The Curse of Monkey Island
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack
• The Dagger of Amon Ra
• Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town
• The Adventures of the Black Hawk
• Legend of Skye
• King’s Quest V and VI
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
• Danganronpa series
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series
• Hatoful Boyfriend
• HuniePop
• Murder, She Wrote (The Game!)
• Dark Grim Mariupolis
• Byzantine: The Betrayal
• Minecraft: Story Mode

Stay hydrated, everyone! No matter the cost. 

Matt and Roses talk about their favorite non-adventure games, plus PlayDate with Matt!, ranking every adventure game ever, and other silliness. Matt also pitches a weird game idea he had about Machiavelli and he's sorry (but also don't steal it!)

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Games Mentioned:

• The Crimson Diamond
• Lamplight City
• ToeJam & Earl
• Life's Too Short
• Life's Too Short: On Reflection
• Tetris
• Banjo Kazooey
• Dr. Mario
• Wave Race
• Jet Moto
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Warcraft 2
• Stardew Valley
• Civilization (V & II)
• Lords of the Realm II
• Final Fantasy (V, VI, VII & VIII)
• Pokemon (entire series)
• Clock Tower
• Skyrim
• Morrowind
• Hollow Knight
• Ori & the Will o' the Wisps and the Blind Forest, too
• Yoku's Island Express
• Lone Fungus
• Unbound: Worlds Apart
• Monster Sanctuary
• Graveyard Keeper
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Terraria
• Dreams in the Witch House
• Quest for Glory (entire series)
• Mortal Kombat
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Legend of Hand
• Scratches
• Blue Force
• Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
• Elena: Displaced Reality

Hey everyone, we're so sorry about the two-week break, but we're back with ENERGY! Matt has two new segments to present. One that's very normal, and one that's utterly bizarre. Roses went to England and played some arcade games. Matt went to the Adventure Game Fan Fair and we talk about a bunch of demos.

The rest, you're just gonna have to hear for yourself.

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Games Mentioned:

• Die Hard: The Arcade Game
• “Dynamo Cops or something”
• Mario Kart
• House of the Dead
• Typing of the Dead
• Track and Field
• ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
• Mortal Kombat II
• Tapper
• Baby Pac-Man
• Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
• Mario Party
• Super Mario World
• Lamplight City
• Casual Birder
• Resonant Tale
• The Crimson Diamond
• Heir of the Dog
• Home: A Story of Light
• Phantom Fellows
• War of the Western Deep
• President Rocket
• Fogtown
• Quest for Glory V
• Liesure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
• Freddy Pharkus: Frontier Pharmacist
• The Fan
• Carol Reed: Amos Green’s Final Repose
• Fran Bow
• Weird: Truth is Stranger than Fiction
• Krabat and the Sorbian King
• Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin
• Dust: A Tale of the Wired West

IT'S BAKING TIME! Matt makes bad cookies and then Roses and Matt plan some really cool Stardew-themed Macarons. We briefly revisit the Detective Grimoire series and talk about Rise of the Golden Idol. Then we do a deep-dive into a game that captured the hell out of our imaginations: Dreams in the Witch House!

PLUS A RETURN OF A BELOVED SEGMENT!!!

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Games Mentioned:

• Tangle Tower
• Detective Grimoire (THE ORIGINAL FLASH GAME)
• Rise of the Golden Idol
• Quest For Glory
• Dreams in the Witch House
• The Dunwich Horror (Upcoming Sequel)

Lets talk about guinea pigs for a while then too many Lorelais before we DEEP DIVE into TANGLE TOWER - a fun mystery game! And we talk about its predecessor Detective Grimoire and the demo for the third game in the series, The Mermaid Mask. It's, honestly?, just a good episode.

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Games Mentioned:

• Lorelai
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Detective Grimoire
• The Mermaid Mask
• Tangle Tower
• The Dagger of Amon Ra
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
• The Duck Detective

Roses has new teeth and can't eat no potatoes, but she DID learn about a lot of games with an overwhelming number of cats. We take your questions about achievements, non-adventure game mechanics, console gaming, genre distinctions, Andrew Plotkin's Cruelty Scale, and much more!

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Games Mentioned:

• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• A Castle Full of Cats (and the others in the series)
• The Blue Cat
• Tunic
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers/The Beast Within
• Dropsy
• Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra
• Riven
• Warcraft Adventure Game
• Hive Swap
• The Tex Murphy Series
• Arcane: Online Mystery Serial
• Disco Elysium
• Monkey Island II
• Harvester
• A Space for the Unbound
• Zelda (just a bunch of em)
• Brok the Invesigator
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Bulb Boy
• Clock Tower
• The Neverhood
• Soma
• Banjo Kazooie
• Mario 64
• Scooby Doo (Genesis)
• Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
• Deja Vu
• Cosmic Spacehead
• A Boy and his Blob
• ToeJam & Earl
• Quest For Glory
• Space Quest III